Work Record Pocket Diaries of Charles Somers Miller [mostly notes on hours worked per day, with some sketches and addresses, etc.; what follows is the remainder] 1876 01\01\1876(Sa) Worked at Benedict & Burnham's 4 1/2 hours. 01\07\1876(Fr) Went to West Haven. 02\04\1876(Fr) First sleighing of the season. 02\07\1876(Mo) Sleighing all gone. 02\14\1876(Mo) Paid for my paper. 02\28\1876(Mo) More sleighing. 02\29\1876(Tu) Good sleighing; snowed about 1 1/2 inches thick. 03\03\1876(Fr) Sleighing all gone. 03\11\1876(Sa) Paid for paper. 03\29\1876(We) Water so high in the river we could not work. 05\10\1876(We) 130 thousand people at the exhibition at Philadelphia. Centennial opens to day. 05\11\1876(Th) P. T. Barnum's great show here to day. 35 thousand people at the centen{n}ial. 05\13\1876(Sa) Went to Litchfield. 05\14\1876(Su) Returned from Litchfield. 06\10\1876(Sa) Went to Litchfield. 06\11\1876(Su) Came home from Litchfield. 06\25\1876(Su) A storm of hailstones occur{r}ed to day, the stones about the size of walnuts. 06\27\1876(Tu) Staid home to hay it. 07\04\1876(Tu) [see separate entry] 07\08\1876(Sa) Was home sick. 07\15\1876(Sa) Went to Litchfield. 07\16\1876(Su) Came home. 08\12\1876(Sa) No water. [Other Sat entries often "No work"] 08\26\1876(Sa) No water. 09\02\1876(Sa) No water. 09\18\1876(Mo) Went to the Centen{n}ial. 09\23\1876(Sa) Came home from the Centen{n}ial. 10\15\1876(Su) About three inches of snow fell this morning. 12\04\1876(Mo) Enlisted in Company A, 2nd Reg't C.N.Y.{? C.N.J/G.} Financial records and summaries at the end. 1877 01\20\1877(Sa) Went to Litchfield. 01\29\1877(Mo) Rev. Jacob L. Clark buried to day, age 70 years. 04\02\1877(Mo) Grand Mother {Miller} died to day. Mrs. Timothy Miller. Betsy Stannard, Litchfield. 04\03\1877(Tu) Grand Mother {Miller} buried to day. See Oct. 18. 06\17\1877(Su) Went to Litchfield. 06\24\1877(Su) {Why here??} Frank H. Miller. Age 21 years Oct 21st. Charles S. Miller. Age 18 years Sept 27th. {b 1858; going on 19} Mary A. Miller. Age 15 years July 3rd. Carrie A. Miller. Age 14{?} July 23rd. Fred D. Miller. Age 13 years Oct 15th. Ivan A. Miller. Age 3 years Sept 2nd. 07\19\1877(Th) Went to Trinity Church picnic at highrock grove. 08\01\1877(We) Went to coney island. 09\14\1877(Fr) Got Mary's organ to day at Briggs & Smith. 10\12\1877(Fr) Joined the Good Tenplers {sic} in Wolcott. 10\18\1877(Th) Grand Mother Somers died to day. 10\28\1877(Su) Went to Litchfield. Financial records and summaries at the end. 1878 [some purchase of fife and drum equipment also] 04\28\1878(Su) Went to Litchfield. 12\11\1878(We) The river was so high, we could not word{sic work?}. The Naugatuck was about 14 feet above low water mark and the Seymour rail road bridge was taken away. Financial records and summaries at the end. 1879 02\05\1879(We) Went home sick. Worked 1 hr. 03\01\1879(Sa) Sick. 03\27\1879(Th) Hired out to work for David Porter to day. 03\31\1879(Mo) Worked for David G. Porter to day. In the forenoon chopp{{i}}ed near the Brass mill pond; in the afternoon tore paper in the little house on the plank road. 04\01\1879(Tu) Worked this forenoon tairing paper of{f} the walls of the house on plank road and chopping alond{sic, along?} the same road in the afternoon. [Then purchases.] 04\02\1879(We) Worked at joiner work this forenoon. Helped Lester draw wood this afternoon. {*Paid my board} 04\03\1879(Th) Worked at joiner work this forenoon and chopped after dinner. 04\04\1879(Fr) Worked this forenoon {moving} straw from the east barn to the west; in the afternoon moved straw up on the loft and drew wood from the swamp near the pond untill old De Hoor{?} broke his hoof. 04\05\1879(Sa) Worked to day chopping wood at the door.{?} Lester and Mr. Porter went to Mrs. Todd's funeral. 04\07\1879(Mo) Worked this forenoon making a bookkase{?} and chopped north of the plank road in the afternoon. 04\08\1879(Tu) Worked chopping on the north side of the plank road. Paid my board. [very large, scrawly hand!] 04\09\1879(We) Drew wood in the forenoon and worked at Joiner work in the afternoon. 04\10\1879(Th) Worked around the little house on the plank road. 04\11\1879(Fr) F{r}ost.{?} Worked at joiner work, hung a grindstone. 04\12\1879(Sa) Fixed the picket fence in front of the little house on the plank road and then chopped wood at the door, then buried a calf, then drew wood, then threw wood into the wood house. 04\14\1879(Mo) Got out manure and much{muck?}. 04\15\1879(Tu) Carted muck{?} out, built fence nerast{sic} the brook and fixed hay cutter. @Not paid my board. 04\16\1879(We) Knocked dung in the meadow{?} back of the barn and drew wood. 04\17\1879(Th) Cut hay and fixed wagon. 04\18\1879(Fr) Worked fixing a old{?} wagon and cleaning out the {*a} wagon house. 04\19\1879(Sa) Did not work. 04\22\1879(Tu) Not paid my board. 04\23\1879(We) Made a fire bord {sic} and spread muck and carted muck. Plea{sa}nt day. 04\24\1879(Th) Drove team for Leter to plow over by Mr. Lakes. A very ple{a}sant day. And {erased?} saw Dr. Swift in the afternoon and went up to the Che{st}nut Hill reserway {sic}. 04\25\1879(Fr) Made flower beds and plained sticks for grape arbors. Fair day. 04\26\1879(Sa) Carted muck and transplanted rheubarb. Fair day. 04\28\1879(Mo) Planted potatoes. A nice shower in the afternoon. 04\29\1879(Tu) Spread muck on the hill m{e}adow and fixed the fence up to scruboak. |Fair day. |Not paid my board. 04\30\1879(We) Planted potatoes over by Lakes. |Ple{a}sant day. 05\01\1879(Th) Planted potatoes. |A very ple{a}sant day. Paid my board. |Received 40 dollars. ...|Paid my board up to next Saturday night. 05\02\1879(Fr) Planted potatoes in the forenoon and plained the stuff for the grape arbor in the afternoon. |Plesant day. 05\03\1879(Sa) Fixed fence near the dry bridge and plowed Mr. Ashton's garden. |Plesant day. 05\05\1879(Mo) Set out apple trees and grape vines and sparaaron{?}. A very plesant day. 05\05\1879(Tu)-05\10\1879(Sa) Worked. {etc. in later passages} 05\12\1879(Mo) Worked in the garden. |P. T. Barnum's show in town to day. 05\13\1879(Tu) Worked in the garden. |Lester got through to day. 05\16\1879(Fr) Worked in the garden. |Had old home shoes set over {.75}. 05\17\1879(Sa) Worked plowing on the hill in the forenoon and harrowing in the afternoon. 05\29\1879(Th) Planted carrots on the hill. 05\30\1879(Fr) Planted carrots on the hill. 05\31\1879(Sa) Worked planting carrots on the hill. Paid my board up untill to night. 06\12\1879(Th) Worked. |Mr. Porter went to New York. 06\13\1879(Fr) Worked. |Broke the wagon wheel to ...{?}. 06\30\1879(Mo) Worked one half day. |Mary graguated {sic} to day. Commencde {sic?} loging{sic?} to day. 07\04\1879(Fr) Went to New Haven to day to the celebration. 07\05\1879(Sa) Paid up my board untill to night. 07\15\1879(Tu) Worked. |Received $20.00 to day leaving 2.89 to go on next month. 07\22\1879(Tu) Worked. |Ledo {sic?} away the white cow. 07\24\1879(Th) Worked 1/2 day. |Went to Trinity picnic. 08\02\1879(Sa) Worked. |Paid my board up to night $20.00 (15.36 more due). 09\10\1879(We) Weth{sic Went} to Wolcottville {sic} and drum{m}ed for the dedication of the Souldiers {sic} Monument. 09\16\1879(Tu) Drum{m}ed to day at the fair. 09\17\1879(We) Drum{m}ed at Hartford to day. 10\02\1879(Th) Hued{sic} timber for my shop. 10\07\1879(Tu) Went to Harwington {??} to the fair to drum. 10\15\1879(We) Went to Wolcott to drum to day at the fair. 10\25\1879(Sa) Worked. |Paid my board up to night. 10\27\1879(Mo) Worked on my shop. 10\28\1879(Tu) Worked for Wm Pratt. 11\01\1879(Sa) Shingled my shop. 11\05\1879(We) Werked{sic}. |Finished shingling my shop. 11\20\1879(Th) Went to Litchfield. 11\21\1879(Fr) Went to Goshen. 11\22\1879(Sa) Came home to day. |Paid my board up to night. 11\24\1879(Mo) Worked. Bought a pair of bellows and tyure{sic} iron for $11.50 of Cha's Allen. 12\09\1879(Tu) Built the chimney to my shop. 12\15\1879(Mo) Set my o....{??} block. 12\22\1879(Mo) {{*Werked}} In my shop. 12\23\1879(Tu) Fixed Ediu {?} Todd's sleigh. [Omitted various addresses and purchases, references to "worked"] Some summaries and financial records at end Work Record Pocket Diary 1887 Time Table for Board or Labor preceding Daily Memoranda 1887 01\01\{1887}(Sa) Amount due Spenser Monroe 29.34 01\15\{1887}(Sa) An account of expenses due/paid to Spenser Monroe 01\16\{1887}(Su) Fred M. Drew Ansonia{?} Get{?} 25 1886 (something pretty incomprehensible) then 2.50 01\27\{1887}(Th) Lawn{?} List Shaf 5.00 lorrigh{?}.10 b S 3.30 ____ 8.40 02\01\{1887}(Tu)-02\02\{1887}(We) List of lumber ordered with measures and prices. 02\16\{1887}(We) Lake 2 strips 3' 7" long 02\18\{1887}(Fr) Paid Harris that 10.00 (or 1000) on weekend. 02\24\{1887}(Th) James Parter gave district note for 2 man the{?} $250.00 03\05\{1887}(Sa) Fair. Recieved of George Chandler $2.00 on account, 2.00 balance left. 03\07\{1887}(Mo) Huled(hauled?or hued- hewed) 120 ft. of timber for shop. 03\08\{1887}(Tu) Had Wilson{{s}} Pi{e}rpont team 4 hr. this forenoon drawing logs from Henry Wedges. Worked huling(hauling? or huing- hewing) timber for shop hued (hewed) 132 ft. 03\09\{1887}(We) Pleasant. Hued (hewed) 149 ft. of timber. 03\10\{1887}(Th) Rainy. Hued (hewed) 68 ft. 03\11\{1887}(Fr) Windy. Hued 75 ft. Reci{e}ved of A.E.Chandy{?} 8.50 pay to date. Baught (bought) of JH Gurnesy{?} 2 nail hammers 1.25.(page ends with calculations) 03\12\{1887}(Sa) Fair. (Figures for Henry Wedge timber and John Delaney lumber) 03\14\{1887}(Mo) Cool. Wm. Purdy drew 2 loads of lumber for shop. Reci{e}ved $5.00 on account of Dennis Peck. Wm. Purdy drew one load of 3 by 4 stuff from Nor{?} Benhams in Jan. Worked full time. 03\15\{1887}(Tu) Cold. Bought of E.E. Wright 2800 bricks @ 2.00 per 1000 Wilson drew 1 load to Gafney's. 03\16\{1887}(We) Cold. Wm. Purdy drew 5 loads of lumber to day. Ordered 200 ft. of 1 1/2 spruce plank to day, 10 ft. Mr. Pryer paid $3.75 for shafts and whiffletree. 03\17\{1887}(Th) Mr. Purdy drew 2 loads of lumber. Ordered of John Gurnesey (list). Mr. Rockwood lettered Morgan{'}s wagon. Worked fraining {?} shop. 03\19\{1887}(Sa) Fair. Worked on shop. 03\20\{1887}(Su) Clear,warm. Mary and Gussy were thrown from Frank{'}s wagon at the chaple and afterwards Frank and Gussy were thrown out on the plank road near Wilson's. 03\21\{1887}(Mo) Wilson drew wood from south woods. 03\23\{1887}(We) Sold Ed Scott 183 ft. of white oak plank and plank 7 ft. long 10 in wide 3" thick= 15'-2". 03\24\{1887}(Th) Paid Milan {?} Northrope $1000 to pay for Belting. Bought a watter{water?} Seatt(or Scatt). Paid Farrell Faundry $10.15 to pay for truck wheels. 03\25\{1887}(Fr) Cold. Paid Nor{?} Morris 250 for Wm Durkee. 03\26\{1887}(Sa) Clear, cold. Recieved of Elias S. Miller $70.00 pay for services rendered.Eoal{?} Farius School Dist. Raitharius{?} A. Perkins.Reci{e}ved of DL Sammeris {?} $20.00 Panalils{?}. 03\28\{1887}(Mo) Bought of M. Loannis{?} of Pine Meadow one drum stuff{?} for $5.00. The town commenced cutting the hill down to day. 03\29\{1887}(Tu) Very cold. Worked on shop frame. 03\30\{1887}(We) Raised Shop to day. 03\31\{1887}(Th) Bargained of A.B.P. for one horse 12 years, Price 75.00. (Jack? {sic} drowned in Brass Mill Pond- 1898? {sic}) 04\01\{1887}(Fr) W. G. Brooks, Bethel. Vt. 04\02\{1887}(Sa) Dick Morgans curshan (or cursham?) 3' 7" by 14 1/2. Spenser did not work, went to Cogswells. 04\04\{1887}(Mo) Commenced tareing (tearing?) the shop down. 04\05\{1887}(Tu) George Moss brought 230 ft. of oak stripe 5" wide and 8 ft. long. The old high way barrude{?} that my shop has stood on are in a direct range of the center of James Porter's and the shear Co chimneye (chimney) the line crossing the tower also in line at right angles facing the east end of Father's barn and striking 3 ft. west of a large rock at the south end of the woods. 04\06\{1887}(We) Worked moving my shop. 04\07\{1887}(Th) Spenser Monroe's brother died to day. A.B. Pierponts act against Spenser Monroe for Mar 6.92. Spenser did not work this afternoon. 04\08\{1887}(Fr) David Prichards act $6.05, E.A.Benham $48.88.(the rest is a list of measures) 04\09\{1887}(Sa) spenser did not work. 04\11\{1887}(Mo) Worked on new shop. 04\12\{1887}(Tu) James Porter and I searched the rec{{k}}ords. At a special meeting of the School Society of Waterbury at Gathrie{?} Hall on the 20th day of April 1846 in persuance of warming{?}. Elias Cook was chosen Moderator and Willard Spenser Clerk (Pro) {sic}. Voted that the bounds lines of the East Farms District be altered in the following manner.(Near){?} (the descriptions continue on the next page 04\13) 04\13\{1887}(We) Wm Shannan died to day at noon. (continuation of previous description) Beginning at the Cheshire Line in the road leading from Waterbury to Cheshire thense {?} westerly in the line of Sch{?} Roads about 60 rods to the north Branch of the Beaver Pond Brook. Then Northly to Wolcott Line on the west side of the road leading from Wolcott to Cheshire where it crosses the Meridian Turnpike Roads, there Easterly in the line of Wolcott to Cheshire line.(continued on next page 04\14) 04\14\{1887}(Th) Drum Corps{e} met at Fred's to practice. (continuation) Then in Cheshire line to place of Beginning. Voted that all that part of the East Farms Dist. lying nirnt{?} in the above described lines be annexed to the South Distric{sic} in the town of Wolcott. Voted to d{i}ssolve this meeting.(Attest) William Spenser Clerk Pro Tem{?} 04\15\{1887}(Fr) The above is a Copy of the Records @ Proceedings of said meeting as handed to me by Willard Spenser under his hands as Clerk Pro Tem{?} Alter{?} L. P. Bryan, Clerk. (nothing else on the page however) 04\16\{1887}(Sa) Reci{e}ved of E.E. Wright $5.00 04\18\{1887}(Mo) Benhams 2 men worked 3 1/2 hr. Spenser worked 3 1/2 Snow fell 6 in deep to day. Very Cold. 04\19\{1887}(Tu) Jim worked. Spenser 8 hr. 04\20\{1887}(We) 2 of Benhams men worked to day. 04\21\{1887}(Th) 2 of Benhams men worked to day.{sic} 04\22\{1887}(Fr) 2 of Benhams men worked. Hotchkiss worked 4 hr. Soandland{?} worke 2 hr. 04\23\{1887}(Sa) 2 of Benhams men worked. Hotchkiss worked 4 hr. 04\24\{1887}(Su) Feb{?} Mailthrop M. F{?}hae " " M. Ha L Tetkins{?} Michael Donovan Jerry " Benjamin Fourclaigh Harry " Wm Pritchard Geo Harrison Arthur " Georg{e} Plantsville Cha's Tuttle Wm Slatten " Somers Ordered 200 ft. of 1 1/2 spruce plank to day 10 ft. H.A. Norton Cha's Yarclaigh C.S. Miller H. Dethuns{?} 04\25\{1887}(Mo) 2 of Benhams men worked. Shingled Shop. 04\26\{1887}(Tu) Spenser worked 1/2 day. 04\27\{1887}(We) 1 of Benhams men worked (Jim). 04\28\{1887}(Th) 2 of Benhams men worked. Spenser did not work. Hitchkess worked 9 hr. 04\29\{1887}(Fr) 2 of Benhams men worked. Hotchkiss worked 9 hrs. 04\30\{1887}(Sa) 2 of Benhams men worked. Spenser worked 1/2 day. Reci{e}ved 10.00 of Austin. Hotchkiss worked 5 hr. 05\02\{1887}(Mo) Hotchkiss worked 1 day 10 hr. A.B. Pierponts actt 8.60 Spenser Monroe. 05\03\{1887}(Tu) Jim worked 5 hr. Hotchkiss worked 9 hr. 05\04\{1887}(We) Jim worked 10 hr. 05\05\{1887}(Th) Jim worked 10 hr. Hotchkiss worked 10 hr. 05\06\{1887}(Fr) Jim worked 10 hr. (calculations below) Hotchkiss worked 10 hr. payable first Monday in June{?}. Meeting called to Order 90 shad{?} in persuance of wanng{?} James Warner chosen Moderator C.S. Miller clerk Pro. BOB South piece of woods 8 a 2 R 35{?} 05\07\{1887}(Sa) Jim worked{{e}} Hotchkiss worked 6 hr. Wolcott Drum Band meet to night and {?}oponed(postponed?) of Corps property. 05\08\{1887}(Su) on the list of 1886. Voted to pay at tax if 15 1/2 on a dollar Payable the Sixth day of June 1887. Voted to dissolve this meeting. 05\09\{1887}(Mo) Jim worked 10 hr. 05\10\{1887}(Tu) Jim worked 10 hr. Morgan paid for wagon $19.00. 05\11\{1887}(We) Jim worked 10 hr. 05\12\{1887}(Th) (page of names and calculations) 05\13\{1887}(Fr) D.C. had a sociable in my shop, about 100 Present. 05\14\{1887}(Sa) Bought 1/2 ton of coal of Miller and trickland, price $3.65. Ordered of the City Lumber and Coal Co. 700 ft. of spruce boards, 4 planks 1 1/2 by 12" 12' long. 24=1 1/4 planks 3'long 10" wide. Wm Girlley 2 pieces of pipeline .20 cts. 05\16\{1887}(Mo) Commenced working in new shop to day seeting lines for M. Bryan 2.00. Ed Holmes .40 ct. Alexander Bloamfield shot Warren Frost and then shot himself. (gun is in Museum M Hall- `43). 05\17\{1887}(Tu) Trusks 2' 3" made 2' 3" {?} (calculations) 05\20\{1887}(Fr) Jim worked. 05\21\{1887}(Sa) Jim worked. Recieved of Miles Farrell 12.00 pay for cartwheels. 05\23\{1887}(Mo) One of Benham's men worked 1/2 day. 05\25\{1887}(We) One of Benhams men worked 9 hr. Wm Grilley br By Pail and dipper .35 cts. 05\26\{1887}(Th) 2 of Benhams men worked 1/2 day, one apprentice{?}. James Parter let me have 500. 05\27\{1887}(Fr) 2 of Benhams men worked 10 hr., one apprentice. Had shop insured 800. 05\28\{1887}(Sa) 2 of Benhams men, one apprentice. 05\30\{1887}(Mo) Decoration Day. Horse came to day. Jack? -chestnut - black mane and tail, with a western brand (diagram) 05\31\{1887}(Tu) 2 of Benhams men worked (one apprentice). The Berlin Iron Bridge Co. (calculations). 06\01\{1887}(We) W.D. Stryker H{?} Co., 201 Grand St., N.Y. 06\02\\{1887}(Th) One of Benhams men worked. O.G. Larchild {?for next word} 06\03\{1887}(Fr) 2 of Benhams men worked (1 apprentice). 06\06\{1887}(Mo) Spenser did not work. Reci{e}ved of Frank Judd 10.00 on adat{?}. 06\07\{1887}(Tu) (measures) Reci{e}ved of S.L. Munson $5.00 (then a diagram) 06\09\{1887}(Th) (calculations) 06\11\{1887}(Sa) Oct. 30 Teachers Salery (salary) (calculations beneath) Wm Purdy drew Engine from Southington. 06\12\{1887}(Su) 1886 Oct. 30 by cash (calculations beneath) 06\13\{1887}(Mo) Recieved of Frank Judd 15.00 on account. 06\15\{1887}(We) Robert Wiltars{?} buy hahe{?} wheels (calculations beneath) 06\17\{1887}(Fr) Went to New Haven to day to drum for the dedication of the Sauldiers {soldier's?} Monument. 21 men furnidid{?} -East Rock- 06\20\{1887}(Mo) (listing of accounts for customers) 06\28\{1887}(Tu) 6 tight truck, 7' long, 24" mid, fist {? for next word) truck to be done in ten days, 65.00. 06\29\{1887}(We) Had fuhukey{?} same at Mayd{?} Smithe 50 cts. 1/2 hr. Got 3 pulley of Walter Scott 1-12", 1-16", 1-9 1/2". 1 piece of shafting 4" long with suplin{?} on an end. (calculations beneath) Oscar Fairchild came to day. Oscar Fairchild came to board today. 06\30\{1887}(Th) Wm. E. Hustin Buy Aut{?} Bill $10.00. Greely Aut 70 cts. my due. 07\12\{1887}(Tu) M. Rockwood No. 136 N{?}fainsly. 07\14\{1887}(Th) (listing of order to/from Randolph B. Clows and measures) 07\18\{1887}(Mo) Mr. Fairchild came to day. 07\23\{1887}(Sa) (calculation) Johnson's bill 3.67. Paid Cha's Clark 196.33 for Engine. 100. bill Waterbury National. 07\25\{1887}(Mo) Baught of Clark Bros Mill Dale a lot of washers for 1.50, paid 1.00. 07\26\{1887}(Tu) John Northrop painted our shop. 07\27\{1887}(We) Clyde taken sick. Doctor came. 07\28\{1887}(Th) Doctor came. 07\29\{1887}(Fr) Doctor came. 07\31\{1887}(Sa) Doctor came. 08\01\{1887}(Mo) Doctor came. 08\02\{1887}(Tu) Doctor came. John Northrop painted on shop. 08\03\{1887}(We) Spenser Monroe act 7.07 for July, for June 7.34, for May 5.48. 08\04\{1887}(Th) Doctor came. George Edwards Fred Miller Cha's Miller Robert Spenser Spruce Chas Fenton (calculations below) 08\05\{1887}(Fr) Northrop painted shop, balance due him 10.30. 08\07\{1887}(Su) Doctor came. 08\08\{1887}(Mo) Ed Holmes worked. Bill 8.50. 08\11\{1887}(Th) Buckingham Fred Miller Roalik{?} Lewis Cross {Crass?} Somers Cha's Miller Buyers 08\12\{1887}(Fr) Bauch{?} of dues. Fed{?} pay on said table for 12.00. 32 ft of 4" leather {?for next word} for $7.00. One 12" saw 2.00. 08\13\{1887}(Sa) Reci{e}ved of D.G. Porter $15.00. J.{?} A. Spenser br by 1 bag oats, 1 saw{?} $2.70. 08\16\{1887}(Tu) William left to day. 08\18\{1887}(Th) Edward Spruce Crass Boath (Booth?) Wright Lenor's Miller Smith Hordoy Clark Miernam{?} 08\19\{1887}(Fr) Caris Frost worked laying floor for engine. 08\20\{1887}(Sa) Frost worked. Spenser went to Seaside Park. 08\23\{1887}(Tu) Frost worked 08\22\{1887}(Mo) Frost worked. 09\03\{1887}(Sa) (list of accounts with continuation on next page) 09\04\{1887}(Su) (same list) 09\06\{1887}(Tu) Yardan Barton Spinner Boaths Lents{?} Buyers Lenoir{?} M. Miller Cauley{?} Cross Miller Old Mr. Fairchild cam{sic} to board to day @ 4.00. 09\08\{1887}(Th) Fire Parade. Did not work this afternoon. Fire Parade. 09\13\{1887}(Tu) Clark Wright Booth Spruce Barton (this is the probably the right list) Edwards Buyers Norton Samers Cross Lewis 09\14\{1887}(We) J. H. Samers{?} Wheels (then measures) 09\15\{1887}(Th) Old man Fairchild worked chopping wood to day. 09\17\{1887}(Sa) Fairchild worked 1/4 day. 09\19\{1887}(Mo) Spenser went to Kent to day. 09\20\{1887}(Tu) Paid Mr. Blakewell{?} 10.00 Farrell Faundrys 29.04 City Lumber and Coal Co. 29.53 10\01\{1887}(Sa) Oscar left boarding to day. 10\02\{1887}(Su) Joe came to see horse. 10\03\{1887}(Mo) William Miller came to work and to board to day at 3.50 per week. Frank moved from Wrights to day. Oscar moved from Ansonia to day into Wrights house. 10\04\{1887}(Tu) Spenser Monroe bill for Sept. 8.91. 10\07\{1887}(Fr) Mr. Fairchild help dig Patalaes{?} this forenoon. 10\11\{1887}(Tu) Barton Booth Fanton Cross F. Miller Smith Lewis Samers Buckingham Edwards 10\19\{1887}(We) Robert Welton bought axle of Goodmin. 10\24\{1887}(Mo) Mr Payne let me have $10.00 on account. 10\25\{1887}(Tu) James Sutton bought 4 cider barrels. 10\26\{1887}(We) Oscar Fairchild went selling rings to Bristol. Wright took the white horse away. 10\29\{1887}(Sa) H.W. Lakes bill 8.24. Spenser worked 1/4 day. Paid Spenser 5.00. 10\31\{1887}(Mo) Visited school to day. 11\01\{1887}(Tu) H.W.Lakes carriage came to day. 11\03\{1887}(Th) Monroes bill $13.28 to A.P.P. 11\04\{1887}(Fr) Gave bar 1.50 change from door. 11\14\{1887}(Mo) Spenser worked 1/2 day. Owe Wm. for 3 weeks. 11\16\{1887}(We) Henry Carter saw me to day about the pay for the band. 11\18\{1887}(Fr) John Delaney bill $6.36. 11\19\{1887}(Sa) Paid Spenser 7.00. 11\20\{1887}(Su) (Measures and price for a "driver pulley" and saw) 11\21\{1887}(Mo) Spenser Monroe did not work. Went to Bristol to buy saw this forenoon. 11\23\{1887}(We) Spenser worked this forenoon. 11\26\{1887}(Sa) Spenser did not work. 11\28\{1887}(Mo) Spenser worker{sic} nine hours. 11\30\{1887}(We) (measures and diagram) 12\01\{1887}(Th) Paid M. Welton. Drum Corps Note{?}. 12\02\{1887}(Fr) (listing of accounts) Paid Will 5.00. 12\03\{1887}(Sa) 5 weeks pay due Will to night, less 5.00 due 12.50. 12\10\{1887}(Sa) Mr. Frost worked 8 hr. Turned counter shafts. Paid Spenser 4.75. 12\12\{1887}(Mo) Spenser worked 4 hr. Mr. Frost worked 7 hr. Bored out sollars{?} and pulleys. 12\14\{1887}(We) Mr. Frost worked 7 hr. 12\15\{1887}(Th) Paid L.L. Eusworth $70.00. Mr. Frost worked 7 hr. 12\16\{1887}(Fr) Paid Wallace{?} Northrop $5.00. Mr. Frost worked 7 hr. 12\17\{1887}(Sa) Reci{e}ved of H.M. Geake 5.00 on account. Paid Spenser $5.00. Mr. Frost worked 7 hr. Paid Wm. Miller 12.00. 12\19\{1887}(Mo) Paid Wm. Miller 5.00. 12\21\{1887}(We) (measures and diagram) 12\22\{1887}(Th) (measures and diagram) 12\23\{1887}(Fr) (measures con't) 12\24\{1887}(Sa) Wm. Purdus wood came 5.66. 12\26\{1887}(Mo) Christmas 12\31\{1887}(Sa) Paid Spenser 500{5.00?} Cash Account in the back with a few names and figures. The rest (expenses, notes and bills, etc.) is blank. In the back compartment, there are three IOU notes and a slip of paper with calculations of accounts on it. The Standard Diary 1888 Preceded by an 1888 Calendar and Almanac section. Both the front and back covers have calculations written in pencil on them; the front has "Cha's S. Miller, Waterbury, Conn." written in pencil. 01\15\{1888}(Su) Used 35 gals of oil from 49 1/2 gal tanks. 03\02\{1888}(Fr) Spenser filed D.G. Partners saw for .50. 03\04\{1888}(Su) Spenser came home from Beacon Falls this fore noon. Worked afternoon. 03\06\{1888}(Tu) Commensed{sic] taking milk of Wilson. 03\08\{1888}(Th) (listing of accounts) Schwegal let S. Monroe have the Cha's Monroe place for 8.00 per month. 03\07\{1888}(Fr) Paid School Teacher $64.00. 03\12\{1888}(Mo) Snowed all day and night. 03\13\{1888}(Tu) Snowed all day. 03\14\{1888}(We) Snow 3 ft deep an leavel{sic} and drifts as high as 20 feet all rail road trains stoped{sic}. 03\15\{1888}(Th) Spenser worked. 03\16\{1888}(Fr) Spenser worked. (listing of supplies) 03\17\{1888}(Sa) (measures of wagon to be made, with diagram) 03\18\{1888}(Su) (diagram con't) Wm Miller got through working to day. 03\19\{1888}(Mo) (supply list) 03\21\{1888}(We) Reci{e}ved of C.S. Miller $41.56 Payment in full to date (followed by signature) 03\22\{1888}(Fr) Hattie Pierpont came home from {?}alafornig{?} 04\15\{1888}(Su) (listing of accounts) 04\18\{1888}(We) (listing of accounts) 04\24\{1888}(We) Reci{e}ved of C.S. Miller 14.15 payment in full to date (signature? by Wm Durkee) 05\10(10-11)\{1888} C.S.Miller, Piman{?} Smith, Ed Smith, Samers, Clark, Marram{?}, Kilbaum{?}, Boath, Cross, Edwards. 05\22\{1888}(Tu) Ed Johnson buried to day. Spenser worked 4 hr. 05\24\{1888}(Th) Stock holders train run over the Meridan Waterbury and Com{?} River railroad Run from waterbury{sic} to Meriden in 45 minutes. 05\27\{1888}(Tu) (someone else's handwriting) Charles F. Wayner, Westfield, Mass. 06\07\{1888}(Th) (listing of accounts) 06\08\{1888}(Fr) Ed Holmes Plowing{?} Rifle (figures) 06\21\{1888}(Th) H.W. Lakes bill 14.49. 06\24\{1888}(Su) Drove to west Haven and oyster river with Clyde and Mary. Very warm. 06\26\{1888}(Tu) Ben Harrison nominated for President and for vice President. S. Monroe worked this fore noon. 06\27\{1888}(We) Iron body from Trucks made for Randolf and Caloms (measures) Mr. F. L. Adams, H.B.O.H. 06\28\{1888}(Th) H.B.O.H. ordered (list) (One loose page with accounts on it) 07\05\{1888}(Th) (list of supplies) 07\06\{1888}(Fr) Give Mr. Bradley reci{e}pt for booth{?} money and indu{?for rest of word} 07\09\{1888}(Mo) First trains run on the Meridan Waterbury and Comm River Rain road. 07\11\{1888}(We) {? for this entry} 07\12\{1888}(Th) Judd and Judsons (measures and diagram ) 07\13\{1888}(Fr) (measures con't) 07\20\{1888}(Fr) (measures) 07\21\{1888}(Sa) Father and I went to Cheshire to day on the New rail road. 07\22\{1888}(Su) (diagram) 07\25\{1888}(We) Spenser worked 1/2 day. 07\26\{1888}(Th) (diagram and measures for wagon) 07\27\{1888}(Fr) (measures con't) 07\31\{1888}(Tu) Tawns discount{?} $9.60. 08\01\{1888}(We) Saw Mr. Fardon this noon at Scovills. Promised to meet me at PO 7 o'clock next tuesday{sic} evening. 08\09\{1888}(Th) Went to Bridgeport to foresters parade. 08\10\{1888}(Fr) Mathan. Merwin. 08\11\{1888}(Sa) Judd and Judson ordered wagon 1 1/2 axle platform spring for $150.00. 08\12\{1888}(Su) Wm Durkee came to work this noon @ 3.00. Post man came to the new mail box to day. 08\18\{1888}(Sa) Mr. Logan ordered farm wagon $65.00. 08\31\{1888}(Fr) (list of orders) 09\01\{1888}(Sa) (another order) 09\03\{1888}(We) Went to Middletown to Drummer's convention. 09\16\{1888}(Su) Spenser came Home from Kent. 09\25\{1888}(Tu) Distance from Waterbury to East Litchfield 18 miles. 10\13\{1888}(Sa) George Sprague bill for 7.00. Sons of veterans and Mattatuck Drum Corps had clam bake at my shop. 10\14\{1888}(Su) Frank and Gussy stayed at our house. 10\16\{1888}(Tu) {? for this entry} 10\17\{1888}(We) Mr.Wright butchered 8 hogs. 10\22\{1888}(Mo) (listing of orders ) 10\25\{1888}(Th) H.B.C.H. ordered 2 mill trucks @ 30. 10\31\{1888}(We) Had Republican Parade in new Britan to night.{sic} 11\01\{1888}(Th) Had Republican parade in Litchfield to night. 11\08\{1888}(Th) Republicans had big parade to night. 11\10\{1888}(Sa) (diagram) Paid Wm up to day. 11\22\{1888}(Th) Painted shop, it took-(list of materials) 11\23\{1888}(Fr) Painted windows in shop. 11\24\{1888}(Sa) Northrop paid .75 cts. on rifle. 11\25\{1888}(Su) Snow fell 4" deep, first snow of the season. 11\28\{1888}(We) Drum Corps owe me $6.16. I owe the Drum Corps $7.84. 11\29\{1888}(Th) Cha's Tues{?} ordered wagon 140.00. 12\03\{1888}(Mo) (accounting) 12\04\{1888}(Tu) Went to South Britan and got 6 yards of cloth for shirts of .70 cts. per yard, also 12 skiynes of yarn @ .20 per Sham{?}. (calculations at end) 12\05\{1888}(We) Ordered 1 ton of soft coal. 12\07\{1888}(Fr) (accounts) 12\08\{1888}(Sa) (listing of supplies) 12\17\{1888}(Mo) (diagram) 12\26\{1888}(We) J{?}tohans ordered business wagon $150.00. In the memoranda section there is the note: Mr. Fairchild dug potatoes. Oct. 8th 1 day Oct. 11th 6 hr. There is also a keeping of cash accounts in the back section. The American Diary 1889 On the inside and back covers, there are measures and calculations in pencil. There is also an almanac section, addresses and memoranda section, and a timetable for board or labor in the front. The addresses and memoranda section contains the addresses of: Mrs. Lidia Chipman, No 51 Central Av{e}, Eddie Lyons, Sheffeld Mass., and Perre Surprenant, No 323 Bank St. City. The timetable for board or labor is also filled out with the names of Mike, Durkee, Monroe, and Munson{?}. 01\06\{1889}(Su) Signed a note for Spenser Monroe for 200. Payable in two years. from date. 02\06\{1889}(We) (description of a purchase of a quantity of oak wood) 02\07\{1889}(Th) (same sort of description, purchase by Luther Bradley) 02\09\{1889}(Sa) Durkee Paid up till to night. 02\18\{1889}(Mo) (measures of ordered rivits, iron, and tire bolts of L.L. Eusworth) 02\19\{1889}(Tu) (more orders made) 02\20\{1889}(We) (diagram and measures) 02\23\{1889}(Sa) Sessions Sent 27 wheels. 02\24\{1889}(Su) Mary had a girl at 9:30 to night. Margaret M.N. Hall. 02\25\{1889}(Mo) (another order of L.L. Eusworth) 02\26\{1889}(Tu) (another order of L.L. Eusworth) 02\27\{1889}(We) (another series of measures) 03\02\{1889}(Sa) Mr Rice of Cheshire ordered a new 2 horse wagon simular to Robert Minors for $100.00 with hay rigging. 03\03\{1889}(Su) Mrs. Nettleton got through to day. 03\15\{1889}(Fr) Paid Durkee 2.50 half cord of wood. Borrowed 35.00 of Jas Parter. 03\16\{1889}(Sa) Mrs. Pratt came to do house work to day. 03\19\{1889}(Tu) Luther Bradley by {sic} 160 ft of oak and ash{?}. 03\20\{1889}(We) (figures) Paid Durkee 6.15 one ton of coal. 03\21\{1889}(Th) Paid Durkee 2.00 for book 10.00 cash. 03\22\{1889}(Fr) (another purchase by Luther Bradley) 03\25\{1889}(Mo) (a purchase by George Alexander) 03\26\{1889}(Tu) (an order by A.R. Pierpont) 03\27\{1889}(We) Paid Durkee 6.00 on books. 04\02\{1889}(Tu) O{?} L. Fairchild commenced paying rent to day 3.00 per month. 04\06\{1889}(Sa) Paid Durkee 50 cash. 04\07\{1889}(Su) Paid Durkee 90 in rake and hoe. 04\09Tu) Paid Durkee 2.00 on G.B. Hitchcock account. 04\13\{1889}(Sa) Owe Wm 13.61. 04\17\{1889}(We) Paid Durkee 1.00 cash. 04\22\{1889}(Mo) Mr. Melbourne came to work to day @ 1.50. (measures) 04\24\{1889}(We) Paid Durkee 5.00 he bought 3.12 worth Gracrues{?} of Spenser @ Pierpont. George Mass and Wm. Clark Den Peck and Ed Wallace worked on addition to shop. 04\25\{1889}(Th) Paid Durkee 2.00 to Pay for books. Den Peck and Edgar Wallace worked to day. 04\26\{1889}(Fr) Charged Durkee 1.00 for Mashiers {?} boxes. 05\04\{1889}(Sa) Paid Durkee 3.00 cash. 05\07\{1889}(Tu) Paid Durkee 2.00 cash. 05\09\{1889}(Th) (measures) 05\10\{1889}(Fr) (list with figures) 05\11\{1889}(Sa) (list with figures) Paid Fred Miller payment 2.00 for drum wheele. Bought of P.S. Wedgr{sic} in 1886. Paid Durkee 3.00 cash. 05\13\{1889}(Mo) (list of clothing) 05\14\{1889}(Tu) Bought of the Alwater Manufacturing Co. a lot of hardware for 13.75 and of H.D. Smith a lot for 2.09. Paid Wm. Durkee 10.00 cash. 05\17\{1889}(Fr) Spenser did not work to day. 05\21\{1889}(Tu) (listing of accounts) 05\22\{1889}(We) (measures) 05\27\{1889}(Mo) Owe Henry munson last week's pay and week before last, and week before that. Owe Tom last week and 8.00 on week before that. 06\03\{1889}(Mo) (measures) 06\08\{1889}(Sa) Paid Durkee 1.00 cash, paid Durkee 100 on S.P. Bronson's account. 06\09\{1889}(Su) Michael Burns ordered wagon 50. 06\10\{1889}(Mo) (measures) 06\19\{1889}(We) (listing of accounts) 07\02\{1889}(Tu) (listing of order from George Alexander) 07\09\{1889}(Tu) Paid Durkee 7.00 on Kellogge account. 07\10\{1889}(We) Shop 23" long 07\15\{1889}(Mo) {?} with {?} 16.25 due fines. 07\16\{1889}(Tu) Paid Durkee 1.00 cash. 07\17\{1889}(We) Paid Durkee.50 cts. cash. 08\02\{1889}(Fr) {? for this entry... for wooden pulleys} 08\21\{1889}(We) Paid Jame{?} Reed $10.00 for Rent an John Thackerie{'}s House. 09\12\{1889}(Th) (listing of accounts) 09\19\{1889}(Th) Paid Spenser Monroe 21.00 to pay months wages. 09\21\{1889}(Sa) CW Hall, Bridgeport, Con. 10\11\{1889}(Fr) (listing of measures) 10\12\{1889}(Sa) (listing of orders) 11\30\{1889}(We) Borrowed 22. of Harman Payne to be paid by the 30th of Nov. (Paid) 11\22\{1889}(Fr) Engaged Led{?} coal of Mr. Wood at 4.75 per ton. 11\24\{1889}(Su) The freight train went out on the Meridian Waterbury to Conn River RQ {?} this morning with 25 cars the longest train I ever saw on that road and the longest I think that ever passed over it drawn by one engine. 11\27\{1889}(We) Tried to settle with Oscar Fairchild to day. 11\28\{1889}(Th) Thanks giving day the water in the streams was higher than it has been before in 20 years many bridges was washed away and the water on south main st and exchange place was 2 ft deep.{sic} 12\16\{1889}(Mo) (listing of orders) 12\25\{1889}(We) A remarkably warm day more like May than Dec. weather so warm a man would sweat without an overcoat in the evening. I heard several moskitoes{sic} buzzing about the house. A full cash account section in the back section, with a pencilled calculation on the inside of the back cover. [[Charles Somers Miller 1890 small workbook]] Front flyleaf, upper right hand corner (price?): M 69 Chas S Miller Jan 1 1890 In the section "Addresses and Memoranda" the following names are listed with addresses: Suderberg G{?} Pulson J H Baird John T Danovan{Donovan?} John Megher F D Miller O. A. Beckwith Aldin S Wood Henry A Makepeace Fred S Kimball Frank C Bradford R S Wells C S Wells W A Rice S S Hougton Milliard{?} Barnes{?} J A Squires L B Moore Fred S Kimball In the section "Time Table for Board or Labor" names and figures are listed for each month, apparently amounts paid to each person: Melbourn{?} Welton Nettleton Munson --- Melbarn{Melhorn?} Welton Nettleton --- Melbaurn{?} Welton Nettleton --- [[the last 3 names are repeated in the 3 sets (April-May-June; July-Aug.-Sept.) on the next two pages, then again on the following page but with "Tom" instead of Melbourn/Milbourn/etc.]] 01\06\1890 (Monday) George E Nettleton came to work{worke!} for me to day at 1 00{?} and board per day 01\14\1890 (Tuesday) Moved bailer 01\16\1890 (Thursday) Mr. Charles Kingsbury died to day Aged 95 years the oldest man in town 01\19\1890 (Sunday) I stayed home all day Mary took Clyde and Irving to the Chapel and then went to see their Grand mother at uncle Geanine's{?} Cha's Belding and his girl t___d{tiped?} over in front of the house at 1 o'clock to night 01\20\1890 (Monday) Wrote to Barney & Berry for Georg Nettleton to day 02\06\1890 (Thursday) Mr. Munson came to paint Wright's Carriag_{carriage?} in my shop to day 02\07\1890 (Friday) A great blizzard predicti__{prediction?} for to day. It snowed a little in the wven ing{,?} and rained hard all night 02\10\1890 (Monday) Wrote to Fred at New Haven To have potatoes beets and other vegtables that grow{growe!} in the ground do well plant them in the old of the moon{moan!}. And beans peas and o c{?} that grow above ground do well plant in the new of the moon 02\14\1890 (Friday) Mr. Frost harrow teeth{teith?} 11 1/2" 4" from end middle and{an!} 10 1/2 to end from tooth. Mr. Gunn of Prospect gave me his Saladee buggy for 3.00 to be paid in work{workl!} and .60 an old account. 02\16\1890 (Sunday) James{Janes?} Suttan{?} ___{?} 1 tank 8'x3'3"x2'6" 02\22\1890 (Saturday) Ice{?} is about 4" thick an{and? on? at?} the pond's{ponds!} thickest it has been this year, there has not been three day in succession that one _ould{could?} not have plowed since last summer{?}. 02\26\1890 (Wednesday) {entry difficult to read} Georgr{George?} Alexander __{br?} By 171 ft plank{ptank!} at .023 3/4 {or .03 3/4?} .03 5.13 03\09\1890 (Sunday) Mary went to the Chapel{Chaple!} with Clyde and Irvin{Irving?} and then went up to Uncle{uncle?} Le__es{Lewis?}. 04\15\1890 (Tuesday) Uncle Levinuss Warner{?} was buried to day. Dr. Rooland{?} officiated Austin B Pierpont Chas J Pierpont Elmer E Pierpont Wilson L Pierpont Chas, Branuis{?} and myself{mysilf!} were pall bearers{barers!} Uncle Levinuss{Lvinus!} was aged 81 year and 8 months. 04\16\1890 (Wednesday) Ordered of James{Jamis!} Harry one{oni!} set of wheels Price $9.00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 04\22\1890 (Tuesday) Paur_ton{?} made eaves for Dr. Benedict's top $4.05 Paid 05\14\1890 (Wednesday) Weather, Warm Worked digging for my{ny!} Stor_{Store?} _ank_{banke?} to-day Had, Fred{F'red!} Wetton 1.00 Tom Melborn{Milbaum?} 1.50 George Nettleton{?} 1.75 Mr. Chas Hotchkiss 1 50 (underlined) ____ 5 75 05\15\1890 (Thursday) Weather, Rained 5 hr Drew stone and laid wall for store house Had Chas Hotchkiss 3.00 George Nettleton 1.75 Italian{?} 1.25 team 3.75 (underlined) ____ 9.75 05\16\1890 (Friday) Weather, Rained Laid cellar wall Mr. Chas Hotchkiss 3.00 Fred wit_an{?} 1.00 ____ 4.00 Lime 1.75 Cement{Cewent!} 1.75 ____ 7.50 My time{?} 6.00 9.75 5.75 ____ 29.00 Stour{?} 7 00 _____ 36 00 05\18\1890 (Sunday) Weather, Fair G. W. Connor, Myself A B Pierpont C J Pierpon_{Pierpont?} W L Pierpont{?} had Mark Warner show us the bounds around the estate of Levnus{?} Warner. Land estimat__{estimated?} to be from 250{or 25.0?} to 300 acres{acors!} app__sed{appraised?} at $3.200.00 including buildings 05\22\1890 (Thursday) Tom and Fred staid home to hoe potatoes all day 05\23\1890 (Friday) Paul Hesphlt{?} planted my potatoes for $1.75 05\24\1890 (Saturday) I told John R Platt that I would put new wheels on his wagon{wagan!} for 22.00 New axles 7.00 pole 1.25 Rubber c__stnan{?} 3.75 Paint 10.00 _____ 44 00 Mattatuck Drum Corps{Carps!} had a meeting this{tohis!} evening I was elected Leader _.{?} E. Edwards assistant Leader James Elliot Sec Henry Buckingham Treasurer Present Miles Booth " Gardner. Hall. " H d Norton{?} " Fred Kilbourn{?} " H Buckingham C. Miller J Elliott J.{?} Hall Miles Booth{Baoth?} We are Engaged to play decoration{decorathan!} day 05\26\1890 (Monday) Went to see Carley and Jerry Danovan for the Crum Corps{Carps!} let Jerry take L L Oviatt's{?} book 05\27\1890 (Tuesday) Had Crum Corps{Carps!} meeting to night Present Sinion Cmith " Myself " Henry Buckingha_{Buckingham?} " Miles Booth " Gardner Hall " Fred Kilbaum " Luke Henderson 05\28\1890 (Wednesday) Wm Austin{?} Ca{?} By Cash $5.00 05\30\1890 (Friday) Drum Corps turned out for Wadhoms{?} Past G A R{?} Those who turned out men R. Carley{?}. Luke Hinderson{?} Simon Smith A H Norton Fred Kilbaum{?}. C.S. Miller. J Buckingham. Miles Booth Gardener Hall 05\31\1890 (Saturday) Had D.C. Meeting{Meettng!} I handed in my resignation{rezag_nation!} 06\01\1890 (Sunday) Batanere{?} Due Thomas Melbaurn{Melbourn?} 32.57 Old iron 26.10 _____ $5_ 67 {57.67? or 58.67?} Corrected Batance{Balance?} due You{?} 39.26 iron 26.10 _____ 65.36 Paid p__{?} 21 ft 32{.?}5.7 06\06\1890 (Friday) City Lumber & Coal Co Dimensions of lumber wagon Back axle 2 1/4 solid collar for 10" hub welded 4' 4"{?} bolster 4' 4" on bottom{botton!} 7" wide 2 1/4" thick projects 2 1/2{?} over{?} hub face of b stake{?} 4" fron{front? from?} end of hub stokes 17" high 2 1/4x3" at bottom 1 1/2 at top banded with{?} 1 1/2x3/8 iron. 2 clips an{on?} back axle make from 1 x 5/16 iron let in at top so a_{ap?} piece of band iron can be screwed on{an!} Reached 2X4 top a__{are? an?} 10' 6" long in to in bottom are{arie!} 9' 3" bold 8 1/2" from back end Sliding{Slideing!} plate and{ard!} pin close to end of hound other sliding plate four and{ard!} 1/4" from front end of bottom reach center of holes plates of 2 1/2 band iron fastened with 2-5/16 bolts 06\07\1890 (Saturday) Hounds/Haunds{?} 3' 1'{1"?} long 2" thick mortised{,?} in bed 8 1/2" from reach braces from clips cane{?} on to hounds of 5/8 iron side braces from stake clips take some bo___{bolts?} as holds the hounds Front Axle bed 4' 4" long 2 1/4 " thick 4 1/4" high plates 18" long Front Axle 2" solid collar for 10" hub cliped at shackles and half way from plate to shackles. Front{.?} bolster 4' 9"{?} long 5 1/2" wide 2 1/4" thick stakes same as back iron L an{and? on?} bolster 3 bolts in stake and 2 in bolster{.?} Ring bolts{?} 4 ring bolts inside of bolster stakes Plates 18" long 5/8 thick 2 1/4 wide T 18" long D 1 1/2x5/8. king C{?} brace 1 1/2X5/8. 06\08\1890 (Sunday) {Is this entry for 06\08\1890 or a continuation of the entry on the previous page?} brace an{on? and?} reach to front bolster 1 1/2 x 3/8 Shafts 3 1/4 X 1 3/4 bar 18" from butt 7' from front of bar to end of shaft_{shafts?} Whfflitree{?} 3' x 1 3/4 tires 1/2" thick Out side{2 words?} hub bands 2 1/2 x 1/8{?} band iron ____________________________ Drum Corp Mat__{Matin?} called to{ta!} order at 8.30 Present Miles Boot_{Booth?} G. Hall Chas S Miller Fred Kilbourne{?}. Henderson{?} Mas_ier{Mashier?} 06\20\1890 (Friday) {entry is difficult to read} Res___d of A M Rver{?} $20.00{?} Pa_{?} __{?} wa_o_{wagon?} 06\21\1890 (Saturday) Paid Tomas Melborn{?} $32.57 pay in full for work to ju___{?} 1 ft 1890{'1890!} 07\01\1890 (Tuesday) Had School meeting Frank Judd elected carmeette_{committee?} Wm Austin clerk Luthur Bradley{?} Treasurer Decided to hav_{have?} flag __{on?} the school house 07\17\1890 (Thursday) George Nettleton stayed home sick 08\09\1890 (Saturday) Mr. Carter busin__{business?} wagon body 7" deep 5' 9" wood clash{?} Pampl{?} seat back 10" above back pannel of{?} seat 08\22\1890 (Friday) George Nettleton{?} Went to East Haven 08\25\1890 (Monday) Mr. Munson{?} gave me 5.00 on{an!} account 3.50 due George Nettleton{?} came home from East Haven 08\27\1890 (Wednesday) {entry is difficult to read} stopped Pastur__g{Pasturing?} ho__{?} in ___{the?} Parters{Pasture?} _______{?} 09\09\1890 (Tuesday) Width of _______{suttons?} shackle_{shackles?} 3' 5" shackles 1 1/4 x 1/2" bots{bolts} 09\19\1890 (Friday) This page has several numbers added in a mathematical equation 09\20\1890 (Saturday) I left home to day at 7 o'clock for a pleasure trip and drove to to{written twice} Bristol 12 miles then to Forest ville 3 miles then to plainville 2 miles, then to Unionville 8 miles then to Collinsville 4 miles then fed horse at 2 P.M. and went to Canton 1 mile {Is "mile" inserted at end of line?} ____{then? Is "then" inserted at the beginning of the line?} Simbsbury 10 m {is "m" inserted after "10"?} then to Tar_ffni_le{?} 7 miles{,?} then East Gramby 4 miles and staid over sunday with Mr. John La Fluer{?}. 09\21\1890 (Sunday) Went to Old Newgate Prison and West Suffield Feeding horse .25 stamps (20th) .04 Lodging in _____{house?} 1.50 ____ Newgate .20 Beef Sept 22"{?} .13 har__{?} .35 _aper{Paper?} .07 Maps .75 ___ horse 1 00 {$1.00?} myself (23) 1 00 {$1.00?} ____ (24) 5.29 Board for horse 75 " " " 75 feed " " 20 " " " 05 (25) R R FAir _____ 2.7_{2.74?} Sindr__s{Sindrives?} 26 (26) board _____{?} 2.00 ____ (2) " 2 00 rep watch 1 00 ____ oats 25 ____ (3) board{baard?} 75 4) " 1 25 "{?} lunch 10 {.10?} ____ 12.1_{12.10?} 09\22\1890 (Monday) I drove to Copper hill 3 miles then to Feeding hill 10 miles then to Springfield .4{4?} miles then to Chicapll{?} 5 __les{miles?} then to Chicapee{?} falls 3 miles than to South Hadley Falls 4 miles then South Hadley 3 miles and Stayed with Mr. Joseph Miller _____ (5) board{baard!} 1.50 _____ 6 " 1.25 lunch .14 _____ (6) Board 1 00 (7) " 1 00 _____ (8) " 2 00 _____ (9) " 1 56{?} lunch .16 _____ 10 Board 1.7_{1.75?} Postage{Pastage!} .02 11 board{baard!} 1 50 12 bard{board?} 1 50 feed 28 lunch 20 13 bard{board?} 1 00 _____ 14 80 Mathematical equation is on this page 09\23\1890 (Tuesday) I left South{Sauth!} Hadley this morning and drove to Hadley to North Hadley to Sunderland to M_ntog__{Mantogen?} to Mills Falls to Northfield Farms to Northfield to winchester the whole being 37 1/2 miles 09\24\1890 (Wednesday) I left Winchester at 7 oclock{oclox!} and drove to Kein{?} passing through Westport{?} and{an!} West Swanzey 13 1/2 __les{miles?} t__n{then?} drove to Marlborough to Chesham to Harrisville to E Harnsville to Hancock 20 miles 33 1/2 miles to day Stopped at the house of Mr. Aldin S Wood. 09\25\1890 (Thursday) Went to day from Hancock to Concord by rail and returned at night to Mr. Woods 09\26\1890 (Friday) to day I left Hancock at 10.45 o'clock and we_t{went?} to Stoddard 9 miles then to Marlow{?} 8 miles then to Lemster{?} 7"{?} 2_{24?} miles to day {mathematical equation on this page} 09\27\1890 (Saturday) I left Semster and Passed through Unity to Newport 13 1/2 miles from Newport I drove through Croudon{?} to _rantham{Grantham?} then to Endfield NH 27{27.?} miles and stayed with Mr. Fred S Kimball on{an!} shaker hill 09\28\1890 (Sunday) Stayed at Fred Kimball_{Kimball's?} 09\29\1890 (Monday) Stayed{Staryed!} at Fred Kimball's 09\30\1890 (Tuesday) Stayed at Fred Kimball's 10\01\1890 (Wednesday) Stayed at Fred Kimball's and dug Potatoes. 10\02\1890 (Thursday) Oscar Carr is at Fort Payne Al Burning lime has 16 Negroes at work. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I drove{draw?} from Endfield to lebanon{?} to Hanover{?} to lime to Oxford{Orford!} 32 miles 10\03\1890 (Friday) Drove from Oxford{Orford!} to Pierpont then to Bradford Vt then to Corinth then to west Topsham{?}, the distance from Corinth to W{?} Topsham is eight miles{,?} but I got lost in the mountain and drove over 12 miles The whole distance being 27 miles 10\04\1890 (Saturday) Drove from West Topsham to Orange{Oorange!} then to Barri then to Montpelier{Mantpelier!} to Middlesex then waterbury where I am stopping with Mr. Phillips{?} at th__{the?} Villeage house The distance traveled is 32 miles 10\05\1890 (Sunday) drove from Waterbury village to Waterbury center then to Bolton{Baltan?} th__{the? then?} whole{whol!} being 12 miles. 10\06\1890 (Monday) drove from Bolton to Jones ville{Jonesville?} to Richmond{?} to Williston to Birlington then to Shilbourn to Charlotte{Charlotti!}{.?} 38 miles {mathematical equation on this page} 10\07\1890 (Tuesday) Am at Crown Pa__t{?} drove through Shellaine{?} Ferrisburgh Panton and Addison to Chimny Point distance 28 miles 10\08\1890 (Wednesday) Visited Crown Point{Paint!} Fort Frederick and Fort Amerest{?} Drove through{through!} Bridport{?} and Shorhan_{Shorhanx?} to Garrabees Point{Paint!} distance 22 miles 10\09\1890 (Thursday) Drove from Larabees Point to Orwell then to Hortonville to Hubbard ton{Hubbardton?} E Hubbar__{Hubbarth?} and Castleton. 23 miles Stopping at the Boamoseen House 10\10\1890 (Friday) Drove from Castleton to Manchester. Passing through Ruttand Clorendon Wallingford S Wallingford Mr Tabor{Tabos?} N Dorset E Dorset 52 miles Stopping at Thayers Hobl{?} 10\11\1890 (Saturday) Left Manchester and drove to South Pawnall Passing through Sunderland Arlington Shaftsbury South Shaftsbury Bennington Pawned{Powned?} Distance 41 miles Saw Bennington monument 301 ft hight 38 ft square at bace{base?} made of stone cost $200,000.00{?} 10\12\1890 (Sunday) Left Pawnal and Drove to Cheshire Mass by way of Vermont Williamston Blackington North Adans{Adams?} Adams Maple Grove, Cheshire{Cheshre!} Harbor. Distance 22 miles 10\13\1890 (Monday) Drove from Cheshin{?} to Fryingham{Tryingham?} by way of Berkshire Pittsfield{?} New Lenox L__{Lse? hill?} 30 miles 10\14\1890 (Tuesday) Drove from Truingham{Tryingham?} and Drove to North Gahen{Goshen?} by way of Monterey New Marlborough South-Field{hypen in text. Is name hyphenated? 1 word?} North Norfolk, Norfol Soup{South?} Norfolk, and stayed over night with Mr. Samueal{Samuel?} Gillett{?}. distance 25 miles 10\15\1890 (Wednesday) drove from North Goshen home distance 31 miles 10\18\1890 (Thursday) Fred and Tom{?} worked 10\20\1890 (Monday) Tom and Fred stayed home to work an{on?} barn [[10\22\1890 piece of paper in back pocket of the workbook, dated "Waterbury Oct 22, 1890: Due H _ Welton on demand value received Two Hundred Dollars [signed] Chas. S. Miller]] 10\23\1890 (Thursday) Fred Welton{Wilton?} worked 1/2 day 10\30\1890 (Thursday) My horse broke his leg to day and had to be killed. {The following comment is written in what looks like a different handwriting Not Jack,{,?} that was drowned} 10\31\1890 (Friday) Wrote to John La Fleur{?} East Gramby Conn 11\05\1890 (Wednesday) Got a horse of Chas Gillette of Cheshire on trial 11\13\1890 (Thursday) George and Tom and Fred and myself worked{woked!} 3 hr on{om!} shed 11\14\1890 (Friday) Fred Miller and Tom and Fred and George and myself worked to day on the shed 11\15\1890 (Saturday) Mr. Cass and Tom and Fred and George worked on shed and myself{nyself!} 200{2.00?} 11\17\1890 (Monday) Weather, Rained Tom and Fred and myself worked in{in?} shed 7 hr 11\18\1890 (Tuesday) Mr. Cass, Fred Tom and George and my____{myself?} worked on{an!} shed put up rafters and roof{roaf!} boards 2 00 11\19\1890 (Wednesday) Cass Tom Fred George Munson{?} and myself worked shingling shed laid 7000 in 5 hr 2 00 11\20\1890 (Thursday) Cass Tony Fred George and myself worked on shed 2 00 11\21\1890 (Friday) Cass Tom Fred George and myself worked on shed Cass worked 9 hr 1.80 11\22\1890 (Saturday) Cass Tom Fred George and myself worked on shed{.?} Cass worked 9 hr 1.80 {mathematical equation on this page} 11\26\1890 (Wednesday) Wm Austin Cr{?} $10.00 George went to Hartford this noon 11\27\1890 (Thursday) The Somers Family spent thanksgiving at Uncle Willis there were 49 present{presant!} 11\28\1890 (Friday) George Was in Hartford to day Edward's child died to day 11\29\1890 (Saturday) George was in Hartford to day 11\30\1890 (Sunday) Mary and I went to Oakville to visit George Edwards 12\01\1890 (Monday) George came home from Hartford this noon{noom!} 127.90 due George Nettleton this date Dec 28 - 1 hr {mathematical equation on this page} 12\02\1890 (Tuesday) Ice on Wedges pond is 6" thick thicker than it was any time last winter 12\03\1890 (Wednesday) Tom _s{is?} home sick with the chills 12\04\1890 (Thursday) Tom is sick 12\05\1890 (Friday) Tom is sick 12\06\1890 (Saturday) Tom is sick 12\07\1890 (Sunday) George Edwards and family and{an!} Cara Miller and James Elliot visited us to day Went to the chapel to prayer meeting this evening 12\08\1890 (Monday) Bought a set of 1 3/4 wheel_{wheels?} 19.00 and 1 hub 1.00 Paid 19.00 12\17\1890 (Wednesday) Worked to night 12\18\1890 (Thursday) Worked to night Stephen Wedge borrowed my buggy to day for 3 or 4 days 11\19\1890 (Friday) Worked to night 12\23\1890 (Tuesday) All have{haus!} worked to night 12\25\1890 (Thursday) Manhattan Brass Co Wessell Mfg Co{?} No 521 W{?} 24th St NY T D Milber_{Miller?} No 238 W{?} 25 St __{Al?} 12\31\1890 (Wednesday) $146.00 due George Nettleton. {The following entry is on the page following the page for 12\31\1890: Began pasturing my horse in Jomes{Jones?} Part___{Parterp?} lot at .50 cts per week June 14th 1890} There is a list of expenses in the back of the journal. These pages have the heading "Expense for __________." Dates, items and amount are listed. Assorted tags and receipts are in the folder in the back of the journal. There is a tag from Bradley, Hoyt & Do listing No. and Yds. There is a card from H. B. Stanley, a dealer in watches, clocks and jewelry and a watch repairer. There is a card with a receipt on it, dated 10\22\1890{is date correct?} and signed Chas S. Miller. A mathematical equation is also on this card. On the reverse side of the card there is another receipt for $200.00 and a mathematical equation. There is some writing along the side edge on the first side, it is difficult to read. //end of small book// The American Diary 1891 Cha's S. Miller, Waterbury, Conn. is written on the inside front cover, followed by an Almanac section (astronomical calculations, weights and measures, etc.) and an Addresses and Memoranda section, containing the addresses: Arthur Hyvan, Goodwins shop City, Blackmills, Alec Mauthey, 110 Kensington St., New Britain Co., and Mauthey and Wife, 110 Kensington St., New Britain, Conn. There is also a Timetable for Board or Labor with the names Lom, Welton, and Nettleton. 01\02\{1891}(Fr) Back yard of my shop yard was flooded to the depth of 10". Mr. Fairclough made drain. 01\03\{1891}(Sa) Cold. Cleaned out the shop. 01\04\{1891}(Su) Snowed. Went to the prayer meeting at the chapel this morning. Mr. Hiram Able had the meeting. 01\05\{1891}(Mo) Snowed. Went to Ed Todds this morning thought I would freeze before I could get home. 01\06\{1891}(Tu) Worked to night. 01\07\{1891}(We) Fred was home sick{.} Did not work this evening. Chas Pierpont had a fistula{?} cart out to day {.} 01\08\{1891}(Th) Nice. Good sleighing. Mary and Clyde and Parve{?} went to town and got Clyde and Parve each an overcoat cost 4.00 each. Mother Pierpont went to grange meeting to night. George Nettletons Grandfa{ther} Sullivan visited him to day. W.L. Pierpont brought a pig that weighed 125 lbs. 01\09\{1891}(Fr) Nice sleighing. 01\10\{1891}(Sa) Nice. Mr. Cha's Gillette of Cheshire got his two horse wagon and traded one bay horse and 10.00 to boot for the same also ordered an one horse wagon he to pay me 60.00 for it and the 10.00 makes a total of 70.00 he now owes me. Price of wagon 65.00. {These are the original grammatical errors} Cara and George Mr. Smith Clyde and me and myself {?} went sliding on a double ripper this evening. 01\11\{1891}(Su) Rainy. Stayed home all day. Rained very hard the snow has most all gone at the rate it is going there will be a big flood. Harris Frost died this morning of{p}neumonia aged 78 he was a nice man. 01\12\{1891}(Mo) Cleared up. The water in mad river was one boat and a half deep an{d} the floor of the pump station and the road east of the shear shop is covered big cakes of ice where the river has run over.------------------------------------------- Mr. Shilton and a young lady that called him cousin started from Southington at 6 o'clock this morning with a sleigh at Stillmans corners the water was so high that it came in the sleigh they held their feet as high a{s} possible but it wet the back of the young ladies stockings how she must have felt she borrowed an old hat and dress as not to wet her own and had hers under the seat they got wet at my house they exchanged their sleigh for my buggy as the sleighing had all gone. {The last sentence was completed on 01\13\{1891}(Tu)} {sic} 01\14\{1891}(We) Tom went to Cheshire and got a hub for Austins Pierpont's wagon and a set of wheels for E.E. Wrights wagon. 01\15\{1891}(Th) Clear. George Nettleton took a demit{?] card from the grange which entitles him to join any grange insid{e} of six months by paying up his back dues if he fails to do so he is no longer a member of any grange. Let Mr. Jencks take my Saladee buggy for a time.{sic} 01\16\{1891}(Fr) Clear. Ed Johnson died to day aged 68 to be buried {S}aturday afternoon in Wolcott. 01\17\{1891}(Sa) Rain and snow.Fred Welton was going to Seymour this afternoon rabiting {sic} {rabbiting?} 01\18\{1891}(Su) Went to prayer meeting this evening. Bessy Garrigan led. 01\20\{1891}(Tu) Wright butchered 8 pigs to day. School commenced to day Miss Patchen teacher.{sic} 01\21\{1891}(We) {weather} Good. Tom was home sick. Wm. Purdy drew 12 truck to Holmes Booth & Haydens to day for me. Mr. Kellogg of the Pin{?} Co. ordered 8 or 3 pin {?} tubes to day.{sic} Wright butchered 11 pigs to day. 01\22\{1891}(Th) Rained hard. Big floods in all the rivers about here. Tom Melbourn{,} Fred Welton{,} George Nettleton and Myself{sic} went to wedges mill to help hurry saw the old mill was no good and we sawed but little. {sic} 01\25\{1891}(Su) Snowed. Went to the chaple{sic} to prayer meeting{>} Miss Annie Frost led the meeting. Uncle Alfred Munson is very sick. 01\26\{1891}(Mo) Fair. Snow is 15" deep on the level. Cara and I worked on my books all day. 01\26\{1891}(Tu) Good Sleighing{sic}. Cara and I worked on my books all day{.} We found that there was $1384.01 owing me and that last year I did nearly $2,000. worth of work. 01\28\{1891}(We) Nice Sleighing. Mary went to visit Gussy. Got one set of wheell{sic} of H.C.Hubbell $12.00 was for hub.{sic} Tom went collecting. 01\29\{1891}(Th) Foggy. Tom and Fred stayed home this afternoon to lay stable floor. Uncle Alfred Munson died last night at 12 o'clock aged 91 years. 01\31\{1891}(Sa) Sid Munson's hired man ran away with 2,000 {or 20.00}. 02\01\{1891}(Su) Thawed. Went to the Y.P.S. of C.E. this evening. Edson Hitchcock led the meeting. 02\02\{1891}(Mo) Warm. Wilson Pierponts wife had a baby to night. 02\03\{1891}(Tu) Rained. Medicine to cure worms in horses. Gentian 8oz Sulfite Iron {?} mix 4 " Dose 1 tablespoon full 3 times per day. 02\04\{1891}(We) Cold. The Cattolves{?} are cutting the wood of the range{?} they bought of Mrs. Cass and Mrs. Doolittle and are clearing it up ready for their burying ground.{sic} 02\06\{1891}(Fr) Snowed. Went to Holmes Booth & Haydens but Mr. Adams was out of town. Got a watch chain for Clyde. 02\07\{1891}(Sa) Snowed. Went to prayer meeting{.} Mr. Squires led the meeting. 02\09\{1891}(Su) Thomas Melbourne lumber bill 84.73. 02\10\{1891}(Tu) Miss Haddy came to day. Mr. Hawd finished getting ice to day has one house 60'x 24'x 20 full.{sic} 02\11\{1891}(We) Clear. Sent George after the washing. A.B. Pierpont is 42/41 years old today. 02\13\{1891}(Th) An appointment at the Dentist. My wife had a baby girl this morning at 6:30 o'clock had Barber for doctor and Miss Haddy (Ruth Brundags) for nurse. I got my emery {sic} Grinder shaft from the Waterbury machine Co. this morning. Gave Parter S. Woods some bills to collect. 02\14\{1891}(Fr) Brought Margaret home from Franks because she was sick with the croup. Clyde and Irving are sick with the croup. 02\15\{1891}(Sa) Had Dr. Benedict to day to attend Margaret. Mrs. T.B. Egglestone was buried to day she took me to school the first day I ever attended in 1864. We went to Miss Frost in the old Acamey {Academy?}. 02\16\{1891}(Mo) Rained. Mrs. B.S. Wedge is 34 years old to day. Took dinner with Frank on west Liberty street then went to the bank and to Holmes Booth & Haydens to see about trucks. 02\17\{1891}(Tu) Rained. Mr. C.S. Farclough is 63 years old to day he is an ugly man. Clyde is sick with the croup Jane is at A.B. Pierponts sick with the croup Margaret is sick with the croup and Mary is sick with a baby.{sic} C.S. Gillette ordered a 2 horse wagon through Cha's Ives 100.00. George took dinner at Father's. 02\18\{1891}(We) Cleared up. Tom carried Cha's Pierponts sleigh home. George and I took dinner at Fathers to day. 02\20\{1891}(Th) Mr. Sha's S. Gillitte ordered a 2 horse wagon. Mr. Munson said he saw Mr. Fairclougs wheels last night. 02\21\{1891}(Sa) I saw a new set of wheels on Mr. Fairclougs wagon. 02\22\{1891}(Su) Clear. Went to the Chapel in the afternoon and to the prayer meeting in the evening{.} Mr. Squares led the meeting. 02\24\{1891}(Tu) Father and I went to Ramson Halls auction{.} I bought 2 stoke chaws{?} for 15 cts. 02\24\{1891}(We) Was in town all this afternoon saw Parter L. Moad{.} {T}ook dinner at dads. 02\26\{1891}(Th) Snowed They had the darymans{sic} meeting at the grange hall to day{.} Took dinner at Fathers. 02\27\{1891}(Fr) Snowed. L.L. Ensworths Agent was at my shop to day. Took dinner with Father. 02\28\{1891}(Sa) Took dinner at Fathers.{sic} 03\01\{1891}(Su) Cold. Went to the Chaple to Prayer meeting Mr. Hobert Warner led the meeting. 03\02\{1891}(Mo) Cold. Went to see Ben Ferrell about a planer. 03\03\{1891}(Tu) Snowed. Bought a Plainer{sic} of Benjamin Ferrell for 10.00{.} Paid 8.00 in work and 2.00 cash. The town commenced cutting the hill on the Meridan road near Mr. Freys house{.} They worked a little while and gave it up on account of frost{.} George Benhan ordered a heavy wagon gear price 65.pp. 03\04\{1891}(We) Snowed. Worked on Mr. Wrights buggy. Took dinner with Father. 03\05\{1891}(Th) Cold. Good Sleighing. Went to grange hall to dramatic entertainment. J.J. Bryan ordered his buggy fixed up price 16.00. City Ice Co. Talked about having ice wagon built with iron gear Price $150.00. They took my telephone away because I refused to pay for it till the last of the quarter after I had had the use of it. 03\06\{1891}(Fr) Good. Good Sleighing. They took away A.B. Pierponts 2 telephones for the same reasons they did mine. Miss Haddy went home and we have engaged Emma Nichols to help do the work. Miss Haddy weighs nearly 300 lbs. 03\07\{1891}(Sa) Warm. Mr. Wright got a letter from Mr. Fred Kingsbury about the land back of my shop that we think Mr. Fairclough wrote.---------------------------------------- Tom Melbournes house was surched {searched} this noon for liquers.-------------------------------------------------- I carried the Old man Harry home to Cheshire to night and stop{p}ed at Frank Ives and measured a lot of plank.------ City Ice Co. ordered new wagon $160.00 with springs on it. 03\08\{1891}(Su) Warm. Took Mary and mother Perpont and Clyde and Jane and Margaret up to Austins for a ride. Went to the Chaple this evening. Wm H. Durkee led the meeting. 03\09\{1891}(Mo) Rained Hard. Cha's Welton is 33 years old today. ---------------------------------------------------------- Went to see Hall & Upson about their account and then to the City Ice Co. about their new wagon. 03\10\{1891}(Tu) Good. Mr. Whightman commenced working on my shop worked 9 hr. 03\11\{1891}(We) Good. Mr. Whiteman and Mr. Garrigns worked on the shop.------------------------------------------------------- Mother Pierpont went to Nellie Connors to stay a while{.} Erve went too.------------------------------------------------------ Wm. Artchenson{?} ordered cart fixed for 14.00. 03\12\{1891}(Th) Rained. Wright and I went to see Cha's Cally about Fairclough. Wright and Fairclough have been fighting all day{.} Janty{?} fought Fairclough a little while this morning. Mr. Garrigns worked 9 1/2 hr, Mr. Whiteman worked 7 1/2. 03\13\{1891}(Fr) Rained. EE Wright and myself went to see Mr. Cally but he is in New Haven. 03\14\{1891}(Sa) Cold. Cha's Cally made Cha's Fairclough turn his water from his drive way off my land and told him to put in an 6" or 8" drain pipe. 03\15\{1891}(Su) Nice day. Went to see Mr.Byam about iron roofing. Went to the chaple this evening to the Young Peoples Christian endevor{endeavor} meeting Edson Hitchcock led the meeting. They had the largest meeting I ever saw in the chapel. AB Pierpont called to see Mary and I about the trouble Charlie Pierpont is making about mothers property. 03\16\{1891}(Mo) Cold. Went to Woodtick to Mr. Cornellis to see about some wagons told him I would ask the small one for about 5.00 set no prise{price} on the large one. He is going to bring some wheels for 18.00 or 20.00. Went to James Wakellee and bought a window shash for 1.00. Elliott Doolittle called to see me about a new wagon but I was away. Mr. Whiteman worked 6 hr, Harry Whiteman worked 6 hr. 03\17\{1891}(Tu) Mr. Whiteman worked 6 1/2 hr. in the shop on his wagon. 03\18\{1891}(We) Mr. Whiteman worked on his wagon 6 1/2 hr. 03\19\{1891}(Th) Mr. Whiteman worked on his wagon 5 1/2 hr. Thomas Melbourne did not work his wife was sick. I went to cheshire{sic} this morning to get some spokes and rims for Mr. Ritters wagon. Mr. Faircloughs wheels came to day. 03\20\{1891}(Fr) Good. Mr. Whiteman worked 8 hr. on his wagon. I delivered Mr. Faircloughs wheels to him but he would not accept them and fired them out of the barn for he was mad. Fred Higgins ordered 2 horse wagon Price $135.00. 03\21\{1891}(Sa) Mr. Whiteman got through on his wagon at noon and worked for me in the afternoon 4 1/2 hr. 03\22\{1891}(Su) Rained. Rained all day I stayed home. 03\23\{1891}(Mo) Moist. Mr. Whiteman worked for me 8 hr. Stephen Wedge got a job at the West Brass Mill to day. 03\24\{1891}(Tu) Mr. Whiteman worked 9 hr. 03\25\{1891}(We) Nice. Mr. Whiteman worked 7 1/2 hr., Mr. Garragns worked 10 hr. I went to Randolphs & Clawes. 03\26\{1891}(Th) James Pater lent me 30.00 to pay Tom Melbourne. Mr. Fairclough payed me $11.03 to pay all claims and depts{debts}. {T}his is what it has cost him for being spunky and mean. Mr. Whiteman didnt work to day. School closed in the East Farms district to day. Payed Mr. Rockwood 2.50 for lettering CE Ives wagon. 03\27\{1891}(Fr) Good. Fred Welton did not work. George and Tom and I worked on the shop. All my family went over to my fathers. 03\28\{1891}(Sa) Nice. Frank and Old Ed sawed 7 1/2 cords of wood to day. 03\29\{1891}(Su) Nice. Went to the chaple this aftermoon and evening Rev.{?} Anderson preached this afternoon and Mrs. Harry Garrign led the meeting in the evening. 03\30\{1891}(Mo) Mr. Whiteman worked 5 hr. Went to Randolphs and Claws to ask about iron. 03\31\{1891}(Tu) got a load of old iron from R & C. 04\01\{1891}(We) Went to R & C after 2 loads of old iron. 04\02\{1891}(Th) Nice. Went to town this noon and to Mr. Kutters. Has a talk with George Nettleton about being late in the morning. 04\03\{1891}(Fr) Snowed 8 inches. Tom was home sick this afternoon. Old Mr. Parsons came to work this morning at 10 o'clock. 04\04\{1891}(Sa) Mr. Parsons worked 10hr. Attended town meeting to night. The main object that this meeting was called for was to appong{appoint} a superintendant of highways and bridges at $1000.00 salery {sic} a year and to repair or build a town house and to build a cart house and several new streets and to transact any other business proper to be done. The meeting ajorned{sic} for 3 years without doing any business. 04\05\{1891}(Su) Went to the Chapel this evening. Mr. Squires led the meeting. 04\06\{1891}(Mo) Cold. Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. George and I cut an ash tree over to Wilson Pierponts. Mary had a letter from Nellie stating that her mother was going to divide the Warner property among the four boys sons. 04\07\{1891}(Tu) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. 04\08\{1891}(We) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. 04\09\{1891}(Th) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. 04\10\{1891}(Fr) Parsons worked 10 hrs. Mr. Garrigns worked 8 hr painting my store house. 04\11\{1891}(Sa) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. 04\12\{1891}(Su) Attended prayer meeting this evening. Miss Flora Judd led the meeting. My Father is 61/60 years old to day this is the first time I ever knew how old my Father is. 04\13\{1891}(Mo) Nice. Mr. Parsons worked 10 hrs. Went to Randolphe and Claws Mr. Demring would not sell the roofing. Clyde came home from Canors{?}. Walter Garrigns is sick with the mumps and tyfard fever{typhoid?} and his wife has the mumps to. Henry Buckinghams wife has gone crazy because she thinks henry{sic} flirts with the girls at the grange. 04\14\{1891}(Tu) Parsons worked 10 hr. Worked at the saw mill about 3 hr. this morning. 04\15\{1891}(We) Parsons worked 10 hr. Mother is 57/56 years old to day. 04\16\{1891}(Th) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. Garrigns worked 8 hr. 04\17\{1891}(Fr) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. Mr. Garrigns worked 8 hr. 04\18\{1891}(Sa) Mr. Rarsons worked 10 hr. Mr. Garrigans worked painting shed 8 hr. 04\19\{1891}(Su) Went to Cannors and Charlie Pierponts. 04\20\{1891}(Mo) Tom is home sick. Munson is sick. 04\21\{1891}(Tu) Tom and Fred is home sick. DC Mutug {?} called to order by Miles Booth in chair 8.13. Voted that John Peacock became a member. Voted that Luke Henderson became a member. Bus leaves corner of stay and S Main Sts at 5.30 on next Thursday evening. 04\22\{1891}(We) Tom was home all day plowing. Fred home 1/2 day. Parsons worked 10 hr. 04\23\{1891}(Th) Tom worked to day. I went to Cheshire with the drum corps to drum for the Old{or Odd} Fellows. 04\24\{1891}(Fr) Mr. Wm F Munson died tonight at about 8 o'clock aged 41 years. 04\25\{1891}(Sa) Ervis Wright and myself spent all day ar{r}ainging for Mr. Munsons funeral. 04\26\{1891}(Su) Wm Munson was buried to day. Rev. Mr. Egglestone officiated. Miles Ovaitt [Oviatt], Cha's Adams, Cha's Kenea and Mr. Burlingam were pall brers{bearers}. 04\28\{1891}(Tu) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr. Tom and Fred stayed mone to day to set out the hedge. Hobert Welton interest comes due to day. 04\29\{1891}(We) Clyde and I went to Bridgeport. Call on Martelle, Mrs. Munson, Faney, Champlin, Pierpont. 05\04\{1891}(Mo) Fred Welton was taken sick this noon. did not work this afternoon. 05\05\{1891}(Tu) Fred welton sick to day. Ferdannand Martel came to work in my paint shop to day. rent 3.00 per month. 05\06\{1891}(We) Fred Welton stayed home sick. Ed Canger planted my potatoes to day. 05\07\{1891}(Th) Fred Welton home sick to day. 05\08\{1891}(Fr) Fred Welton worked to day. 05\10\{1891}(Su) Went to Manville Nortons and Cha's Tuttles. 05\11\{1891}(Mo) Paid H.V. Welton 23.00 on interest, 3.10 due now. 05\12\{1891}(Tu) Paid H.V. Welton $3.10. 05\13\{1891}(We) Went to see Mrs. Munson she said Mr. Peckord is planting her garden. 05\15\{1891}(Fr) Mr. Parsons worked on City Ice wagon 10 hr. Paid 1.40 for lumber. 05\16\{1891}(Sa) Mr. Parsons worked on the City Ice wagon 10 hr. 20 hr. 05\17\{1891}(Su) We went to Praspect {?} for a ride. 05\18\{1891}(Mo) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr on City Ice wagon. {calculations follow} 05\19\{1891}(Tu) Mr. Parsons worked 10 hr on ice wagon. 05\23\{1891}(Sa) Tom Melbourne was home sick this afternoon. 05\24\{1891}(Su) Went to the Chapel with Clyd and Irve and Mrs. Benham and Mary. Mr. Garrigns had me place the flags on the souldiers {soldiers} graves in the East Farmes Burying Ground. 05\26\{1891}(Tu) Drum Corps had a meeting this evening. There wer{e} present Luke Henderson,L. Lanaitt, C.S. Miller, Miles Booth, Mr. Pholen, John Marrow, James Elliot. 05\27\{1891}(We) Went to the Ann{u}al Chapel meeting. Mr. Brsdley Seneca Munson, David Parter and Cha's Frost were elected Chapel committee for the ensuing year. Hiram Able was elected Secretary and Mrs. Theodore Munson Treasurer. Meeting ajourned to June 27th. 05\28\{1891}(Th) Had Drum Corps meeting this evening there were present H.A. Norton, Henry Cross, George Edwards, Rufus Carley, Luk Henderson, Mr. Pholen, James Elliott, Miller Booth, C.S. Miller 05\29\{1891}(Fr) Fred Welton did not work. P.T. Barnum circus was in town to day. 05\30\{1891}(Sa) Went to the Flog Raising on the high sc{h}ool grounds had an address by John Milton Mabbott and by Captain Chamberlain. Had the largest local parade I ever saw in Waterbury I drummed in the Mattobuck Drum Corps. 05\31\{1891}(Su) Went to Arthur Harrisons and got the sword that once belonged to Major Byington of Wolcott. Went to the Chapel and got the wreathes and flags to lay on the graves of the soldiers in the East Farms burying ground. 06\04\{1891}(Mo) Wallace Andrews said he would see me week after next which would be the 18th. 06\05\{1891}(Tu) Bal due Clark Bros. $13.69. {The rest is unclear} 06\06\{1891}(Sa) Paid F.B. Fields clerk 27.40 for Fred Welton. 06\07\{1891}(Su) Stayed home all day. 06\08\{1891}(Mo) Went to see A.F. Slater of Wolcott. 06\09\{1891}(Tu) Went to see Mr. Byam. 06\10\{1891}(We) {measures} 06\11\{1891}(Th) Paid Mr. Parsons 15.00 all I owe him. 06\13\{1891}(Sa) George went away on the cars. Fred went to baintom{?} take fishing. 06\25\{1891}(Th) Went Cheshire. 06\26\{1891}(Fr) Tom and I went to see Wallace Andrews he said 06\27\{1891}(Sa) Tom and I went to Atwoles{?} and bought a 4 year colt of Mr. Sterry for 100.00. Pais $50.00. 06\28\{1891}(Su) Attended Chapel this evening Mrs. Anne Munson led the meeting. 06\29\{1891}(Mo) Attended school meeting this evening. A.B. Pierpont was elected committee, Wm. Austin clerk, Luthur Bradley treasurer. Voted to have another meeting 2 weeks from to night. 07\03\{1891}(Fr) Mr. Jencks gave deed of land on corner of Mrs. Doolittle's road and Cheshire road. Gave Mr. Parsons 25.00. 07\12\{1891}(Su) Mary and Rol Jenner stayed at our house last night and to day we went for a ride to Cheshire. 07\18\{1891}(Sa) Fred Welton has earned since he worked for me $470.25 and I have paid him $401.51 leaving 68.74 due and taken out 20.60 for {?} leave 4814 now due him. {calculation at bottom} 07\22\{1891}(We) George sma{c}ked Mr. Parson's hand with a 8 pound sledge driving spokes in the City Ice Co. wagon. 07\24\{1891}(Fr) Paid Mr. Parsons 10.00. 07\28\{1891}(Tu) Paid Mr. Parsons 13.00. Went to see Porter Le Wood about Mr. Smith's bill. 07\31\{1891}(Fr) Sheriff Rigney came and took Mr. Smith's buggy away. 08\08\{1891}(Sa) George Nettleton started for Hartford this afternoon on his bicicle{sic}. Went duck hunting this morning at Seatts pond. 08\09\{1891}(Su) Went to the Chapel this afternoon and evening. 08\15\{1891}(Sa) George Nettleton got through working for me to day I payed him 140.00 in full to date. 08\16\{1891}(Su) I went to the Chapel this afternoon and evening. 08\17\{1891}(Mo) {measures} 08\23\{1891}(Su) Went to the Chaple and then Father and mother Mary and myself went to the rattlesnake quarry. 09\01\{1891}(Tu) {calculations} 09\02\{1891}(We) Took Mrs. Wells Carriage home this afternoon. Ervis Wright is worse to day. Sam Munson is very sick. 09\26\{1891}(Sa) {accounts} 09\28\{1891}(Mo) Arther Merriman ordered cart price $90.00. 09\29\{1891}(Tu) Lockhart ordered wagon made over for 45.00. 09\30\{1891}(We) Henry Carter ordered 1 set of trees for 11.42. 10\02\{1891}(Fr) Paid Mr. Parsons 4.00. 10\12\{1891}(Mo) Paid Mr. Parsons 12.00. All the Miller family went to Mary Jenners this evening the same being the 15th anniversary of her marriage. 10\17\{1891}(Sa) {calculations} 10\19\{1891}(Mo) Alfred Northrop came to work for me to day @1.25. 10\22\{1891}(Th) Bought of Henry Whiteman {list} 10\24\{1891}(Sa) Paid Mr. Parsons $20.00. 10\27\{1891}(Tu) Recieved of Mr. J. Gum 200 leaving a balance of 7.15 now due. Snowed to day first snow I have seen this season. Wright butchered 8 hogs to day. 10\28\{1891}(We) Recieved of the City Ice Co. $169.10 pay in full to date. Paid Alfred Northrop 7.00. 11\02\{1891}(Mo) Paid Mr. Martelle $38.28 for all due him. 27.00 for Fabor, 11.28 for me. 11\03\{1891}(Tu) Paid Mr. Northrop 7.50. 11\04\{1891}(We) Paid Mr. Parsons 10.00. Had shop ishured{insured}. 11\05\{1891}(Th) Tom staid home to work. 11\06\{1891}(Fr) Tom stayed home to work. 11\13\{1891}(Fr) Paid Mr. Northrop 7.50. Paid Perre Supernot 11.25 in full to date. 11\14\{1891}(Sa) Paid Mr. Parsons 15.00. Paid Tom 6.00. Perre did not work to day. 11\15\{1891}(Su) Peter Marsh the painter and I went to John Marses and James Harry's. Mr. Parsons worked 9 hr. 11\16\{1891}(Mo) Paid Hobert W.Welton 26.10 interest. Perre worked 10 hrs. 11\17\{1891}(Tu) Perre worked 9 hr. I took Tom Melbourns horse to keep a spell. 11\18\{1891}(We) Perre worked 10hr. 11\20\{1891}(Fr) {calculations} 11\21\{1891}(Sa) Paid Mr. Parsons 12.00. 11\22\{1891}(Su) All the family went to Mr. Edwards. 11\25\{1891}(We) Paid Mr. Northrop 6.00. 11\26\{1891}(Th) Thanksgiving. 11\28\{1891}(Sa) Paid Perre 1.00. 12\05\{1891}(Sa) Paid Mr. Parsons 7.00. 12\06\{1891}(Su) {calculations and diagram} 12\07\{1891}(Mo) {measures} 12\08\{1891}(Tu) Recived of Fred 30.00 Pay in full to date and AB Paccaivt{?} Peter Marsh got through painting Mrs. Pierponts house and went to work for George Benham. I was home sick all day. 12\18\{1891}(Fr) Arthur Merriman ordered ax wagon for $100.00. Walter Brooks ordered 2 horse wagon for $75.00. Mr. Iseral Coe died to day aged 97 years. 12\22\{1891}(Tu) Billy White worked 6 hr. digging my cellar. 12\27\{1891}(Su) Went to the Chaple this afternoon and evening. 12\29\{1891}(Tu) Paul Hesphelt worked 4 1/2 hr digging my cellar. Mr. Lucus worked 8 hr striping two bobs sleighs. 12\30\{1891}(We) Paul and Billy worked 6 hr digging my cellar. 12\31\{1891}(Th) Paul worked 4 hr., Billy worked 8 hr digging. There is a note of accounts marked March 2 in the Memoranda section, and a full Cash Account section. The back cover is filled with calculations. The American Diary 1892 An Almanac section in the front, followed by an Addresses and Memoranda section with the names and addresses: John Hylander, No 128 Cook St., Bds P. Anderson, Mrs. Krogany, 65 So Elm St., L.J. Richardson, 223 North Elm St.,and Frank Blodgilt, #117 Demsian St., City. There is also a Time Table for Board or Labor including the names Tom, Northrop, Fred, Parsons, Weltran, Cass, Pratt, and Marsh. Daily Memoranda 01\01\{1892}(Fr) Paul Hesphelt worked digging my cellar 2 hr. 01\02\{1892}(Sa) Miles Farrell was Buried to day at Mill Plain. 01\03\{1892}(Su) Tom Melbourn and I took his colt over to Wm Cooks in Wollingford for him to keep. 01\04\{1892}(Mo) Old Mrs. Barnes, Cha's Frosts mother in law was buried to day at Mill Plain. 01\06\{1892}(We) Tom was sick to day. Mr. Rin and his son painted Austins meat wagon. 01\10\{1892}(Su) We all went to Ed Todds. 01\13\{1892}(We) Waterbury Brass Co. Mill burned to day loss $300,000 ishured{insured} $180,000. Cass came to work. 01\15\{1892}(Fr) Wilson Pierpont drew plank from Todds mill. {?} 25 lbs Rys flour .75 cts. 01\17\{1892}(Su) Charles Frost's Horse run away and smashed the sleigh to pieces. 01\18\{1892}(Mo) June 16 Setting 1 set t{?} 2.00. All $5.65. W.L. Pierpont drew plank from Todds saw mill (one load). 01\23\{1892}(Sa) Paul Hesphelt worked on my cellar 16 1/2 hr White{?} worked 20 ---------- 36 1/2 Paid Parsons 98.00. 02\12\{1892}(Fr) Went to Bridgeport to the Aluminum Brass and bronze Co. to see about trucks. 02\13\{1892}(Sa) I{?} Went to Bridgeport to work on trucks. 02\16\{1892}(Tu) Mother went over to Charlies to stay over Trinity supper. 02\20\{1892}(Sa) Tom went to Bridgeport to work on trucks. 02\25\{1892}(Th) Went to see Randolphes and Clawes about trucks. Holmes Boogh and Hardens ordered 6 trucks @ 30.00 each no wheels. 02\26\{1892}(Fr) Fred Miller came to work for me @150. 02\27\{1892}(Sa) Went to Randolph and Claws to see about making trucks at 15.00 each they to furnish everything except rivets and bolts. {calculation at end} 02\29\{1892}(Mo) Mr. Cass came to work for me @ 1.50. Fred Miller went to work casting for the Manhattan Brass Co. of N.Y. City. 03\05\{1892}(Sa) Ed Holmes worked drawing logs from Wilson Pierponts swanp to Wedges mill and to Todds mill in the afternoon. 03\06\{1892}(Su) We called at George Edwards to day. 03\07\{1892}(Mo) Fred R. Welton Died at 6.30 o'clock this morning. 03\06\{1892}(We) Fred Welton was buried to day. 03\10\{1892}(Th) Wm. Pratt hired out to work for me for one year @ 2.25 per day. 03\11\{1892}(Fr) Ed Benham Price for house 1800.00. 03\12\{1892}(Sa) {calculation of...} Time Fred Welton worked since he came to work after getting through at West Brass mill. 03\17\{1892}(Th) Paid Mr. Parsons 10.00 having 21.70 due. 03\18\{1892}(Fr) Arthur Merriman hired Wm Purdys ax wagon for a time @ 1.00 per week. 03\21\{1892}(Mo) Wm Pratt came to work for me @ 2.25 per day. 03\22\{1892}(Tu) R and I ordered 4 wagons for #95.00. 03\23\{1892}(We) City Ice Co. ordered wagon gear for 75.00. 04\04\{1892}(Mo) Arthur Terrell of Wolcott worked digging my cellar 2.00. 04\05\{1892}(Tu) Sam and Johnson worked stoneing my cellar. Sam 2.75, Johnson 2.40. 04\06\{1892}(We) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\07\{1892}(Th) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\08\{1892}(Fr) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\09\{1892}(Sa) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\10\{1892}(Su) Clyde Irving and myself walked to the top of turkey hill to day. 04\11\{1892}(Mo) Sam and Johnson Worked on my cellar. 04\12\{1892}(Tu) Sam and Johnson worked on my cellar. 04\13\{1892}(We) Sam and Johnson worked on my cellar. 04\14\{1892}(Th) Sam and Johnson and old Ed worked on my cellar. W.L. Pierpont and Benham and Wm Austin and Ed Holmes drew logs to Todds mill. 04\15\{1892}(Fr) Worked drawing sand and stone and lumber. Benham and Wm Austin and W.L. Pierpont drew logs to Todds mill. 04\16\{1892}(Sa) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\18\{1892}(Mo) Sam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\19\{1892}(Tu) Iam and Johnson worked on cellar. 04\20\{1892}(We) Iam and Johnson furnished cellar.{calculation} Rec{i}eved of C.S. Miller $50.00 on account {signature} 04\20\{1892}(Tu) The Ovaitts [Oviatts] and Warners started this morning for Portland Uragan {Oregon}. It will take 617 yards plaster and 12.000 lalte{?} for my house. 05\12\{1892}(Th) Ed Benham commenced my house. Worked himself with 2 men. {wages calculation} From 05\13\{1892}(Fr) to 08\10\{1892}(We) there are account listings and various payments made to Mr. Benham and others in reference to their work on Mr. Miller's house. Apparently, the house was entirely repainted and possibly whitewashed in places. Mr. Miller also dug a well with Tom, Cass and Pratt. There are also the listings of normal hours for the men in the shop. 08\22\{1892}(Mo) George Whaler worked digging ditches in my lab{?}. 09\03\{1892}(Sa) Borrowed 10.00 of D.G. Paiter. 09\09\{1892}(Fr) Ed Todd sawed 1183 ft of plank last winter for W.L. Pierpont. 09\27\{1892}(Tu) George Sprage Or by Cash{?} 5.00. 10\27\{1892}(Th) Fred Woods ordered wagon 75.00. 11\14\{1892}(Mo) Went to Ansonia. 11\16\{1892}(We) Cass did not work. 11\17\{1892}(Th) Paid Damelly 3.70. From 11\21\{1892}(Mo) to 12\07\{1892}(We) there are account listings for work done on Mr. Miller's well by Miller, Cass, Marsh, and Melbourne. 12\14\{1892}(We) Recieved of C.S. Miller 36.00 as interest.{with the signature of a Joseph Munger} 12\28\{1892}(We) Miss Haddy came to day. The Cash Account and Payable and Recievable sections in the back have partial notation. In the back pocket is a scrap of paper containing a payment account. The American Diary 1893 On the inside cover, there is a map of Jackson Park during the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. There is also an almanac section, followed by Addresses and Memoranda, with the addresses: John Manteille, Waterbury Fred D. Miller, 36 Admeral St., New Haven Wm Morris Jr., No 57 Church St., New Haven, Conn. J.T. Phalen, 196 Dublin St. C.H. Tufts, New Haven, Conn., Box 15.93 Wm Morris Jr. 57 Church St., Sec Cau fife and Drum Assasectry{?} JB Rogers, Eliot, Maine JB Rogers, Butte Montana, (Parrot Smelter{?}) LJ Bradley, 39 Park Ave,City Boylon, (cloth) Grand St., NY AJ Cammeyer, 6th Ave, (Boot tops) NY AL Boutillier Brothers, 14th St., NY James McCreery CC, Broadway & 11 St., NY JG Hurzmann{?}, Box 438, Waterbury John W. Fields, ofs{?} Mrs. Lydia Marsh, #86 Penbroke St., Bridgeport Wm Rutter, 186 West 135th Street, New York JP Howell & Co. 77 Beekman St., NY JB Haynes, 230 Cherry St. TC Maulthrop, Bristol, Conn. Fred D. Miller, 23 Shelton Ave, New Haven, Conn. There is also a Time Table for Board of Labor with the names Melbaum, Cass, and Marsh. There is a listing of accounts from 01\01\{1893}(Su) to 01\06\{1893}(Fr) concerning feed and payment to workers. 01\10\{1893}(Tu) Baby was born this morning weight 11 lbs. Frank Pierpont Miller ("Mike") 01\14\{1893}(Sa) 4 below, Cold 01\15\{1893}(Su) 2 below, Cold 01\16\{1893}(Mo) 7 below, Cold 01\17\{1893}(Tu) 17 below, Cold 01\18\{1893}(We) 17 below, Cold 01\24\{1893}(Tu) Had a school meeting this evening to lay a tax to pay the district debt of $1000.00 but they voted to borrow $200.oo more B.F. Haggett. Moderator Mark L. Warner Committee. 01\26\{1893}(Th) Sarah Freeman came to work for us at 1.00 per week. 01\29\{1893}(Su) Miss Haddy went home to day. 01\08\{1893}(We) Gunn Paid $1.00. 01\09\{1893}(Th) City Ice Co. ordered 12'foot ice wagon for $250. 01\15\{1893}(We) Wm Purdy Paid $15.00. 02\24\{1893}(Fr) Elizer Hotchkiss Paid 9.25. Wm Strong Paid 2.00. 02\28\{1893}(Tu) Had school meeting. 03\07\{1893}(Tu) 170' oal{?} of James Parter logs. 03\09\{1893}(Th) Went to Hartford to the meeting before the Agricultural committee. 03\14\{1893}(Tu) Mr. Fitzgeralds wagon is to cost 53.00. 03\21\{1893}(Tu) Had school meeting. Voted to lay 13 mills tax. 04\04\{1893}(Tu) Had school meeting. Voted to lay tax of 7 mills. 04\13\{1893}(Th) (Listing of accounts.) 04\14\(Fr) Mark L Warner Camithe{?} of Mill Plain School District. The Subscriber ligol{?} voter: of said school district hereby request you to call a special meeting of the legal voters of said District for the purpose of laying a futher school tax; of six mills on a dollar to become due and payable the 2nd day of Oct AD 1893 said tax to be laid on the grand list of 1892 dated April 12 AD 1893. SL Monson, WL Munson, TD Munson, Wm Atkinson,{this list is continued on 04\15\{1893}(Sa)} David T Squires, OL Fairchild, C Art Ward, LW Holland, GH Pengrey, David Shannon, Hiram W Bates, CH Monroe, HJ Able, BT Haggett, MB Alcott, Gaylord Alcott Cha's Ives Seat 495 wide. April 14th Mr. Wright had 11 large hogs and 10 small ones. 04\17\{1893}(Mo) Mr Wright told me he would summonds all the witnesses he could if he was canaplaned{?complained} of 04\19\{1893}(We) Fred Woods brought 2800 of soft coal. 04\28\(Fr) James Parter, DG Parter, Henson Miller, CS Miller, Sarah Hine, complained of Wrights Pigs and garbage. 05\01\{1893}(Mo) If I were called to testify I should have to say that nearly every time I drove by here last summer I caught the smell terribly from Jim Parters down to your Fathers. It had aught to have been stoped years ago.{sic} Ed Welton. -------------------------------------------------------------- I have smelled something pret{t}y strang{e} when passing but could not say what it was. But this I am sure of I have met loads of garbage turning in to Mr Wrights place that would have made me hold my nose had I not have driven from it as fast as I could. Geo M Benham. --------------------------------------------------------------- 05\02\{1893}(Tu) I would have stopped it long ago if I could. I had to hold my breath very strong last summer while passing to and from work. HJ Able. --------------------------------------------------------------- No farmer would ever have such a smell on his place. he would either plow it under or bury it. A man aught to be put in prison that is mean enough to make the public smell it. George Alexander 05\03\{1893}(We) When the wind is northeast We catch pretty strong sniffs of it. Fred Frampkin --------------------------------------------------------------- The smell blew across here so strong most of the time last summer that we could not stand it without closing the windows. Bradley 05\06\{1893}(Sa) Went to City hall to the hearing before the board of health in regard to Mr Wrights Piggery. They appointed Mr Pinney and Mayer Webster to investigate. Select man Pinney and Mayer Webster inspected Wrights Pig pen's.{sic} 05\09\{1893}(Tu) Mr Wright stopped town team's and 11 men and took the men in cellar time hindered 12 minutes 2 yoke open and 1 pair horses. 05\10\{1893}(We) Frank and Gussy Started for Palouse city Washington star at 8.20 actach{?} A.M. No of Franks Baggage check 164 Brase 37614 1528 Bros 37615 05\11\{1893}(Th) {list of measures} 05\12\{1893}(Fr) Smelled Wrights pig pens stronger than usual. 05\13\{1893}(Sa) Dr O'Hara inspected Wrights Pig pens and my place and Hawds and Barnard Son & Co. 05\15\{1893}(Mo) Wright had a load of garbage come. 05\19\{1893}(Fr) Dr O'Hara inspected my place and ordered privee and sink drain changed. 05\20\{1893}(Sa) JA Joel & Co, 88 Nassau St., NY, Price of flag 8x12 $9.00. Made box for water closet. 05\22\{1893}(Mo) Wright had load of garbage come. Making box and changing privee 6.00. 05\23\{1893}(Tu) Making cispoal{?cesspool} 800. 05\29\{1893}(Mo) Peter worked 9 hr. 05\30\{1893}(Tu) Decoration Day. Drummed for the veterans at the Sauldiers {soldiers} Monument and at the raising of the flag at Mill Plain school house. 05\31\{1893}(We) Peter worked 7 hr. 06\01\{1893}(Th) Peter worked 9. 06\02\{1893}(Fr) Peter worked 4 hr.06\03\{1893}(Sa) Thomas Lillianhad set of wheels price 15.00. Paid 10.00. Peter worked 6 1/2 hr. 06\05\{1893}(Mo) 10 o'clock Peter got here. Peter worked 5 1/2 hr. 06\06\{1893}(Tu) Peter worked 9 hr. 06\07\{1893}(We) {list of measures} 06\09\{1893}(Fr) {list of measures} 06\12\{1893}(Mo) John Byron ordered coal wagon Price 65.00. 06\14\{1893}(We) {list of measures} 06\16\{1893}(Fr) 9 o'clock. 06\17\{1893}(Sa) {list of measures} 06\29\{1893}(Th) Brown moded {?} all day with machine. Cass moded {?} all day. Tom worked 1/2 day. I worked 1/2 day at hay. 07\01\{1893}(Sa) Cass Tom and Myself worked at hay. 07\03\{1893}(Mo) Cass hawed Potatoes. 07\05\{1893}(We) Brown Moved the meadow south of the wood. Cass Tom and I worked 4 hr till driven in by rain and hail some of the hail stones were as big round as a silver dollar and the shape of a summer squash. 07\06\{1893}(Th) Waterbury Seap{?} iron Co Field St. Peter worked 1/2 day. 07\07\{1893}(Fr) Wright had load of garbage come to day. 07\08\{1893}(Sa) Cass did not work. 07\16\{1893}(Su) Clyde Irving and Myself drove to New Haven and to Fort Hale and the old light house and drove home again in the evening. 07\30\{1893}(Su) Mary and I drove to New Haven and back again to day. 08\01\{1893}(Tu) {accounts} 08\05\{1893}(Sa) Clyde and I went to New Haven. Drove to Cheshire and went the rest of the way in case{?}. 08\06\{1893}(Su) Went to Charles Island on Mr Bakers tug . Mr Meeker was pilot. 08\07\{1893}(Mo) Came home from N.H. this morning. 08\19\{1893}(Sa) Paid Mr Muiger $10.00 interest. 10\20\{1893}(Fr) Assessed Property{list} 10\22\{1893}(Su) Franks wife came to our house to stay a while. 11\04\{1893}(Sa) Had Shop inshured{insured} for 720 at rate of 27.00 on the thousand. 11\09\{1893}(Th) Dr O'Hara visited my place to day. Moved water closet this evening. 11\10\{1893}(Fr) Dr. O'Hara and an American reporter visited my place to day. Moving privy and making vault 4.00. 11\11\{1893}(Sa) Went to New Haven to see country health officer Hoadley. 11\13\{1893}(Mo) Country Health officer and Town health officer O'Hara visited my place and ordered cesspool made. 11\15\{1893}(We) Cass worked on cesspool. 11\16\{1893}(Th) Frank and Cass and Tom and myself worked making cesspool{account} 11\18\{1893}(Sa) Dr O'Hara visited my place . the time he was there did not exceed 10 minutes. 11\23\{1893}(Th) Paid Hobert W Welton 30.00. 11\27\{1893}(Mo) {listing of accounts} 12\02\{1893}(Sa) Dr O'Hara visited my place was there about 5 minutes. In the back is a Memoranda section in which there is the note LD Bauley, By drawing lumber 800. There is also a full Cash Account section, and the expenses section is empty. In the back pocket, there is a piece of paper on which there is a listing of accounts for clothing bought and repaired, etc. The American Diary 1895 There is an Almanac section, and an Addresses and Memoranda section in which there are the addresses: Cd {?} Page, Plymoth{sic}, Conn., John M Hatch, Danbury, VE Barnum, Danbury, John W Bacon, Danbury, GM Rundel, Danbury, and SH Rundel, Danbury. There is also a full Time Table for Board or Labor with the names: Melbourne, Cass, George Cass, Burns, and Tom. 01\01\{1895}(Tu) Have not been able, yet, to find any Diary for 1894. There are shop Acct. bks. etc.-M. Hall. 01\15\{1895}(Tu) City Ice Co ler{?} By lease or account $10.00. 01\25\{1895}(Fr) M Colloty ordered 1 cart to be done for price{?} 1.11. Price 65.00 Axle 2.11 Body 9" deep from floor. 01\30\{1895}(We) Had a meeting a Mill Plain chapel and it was decided that the Ladies Union should pay the Ministers and organists. 02\07\{1895}(Th) Hiram Able called on James Parters folks to seat{?} the Chapel Treasurer. Was informed that they should pay no bills And that we need not bring any more money there. 03\01\{1895}(Fr) Ladies Union paid Chapel society 14.00 to pay John French to date. 03\18\{1895}(Sa) Paid Mark Pond 20.00. 03\21\{1895}(Tu) Drove to Walnut beach and stayed there over night. 03\25\{1895}(Sa) In memory of forty six American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in struggling for the Independance of their country, this Monument was erected in 1852 by the joint liberality of of {sic} the general assembly the People of Milford and other contributing friends. Two Hundred American soldiers in a destitute sickly and dying conditions , were brought from a British prison ship , then lying near New York, and suddenly cast upon our shore from a British cartel ship, on the first of Jan. 1777. The inhabitants of Milford made the most share table efforts for the relief of these suffering strangers yet notwithstanding all their kind ministrations, in one month, these forty six died, and were buried in one common grave. Their names and residences are inscriven on this monument. Who shall say that Republics are ungrateful. 08\11\{1895}(Su) Mr McCracken preached at the Chapel this afternoon, Clyde and Irving and myself went to Bucks hill to Mr Tylers this afternoon. 08\14\{1895}(We) My Wife had a child this morning at 2.30 O'clock weight -11 3/4 lbs. (Raymond H. Miller) 08\22\{1895}(Th) Told John Pierpont that I would fix up his cart for 17.00. 08\23\{1895}(Fr) Went to Danbury to see about taking decorated wagon to the fair. 08\24\{1895}(Sa) Went to Watertown to see about taking decorated wagon to the Watertown fair. 09\02\{1895}(Mo) Mr & Mrs Gillett are married 55 years to night. 09\12\{1895}(Th) JH Brauson, #49 N Willow Heght of wire 13'-6" {sic} 09\16\{1895}(Mo) 6,000 lbs 6.00 8.40 David Bury 13' from{?} Raid 09\18\{1895}(We) {listing of business accounts} 09\20\{1895}(Fr) Veterans Nelson Hall, John French Continentalon{?} Arthur Pierpont Puritans Hery Cass, George Hall Indians Dwight Canklin, Ed Scott Plowman Grinder Cha's Hotchkiss Blacksmith Thomas Melbourne Cornshiller Cider Makers George Cass, Clyde Miller Lanmill Irving Miller Chicru{?} Wm Canklin 09\21\{1895}(Sa) Fiddler and Dancing Mr Cass, Dan Squairs Uncle Sam Dexter Northrop 10\01\{1895}(Tu) Wm Byrnes went to work at Roger Bro's 10\10\{1895}(Th) {diagram} 10\14\{1895}(Mo) Threashiers Cha's Minor, Wm Pritchard 11\11\{1895}(Mo) Fred was arrested to day. I went bans for him in the sum of $200.00. 11\12\{1895}(Tu) Fred had his trial this morning appealed to District cort{court}. Bands fixed at $200.00, Town band $200.00. Tried befor{e} Judge Cawell. D, Mr Burpee At the time the divorce was granted, would you let the child go. Lattie, I suppose I shall have to. Burpee, I said at the time the divorce was granted. Lattie Oh no, I wouldn't let her go at that time under any considerations. Mr. webster Didn't you know that the child was given to you Fred Judge Thayer said that either of us could have it and I knew that she wanted it Mr Burpee and Webster reads the decree of divorce Judge Cawell He aint a fit person to have the costidy{sic} of the child. Mr Burpee: Why Judge, Look at his past record he didnt pay his lawers {sic} Mr Burpee I wish to beg pardon Mr Hamilton of NH and myself were his lawyers Judge Cawell I was retained on that case myself 11\14\{1895}(Th) Mr Burpee Fred Miller is as good a citizen man as there is in Waterbury as New Haven, if you are going to bring in outside matters, I shall take an appeal. Jude Cawell You and Mr Webster had better settle it between you. Burpee We are asking no favors only such as the law provides Mr Webster You will find the law on page 36 in the Acts of 93. Fred Mr Lawyers, May I speak Cawell No, Shut up we have heard enough from you. 11\16\{1895}(Sa) Went to New Haven to see Fred. 11\20\{1895}(We) Went to see the Select men about paying 3.00 a week for Amy Millers support. 12\03\{1895}(Tu) Will Gillette and I went to Mr Thompsons after Amy Miller for Fred. Mrs Lattie Miller objected to us taking her. 12\18\{1895}(We) and Wm Gillette Ive saw Lattie on street to day P,M. 12\23\{1895}(Mo) and Card Ive saw Lattie on street to day about 8 o'clock. 12\31\{1895}(Tu) Amy was in Ive's office, and said that her mother was on the street waiting for her about 2 P.M. The end pages contain a Memoranda section in which there is a List of Fairs: Watertown Sept 11 and 12 George Downe Wallingford Sept 18 and 19 Bristol Sept 25 and 26 TH Keens Pres, BA. Peck Sec. Meriden Oct 2-3-4 LE Coe Pres, GW Fairchild Sec. Danbury 7-8-9-10-11-12 Oct Wolcott Oct 16 and a list of familiar names with lines drawn through them. There is a partially filled Cash Account section, and an empty Payable and Receivable section. The back pocket contains a Trade Card for Charles S. Miller, as a member of the Grange effective until Dec 31, 1895. There is also an empty account slip. The American Diary 1896 In the beginning there is an Almanac section for 1896, followed by an Addresses and Memoranda section with the addresses: N D Forbes, Montowese, Conn., Hattie L. Lyman, Car Round Hill and Wood Sts. City, Artisan S. Clark, Middlebury, Conn., S H Cae, B736, City, R S Woodruff, 92 Prospect St. $8.50, L D Miller, #26 Warren St. New Haven, Mr. Mahan, Cole St., Thomas Bulger, North Orange St., City. There is also a Time Table for Board or Labor with the names: Melbourne, George Cass, Burns, C. Tuttle, W. Matthew 01\09\{1896}(Th) Went to New Haven to Fred{'}s Trial. The trial was put over till next monday {lower case his}. 01\10\{1896}(Fr) {not his handwriting} How about sending these{?} to Amy. 01\13\{1896}(Mo) Went to New Haven to day to Fred{'}s tryal {sic} to day{.} He won his case and had his child Amy granted to him Amy is 9 years old {sic} 01\30\{1896}(Th) Instulation{sic} Beacon Valley furnish Programm, 02\04\{1896}(Tu) Took Caw to ABP 02\06\{1896}(Th) Roalcall{sic} of officers. George Athunson, Thomas Fourclaugh Mrs. French George Alexander 02\13\{1896}(Th) Starrs Calleage{?} The Agricultural School fund of Conn. Which offers the greates{t} advantage (benefit) to the future Farmer, Male or Storrs Calleage{?} Pruning Vines Shrubs & Trees 02\14\{1896}(Fr) (Scene) Carting in Conn in the days of our Grandmother's. Tom Did not work. 02\20\{1896}(Th) Emmigration Washington{'}s birthday Should the Farmer combine in establishing prices of farm products 02\27\{1896}(Th) Cuban Questions Current Events Pruning vines and trees 03\05\{1896}(Th) Reading of the Courtship of Miles Standish----------------- Miss May Tatern 3 Miss Wirtman " Lyman (Arthur) 2 A B Pierpont 5 Mrs W L Pierpont 7 Mrs. C S Miller Miss Richardson 8 Miss Bessie Tyler Miss Anna Hall 6 Mrs. Todd 4 03\06\{1896}(Fr) Perkins and Jones carriage to cast 1,400{.} New axles old wheel and old top. 03\07\{1896}(Sa) Cheshire H E Valentine New axles 6.00 New tires 7.00 Brake 6.00 Painting 8.00 -------- 27.00 03\12\{1896}(Th) {this part has one line drawn through it} Cast of making a Lofe{?} of bread Should Emigration {sic} Be restricted 03\19\{1896}(Th) {this part with slashes through it} Reading of the origin of the War songs. Open Grange. {Also, stuck between the pages is a folded rectangle of paper with the date "November 15th 1886 " and the name "Charlotte Amy Miller" followed by the words "This is copied from my copy book. And is correct. We were all very glad to see Mama- although did not quite expect her until tomorrow. We got along fine-Are all well and got along nicely. You might to see the washouts. Mama says it was nothing down in N.H. to what it is here- Come up when you can. Look to Amy. Grandpa Grandma and Aunt Iva all send love. Cara." 03\26\{1896}(Th) Sister Halls Night 03\30\{1896}(Mo) Fred Perkett (followed by measures) 04\01\{1896}(We) Mr. Rudae accaer{?} with Milbam{?} $17.00 Rented my Paint Shop to Wm Byrnes for 10.00 per month. 04\02\{1896}(Th) Cast of a loaf of Bread Why wheat raising was discontinued in Conn. rye, and flower {flour} 04\09\{1896}(Th) Why do we cain {?} money except for charge 04\12\{1896}(Su) Stone boat 2'-1" wide {diagram} 05\01\{1896}(Fr) Joseph Saunders Went into partnership today 05\13\{1896}(We) Joe Healeys Pale 4 1/2" wid{e} at evener hole 05\29\{1896}(Fr) \30\{1896}(Sa) \31\{1896}(Su) Listing of names and accounts {owed?} 06\08\{1896}(Mo) Wm Kimball 11.50 John Norton 3.70 06\10\{1896}(We) Distance from center to center of bolts 3 3/16 5/16 bolts {this is unclear} Marvell{?} Norton In Buy 49' wood 4.00 06\18\{1896}(Th) Landlord Barnes Martin Barnes Kept tavern near French hill Sothington [Southington] Waux Spring's Mr. Aca Barnes kept tavern on sight of Ruben Frasts present house in Marham{?} The tavern was destroyed by fire. Encamped on French hill for {continued on 06\19\{1896}(Fr) one week. A spring on the old mountain road was opened by them while on their march. 07\01\{1896}(We) Thomas Melbourne Worked in April {followed by accounts} 07\12\{1896}(Su) JJ Byam 9.60 DJ Parter 11.16 07\23\{1896}(Th) Joe Slater{'}s child died this afternoon 07\24\{1896}(Fr) Clyde drew the first load of lumber from Mr. Bawleys steam saw mill 07\26\{1896}(Su) Scalts{?} tank 4'-2 x 6'-6" Clyde, Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, and Myself went to prospect for a ride, saw lots of huckleberries 07\27\{1896}(Mo) Went to the meeting of select-men and traction Companys officers to consider the layout on the old Cheshire road to the Calvary Cemetary gate. Selectmen ordered the track placed on the south side of highway 07\28\{1896}(Tu) Went to Bucks-hill Collecting{.} Wm Kimball brought 132' wood. Balance due LH Frost {calculation} 07\29\{1896}(We) {calculation} Went to Southington to LH Frosts and to Cheshire to Mr. Valentine's. Valentine paid $15.00 08\02\{1896}(Su) Brother Fred, Clyde and myself drove to Plainville Commuting via Southington. Met Mr and Mrs AB Pierpont and Mr and Mrs Byam with whom we ate dinner on the ground. {L}eft home at 9a.m. and got there at 1 P.M. {sic}. The meeting was a Sweed{t?} one while we were there and was led by Mr Garlanderer. 08\04\{1896}(Tu) JJ Byam, Lewis, Garrigus, Wm Atkinson,and myself being a committee, met to night to draft a set of bylaws for the Mad River Grange 08\05\{1896}(We) Today has been one of the hot{t}est days that I ever saw or felt 08\06\{1896}(Th) Very hot 08\07\{1896}(Fr) To day was hotter still Commenced working on the trolley extension from Silver Street to the City line to day. 08\09\{1896}(Su) Ther. 92 on Lichfield hill Fred, Margaret, and I drove to Litchfield, and stop{p}ed at Mr Crutches and Sarah Bissell's, then we drove to North Goshen, to Sam Gilletts, stayed over night with Malachi Gillette. a long and hot drive 08\10\{1896}(Mo) Fred and I drove from N Goshen to Huntsville then to falls village {sic}then to Lima Rock then via Lakeville to Millerton N.Y. and back to N Goshen 08\11\{1896}(Tu) Came home from North Goshen 08\14\{1896}(Fr) Had school meeting tonight- to see about painting and repairing school house{.} ajorned till next wednesday {sic} night to get estimate of cost. 08\16\{1896}(Su) Went to the Chaple Mr. Kellogg of Wolcott preached 08\18\{1896}(Tu) Worked rep{air} A.B.Pierponts Windmill and pump 08\19\{1896}(We) Had School meeting tonight{.} Mark Warner, Cha's Frost and myself were appointed a committee to paint and repair the school and fence etc, cost not to exceed $150.00 08\20\{1896}(Th) Went to Grange this evening 08\21\{1896}(Fr){measures} 08\22\{1896}(Sa) {measures} 08\23\{1896}(Su) {measures} 08\28\{1896}(Fr) Charlie Brown's wife had a baby boy this morning 08\31\{1896}(Mo)- 09\01\{1896}(Tu) {Listing of names and accounts} 09\95\{1896}(Sa) {illegible calculations} 09\06\{1896}(Su) Frank Allen 4.08 M. Archer 6.15 09\10\{1896}(Th) Mrs. Nelson Hall died today Uncle Joe worked on Ned Pritchards Ice houses straitening {sic} them up 09\12\{1896}(Sa) Mrs Nelson Hall was buried today{.} Mr Eddridge officiated and the Grange service was used{.} John Gallagher, Mr Lewis Garrigus, Wm Atkinson, Truman Kilbaurn, John R.S. Todd, and myself were the Pall barers. Interment {sic} at Pine Grove Cemetary. 1/2 day I worked on Pritchards ice house 09\13\{1896}(Su) Mr Kellogg of Wolcott preached at the Chapel today 09\14\{1896}(Mo) Worked on Ice House 10 hrs 09\15\{1896}(Tu) Worked on Ice House 6 hrs 09\16\{1896}(We) Worked on Ice houses {and calculations for wage at .25 per hour} 09\26\{1896}(Sa) Mary and I drove to North Goshen to day 09\27\{1896}(Su) Attended Church in the North Goshen meeting house. Had a very ple{a}sant service{.} In the afternoon Malachi, Lillie, Marian, Mary, and myself drove to Ivy mountains and went up the tower 09\29\{1896}(Tu) {diagram} 10\10\{1896}(Sa) Clyde paid Mr. Munger 5.00 on interest, making in all paid $36.00. 10\14\{1896}(We) Edson Hitchcock and Elnor Beckwith were married at the Second Church this afternoon 10\16\{1896}(Fr) {measure} Governor{'}s {L?}oat {Coast?} Guard of New Haven had a parade in town to day. 10\17\{1896}(Sa) Mrs Murice{?} Doolittle died this morning at 8 o'clock{.} Aged 85 years. 10\19\{1896}(Mo) The old shear shop burned this evening, discovered about 15 minutes of six o'clock by Julus Mass and Miss Nothrop, at half past it was all consumed. Loss about $40,000 10\20\{1896}(Tu) Mrs Doolittle was buried this afternoon at 2,30{sic) o'clock{.} Rev M Davenport officiated 10\23\{1896}(Fr) Robert E Pryor was killed this noon by his bull in the stable{.} During the war he was color bearer for the 20th Regt C.W. and was shot through eleven times. 10\25\{1896}(Su) Went to the Chaple Mr Hallister Preached {sic} 11\03\{1896}(Tu) National lection {sic} day{.} I voted for McKinley for president of the United States. and Hobert for vice president. Cook for governor of Conn{.} and Duell{?} for Lieutenant Governor{.} 11\06\{1896}(Fr) Went to Litchfield this P.M. and evening to take part in the election parade with the Mattahick {?} Drum Corps we had 31 men 6 Bass drums 12 snare drums and 12 fifers and drum Major. We saw our new governor Cook. hag{?} 2,000 men in line 11\13\{1896}(Fr) Uncle Joe went home from the shop to night and was taken sick 11\18\{1896}(We) Grange Fair opened to night 11\19\{1896}(Th) Aunt Amanda Bronson is 92 years old today In the back there is a Memoranda section with the notes: Gold Metal 94 parts Copper 6 parts Autimany add a little Magnesium carbonate to increase the weight Tough Brass 10 lbs copper 5 lbs spelter Cheap Brass for cast locks etc 10 lb spelter to 1 of copper {a note of measures} Jessie Frost & Abigail Van Julus " Alphons " Electa " James " Abigal " Jessie B. " Adam {?for next word} Marie of Duran Joseph Besoh{?} and Cornelus Johnson 103 acres for 4,80 {?for next word} 1748 Justice Warner went west about 1815 to Ohio Leni Bronson and wife Sarah Prindle Went to Ohio to (Columbia 1808 about) {sic} A Cash Account section follows the Memoranda section. The C.A. section contains names and accounts kept for each name. This is followed by an Expenses section which contains expenses for the refurbishing of the Mill Plain School, for which C.S. Miller was commissioned (this is mentioned in the diary). The inside back cover is covered with calculations. The back pocket contains a Grange membership card dated Dec. 31st 1896, a receipt dated Feb. 28, 1896 for $15.75 received of C.S. Miller to LL Emmout{?}, another receipt dated Nov. 21 1896 for 10 dollars from C.S. Miller to Spencer Pierpont, an empty envelope with the name "James J Egan" on the front and calculations for Oct. 28 and the address " No 26 Linden St" on the back, a square of paper with the note: Cheshire Con Oct. 10 1896 Mr C.S. Miller to Edwin A. Todd Dr to making 180 gals cidar at 1 1/2 cts 270 13 gals cider at 5 65 ____ 335 and a newspaper clipping from the Waterbury American about the new "Wide Tire Law." Miller The Standard Diary 1897, Published for Trade This diary begins with an Almanac section. 01\03\{1897}(Su) Jan 2 1898 Mr. Nichols preached at the Chapel to day. Paid 3.50 Collected 1.00 05\26\{1897}(We) Had Chapel meeting this evening and the following officers were elected. Mark L Warner, Committee for the Episcopal denomanation {sic} Luther Bradley, for Methodist; Robert Warden, for Baptist and Myself for Congregational Edson Hitchcock, was elected Secretary Hiram Able was elected Treasurer, 05\30\{1897}(Su) Dr Anderson preached at the Chaple to day. Collected 2.18 06\06\{1897}(Su) Mr Nichols preached at the Chaple to day. Collected 1.95 06\13\{1897}(Su) Mr Mayl preached at the Chaple to day, there was collected 2.18 06\20\{1897}(Su) Mr Howell preached at the Chaple to day Collected .97 cts Irving was kicked in the head by the horse the wound was nearly fatal. 06\27\{1897}(Su) Dr Davenport preached at the Chaple to day Collected 1.73 Thomas Melbourn, and Mr Cawles, had each a child baptised in the Chaple. 06\28\{1897}(Mo) Had School meeting to night. for {sic} the election of officers, and to instruct the Committee and Treasurer to borrow money{.} Mark L Warner was elected Committee he having had 22 votes my-self 9 Wm Atkinson 2 and someone else 1 B.L. Haggett was elected clerk and Warren Hitchock Treasurer. Meeting ajourned {sic} till July 12th 07\04\{1897}(Su) Mr Nichols preached at the Chaple to day. Collected 1.64 07\08\{1897}(Th) Merritt Scott Died to day of heat desease {sic} and Dropsey. Aged 66 07\10\{1897}(Sa) Merritt Scott was buried from the Chapel to day 07\11\{1897}(Su) Dr Roland preached at the Chaple to day Collected 1.33 07\12\{1897}(Mo) Had {unreadable word] School meeting elected an auditor and ajourned 2 weeks. 07\14\{1897}(We) Reports have reached here of great riches of Gold being found in the Klondike region in Alaska. 07\18\{1897}(Su)Mr Eldridge preached at the Chaple to day Collected .79 cts 07\22\{1897}(Th) Thomas Milbourns 7 months old child died to day. 07\25\{1897}(Su) Thomas Milbourns child was buried from the Chaple to day. Mr Hallister officiated. Had no regular service. 07\26\{1897}(Mo) Had ajourned School meeting no business of importance transacted ajourned without date. 08\01\{1897}(Su) Amy Welton Artmeted{?} Welton Rishy Lerrell Davis Welton Trishie{?} Merrill Lauren Frisbie The above were Mrs Atkins school teacher in Mill Plain district. Mr Nichols Preached at the Chaple to day Collected 1.45 08\03\{1897}(Tu) THe Town set 86 men at work widening the road that runs from the Mattatuck Co's shop to Grange Hall. 08\07\{1897}(Sa) Had School meeting Dan Squires was Masen Moderator Voted to lay a tax of 5 mills on list last completed. Voted that we invite the members of the Town board of School Visitors to attend the next meeting which is to be held next Tuesday evening, ajourned to nex {sic} Tuesday eve. [[Charles Somers Miller 1898 small workbook]] Journal for 1898 The following is written on the inside cover in the upper right hand corner (price?): 70 The following names are listed in the section "Addresses and Memoranda" Fred D Miller Miss Louese Townson{?} Henry I Pond{?} Martin Buckmaster Otir Wisan{?} Fred D Miller F E Fuller{Fullen?} 01\01\1898 (Saturday) [[The following comment is written on this page: For more details see "Records" for 1898. Record books will follow - M{argaret Miller Northrop} Hall, 1943]] 01\02\1898 (Sunday) Mr Nichols 01\09\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Rolland Preached at the Chapel Collected 1.60{?} 01\10\1898 (Monday) E L Frisbie and Charle_{Charles?} Frost deeded to Wm Tabor 20,000 surface feet April 8 1889 for the sum of 2.00 dollars,. The above is bound__{bounded?} Northly{Northby!} an land of estate of Lydia Sackett Eastwardly{Eastwardby!} by Meride_{Meriden?} Road, Southwardly by land of Edward C{.?} Monnger{?}, and West by land of the estate. 01\12\1898 (Wednesday) Those who are to take part in Chapel entertainment Miss Fannie Porter{Parter!} Mr. Murry Beebee 1 7 Arthur Heaton 3R 6 Jennie Patetun{?} _R{3R?} Mrs. Byam 5 Hiram Able 4R Arthur Pierpont 1 Margaret Miller 7R 2 Miss Goldsmith 6R 3 Iva Miller 2 Main 4 Mary Porte{?} 01\16\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Howell Preached at the Chapel Collected 2.21 01\19\1898 (Wednesday) Misses Porter{?} and Bunker{"t" written above name, Bunkert?} Henry Cass Friends Famuir{?} Porter, Mrs. Hitchcock Murry Beiby{?} Mrs. Byam, Arthur Pierpont, 01\23\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Halloster Preached Collected 127{?} 01\29\1898 (Saturday) Mrs. Pryor Arthur Pierpont{?} Mattie Atkinso_{Atkinson?} Bertha French 01\30\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Anderson Preached Collected {blank space} 227 02\06\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Nichols Preached Collectio_{Collection?} 2.69 02\08\1898 (Tuesday) Trinity Quentitte{Quentille?} 02\09\1898 (Wednesday) Ed Todds{Todd's?} Orchestra Miss Dickinson 02\13\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Rooland Preached Collected 3.__{3.55?} 02\20\1898 (Sunday) No service, on{an!} account of storm. 02\22\1898 (Tuesday) Mr. Ables Picture 15x 20" 02\23\1898 (Wednesday) 1 Hellen Rogers 2 March and Dramatic{Drimatic!} 3 Mary Goldsmith 4 C S Miller 5 Margaret Miller 6 Mrs. Rogers 7 " " 02\24\1898 (Thursday) Recitation Sketch entitled Washingtons birthday Recitation Recitation Recitation Song Song {Does the list given on the page for 02\24\1898 correspond with the list of names given on the page for 02\23\1898?} 02\27\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Davenport Preached at the Chapel Collected 03\06\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Nichol_{Nichols?} Preached Collected {blank space} 198{?} Fran Grapaplan{?} entertained{?} - 6.70 03\09\1898 (Wednesday) Arthur Heaton Mr. Sincaster and M George Byan Mr. Stotan{?} Mrs. Burrett Mrs. Byan * Mrs. Andrews * Miss Haywood * Joe Sherwood __{?} {*check marks are written before these names} 03\10\1898 (Thursday) Recitation Laonard, (Mandolin and Recitation, Guitar) Violin Piano Recitation, Piano{?} R________{Recitation?} Ben Clotfield{Clatfield?}, Sarge {Does the list of names given on the page for 03\09\1898 correspond with the list given on the page for 03\10\1898? If so, please advise if the entries for these two dates should be input in an aligned form} 03\11\1898 (Friday) Gave Hotchkiss &{?} Templeton a note for $21.95 due 30 days after date. 03\13\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Maya 03\14\1898 (Monday) Nov 15{?} 1897 died Arthur Byington{?} at Kenasha{?}.{.?} Wis. 03\20\1898 (Sunday) Annie Pierpont_{Pierponte!} Fined at Chapel 03\27\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Davenport{?} Preach__{Preached?} Collected 3 05{?} 04\02\1898 (Saturday) Mr. Nichols Preache_{Preaches? Preached?} Collected{?} 2.00 04\10\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Waters of Wolcott Preached at Chapel Collected 2.14 04\17\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Mc Kudly{Mc Keedly?} preached Collected 2.82 04\24\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Nichols Preached Collected 1.73 05\01\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Nichols{Nicholi!} 05\15\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Howill{?} Preached Collected, {blank space} 1.80 05\16\1898 (Monday) John Bropbey send Mr. Saults{?} to my place after a sleigh and paid me 3.00 05\17\1898 (Tuesday) Mr. Mr.{?} Kudley{Keedley?} {this line underlined} Preached Collected {this line underlined} 282{2 82?} 05\22\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Davenport Preached {-?} Collected 3.40 05\25\1898 (Wednesday) Morris Alcott{?} & C S Miller Luttun{Luttur?} Bradley Robert Worden{?} Arthur Pierpont Sec J I Able{?} Treas J. H. Garrigus. S__per{Surper?} Henry Cass, Libraran{Librarian?} Bessie Garrigus, Organ {ist written above line, Organist?} 05\29\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Anderson, (Preached) 05\30\1898 (Monday) Haratia{Horatio?} Chapman Chaplain East{Eeast!} Haup___{Haupto_?} G.A._.{?} Eugene Nichols East Haupto_{?} __{?} Pax{?} 2.41 Rev. M_{Mr.?} Marshal{?} Moadry __od{road?} __{?} Addren{?} 06\05\1898 (Sunday) {M crossed out} Dr. Buckley Preached 06\12\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Parry Preached 06\19\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Davenport{Davenpoit?} Preach__{Preached?} Collected 06\26\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Basselt{Bassett?} Preached{Preahed!} Collected 1.34 07\03\1898 (Sunday) Dr. Perry Preached at the Chapel Collected 1.01 07\10\1898 (Sunday) Rev. W S Rofter{?} Preached Coll__t__{Collected?} 2 33{?} 07\24\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Water_{Waters?} of Wolcott Preached at the Chapel Collected 07\31\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Buckley Preached at the Chapel Collected 1.5_{1.51?} 08\07\1898 (Sunday) {"Mr. Hollock" is crossed out} Preached Collected 1.90 Dr. Faslet{?} of Newark N.J. 08\14\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Raflet of Waterville Preached Collected 3.0_{3.08?} 08\21\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Howell Preach{Preached?} Collected 256{2 56?} 09\04\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Perry{?} Preached Collected 1.04 Approved Dexter Northrope{?} bill of $10.00 for Janitor{?} 09\14\1898 (Wednesday) E. S. Pritchard, Grand list 1100 House{Haus! Hous!} was gone in 1790 but the barn was standing. Ezekial Welton lived{?} there and Jacob Tyler 09\16\1898 (Friday) Star Unio_{Union?} line Price 59 cts per 100 lbs Blakesll{?} charges 1.25 per hr about 5.00 09\18\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Bassett Preached at the Chapel Collected 1.94 09\25\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Waters of Wolcott Preached at the Chapel Collected 2.26 09\27\1898 (Tuesday) To day is my birth day. {Insert mark and mathematical equation at the end of the above line} Drove to day from home to town 2 miles thence to Watertown 6 miles, then{them!} to Bethlehem 6 " " " Romford 8 " " " Woodville 3 " " " Milton{?} 6 " " " W Goshen 4 " " " Goshen center{caps?} 1 1/2 " " " North Goshen 5 " " __ 41 1/2 Where I stayed with my cousin Malachi Gillette. 09\28\1898 (Wednesday) Went to Obed Stannard's, " {'?} Harris [Horace?] Stannard, and to Norfolk Center 09\29\1898 (Thursday) Went to the Ivy Mountain town by way of the Black lands from thence through the Ovaitt [Oviatt] district to Cornwall hollow saw the Gen Sedgwick{?} mansion and the polace where he is buried in the cemetery at Cornwall hollow{hollaw!}, then we went to Cornwall Center a distance of 4 miles, the view from the North as we came into the villeage was grand with Cornwall plains in front of us, there we turned East towards W Goshen _ut{but?} when we got to the top of the mountain in sight of Goshen we turned East and went towards the N__d{Naid?} of Tyler pong and then N past some fine farms thense East again to the foot of the hill, then N to the Miles place on the high land W {M?} of the Ivy 09\30\1898 (Friday) {Is the next entry or beginnin of next entry a continuation of the entry for 09\29\1898?} mountain{mountan!} tower, then turned East, and went ____{down?} Went to tipping rock 10\01\1898 (Saturday) Came Home De Grasse arrive in the Chesapeak on the 30_{30-?} of Aug, and landed 3,_00{3,200? 3,000?} under the Marqui's{Marquis?} De St Simon, these troops were drawn from the garrison/garrisson{?} of St Domimgo{?}, On the 2___{23"?} of Aug the bound {is there a mark or superscipt text?} de Barras sailed from New Port R I,{, or .?} with eight ships of the line amd 14 transporte{transports?} ladened with heavy artillery and stores{?}, and formed a junction{Junction?} with de Grasse {accent mark over the a} on the 14__{14th?} of Sept. 10\02\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Perry{Perrey?} Preached Col 1.75 Rache{?} du Fermay was in the army that acted against{aganst!} Burgayne, Baron St Ovary{?} was in the volunteer service, De Cadray, an officer of rank in the Franch army, was drowned in the Schuyklill a few days after the battle of the Brandywine {,?} in his eagerness to cross it to joing{Join?} Washington{,?} The Chevelier Duplesis Maudit displayed the greatest bravery at Germantown and Red Bank, and was assasinated{assassinated!} at Port-au Price, The heroid gallantry{gallentery!} of of{written twice} Lieutenant Flurry at stony point, can never be{he!} forgotten Debuysson{?} was not ____{less?} brave. 10\03\1898 (Monday) Went to town in fo__{fore? forse?} noon and Worked for Warden in the afternoon. Marquis De Chastellux 10\05\1898 (Wednesday) Mr. Barmer was buried from the Chapel to day. 10\09\1898 (Sunday) Mr. Holmes{Holme's?} House burned this morning at about 10 clock{10 oclock?} 12\11\1898 (Sunday) Collected 2.21 12\30\1898 (Friday) H W Warner Oakvill_{Oakville?} Co__{Conn?} {In the section "Memoranda" addresses and locations are listed for the following names: Mr. E S Frisbie Iseral Beldwin, Hannah Chatterton Mr. Farley Farnk Farley Moses, Ovaitt [Oviatt] Goshen Aaron Nelson Herman} {The following note is in the section "Memoranda" Ladies Union Paid 260.90 Due Earnest Robenson{?} 25.00} {In the section "Cash Account":} Chapel Expense Jan 12 5 gals oil .50 Warren Hitchcock Carrying minister 7.00 //end of small book// Journal 1898, C.S. Miller [bd 10/17/1990 ,11/27; ml 12/1989] 01\10\1898 {Monday} First thing this morning Mary, Clyde and Irving went to work at the wash. I read a time in Poultry Bigelow's history of German liberty, had breakfast and went to work. Mother told me this fore noon that Miss Bradly and the seven other ladies who furnished the last supper at the Chapel are talking of giving a supper and musical entertainment in the Grange hall to raise money to buy a carpet for the Chapel. Mr. Warden called while I was at supper to see about the entertainment we are going to give at the chapel Wednesday eve. After he had gone, I hitched up and started for town but the roads being very icy and my horse smooth, I left him at my shop and went the rest of he way afoot and by the electric cars. Went to see Mr. E. L. Firsbie, S. R. about the old journal of Judah Frisbie's. He said that he had had it but he thought it had been returned to Uncle Dwight. Then I went to the Town Clerk's office and copied parts of the deed from Charles Frost and E.L. Frisbie trustees{??} for the estate of Lydia Sackett to Wm. Fabar trustee for a certain piece of land on which now stands Grange Hall, then came home and went to bed. 01\11\{1898} (Tuesday) This was a dark morning. Looked like rain, sun has not shown to day. Clyde and Irving had the chores done before I went to work. At seven o'clock I carried the milk to mother and sent a notice of the meeting of the Ladies Union to be held in the Chapel on Wednesday evening by Iva to be published in the Evening American. Then went to the shop to work. At noon went to see Miss Fatern{??} about getting three school children to give recetations {recitations} at the Chapel Wednesday eve. She thought they would. From here went to the Mattatuck Shop and Miss Nellie Cass{??} about some musicians that Henry had seen. Nellie said they could not favor us this time but would some other time. I sent George Hine to Rogers Bros. to see Miss Bumbart and find wheather {whether} she and the Porter girls would play for us. She said they could not. I rode home from the shop with Marrie{??} Reid this evening and he told me that Edward Mc Manus had bought a building lot west of my house. Showed me the place. Mr. Warden called to see me about the Chapel entertainment. Also talked about the sleigh seat. Clyde and Irving went to Frost's Pond to scate {skate} but returned at supper time as the surface of the ice is soft and skating poor. Had supper at 6.36 and then hitched up and went to prepair {prepare} the Chapel for tomorrow's meeting. Called on Hiram Able on the way and got .75 cts. of him to pay for 5 gallons of kerosene oil which I sent to Wilson's store and got it, cost .50 cts. Stopped at John French's a little while. We laid the fires, filled the lamps, etc. and came home and to bed. 01\12\1898 (Wednesday) We got up late this morning and I did not get to the shop till half past seven. It has been warm and foggy all day. They have had to stop the ice cutting. Sent George Hine up to Wolcott to see Mrs. Adelbert Hitchcock and find if she would play on the piano this evening at the Chapel. She said she would if she could. This evening we {??????} Irving, Clyde and myself went to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment of the Ladies Union. The attendence was small on account of the weather, it being very dark and foggy. From the supper the Ladies netted $6.29. The entertainment consisted of the following, 1. Recitation by Margaret Miller; 2. Recitation by Miss Mary Goldsmith; 3. Piano Solo by Iva Miller; 4. Reading by Mary Porter; 5. Recitations by Hiram Able; 6. Recitation by Jennie Patchen; 7. Recitation by little Arthur Heaton which was very good and was enjoyed by all. The meeting was out at 10.30 o' clock and we came home across the lots, I having my lantern to light us on our way. Will go to bed at about 11 o'clock. I would like to state here that I payed {paid} Dr. C. Art Ward two dollars towards the four that I owe him for doctoring my lame foot. He says he can cure it he thinks. I hope he can. It is certainly better than it has been before in four years at this season. Last year I measured the hight {height} of my children on the first of January and this year we did the same. Clyde, aged 13 years and three months is 5 ft. 4 1\2 in. high and has grown 3 1\4 inches during the year. Irving, aged 11 years and 8 months is 4 ft. and 8 inches tall and has grown two inches during the year. Margaret, aged 8 years and 11 months is 4 feet and 3 inches tall and has grown 2 1\2 inches during the year. Ruth, aged 6 years and 11 months is 4 ft. and 1 inch tall and has grown 2 3\4 inches during the year. Frank{??}, aged 5 years and three months is 3 ft., 6 1\2 inches tall and has grown three inches during the year. Raymond, aged 2 year and 6 months is 2 ft. and 11 inches and has grown 5 inches during the year. A Frenchman who lives in Cheshire whom the call Chip had a team horse die on the road at East Farms this afternoon while drawing a load of wood to town. My wife Mary measures 5 ft. high and I, 5 ft., 11 inches. My weight is 172 lbs. 01\13\1898 (Thursday) This morning I pasted news paper clippings in my scrap book while the boys did the chores, and after eating breakfast went to the shop. The weather has been warm and plesant {pleasant}, more like early May then January. Pierpont brought my dinner to me this noon, and I got through work at 5 o'clock this evening and came home and had a fine supper of boiled long{??} clams. Spent the evening reading, writing etc. To bed about 9 o'clock. 01\14\{1898} (Friday) Everything was on time this morning and we got a good start. Fireman Kilbourn told me this morning tthat Arden H. Coe's barn burned the last of last week. Mr. Reid, the sealer of weights and measures, came to my shop to seal my scales for which he required a fee I objected on the ground that I did not use the scales enough so that it made any difference. He claimed that it was law and that it should be done and ordered his assistant to bring in the weights. I asked in regard to the law and he said he was acting under the state law and shoved me a paper certifying that Perry Morris and and Mr. Doram, selicitmen {selectmen}?? had appointed him. I told him that I should not have it done and would remove the scales or have them smashed as I had not much use for them and did not buy or sell with them, and talked law{??} where upon he gave up. But while we were carrying on the controversy in one room about one pair of scales, the assistant had tested the other pair and seated{??} them. They were correct before and I know they are now. Frank came to see me this afternoon, he not being at work because he did not feel well. He told me of the big smashup at Benedict & Burnham's where he works. He said that the 20 inch shaft{??} had great flaws in it and was not solid in the center where it broke. Had wrecking men from Providence to take off{??} the 40,000{??} gear and 60 torn{??} fly wheel. Gussy, Frank's wife, called at our house and took supper with us after which she went home and we, Mary and I, went to the Grange. Just as we were about to start, Mr. Warden called and wished us to go with him to a meeting of the officers of the Ladies Union at my father's house. But as we were not officers, we went to the Grange. Miss Fatern, the school teacher, came and asked if I thought it would be proper to use some of the school money to buy an intermeade {intermediate??} reader which she needed. We (Mr. Tucker and myself) advised her to see Mr. Basset of the school board and tell him that we though it was best to do so. Charlie Hotchkiss, myself and Mary walked home from the Grange together. Charlie said that his father saw a great fire off to the west of us {?????} some large barn was on fire. To bed at 12 o'clock. 01\15\{1898} (Saturday) It began snowing at about 5 o'clock this morning and snowed and rained all the forenoon till about 4 in the afternoon when it changed to fog and wet. I sent Clyde horse back to Arthur Merrindus{??} in Southington to measure his cart body. In the afternoon Mary, Irving and Harris Tucker went to town and got the oysters for tomorrow breakfast and Mary changed a pair of under rappers and drawers for me, went to bed early as I was not feeling well, about 9 o'clock. 01\16\1898 (Sunday) This morning is clear but the ground very muddy. Had breakfast of oysters at about 9 o'clock after which Clyde, Pierpont and myself went to the Chapel to get it ready for the service there{??} afternoon. After fires were built and other araingements {arrangements} made, I set Clyde and Pierpont home afoot and I drove up around by the red bridges to Mr. Atkinson's after which I drove home getting there at noon where I found Mary getting Clyde, Margaret and Ruth ready for Sunday School. They went at about half past one and Mary and I started for service about half past two. There was a fair after service{??}. Mr. Howell preached. He is from Simonsville. Bessie Simons played the organ and Mrs. Mauwaring{??}, Miss Agnes Able and Hiram Able sung in the choir. After supper, I went to visit Major Tucker. We spent the evening reading Peyp's {Pepy's??} diary which he owns and which was published about 1850. I beleave {believe} it was written in short hand from 1652 to 1722 about, from thence home and to bed. 01\17\{1898} (Monday) This morning we arose earlier than usual and Clyde and I ran the washing machine before to go to work. This forenoon Major Tucker sent me a letter stating that he wished to hire two girls to commence work this afternoon and said he had promised work to Dolly Marrow and Hattie Kilbourn and wanted to know if I thought they would answer. I told him that he knew as much about the Marrow girl as I did but judging from what I knew of the Kilbourn folks, I though Hattie would do very well. This afternoon George Hine went to Dentist Brown's to have his teeth filled. James Porter sent Dexter Northrop to borrow my horse and wagon to go to Ned Pritchards to get a farming mill{??}. It has been freezing cold all day and skating is good to night and Clyde and Irving went to Frost's Pond skating where most of the young folks of the neighborhood were having a good time. Send {Sent??} Clyde to the Chapel with the team to get the scraps and garbage left from the last supper and also to Mr Able's to get Mr. Burr Blakeslee's (of Watertown) history of Woodbury. The thermomiter {thermometer} is now 9 degrees below zero, to bed at half past nine. To day David Down's horse ran away with Frank Frisbie and Emma Cornelius. He started by Merritt Scatt's place and ran to the red bridges where Frank turned him to the left to go up the hill toards {towards} Atkinson's instead of going towards Waterbury Center and in making the turn both of them were thrown out. Emma struck on her back and side and was not injured. Frank hurt one knee but held to the horse and reined him into Mr. Haggett's fence and stoped {stopped} him. 01\18\{1898} (Tuesday) To day has been cold and clear. The ice men are at work again. When Clyde went to school this morning I had him bring the team to the shop and sent Harry Kilbourn down town to Hotchkiss and Templetons to get spokes to repair David Downs wheels with so I had the team to drive Carrie{??} to dinner. After dinner, Pierpont went to the shop with me. I took some forgings to the Mattatuck shop and Pierpont went with me. I stoped {stopped} at the office and talked with Mr. Tucker a while. Pierpont did not like it because I did not show him the machinery. After we got back to the shop, Pierpont went down to David Porter's and stayed til 4 o'clock. After school the boys did their chores soon as possible and went skating on Frost's Pond. My foot pained me nost of the time to day. 01\19\{1898} (Firday) This morning had for breakfast spare rib and baked potatoes. The day has been fine for this time of year. Little Pierpont brought my dinner to me in his little express wagon. This afternoon he and I took the trolley cars and went to Waterville to see Adam Fabor about some money he owed me for a wagon. He gave me ten dollars. I had not been in Waterville before since the trolley cars began to run nearly a year ago. New house are being built everywhere. It seems as if the place was as large again as it used to be. We got back to the shop at 10 minutes to five after which we went home to supper after which Clyde, Irving, Verniem{???} Able and Harris Tucker and I went to the Chapel and took down the green trimmings which had been up since Christmas after which the boys went to Frost's Pond skating and I came home and spent the rest of the evening reading Cothane's{???} History of Woodbury. Went to bed at 11 o'clock. 01\20\1898 (Thursday) This morning dawned dull and rainy, a little snow fell before daylight. My sister Cara came home from Bristol last night and left her grip at the New England Rail Road Station and I sent Harry Kilbourn after it this forenoon. Mr. Simkins left word that he wished me to shoe his horse and I went over to the Mattatuck shop where he worked afer it when Mr. Tucker saw me and said he wanted a joiner for a few hours. I asked him if it was anyting {anything} that I could do and he said yes, I want a tumbling barrell set and counter shaft-|put up. I went to work at it and Paul Hesphelt{??} and I had it running at three o'clock. To night Mary and I went to the Grange where the new officers were installed for the coming year. Wilson Pierpont was installed master. I beleave {believe} his election was not legal. I sent a notice to be published in the American that the Mill Plain Chapel would hold its annual fair Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Feb. 8th and 9th. I would say that Mr. Tucker and I left the Grange at quarter past ten and we went to his house where we looked at the papers and New England magazines till Mary called for me when we came home. Got home at 12 o'clock and then to bed. 01\21\1898 (Friday) This morning was clear to work at 7 o'clock. This forenoon Major Tucker sent his horse to me to be shod. He called for it himself and showed me a letter for it himself written Wilson L. Pierpont in which he signified his intention to decline serving as one of the finance committes in the Grange, to office he has been appointed. Pierpont brought my dinner to the shop this forenoon. Heard to day that Mrs. Hattie Austin, widon of the late William Austin of East Farms was married to Homer Twichell of Union City. I have suffered to day from a bad cold and tonight I wished to send Irving to H.W. Lake's store for some medicine but Mary got very cross and I went myself after I got home and ate my supper of biscuit and milk. I listened to Mary read to the children from Uncle Tom's Cabin after which I looked over some New England magazines and then to bed at midnight. Dr. C. Art Ward left two bottles of medicine with me this morning for my foot. 01\22\1898 (Saturday) It has been dull weather this morning and most of the day. This evening it began snowing about 7 o'clock. After a breakfast of pancakes, I went to work. PIepront went down with me. Went to see mother about getting her book of Geneology of our ancesters {ancestors}, the Somers. This forenoon Fred Upson of Wolcott told me that he desires to sell his farm of 110 acres as he is getting to {too} old to work it. George Benham has taken the agency for selling fertilizers and asked permission to tack an advertising bill on my shop which I gave him and he in turn gave me a ride home to dinner. For dinner we had spiced meat and boiled onions, etc. after which I hitched up and drove to Mill Plain Chapel and took out the furnice {furnace} grate and took it to my shop and repaired it. This afternoon George Hine and myself went to the Chapel and put the great {grate} back in the furnace and cleaned out the Chapel and put things to rights after which I came home to supper. After supper Mary and Irving went to town after the oysters and crackers for tomorrow's breakfast and also to get Irving a pair of shoes and rubbers, and I went to the Mattatuck shop and numbered their furniture nail machines. Clyde and Irving and some of the East Farms boys went to Shelt Hitchcock's pond fishing but they did not get any and came home tonight, tired and hungry. It is reported that Hattie Austin is not married as Mr. Twichell is sick. After writing the foregoing which I finished at about 12 o'clock, I picked up a book, the title of which was Uncle Tom's Cabin and I read in it till 3 o'clock in the morning. 01\23\{1898} (Sunday) This morning there was a little snow on the ground but before noon it rained which took away most of it. Sister Iva came up this forenoon and brought home a little table which she borrowed to play whist on. I did not go to the Chapel to day. This afternoon, Mary and I drove over to Nellie's to visit her as she was sick. Ater we got home, had a supper of boiled chickens after which I went to visit Major Tucker and stayed till half past ten when I came home, the wind blowing hard. 01\24\1898 (Monday) Went to work this morning. Mary's wrist was so bad from the sprain she received at her sister Nellie Connor's last evening that she could not wash. The weather this morning was cold and windy at noon. It was cold but not so windy in the morning and to night was cold and clear starlight. This noon I drove round to Dr. Ward's and got his Phaeton{??} Carriage and took it to the shop to repair. I stoped {stopped} at the Mattatuck shop and left Pierpont to hold the horse while I went in and left the Examiner News papper, which Cara gave me to have Mr. Tucker take to Mrs. Dickenson. This afternoon Edward McManns called to see if his carts were done. Mr. Warden called at 5 o'clock and brought me home. He had just came from Miss Bradley and he said he was mad because she did not know that all the arrangements for the fair were make {made} and she had not been consulted. Found Mary and the boys washing, ate supper of warmed oysters and grape sauce, bread and butter etc. after which I took my turn at the washing machine. Clyde has gone to Frost's Pond to skate. Irving and Margaret have gone up to Hiram Able's place to slide down hill back of the house, Ruth and Raymond are in bed and Pierpont is still up and running about feeling good. Clyde and Irving have returned and have been having trouble about the lantern. Irving took it to Able's to see to slide down hill and set it at a turn in the path where they were sliding. They also had another lantern up the hill. Clyde and Willie Couklin{??} wanted the lantern to see to skate with and Clyde came and took it and went to Frost's Pond with it. Irving and Vernum{??} Able went to the pond and watching their chance, jumped out of the darkness and grabed {grabbed} it and ran to Able's. Clyde and Willie followed after a time but Vernum heard them coming and blew he light out and hid the lantern in the backhouse. Clyde got Able's lantern and ran but had to bring it back. After a time they found out{???} lantern but it was so late they had to come home and they were complaining of each other and both were mad. 01\25\{1898} (Tuesday) This day has been cold and damp and about quarter past six o'clock it began to snow. I sawed wood all the forenoon for George Alexander and ground bone for A.B. Pierpont. Mr. Mashier called this afternoon and told me that they expected to have the trolley cars running to Mill Plain sometime this season. I sent Irving to Luther Bradley's with 16 lbs. of ground bone. Robbie Hall stayed to supper, had biled {boiled??} eggs, bread and butter. Mary had been ill to day with the sick headache and Cara came and did the work. Mary is better this evening. This evening Robert Warden came and left three of his boys while he and his wife went to town. The boys went to Frost's Pond to skate but it snowed so hard that they had to come home, after which they cracked some walnuts and had walnuts and apples and played games till Mr. Warden came. Went to bed at ten o'clock. 01\26\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning it was cold and snowy. The snow lay on the ground about 5 inches deep. I hitched up into the horse sled and drove around by Mill Plain to help make a path for the children to go to school. Stopped at Mr. Tucker's and carried him to the shop. On the was we saw that Mr. Lewis Beckwith had the frame of his new house up, had six men working on it yesterday. This noon I drove to the chapel and made the fires and got it ready for the meeting this evening, then came home and had dinner of cold sparerib potatoes and bread and butter. On my way back to the shop I stopped at the Mattatuck shop and left a bill with Mr. Tucker, which he said he would have paid in two or three days. This evening we went to the supper and entertainment at the Chapel. There was a large attendence considering the snow. The supper was good, but I did not have any. The entertainment consisted of a child's play called lyy{??} lo land in which Margaret Miller, Jennie Squires and Flossy{??} Able took part, also music by Miss Amelia Burnhart on banjo, Miss Fannie Porter on banjo, Miss Nellie Porter on banjo and Miss Iva Miller (my sister) on the piano. The older Miss Fannie Porter gave a recitation and Miss Baldwin sang a solo {????} the entertainment was concluded by music by the Misses Burnhart, Porters and Miller. The ladies cleared over nine dollars off from the supper, now to bed at twelve o'clock. I might add that Mary took the horse and pung{??} and went to East Farms this noon and got Mother Pierpont and Mrs. Warden and some cake from Mrs. Milan Northrop and cake and biscuit from Miss Hattie Pierpont, Mrs. Warden and Mother Pierpont brought provisions, in all it was a large load. She took it to the Chapel, on the way she took in Mrs. Hiram Able and more cake and children (all ready she had her own two two, Pierpont and Raymond) so that load helped to fill up the Chapel treasury. 01\27\{1898} (Thursday) More cold weather this morning. Started for the shop at 7 o'clock and Pierpont walked down and had Harry Kilbourn make a little wagon for him. Burt Frisbie came this morning to have me fix his ox sled and told me that Frank C. Chipmous'{??} father has come home after being away over 30 years. Pierpont brought my dinner to me. Clyde got home from school at about three o'clock on account of the teacher, Miss Whitean being sick. He had to go to FredWood's for hay and I rode to the trolley cars and went to see the Rev. Dr. Anderson about preaching at the Chapel Sunday. He sold me the history of the Souldiers {Soldiers} Monument which he wrote himself. Came home and after supper, Mary, Mother Pierpont and myself went to the Grange, Joe Huey brought a note from Mr. Tucker saying that he wanted to see me soi a recess I went over and stayed till quarter to ten. When I went back again and got the women and drove home, it was snowing some, to bed at 11 o'clock. The piano was taken from the Chapel to day. 01\28\{1898} (Friday) The weather this evening was cold. After breakfast of cold ham, potatoes, bred {bread} etc. I went to work, rode to the shop with Dick Morgan who was coming to town with celery, etc. Elmer Hitchcock came to the shop and had two cards{?} of wood sawed{??}. I put iron shoes on the horse stead for Frank Lackhart who is drawing ice. Mr. Emmaus who drives Frank Lackhart's team said that yesterday he killed three musk rats on the ice pond. The spring holes are all frozen over and the rats have to run from the overflow to the head of the pond where the brook comes in and while they are running he chases them and kills them. Dr. C. Art Ward had sleigh shaft repaired this forenoon. This afternoon I {????} took Mother Pierpont home. In the evening Mother and Cara called at our house. Clyde and Irving cracked some walnuts. I wrote a letter to Lizzie Warner asking her to go to Father's to practice a duet with Cara to play at the Chapel. It is cold now, 10 o'clock, 2 above zero. To bed. 01\29\1898 (Saturday) This morning was cold. The thermometer stodd at two above zero. Went to work at 7 o'clock. Clyde and I went to town this forenoon and I went to the Waterbury National Bank to get a check cashed and Clyde got the oysters and crackers for breakfast also one set of horse shoes. Came to Fred Wood's place and got a horse sled which he wished me to make over. Came home to dinner. Clyde carried me back to the shop and then he went to Mr. Norman's shop and got .50 cts. which he owed me thence to Earnest Robinson's house and told them that Doctor Anderson was to preach at the Chapel tomorrow, and then to Mark Warner's and gave my letter to Miss Lizzie who said she would come to my Father's Tuesday evening to practice on the piano. I left the shop to come home at five o'clock and met Clyde and Irving coming with the horse and bob sleigh after me. Clyde and I came home and Irving went to town afoot to carry a dressed rooster to Miss Pickett, the dress maker. To day has been very cold. The thermometer stood at two degrees above zero at 6 o'clock to night, now at nine it is 6 above and looks like storm. To bed at 9 o'clock. Wm. Norman moved his machinery out of the old tannery building, had three or four od Ralph Blakeslee's teams and moved it to the cars on the Meriden Rail Road at Silver Street. Is going to take it to Thompsonville. 01\30\1898 (Sunday) To day is Sunday and the weather is very cold. This morning we lay in bed till after 9 o'clock not feeling very lively owing to my lame foot and to a hard cold I have had for several days. The thermometer has not reached a point above 12 degrees above zero during the day and at half past six this morning it was 10 below. We went to the Chapel this morning and got the fires ready and warmed it up, at one Mr. Tucker came and took me to ride in his sleigh which he bought in Montreal. We went to East Farms and from thence to Woodtick and back to the Chapel where we attended service, the Rev. Dr. Anderson preaching, there was a good attendence considering the cold weather. It was 2 below zero at six in the evening. After supper, I went to Mr. Tuckers and we read Peyp's {Pepy's} Diary about the coming restoration of King Charles the Second in 1660. Towards ten we (him and I) went to bed, we got up at five in the morning and I came home. My wife did not like it because I stayed all night, because she slept so cold, said her feet had not been warm since yesterday. At ten last night when Mary came home from father's, the thermometer was 13 below zero. 01\31\1898 (Monday) When I got home from Major Tucker's this morning the thermometer was at zero and it had been snowing since five o'clock. After breakfast went to work. Came home to dinner, it snowing all the time. Pierpont went back with me and staid all the afternoon and came to supper with me, had boiled cold canned beef{??} and bread for dinner and a pot roast and baked potatoes for supper. It has snowed all day but the snow is but about five inches deep on the ground now. Bessie Miles went to work in the Mattatuck shop to day sticking safety pins on apers. Each paper holds twelve pins and they earn one cent for sticking twelve papers. But small as this seems, some of the girls earn one dollar and fifty cent sper day. To bed at 9.30 o'clock. 02\01\1898 (Tuesday) It snowed all night and the wind blew a gale and this morning the snow was about twelve inches deep on the level and drifted bad. We had breakfast of pancakes after which Clyde and I hitched Old Jack into the sled and went around by Mill Plain to break the roads out. Stopped at Major Tucker's and he got on the sled and rode to his shop. Clyde and I went to Father's where we found him digging out. Cousin Mary Goldsmith was there having stayed all night and was in a worried state of mind because she could not get to her school upon East Mountain. I told her i would carry her up on the sled if she would ride that way which she seemed much pleased to do so after she had had her breakfast and I had drank a cup of hot coffee, we started. Wm. Peck came for Father, just as we started with a team, and carried him to the East Mills to work, so we had the benefit of his trade that far after which we had to make our own path till we struck the Prospect Road. When we got to the School House it was drifted in, the drifts being about five feet deep and she could not get in. It was useless to dig out as it was still snowing and blowing and was very cold and the paths would soon fill up so she concluded to come back home again as no scholars could get to school and she could not teach. On our way down the mountain we met some of the fisherman going to the City reservoir to fish, the Water Commissioner having granted permits and this is the first day. One load passed us going to town which had stayed on the pond all nigh that they could have the first chance and began fishing at midnight. They were a snowy, frozen looking set, all of them. At the foot of the mountain we turned to the right and came across the Harper Ferry Road at the head of the pond (Brass Mill). We made the first track through to Frank D. Casse's{??} house. I got to the shop at 9 o'clock. I heard to day that Bessie Miles did not go to work in the shop yesterday as her mother would not let her. Heard to day that Mrs. Thornbury was going to give up her school in Mill Plain and going to New Haven to teach. This will please a good many of the people as she is not as good a teacher as we have been in the habit of having. Came round by Mill Plain, home tonight, it was very cold. To bed at nine. 02\02\{1898} (Wednesday) Got up at 4.15 this morning, built the fires and wrote a letter to cousin Clarissa Curtis of Stratford about the information I wish to obtain in regard to the Somers family. After a breakfast of pan cakes and molasses, I went to work. This fore noon Major Tucker sent for me to come to his shop as he wished to see me about the Chapel Fair. Pierpont brought my dinner to me but I had to take it home again as I had to go there after my team to get freight from the depot. Hear to day that John Mariaty{??} made and assignment to Robert Lowe. Had a letter from brother Fred of Detroit saying that a large party had left there for the Klondike region in Alaska to dig gold. Clyde, Mary and myself went to Major Tucker's to rig Clyde and Harrice out like Indians to see goods at the Chapel Fair. To bed at 10.30. 02\03\{1898} (Thursday) To day has been the coldest day I ever knew, I think. The thermometer this morning stood 22 degrees below zero and no time has it been above 20 above and tonight it was 18 below. We have fine sleighing. This morning went to the shop. The large rubber reclaiming shop in Nangatuck was burned night before last. It was a building 400 feet long and 75 ft. wide and 4 stories high built of brick three years ago, loss over 500,000 dollars. To night went to the Grange. The thermometer was 10 below zero when we started. I sent a letter to Mrs. Irving Prier by Mr. Schmit asking her to recite at the Chapel Fair next Tuesday evening. To bed at eleven. 02\04\1898 (Friday) This morning the thermometer registered four degrees above zero. There is about eighteen inches of snow on the ground and sleighing is exellent, has been cold all day. To night the thermometer was 10 below zero. After breakfast I went to mother's and wrote a notice to be published in the Waterbury American that the Mill Plain Chapel was to have a Fair next Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Went to see Mrs. George Hitchcock this noon. Mr. Tucker carried me there. Mrs. Hitchcock says that Fannie can take the part of a squaw at the fair. This evening went to a meeting at Mr. Tucker's of those interested in the Fair. Took in Mr. and Mrs Able on the way. Went to see Mr. B. Franklin Haggett about a show case and also to get him to help make the booths at the Chapel Monday evening. Left Mr. Tucker's for home at 10 o'clock. To bed at 10.30, tied and weary with this day's toil and chilled with the cold. 02\05\{1898} (Saturday) This morning was cold but not as cold as yesterday morning. The thermometer was four above zero. By noon it was warm and the sun shown bright. In the afternoon it began to rain and has rained and thawed ever since. This morning Mr. Tucker called and carried me to the shop. I sent Clyde out with a lot of bills to collect. Clyde brought me home to dinner. The Warden boys were here to dinner but did not eat till after I was through and gone to the shop. This afternoon Clyde went to Wolcott to collect bills, had but little success. The piano arrived at the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Porter bought it in New York (with the Chapel's money). It is an Estey and they say it is fine. Mr. Porter and Miss Bradley called on me and charged me not to let the children put their fingers on it, and to keep the cloth cover on it and to remove the cover so that people may see it tomorrow. After work Mr. Tucker brought me home where I found Mr. Warden who had called to see me about the programme for the Chapel fair. After supper Clyde and Irving went to town to get the goods for tomorrow morning's breakfast and do other errands. 02\06\{1898} (Sunday) Got up at seven o'clock this morning and took my bath. The sun rose clear and warm which melted the snow very fast. After breakfast Clyde, Irving and myself went to the Chapel and got it ready for the service. The new piano was there. It is a very nice {???}, "oak case" Estey make. Came home and went to work on the Indian wig that Clyde is to wear at the Chapel Fair, after which I went to the Chapel service. Got there at about ten minutes before the meeting closed. Sent Clyde and Howard Neil over to Southington to get a lot of Indian relics which Howard had. After supper I went to Mr. Tucker's and stayed till eleven o'clock, {?????} home the moon shining bright. 02\07\{1898} (Monday) Got to the washing as soon as possible and to the shop at noon. I sent George Hine to brother Frank's in Simonsville with Clyde to get his flint {????} musket to have on exhibition at the Chapel Fair. Telephoned to Ed Todd in Mill Dale but could not get him. Went to the chapel to help get ready for the fair which begins tomorrow evening. 02\08\{1898} (Tuesday) To day the weather is quite warm, every thing is hurry and bustle in preparation for the fair. This noon Cara and I went to the Chapel and it took us till near six at evening to get my show case ready. The fair in the evening was a success. There was a large number of people present and they nettted about fifty eight dollars. The supper was well patronized but the price charged was too low, being ten cents. The literary programme was in the charge of Mr. Warden and myself and was as follows. The first number was music on the new piano by Mrs. Bavier{??}, then a violin solo by Miss Ruth Blair, next a duet by Miss Fannie Morris and Miss {---------} Next a short sketch entitled "Coming{??} to Woo" by Miss Mamy{??} Gearing, Miss Hattie Murry and Harry L. Merrill which was very amusing, also a song by Mrs. W.S. Rogers who was accompanied by her daughter Miss Sallie Rogers. During the singing of this last piece, as Sally was reaching towards the end of the piano with both hands, the top of the piano stool toppled over and she fell to the floor, which caused some confusion for a few minutes, but I got the organ stool and she went at it again. I stayed to night in the Chapel there being a great value of goods there which the people though needed protection. Mr. Tucker stayed with me. We took the blankets and robes for the fortune tellers tent and made a bunk on the platform and went to slleep but the fire went out and I had to get up { ? ? ? ? ?} rebuild it so I was awoke most of the night. 02\09\{1898} (Wednesday) Went to work to day. The weather was warm and sleighing is fast disappearing. Went to the Chapel this evening at about 5.30 o'clock. There was a large crowd there, so large that had many more come they would have had to been packed so close that there would not have been breathing room. Every thing passed off quietly and all had a good time, except Miss Bradley who was jealous because she could not run everything as she wished and she tried to make all the trouble she could. In spite of her efforts, the fair was a success and they netted a little over one hundred dollars. The entertainment of which Mr. Warden and myself had in charge consisted of, first a piano solo by Miss Burrett, second a recitation by Mrs. Irving Prier, 3rd music on mandolin and piano by Mr. and Mrs {------}, fourth a recitation by Miss Buchannan, fifth a tambourine drill by a number of young ladies of the Waterville school. I gathered some of my things and came home and to bed at two o'clock in the morning. 02\10\{1898} (Thursday) This day has been a tired and painful one for me. My foot pained me so I could not work this afternoon very much. The weather has been fine and warm. Went to the Chapel this noon and again this evening and removed some of the stuff away. The ladies have cleaned it out and put things to rights for which I am very thankful, to bed at nine. 02\11\1898 (Friday) This was a very foggy morning and remained damp and cool most of the day. I drove to the shop and sent Harry Kilbourn to town to get some lumber. After he had gone, Thomas Heaton came with his wagon to be repaired. Mr. Daniel G. Porter called to see me about the new piano in the Chapel. Mr. Tucker called to see if I knew of any young man in this part of the town whom he could get to work at press work. He told me to call and see hime at noon. I went and gave James Porter his Indian spear heads, also his Indian gouge{?} and talked with him some time, after which I went to dinner, after which Mary carried me to the Mattatuck shop where I saw Mr. Tucker, and he said that he had a job at press work where he could pay from one to two dollars a per day and asked me if it was any thing that I would think of. I told him that it was but that I would like a little time to think it over, to which he agreed. Worked in shop all afternoon, and walked home at night. Mary sent Pierpont home with Grandma after which she drove to town and got home at about six o'clock. Had supper of canned lobster. After supper, Clyde, Irving and myself paired and sliced half a bushel of apples while Mary read in "Little Women" to the children. My foot is very painful. Mr. William Norman moved away from the Dolittle place yesterday to Thompsonville, this state. Fred Woods told me that he went away and left unpaid to him a coal bill of one hundred dollars. I am told he has not paid his shop rent for two months and is behind on the house rent. I am glad he is gone for I think him a hardened villain. It is my opinion that he set the shear{??} shop on fire as suspicion points that way and Fred Brainard told me that "he done it by God just as true as I stand here". He was standing in front of my shop door at the time and I noted it in my last year's diary of that date. 02\12\{1898} (Saturday) To day has been a damp foggy one. At breakfast I took a strong drink of boneset{??} tea to cure my cold. Irving drove me to the shop. This forenoon Mr. Tucker came for me to come to the Mattatuck shop to move out four safety pin machines and to bring a boy. Walked home which was very hard as the road was slippery and I was very lame. After dinner, went to the Mattatuck shop and had George Hine help me take down the pin machine which the company has sold. Mr. Tucker told me that he had told Mr. Judd that I was coming to work for them, said that Mr. Judd was well pleased. Recived {Received} a letter to day from Mr. D. G. Porter in which he stated that he had caused the removal of the seat on the west side of the Chapel. He has done it against the desires of the Chapel committee. Clyde went to town tonight for oysters for breakfast. Mr. Warden called to see me about the Gropaphone{??} entertainment to be held at the Chapel next Friday evening. To bed at nine. 02\13\{1898} (Sunday) This day is the Sabbath and I did not hurry to get up, started to about seven o'clock and put my truss{??} on, but my wife played about me so affectionelly {affectionately} that I went back to bed with her and lay till nine o'clock when I got up and got the rest up. I kindled the fire and cooked the oysters and sat down to breakfast when Major Tucker called and wished me to go out to Mother Pierpont's after some apple with him. When we came back he carried me to the Chapel (whither the boys had all ready gone) to get it ready for the service. After we came home I shaved and got washed up and wrote a notice to be read in the Chapel in regards to the Graphaphone{??} entertainment to be given in the Chapel next Friday evening. Then Mary and I went to the Chapel and heard Dr. Rooland read the Episcopal service and preach a very good sermon. Came home and had a supper of chicken and then went to Mr. Tucker's where I stayed till eleven o'clock when I came home across lots, found the way very dark. Mr. Tucker told me that he intended me to take charge of the upper floor in the Mattatuck shop and to get ready soon as posible so good night at 12 o'clock. Margin between two pages: We played "Hunt the Thimble" and had ice cream. Very elegant. 02\14\{1898} (Monday) Arose a half past five this morning. The sun came out bright and the day seemed as if it would be a fair one, but it rew dull towards noon and soon it rained, afterwards turned to snow and sleet. I went to work at the Mattatuck shop this morning taking out the safety pin machines. After we had got them to the lower floor we went to work packing the pins that were made and packed about twenty four hundred pounds in barrels, this together with what was in the boxes made about thirty six hundred pounds which we took down the elevator. Came home to dinner and had Pierpont drive me back to my own shop where we repaired M. Simpkin's buggy after which we (George and I) went again to the Mattatuck shop and finished packing pins, wire etc. Then we went back to my own shop and had not been there long when Charlie Hotchkiss brought a note from Mr. Tucker asking for one or two boys to help load freight. I sent George Hine over. Arthur Merriman of Southington called and paid me what he owed me. Clyde brought me ten dollars from Adam Faber of Waterville which I very much needed. I in turn paid it to Harry Kilbourn as a part of his wages due. Horice{??} Tucker invited Clyde, Irving, Margaret and Ruth to his house to spend the evening, it being his birth day. He is twelve years old to day. To bed at 8 o'clock. 02\15\{1898} (Tuesday) This morning was bright and fair but during the forenoon the weather grew dull and rain and snow this afternoon. Wrote a letter this morning to Mary Goldsmith asking her to have her scholar's sell tickets for the Phonograph entertainment to be given in the Chapel next Friday evening. And also asking her to recite a piece on Washington's birthday night. This morning Mr. Tucker called and asked me if Harry Kilbourn would come to work for him at $1.25 per day. I asked Harry and he wants till morning to think it over. 02\16\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning the snow had fallen to the depth of three inches by daylight and the weather was cold and the wind blew a gale which had continued all day. Towards night the weather grew clder till it became one of the owrst nights known in this section. Wrote a letter to Charles S. Gillette of Cheshire about the card that I am building for him. This evening Howard Neil called at our house. 02\17\{1898} This morning the thermometer registered 4 degrees above zero, and the wind blew very hard. Traveling is exceedingly bad on account of the weather and drifts. I heard this morning that the new United States Man of War ship Maine was blown up at 10 o'clock Tuesday evening in the harbor of Havanna, Cuba; 233 men lost their lives. I {???} the Spainards have done it which I think them mean enough to do. I hope they will have to suffer. Col. Phillips of Pittsfield is to give a grapophone entertainment in the Chapel tomorrow evening, and Clyde and I went to night and got the Chapel ready from thence we went to see Mr. Warden and found him recovering from sickness which is the reason why I have not seen him before. 02\18\{1898} (Friday) This morning was warm and pleasant but after noon the weather changed and it began to rain and snow so that the evening wet and unpleasant. Mr. Warden went to the New England Depot and met Col. Phillips who was to give the entertainment at the Chapel this evening. Mother kindly kept him over night. To bed at 12. 02\19\{1898} (Saturday) This morning was fair, arose a quarter to six, had bacon and boiled eggs. Went to the shop at 7 o'clock. Clyde came at 10 minutes to eight and took the team and carried Colonel Phillips to the New England Rail Road station to take the train to Cheshire via Plainville where he is to give an entertainment this evening. Came home to dinner of bacon and potatoes. Found that the boys had split a good pile of wood so I let them go to East Farms to play with the Warden boys. Went to the Chapel to night in the rain to practice for a drill to be given next Wednesday evening. Sent my team with Clyde after the girls who were to take part in the drill. They were Lena Hurlbert, Ida Spender, Fannie Hitchcock, Clara French, Cara French, Elsie French, Dolly Marrow, Margaret Miller and Ruth Miller, Olive Able. Stayed till 10 o'clock, had Clyde carry the girls home and then we came home, it raining very hard. To bed at 12. 02\20\{1898} (Sunday) This has been one of worst days that I have ever seen, as regards the weather. Rain, snow, sleet and cold have prevailed all day and night. There was no service at the Chapel, only six or seven persons being there. I in the evening went to Major Tucker's to spend the evening, but the weather being bad I stayed all the night and came home at 6.30 in the morning, it still raining hard. A curious incident happened to me last evening. As I was going to bed, my rupture slipped out and I could not get it back again. After trying for some time and failing, Mr. Tucker went for Dr. Ward but while he was gone it slipped back again much to my relief and joy. The disaster which befell the Maine man of war last Tuesday when she sunk and 265 perished seems to be uppermost in the minds of the people and many think that it will result in war with Spain. 02\21\1898 (Monday) Wet and stormy all day and night. On the ills the trees are ladened with ice which the oldest inhabitant says he never saw equaled before. In many places the roads were impassable on account of the fallen trees, orchards are ruined in many instances and maple, elm and ever hickory are broken to pieces. In the valleys near the streams there is no ice at all, but above a certain level, it begins and the higher up one goes the thicker it becomes. Went to the Chapel to night to practice for the exercises on Washington's birthday evening. (I should say the evening of the 23rd). To bed at 12 o'clock. 02\22\{1898} (Tuesday) It has rained and snowed all day, mud very deep. Busy as I can be making preparations for the Chapel entertainment to morrow evening. Rufus Carley called and got a Drum Corps uniform for Mr. Humphrey, also Mr. George Thompkins called and borrowed another. They are to use them at the old fashioned supper to be given at the Second Congregational Church this evening in honor of Washinton's birth day. 02\23\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning was wet and more mud than I have ever seen before in this locality. There is not a whole tree left standing in Ed Todd's or the Barnes' peach orchards owing to the ice storm of Sunday. Mrs. Rev.{??} Philipps{??} of Prospect measured the circumference of the ice on a twig the size of a lead pencil and it was 18 inches. Great damage is reported from the hills of Wolcott, Prospect, Watertown, and Waterbury. This evening we gave the entertainment at the Chapel in honor of Washington's birthday. It was well attended and a great success, many said the best entertainment ever given in the Chapel. The programme consisted of, 1. Song, Red White and Blue, 2. Recitation by Margaret Miller, Entitled Feb. 22nd, 3. Patriotic Recitation by Mary Goldsmith 4. Song, Star-Spangled Banner, by Mrs. Rogers, 5. Recitation, Washington, by Helen Rogers, 5. March and dramatic sketch, entitled Washington's Birthday, 6. Recitation by myself entitled Washington's Birthday, 7. Song, Yankee Doodle. To bed at 12.30 o'clock. 02\24\{1898} (Thursday) To day the sun has shown and the weather had been fair which we appreciate as it is so long since I have seen the sun before. Last night I caught a bad cold which had made me feel bad to day. This evening Mary went to the Grange but I stayed home and went to bed at 8 o'clock. 02\25\{1898} (Friday) To day I took the signs down from the front of my shop. Miles Payne called to see me about buying a lot of stock{??} that I have on hand. Grandma Pierpont is with us to day. She told us that Hattie Pierpont has gone in to town to board till the first of June. 02\26\{1898} (Saturday) To day has been damp and cool. Sun shone some. Mr. Clark's barn burned last night. Mr. Clark lives on the Woodtick Road above Ashton's Corner. 02\27\{1898} (Sunday) Got up at 8 o'clock this morning. Had breakfast of oysters, after which Clyde and Irving and myself went to the Chapel and got it ready for service. George Somers called to see us. He hopes that there will be war with Spain. Many seem anxious for war but I hope that I may not see it, but no one know what the result of the sinking of the Maine man of war in the harbor of Havanna may be. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and heard the Rev. Dr. Davenport deliver a discourse on Abraham Lincoln which seemed very appropriate as the 12th of this month was the anniversary of his birth. Also he held the executive office of the Nation previous to the war of the Rebellion, and as many now think that we are now on the verge of war. He (Mr. Davenport) made it seem very interesting. There was a large attendence at the Chapel considering that the traveling was very bad, on account of the mud. 02\28\{1898} (Monday) To day the weather has been damp and raw, most everybody has colds. The ice has disappeared from most of the ponds, and the icemen are very blue as they have gathered only about half a crop and many of the ice houses are empty. Mr. Theodore Patchen moved to town to day from Mr. Zenas{??} Bowen's place above the red bridges on the Woodtick road near the Mad River. Will Blewitt will move in soon. 03\01\1898 (Tuesday) The weather to day has been good considering that it is the first of March. Went to night and cleaned out the Chapel cellar and then sent the keys to Dexter Northrop who is to be the janitor in the future. This morning the dwelling houses of Charles E. Smith and George E. Benedict situated on Highland Avenue on Town{??} Plot{??} were burned to the ground. The fire started in the cellar of Mr. Smith's house, and the crackling of the flames awoke the family and they has barely time to escape in their night clothes. The flames from the Smith house set the Benedict house on fire and that in turn ignited Mrs. Cowen's house but the firemen saved that with the chemical engine. The Benedicts saved most of their furniture, but the Smith's lost most of all. Mr. Warden told me that he intends to resign from the Chapel Committee, also from the Entertainment Committee of the Ladies Union. I hope he will not. It is all on account of the piano trouble. 03\02\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been very good considering the time of year. Told Mr. Able of Mr. Warden's intended resignation. He thinks that every endeavor should be made to keep him on till the end of the year. Mr. Warden called in the evening and he is a little undecided whether to resign or not. 03\04{03}\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day has been fine and clear although there was about one inch of snow on the ground which fell last night, but it had all gone before noon. I received two envelopes from brother Fred who is in Detroit containing newspaper pictures of the wrecked Maine in Havanna harbourm also war vessels, guns, arms etc. In the evening Mary went to the Grange but I stayed at home as I was very tired and wished to put in a good day's work tomorrow. When my wife got home from the Grange, she was greatly excited because her brother Wilson L. Pierpont (who is Master of the Grange) and his wife Annie (who is Secretary of the Grange) were in their respective places when she got there, after a time recess was declared and she did not see Wilson or Annie again, but just before the Grange closed a note was received by the acting Secretary which stated that the Master and Secretary had a new ten pound son. 03\04\{1898} (Friday) This morning after a breakfast of bread and milk I went to work, Irving carried me down to the shop. At noon Pierpont brought my dinner to me. We have worked all day on Mr. Gillete's double dump cart. The weather has been cloudy all day till about 4 o'clock, it began to snow and now it is snowing hard and the wind blowing hard also. Went to bed at 9 o'clock. 03\05\{1898} (Saturday) Got up this morning a little before six, had breakfast of boiled beans, got to the shop before seven and worked as hard as we could all day on Mr. Gillette's cart but did not get it finished. Clyde worked in the shop to day. Sent Irving down town to Fred Wood's this forenoon after a bail of hay and to Hemingway's this afternoon after a quart of oysters and three pounds of crackers. Sent Clyde up to Charlie Moshier's to see about a banjo club that he had spoken of coming to the chapel to play next Wednesday evening. Charlie said that two of the young men would come and bring their young ladies with them and wished us to meet them at Haden Street. I saw by the paper to day that three men are to start for Klondike Country from here next Monday to dig for gold. I would like to note here what is termed a "good joke" and one of those jokes which was practices{??}, I remember when I was a small boy while the war of the Rebellion was in progress. Billy White lives with his wife and four children in a shanty like house in the lots west of the West Wolcott Road back of the residence of Truman Kilbourn. They are simple minded people and do not know of our nation's present trouble with Spain. Last Thursday afternoon two young men of the neighborhood disguised themselves and went to Billy's house and knocked at the door. Mrs. White came and they asked if Mr. White was in. She said that he was away at work. They then told her (one of them) them he was Mr. Moor and was a recruiting officer for the government from New Haven and that Billy had been drafted and they were after him. She swore at them and said, you can't have him. They said two of Mr. Kilbourne's sons were going and that John Gallagher was going to be Captain. She was frightened and said, you shan't have my Billy. Just then her boy, a lad of twelve, came round the corner of the house and they said they wanted that boy. She said, you shan't {??} my boy and she pushed him into the house and shut the door while she scolded like a tiger. The boys went away that they would give her till Monday to get ready, and then they would come after them. After they had gone, she went to see Mr. Gallagher and found him already gone away. This {??????} the climax and she went about the neighborhood bemoaning her faith and heaping curses upon the head of that d---{???} Republican President McKindley of Connecticut who was going to take her Billy away from her and oblige her to go out at house work to earn a living. 03\06\{1898} (Sunday) Got up very tired this morning. After breakfast of stewed oysters, Clyde went to the Chapel to show Dexter Northrop about taking care of it. I spent my time in reading and cleaned the cellar some, took my bath and wrote the following note for the Chapel Committee to sign: To the Officers and Members of the Ladies Union of Mill Plain Chapel We the undersigned Committee of Mill Plain Chapel Society, having the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) which we wished used towards the purchase of a carpet for the Chapel, respectfully gequest that you obtain samples and prices of such carpets as you think most fitting for the Chapel. And after the cost has been obtained, we will endeavor to procure the balance needed, if it cannot be raised otherwise. Signed, Robert K. Warden Luther Bradley Mark L. Warner Charles S. Miller I took this document together with my own bill of $10.00 for janitor service and left them with Mrs. Annie Munson who is Secretary of the Ladies Union. Went to the Chapel at three o'clock. Mr. Nichols preached. Collected $1.58, had a fair attendence. In the evening I went to Mr. Tucker's where I stayed till 10 o'clock. When I came home he came with me across the lots, it being bright as day. 03\07\{1898} (Monday) Worked hard all day. Nothing worthy of note happened that I know of. 03\08\{1898} (Tuesday) To day the weather has been fine. One every hand we hear war talk and all are greatly excited because the government has appropriated $50,000,000 for cost defense. 03\09\1898 (Wednesday) This morning I was awakened by the fire whistle blowing three, which met{????} exchange place. I looked out the window then looked at the clock and saw that it was quarter past one o'clock. Soon after, I heard another alarm which meant a large fire, and called out the whole fire department. I awoke Mary and we looked out of the window and saw a red spot on the clouds and soon heard an explosion and immediately the whole heavens were illuminated as if by magic. I called the boys to look at it, and Margaret, Ruth and Pierpont got up. There was another explosion and up went a shower of sparks. It looked as if the whole City was on fire. I was at a loss to know where the fire was and as Clyde wanted to go and find out, so I told him and Irving to take their wheels and ride in and see where the fire was and then come and tell us. They were gone about two hours. They told us that it was Trott's Bakery on Spring Street, a three story brick building and that the explosions were caused by gas which they used in making soda water. In the morning I learned that the {????} was $50,000.00 and that 1,500 barrels of flour were lost. The firemen had a hard time to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings. The cause of the fire was as follows, In one of the upper stories near the elevator shaft was located the kettel {kettle} where they boiled the doughnuts and they had had a fire under it and a boy attending. The boy went away, the grease boiled over, took fire and ignited the wood work and thence the fire. I have almost forgotten whether I had any breakfast, can't tell of what it consisted. Pierpont brought my dinner to me at the shop. Worked hard all day finishing up work and cleaning out the shop. Had dried boiled peas for supper, and then went to the Chapel to the Supper and entertainment given by the Ladies Union of Mill Plain. The supper consisted of oysters cooked in various ways for which a charge of 20 cts. was charged. Then entertainment consisted of 1. Recitation by Arthur Heaton, 2. Violin Solo by Mr. Stoton, Miss Edith Burnett accompanying him on the piano, 3. Messers Sincaster and Leonard on Mandolin and Guitar, 5. Recitation by George Byam, 6. Recittion Mrs. J. G. Byam. The musicians were recalled several times. When we came home we brought Mrs. Able and Mrs. Morrow with us in the wagon, it being very muddy. To bed at 11.30 o'clock. 03\10\{1898} (Thursday) To day the weather has been fine, got up at 6 o'clock and wrote the following notice for publication in this evening's American. The Supper and Entertainment given by the Ladies Union of Mill Plain Chapel last evening was a decided success. The entertainment program was a{??} very pleasing and well received. Mr. Staton's violin solo was som much appreciated that he was recalled and responded with other selections. Miss Edith Burrett was his accompanist. The selections rendered by Messers Sincaster and leonard on mandolin and guitar received a warm encore and they responded with other fine selections. The recitations by Master George Byam was warmly applauded as were the others of Arthur Heaton and Mrs. Byam. Mary or{??} I did not go to the Grange. 03\11\{1898} (Friday) Mr. Phalen of Long and Phalen called this afternoon to see me about renting my shop, told him that I would rent it for $25.00 per month and he could make what he could off from that. We agreed to rent it for $30.00, he to have $5.00 and I $25.00, he to do all the business, sell the stock tool etc. at an inventory price and turn the money over to me. 03\12\{1898} (Saturday) This forenoon I sent a note to Mr. Tucker asking him how his neck was, as he had a carbuncle, he sent word by Irving to have me come and {???} care of him for the night. I went and found that Dr. Axtelle and Anderson had cut it open in the morning. I waited on him during the night. He was out of his head the early part owing to the ether he had taken but was not rational the last part. I would note here that I worked this forenoon in my own shop and I expect it is the last half day's work that I will do for customers as I expect to go to work for the Mattatuck Company next Monday. 03\13\{1898} (Sunday) I stayed with Mr. Tucker to day which is Sunday. Had breakfast with the family. John and Ed Pierpont called in the afternoon, as did Mr. Otis Northrop also at evening. Mr. Tucker is getting along very good. 03\14\{1898} (Monday) Had breakfast at Mr. Tucker's this morning, after which I went to my shop and hung up Mr. Lawlor's, Mr. Tucker's Arthur Pierpont's and Dr. Ward's wagons. At half past twelve I went to work at the Mattatuck Shop at setting up machinery and doing other odd jobs. In the evening I went to Major Tucker's and dressed his neck. I would here note that as I was coming home from Mr. Tucker's I saw the Northern Lights shine brighter than I ever saw them before. They were in the shades of Blue, White and Red. It is an old saying that they are a sign of war and certainly they were bright enough to mean something. I have heard the Old Folks say that the year before the Civil War began they seen{??} frequent and of brighter hues than they have been seen since. Whether they are a sign of war or not, I think that was will soon be upon us. 03\15\{1898} (Tuesday) Went to work at the Mattatuck Shop this morning. This noon Joe Huey called me out of the shop after dinner and told me that Mr. Tucker wanted me to come to his house right away and fix the bandage on his head and neck. He had been to Dr. Axtelle just before noon and had it done up but it failed to stay. I put it on and it stayed all right. I went up again in the evening and stayed with him all night. In the morning he seemed much better. 03\16\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather has been fine today and the frogs can be heard peeping. They were first heard Sunday. Worked to day at the Mattatuck Shop. 03\17\{1898} (Thursday) The weather has been fine today. This noon Mr. Tucker asked me if Wilson Pierpont's wife was dead. He said that Mrs. Dickinson heard the little French girls ask Ausin{??} B. Pierpont how she was and he only said a few words and they {???} oh isn't it too bad, so she{???} judged that she was dead. I went and asked Paul Hesphelt and he said that she was. It seems that she died at about 8 o'clock this morning. She was 39 years old, the same age of myself. She leaves an infant child and six children. 03\18\{1898} (Friday) The weather has been fine today. They have appointed the funeral of Mrs. Wilson L. Pierpont to be held in the Chapel Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Irving took Dr. Ward's Phaeton Carriage home this morning. 03\19\{1898} (Saturday) The weather this morning was very dull and foggy and at about 9 o'clock it began to rain and continued to rain hard for about two hours and a half. I have worked about the Mattatuck shop at odd jobs all day, i.e. making a belt tighten, took down a countershaft and tightened a pulley on it, and worked making a bench in the blacksmith shop. Went down town this evening and got a pair of overalls for which I paid .40 cts. and also went to see Mr. Jones about the Insurance on my shop. Came home and went to bed at about half past ten. It soon began to lighten {lightning} and thunder and there was quite a shower, the first this year. 03\20\{1898} (Sunday) Got up at eight o'clock this forenoon and the boys and myself went to my shop where we stayed till about ten o'clock when we came home and had breakfast of stewed oysters after which I wrote and read till one o'clock when we got ready and went to the Chapel to Mrs. Wilson L. Pierpont's funeral. This I think was the longest funeral ever held in the Chapel, all the seats being filled as well as all of the standing room being taken and a great crowd outside who could not get in. Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church officiated. The pall bearers were Arden Coe John Gallagher, Arthur Pierpont, Thomas Melbourn, Harry Coe and John Todd. It was a grange funeral and the grangers came from neighboring towns. There must have been over 400 people present. After supper went to Major Tucker's. Had been there a short time and was sitting in his room up stairs reading, when we heard a loud noise in Mr. Parsley's room. Mr. Tucker knocked on the door and hearing nothing opened the door and looked in. He called us{??} in alarm and I went and we found Mr. Parsley (the school teacher) lying on the floor unconscious, the blood running from his mouth and nose. They called Dr. Ward soon as possible and it proved to be a fit. After about 15 minutes he recovered consciousness and we put him to bed. He seemed much better. I stayed with Mr. Tucker all night. 03\21\{1898} (Monday) Worked to day at the Mattatuck shop in the forenoon making a bench in the blacksmith shop. At noon Mr. Brower{??} came and we went to work making steel buttons on his new press, which strikes 116 times per minute and makes three buttons at every stroke or 348 buttons of steel per minute. The weather has been damp and it has snowed. 03\22\{1898} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been dull and it snowed very hard at noon. The old Hobert{?} Austin place at East Farms burned last night. It is supposed that it was set on fire. It was owned by Mrs. Margaret Bonette. Wrote a notice of the young men's supper to be given in the Chapel on Wednesday evening, to be published in the American. 03\23\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been better than yesterday, but still it was dull some of the time. Went to night to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment. There was a large crowd there. 03\24\{1898} (Thursday) Weather to day has been cool. Mr. Tucker told me today that Mr. Parsley is going to give up the school. He has rented a farm in Washington and is going farming. He is a fine teacher. Mary went to the Grange tonight. 03\25\{1898} (Friday) The weather to day has been fine and springlike. Bluebrids and robins have been singing, the grass is turning green and it now looks like an early spring. To night the young folks are having a dance at John French's and some of the older ones are having a party at Ed Todd's. Joe Huey has my horse and has taken Miss Fatem{??} and my sister Cara. Hiram Able called this evening and wanted to know what I though of Mark Warner and Miss Fatem{??} taking the money that Mrs. Phillips raised to buy books with to buy ice cream for the children the last day of school. I like to have the children have a good time, but think the books of more consequence. Mrs. Andrew Reid of Niagra Street was burned to death this afternoon, her dress catching from a bonfire in her garden. 03\26\{1898} (Saturday) The weather to day has been fine. The buds are bursting on my plum trees and trailing arbutus{??} is blossoming out. Great excitement prevails to day throughout the nation on account of the naval board's{????} report regarding the blowing up of the Maine Man-|of-|War in the harbor of Havanna by which 264 men lost their lives. The report was made public yesterday, and is to the effect that the Maine was blown up by a submarine mine and holds Spain responsiable {responsible}. Our government has requested Spain to withhold her torpedo flotilla now enroute from the Canary Islands to Cuba. This she has refused to do and war seems immediate. The Government is working night and day fortifying New York harbor and are going to erect batteries at New Haven and Bridgeport. Orders issued to day directing one old stile {style} moniter{??} to Portland, Me. and two to Boston. Mr. James Porter was 80 years old to day. 03\27\{1898} (Sunday) The weather to day has been fine and clear. Went to the Chapel. Dr. Davenport preached. There was a large attendence. 03\28\{1898} (Monday) Saw a rainbow in the West this morning while I was coming home from Mr. Tucker's where I stayed last night. 03\29\{1898} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been damp and rainy. Mr. Fred Parnclee{??}, agent for L.L. Ensworth called on me to day and I payed him five dollars on the account I owe Mr. Ensworth of Hartford. Mr. Warden and his wife called on me at my shop, (where I and the boys were sawing wood this evening) and told me that Mrs. Warden and my mother and Mrs. Meatt{??} had been to look at carpets for the Chapel. 03\30\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather this forenoon was wet but a noon it cleared up and was nice this afternoon. Mrs. Hattie Austin and Homer Twitchel were married to day, and have gone south on their wedding tour. He is about 74 years of age and she is 47. Mr. Warden called this evening and told me that he and his wife have been to town and bought the carpet for the Chapel. It cost 67 1\2 cts. a yard. 03\31\1898 (Thursday) It began snowing this morning at six o'clock and snowed till noon, when it cleared up and the sun came out bright. This evening it is growing colder. Had breakfast of codfish, then went to work. Mr. Leach came to work on the nail machines this morning in the place of Carlie Dec{??} who has got through. Dewitt Larahee{??} of Southington got through to day. Went to night to the Chapel to let in some men who were coming to measure the floor for the carpet. They were to be there at 8 o'clock , waited till half-past eight and they did not come. Then went to Mr. Rodier's with a petition to have the Traction Company extend their lines to the Grange Hall and he signed it, then went to Mr. Gallagher's, from thence to Mr. Hurlbert's, thence to Mr. Atkinson's thence to Mr Spender's, thence to Mr. Jones', thence home, and to bed at ten o'clock. 04\01\1898 (Friday) Got up at 5 o'clock. Breakfast of bacon and eggs. Weather to day has been clear and cool. Left the shop this afternoon and went to the factory of the Waterbury Brass Co. where I got sixteen names on the petition to have the trolley line extended, in the evening went with the petition to Mr. Augustus Moshier's and from thence to Mr. Theodore Munson's thence to Mrs. Charles Frost's and Warren Hitchcock's thence to John French's thence to Hiram Able's, thence to Walter Garrigus', thence Mr. Andrews, thence to Robert Hotchkiss on the Cheshire Road, thence to Mr. Lee's, thene to Robert Barrett's, thence to Mr. Andrew's at the Wedge Place, and Mr. Blackburn's thence to Morris Reid's, thence to Henry Wedge's, then home and to bed. 04\02\{1898} (Saturday) To day the weather was clear and cool this morning but at noon it began to rain and later it turned to snow. Clyde and Irving started at a little before seven this morning with their bycicles {bicycles} and went to East Farms where they met Mort Pierpont, Clarence Warden, Burt Pierpont and then they all went to Meriden thence to Chshire thence to Roaring Brook in Cheshire and from there home, the whole being 33 miles. 04\03\1898 (Sunday) To day the weather has been very cold. Frank and Mr. Lounsbury called to see me this afternoon. Had to act the part of janitor at the Chapel to day, as Dexter Northrop is sick. Went and stayed with Mr. Tucker tonight. 04\04\{1898} (Monday) The weather has been cold and damp all day. Went out this evening with the petition for the extension of the troley track. Went to George Johnson's first and thence to Frank Judd's, thence to Luther Bradley's, thence to John Reid's, thence to Mr. Rudolph's, thence to Mr. Hock's, thence to Prime Lyman's{??}, thence to Robin{??} Scott's (widow of Edward), thence to Wilson Pierpont's, thence to Charlie Brown's, thence to George Benham's, thence to Sidney Bronson's, thence to Robert Warden's, thence to Milan Northrop's, thence to Ed Wetton's and from thence home and to bed, having procured in all 206 names. 04\05\{1898} (Tuesday) It began snowing at about six o'clock this morning and has kept it up all day with much wind. 04\06\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been cold and disagreeable. It began snowing hard at about 5 o'clock this afternoon and continued about one hour. The papers stated to day that the Spaniards had a ship chase an English merchant vessel and fire on her, thinking her to be an American vessel. It happened off the coast of Spain. To night went to the supper and entertainment at the Chapel. The supper was in {the} charge of Bertha French and Fannie Hitchcock, assisted by Edith Pierpont, Mattie Judd, Nellie Cass, Olive Able, Lena Hurlbuert, Hattie Kilbourn, Clara French, Adaline Marrow, Daisy hall, Ida PSender, Hattie Colkings[??}, and Minne Judd. The entertainment program was a very pleasing one and well received. Miss Sadie Haywood's piano solo was warmly applauded. Miss Nellie Andrew's song was som much appreciated that she was recalled and responded with other excellent ones. Miss and Miss Haywood's duet pleased everyone and won applause, as did Miss Susie Bronson's and Miss Haywood's recitations. 04\07\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day has been cool but fairly clear. Great excitement prevail throughout the land on account of the war. To night I took the Traction Petition and went about Mill Plain, first to David Shannon's, thence Mr. Aitchenson's where his wife was putting a baby to bed, thence to Mr. Lockhart's who is newly married, thence to Oscar Farichild's whose wife is sick with a new baby, thence to Mr. Price's where Mrs. Price was putting a baby to bed, then up stairs to a German's where the woman had a half dressed baby in her lap, thence to Frank Welton's where they have a pair of young twins, thence to Mr. Twiss, where Mrs. Twiss was undressing a baby, thence to Mr. Thackeries, an old couple thence to Daniel Squire's where they had a baby, thence to Mr. Gillette's where they would not let me in on account of Mrs. Gillette being sick with childbirth, thence to Mr. Dee's, an old couple, thenc to Mr. Heaton's where I did not go into the house, thence to Mr. Strobell's where hey had a young baby, thence to Ned Pritchard's, they are to old to have babies, thence to Mr. Chapman's whose wife will have a baby soon, thence to Mr. William Blewitt's whose wife has a baby, thence to Peter Lund's where I saw no baby, thence home and to bed with the thoughts in my mind that Mill Plain is a very prolific neighborhood. 04\08\{1898} (Friday) To day is Fast{??} and is a legal holiday. I worked in the Mattatuck shop cleaning shafting{??} pullies. The war indications are more threatening to day. This evening I went with the Electric Rail pettion first to Mr. Leache's at the head of the Brass Mill {????} thence to Miles Pain's on East Mountain, thence to Willis Lannsburie's, thence to Mr. Bailey's, thence to Mr. Johnson's, thence to Gilbert Hotchkiss's where I passed a great fire on the way on the North side of the Polk Hill, thence to Mr. Frank Thompkin's thence to Mr. Freeter's{??}, thence to James Cass, then to Frank Cass', thence to Earnest Welton's on the Woodtick Road in Mill Plain where they had a baby sick with the croup, thence to F. B. Haggett's where Earnest Robinson signed it making the 306th name, then home and to bed. Clyde and Irving went to Wolcott and got Mr. Gardener's wagon. 04\09\{1898} (Saturday) The weather to day has been warm and fine and some of the farmer's are plowing. This evening Margaret and I went with the petition first to Mr. Norton's on the Woodtick Road. They were not at home, thence to Miss Welton's, thence to Mr. Durant's, thence to Widow Merritt Scott's thence, to Widow John Frisbie's, thence to Gayland Alcott's, thence to Mark Warner's, thence to Richard Potchen's, thence to George Pritchard's, thence to Mr. Mc Cauley's, the road was very dark, thence to Mr. Blewitt's, thence to Mr. Norton's and to Mr. Barner's who lives by the twin bridges, thence home and to bed. 04\10\{1898} (Sunday) Sabbath day, prepared the Chapel for service for Dexter Northrop who is sick, then saw Mr. Tucker on the way home and asked him if he would rent me a piece of ground on which to plant potatoes. He said he would and ageed to let me have a piece in the Sherman Bronson lot next to the Doolittle Road, and I understand it was to be free of charge. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and heard Mr. Waltros of Wolcott preach. He spoke to considerable length of our nation's trouble with Spain and of the suffering Cubans, but prayed that war might be averted. On my way home, I saw Mr. Tucker and he hitched his horse and carried me to Milan Northrop's at East Farms thence to George Hitchcock's and George Alexander's on the Meriden Road. Then we hurried home as it was thundering and lightening and we expected rain, but non came till evening when it rained quite hard at about 9 o'clock. I stayed with Mr. Tucker all night. 04\11\{1898} (Monday) To day the President of the United States (Mc Kinley) sent forth his message to Congress, stating that the blowing up of the Maine in Havanna harbour showed that Spain was no longer able to afford safety to the ships of other nations in her harbours and that Cuba must be freed and the war there must be stopped. 04\12\{1898} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been fine. Charles Hotchkiss began working all night on the nail machines at the Mattatuck shop, expect to run the machines to the first of June. To night after work, I went to my own shop and loaded a load of iron and had Father come up and I entertained him while the folks got a surprise supper ready for him, at which all his children and grandchildren (excepting Fred and his family) sat down, the occasion being Father's 68th byrthday {birthday}. Heard sister Iva say to day that she was engaged to be married to William Gillette. The Waterbury Wrench Co. made an assignment to day. W. H. Brooks was appointed receiver{??} under a bond of 20,000 dollars. 04\13\{1898} (Wednesday) To day the weather has been fine. Much talk of the war with Spain. Went to night and helped Hiram Able fix the side seats in the Chapel so they could get the new carpet under them. Received my week's wages of the Mattatuck Co. to day. Mary and some of the other women of the neighborhood cleaned the Chapel to day and got it ready for the new carpet. 04\14\{1898} (Thursday) Went to the Grange to night. B. F. Hoggett was elected Secretary in the place of Mrs. Wilson L. Pierpont, deceased. Rained lightly when we came home. 04\15\{1898} (Friday) It has rained most of the day. Mother is sixty four years old to day. Went to the Brass Mill and bought one 12 inch brass kettle for the Mattatuck Co. for 80 cents. 04\16\{1898} (Saturday) The weather to day has been fine. Drew a load of tools from my shop and put them in the cellar. The new carpet is put down in the Chapel. 04\17\{1898} (Sunday) The weather to day has been the best this year. Grass is turning green and the buds are ready to burst on plum and pear trees. Cowslips are in blossom. Did not go to the Chapel, but Mr. Mc Kinley preached. 04\18\{1898} (Sunday) {Monday} The weather to day has been fine. Every body is talking war. 04\19\{1898} (Tuesday) It has rained most of the time to day. Congress sent to day its final message to Spain and if the terms are not complied with, the Government are to send a fleet and an army to Cuba to stop the war there. A call is expected from the President for 80,00 volunteers. 04\20\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather cleared this forenoon and the evening was fine. We all went to the supper and entertainment at the Chapel, which was well attended and about $10.00 were realized{?????}. The entertainment program was pleasing to all. Miss Nellie Andrews, Solo. "The Wreck of the Battle Ship Maine", was received with a burst of applause. The duets by Miss Minnie Baker, Miss Margaret Hunter and the Misses Haywoods were warmly encored. The solos by Miss Sadie Haywood, Robert Streeter, Jessie Bamatyne{??}, Miss May Reeds, Mr. Arthur Beach, Miss Elsie Pollack and Lillie Proctor were very pleasing and warmly applauded as were the recitations by Miss Pollack, Miss Susie Price, and Sadie Haywood. 04\21\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day has been cold but no storm. Mr. Gillette, a machinest at the Mattatuck shop has moved into one of the houses on Southmade Road to day next to William Dunworth. Walter Garrigus' wife has been sick since Sunday. To day brings the news that the Spanish Government has not waited to receive the Ultimatum sent by this government, but as soon as they heard that Minister Polo had received his passport from this country, considered it as equivalent to a formal declaration of war and have sent a powerful fleet of battle ships to sea. It is not known whether they expect to proceed to the West Indies or to operate against New york or some other Northern port. I expect to hear tomorrow that the call is issued for 80,000 volunteers. I think that the government could raise an army of 1,000,000 men easy. My wife has gone to the Grange and Mrs. Mulvanney{??} called, as she and I went to school together when we were young. We had a very pleasant time recalling events that happened at that time, when the Old War was raging. 04\22\{1898} (Friday) The weather to day has been fine. Great excitement prevails to day on account of the war. At 5.45. o'clock this morning the war fleet left Key West for the blockade of Havanna and the North coast of Cuba. The president has signed a bill calling for 100,000 volunteers to serve for one year. Connecticut's number to be sent is 1,286 men. This morning the Cruiser Nashville captured a Spanish lumber ladened vessel bound from Mississippi to Engalnd and took her as a prize to Key West. Manville Norton of Wolcott was buried to day in the Woodtick burying ground. He died on the 20th {???} of a cancer in the stomach. Had school meeting to night to consider buying a piece of land adjoining the back side of the school yard of Henry Hall. I did not attend. 04\23\{1898} (Saturday) This day is an eventful one. The Waterbury Evening American's heading was as follows, A Spanish Freighter Captured Our speedy cruiser New York saw her and raced off after her, sailed{??} {????} across her bows, stops her. The President Has Issued a Proclamation for 125,00 Volunteers To Serve For Two Years The owners of the Buena Ventura captured by the Nashville are very indignant and have entered a protest. In Madrid they call it an act of Piracy. Latest news from Havanna, how the people feel about the Yankke fleet in the {??????} - General Blanco active in rushing troops to the weak points on the coast of Cuba. Our fleet of Gunboats reached Havanna at 5 o'clock last evening, and at once there was great excitement in the city. General Blanco is rushing troops to Morrow Castle and to the Batteries of Santa Clara. Here In Waterbury 48 men enlisted in Company A and Company G making two full companies of 84 men each. They are expecting marching orders at any time and are ready at an hour's notice, the 48 enlisted last evening. 04\24\{1898} (Sunday) Weather to day is very rainy, went this morning to the Mattatuck factory and telephoned to the Rev. Mr. Davenport about preaching at the Chapel. He would come out but had a very bad throat and did not know whther he could preach or not. I asked him if we could not get some one else for to day and make it easier for him. He said that he thought that we could get Mr. Nichols, Baptist Minister of Simonsville and saw Mr. Nichols and he said that he would come. I in the afternoon went to the Chapel and found that all was well and Mr. Nichols was preaching, and a very fine service, the new carpet was on the floor and looked very nice. I stayed with Major Tucker last night. I would state here that the Rev. Asher Anderson of Meriden, Chaplain of the Second Reg., C.N. G.{??} preached a war sermon to Companies A and G last evening. The Church was filled to the extent that no more could get in. The service was held in the first Congregational Church and great enthusiasm prevailed. The soldier's war cry is to be Remember the Maine. 04\25\{1898} (Monday) The first shots of the War were fired Saturday night from Morow Castle at the torpedo boat, Foot{??}, and at the Battleship New York, but failed to hit anything but the Atlantic Ocean. 04\26\{1898} (Tuesday) The light-house tender Mangrove captured the Spanish Cruiser Panama{??} yesterday off Key West. 04\27\{1898} (Wednesday) To day the First Reg. C.N. G. received orders at 4.45 o'clock to prepare for war. (this is all that I know) 04\28\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day has been cold and stormy, snow, sleet and rain. They had a Grange meeting to night and Edith Pierpont was elected Secretary. There was but 15 present. 04\29\{1898} (Friday) Although the weather to day has been fairly good, I am suffering great pain. Before dinner Mr. Tucker told me that we would go over to my shop and blue{??} some steel buttons. As an experiment we tried blueing{??} them in powdered charcoal. The process is as follows, the buttons are first hardened, then polished and then drawn to a temper of blue by putting them in a long cilender {cylinder} with brass chips usually which is over a charcoal fire while in motion till the right color comes when it is dumped on a riddle and the buttons riddled out of the charcoal. To day we tried the charcoal instead of the brass and as I was emptying them out, the charcoal dust exploded like powder and knocked me backwards, badly burning my hands and the side of my face. To day Mr. Judd gave me my insurance policy on my shop for $1,000 at a rate 1 1\2 cts.. 04\30\{1898} (Saturday) To day the weather has been fine. I not being able to work in the shop did nothing most of the forenoon but tend my burnt hands, but a little before noon I and Clyde and Irving began drawing out the wood across the road west of my house and we kept to work at it till near 4 o'clock when Mr. Tucker sent Paul Hesphelt after me to come to the shop, as a Mr. Simpkins of Thomaston was there to show me how to "blue buttons". I went down and staid till five o'clock when I came home and drove to Bucks Hill to see the inside of the Chapel there, to see if we could give the drill there next Wednesday evening. Thence home and I sent Clyde and Irving and Margaret and Ruth to the Chapel to practice the drill. 05\01\1898 (Sunday) To day the weather has been fine and clear. Mr. Warden called on me to see me about the drill at Buck's Hill. Mr. Tucker called and asked me to go to ride with him to see Ed Holmes who lives on the Southington Mountain. I went with Mr. Tucker and Horace{??} went horse back on his new horse. This was the first time that he ever rode horse back very far. After I got home Father, Frank and Rolland Jenner called, was glad to see them. 05\02\{1898} (Monday) Mort Chandler who lives in prsopect cut his throat open with a razor yesterday and although he severed the jugular vein, strange to say he still lives. Admiral Dewey{?} gave the Spanish fleet battle yesterday, before Manilla in the Phillipine Islands. He sunk several vessels and drove the rest back. 05\03\{1898} (Tuesday) The young people of Mill Plain went this evening to Bucks Hill and gave an entertainment in the Chapel. It consisted of readings, recitations, music and a drill and dramatic sketch entitled America. We had a fine time and returned home at 12 o'clock. 05\04\{1898} (Wednesday) Our Chapel had a supper and entertainment this evening which they say was fine. I did not go as my burnt hands were so painful that I thought I had better stay home and go to bed. 05\05\{1898} (Thursday) Weather was very unpleasant. Mary went to the Grange to night and Clyde and myself did up my hands which were very painful, so much so that it is hard for me to write. 05\06\{1898} (Friday) Old Mrs. Samuel Munson was buried from the mill Plain Chapel to day. I signed her will about one year ago. She was aged 81 years and 4 months. 05\07\{1898} (Saturday) The people are greatly stirred with enthusiasm over the official statements that have come to day that Commander Dewey has won a great vistory over the Spanish fleet at Manilla in the Phillipine Islands. He has sunk eleven vessels and killed 300 Spaniards and wounded 400 more. His own loss was 8 men wounded. 05\08\{1898} (Sunday) To day Clyde, Irving and myself drove over three mile hill to Break-|neck Hill thence around the north end of Luossapang{??} Lake in Middlebury and through the White Deer Rocks to Woodbury, thence to Southbury, and home the whole being about 35 miles. It rained some of the time and this afternoon it snowed the biggest flakes I ever saw. 05\09\{1898} (Monday) The weather to day has been fine. To night Clyde and Irving and I finished plowing for potatoes at the Sherman Bronson lot. 05\10\{1898} (Tuesday) Fair weather to day. We harrowed the potato lot to day. 05\11\{1898} (Wednesday) To day after work in the shop Clyde and I plowed the drills in the potato lot. 05\12\{1898} (Thursday) This morning we planted several rows of potatoes before I went to work. To day I fixed the doors and windows in the house where Mr. Gillette lives on the Southmaid Road. News was received to day that the torpedo boat Winslow was disabled at Cardenas, Cuba and five American seamen were killed and a number wounded. Worth Bagley, an ensign, was the first killed and there are the first killed in the war. 05\13\{1898} (Friday) The weather to day has been very fair. Two men came to day from the Eddy Electric Works of Windsor. Came to set the new {??????} running in the Mattatuck shop. I worked with them. 05\14\{1898} (Saturday) We finished putting in the {??????} to day and I am to see to the running of it. We started it up to night and it worked very well. 05\15\{1898} (Sunday) To day has been very rainy all but a little while this morning. A great many bicycle riders rode out of town. Mrs. Dickinson counted 86 in one lot going East on the Meriden Road on their wheel this morning before it rained, and most of them got caught by the rain and came walking back at night all wet and tired. Went to Mr. Tucker's this evening and he told me that he was going to get through at the Mattatuck Shop to morrow. It was hard news to hear for he organized the company and built up the business, and also gave me my situation there, but some disagreement between him and Mr. Wade and Mr. Judd brought it about. Also his health is very poor owing to the effects of the carbunckle he has had on his neck. 05\16\{1898} (Monday) Mr. Tucker came to the shop to day and told the people that he had got through. It seemed to me one of the saddest days I ever saw, as it made the work of the rest of us uncertain, besides all liked Mr. Tucker. Mr. Harry Judd informed me that they were going to build a seperate building for me to color the buttons in and that no one but he and I were to be allowed in there. Harry Judd is to take Mr. Tucker's place. I have also been instructed by Mr. George Judd to take charge of the {?????} and run it, no one else to touch it. This looks as if they had confidence in my ability. 05\17\{1898} (Tuesday) To day the weather has been rather cool. This morning Clyde and I plowed about two thirds of the East garden and tonight we finished it and plowed in the North garden. Clyde and I went to my shop this morning and Clyde loaded on to the wagon some rims and took them to James Harry's in Cheshire of whom I bought them of and returned them as I had no use for them. I worked to day putting a partition around the {??????}. It was easy work, but it seemed hard to me as I had hard headache and tooth ache. This evening Mr. Tucker called to see me and I walked home with him and sat and talked on the veranda. He told me that after the buttons were hardened they roll{??} them for two weeks in cool ahes and iron jack stones. 05\18\{1898} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been cool and clear. Got up at 5 o'clock and plowed in the North garden till 6.30 then went to work. To day the First Regiment Connecticut National Guard was mustered into the United States Service and is now awaiting orders from the government. To night we finished plowing and Clyde went down to his Grandma's to stay over night. 05\19\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day has been fine till about 8 o'clock in the evening when we had a thunder shower which lasted the greater part of the night. Mr. Gladstone, the great English statesman, died at 5.30 o'clock this morning. 05\20\{1898} (Friday) To day has been hot. The thermometer regerstering {registering} 86 in the shade. 05\21\{1898} (Saturday) The weather to day has not been so warm as yesterday was. Worked in the shop all day and would not have been surprised if I had been discharged as they have so very little work for me but very fortunately I have not been for which I am very greatful. Paul Hesphelt told me his way of rooling{??} steel trouser buttons. It is as follows, first rool{??} them in coal ashes and water in an iron barrel for 2 weeks, next in a wooden barrel while wet with vienna line, then in wood 8 covered{??} barrel with cut leather (dry) then when sorted, rool in bax wood saw dust a little while, then I take them and blew them.{???} 05\22\{1898} (Sunday) To day the weather has been fine and cool. Went to the Chapel and heard the Reverend Mr. Davenport preach a sermon on patriotism. It was grand. He thinks that the war cry, "Remember the Maine", is used to much. He said that the bruised and battered hulk of the Main, lying so still in the harbor of Havanna will do more to bring liberation to the oppressed Cubans than anything else can. That God will remember the Maine. Went to see Mr. Tucker this evening, came home and to bed at 10 o'clock. 05\22{23}\{1898} (Monday) A California Regiment left to day at San Francisco on{??} the City of Pekin{Peking??} to reinforce Admiral Dewey in the Phillipine Islands. 05\24\{1898} (Tuesday) To day Companies K. F. and C. of the First Conn. Regiment left Cmap, Haven, at Niantic and are to proceed to Portland, Maine via Providence, Boston and Portsmouth, N.H. To morrow Co. B. I. and D. will leave for Gul and Plumb Islands. 05\25\{1898} (Wednesday) The President has called to day for 75,000 volunteers to serve two years or to the end of the war. Had a meeting at the Chapel to night and elected officers for the ensuing year. They were as follows, Morris Alcott for the Episcopal denomination, myself for the Congregational, Luther Bradley for the Methodist, and Robert Warden for the Baptist. Arthur Pierpont was elected Secretary, Hiram Able, Treasurer, J. Henry Garrigus, Sunday School Superintendent and Henry Cass, Librarian. 05\26\{1898} (Thursday) The Third Regiment, Connecticut National Guards were ordered into camp at Niantic{??} to day. Ralph Blakeslee barn and store house burned this forenoon, it is located on Meadow Street near the Nangatuck Raid Road Station. 05\27\{1898} (Friday) It has rained all day to day. We have had no clear weather in a week. 05\28\{1898} (Saturday) The weather is very damp to day. Paul Hesphelt's little boy Adolph had a very narrow escape from drowning to day. The circumstances are that his smallest children and my little boy Pierpont were playing near the upper dam of the Mattatuck Company's shop when Adolph said he would go and catch some foam. He went and sat down over the gate where the water flows into the ditch and was catching the foam on his bare foot when he slipped and fell into the water. He screamed loud but the other children were gathering flowers below the dam and did not hear him, but his oldest sister was passing from school on the road above the dam and knowing the voice hastened to where he was and found him, floating on his back round and round. She seized him and with the aid of some of the other children, rescued him. [[05\29\1898 (Sunday) no entry]] 05\30\1898 (Monday) This morning Clyde and Irving and my self took the team and starting at about 7o'clock drove to Meriden 12 miles, thence to Middletown 10 miles, stopping on the way near Black Pond and eating dinner in the woods. At Middletown we crossed the Connecticut River on the new iron bridge, paying 15 cts. toll, and went to Gildersleeves Landing, 4 miles, thence across the hills to Cobalt, 6 miles, thence to East hampton, 5 miles, where we stayed over night at the Village Central Hotel, kept by one Mr. Malcome. In the evening we went to the Congregational Church where they held Decoration Day exercises. About 20 war veterans marched in to the church after the rest had been seated. As they marched, a string band played "Marching Through Georgia", after which after which it played the "Star-|Spangled Banner" and several other national {????}, the veterans standing during the playing. The most interesting part of the service was the reading of a diary kept {by} Mr. Horatio Chapman during the war. He was a native of East Haddam. He is now Chaplain of the East Hampton Post G. A. R. and is a fine reader, and read the part taken by himself from Gettysburg to Atlanta. I hope that I can hear the rest sometime. Mrs. Malcome gave us a room with two beds in it. Clyde and Irving taking one and I the other. In the morning we left at about half past six for Moodus{???} after paying $1.25, we stopped when about half way there in a piece of woods and ate our breakfast, which we carried with us. We drove right past Moodus without seeing it. It is situated in a valley which we went parallel of on a hill and looking across seeing no buildings, did not notice it. After we got a mile past a man told us of it and we turned and drove back one mile. They were having Decoration Day exercises and the parade was forming. There were about thirty veterans at the head of the line, preceeded by a part of the reknowned Moodus Drum Corps, after which came about 150 school children carrying flowers. They marched through the principle streets of the village and then out to a cemetery on a high hill near a Methodist Church where the Rev. Mr. Marshel delivered an address, and the children decorated the graves of deceased soldiers. I shook hands with many of the members of the Moodus Drum Corps who I have met in nearly every City in Connecticut during the past 20 years of my life as a drummer. Mr. George Buell, who is a fine fifer, invited us to Continental Hall to dinner which was fine and from there to his tin shop and hardware store, and then home to his house where we stayed till nearly three o'clock. He told us all about the Moodus noises and described them as sounding like a person rolling a barrell of loose{??} iron over an uneven floor and banging it against the side of the room. He is fifty years old and siad that he had heard them many times. One time the people were in church and thought that a heavy team was running away and that the hub of the wagon scraped against the side of the church and banged against the corner board and tore it off. I would say that it is 8 miles from East Hampton to Moodus. On leaving Moodus we drove to Godspeeds Landing, 4 miles. (Irving and I, Clyde riding his wheel most of the entire trip) where we crossed the rover on a steam ferry, thence we drove to Shaylerville, thence to Haddam thence Higgamum, 10 miles from the landing thence to Durham 10 miles passing through 4 miles of woods without seeing a building, thence to Wallingford, 9 miles, thence to Cheshire 6 miles, thence home, 8 miles where arrived at 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Lewis Beckwith moved into his new house on the Southmaid Road yesterday. 05\31\{1898} (Tuesday) To day has been a long one for me as I have a tired feeling and have had to work hard. 06\01\1898 (Wednesday) The weather to day has been nice. I have been working out of doors all day moving a coal shed to make room for a building for me to color buttons in. 06\02\1898 (Thursday) To night Mary went to the Grange and I went to bed at about half past eight. Mr. Warden called and wished me to have some tickets printed for the Strawberry Festival and entertainment to be given in the Chapel on June 23. 06\03\{1898} (Friday) Planted onions in the garden this morning and plowed out for corn in the Sherman Bronson lot this evening. 06\04\{1898} (Saturday) Planted corn in the Sherman Bronson lot to day. I call it the Bronson lot because Sherman Bronson owned it previous to 1850 and covered it with the refuse bone from his bone button factory and cleared the brush and stones from it. Sherman Bronson lived where Major Tucker now lives and his factory stood where the tannery building now stands. He failed and Scoville Mfg. Co. took all his real estate and he went to California but came back again and died on South Elm St. about 8 years ago. 06\05\1898 (Sunday) The weather to day has been fine and a great number of bicycle riders were out. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and heard Mr. Buckley preach. Did not get there until the service was half over. After service we, the Chapel Committee, elected Morris Alcott Chairman. 06\06\{1898} (Monday) To day nothing worthy of note happened except that Mr. Harry Judd who is superintendent of the Mattatuck Mfg. Co. told me that we would go over to my shop and color buttons. We went over and I built a fire and told him that I was ready to go to work. He said nothing and I told him that I supposed he understood that if I colored the buttons at all, I should do them alone, and as I needed no one to help me and no one to show me, I should do them alone. he went away and I went to work. 06\07\{1898} (Tuesday) This day I got up at 5 o'clock and Irving and I cleaned the privy out after which I ate my breakfast and went to the shop, about 8 o'clock I took a box of buttons over to my shop and worked till quarter past eleven coloring them, after which I brought them back on a wheelbarrow and Mr. Judd told me to {do} some job which took me till noon. The weather was very hot and I was near melted. Pierpont brought my dinner and we ate it together, after which Mr. Judd told me to go up to the tannery building and get some old lumber with which to build on an addition to the coal sheds. I got Joe Huey and we went to my house and got my horse and wagon and went to the tannery, carrying Margaret, Ruth and Pierpont up as we went. Pierpont went to play with Roy Munson and Margaret and Ruth to school. I drove down the East side of the River to the rear door of the {????} and loaded on the lumber that was there, then drove up and across the iron bridge and down the West side of the river to the front door when Mr. Judd came after me to go down to the shop and show a lot of carpenters about putting up the shop for blueing buttons. We set the corners and squared the frame, the sun being intensely hot, after which, I went into the shop and worked the remainder of the day putting up string pieces on which to hang a counter shaft, which is to run an energy grinder. Came home at half past five o'clock and ate my supper after which I plowed a piece of ground on which to plant potatoes for Mr. Mulvaney, after which I came home and went to bed at 9 o'clock with a pain in my head caused by the intense heat. 06\08\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning I did not get up till 6 o'clock, did a little work on the garden fence, after which I ate my breakfast and went to the shop, worked till noon putting up the counter shaft and belts and setting an energy grinder, and in the afternoon worked making boxes in which to carry work. Came home at 5 o'clock and ate my supper and then plowed drills for Mr. Mulvaney to plant potatoes in, after which I came home and planted onions till Mr. Tucker came. I talked with him a while and went to his house to look at some business cards he had received, stayed till half past 9 o'clock when I came home and to bed. Received my last week's pay to day of $10.00. 06\09\{1898} (Thursday) This morning I got up at 5 o'clock and planted onions after which we worked on the garden fence till 6.30 when I ate my breakfast and went to the shop. Worked till about 11 o'clock making boxes after which I went to my home and got my saws and after filing them went to building an addition on to the coal shed. The Waterbury Wrench Co. finished working to day and are selling out, came home and finished the garden fence, and worked till I could not see. 06\10\1898 (Friday) Got up at 5.30 o'clock this morning, called Clyde and Irving and we made a path over to the back lots of Miss Mary Doolittle's which she has given me the use of if I will cut the brush on them by next fall. After we had the path made we took the horse over and left him there all day. Went to work at quarter to seven and worked all day building an addition on to the coal shed at the Mattatuck Drum Shop. Miss Hine sent me a recipt for $3.00 for money I have paid on George's account. Mr. Ealcott moved to day into the second house on the Mattatuck row. 06\11\{1898} (Saturday) Got up this morning at 5 o'clock and got some ground ready to plant late peas and cucumbers, went to the shop, worked this forenoon on coal shed and this afternoon till 4 o'clock when Paul Hesphelt and I took the governer{??} away from the waterwheel so that he, Paul, could pack the gate stem tomorrow. After work, Clyde and Irving came with the big wagon and we went to my shop and got a load of stuff and a grindstone. 06\12\1898 (Sunday) Got up this morning at half past six and set out tomato plants and fenced about the garden till breakfast time, after which we went over to the pasture lot and dug out a new spring near the path. Near noon Frank called and brought some tomato plants and we sat them out. The children, except Pierpont and Raymond went to Sunday School this after noon and Mary went to the Chapel service. I stayed at home and took a bath. Mr. Garrigus called and asked if I could not get Mr. Davenport to preach to the children next Sunday as it is Children's Sunday. After supper Mary and I went and saw Mr. Luther Bradley and he says he is willing to exchnage Sundays with me so that they can have Mr. Davenport next Sunday if we can get him. Mr. Perrings preached at the Chapel to day. 06\13\{1898} (Monday) The weather has been very hot all day. There has been a land battle between the U.S. Troops and the Spaniards on Cuba. This is the first battle of the war, it was fought and there were four of our soldiers killed. 06\14\{1898} (Tuesday) Fourteen thousand troops left Tampa, Florida at daylight to day for Cuba. 06\15\{1898} (Wednesday) Got up this morning at four o'clock and Clyde, Irving and I went to the Sherman Bronson lot and cultivated out our potatoes and hoed four rows, after which I went to the shop and {am} at work finishing a partition that I built yesterday for a new room to put a nail machine in. Then went over to my shop and colored buttons till noon. After dinner, colored buttons till three o'clock then mad {made??} a door in the new room, then helped get in the new machine, then put the lock on door which took till six o'clock, came home and had supper of strawberries and bread and butter, then to hoeing potatoes, then went to Thomas Heaton's after a bill of $8.00 he owes me but did not get it. Mr. Joseph Munger called on me to day about the interest money I owe him on my house. Got my week's pay to day $12.00 at the Mattatuck Shop. To bed at 9 o'clock. 06\16\{1898} (Thursday) This morning was very cold, had a little frost. School meeting was held in the East Farms district last evening and Milan Northrop was elected {????????}, Wilson L. Pierpont, Clerk, and Luther Bradley, Treasurer. Mr. Freeter's steam laundry on East Mountain burned this morning at about eight o'clock. Hiram Able's people saw it very plain from their house. Had my house reinsured for $2,000.00 in the Orient Company of Hartford, John G. Jones, agent for three years, expires June 20, 1901. 06\17\{1898} (Friday) Very hot and dry to day. Old Mrs. Johnson is very sick, fell off from a chair and got hurt, she is now in her 93rd year. 06\18\{1898} (Saturday) Very dry and hot. It is published to day that a fleet of 20 ships have saied from Cadez, Spain and are headed for the New England coast. The Third Conn. Regiment have been ordered to the National Camp at Ninatic to be mustered into the Government service. The first of next week, two companies of the Fourth Regiment, the Danbury and Stamford companies are ordered to Fort Knox at Bucksport, Maine to fill up the First Reg. to 12 companies. 06\19\{1898} (Sunday) The first rain fell to day in the form of a shower that has fallen in a long time. I have stayed home all day till evening when I went to Hiram Able's then to John French's and to Mr. Tucker's. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel because it was Children's Day. Mr. Frank Cass is very sick with dropsy, not expected to live. He worked for me about three years as a blacksmith's helper. 06\20\{1898} (Monday) Got up early this morning and worked in the garden, till shop time. Worked at the shop putting in a blow pipe from the boiler shop to the button hardening shop. Bertha French got through working Saturday. The girls that work at the Mattatuck shop now are Nellie Cass, Mrs. Marrow, Mary Lyman, and Clara French. The men are Harry Judd, Foreman, Mr. Ealcott, George Blanchard, Joe Huey, Mr. Holden, Charles Hotchkiss, Mr. Leach, Frank DeBissop, Paul Hesphelt and myself and a watchman. 06\21\1898 (Tuesday) I did not get up this morning until quarter of six, ate my breakfast of radishes, bread and butter and canned salmon and went to the shop, worked cutting out stones in the pipe trench to the button coloring shop, and put the stone underpriming under the button coloring shop, and laid a brick floor in a part of it. PIerpont brought my dinner of fired meat and potatoes and bread and butter, came home at 5.30 o'clock and put a sole on one shoe, and Irving, Margaret, Ruth and myself pulled weeds in the onions. Mr. Warden called to see me about the entertainment for the Strawberry Festival to be given at the Chapel next Thursday evening. Mr. Lines and his orchestra came out to the Chapel this evening to rehearse but could not as the piano was pitched to low. 06\22\1898 (Wednesday) Mr. Francis D. Cass died this forenoon of the dropsy. I received my week's pay of the Mattatuck Mfg. Co., $12.50. 06\23\1898 (Thursday) Warm and dry, people are beginning haying. Yesterday a freight train of 50 cars parted East of the Stratford draw bridge and as the front section was crossing the bridge, the back part ran into it and piled up three cars high, at the same time striking the bridge and throwing it eighteen inches out of plumb, and making it unsafe for travel as no trains have passed over it since. It is expected that it will take several days to repair it. This cuts off all rail road traffic and is a great cause for inconvenience. This noon George Cass called at the shop to see if I would be pall bearer at his Father's funeral. Had a grand strawberry festival at the Chapel to night. The building was crowded full and the supper was fine. The entertainment program was fine and included recitations by Miss Deitrish, duets by Mrs. Lines and Orsgood, solos by Mrs. Lines and Mr. Alden and Mr. Orsgood and several selections by Jack Lines, Orchestra, which could not be beaten. Mr. Tucker sent me word that he wants to see me about the school meeting, has heard that Mark Warner has fired Bessie Tyler of Bucks Hill to teach next year. Paid Mr. Hine 2.00 for which she sent me a receipt. 06\24\{1898} (Friday) To day has been hot and dry. Mr. Francis D. Cass was buried to day, at half past two this afternoon the Rev. Dr. Davenport officiated. The pall bearers were Thomas Melbourn, Wilson L. Pierpont, Robert Warden, Thomas Mills, George Alexander and myself. He was buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery. Yesterday being the last day of school, they had a school picnic to day which was held in th grove back of the school house. After the funeral we drove up there. They had a large attendence. Went to Union City to see an English man who used to live on East Main St. to see if I could get the recipt for making lacquer cover steel pens, buttons etc. Could not find him but found one Mr. Pratt who was in business with him and who claims to have lost a lot of money by his management, who told me how the lacquer was made, as follows, dissolve gum sheel-lack in alchohol and add naptha, apply in a dipper's basket and when the pens are well shook off, turn out into a riddle on a warm stove and shake it till dry. Drove home by way of Platts Mills. We cleared at the Strawberry Festival at the Chapel last evening about $50.00. 06\25\{1898} (Saturday) To day is very hot and dry. Everything is drying up. 06\26\{1898} (Sunday) Got up at half past five and watered plants in the garden, then went up to Mr. Tucker's and we went and looked at the old tannery building with a view to see what kind of a place it would be to make steel buttons in, then came home and had breakfast at ten o;clock of baked beans, after which, Howard Neil called to get his Indian relics which I had. Then Father called and we drove to John Wakelee's to see him about cutting his hay, came home and found Agnes Able here resting after walking from Mr. Stephen Harrison's on Walnut street where she works. Went to the Chapel and heard Mr. Bassett preach. Came home and had supper of strawberry shortcake. 06\27\{1898} (Monday) News has reached us of a battle which was fought near Santiago de Cuba at a place called Lo Luasina last Friday between 1000 troopers and 2000 troopers Spanish soldiers and troops fought on foot and lost 17 men killed, 29 wounded and 7 missing. 06\28\{1898} (Tuesday) Dry and dusty. 06\29\{1898} (Wednesday) Had school meeting last night and mark L. Warner was elected Committe, B. F. Hoggett, clerk and Warren Hitchcock, treasurer. It was voed to lay a tax of .05 mills on the dollar on list of 1897. The Committee assisted by Mark Pond were to lay tax. 06\30\{1898} (Thursday) Parisgreened{??} my potatoes this evening. Went to the Grange to night. The weather very hot and dry. 07\01\1898 (Friday) Weather dry and hot. I received a tax bill to day for military tax due May 1, 1897 from Constable Ronnette with a copy of the law that unless it was paid by the 6{???????} he should {????} on my body and so forth and unless paid. I was to be delivered to the keeper of the county jail, there to remain until I had worked out said tax, together with costs and other expenses, also a letter from Constable Ronnette saying that if paid before the sixth, that there would be no further costs than the tax of $2.00 and interest and writ which was $2.00 making $4.00 in all. News as published to day that Gen. Shafter{???} has his army of 14,000 men including 5,000 Cubans before Santiago and intends to attack the town to day. Aunt Amanda Bronson died in Bridgeport yesterday, aged 93 years. She is sister to my wife's mother. 07\02\1898 (Saturday) Got up this morning at half past five and worked hoeing in the garden till 6.30. Ate breakfast of boiled hard clams and went to the shop. Worked first whitewashing the forge in the button blueing shop, also the windows. Next made a rack in the main shop for those who ride wheels to keep bicycles in. Next made some long shallow boxes, then stopped for 1/2 hour at noon and ate dinner of corned beef and biscuit, and worked most of the afternoon making a cubbard{?} in the button blueing shop. Came home and had supper of boiled beans, after which I hitched up the horse and Clyde and I went to town. Went first to the Selectmen's office in the City Hall to see about the military tax but they were away. Saw the janitor James Loughland and asked him who the past examining surgeon is. He said that it was Dr. Graves and that he was over to the armory where they are enlisting recruits for the Conn. National Guards. Went thither and saw Postmaster Fitzpatrick and Captain Geddes and they told me that Dr. Graves was at his office in the Daniels Block on North Main Street. Went thither and saw him, but he could do nothing for me as the law provided that he could examine only in the month of January. From thence, I went to see Constable Ronnette and showed him his bill and letter and told him that I was exempt of military tax on account of disability having a lame foot and two ruptures. He, seeing my cane, believed me and tore up the bill and letter, which ended the matter. I thanked him and told him if I could help him out some time to let me know, at which he seemed very much pleased, for I secured a number of votes for him at his last election. Went from thence to Charlie Russell's store where Clyde bought .50 cts worth of fire works for the children to help celebrate the Fourth of July. Came home and to bed at 10.30. There was a great battle fought before Santiago yesterday in which it is reported that we lost 1000 men and troops now occupy a position within two miles of the city. 07\03\{1898} (Sunday) This has I think been the hottest day I ever saw. My thermometer has stood at 102 in the shade most of the afternoon. The gardens are all wilting, the leaves on the trees have withered since morning and a vapor can be seen arising from the watercarses{??}. There has been a stiff breeze blowing from the South West some of the time, but it felt hot as if coming from the burning sands of a desert. On the Fourth of July in 1882 I drummed in the Mattatuck Drum Corps at the dedication of the Soldiers Monument in Birmingham. That day the thermometer stood 106 in the shade in Shelton where we marched, but it was only 98 here so to day must be the hottest. Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Perry, Baptist, preached. After supper went to Mother Pierpont's at East Farms. 07\04\1898 (Monday) To day is the one hundred and twenty second anniversary of our nation's independence, and the words which John Adams spoke in 1776 are fulfilled when on July 2nd he said, "We will make this an immortal, a glorious day when we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgivings, with festivities, with bonfires and with illumination. On its annual return, they will shed tears not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of gratitude, of exultation and of joy." While the people of to day have nearly forgotten in a measure the burdens and distress which burdened the people in 1776, Fourth of July is very appropriately observed. For myself I worked this forenoon (a thing I never did before) lining up the main shafts in the Mattatuck Shop. In the afternoon, Paul Hesphelt and his boys and I and my boys went to Scott's Pond fishing and as the water was low, we caught over 60 fish. Mr. Gilbert Duryee died yesterday. There has been alarms of fire in town to day. This evening we went up on the large rock on red oak hill back of the Doolittle place and watched the fireworks which were sent up in every direction. There was lots of thunder and lightening which served to make the occasion the more sublime and it rained a few drops. 07\05\{1898} (Tuesday) This day has been one that I shall long remember. At 10 o'clock, as I had occasion to leave the shop, I was surprised to hear most of the whistles and gongs blowing, and the ringing of bells and firing of cannon. This told the people of the victory of Admiral Sampson over the Spanish Admiral Cervia near Santiago. I immediately sent Clyde to notify the members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps that there would be a parade in the evening and that we would turn out. I stopped work at noon and came home and got my five drums in shape and then went to City Hall and reported to Mayor Spenser that we would turn out, from thence to see George Edwards thence to see Simon Smith on the Middlebury Road and then home and loaded seven snare drums and two bass into my two seated wagon and took them to Gardener Hall's store on Cherry Street where we formed, {????} for fifers, Luke Henderson, Charles Cass, Simon Smith and George Edwards. Bass drummers, Henry Buckingham and Elsie Bronson. Snare drummers, Mr. Miles Booth, Hubert Downs, Arthur Harrison (of Wolcott), George Atkinson, Levi Grilley and myself. We marched to City Hall and reported for duty and were assigned to head Randolph & Claw's Company, nearly all of the military and civil organizations in the city turned out. The factory whistles blew and there was a continual display of fireworks while a cannon on the top of Abrigador{??} Hill kept up a constant firing. The center was thronged with people. 07\06\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning as I was about to get up at about quarter to five, as I arose and turned in bed, my hernia slipped out. It became rigid and I could not get it back again. After trying everything that I could think of, we called Clyde and sent him after Mr. Roberts who lives no South Main Street and makes a specialty of caring for ruptures. He came a little after seven o'clock and tried to force it in which pained me very much, after which he took a battle of liquid from his satchel and poured a little on and then with a slight pressure it went back. The liquid relaxed the muscles and let it slip back. He staid and ate breakfast with me, and I did not go to work till noon. Mr. Durce was buried this afternoon in the Pine Grove Cemetery. He was aged 76 years. Cousin Jennie Phillips called this evening and told me that she was not going to teach at Mill Plain. 7/07/{1898} (Thursday) To day is cool and very dry. This week makes the sixth since we have had any rain except a slight shower. Mr. Anderson is building a house on the Southmaid Road near Lewy Beckwith's. I worked to day blueing buttons in the new shop. Went to the Grange tonight. The Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States yesterday. 07\08\{1898} (Friday) The weather to day has been hot and dry. Worked this forenoon blueing buttons. Lieutenant Hobson and the men under his command who sunk the Merrimack at the entrance of Santiago harbor were exchanged yesterday. 07\09\{1898} (Saturday) We had a thunder shower this morning that did a lot of good, but it only rained a little, and the evening is quite cool. 07\10\1898 (Sunday) Got up this morning at 7.30 and pulled weeds in the garden till 9 o'clock when we went into the house and as Mary had not got breakfast ready, we put a pan of baked beans on the table and ate what we wanted and cut a watermelon. After breakfast, we finished pulling the weeds from the rows that we were working on before breakfast, after which we got a joiners bench into the cellar and repaired a bucksaw frame, then lay down for a nap but could not sleep as one fly would fly into my ear then into my nose and pestered me other wise so that I was obliged to get up and fight him, but as I could not catch him I was tired of trying to sleep and got ready and went to the Chapel and heard Mr. Rafter preach a good sermon. Mr. Rafter is of the Waterville Church. After service, Major Tucker called me into his place where I stayed for some time and then went to Hiram Able's and left the $2.33 that was collected at the Chapel. Mr. Able has had his house painted. Came home at six and had supper of baked beans and salmon and lettuce salad, after which I got out my old fife books and showed them to the boys who are learning to fife. Went to see Mr. Tucker at 8 o'clock and stayed till 11. Came home round the road{??} and went to bed at midnight. 07\11\{1898} (Monday) Nothing worthy of record has happened to day tht I know of except that there was a slight frost this morning and Frank De Bissop got through at the Mattatuck shop Saturday night. 07\12\1898 (Tuesday) Mowed this morning from 5 to 6.30 and then went to work in the shop. This afternoon a constable from New Haven, one Mr. Kirk, came to the shop and read a warrAnt for Mr. Mc Elliott, Mr. Lang and myself to appear before the Judge of the Court of Common PLeas at New Haven tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock as we have been drawn as jurymen. This evening Mary and I went to see Mr. Harry Garrigus as I wished to find out about the duties of a juror. Saw Mr. Tucker on the road. He told me that he did not think that the Mattatuck Co. could live throughout the summer as the price of furniture nails has been put down from 55 per cent discount to 75 per cent. We stoped {stopped} at Walter Garrigus' and carried his mother home and brought her back again when we came home. 07\13\{1898} (Wednesday) Arose this morning at five o'clock. It was raining quite hard. Ate my breakfast and as I was obliged to go to New Haven to serve on the jury and had not money enough to go with, drove to the Brass Mill and borrowed ten dollars of father. Then I took the trolley car at the end of the Plank Road and paid them five cents for a ride to the Nangatuck Rail Road depot, where I paid .80 cents and bought a ticket to New Haven, the train leaving at 8.26. Met on the train Mr. Mc Eliott whom I did not know, but who used to be third selectman. At New Haven we took the trolley car to the cart house, it raining very hard, fare 5 cents. Arrived there at quarter to ten. Mr. Edgar Wallace of Prospect was there with whom I was acquainted and he told me many things in connection with the duties of a juryman. The court was called at about 10.30 and twenty one jurymen responded, three being absent, two on account of sickness and one being away, and Judge Hubbard of Middletown dismissed us to report again tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. I then went to the office of the county commisioners to see a directory as I wanted to go to the Historical Society's rooms, found that they were located at 144 Grove Street. I went there, it was raining very hard, and saw their fine collection of relics and ancient documents, fire arms etc. but did not have much time as it closed at 12 o'clock. From there I walked to the depot in the rain and found that my train would not leave till two thirty nine so I took a walk up to the old Derby Rail Road station. It is now used as a hardware store house. I then went to the car shops, bought on the way five cents worth of peanuts, looked about there a little while and then went to the depot and waited for my train. Bought a ticket to Nangatuck for 65 cents and there took the trolley car to Silver Street, Waterbury to father's where I found Mary who had been there making over a pair of pants which Mr. Tucker gave me. Then went to the Mattatuck shop and got my pay, 9 dollarsm and came home, had supper of fired onions and canned{??} corn after which I went to Mr. Tucker's, came home and to bed at 10 o'clock. Sent my horse to Miles Paynes to day and had him shod. He charged 1.25. And also one buggy wheel. 07\14\{1898} (Thursday) Got up this morning at five o'clock, had breakfast of pancakes and started for West Cheshire depot at quarter past six o'clock. Clyde went with me to bring the team back and we took Raymond too. It was a fine morning. At West Cheshire, I took the 8.26 train for New Haven and got to the County Courthouse at a little after nine. We, the jury men, were called before the judge, nineteen of us, and seven were challenged off, the other twelve were ordered to their seats, and a case of Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Carthy against William Nott, all of Ansonia, was called. The case was two counts against said Nott, one for selling liquor to a habitual drunkard and for selling to a husband after being forbidden not to by the wife. After we had heard all the evidence, and the lwayers arguments, we received our charge from Judge Hubbard and were then ordered to retire to our room. It was then 12.30 and a recess was declared till two o'clock. We went and got dinner at a restaurant, paid 25 cts. for it, after which we took a short walk and returned to the Courthouse at quarter before two. At 2 o'clock we were called to our seats and the roll called after which we retired to our room. The first ballot was 10 guilty and 2 not guilty. The second, all guilty. Edgar Wallace was appointed foreman and we were admitted to our seats in the court room where we were ordered to stand while the clerk read the charge to us and asked if we found him guilty or not where upon the foreman answered guilty. We were then immediately dismissed to report again tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. I went into the criminal side of the Superior Court where a colored man was being tried for assualt with intent to kill a white man, and staid there till a little after three when I went to the depot and took the train for Cheshire at four, paying twenty cents. Clyde and Margaret were at Cheshire to meet me and we drove home where we arrived a little before six. Went to the Grange in the evening but did not stay, only till recess when I came home. Santiago de Cuba was captured yesterday. 07\15\{1898} (Friday) Got up this morning at 5 o'clock and sent Clyde up to Mr. Tucker's and got his Concord buggy and then we ate breakfast as soon as we could, and Irving, Clyde and myself started for New Haven, leaving at six o'clock. We went byway of the Notch-|in-| the-|rock, followed the road that runs at the foot of the West Mountain in Cheshire. Came on to the main New Haven road at Mount Carmel where, fearing that I might be late, took the trolley cars, after waiting a long while, and reached the court house at five minutes to ten. Meanwhile, Clyde and Irving had driven to the Tantene{??} livery stable and put the horse out and came to the Courthouse a little while after I got there. Soon after ten we, the jury, were called into the courtroom and after being impaneled, six of the 18 present being excused, the case of the State against Paul Beetz of Grand Avenue, New Haven, for selling spiritous and intoxicating liquors on Sunday and also keeping a place open Sunday for the purpose of selling the same, was called. Gunn of Milford was attorney for the State and Goodheart for the defence, he is of New Haven. Both were expert lawyers and made good pleas. The jury was sent out at a little after three o'clock and after being out over {???}, returned and reported that we could not agree. We were sent out again, but after being out over half an hour were recalled and the Court adjourned till a week from next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. The nearest that the jury came to agreeing, 4 ballots for guilty and 8 not guilty. This was a case where I believe that the accused was guilty but the evidence given (from which we had to judge) was not sufficent to make it clear that he was guilty, therefore my vote was not guilty. We got out of Court a little after five and took the trolley cars to Lighthouse Point to see the new battery which hs been erected there. We paid ten cents a piece car fare. The ride was fine, the view of the water grand. There were many girls in bathing which I took much pleasure in watching. The Battery consists of two old cast iron smooth bare ten inch guns, mounted on friction carriage back of a defense made of rail road ties and two thicknesses of rail road iron laid on top length ways of thw works. It did not look very substantial. We came back to New Haven Center which we reached at 6.50 and got the horse, paying .50 cts. for its keep and feed, and started home. Came through Beteny{??} and Prospect, reached home at 12 o'clock. 07\16\{1898} (Saturday) Went to work to day in the Mattatuck Shop, found that Mrs. Marrow, Clara French and Mary Lyman had been sent home on account of not having work and all of the rest of the hands are very uneasy and fearful lest they shall be sent home. Found a letter there from Dr. G. Porter notifying me to return to him a mowing machine that I borrowed of him three or four years ago. The machine in question I borrowed and broke. Some time after I went to Miss Bradley, his house keeper and agent{??}, he being in London at the time, to get the address of the parties so I could send and get a casting to repair it with. She wished me to keep the machine in payment for service I had rendered in protecting the trees and bank in front of Mr. Porter's residence against being {????????} by the Trolley Company which it was expected was coming at that time. I considered it very poor pay as the machine was almost worthless and I spent a great deal of time in looking the matter up enough, had I received fair pay to have bought several new mowing machines. This evening Clyde and I drove to Mr. Townsend's at Breakneck in Middlebury to find from Mr. Townsend where Rachambeam{??} and his army encamped in 1781 on its march to {????} Washington on{??} the Hudson. I had a very nice visit, reached home at about 10 o'clock. 07\17\{1898} (Sunday) Got up this morning, had breakfast of roast clams and baked beans, after which Pierpont and myself drove to Southington to see Mr. Bennett Upson to get information regarding the visit of General Lafayette at his grandfather's house in Revolutionary times and also to Luman{?} Lewis who is 94 years old to get information regarding the passage of the French army through here in 1781 and 1782. He told me a great deal about it which people had told him who saw the. Came home and had dinner at noon and towards evening went up on East Mountain to see Mrs. Gilbert Hotchkiss about the Richardsons who kept a great many American soldiers over night at Breakneck in the Revolution. In the evening went to see Mr. Tucker. The Rev. Mr. Hanna preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 07\18\1898 (Monday) Worked to day most of the time building a watercloset at the Mattatuck shop. Walter Garrigus' wife gave birth to a little girl tonight. 07\19\{1898} (Tuesday) To day has been very warm. Worked at the Mattatuck shop. This evening went to see the Rev. Dr. Davenport at Major Tucker's to give him information about the French army which passed through here under Count Rachambeam in 1781. Dr. Davenport is to write a paper to be read before the Order of Patriots and Founders in Milford (Woodmont) a week from next Saturday. 07\20\{1898} (Wednesday) This day has been a hot one. Mr. Tucker called this evening and told that he and Dr. Davenport are going to take a drive to Otis Mass{??} the last of this week. 07\21\{1898} (Thursday) To day has been very warm. George Benham's wife's mother Mrs. Seinor died this evening at his home in East Farms of old age. She was aged 77 years. Mary went ot the Grange to night. I stayed home and set a tire on my buggy wheel and then went to see Father and Mother. Stayed till ten o'clock then home and to bed. 07\22\{1898} (Friday) Got up this morning before five o'clock and mowed in the swamp till breakfast. Went to work at the Mattatuck Shop and helped Paul Helspelt get a revolving dryer running, then Mr. Judd sent us up to the old tannery building to get the waterwheel running, I found that the bulkhead had settled towards the wheel and that two of the braces had worked loose and came out and had caught in the partition and tore off some of the boards and these had run into the cogs{??} and this had moved the wheel towards the bulkhead an inch{??} so that it rubbed so hard that it could not run. We moved the bulkhead back and braced it and then moved the wheel to line, which was no small job, it being a breast wheel 16 ft. in diamter and 16 ft. long. Came home at 5.30. Mary and the smaller children went to Mr. Garrigus this afternoon and picked a lot of hillberries and Clyde and Irving rode to Campounce{??} this afternoon and saw the man dive from a height of 80 ft. into the lake. 07\23\{1898} Worked all day in the waterwheel at the tannery building. 07\24\1898 (Sunday) Got up this morning very early, had breakfast at 9.30. Mr. Robert Hotchkiss came and borrowed my buggy for his wife and daughter, Flora, to go to Prospect with. Cousin Charles Phillips came for me to go down to Father's and fix his wife's bicycle which I did. This evening George Edwards and his wife and son Elton called. They had a clambake out{??} to Morris Reid's to day. The Rev. Mr. Waters preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 07\25\{1898} (Monday) Went to work this { } at the Mattatuck shop and from thence to the Rutter tannery and to work in the waterwheel till noon then back again to the Mattatcuk shop. Mr. Morris Alcott called and told me that he would get the Rev. Mr. Buckley to preach at the Chapel next Sunday. 07\26\{1898} (Tuesday) To day Irving carried me to the Nangatuck Rail Road depot where I took the 8.12 train to New Haven and went to the Court House where I arrived in good time. A case was called against a man who lives on Putnam Street for selling liquor on Sunday and without a license. Gunn of Milfrod was for the State and C. S. Hamilton of New Haven for the defense. The case was not finished at one o'clock and court adjourned till tomorrow to allow its members to attend the funeral of a former clerk who had died. I went and had dinner and then went to West Haven and staid a while, came back and went out an old long wharf and staid and talked with an old sailor till train time. Took the 5.57 train on the Northampton Road home. Expense - RR fare down .80 cts, dinner 25 cts, postage stamps 10 cts, trolley fare to West Haven 10 cts, peanuts .05 cts, Trolley fare to New Haven 10 cts, RR fare to Cheshire .40 cts. 07\27\{1898} (Wednesday) Went to New Haven via Canal Rail Road. Mr. Bradley of Woodbridge was sick abed and as he is one of the jurors on the case which was being tried yesterday, that case could not be finished. The clerk dismissed us for the rest of the term. After receiving my pay which amounted to 20.66, I got dinner and waited 4 o'clock and took train home. Expense - RR fare .80, dinner 25 cts. 07\28\1898 (Thursday) Went to the Mattatuck Co. shop to wrok but they had nothing for me to do as their business is getting less and less all the time so I came home and worked most of the day when it did not rain in the garden. Mr. Joseph Munger died this morning early at the New Haven Hospital where they took him from the sea shore where he went last week for his health. He lived on the Waterville Street and was aged 60 years. Mr. Munger has a mortgage on my house of $1,200 and I owed him one year's interest whcih was due June 17. I payed him 10.00 the early part of July and sent Mary to day with 10.00 more whcih she payed to Mrs. Munger leaving 52.00 more due. 07\29\{1898} (Friday) Went to work at the Mattatuck Shop to day but Harry Judd told me that they were hung up for something for me to do so I came home. I think that this means a final finish of my working for them and the beginning of the end of the Mattatuck Mfg. Co. for I do not believe it possible for them to run much longer under the management of the Judds as they have no mechanical knowledge. 07\30\{1898} (Saturday) Worked to day cutting brush in the pasture lot most of the time, had to stop this forenoon on account of the heat. The thermometer stood at 97 degrees in the shade and this afternoon it rained. Mr. Newell Moulthrop called this afternoon to see if I could get 14 drummers and fifers to play at Campounce{??} some day in the future. Went and stayed with Mr. Tucker to night. 07\31\{1898} Stayed with Mr. George W. Tucker last night, got up at 7 o'clock and Mr. Tucker got breakfast as the women and Horace had gone to Walnut Beach after which he, Joe Huey and myself ate frankfurts, cucumbers, rolls, coffee, etc. after which I read a book (Lord Chesterfield's Manners) for about two hours, when I came home and got ready for Chapel where I went at three o'clock and heard Mr. Buckley preach, there was collected $1.51. After service there was a funeral service in the Chapel, a son of Mrs. Fannie Hill, aged 5 years. James Porter's horse died yesterday. 08\01\1898 (Monday) Went to the Mattatuck shop this morning to see Mr. Judd and find out whether they wanted me to work any more or not. He said that they did want me sure, but that they had nothing for me to do then, so as I had some work to home I came and helped Mary wash, then pulled weed. After dinner, Pierpont, Clyde and myself went to town and bought some pine lumber of Tracy Brothers for which I paid 1.00 for 20 ft. then to Bonner & Preston and bought 2 gals. of linseed oil for which I payed .92 cts. thence to Hotchkiss and Templeton where I got 2 doz 1 1/2 round head steel screws for which I payed 10 cts, then up to the Old City Mills on North Main Street to see William Brooks. I found him painting the inside of the shop with a paint mixed as folows: cateine{?} plaster and whiting equal parts with a little glue thinned with water. Then we went by Lakewood and home, after supper I went to see Mr. Tucker. 08\02\{1898} (Tuesday) This morning dawned clear and warm. Went to my own shop with Clyde and Irving and there met the scrap iron man from the Waterbury Scrap Iron Co. and we loaded up a load of old iron, then we loaded up a load of tools and a drilling machine which we brought home. We worked the rest of the day cutting brush in the pasture lot. 08\03\{1898} (Wednesday) This morning I made a tool chest for Mr. Ealcott{??}, after which I cut brush all day. The weather was very warm. 08\04\{1898} (Thursday) Cut brush in the pasture lot all day. Went to see Cousin Clarissa Curtis of Stratford and her husband Melville, at Father's this evening. The Government expects to bring General Shafter's army north to Montank Pont on Long Island to stay through the hot weather. The cause of it is the numerous cases of yellow fever which now exist in the army. It is feared that fully half of the troops will perish if they remain in Santiago through the summer. 08\05\{1898} (Friday) Worked to day mowing grass in the upper pasture lot. Went to night to visit Cousin Clarissa and Melville. Took along several histories and old books which interested Clarissa very much as she is a great geneologist. 08\06\1898 (Saturday) Worked to day mowning and raking and carting hay from the upper pasture lot. Had 110 heaps. I could not work as fast as I liked to on account of a severe pain in my back and sides. 08\07\1898 (Sunday) My back pained me so much that I could not lie in bed this morning as long as I wished, so got up and stored away some hay in the barn. During the forenoon, brother Rolland Jenner called as he was out with his new bicycle for a ride. In the afternoon went to the Chapel with Mary at 3 o'clock, all of the children except Raymond going to Sunday school at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Faster preached. He is of Newark, N.J. In the evening Mary and I went to visit Mr. Tucker. Came home and went to bed at 10. 08\08\1898 (Monday) Run {Ran} the washing machine first thing and got through at about half past 8 and then went and opened out the hay and got in two loads before noon, and got in the remainder this afternoon. 08\09\{1898} (Tuesday) Painted the ceiling of the kitchen and dining room and my room this forenoon with a water paint made of calcined{??} plaster and glue water. This afternoon went over to Mr. Anderson's new house to see the Artezan{?} drilling machine work, then went in bathing, after which I came home and painted on the East end of the house. 08\10\{1898} (Wednesday) It rained all day to day and I cleaned the woodhouse, repaired the washing machine. Harry Kilbourn came and wanted a plank, which he got down to the shop. It measured 10 ft. at .03 cts., 30 cts. I went to the Mattatuck shop this afternoon and Mr. Judd told me to come to work tomorrow. Received a check to day from the Waterbury Scrap Iron Co. for eleven dollars and one cent for payment for 4,405 lbs old iron of 1/4 ct. per pound. 08\11\{1898} (Thursday) Went to work at the Matatuck shop to day, finished some sboking{???} boards which were to count out buttons on. Mary and I went to the Grange to night and I read a paper on wide tires and the wide tire law. 08\12\{1898} (Friday) Worked to day in the Mattatuck Co's shop tinkering on various things. This evening I went to see Mrs. Able to get a description of an old Italian woman who is stealing my potatoes in the Sherman Bronson lot. She gets the potatoes by digging into the hills with her hands and taking a few with each hand. 08\13\{1898} (Saturday) Sister Mary stayed to day with her children. I worked at the Mattatuck shop all day. Peace was declared between the United States of America and the Government of Spain yesterday. The President igned the bill at 4 o'clock and has ordered the blockade raised and most of the troops ordered home. No Connecticut troops have taken an active part in this war. The first Reg. were stationed for a time at Fort Knox at Bucksport, Maine and some of them were at Gull Island a short time. They were ordered back to Niantic and from thence to Camp Alger in Mo. from thence to New Port{??} News{??} where they were about to embark on board the transports for Cuba last Thursday when the order was countermanded and now they are about to return home. This evening I went to visit George Edwards. 08\14\{1898} Got up at 8 o'clock. Had breakfast of baked beans after which I wrote several letters and read some. Brother Rolland Jenner came about midnight and stayed with us. About noon Sister Mary and her two children Louise and Effel and Pierpont, Raymond, Clyde, Irving {????????} and myself went for a ride. Roll could not go as he had to play his coronet at Boulder Grove with the American Band. We went through Prospect to the lower part of Cheshire and down the mountain to the Cook places, then up to Roaring Brook, where we climbed up the gorge, the boys going to the top of the mountain, but as Mary got tired, we came back after going to the foot of the falls. We drove home over the old Cheshire road and had supper of ham, potaotes, string beans, etc. David B. Hamilton died this morning after a long illness. He was President of Rogers Brass Mfg. Co. of this city and Rogers Brass of Meriden. 08\15\{1898} (Monday) To day my boy Raymond is three years old. The children celebrated the occasion by a little birthday party. Went this evening to see Father about getting a job of work at the Waterbury Brass Co. 08\16\{1898} (Tuesday) Worked at the Mattatuck shop to day. 08\17\{1898} (Wednesday) Worked at the Mattatuck shop till noon. Mr. Judd ordered me to blue some buttons. Told him that I must have .40 cts an hour while I worked at that work. But it being very hot, I came home and intend to blue the buttons in the morning. This afternoon we had a severe shower accompanined with much thunder and lightning. It hailed quite hard for about 10 minutes. The stones were as large as walnuts, but it did little or no {damage} as far as I could learn. Miss Alice Pickett came out to go whortleberrying out to Austin B. Pierpont's and they sent Irving over to the lot after the horse. After he had caught him, he led him up to a rock to get on his back when he began to strike with his fore feet and dance up and down and finally broke and ran across the lot and lay down and rolled over and over. Irving was so surprised that he stood still and looked till he felt several stings. When he ran, the horse had stepped on a yellow jacket nest and stirred them up. 08\18\{1898} (Thursday) Worked at the Mattatuck shop to day. Went to the Grange this evening. The lightning struck Joe Laurence's house yesterday and did a great deal of damage. The bolt passed within a short distance of Mrs. Laurence's head as she stood holding clothes but did not hurt her. 08\19\{1898} (Friday) Arose this morning at 6.30. Had breakfast of boiled round clams and then Clyde and I went to painting the house. We would paint a spell and then wait for it to rain and then paint again and worked this way till about 3 o'clock when it cleared up so we got in something more than half time{??}. In the afternoon, Hattie Edwards came to visit the girls and intends to stay several days. Major Tucker called this afternoon to show me some buttons he had been experimenting with to remove the color. The troops are arriving at their new camp an Manataunk Point from Santiago de Cuba on the 15inst{??} Roosevelts Rough Riders{????} landed. This Regiment was raised in Arizona, New Mexico, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and have seen more service than any other troops. The President ordered yesterday the mustering{??} out of service from 75,000 to 100,000 volunteers. 08\20\{1898} (Saturday) Got up this morning at half past five and went to painting on my house. Mary and the children got ready and went to the Sunday School picnic at Mr. Garrigus', started at eleven o'clock. Bertha and Clara French called after they had gone to have their bicycle tire "blown up". So I filled them with wind. Then I got ready and went to Mr. Tucker's and we drove to Thomas Fairclough's in Wolcott thence to Wolcott Center then up Pudding Street to Charles Minar's then over to Plumb Street and over Pike Hill and stopped at the old burying ground. Then we went to the Wird{??} Burying Ground where we met one Mr. Henry Pond of Bristol who told me that his wife was sister to Mr. Luman Lewis of Southington and that his son and my mother were second cousins. He, Mr. Pond, is 84 years old and she 82 years. Came home through Woodtick and found the folks home from the picnic. They had had a nice time. 08\21\{1898} (Sunday) Mr. Howell preached this afternoon at Mill Plain Chapel. There was a large attendence. My wife and I walked across the lots with Mr. and Mrs. Able and Agnes, Olive and the children. Heard that Mr. Joseph Rodier was very sick. Someone killed a rattlesnake on the Meriden Road near the South Schoolhouse in Wolcott. Joseph Huey was discharged from the Mattatuck shop yesterday, they not having business enough to keep him. 08\22\{1898} (Monday) Margin note: We paddled in a brook that had big flat stones After breakfast this morning, Mary, Clyde Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, Raymond, Hattie Edwards and myself took old Jack and the business wagon, (except Clyde and Irving who went on their wheels) and drove to Pike Hill in the North Eastern part of Wolcott, whortleberrying{?} where we picked about 8 quarts of berries. There is an ancient burying ground on this hill where we picked the berries, several stones of which are standing. They mark the graves of Blakeslees, Bracketts, Meax{?} and others. Mr. Henry A. Pond of Bristol told me that his grandfather and grandmother were buried here. I counted 24 graves on a former visit when the leaves were off the trees and bushes. It has ever since my remembrance ben grown up in common woods. On one of the stones is the following inscription, Mrs. Rachel Brackett, who died Oct. 12th 1776 in the 22nd year of her age. When you are blooming young and spry, Perhaps you think you nere shall die, But here' s a witness of the truth, That you may die when in your youth. I hope that sometime I shall be one of the number to clean up and restore that sacred ground. From Pike Hill we went East down the hill to the Wird{??} Burying Ground then South about a quarter of a mile to a lot on the East side of the road where we found a fine spring of water and where we picked 12 quarts of blackberries, after which we we drove over Pike's Hill again then North to the Cedar Swamp Road which we took, and went down past the old schoolhouse (still in use) and across the dam and over the North end of Spindle Hill to home where we arrived at 8 o'clock. After we had been home a short time, sister Cara came with Miss Amelia Burnhart in Mr. Edward Todd's carriage and said that she had broken Father's carriage out{?} to Mr. Todd's and wished we would go out with her and get it. I told her I would go. Just then Irving told me that Mrs. Gallivan who lives in the next house was in the front yard drunk and was going to stay all night. I went and managed to get her home by holding her from falling and found her husband and left them jawing{?}. When I came back I found Mr. Fred Woods with a bill of an old account that shows according to his figures that I owe him over $100.00 dollars. After eating a few mouthfuls, Cara and I drove to Mr. Todd's and Southington Mountain and I found that two of the carriage axles were sprung and set them back and we drove home, it being very dark and hot. 08\23\{1898} (Tuesday) Worked about home all day, saw Mr. Sidney Bronson and he wants me to build an ice house for him. Bought a barrell of flower {flour} of Mr. Thomas Kelly (Baker) to day for $5.25. 08\24\{1898} (Wednesday) Welded a set of steel tires for John French this forenoon and cleaned out the chicken coop and privy. Painted on the house till 4 o'clock when Clyde, Pierpont and myself got ready and drove to town, went first to the Mattatuck shop where I got what was due me, $7.00 but Mr. Judd had my pay made out 5.00. After some argument he admitted that I had worked three and one half days and there was due me $7.00 Then I went to Mr. Davenport's to see about getting someone to preach at the Chapel next Sunday. He expects to be in Northfield and all of the Congregational ministers are having their vacation. He told me of a Mr. Hendsey at No. 53 Spenser Avenue that I might get. I went thither but found that he was away on his vavcation too. I then went to see Mr. Haldenat{??}, his store on North Main Street, but it threatened rain so I started over long hill as fast as we could drive to Morris Alcott's where I saw his father and asked him if he would ask Morris if he would get the Waterville minister. Then we started for home. It was thundering and lightning North and West of us and when we reached the Schoolhouse, it began lightning south of us. The rain was coming from all directions except East and there was no escaping getting wet, and we sped fast as possible and {???} the rain at the Grange Hall. We got soaked before we reached home. The thunder was terrific and the lightning sharp. 08\25\{1898} (Thursday) Worked this forenoon about home. Mr. Sidney P. Bronson called and wanted me to go to his farm in East Farms and build an ice house. I went there to work at noon and worked till six o'clock. 08\26\{1898} (Friday) Worked at Sid Bronson's all day. A party of young men came to night to have me learn them to drum. 08\27\{1898} (Saturday) Worked to day for Sid Bronson. He paid me amount due, 5.00. 08\28\{1898} (Sunday) Staid about home all day except in the eveningc went to see Father. Mr. Rafter{??} preached at the Chapel. 08\29\{1898} (Monday) To day I worked at S. P. Bronson's on his ice house. 08\30\{1898} (Tuesday) Worked on S.P. Bronson's ice house till noon, and then went to work in his silo packing corn. He had 16 men and 5 double teams getting in the corn. Clyde and Mort Pierpont went to New Haven to day on their wheels. 08\31\{1898} (Wednesday) Worked to day at S.P. Bronson's getting in the silo corn. He had 20 men and 7 double teams. 09\01\{1898} (Thursday) Worked at S.P. Bronson's packing his silo corn in his ice house. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. Joseph Rodier died this afternoon of a cancer in the rectum. 09\02\{1898} (Friday) Arose this morning at 5.30. Went to Sid Bronson's and finished putting the roof on the silo, got through at half past eleven. Then went to A. B. Pierpont's and got a scythe and snath{????}. Came home and had dinner at noon, after which Clyde and I painted on the house till night. In the evening Charlie Hotchkiss, George Cass, Burt Haskins, Arthur Pierpont, Mort Pierpont, Howard Neil, Burt Pierpont, Clarence Warden, Art Warden and Irving came to learn to drum and Clyde and Robert Hotchkiss and Charlie Cass were practicing fifing. The drummers were in the new carriage house and the fifers were in my room, Charlie Cass sitting where I am now. While we were practicing, a thunder shower came up and the lightning struck the chimney and scattered the bricks about the yard and street. One bolt went down the Southeast valley{??} and followed the corner{?} past down to the veranda roof, stripping off the plaster on the inside and the clappards{?} on the out. Another ran down the NE corner {Margin note: Ruth and I were upstairs in " new building " - M. H.} conductor pipe tearing off some of the cornace{??} on its way and made a hole in the ground about the size of a waterpail, another followed two rafters from the chimney to the eve{?} trough and then along the conductor pipe to the ground at the N. W. corner. This bolt tore up splinters on the floor where I am no sitting in front of my desk. Charlie Cass was sitting here at the time, and Clyde was sitting at his left and Rob Hotchkiss at his right. I doubled Charlie Cass up like a jackknife and shacked{?} all three. There were two distinct marks on Clyde's left leg like {????} + +, one above the other and both above the knees. We thought that the house was on fire and the drummers rushed in and we found the garret full of smoke but there was no fire. Mary at the time was in the front chamber upstairs. Joe Huey was sitting at the table in the sitting room, holding Raymond in his lap. Pierpont was in bed in his room in the N. E. chamber. Charlie Cass, Rob Hotchkiss and Clyde were in the N. E. room down stairs. It seems a miracle that none were hurt more than they were. Irving had just taken the cushion and blankets out of the bugger{??} by the chicken coop and he was knocked down flat, when we were coming to the house. Charlie Hotchkiss picked up a brick and it burned the inside of his hand. 09\03\{1898} (Saturday) After breakfast this morning we cleaned up about the house and got ready to repair the chimney which was knocked all to pieces by the lightning last night at a little before 9 o'clock. Then wrote a letter to Fred in Detroit about his furniture. Then went to see Mr. Jones the insurance agent who insured my house in the Oriental Co. of Hartford about getting the insurance and pyut in a claim of fifty dollars which he said he would report at the companie's headquarters and told me to call next Tuesday or Wednesday, told me to repair the chimney but to leave the rest till after it is settled. Came home and ate dinner of boiled beans and then went to work at the chimney and worked the rest of the afternoon. The Mattatuck shop did not run to day. Mr. Sidney P. Bronson paid me this afternoon for the labor I had done him to date, $8.00. 09\04\{1898} (Sunday) This day has been one of the hottest ever known. The thermometer stood 100 degrees in the shade and 128 in the sun. I stayed home most of the day till 3 o'clock when we went to the Chapel and heard the Rev. Mr. Perry preach. There were but few people there owing to the heat. In the evening went to see Mr. Tucker, came home and to bed at 11.30. 09\05\{1898} (Monday) To day is Labor Day and is a legal holiday. The young people of the vicinity wanted me to take them to the Memeriden Mountain. There were about 50 people and Arthur Pierpont's bus and 8 other teams carried them besided several of the boys who went on their bicycles. We started at 9 o'clock from the corner of the Meriden Road above Austin Pierpont's and arrived at the mountain at about 4.30 o'clock. Had a picnic, setting the tings out on the ground, and the people sitting on horse blankets, cushions. After all had eaten, we climbed to the top of West Peak but the atmosphere was heavy and we could not see the sound nor the capitol at Hartford, but the view from there was grand. I found the spring on the West side of the mountain of which I had heard. It is in a cave on the West side of the mountain about 1/8 of a mile North of the West peak and to reach it one must climb down a steep ravine. We started for home about 4 o'clock and went first to Meriden then turned North this side of the crossing of the West Main Street by the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Rail Road (not in use) and went up through Cat* Hole Pass to {Margin notes: } 1) Mr. Warden was sick - M. Hall 2)We children went to sleep on the floor of the "bus" (Arthur Pierpont's peach wagon) 3) * Is the "Cat" still there? It was a rock formation high above the road that looked like a big {???} cat ready to pounce on us. Southington. Through this pass we saw some of the most interesting work of nature that I ever saw. The pass is only wide ebough for the road in some places and mountains tower on each side, while farther on the country becomes open, but is enclosed by mountains on all sides. In going to Southington, we got lost and came out at Mill Dale and got home at about 11.00 o'clock, that is some of us did. Mr. Byan's team, Chas Casses' team and Mr. Warden's team turned back in Meriden and they got home sooner. 09\06\{1898} (Tuesday) Worked about home all day. 09\07\{1898} (Wednesday) Worked about home all day. 09\08\{1898} (Thursday) Went to day to Platt's Mills to see Mr. Osbourn{?} about the lay{law??} that provides for the education of scholars in towns where there is no high school. Saw Mr. Ben Bristol. He seemed rather anxious that I should help them out about steel buttons. Mr. Jones and William Chatfield called to see about the amount of damage the lightning done to my house. 09\09\{1898} (Friday) Worked for Wilson L. Pierpont in his Springfield lot in Mill Plain this forenoon, and at his farm in East Farms this afternoon cutting corn. 09\10\1898 (Saturday) Worked all day to day up in Wilson pierpont's Springfield meadow cutting and loading fodder corn. Found two Indian arrow points there. 09\11\1898 (Sunday) Got up at 7 o'clock, wrote letters to F. A. Hulls Co., Danbury, L L Enswort{?} & Son, Hartford, and Fred D. Miller, Detroit, Mich. Had breakfast of boiled beel{??} after which I cleaned the backyard. Rolland Jenner came and tole me of a Mr. Buckmaster{??} who could pack Fred's furniture which he wants me to send to him. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and heard Mr. Buckley preach a sermon on the last war. In the evening went to see Mr. Tucker. He told me that in hardening steel butttons, they wanted to be left in the furnace at a cherry{?} heat from 14 to 16 hours. 09\12\{1898} (Monday) The weather wasvery cold this morning. After a breakfast of boiled eggs, I went to W. L. Pierpont's and tended silo cutter all day. Went to town this evening to see Mr. Buckmaster but did not see him as his house was all dark when I got there. 09\13\{1898} (Tuesday) Went to Wilson Pierpont's and tended cutter for cutting up silo corn. Clyde is fourteen years old to day. 09\14\{1898} (Wednesday) after a breakfast of fried ham and eggs, I went to W. L. Pierpont's and worked cutting corn till eleven o'clock. Came home and had dinner of succotash after which I went to see Mr. Buckmaster and found that he is coming to llok at Fred's furniture tomorrow. Then went to see Mr. Jones but he was not in. Then to the Town Clerk's office to look up the records, then to Platts Mills to see Mr. Benjamin Bristol about making steel buttons for the Platt Brass. Got home at 6 o'clock and went to bed at 8 o'clock. 09\15\1898 (Thursday) After a hurried breakfast I went to Arthur Pierpont's to help him fill his silo this morning. His two silos hold 120 tons of corn. Staid there all day. In the evening went to Grange Hall to Miss Girtrude Bradley's entertainment, she being {?????} of the Grange. The flowers were fine and were furnished mostly by Maj. Tucker. There was a little fruit, the entertainment program was very good. One James Martain of the City to day jumped from the high bridge that crosses the Meriden Waterbury and Conn. River R.R. at the point where the Od Prospect Road crossed it, near Henry Wedge's, with intent to commit suicide. He broke one leg but was not otherwise injured. He told his wife with whom he was riding that he wanted to get out and walk a little ways and then jumped. 09\16\{1898} (Friday) Was at Arthur Pierpont's all day filling his silo. Roll Jenner was brought home to day sick. 09\17\{1898} (Saturday) Worked lining up an old silo, the first ever made in this section built in 1893 for A. B. Pierpont. Mr. Buckmaster and two assistants came and packed some of Fred's goods. 09\18\{1898} (Sunday) Staid home all day. 09\19\{1898} (Monday) Went to Arthur Pierpont's and helped him fill his silo. 09\20\{1898} (Tuesday) Was at Arthur Pierpont's all day. 09\21\{1898} (Wednesday) Went to the Nangatuck Rail Road depot and found that the "star union line" was the best freight route to ship Fred's furniture to Detroit and that it would cast .59 cts per hundred lbs, then went and saw Mr. John Jones about the insurance on my house. We agreed that the damage caused by lightning could be settled and repaired for thirty dollars. He is going to have Wm. Chatfield do the plastering and give him ten dollars and pay me twenty dollars cash. Then went to see Mr. Lewis Platt about making steel buttons but found that he was out of town, from Platt's office on Brown St., I went to the barber shop over Lake and Strobell's Jewelry Store meeting on the way sister Iva and told her to wait a little while and I would bring her home, after having my hair cut for which I paid 20 cts. I went to the butter store on South Main St. and bou 1 lb. of butter for which I paid 20 cts. then got my team and came home. Found Arthur Pierpont in front of my house on his team wagon and made an agreement to have him carry Fred's furniture to the depot. He paid me $10.00 for the 5 days work I did for him. Had dinner after which I went to Mr. Tucker's and worked 3 1/2 hours banking{??} celery. {Note: I remember him doing it. - M.H.} 09\22\1898 (Thursday) This morning I repaired the roof to the old shed to some extent. About 16 o'clock Arthur Pierpont's team came and we loaded brother Fred's furniture on to the wagon and I took the remainder on my one horse wagon and we took it to the Nangatuck Rail Road depot. It weighed 3080 lbs and cost $18.17 to send it. I paid Arthur Pierpont $4.00 for carrying the furniture to the depot, after unloading and settling for the furniture, I went to Mr. Buckmaster's upholstering shop on Abbott Avenue to get his bill for packing the furniture but he was not in, after which I drove through Spenser Ave. to Kingsbury St. to North Elm to Maple Ave. to Cherry to Camp then across High Rock to Walnut St. then over Long Hill on the summit of which I met William Todd and he told me that last night the Republican's nominated Charlie Horn of Linden Street for first selectman and Mr. Schmidt second. Came home via the Stetson Road. I in the evening went to the Grange with Mary. Today is Mary's birthday, she is 38 years old. To me she seems as young as she did when I married her when she was 23 although we have now a family of six children. 09\23\{1898} (Friday) Staid about home all day, repaired the roof on the old shed. 09\24\{1898} (Saturday) Clyde and I mowed the swamp back of Mrs. Larman Johnson's house. We got very wet and chilled with the rain. In the afternoon, I went to see Gilbert Hotchkiss about selling my shop but he was not at home, from thence went to Miles Payne's and got my horse shod, came home, and Irving went to Hemingway's fish market and got the oysters for tomorrow's breakfast. This afternoon I received Mr. Buckmaster's bill for packing Fred's furniture. It amounted to $27.28. Wrote him a letter and mailed it to him. 09\25\{1898} (Sunday) Staid about home most of the day. Went to the Chapel. Mr. Waters preached. 09\26\{1898} (Monday) Ran the washing machine for Mary this morning, then went to Johnson's swamp and tedded{??} out my hay, came home and made a hay rigging. Then went out and raked the hay up and carted it home which took the rest of the day. 09\27\{1898} (Tuesday) This day is the fortieth anniversary of my birth, having as my mother told me been born on Sept 27th, 1858. My son Pierpont, 5 yrs., and I drove today from home to Cousin Malachi Gillette's in North Goshen. We left home at about 8 o'clock and drove to town, where I bought a pair of pants for Pierpont at Jones & Morgan's Clothing Store for which I paid 48 cts, took the old pants to Miss Pickett's and left them and the change from a $10.00 bill except $2.00 which I kept. We left Waterbury Center at 9.15 and drove to Watertown, a distance of 6 miles, from thence to Bethlehem, 6 miles, thence to Romford station on the Shepanhg River 8 miles, then to Woodville 3 miles, thence through a rough country near a little river to Milton 6 miles, then to West Goshen over a rough road but through a very interesting country, a distance of 4 1/2 miles, then over a fine road to Goshen Center 1 1/2 miles, where I stopped and put the horse under the Congregational Church sheds and went to a Harness Shop and enquired for Mr. and Mrs. Martain where Agnes Able was visiting as I supposed. We called there but she was not there and was not coming till next Sunday Mrs. Martain said. We then went to the Post Office and I mailed a letter to brother Fred in Detroit. We left for North Goshen at 6 o'clock via North Street and the road that runs over Ivy Mountain and came out at Luddington's Corner on East Street and then to cousin Malachi's, the road through would have been dark and dangerous, had it not been for the bright moon. We found them all well and gald to see us. Cousin Lillie got supper for us. The distance from Goshen to North Goshen was 5 miles, and the distance from home to Waterbury Center 2 miles makes a distance of forty-two miles that we traveled. 09\28\{1898} (Wednesday) This forenoon at about 11 o'clock, Cousin Malachi and I after eating a lunch drove over to Obed Stannard's in South Norfolk, who is a first cousin to my father. We got there a little after twelve as they were preparing dinner. We sat down and dined with them, after which we visited a while. They have a fine farm, keep about 25 cows, everything seems to be up in good repair and thrifty{?}. The family consists of himself and wife, a son whom I did not see, and a daughter Blanche aged 17. The house is situated on a hill where a fine view of parts of Goshen and Ivy Mountain and the Tower may be seen in the West and S.W. To the S.E. Winchester Center is in full view and a tower for observation van be seen on Platt Hill beyond. From Obed Stannard's we drove to Horrace [Horace?] Stannard's at Norfolk Center stopping on the way at a little cemetery on the right hand side of the road where many of the Stanards are buried. Mr. Horace Stannard has a fine place a little East of Norfolk and his business is keeping teams and carrying the New York boarders around sightseeing for which they pay well. He had to go away and we only saw him a few minutes. His wife seemed like a very nice woman, after a short stay we went to a grist on the West Side of the town and got a bag of meal and then drove home to Malachi Gillette's. 09\29\1898 (Thursday) To day Cousin Mal went to work for Owen Hallock getting out manure. Mr. Hallock owns over 1200 acres of land and 150 head of cattle. Pierpont and I took Old Jack, the horse and drove to Ivy Mountain, by way of the "black land". We went up the tower where we had a grand view of the country for miles around could see the Catskill Mountains on the West and way up in Mass. on the North and great distances in other directions, but the atmosphere was a little hazy otherwise we could see more. From the mountain we went N.W. through the Ovaitt [Oviatt] District to Cornwall Hollow, passing a house on the way near the school house in the Ovaitt [Oviatt] District, with a bank wall in front, some of the cap stones of which were over 30 feet in length I should judge. At Cornwall Hollow I saw the General Sedgewick Mansion and also the Cemetery where he is buried. Mr. Samuel Gillette of North Goshen told me the following history of the Gen. Sedgewick place. The father of the General when a Colonel in the Revolutionary War was stationed at Dutch Bridge in Massachusetts and while there the Tories burned his house, which was a log one. He brought his regiment to Cornwall Hollow and built a large new house where the old log house had stood. With the great number of men and by pressing all the sawmills in service that were in that section, he completed the new house with the exception of a few miunor details in the remarkably short time of three days. He dug the cellar after the war was over. Mr. Gillette and a friend were passing over a mountain over looking Cornwall Hollow in 1857 when they chanced to see smoke issuing from the garrett window of this Sedwick House. They watched it a few minutes and saw that the house was on fire. They hastened there as soon as possible and by the time they arrive d there the whole thing had got beyond control and burned to the ground. The General at the time was in the West fighting the Indians and soon he came home and built the present mansion. Mr. Gillette built the cellar and did all of the stone work. It was there that his remains were brought from the fatal field of Spottsylvania Court House after the Rebel sharpshooter's bullet had doen its work. The incident of his death was as follows, On Monday May 9th, 1865 as he was directing the placing of some pieces of Artillery, some Rebel sharp-shooters stationed in some trees about a mile off were firing at them. Some of the Staff officers were annoyed and spoke words of caution to the General his reply was "Poo, they couldn't hit an elephant at that distance." He had scarcely uttered the words when he fell dead; pierced through the head with a blullet. Brigadier John Sedgwick was respected by all the Northern Nation; His soldiers loved him and were ready to follow "Uncle John" wherever he might lead. (The above was told me by a veteran who was with the General and witnessed his death). The people from the country for miles round turned out to do honour to his name at the funeral as well as many of the Nation's officials both Civil and Military. From Cornwall Hollow we went to North Cornwall and thence to Cornwall Center, thence over the mountains north of West Goshen, around West and North of Tyler Pond over some finefarming country, then North up past the West side of "West Side Pond" where I got bewildered but I found two school boys going home, who I took into the wagon and they showed me the way to Ivy Mountain, their names were Howe{??}. I followed their {??} and got to North Goshen at dark. 09\30\{1898} (Friday) This is the last day of the month, how fast time travels. I stayed at Cousin Mall's this forenoon and read the "Life of Gen Lafyette". After dinner PIerpont and I went to the North Pond and took a boat and rowed to the North end and then walked through some brush and swamp to the "Tipping Rock". It is a great boulder which I measured and figured that it would weigh 32 tons, which sits on top of an elevated bed rock or ledge, and by pushing on the East or West side it will rock back and forth, so well balanced is it, that after it has been set in motion, it will continue to rock some time, it is about 9 ft high and the top moved about six inches. Cousin Marion did not go as she expected as she intends to go home with us tomorrow. 10\01\{1898} (Saturday) This morning dawned clear and fine, we have had nice weather now for two weeks. We, Cousin Marion, Pierpont and I, got ready and started for Waterbury a little after seven o'clock, drove through Goshen East Street to Litchfield, thence through West Morris to Waertown, the country through which we passed was pleasing to the eye and everything was interesting. From Watertown we came through the center of Waterbury home where we arrived about 2 o'clock. The weather during the last part of the trip was very hot and we ad to drive slow. In the evening we went to town and took Marion to see the fire horses come from their stables and take their places in the harness when the alarm rings at 9 o'clock. She also went round the center with Clyde and saw the crowds of people which surprised her, as she had never been in the City before in the evening. After we got home, I went to see Mr. Tucker but could not wake him up, so came home to bed at 11.45. //new journal starts here; October 1898 - October 1899// //[encoded by Mary LaRue, December 1989] //{marginal and interlinear comments apparently by Margaret Miller //Northrop Hall, at some point when reading journals} 10\02\1898 (Sunday) After doing the chores and eating break- fast. [[Ch]] Irving, Margaret, Ruth, and myself went to St. Johns Church to let Cousin Marion hear the boy Choir, and see the Church. We went to the Chapel in the after- noon and heard Mr. Perry preach an excellent sermon. The amount collected at this service was $1.75. In the evening Clyde, Mary, Marion, and Myself went to the Second Congregational church and Mr. Davenport preached. They had a large nice Choir. After service we came to father's and the girls played and we sang for a long time, after which we came home, and went to stay with Mr. Tucker, but he had gone to bed and I came home and went to bed at 11.30. 10\03\1898 (Monday) Today is town election and I went and voted for Charles Horne (?) for first Select man, and the straight Republican ticket right through, also No Licence." Went to Platt Bros and saw Mr. L.A. Platt about making steel buttons, He seemed very nice, took my address and said that he would send for me to come and see them in a few days when he was not so busy. From there went to see Mr. Jones about the insurance money for damage done my house by lightening. He was mad as he had been twice to see Mrs. Munger about signing the certificate {cirtificate} (which was necessary as she holds the mortgage {morgage} on the house) and she would not, Came home and went to Robert Warden's at East farms, and dug potatoes all the afternoon; Cousin Marion Gillette went home to North Goshen this afternoon left on the train that leaves here at 3.58. In the evening went to see Mr Wallace Camp in answer to a letter to call and see about the insurance, Found that he is Mrs Mungers advisor, and a man that is more particular than he is wise, we went to see Mrs Munger, she says that she does not know much about insurance and leaves it with Mr Camp, He pretends to know all about it and more too, But it was left that I see Mr Jones and try to do something I do not know what, 10\04\1898 (Tuesday) Worked at Robert Wardens all day digging potatoes, finished late to night, he paid me 2.50 for what I had done 10\05\1898 (Wednesday) It has rained most of the time to day, spent the forenoon in writing up this journal and in reading, Mr Barmer was buried from the Chapel this afternoon, This afternnon I went to see Mr Jones about the insurance money, Mrs Munger was there yesterday, and said that she would sign the cirtificates if I would bring them to her, I carried them to her and she signed them as I did after which I brought them to Mr Jones and he drew a check in my favor for twenty dollars and kept ten dollars to give to Wm Chatfield to pay him for plaster- ing. I took the check of $20.00 to Mrs Munger and she gave me a receipt, I then went to Weaters store on East Main Street and bought 18 lbs of sugar for one dollar, then came home. Mr Nelson Hall was found dead in his bed this morning. 10\06{written over 5}\1898 (Thursday) Worked all day digging potatoes in the Sherman Bronson lot, dug 14 1/2 bu Went to the Grange with Mary this evening, Learned that Mr Nelson Hall is to be buried from the Chapel next sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. 10\07{written over 6}\1898 (Friday) Dug 22 1/2 bushels of potatoes to- day, The drum Corps boys came this evening and practiced. Mr. Tucker sent a note by Mrs Marrow to have me come and see him after I got throught with the Drummers. Ed Holden got through working at the Mattatr- ek shop yesterday. Willdon Bros No 31 Auburn St Boston Mass Dealers in button steel, so Tucker told me 10\08\1898 (Saturday) We built a shed this forenoon, to keep the horse sled in and wheel barrows in. This afternoon about 5 o'clock, I went to town and paid Mr Buckmaster a Post Office Order of $27.28 which brother Fred sent me from Detroit, to pay for packing his furniture. 10\09\1898 (Sunday) We, that is Sister Mary Jenner, and her two children, Pierpont, and myself, in my two seated wagon Father and Mother, in their carriage and Rolland Jenner with his Bycicle went to the top of the Meriden mountain, where we had a fine view of a great portion of the state, including a little of long island sound. Mr Nelson Hall was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. Mr Maya officiated, The Grange service was also used. 10\10\1898 (Monday) Worked at Mr Tuckers from 9 oclock till six banking Celery. 10\11\1898 (Tuesday) Was at Mr Tuckers from 6 till 12 work- ing in the garden, This afternnon we went to the Wolcott Fair Ground to arrange the Grance exibit for the Fair tomorrow, but there was not enough to arrange, so we came home and I went to Platts Mills, to see if I could get a job. 10\12\1898 (Wednesday) Went up to Mr Tuckers this mor- ning, and he took me to the Wolcott Fair ground where he was to arran- ge the Grange exibit, we found Clyde there he had walked and got there ahead of us, there was but a few pumpkins, and squashes and some other vegitibles there and Mr Tucker thought that there was not enough to pay to bother with so as it was raining, we started home, and went to Waterbury center by way of Lakewood, as we were coming down North Main St we saw the flag on City hall at half mast and on enquiry found that Mr Gurnesey Parsons, the Banker, and he who had also been Mayor of the City was dead, Then we came home, and I went to digging potatoes and dug and put into the cellar 5 bushels. this makes a total of 42 bushels I have now in the Cellar. When the Boys got home from the Wolcott Fair they said that it was the largest Fair that they have ever held. 10\13\1898 (Thursday) Worked for Mr Tucker all day, Mary and I went to the Grange this evening 10\14\1898 (Friday) Worked for Mr Tucker from 8 o clock. It commenced to rain as I was coming home, from work, We have had fine weather till now. 10\15\1898 (Saturday) Today the weather has been variable. Cool, windy, rainy, and fair, Agness Cohle came, at about quarter to six to see if we were going to Roaringbrook in Cheshire we were not up when she came, but got up as soon as possible, and told her, that we would go. We then got ready, and sent Pierpont and Raymond to Mothers to stay, and Clyde, Irving, Charlie Hotchkiss and I went to Mother Pierponts and cut firewood, till Mary came with my team and then we went to the East Farms School house where we were to meet at 10 o'clock. In due time all of the teams arrived except George Cass and we started at the appointed time in the following order. First Arthur Pierpont with his vegtable wagon and a pair of horses, he had with him Mrs Levelette Upson,(2) Miss Bessie Garrigus (3), Mr Lewis Garrigus (4) Annie and Minnie Garrigus (6) (twins) and Jessie Garrigus (7), and Willie Garrigus (8), Jessie Monroe (9) Flora (10) and Lewis Hitchcock (11), Charlie Hotchkiss (12), Mort (13) and Fred Pierpont (14), Edith Pierpont (15) Clyde (16) and Irving [[Pierpont]] Miller (17), Arthur Warden (18), Flossy Upson (19), and Henry Cass (20). Next came my team with Ruth, Margaret, my Wife and Myself, next Mr Mun- sons team with Mrs Thedore Munson, Agness Able, and Earl Munson, and George Cass met us there with Miss Ida Spender, We went there by way of the Plank Road to Gilletts Corner then by Matherns Street to Rag. Hallay Road to Lights Pond then down the mountain to Cooks Corner on the New Haven Road and then to the Brook and Gorge, After eating our refreshments at the foot of the Gorge we started for the summit which was over 400 feet above us, Many of the ladies were struck with the beauty of the gorge, especially the 60 ft falls, the Eave trough, and deep pool. At the top of the Mountain we had a fine view of a portion of the sound, and East Rock with the Souldiers Monument on it, Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire etc. We started home {marginal note: I remember about the watch-- different handwriting} at about 4 o'clock, where we arrived after dark, All having a good time, but Mort Pierpont lost a fine silver watch which his Father gave him for Christmas, Coming home, we, Clyde, Chas Hotchkiss and myself, agreed to start at three o'clock in the morning and go over the ground where Mort had been and see if we could find it, After I had eaten my supper and done my chores Mrs Marrow called and told me that Mr Tucker was very sick, and wanted me to come up immediately, I went and found him in bed with his clothes on. He had been taken with a dullness and dizzyness at about 6 o'clock and fell at the foot of the stairs, They got him up in bed, and called Dr Ward, his pults were 42 and and he appeared very sick, I was to give medicine every 15 minutes, got his clothes off and put him in bed with a water bottle at his feet and plenty of bed clothes on and warmed him up, and at eleven o'clock he was much better and went to sleep, I lay on the back side of the bed, but did not wake him to give medicine, and at 1.30 I fell a sleep {margin: 10\16\1898 (Sunday)} but awoke at three, he seemed much better, and said that he would be all right if I wanted to go away. So I started home as fast as I could had a lantern to see the way across the lots, got Clyde up, and hitched up the horse as soon as I could and we went to Charlie Hotchkisses and Clyde drummed on the front door, and I on the back, till we finally awoke him up, then we started and reached the top of the mountain at day break. we looked the ground over with great care but did not find the watch, we then explored a dry gorge, North of Roaring brook. We followed the brook up to the old mill, and saw some trout 10 inches long, We then went to the top of the mountain and followed it South to the road, we then got the team and went south through the Woods to the South mountain road but had difficulty in getting through and had almost reached the road when, in trying to cross a little bog hole the horse went in almost out of sight and we had a great time getting him unhitched and out, the harness was broke some but we tied it up, and started home via Prospect center, we reached home at three and after getting cleaned up and eating supper (we having eaten no meal since supper last night) I went to see Mr Tucker, found him very blue but much better, I stayed with him all night. The Rev Mr Hanna of the First Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\17\1898 (Monday) Helped Mary at the washing this morning by running the washing machine, After which I went to work for Mr Tucker at banking celery and moving hay in the barn got there at 9 o'clock and got through at 4 o'clock. Mr Fanias Hahn a tool maker at Steel and Johnsons is building a house on the Meriden turnpike near the watering trough this side of Amanda Griswolds place. 10\18\1898 (Tuesday) Worked from eight to four o'clock for Hiram Able mowing in his swamps Mafor Tucker paid me 3.00 Levelette Upson of the Meriden Road got kick- ed by his horse, and it broke his nose, and knocked one eye out 10\19\1898 (Wednesday) Rained hard all day. 10\20\1898 (Thursday) Worked for Hiram Able 8 hours 10\21\1898 (Friday) George Case called this morning and wanted me to go to his house and lay up a bank wall. I then went and got my wagon up to the swamp on the Dolittle place where I have been working at hay for Hiram Able, and took one front wheel, to Miles Paynes on East Mountain to have it repaired, I then went to work for George Cass and laid wall from 8 till 5 o'clock. A Mrs Roase of Naugatuck murdered by Mrs Mariana Pompania last night. They were both Italians and were fighting. 10\22\1898 (Saturday) Rained all day. They boys and I put a plank floor in the horse stable 10\23\1898 (Sunday) Read and wrote, on a paper about the march of Count De Rachambeaus army through Connecticut, in 1781, till it was time to go to the Chapel, the Rev Mr Davenport preached a good sermon, as he always does, but I cannot now recall a single word of it. 10\24\1898 (Monday) This morning went to Gilbert Hotchkiss on East Mountain, to see him about selling my shop to some friend of his. Found outnothing as he had not heard from his friend, Then went to Miles Paynes, and got a wheel that he had repaired for me, for which he charged one dollar, He gave me a check on Holmes & Parsons Bank for Nine dollars and Seventy two cents, which amount he owed me, Then came home and had breakfast, and went to Hiram Ables and opened out his hay, then to George Casse's at 9 o'clock and laid wall till noon then with George Cass and Charlie Hotchkiss after dinner and got Hiram Ables hay into a stack, which took till four o'clock then to George Cass and laid wall till dark, a little after five o'clock. Hiram Able called in the evening to asertain how much I charged for getting in his hay I told him $5.00 10\25\1898 (Tuesday) This morning went to George Casse's and laid wall, about 10 o'clock Wm Purdy of Prospect came to see me about doing some joiner work up to the Pratt place on East Moun- tain, Went up with him and found that he had lately become posessor of the farm and wanted new sills put under the barn, and 15 ft built on the South end. I told him that I would start on it next thursday morning, am to get $2.50 per day. 10\26\1898 (Wednesday) Worked repairing the harness till ten o'clock, then hitched up and went to town, it raining. Stopped at the Mattatuck Mfg Co on my way, Went first to Holmes & Parsons bank, and got the check that Miles Paynes gave me cashed 9.72, then went to Tracy Bros to see about trading some hard wood lumber for some shealk- ing, then to the Chas Flacker Co and bought some elboes, and nipples for 1/2 iron pipe to rep Mother Pierponts watering trough with .25 thence to Jones & Morgans and bought two pairs of overalls and jumpers for which I paid 1.90. thence to Miller & Pecks and bought 1 yd of elastic for .05 from thence to D. L. Dickinson's and got a bag of oats for 1.15 then home where I arrived at 12.30 o'clock, worked about home in the afternoon cleaning and repairing my harness. 10\27\1898 (Thursday) [[Wednesday]] Went to work today for William Purdy at the Pratt place on East Mountain, Worked 9 hours, chopping down trees and drawing the logs down to the barn for the sills etc. Received a letter to day from Mr D. G. Porter, asking me to return a old mowing machine that I borrowed of him in 18 but which Miss Girtrude Bradley who acted as his agent while he was in Europe wished me to take for pay for services I did in saving the shade trees in front of Mr Porters house from being cut by the Waterbury Traction Co, who were agitating extend- ing their line past his house, The trees are in the highway. We recived news today that Clarance Gaylord Davenport son of the Rev Dr John G Davenport of the Second Congregational Church in this City, died of typhoid fever yesterday at Porto Rico, near Panci, [[yesterday]]. He was a member of Co.C. First United States VOlunteer engineers. He was 30 years old the 21st day of last April, He joined the Second church in 1884 {written over 3}, the same day that my wife and I did. 10\28\1898 (Friday) Yesterday and today the weather has been clear and fine. Worked hueing timber for Wm Purdy nine hours, this is the first hueing that I have done in years. {writing large--hands sore!} 10\29\1898 (Saturday) Cloudy all day, hued nine hours, Wm Purdy paid me $6.75 for the last 3 days work. Earnest Robinson had a daughter born to day, their second child. 10\30\1898 (Sunday) Stayed with Major Tucker last night, Read in Barbers History of Conn all the forenoon, and went to the Chapel this afternoon, Dr Anderson was to have preach- ed, but Earnest Robinson who went after him could not find him, so Hiram Able lead the meeting which was one of praise and song, and was very interesting. In the evening Agness Able took my horse and two seated wagon and carried Mrs Bryan (who lives in Watertown) to the City. 10\31\1898 (Monday) Worked hueing timber for Wm Purdy 9 hours to day 11\01\1898 (Tuesday) Went to East Mountain and hued timber for Wm Purdy Mr Frank Thompkins moved from the Pratt place on East Moun- tain to the tenement over Spenser Pierponts store on East Main St. Milan Northrop called today to get me to build a ice house for him. 11\02\1898 (Wednesday) Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours to day. Went to the Chapel this evening to the first supper of the season given by the ladies Union, they made about $9.00 Wm Clark began working for Purdy 11\03\1898 (Thursday) Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours Went to the Grange this evening 11\04\1898 (Friday) This day I worked framing timber for Wm Purdy. 11\05\1898 (Saturday) Worked for Wm Purdy. Todays paper said that they would have trains running on the Middletown Meriden and Water- bury Rail Road by Thanksgiving probably. the road has laid idle for the two or three years. 11\06\1898 (Sunday) [[Oct]] This morning was very rainy, had breakfast at 8.30 o'clock of bacon and fried oysters, after which I read the papers awhile, when Morris Alcott came to see if I would get a minister for the Chapel next Sunday, Then I put a lock and hinges on an old tool chest that used to belong to Grandfather Somers which Uncle Joe gave me, and which I intend to use, Called on Hiram Able this even- ing to see about letting him take my horse to draw sand with Tuesday. Went to see Mr Tucker in the evening, He returned from New York last Friday afternoon, While there he saw Mr ----- agent for the Judd Co. who purchases the nails made by the Mattatuck Co. He says that the Mattatuck Co has got to bust before long, and I hope it will, The Rev Mr Parry preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 11\07\1898 (Monday) [[Oct]] Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours. Went to Charles Cass this evening to see if he would be Grandpa in the entertainment to be given at Grange Hall the evening after Thanksgiving. {margin: 2.25} "He Said he would." 11\08\1898 (Tuesday) [[Oct]] This morning after breakfat I went to the Armory and voted for the candidates who were nom- inated on the Republican tacket, George E Lounsbury for Govern- or, also voted for Lieutenant Governor, Congressman, State Senetor, Representitaves Justices of the Peace, County Sheriff etc, Then went to work for Wm Purdy at {margin: 1.75} the Pratt place. Worked from 9 to 5 o'clock Went up to Mr Garrigus this evening. 11\09\1898 (Wednesday) [[Oct]] Worked at Purdys this day 9 hours, We learned that Lounsbury was elected Governor of Connecticut at yesterday election, Durant and Brett were elected Representatives over Cowell and O'Niel, Warren Hall was defeated, and Kennedy of Naugatuck was elected State {2.25} Senetor, It snowed a little this forenoon, the first of the season. 11\10\1898 (Thursday) This morning it looked like rain and I did not go to work. I hitched into the big wagon and went down to my shop and drew up three loads of wood when it rained so hard that I had to stop, after getting wet through, spent the rest of the day in putting things to rights {00} about home. 11\11\1898 (Friday) It has been very cold and windy today. Worked for William Purdy 9 hours. Charlie Hotchkiss and George {2.25} Cass, with Irving and myself practiced drumming this evening. 11\12\1898 (Saturday) The weather has been fine today. Worked for Wm Purdy nine hours; He paid me $13.50 which paid me {2.25} up to last Saturday night the 5th. Charlie Hotchkiss and George Cass {10.75} came this evening and we worked repairing drums. 11\13\1898 (Sunday) Did not sleep much last night owing to a hard cold, and to Pierpont who had the croup, after a breakfast of stewed oysters, I set a number of window glass and did other odd jobs, in the afternoon went to the Chapel and heard the Rev Joseph Anderson preach a notice of a meeting of the Ladies Union was read, to be held next Wednesday afternoon from 1.30 to 5 o'clock for work, supper is to be omitted. After supper went to see Mr Tucker, staid till nine o'clock and came home in the rain. The weather had been fine up to this time. 11\14\1898 (Monday) This morning at about 5 o'clock Margaret told us to look out of the West windows and see the fire, the sky in the direction of the City beyond Abrigador hill was all aglow and at times a blaze could be seen leaping up. It proved to be the barn of Mr Hot- chkiss on West Side hill. I worked for Mr Purdy 9 hours today. 11\15\1898 (Tuesday) Worked on East Mountain for Mr Purdy today putting up the fraim for the {2.25} new barn addittion and began cover- ing it, was there from 7 to 5. This morning Marice Reid awoke and thought that it was daylight on looking at the clock he saw that it was two o'clock, and on looking out the door saw that his barn was on fire, it burned to the ground, and two horses and two young cattle were also burned, the cause of the fire was unknown. Clarance Davenport, son of Rev John Davenport, of the Second Congregational Church, was buried this afternoon, with military honors, the body arived from Portorico where he died of the typhoid fever, last friday. Rev Joseph Anderson ^of this City and Rev Mr Foster of Boston preached the funeral sermons, in the Second Congregation- al Church, which was filled to over- flowing. Clarance was a member of the 1st U.S. Regt, of engineers, and is the second souldier who went from Waterbury and died in this war with Spain. 11\16\1898 (Wednesday) Worked on East Mountain for Wm Purdy 9 hours putting on covering. The Grange Fair opened tonight {2.25} the attendence was rather small consider- ing the number of tickets sold. 11\17\1898 (Thursday) Arose this morning at 5.30 o'clock, fed the horse 2 quarts of cracked corn and 2 of oats and a forkful of hay. Ate breakfast of Codfish balls after which I did odd jobs till 9 o'clock (it raining quite hard,) when I got ready and started for town stoped at my shop and shut down a window which the boys left open last saturday when they took the stoves out, carried the milk to Fathers, and stoped there a while, then went to take the trolley car at Silver Street, road to the center, for which Mr Tucker paid 5 cts. We got on at Silver street and paid both of our fares, First I went to George Minors Shoe Store and bought a pair of articks for which I paid $1.50 thence to Miller & Pecks dry good store and bought one skein of carpet thread for .05 cts, thence 5to Mr Roberts the truss maker and had him repair my truss so it would hold my rputure better, which took till noon, Paid 1.50, thence to Hotchkiss and Templetons hard ware store and bought a steel nail hammer for which I paid .60 cts thence to Dr Barbers office and ordered him to come to our house in the afternoon to see little Raymond who is sick with the croup. {margin, other handwriting: I remember how strange Ray looked in his white dress.} Rode out on the trolley car and got home at 12.30 had dinner of boiled long clams, after which I choped wood for a spell when the Doctor came, He found that Raymond was very sick with the Laringetis and thought that he must have the best of care. He wrote out a prescription and I wrode to town with him to have it put up, Went to H. W. Lakes, and got the medicine, while it was being put up I went to Currens drygood store and got two Shaker nightgowns for which I paid .50 cts, called at Lakes and got the medicine for which I paid .30 cts, rode home with Charlie Brown, on Pierponts Brothers heavy two horse team, Charlie Hotchkiss and George Cass came in the afternoon and we made arrangements for the enter- tainment at Grange Hall the evening after Thanksgiving, after they went Irving and I did the chores and we ate supper of Bread, cake, cold clams etc, after which I gave my attention to Raymond till 11 o'clock when I went to bed. Mary was to call me when she got tired, but did not and I slept till morning. 11\18\1898 (Friday) It rained very hard this morning and I did not go to work. Irving and I went to the shop and got a load of tools lumber etc, and brought home. The doctor called at about 10 o'clock, and found Raymond about the same as he was yesterday. Went to work at noon and worked till {1.00} 5 o'clock, at Purdys, Wm Purdy paid me off for last weeks work 10.75 came down to the Brass Mill and brought Father home when I came. When I got home I found Ramond very sick it began raining at about $6.30 and rained hard all the night I stayed up all night and attended to Raymond. 11\19\1898 (Saturday) It has rained hard all day, Worked about home, there is a slight improve- ment in Raymonds health, In the evening we went to Grange Hall to a rehersal for the entertainment next Friday evening. Those who are to take part in it are Charlie Cass {diff. hand: Grampa}, Mrs Adelbert Hitchcock, George Cass, Henry Cass, Charles Hotchkiss, Willie Garrigus, Arthur Pierpont, Harry Kilbourn, Joe Hucy, Bessie Garrigus, Annie Garrigus, Minnie Garrigus, Margaret Miller, Clara French, Bertha French, and Ida Spender. {other hand: I was the little girl who gave "Grandpa" his fife} The entertainment was and old Fashioned Thanksgiving supper, We got home at about 10.30 went to bed at 11 o'clock. Mary stayed up with Raymond. 11\20\1898 (Sunday) Today the weather has been fine. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and listened to a sermon by Rev Mr Howell of Simonsville, Called on Mr Tucker this evening, stayed till nine o'clock. He gave me some old shoes for the children and some illustrated papers of the Nations war ships, and heavy guns. He intends to start in the morning for New Boston Mass where he intends to stay during the winter. ((Monday)) 11\21\1898 (Monday) Worked to day for Wm Purdy, 9 hours, The weather has been fair. {2.25} 11\22\1898 (Tuesday) {2.25} The weather has been fine today, Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours. Had a rehersal at the Grange Hall this evening. Fifteen years ago this morning at 9 o'clock I and my wife were married, Bought a key of cider of Mr Bayley of East Moun- tain for .60 cts 5 galls. 11\23\1898 (Wednesday) {2.25} The weather has been nice to day Worked for Purdy 9 hours. 11\24\1898 (Thursday) This day is Thanksgiving. We got up a little before 7 o'clock, and Irving did the chores and Clyde and I went to drawing wood from the shop. After drawing two loads we had breakfast of stewed oysters, after which we drew wood till 10 o'clock after which we got ready and went to Uncle Dwight Somers in Simons- ville to the Somers family reunion. Clyde and I walked, and Mary, Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, and Raymond, wrode in the two seated wagon. They set the table in the Chapel, (Methodist) and 45 people sat down at about two o'clock. There were nine absent. The family consists of Uncle Dwight Somers and Aunt Emogene, and cousins Robert and Mary his wife, Joe and Lewis, Father and Mother, and brother Frank and wife Myself and wife, and children Clyde Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, and Raymond. Uncle Joe Somers, and aunt Fan, and Children, LIzzie, David and wife Etta, Josie, Myra, (George not there) and May, Uncle Goldsmith and aunt Christine and children, Jennie and husband Charles Phillips, (Willie not there) and Mary. Uncle Ben and (wife not here) Uncle Will and Aunt Ellen, and (Fred not there) Cousin Daivd Frisbie and wife And cousin Frank and Burt, Sister Mary and Roland Jenner, her husband, and children, Louise and [[Effel]] Ethol and Sisters Cara and Iva, There are Fifty four persons in all but nine were absent. Uncle Dwight was the older person aged 66 years and my Raymond was the youngest, aged 3 years, after supper they had singing and Recitations, after which Ice cream was served, after which we retired to Uncle Dwights house, and listened to some fine singing by three young people who were strangers to me, after which we came home in the same manner that we went. The snow lay on the ground to the depths of two inches, it having snowed all the afternoon 11\25\1898 (Friday) {2.25} Worked at Purdys 9 hours 11\26\1898 (Saturday) [[F]] The weather this morning was rather cold, but a little after noon it began to snow and continued snowing till night at six o'clock there lay on the ground about three inches. Went to work at Purdyes this morn- ing we put the weather boards on the barn, and shingled till the snow drove us off at about 4 o'clock worked about {2.12 1/2} 8 1/2 hours. 11\27\1898 (Sunday) Awoke this morning to find the wind blowing hard and the air full of snow with great drifts on the ground. We got up at about 8 o'clock and after digging out the out bildings and eating breakfast doing the chores etc, Clyde Irving and I hitched the horse into the old sled and went down to Fathers with the milk, we found great drifts but drove through them in going there. From Fathers we went to Ashtons corner and up the Meriden road where we had to dig through many of the drifts before we got to the Chapel. We stoped at Charlie Casses, and I told him that he might take my bob sleigh to peddle milk with, and he said that he would come down with me and get it. So we started home. Steve Pardee* {diff hand: *milk peddler} accompying us and Charlie was to come on with his horse we reached John Frenches and waited some time for Charlie. When he came we started on digging some of the time in the drifts till we reached Mr Ables when we left the road and went through his yard and through the fields to Mrs Doolittles lower barn where we again entered the road, and had a hard time getting to my house, some of the drifts being ten feet deep/ We went to my shop and got the sleigh after which we came home, the wind and snow still blowing. This has been the worst storm ever known in this vicinity within the rememberence of the older persons living, that has occured in November, the snow has fallen to the depth of two feet on the level. We have heard a great deal of whistling from factory whistles this forenoon the cause of which we do not know. Randolph and Clowes great roof of their Rooling mill fell in at one o'clock this morning from the weight of snow on it. I have heard some of the old people say that this roof was the first iron truss and iron covered roof put on in the United States, it was designed for a four pitch roof, but was subsiquent- ly changed for a gable roof, some had fears years ago that it would not stand, it was put on I think about 1860. At the time that the roof was put on Mr Thomas Payne who lived on East Mountain was killed, His death happened as follows, His son Martain Payne had the job of putting the roof on, and was there at work, Mr Thomas wishing to see him went to the building and had just stepped inside the door when a portion of the roof gave way and let fall a lot of lumber and iron which struck Mr Payne killing him. He and his wife had quarreled that morning, and when he started away she said she hoped he might be brought home dead, A few hours later as he was brought into the house, she remark- ed that, She was dam glad of it, {diff hand: shame!!} //temp end// 11\28\1898 (Monday) This morning the snow is piled in great drifts and the roads are everywhere blacked, It reminds me of the great storm of Mar 1888 when it snowed from four o,clock{o,clack!} Sunday night till the next Wednesday forenoon, the snow lying at an average depth of three and one half feet and drifts were piled in many places 12 and 14 fet high. Out near Shelton Hitchcock on the Meriden road there was a drift higher thatn the tops of the telegraph poles. I thought that I would try and make a pth through the Doolittle road and was getting ready when Hiram Able came and asked me if I would help dig out the road, I told him of my intentions{intentons!} at which he seemed pleased. We drove to the foot of the hill by the book and began to dig, and from thence it was continuous - to the lower barn a distance of nearly 1/4 of a mile and at one place through a drift ten feet deep. There was a clear place in front of the Doolittle house but at the upper barn a great drift began and it was digging most of the way to the brook near John Frenches house, it took till after four o'clock to get to Frenches Clyde, Irving, Walter Garrigus, Hiram Able, and myself in the forenoon, and all but Walter Garrigus in the afternoon. After we were dug through I gave Cla___{Clares?} and Bertha French, a ride on the horse sled through the drif_s{drifts?} to my house and my wife go_{got?} on the sled and road back to Mrs. Munsons, when we got home it was quit_{quite?} _ark{dark?}. {Notes in margin of text: I remember this day - We{he?} wore boy's pants - RMB There was no school M.H.} 11\29\1898 (Tuesday) This morning I started for work at East Mountain on the horse sled, But when I had crossed the long bridge at the head of the Brass Mill pond I found deep drifts all the way to the Prospect road, and no track beyond the Cass place. Irving who was with me, went ahead and picked out the best part of the road and wallered{wallowed?} through the drifts and I followed, we managed to get through without digging, and I got to work at 8 o'clock and worked till five. {Note in the margin at this line: 2.00} Clyde and Irving came after _e{me?} at five and we came home much easier than we went over. {Note in margin of text: School this day.} 11\30\{1898} (Wednesday) After breakfast this morning I started for East Mountain on the horse sled{slead!}, it was snowing very hard, had quite a time getting{gettin!} through the road that runs across the foot of East Mountain, there was no one there to help me and I did not work. Came home{,?} and carried irving to school going through the Doolittle road which I have driven through six times to day to keep it open, about 10 inches of snow fell last night ant today. Worked cutting wood most of the time to day. Wm Purdy paid me 6.00 this day. 12\01\1898 (Thursday) Went to work for Mr. purdy this morning, did not get there till 8.30 had a hard time getting through the mountain road. Worked puttin_{putting?} in the sleepers for the main floor. Wm Clark did not come as he had to open roads about the town of Prospect, He being first __lect man{Eelect man?}. This afternoon a trin with two locomotived{lolomotives!} and a snowplow pushed through the Meriden Waterbury and Corm{?} River Rail Road. They expect to start regular trains running next monday. Note in margin of text: 2.12 1/2 - crossed out 1.87 1/2 12\02\{1898} (Friday) The weather today has been fine for this time of year, Worked for Purdy 8 1/2 hours laying barn floor {Mathematical equation in margin of text} 12\03\{1898} (Saturday) Went to work for Purdy this day. Worked{Wokked!} 8 1/2 hr. On my way there I met Willie Strong near the watering trought and he asked me, Who anyon_{anyone?} should see to buy a lot of in the Pine Grove Cemetery and their cost etc, I afterwards learnes{learned?} that Mr. Barnes little{liftle!} child died this morning at 4 o clock this mornin_{morning?} of membrainous {membrainaus!} croup. Mr. Barnes is Mr. Strong's hired man, M Mr. Hart worked with me to day cutting and hauling{hawling1} sleepers for the horse __rn{barn?} floor, we also hired{?} eight of them. When Clyde and I were coming home tonight, as we were turning the cor_er{corner?} by Mr. Casse_{Casses?} we saw where _ome{some?} one{ane!} had been tiped out of a sleigh. We learned from George Cass who stoped the horse{shorse!} that it was a Mrs. leonard who lives on North Main Street who was going to Hiram Able's to see if she could hire a girl. The horse ran all the way from where Mr. _ass{Cass?} lives at the corner of the Prospect road to George Casses near the long bridge at Ha___{Harpers?} ferry, and Mrs. Leonard and her little girl ran after the horse till she say{saw?} George Cass putting the blanket on the horse through the deep drifts most of{af!} the way Miss Jennie Welton died last night at about 8 o clock, the particulars are as follows. She had been to James Porter's to see about some sewing to James Porter's to see about some sewing and had started home with a bundle of work. When just below my Father's house Gus Painter who was going to town with a horse and sleigh overtook her as she was staggering about he was trying to pass her When Will Gillette came along and saw her and told Painter that something was the matter with her, she told them her name and the number of the hose she lived in on{an!} East Main Street, they then took her in the sleight and carried her home but she died before they reached there Charlie Hotchkiss is working for D. G. Porter Arthur Blewitt having gone home on account of his father's death. Purdy Paid me $10.00 Note in margin of text: $10.00 12\04\1898 (Sunday) The weather to day has been fair and warm snow settled very much, it began raining at about 3.30 and rained hard when i went to bed. Went to the Chapel this afternoon {Next line difficult to read} Mr. Parry Preached The Chapel Committee approved the bill of M_ss{Miss?} Bessie Garrigus of 15.00 as organist{?} from May 1 to Dec 1, W also{We also?} approved the bill of Dexter Northrop for services as Janitor/janitor{?} of $10.00 When we came home we, mary, Irving Margaret, Ruth Pierpont, Vernon{Vernom!} Able, Florence{Fforence!} ABle and myself, rode home on the horse sled. 12\05\{1898} (Monday) It has been cloudy but has not stormed to day, Worked for Purdy 9 hr. Mr. Hart and Wm Clark worked there, Hart and I hueing{?} and fitting sleepers, and Clark making the cow stables. I suppose that the first trains run on the Meriden, Middletown, and Waterbury rail road to carry regular passengers. Note in margin of text: 225 12\06\{1898} (Tuesday) {December is crossed out} The weather to day has been fine for{fore!} this time of year. The first train that came in yesterday morning __{on?} the new Meriden Middletown and Waterbury Rail Road brought three passengers, they were Mort Pierpont, Howard and Clerence{Clarance?} Worden, three school boys who got on at East Farms. Worked for Purdy 9 hr Note in margin of text: 2.25 12\07\{1898} (Wednesday) Weather to day has been fine. Hiram Able had a son born to him and his wife this morning early. Worked for William Purdy 9 hours. Notes in margin of text: 2.25 Wilbur 12\08\{1898} (Thursday) The weather to day ha been clear and cool{coal!}. Worked for Purdy nine hours Mother Pierpont is 70 years old to day. Notes in margin of text: 2.25 Mathematical equation in margin of text 12\09\{1898} (Friday) The weather to day has been Cool, but clear most of the time. Worked for Purdy 9 hours Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. Note in margin of text: 2.25 12\10\{1898} (Saturday) Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours to day Note in margin of text: 2.25 12\11\1898 (Sunday) Went to ___{the?} Chapel and heard Mr. Rafter of the Waterville Episcopal{Episcapal!} Church preach. There was collected 2.21 which I gave to Mr. Able. 12\12\{1898} (Monday) It began snowing a little after dinner and snowed all the afternoon Worked for Wm Purdy 9 hours He paid me today 11.00{?} which squares{squairs!} us up to a w__k{week?} ago last Saturday night 12\13\1898 (Tuesday) Got up at half past five, the weather was very cool, built the two fires called Irving, fed horse, and coon breakfast was ready had pancakes, started for work at half past six, drove to Purdy's on the horse{harse!} cled, about one and one half inches of snow fell during the night. Wm Clark and I worked finishing the horse stables. Pierpont came at 11.38 with a letter delivered by special delivery by the post boy{bay!} from Mr. Tucker who is in New Boston, Wanting me to see Fred Brainard in Southington and have him meet him in Winsted next Thursday evening about the insurance{inshurance!} on{an!} the old shear shop, I stoped work at noon, drove home and after getting [[Note in margin, presumably recording hours of work?? 1.25 {Is this 1.00 crossed out and 1.25 written on top of it?}]] warm, and eating dinner, started for Soughington in my spindle buggy. Went through east Farms and over the mountains at Hitchcocks Pond_{Ponds?}, the riding was cold and rough some of{af!} the way the old drifts were five feet deep, went through marion, to Mill dale{,?} _here{where?} I stoped at the brick shop{shap!} at D_ckermans{Dickermans?} corner and inquired for Brainard. They d rected{directed?} me East across{acass!} the Quinnapiac{?} River to Stillmans corner then thru, North till I reach an abandoned paper mill _hen{then?} go a little way and turn to the right and go through the lots to a little shop{,?} and I would find him, I went as directed and found him as directed, polishing bicicle{bycicle!} wrenches, _{I?} told hime what I had come{came!} for, and he said he would go. I drove home as soon as possible reaching there a li____{little?} after six very cold, the themometer regirstng{in the 1935-38 manuscripts, usually spelled regerstering} zero, at Nine it was six below The treaty of Peace between this Country and Spain were signed at Paris last Saturday evening at 8:45 o clock. The american signers were, Judge William, R Day, Senator{Senetor!} Crishman K{?} DAvis, Senator{Senetor!} Fry, Mr. Reid{Reed?} and Senator{Senetor!} George Grey. The Spanish signers were, Senor Mortero, Rias, Senor. Abarzuza{Alarzuza?}, Senor G__nica{Gurnica?}, Senor Vallauruti{?} and General Cerero Saens. [[There is a note in the margin of the text that indicates the paragraph that begins with "The Spanish signers ..." The note is the following: Red ink in Original LLD 5/17/89 {probably 1989, when xeroxed]] Each commissioner signed his opponents{oponents!} treaty. Both were tied with the Spanish and American Colars The treaty provides that Cuba is to be relinquished from Spain, and that Puerto Rico{Porto Rico!} and the Phillipine Islands are to be ceded to the United States. The U.S. are to pay for the repatriation of the Spanish troop_{troops?} from all the Colonies{Calanies?}. The Spanish are to return all prisoners held by them. They are to retain all military stores and munition of war in the Phillipines and such ships as have not been captured. I think that in the long run it would be better to have settled some other way than by annexing the Phillipines, The Nations of the East are jealous of us, and this act, wll{will?} add fuel to the smouldering fire that is burning which will some time break out and cause more trouble than it would if we had accepted a war indemnity, or even forced them to pay it. 12\14\1898 (Wednesday) This morning the thermometer{themometer!} stood at 14 degrees below zero. I got ready and went to town on the trolley went first to the Waterbury bank and had a twon order cashed for 5.60 after which I went to the central telephone station and telephones{teleplane_!} Mr. Tucker at New Boston Mass that Mr. Brainard and I would meet him{?} at the Winchester hotel in Winsted tomorrow afternoon for which I paid 25{?} cts. went thence{?} to the Select mans office and had my Military tax ab__ted{?} on account of disability{dishability!}, then came home, and ate dinner and went to work at Purdys{?} 3 1/2 hr. {Note in margin of text: .88} After supper went to th Chapel and had another{?} supper for which I paid 10 cts, went over to the Grange Hall to a poultry show, there were but few there paid 15 cts admissions, came back to the Chapel where the Entertainment was going on Mr. Rolph Blakeslce{?} was giving a Grapaphone Enterta_nueul{?} which was the best I ever heard. {New paragraph?} They also had some fine singing. Came home and arranged{arrainged!} a short discourse which I intend to give at the grange, and wrote this matter which took till midnight. 12\15\{1898} (Thursday) This morning after doing the barn chores, and some other regular work, I did up the horse's leg, which he calked in going to Southington. Then I had to hustle to get rady to go to Winsted, to see Mr. Tucker and a lawyer from Hartford, about the insurance on the Old Shear Shop{?} which burned Oct 19th 1896. I took the trolley car at East Main Street near Silver, and went to Waterville where I arrived at 11 O'clock, paid 05 ct fare. At 11.10 took steam cars for{far!} Tarrington, got there at 12. Went{Wen!} and got shaved for which I paid 10 cts, at One Oclock took th trolley cars for Winsted where I arrived at about two Oclock, got off at the Winchester Hotel, met Mr. Tucker at the door, Went across{acrass!} the street and met Fred Brainard in __{?} restaurant{restaurent!}, waited there, while M_{Mr.?} Tucker went to the Depot to meet his son Horace{Harace!} who was coming from the Cheshire Military Acadamy{Acadeniey!}. on a three weeks vacation. Went to mr. Tuckers room in the Winchester and waiter for Mr. Fullter{?} to come from Hartford. He arrived at a little after four, and Mr. Branard{?} told him all about the machinery{machnery!} in the old shop which took till six when we went to supper, in a spacious dining hall with a fine tile floor, a big Nigger sat the chair under me to sit down in and gave me lots of attention, as he did the rest, I hardly thought this necessary on my part, for I am only too glad to sit down without help if I can{cam!} get what is good to eat. First they brought on beefsteak and browned potatoes and onions, biscuits{buiscuits!} and butter coffee, next eggs and{an!} toast after cleaning most of the dishes o__{off?}, brought on other courses{carses!}, the most of which I have now forgotten, the last was, clear glass bowls{bowles!} _ith{with?} a little water in the bottom, served on china plates, for each of us. I wondered what these were, but soon saw Mr. Tullere{?} dip his fingers in his bowl and wipe them on his napkin{knapkin!}, I did not follow his example as I had not practiced and feared I might be awkward. After supper we went to Mr. Tuckers room and and{written twice} talked awhile{a whill!}, after which Mr. Tuller{?} and Tucker went to find a typewriter{typewritter!} to copy{coppy!} off his short hand, and Fred Brainard{?} and I took a walk out to West Winsted. After we returned, mr. Brainard and Fuller{?} went to their rooms, and Mr. Tucker and I staid together{to gather!}. {new paragraph?} We took a bath and went to bed. 12\16\1898 (Friday) Got up about Seven, Mr. Fuller Mr. Tucker and I had breakfast, Horace{Harace!} also, together{togather!}. Mr. Brainard had ate before us and had taken an early train for home, after breakfast I read over the testimony which I had given Mr. Fuller the evening before and which he had written out, after which Mr. Tucker and Fuller went to the barroom{?} and got a drink, as I have never tasted{taisted!} any drink stronger than cider I did not go, Mr. Fuller, Horace{Harice!}, and I, drove up to the Solders{Souldiers!} monument, where we had a fine view of Winsted and the adjoining country. The monument is a fine one, and the location grand. After we returned to the Hotel it was nearly time for my train, so I left the rest of the party and went to the Naugatuck depot where I bought my ticket for Waterbury for which I paid 75 cts, took the cars and in due time reached Waterbury, where I took the trolley and arrived{arived!} home at noon. AFter dinner drew wood from the shop which was portions{partions?} of the ld burned shear factory. {New paragraph?} In the evening went to the Grang Mrs. Weeks died Wednesday in Wolcott, aged 78, she lived on{one?} mile South of the Center, at the foot of the hill near the Fair grounds. Julinia Hall of Woodtick fell from a haymow in her barn yesterday and fever{feaver!} has set in and now{nou!} she is very sick. 12\17\1898 (Saturday) Went to work this morning for wm Purdy, worked 9 hours. Mr. Larmon Johnson{?} died this morning in the 93rd year of her age, She lived the third house East of here on the south side of the road. {Note in margin of text: 2.25} This evening went to see Hiram Able and paid _im{him?} $1.60 which I received{recived!} from the Town for his pay for helping to dig out the Doolittle road, after the Great storm, Agness{?} wished me to clean and repair her melodian, and I went at it and did not get through till after 11,o'clock 12\18\{1898} (Sunday) The weather to day has been fine. Went to Chapel this afternoon, Mr. Bassett of the Farm Street Methodist Church preached. Collected 2.21 which I carried and gave to Agness to give t_{to!} her father Hiram Able. {Note in the margin of text: Chapel} 12\19\{1898} (Monday) Worked for Wm Purcy this day, 9 hours, the Weather has been fine but it looks{tooks!} like storm tonight. Mrs. Johnson was buried this afternoon from Mill Plain Chapel The Rev M {blank space in text} officiated and Edward Welton{?}, Wilson{Wilsan!} Pierpont, John French, and Charles Monroe{?} were Pall bearers. {Notes in margin of text: 2.25 Chapel} 12\20\{1898} (Tuesday) It was very stormy this day, did not go to work till 8 O,clock. {Note in margin of text: 2.00} 12\21\{1898} (Wednesday) Wormed for Wm Purdy on his barns 8 1/2 hours to day. {Note in margin of text: 2.12 1/2} There was an entertainment given in the Grange Hall at Prospect this evening, entitled "the Comrades" {new paragraph?} This morning when I went to work this morning I saw George Cass and he wanted to go and have all go that could, so when I got home this evening I fixed two seats on the old _ring{pring?} and sent Clyde{Clyd!} to see if Agness Able{?} would go with us, She would, Mary, Clyde, Agness and Myself went on the pring, Charlie Hotchkiss took Bertha French, Arthur Pierpont took Bessie Garrigus and George Cass did not go, He had to work getting ice for the Mill Plain Ice Co. We had a good time and the play was nice, the attendance{attendence!} filled the hall. About Prospect Center the trees were heavily{heavly!} ladened with ice, got home and went to bed at one Oclock. 12\22\{1898} (Thursday) Spent this forenoon in cutting pices of printed matter from a pile of news papers I have saved and pasting{paisting!} them in my scrap book Went to work a_{at?} Purdys at noon and worked four hours {Note in margin of text: 1.00} Went to the Grange this evening, had election of Officer. {New paragraph?} The following were elected Master Arden H Coe, Overseer John Gallagher, Lecturer Arthur Pierpont Treasurer John R S Tood{?}, Chaplain David G Porter{?}, Steward Harry Coe, Assistant Steward Adelbert Hitchcock Secretary Anna Hale Cerics Girtrude Bradley {next line is difficult to read} Pomana{?} Mr. John Gallagher{?} Flora, Mrs. Thomas Fairclough. Outside Gatekeeper Joe Huey Lady assistant Steward Edith Pierpont Executive Committe John Gallagher{?} It rained very hard when we came home at midnight 12\23\{1898} (Friday) Did not get up this morning till Seven Oclock, and went to work at 9 worked throught the noon hour till 5 O'clock, came home and ate dinner and Supper together{togather!}. Charlie Hotchkiss came over druymming and Irving{?} and I took our drums and we marched to John Frenches it being very hard marching over the snow drifts and rough road. Came{word difficult to read} home at eleven. {Note in margin of text: 2.25} 12\24\{1898} (Saturday) Worked about home all day, began digging for the foundation of my new blacksmith shop down near the brook {New paragraph?} In the evening George Cass came and we set his drum head. 12\25\{1898} (Sunday) This is Christmas day the Children were up early and had a happy time taking the presents from their stockings{?} Went to the Chapel this afternoon the REv Mr{?} Davenport preached {new paragraph?} Brother Fred was there with his wife having come{came!} from Detroit yesterday, he was noticed quite a little on{an!} account of his fine bass singing. 12\26\{1898} (Monday) This day hs been observed as Christmas. All of the Miller FAmily met at Fathers there were 22 who sat down to dinner. In the evening we had a tree which was much enjoyed by the children 12\27\1898 (Tuesday) The weather has been fair to day but rather cold. This evening Mary Irving{Iirving!} Agness Able and Myself went to Woodtick to an entertainment which was given in the Chapel there {new paragraph?} Had a fine time, reached house and went to bed at 11 Oclock. Wm Purdy Paid Clyde 2.50 on account{accout!} {next line difficult to read} for me. {Note in margin of text, difficult to read: 2.50{?}} 12\28\1898 (Wednesday) The weather to day has been very cold, worked most of the day digging for the foundation of my Blacksmith shop. This evening went to the Chapel to the supper given by the Ladies{Laidies!} Union, mary and all of the children attended, and had supper there. 12\29\{1898} (Thursday) Worked to day 7 hours on the watertrough{watertraugh?} at east farms repairing the pipes. 12\30\1898 (Friday) To day Clyde, Irving and I worked 7 hours on the watering trough at East Farms. 14 hours @{?} .25=3.50 Material .50=4.00 12\31\1898 (Saturday) Arose this morning at SEven O'clock it being cloudy was quite dark, did the barn chores before breakfast, ate breakfast of boiled beef and potatoes at eight the{then?} cut fire wood till about 10.30 when we set about making a forge to shoe the horse with in the new building, we took a barrel and sowed off the top end down about 6 inches then filled it with sand to within 6 inches of the top and set in a ducks nest tuyer{tire?} iron with the pipe projecting through the bunghole of the barrell, then attached a Roots Rotery{Rotary?} blower, had it nearly completed at dinner time, at dinner at 12 of. Beef pie and clam chowder, and rice pudding{,? text hard to read} after dinner finished the forge and sharpened the horse by which time it was hailing and snowing quite hard. Clyde, F Pierpan_{Pierpont?} and I went to town to get some groceries First went to my shop after a maple plank but had to move so much lumber to get it that we could wait no longer, So we went to the Waterbury Lumber Co to see if I could sell them a lot of plank thence to the City Lumber & Coal Co but could not sell an_{any?},{?} so we went to the City Fish Market where we bought a pint of opened oysters for 15 cts and some crackers for .08{08?} cts per pound, thence to Heaters Grocery store where we bought several bundles of groceries, thence to Spencer & Pierponts feed store and bought a bag of meal for .95 cts and then home, Irving and I did the chores, then had supper of stewed oysters, after which I picked the feathers off a duck, and then read in 4th vol, of Washington Irvings life of Washington. This is the last day of the year, on looking back twelve monts{months?} I recall many reverses, but hope the next year will prove more prosper___{prosperous? word difficult to read} Charles Somers Miller Journal Entries for 1899 01\01\1899 (Sunday) New years day Commenced the year by getting up at half past eight, the weather being very cold and snow still falling. Built the two fires and then, Clyde, Irving, and myself dug out the paths and did the chores, after which we ate breakfast of baked beans, after which we hitched the horse in the sled{slead!} and the Boys and I drove to Munsons corner and back to make a path, after that I set a steel trap in a shallow box of bran in the cellar under the potato bin for rats, and in a little while caught{cought!} one. Then got ready and Ruth, Pierpont, and Margaret went to Sunday school{written as 1 word}, and Mary and I went to the service. Mr. Parry preached, there were but thirty four present, there are settings{sittings?} for about One Hundred and forty in the Chapel. Mary rode home with Mr. Worden{?}, and I walked home, by way of the Doolittle road, gave Agness Able $1.00 which was collected to give to her father, as we came by her house she looked at the thermometer{thermameter!} and it stood 8 degrees above zero when I got home mine{myne!} was at zero it is now 7 below at half past eight. 01\02\1899 (Monday) At seven o'clock the thermometer{thermameter!} stood at 20 degrees below zero. After breakfast of baked duck, we run the washing machine after which I measured the height{hight!} of all the children, Raymand{?} was 3 ft 3 1/2 in tall Frank Pierpont, 3' 9", Ruth 4' 3" Margaret 4' 6", Irving 4' 9", and Clyde 5' 7" inches, they have all grown over two inches since last new years. Went down to the shop and got out some plank to have some sled runners{?} sawed out of, and brought home a load of fire wood, Mary and Clyde went to town this afternoon to get some clothes for Clyde to wear to school tomorrow, Irving and I dug a ditch down in the swamp, after{aftere!} which we did the chores Clyde and mary coming in the meantime, and had supper of hasty{?} pudding and molasses, after{aftere!} which I made some molasses candy. At twelve o'clock yesterday{yester day?} the United States flag was unfurled over Cuba It now floats over the wreck of the Battle ship Maines. 01\03\1899 (Tuesday) Went to East Mountain this forenoon to see Miles Payne{text difficult to read} about some work he wanted me to do. In the afternoon repaired a wolf roab{?}, Wilson Pierpont called and wanted me to put a draw{drow?} bar in his horse sled, I went to work at it and had it finished before work {???} night, for which I charged 90 cts 01\04\{1899} (Wednesday) Went to work in the dark this morning{?} for Thomas M Paynes{?} Worked _ll{till?} noon when I had to stop on account of the rain. {note in margin of text: 5 hr} 01\05\{1899} (Thursday) This day the ground has been very wet, worked about home all day. {New paragraph?} Figured up and found that I had done Eighty nine dollars and ninety eight cents worth of work for William Purdy on his ba_n{barn?} of which he owed me 27.24 now. Mary and Irving went to town this afternoon in the spindle buckboard. Mary and I went to the Grange{Grandge?} this evening, there were but few there about 18 {New paragraph?} Chas Cass is very sick with appendicitis{a pendicitas!} his wife is also sick as is Arthur Pierpont and many others, with the Grip. 01\06\1899 (Friday) It has rained most of the day and at the present is raining hard. I have staid a{at?} home, and worked at odd jobs. The whole family is sick more or less with the grip. 01\07\{1899} (Saturday) Everything was frozen up this morning the weather having grown cold during the night. After doing the chores Clyde and I went to town I to the Barbers shop and had my hair cut and was shaved for which I paid 30 cts.{.?} Clyde bought oysters and crackers, also went to the Apothacaries hall and bought a little vaseline{vasalene!} bottle full of shellack{?} for which he paid 20 cts, came home and hitched into the horse sled, and carried Mrs. Hesplelts{?} sewing machine home which I had repaired. Went by way of the Meriden road and stoped and saw Charlie Cass. He is a little better, his wife Tracy is also sick with a complication of diseases{deseases!} in the same bed with him, she is better also. After leaving the sewingmachine{1 word?} went to my old shop and drew a sled load of bolts home, got stuck at the foot of the hill and had to unload part of them, and go back and get them. Drew another load this afternoon. Fred and Addie lef_{left?} for Detroit this forenoon at 10.50 expect to reach there at noon tomorrow. Mary is sick with the Grip and it is hard for her to get around. 01\08\{1899} (Sunday) Staid home all day, except that I went to he Chapel and heard Rev Mr Rafter preach. {new paragraph?} There was collected $1.20 Wrote a letter to Mr. Tucker at New Boston Mass. 01\09\{1899} (Monday) Worked to day 9 hours for Miles Paynew on East Mountain, at making new doors{doars!}, and rep{?} doors for his blacksmith shop. {note in margin of text: 1.80} Wm Purdy Paid me 7.50 {new paragraph?} The Hall Upson Co began cutting ice with 20 men and 9 horses on the Brass Mill pond this morning. When I came home tonight they had cut over an acre of ice and got it in. The stearn{? word difficult to read} incline draws the ice into the houses very fast. 01\10\1899 (Tuesday) {1898 was written as the year} Got up this morning at 5 o'clock. The weather being quite cool, went to work for Thomas Miles Payne on East Mountain repairing his Blacksmith shop. Went to painting it at 3 O'clock, but the weather was so cold that I stoped at 4, working 8 1/2 hr. I helped{helpt!} build the shop 19 years ago, and I remember that William Pratt{?} the ownder said quite a little about painting it right away. Little did I think than that I would be painting it for the first time now. {note in margin of text: 1.70} When I got home the Thermometer{Themometer!} was at zero. I was very cold and glad to get by the fire. By appointment Robert Worden Morris Alcott and myself were to go to see <_{Mr.?} Parry of the First Baptist{Baptis!} church on Grand Street, about giving a lecture at the Chapel. I did not think that they would come on account of the cold. But at 6.30 Mr. Worden came from the East and Mr. Alcott from the North. I was just changing{chainging!} my clothes, as the Committee of the Ladies{Lades!} Union were to meet here tonight. Was ready in a few minutes and we drove to town in Mr. Wordens{wordens!} carriage; the horse traveled very fast, and I got very cold. Put the horse in Nortons.{.?} Livery stable, and we went to Dr. Parrys house on North Willow street. Found him in and he very pleantly{pleasantly?} arranged to give a lecture and stereoptican entertainment{entertainmint!} at the Chapel some future time. The State Grange are holding their meeting now in Waterbury in the City Hall it opens todya and continues till Thursday{?} afternoon. Came home and found Mrs. Worden Mrs. Alcott, Mrs. Thoedore Munson, and Agness Able making arrangements to give the Chapel Fair the 8th{8the!} and 9th of next month. They staid till 10 o'clock when they started fo_{for? home? word is smudged}, Clyde carried Mr. and Mrs. Alcott home in the buggy, it being very cold 4 below zero. 01\11\{1899} (Wednesday) Staid home all day, and in the house most of the time as it was too{to!} cold for me, the thermometer{thernometer!} has been below{blow!} the freezing point all day. Dr. Axtelle called to see James Porter who had the barn door fall on him and hurt his side. Mary, Clyde, and Irving have gone to the Chapel to the supper{scupper!} 01\12\{1899} (Thursday) This morning it was very cold and I did not go to work for Miles Payne till 10.30 worked painting his shop, 5 1/2 hr {Note in margin of text: 1.10} Drove home and found a letter from Father wanting me to come down and see him before he went down town to night {new paragraph?} Went and saw him. He told me that he thought he knew that I could get work at Rogers Bro's at Blacksmith and carpenter work Mary and I went to the Grange{Grang!} and saw ___{the? word difficult to read} installation of Officers, came home at 12.30 and went to bed. 01\13\{1899} (Friday) Did not go to work this morning as it rained and froze, worked about home all day. 01\14\{1899} (Saturday) Did not get up till seven o'clock this morning as I did not expect{?} to go to work as it was raining hard. {new paragraph?} Soon after I was up, T{F?} Miles Payne drove into the yard and wanted me to help him today. I told him that I would and he went{wen!} to town, and I ate my breakfast, then Clyde carried me up the mountain, I went to work on a buggy that ws{was?} there pretty well smashed. It seem that Henry Pullen who lives at Prospect center and works at the Mattatuck sho_{shop?},{,?} started for work this morning{mornind!} with his two daughters{doughters!}, but when they got to the top of the hill by the City Reservoir the front axle broke and started the colt which he was driving on a dead run, In going down the hill the girls were thrown out and soon after mr. Pullen let go the horse and was thrown to one side of the road, one{ane!} of the girls had her legs skinned some and all{?} were bruised{?}{,?} the horse had a bad cut on the hind leg, The horse continued on down the mountain and ran into Mr. Micacks{?} team and threw him and a man that was with him out hurting the man that was with Mr. Mycack, in the shoulder{shouldier!}, The horse ran to the watering trough down the mountain where he ran into a barbed wire fence and got entangeled and they caught him there. Mr. Payne and I repaired the two buggys{buggyes!} which were pretty{prety!} well smashed. Yesterday William Gillette went to Prospect to investigate the case of Mattie Woods a colored girl. It seems that a neighbor of Grant Wheeler, who lives at Gilletts Corner{?} whill{while?} passing his house, day before yesterday, was attracted by a colored{colosed!} girl waving{waiving!} her hand at the garrett window. She informed him that she was locked in the garrett and was very cold, that the Wheelers were in the habit of locking her up there every time they went away. {new paragraph?} The neighbor came to town and notified Constable William Gillette who is also a humane officer, and yesterday he went out to investigate. In the mean time the girl had escaped from the attic and found shelter at a neighbors{neighbars?} that night and the next morning he took her to David B. Hotchkiss'who is a justice-of-the-peace. There{Ther!} Constable{Constible!} Gillette and Sheriff Rigney{?} found her. Mr. Hotchkiss asked them if they wanted to see her as she was then, or as she was when she came there. They wanted to s_e{see?} her as she came, So the Women fixed her up in the same duds he had on{an!}, an old wornout mans shirt with{witte!} only sleve{?}, a dress made{maid!} of two old oat bags sewn{sewned!} together{togather!}, a pair of stockings without any feet and a pair of worn mens shoes with out laisings/lassings{lacings?}, she had no underclothing, {new paragraph?} Mattie Woods is 19 years old, and has been with the Wheelers three years. {new paragraph?} Her parents are dead and she was obtained{abtained!} through a New York agency{ggency!} from the south. For the last three weeks she has been obliged{obiged!} to sleep in the garrett without bed or clothin of any account, and on New Years night when the thermometer{themometer!} was 20 degrees below zero she froze{frove!} her hands. She has not been{ben!} allowed to go out of doors except to do errands about the farm. Mr. Gillette notifed State agent Thrall{?} of the Connecticut Humane society and he came here this morning and and{written twice} warrants{warrents!} were sworn out for the arrest of the Wheelers, charging them with assault and cruelty{creuelty!}. {new paragraph?} Worked 7 1/2 hr Payne paid me 7.00 {note in margin of text: 1.50} 01\15\1899 (Sunday) Went to th Chapel to day the Rev Mr. Hannon{?} of the first M.E. Church preached. 01\16\{1899} (Monday) This day worked for _iles{Miles!} Payne on the mountain painting his shop. 6 hr {note in margin of text: 1.20} 01\17\{1899} (Tuesday) Fine weather today. Worked for Miles Payne painting his shop 7 1/2 hr {note in margin of text} 1.50} 01\18\{1899} (Wednesday) This morning the weather was clear and old, most of the ground is bare, but in some places ___{the?} remnants of old drifts remain. After doing the chores, (did not get up till 7 o'clock) hitched up and started for prospect to attend the trial of Mr. Grant Wheeler and wife defendant{defendent!}, and Mattie Wood a colored girl 19 years of age Plaintiff It was tried in the Town hall under the Church, court{cort!} was called at 10.30. Justice Anderson, of this city presided and Judge Cowell _as{was?} for Mattie and Judge Lowe for the defendant{defendent!}. The charge was Cruelty and assault, The case was brought by William Gillette agent for the Connecticut humane society. The witnesses for the state were, Mr. and Mrs. John Marss{?}, Mr. George Talmage Mr. Minor Blackman, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hotchkiss, Mr. George Mass, Mr. Moses{Mases!} Chandler, Mr. William Gillette. Most of the witnesses tried to evade the direct facts as they knew them, on account of neighborly relations, but all testified facts showing that Mattie Woods was cruelly treated by Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler. When Mattie Wood took the stand she recited a tale{tail!} the most harrowing of anything I could imagine for a country like this. She had worked for the Wheelers three years coming there April 1st{?} 1896{?}, came from 8 miles west of Lynchburgh Va, worked 3 months to pay for her car fare here and then made an arrangement{arraingment!} with Mrs. Wheeler by which she was to receive{recive!} 6 dollars a month after, {new paragraph?} The next spring as sh_{she!} water some little chickens in a pan ___{one?} got in and was drowned, for which she was horsewhippe_{horsewhipped?} by Mr. Wheeler, afterward one{ane!} duck was drowned in the same manner for which she received{recived!} another horsewhipping. The next Christmas day she was put to digging a path from the house to the road, and her hands getting very cold she went into the house to war_{warm?} them, for which she was struck with a stick of wood and kiced{kicked?} out doors again by Mr. Wheeler. At another time she was bringing in wood from the pile and putting it into the barrel back of the stove where she happened to upset a pa_{pan?} of dough that was on a swing shelf back of the stove, for which she was struck with a stick of wood by Mrs. Wheeler and cut upon the head, which made her scream, and Mr. Wheeler tied a towel over her mouth for a gag. Several times when she was left alone in the house, Mrs. Wheeler locked{?} her in the kitchen, tied the outside door on the outside with a rope and locked the door leading to the diningroom with a key, nailed the windows down and sprinkled flour{flower!} on the window sills and tops to see if she disturbed them{theme?}. She ran away and went to town but Mr. Wheeler came after her and promised to pay her what was due and a few days after gave her $8.00 but before night borrowed{barrowed!} it back again, and in fact has never given her any money since. {new paragraph?} Since she has been there she has had $6.00{$16.00?} cash 1 dress which cost 1.00 one{ane!} that cost 1.16 and Mrs. Wheeler{wheeler!} charged 1.00 each for making one pair of shoes which cost{cast!} 1.00 one{ane!} pair which cost 1.50, one pair of stockings which cost 12 cts, one pair mittens which cost .25 two rappers{?}, and t__{two?} hats, the price of which I have forgotten, and day before yesterday Mr. Wheeler went to Mr. Hotchkiss and force_{forced?} her to take $15.50 and give him a rec_pt{receipt? recipt?} in full for all wages due her. At one time Mrs. Wheeler went to Waterbury and l___{word is smudged} Mattie ironing and when she returned said that she had not{note!} done the ironing good and took the teakettle{teakittle!} of boiling water from the stove and poured{pored!} some of it _pon{upon?} her bare feet. At another time when she had been up to George Talmages house and returned Mr. Wheeler s_apped{snapped?} a revolver in her fact to frighten her. At another time she was sent up stairs and Mr. Wheeler wne tup with the oxwhip and whipped her till the blood flowed freely. As she was paring{pairing!} potatoes Mrs. Wheeler said she was not paring{pairing!} them thin enough and taking the butcher knife from the table struck at her, she raised her hand in defense{defence!} and her finger met the knife which cut a piece out of her little finger, which was still sore {new paragraph?} Mrs. Wheeler even denied{denighed!} her the privilege of winding a rag about it. She said that she had been whipped 5 times with the horse whip and three times ith an ox whip. She was allowed the food from he same table that the family ate for a spell at first after her food was of a courser{corser!} kind and after a time she was given course{corse!} meal wetted{?} up in a little pail with water and sent out into the back entry to eat it. At one time she asked for salt and Mrs. Wheeler told her that they only salted their cattle once a week {new paragraph?} Another, she was eating and Mrs. Wheeler called her little girl and told her to see the animal eat. _ast{Last?} Christman The Wheelers has company to dinner and had a bountiful supply of vituals, and they gave her a little pail full of oat meal wet up with water and sent her up stairs __{to?} eat it. The meal had been kept a long time and the rats had nested in it, and it was so full of rat leavings that she could only eat about two spoonfuls{stoonfulls!}. As she was washing a pan of turnip par____{parings?} stood on{an!} a shelf in reach,{,?} and she reached to get some to eat when Mr. Wheeler who was coming in with an armful{armfull!} of wood beat her over the head with a stick of appletree. She has been s_ut{shut?} _n{in?} the garrett 8 times all night since Christmas {new paragraph?} Mr. Wheeler taking her clothes from her and giving her a_{an?} old lettered{lettered?} blue skirt, there was _{a?} coff__{coffin?} in the garrett but no bed an_{and?} ___{word smudged} old army overco_t {overcost? overcoat?} that was ther_{there? word smudged} which she used Was taken from her, several nights the thermometer{themometer!} was below zero, and she froze her feet and fingers in consciquence{consequence?}, which{whch!} are now swollen and peeling{pealing!}. For over an hour she told her story on{an!} the direct examination, and for an hour and one half she withstood the most rigid cross examination that I ever heard and Judge Loure{?} failed to s_ake{shake?} her testimony in the l_ast{least?} It corresponded{carrosponded!} with the testimony{testomy!} of the witnesses exactly. The Wheelers live at Gilletts Corner and ar_{are?} I should judge{Judg!judg!} about 30 years of age, they have one child a little girl They were bou_d{bound?} over to the next turn of the Superior cort{court?} under b_nds{bonds? bands?} of $1400.00 each, which as furnished by, Byran Mass. and Mr. Hunter of Naugatuck. 01\19\{1899} (Thursday) Worked to day for Miles Payne pa__ting{painting? paniting!} his shop and putting supports under the floors. 5 1/2 hr Mary and I went to the Grange tonight. {Note in margin on text: 1.10 _ll{all?} 10.90 _er{?} 7 00 ________ 3 90} {the above note is difficult to read} 01\20\{1899} (Friday) Worked 5 hr to day for Miles Payne and finished painting his shop. {new paragraph?} The balance due was $4.90 he paid me 3.00 which left a balance of 1.90 now due me. Wm Purdy paid me 5.00 {Note in margin of text: 1.00} 01\21\{1899} (Saturday) Worked about home all day, the weather fine. Drew 6 loads of wood from the shop. 01\22\{1899} (Sunday) Weather warm and nice, went to the Chapel this afternoon, Dr. Davenport preached. 01\23\{1899} (Monday) The weather to day has been warm and nice, worked about home. This morning_{morning? mornings?} run the washing machine and then blasted out rocks. Went this evening and saw{sow!} Henry Buckingham about getting work at Rogers Bros factory. {new paragraph?} Then to Mr. Tuckers place and put two{tuo?} bolts on doors, visited with Chas Cass and family, and then came home. 01\24\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather has been warm and fair this forenoon, but it rained this afternoon and harder in the evening. Worked blasting rocks this forenoon and putting an{?} automatic feed on my drilling machin_{machine?} this afternoon. {new paragraph?} Miss Minnie Norton the school teacher, who is daughter to the late Rufus Norton of Wolcott{Woolcott!} came and staid here tonight. 01\25\{1899} (Wednesday) {Date written as 01\24\{1899} (Wednesday)} During the Night there was a severe thunder{thruder!} shower. The Lightning{Lightening!} was very sharp and the thunder very loud and continued a long{lang!} time The Church in Prospect was struck and all shattered so that it is not safe to go into, some{same!} say that __{text smudged} might just as well have been burned. Worked about home blasting rocks most of the day. Went to Rogere Bros a little after six o closk{o ctock!} to see Henry Buckingham about a job. Went to the Chapel to the Entertainment which was furnished by the young ladies They realized $6.00 01\26\{1899} (Thursday) Fine day, split{splite?} rocks{word smudged} most of the time Went to the Grange this evening. {new paragrapoh?} Mary paid our yearly dues $4.00 {new paragraph?} They had a debate, the question was, Resolved{"!}, that {"!} animals are of more use to mankind than metal, John Todd, and Willie Garrigus were on the affirmative{affermative!} side and Joe Hughey{Hugbey?} and myself on the negative, The negative beat by 5 point to two. 01\27\{1899} (Friday) This morning the weather was fine but before night it came off cold Went to Mr. Harry Garrigus and welded a set of inch and one eight{eighth?} axles{axlis!} on his carriage. 01\28\{1899} (Saturday) Went to Mr. Garrigus and worked till afternoon, then worked on _{a?} pattern for my drilling machine till six o clock, when Mr. Worden came and I went to town with him to see about getting entertainers fo_{for? faf!} the Chapel{?} Fair. Went first to Mr. John Lines to see if we could ges{?} his orchestra{archestra?}, He seemed very willing himself{himsilf!} and thought that the others would come, Went next to see Dr. Parry and he told us of a Mandolin{Mandilin!} club composed of young la_ies{ladies?} that belonged to his church, that he would see for us, from thence we went to Dr. Davdenports, and he told us of the Lourelli_{Lourellie? Lourellis?} Banjoe{Banjo?} club of young ladies hich he thought we might get, Then Went back to Field Street to see Mrs. Orsgood{?} to see if we could get her to help get a quartet{quartette!}, but she was out, so we went to see Dr. Graves who is Post{?} Surgeon here{word smudged},{,?} to get exempted from Military tax, but he was not i_{in?}. So we went to P.B. Nortons livery stable, were Mr. Worden left he team and drove home very fast the horse being a_{an? word smudged} extra fast one. 01\29\{1899} (Sunday) Went to the Chapel this afternoon Rev. Dr. Anderson of the first Congregational{?} Church preach__{preached? word smudged} Weather to day has been very c___{cold? word smudged},{,?} did not thaw any. 01\30\1899 (Monday) Very Cold this morning got up at seven, Went and carried Clyde to school at the Crosby Grammer school, and then went to Dr. F.G. Graves and had him examine me in regard to Military disability, which he did, and gave a certificate which was as follows Waterbury Conn Jan 30th{?} 1899 To the Selectmen of the Town of Waterbury, I certify that I have examined Charles S. Miller. of Waterbury and do hereby{here-by?} exempt him from Military duty under standard of disability prescribed by the Surgeon{Surgean!} General. His disability is double inguine hernia & deformed an_le{ankle?} and is permanent. F G Graves Post Surgeon New Haven County. {new paragraph?} Irving, Margaret, or Ruth, did not go to school, owing to their teachers going visiting schools, and Irving and I ran the washing machine, after which we repaired George Cass's bugg_{buggy?}, and then went to my s___{shop?} and brought home a load of truck from out of the garrett. {new paragraph?} After supper Clyde, Irving, Margaret and Ruth{?} went skating __{on? word smudged} Frosts pont{?}, staid till 9.30 oclock, Clyde went down to Fathers to stay tonight. 01\31\{1899} (Tuesday) Very Cold all day did not thaw, snowed a little this morning about an inch fell. {new paragraph?} Went to see Miles payne this afternoon and we went and looked over the Thomas Payne place which they are going to have fixed up. Saw Wm Purdy about his barn which he is thinking of having painted. Very cold this evening. Miles Paynes paid me 2.00 which pays me up in full to date 02\01\{1899} (Wednesday) Weather cold did not thaw about an inch of snow fell during the night. {new paragraph?} Wo_ked{Worked?} about home and drew stuff from the shop all day. Mary went soliciting about East Farms for the Chapel Fair. 02\02\{1899} (Thursday) {recprded as 02\03\{1899} (Thursday)!} Weather to day a little warmer. Staid about home all the forenoon. Drew a load of shafting, pulleys, and iron, from my shop and stored them in the garrett{garrelt!} and wood house this afternoon 02\03\{1899} (Friday) {recorded as 02\04\{1899} (Friday)!} Got up at 5.30 Weather warmer so that it thawed the forenoon, turned into rain and sleet about noon, this evening it is a genuine{genuwine!} ice storm as very slipery{slippery?}. Went to Henry Buckinghams this morning got there at 6.30 waited till near seven and went to Rogers Bros shopo{shops?} to see James Taben{?} the foreman{formean!} about getting work, He is to let me know in a few days whether{wheather!} they want me or not. Came{Caure!} home, had breakfast after which Pierpont, Ray and myself went to my sho_{shop?} and brought home a load of various articles, this forenoon {new paragraph?} Went again this afternoon and swept out the lower floor, and brought another load home. 02\04\{1899} (Saturday) This morning everything was coated with ice, and it was very slipery{slippery?} so it was hard to get about, it being not very cold it thawed so a team that was not very shar_{sharp?} could be driven about 11 oclock/o'clock{?}, about 9.30{?} Robert Hotchkiss came and we butchere our cow, which took till one o clock. He stayed{slayed!} to dinner, which as boiled cabbage{cabbaeg!}, potatoes, and cottage pudding, Agnes Able came while we were at dinn_r{dinner? word smudged}, to have Irving drive her about the neighborhood{nighborhood/nighbarhood!} in the bu__y{buggy? word smudged} to solicit{slicit!} for the coming Chape__{Chapel? word smudged} Fair. {Note in margin of text: Ruth & I remember this. He told Civil War stories.} During the afternoon Clyde and I went to my shop and finished sweeping it out __cept{except? word smudged} the Basement{Basment!} floor{floar!}. After which I went to visit James Porter who has not been out for a month {mark in text or punctuation?} or since his shoulder was hurt, then went down to see Father and mother, staid till seven then home. Wm Purdy paid me six dollars to day. 02\05\1899 (Sunday) Snowed quite hard till about 5 o'clock. Went to the Chapel, M_{Mr.?} Parry preached there was collected 1.24 From the Chapel Mary and I went to Mrs. Thaedore Munsons{?} to get information to have published in the Waterbury American tomorrow. Then we stoped at John Franches to see where I could find Murry Beeby, as I wanted to get word to him about the Chapel fair, then to Hiran{?} Able to see about getting the crash{cash?} to cover the Chapel carpet, then home. 02\06\{1899} (Monday) This day the weather has been cloudy{clowdy!} but rather warm, about 8 o clock to night it began{bgan!} snowing. Ran the washing{wahng!} machine for Mary till 9 o clock. Then hitched up old jack into the business wagon and drove to the American Office and had an Advertisement put in the paper and left a notice to be printed about the{"about the" is smudged} Chapel fair. From thence went to the Selectmens Office{?} at the City hall and had Mr. Perry Morris file a certificat{cirtificate!} which the Post{Past?} Examining Surgeon had given me exempting me from Military tax on{an!} account of disability{disibility!}. Thence to Chancy Ceeleys{?} Office on South Willow Street to see about getten{getting?} the carpet cover for the Chapel, he was not in but I ws told to go to his house No 85{?} Bishop Street at noon and I would find him, walked to my team which was hitched on{an!} South Elm Street, and then drove through North Elm Street and up North Main to Ed Holdens{?} store where I waited to see him when he came at noon, after 12 o clock h_{he?} came, and then I drove to Mr. Ceeleys house, he told me to meet him in front of D B{?} Wilsons, store on East Main STreet at quarter past one{ane!}, I was there and he came driving past very fast, di_{did?} not see me. I pursued{purseweed!} on foot and caught{cought!} him at Cannon and Websters{?} drug store on Bank STreet where he had stoped, he said that he had forgotten me, but would be back to Wilsons store in six minutes, he was there, and we went up in Mechanics hall and got the crash carpet cover, and I brought it home. After dinner went to Mrs. Munson_{Munsons?} to get the key to the Chapel, but she was away, then went{wen!} to Mr. Harry Garrigus to see about having Wilkie{Willie?} decorate the Chapel tomorrow{tomarrays!} evening with his bunting{?} and flags. {new paragraph?} Then went to see George Cass at the Mill Plain Ice Co.{. or ,?} and home and to supper Mr. Worden called and told me{?} that another banjo{banjoe!} club was coming to play at the Chapel. Mr. Newman is coming I told him, and he told me to have him be at 185{?} Grand Street at 7 o clock Thursday evening to ride out on the bus. Went to the Chapel adn Hiran Able{?} Maruce{Maurice?} Alcott clyde and irving and Wernon Able put the crash down. Mr. La Stone and Mr. Maton rented{?} my wagon shop today{to day?} for 15 dollars per month, to date from the 15 of Feb. {Note in margin of text: Rented Shope.{. or -?}} There was a severe battle fought{-?} at the Phillipines{Phillipenes!} Island Sunday_{?} it is reported in which {next few words are smudged} our lo__{loss?} is put at _75{175?} men. The Government has{hs!} given to the town of Cornwall one 8 in howitzer and 140 shells to be placed on or near the grave of Maj Gen John Sedgwick at Cornwall Hollow{?}. {new paragraph?} The Hon T.S. Gold{?}. M H Sedgwick and C L Gold of Cornwall and Mr. Stoeckel{?} of Norfolk have charge of the Memorial matter {Note in margin of text: Gen Sedgwicks Memorial} 02\07\{1899} (Tuesday) Snowed all day, was up to Chapel most of the day, also in the evening, putting up booths etc. for the fair. Began taking milk of Wilson Pierpont. {Note in margin of text; Milk} 02\08\{1899} (Wednesday) Snowed till about _{5?} O'clock this afternoon when it cleared off cold. Went to the Chapel this afternoon and helped sister Caro, Bertha French and Agniss{Agnes?} Able put up and trim their booths for the fair. Rob Hotchkiss came and cut up our beef. 02\09\{1899} (Thursday) The weather to day{to days!} was very Cold {new paragraph?} Choped wood{wodd!} this forenoon, and sent to the Chapel after dinner and started the fires up, after which I put _p{up?} the trimmings{trimings!?}, flags, bunting, evergreens etc. The fair in the evening was a success, the attendance{attendence!} large, considering the weather, had to stay and lock up aft__{after? text smudged} the rest had gone home and it was twelve o'clock before I got home. _{I?} froze one ear in going home, The{Then?} the thermometer{themometer!} was 12 degrees below zero when I went to bed. {new paragraph?} The Conecticut F______{Farmers? word smudged} Board of Agriculture held an Institute meeting at Grange Hall this day, the attendance was small. 02\10\{1899} (Friday) The thermometer{themometer!} stood at 12 below zero this morning at 7 o'clock when I got up I immediately wrote{:?} the following notice to be sent to the daily American to be published this evening There was a good attendance at the fair at Mill Plain Chapel last evening, notwithstanding the cold weather. {new paragraph?} The Chapel was handsomely{handsomly!} decorated{decarated!} with flags bunting and evergreens. {new paragraph?} The various booths for the sale of aprons, fancy work, ice cream, cake, and other articles were tastefully arranged and well patronized The supper was an excellent one, including chicken, cold meats, cake etc. The entertainment was a very pleasing one, of a musical nature, and the program was as follows, Selection by Young Ladies Uterpe club of the first Baptist Church; Piano solo Miss Conin; mandolin solo, Mr. Burrett accompanied by Miss Burrett; song Mr. Newman; mandolin selection Misses Crnonin, accompanied by Miss Garrity, and Mr. Derwin{?}, Uterpe Club, "Uncle Sams patrol," all were warmly applauded and responded to encores. A good time is promised to all tonight. Free busses will run to chapel. After breakfast of Porterhouse{Parterhouse!} steak choped fire wood, till noon; after dinner went to the Chapel and started the fires, and poped corn till evening ate supper in the Chapel, there was a goot attendance{word smudged} although the weather was very cold. {new paragraph?} Altogether{Altogather!} the Chapel realised about $105.00 from the fair. Came home at 12 o'clock the thermometer{themometer!} standing 10 degrees below zero. Earnest{Ernest?} Robinson notified the Chapel committee that he should not carry{cary!} the ministers from town to the Chapel after next Sunday. 02\11\1899 (Saturday) Got up at seven o'clock the weather very cold 10 below zero, at many places it was much lower, at Mr. Spen_ers{Spencers? word smudged} it was 18 below{bllow!} at 8.30 went to the Chapel and at work taking down the booths and bu-ting{bunting? word smudged} etc, after{apter!} _{a?, can't read word, is word crossed out?} little time Cara came, Miss Tatem the school teacher came a little --ter{later? word smudged}, then Mrs. Munson and Bertha Franch, _da{Ida?} Spender{?} and Agness Able came later, Clyde and Wernam Able carried the goods home with the team, and we had the Chapel cleaned and things in place at three oclock. While I was there yesterday Young Mr. Kenworthy from Benedict & Burnhams came to see if I would go there monday to work forging, in the place of Wallace Burgess who is sick. It snowed all day. 02\12\1899 (Sunday) Very cold all day thermometer{themometer!} was 1 below this morning, snowed most of the day this evening it is 4 below, {new paragraph?} Went to the Chapel there were 18 person{persons?} there, Mr. Rafter{?} of Waterville preached. 02\13\1899 (Monday) When I got up this morning ot quarter past five it was still snowing and the thermometer{themometer!} stood at 4 above zero. Ate breakfast of stewed beef potatoes etc and Clyde and I started for Benedict and Burnhams shop, via silver street and Washington street, got there at 25 minutes to seven, waited till Mr. Kenworthy came, and he took{tooke!} me to the machine shop and introduced to a Mr. Byers who took me to the blacksmith shop and introduced me to Mr. Kelly who set{sit?} me at work first making a lot of scratching machine tools then{thin?} at various other repair jobs, at noon went to Uncle Goldsmiths on Clay Street and had dinenr of boiled ham, potatoes, turnips, pie, crullers{?}, and coffee, at six o'clock found Clyde and Irving waiting for me at the corner of Washington Street with the horse sled.{;!} It had snowed hard all day and when we came to start home it snowed so hard and the wind blew se{so?} that we could not see, owing to the snow plastering ou{on?} our faces so that we could not see through it. {Note in margin of text: Went to Work at Benedict & Burnhams{Birnhams!} We could not drive anythere{anywhere?} only in the car tracks as the snow was so deep on the sides of the road. {new paragraph?} On the who-le{whole? word smudged} it was the worst storm I have seen since the great storm of 1888. 02\14\{1899} (Tuesday) This morning the snow lay on the ground about two and one half feet deep. Temperature{Tempature!} 6 above zero. Expected to go to work on the trolley cars and drove to the end of the at Silver Street, having to break our own path as it had drifted much during the night, but the cars were not running nor did they get ru__ing{running? word difficult to read} till about 4 O clock P.M. Returned home and went ot work breaking out the Doblitte{Doolittle?} road with the help of Mr. Andrews who helped 4 hr Mr. Able who worked 4 hr, Mr. Garrigus 2{?}, Clyd{Clyde?} 5 hr and Myself 5 hr some of it we had{?} to dig out 5 times as the high win_{wind?} filled it up. at noon, went to the trolley line to go to the shop, but the cars were not running{word hard to read} 02\15\{1899} (Wednesday) I never kew of but one morning that was as cold as this, the thermometer{themometer!} went down to 24 degrees below zero, but the weather has been warmer during the day than it has been before for several days. Expected to take the cars at Silver STreet to go to the shop but they were not running so I walked. Sm Purdy Paid Clyde 4.00 which he Clyde went after, he also got my tool chest at Miles Paynes. 02\16\1899 (Thursday) Got up a little after 5 o'clock, went to the end of the Trolley track on the pung{?} with Clyde but the car had just left so I stayed on the sled to Spensers store where Clyde was going after fe_d{feed?}, then walked ___{the?} rest of the way. Worked at forging all day, ate my dinner in the shop. Came home on the trolley cars there was a great crowd on the cars and the conductor did not collect my fare. Came ____{ucor?} getting stuck several times on account of the snow and ice on the track. Sister Iva got on at the corner of Mill Street, when we got to the end of the line at Silver street we found Clyde waiting with the sleigh and we rode home. Mary went tot eh Grange, this evening. Wrote to Hon T S Gold{?} about attending the dedication of Gen Sedgwicks memorial dedication at Cornwall{?}. 02\17\1899 (Friday) Drove to work this morning via Silver street and Washington. Weather a little foggy. Worked forging all day. Clyde met me on Washington Street and we drove home, it being very bad traveling{troveling!} on account of the snow drifts. 02\18\{1899} (Satruday) Weather this morning{,?} was warm and nice, Clyd{Clyde?} drove the horse to carry{cary!} me to work. Mr. Kenworthy told me to day that they would give me three dollars a day as that was what I asked, I think it very good pay for a new beginner in a new place. The factory closed at 5.30 and I started up Washington street to meet Clyde I was obliged to walk very slow on account of being very lame, met Clyde at the corner of Baldwing{Boldwin!} street, and we went to Irving black on East main street and left the crash which we had to cover the carpet at the Chapel fair. {new paragraph?} Then went to Hemingways fish market and Clyde bought 1 quart of oysters and three pounds of oyster crackers, From thence to heaters adn bought 4 lbs soda cracks at 8 cts per pound, then home, and very wet, it raining hard all of the time. 02\19\{1899} (Sunday) Got up this morning at 8 o'clock put two spokes in my buggy wheel, at_{ate?} breakfast of stewed oysters, after which I went to East Farms{Farmes!} to see Mr. Warden about meeting the minsiter at the end of the trolley line, from thence I went to mr. Burgers at Gilletts corner in Prospect, but he had gone to Cheshire to see Dr. meyers so came home. Got ready and went to the Chapel and heard Mr. Howell preach there was collected 1.41 The weather to day has been very warm the snow has melted and softened. 02\20\{1899} (Monday) The weather this day has been fine. Went to the shop and worked very hard all day This evening went to see mr. Edwin Welton who holds a mortgage{morgage!} of 870.00{?} dollars with{winth!} interest{-?} that amounts to over 1000.00 altogether{altogather?}, agreed to pay him the rent money, then went to see Mr. J. G. Janes{Jmaes?} about insuring it, He will insure{inshure?} it got 1000.00 for a premuim of 27.50{?} Came home very hungry and tired. 02\21\{1899} (Tuesday) Got up at 20 minutes past five, the boys and I got the barn chores before six, had breakfast and got started for the shop at 6.15 went down the old Cheshire road to Silver Street through Silver Street to Dublin, out Dublin to Washington through Washington to South Mains{?} where I go_{got?} out of the sleigh and irving drove home, _nd{and?} I went into the shop after leaving my check at the gate my check is __mber{number? word smudged} 830 The first work I did was to dress over some scratchers, for the overalling{?} machines, then dress over 36 hand scratchers Then temper 60 machine scratchers, then make and temper a number of machinists{machinests!} tools, then repair two punch bars for the casting, then hardened some hand scratchersand up a muffle rod for the Seamless{?} tube shop. Came home at six, had supper and went to see Robert Hotchkiss about salting{solting!} down our beef, then ____{home?} and wrote. 02\22\{1899} (Wednesday) Weather fine and warm snow softened to the bottom and troveling{?} very hard. Went tot eh shop worked all day after six went to Mr. Edwin Welton on L__iden{Leriden?} Street about Insuring my shop over and about paying the interest {new paragraph?} Carried him the Incurance policies{pollicies!} One of 500.00 on the New Hampshire Company and one of 500.00 on the _____ _____ Co. Came hgome and Clyde and I ate supper together{togather!} a_{as?} the rest of the folks have{word hard to read} gone the the {written twice} Chaptel supper. This is Washingtons birthday, is has been observed by the schools closing, and the flying of flags about the City and many of the public business places closed. 02\23\{1899} (Thursday) The weather to day has been very warm, Worked at Benedict and Buyrnhams, ten hours, went to the grange this evening. 02\24\{1899} (Friday) The weather to day has been a little cooler, Worked at Benedict _{&?} Burnhams. 02\25\{1899} (Saturday) The weather to day has been cold the mercury was 2 above zero, at 6.30 this morning. Worked till{tuill!} 5.30 at Benedict and Burnhams. 02\26\{1899} (Sunday) Got up this morning at 8 o'clock went to my shop at 9 to meet Mr. Larocque{?} and Mr. Edide Maston{?} but they were not there, so went down to Fathers and had breakfast after which Mr. Peter R. Larocque{?} came after me and we went up to the shop and they bought a lot of plank which came to 11.60 a lot of Wheels 12.00 and a wagon for 4.00, all came to 27.60 also 8 sets of tires at 1 1/4 cts, they are to pay for it later, Came home and got ready and went to Fathers adn got his horse and carriage and went to the trolley, and met the Rev. Dr. Davenport{?} and carried him to the Chapel, where he preached to an audience of 47 persons it being very stormy with sleet and rain. Took the team home and staid at Fathers till supper was over, and came home, getting very wet. 02\27\{1899} (Monday) Got up a little past five o'clock had breakfast at six and started for work at twenty minutes past, got to the shop at at {written twice} 10 minutes to seven, it rained all of the way. The water in the Naugatuck river has been quite high to day and lots of ice has come{came!} down. Pierpont took the horse down to the shop and had it shod, Clyde came after me tonight. 02\28\{1899} (Tuesday) This morning the weather was clear and cool. Went to the shop at the usual time and worked all day Received{Recived!} my pay for last weeks work which amounted to eighteen dollars, Clyde came after met at six and we went to see mr. J G Janes{James?} and paid him the b_lance{balance?} on the insurance on my shop except fifty cents which I am to send to him tomorrow by Clyde, then __{we?} went to M.J Loggs{?} store and bought a bag of flower{flour!}, for which we paid 60 cts, then started home. While coming down Cherry street we heard the fire alarm bell strike after which the alarm whistle blew soon a hack came along the horses __{on?} a dead run, then _ame{same?} a hose wagon and we __pt{kept?} along with it till we came to Tracys black{block?} which was on fire, we drove up Williams street and hitched the horse,{or;?} and went through the back yards __{to?} the rear of the block, where we had a fine view of the fire, they had two streams of water on the East side of it and two inside, there was one Steamer, two hose wagons, one hose cart,{or .?} and a large hook and ladder truck, soon they had the fire under control, and we came home. This is the last day of the month, and it bids{?} fair to storm tomorrow. 03\01\1899 (Wednesday) This first day of march has been very pleasant{plesant!} and warm. Worked all day at Benedict and Burnhams, Clyd{Clyde?} came after me this evening with the team, and we drove home. George Alexander brought a load of wood to day This evening Clyde, Irving, Margaret and Ruth went to the Chapel to rehearse{reharse!} for an entertainment which the young Ladies are to give 03\02\{1899} (Thursday) The weather to day has been warm and the snow disappeared very much. {new paragraph?} Worked at Benedict _{&?} Burnhams. {new paragraph?} This evening Mary and I went to see Hiram Able to make arrangements for Young mens Night at the Chapel, and also to tell him of his appointment{apointment!} as janitor of the Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Holden gave a Stereopitan{?} entertainment at the Grange this evening, for which they charged an admission of 10cts.{. or ,?} The Lecture was entitled Hawaii. 03\03\{1899} (Friday) Went to the shop as usual to day {new paragraph?} Spent the evening at home and went to bed at 10 o'clock. {03\04\1899} (Saturday) {Only "Saturday" was written in the margin to label the entry} The weather{wather!} to day has been wet and the traveling very muddy {new paragraph} Charlie Cass went to New York to St. Lukes hospital{hastital/hostital!} to have a surgical{sergical!} operation performed{preformed!} in the shape of removing apendicitis{a pendicitas!}. His wife Trace accompanied him We the children and the Ables, Frenches, Beckwith's, Spenders, and several others went to the Chapel to rehearse{reherse!} for an entertainment to be{he!} given some future time. 03\05\1899 (Sunday) Did not get up till 9 o'clock, as it was raining very hard. Spent most of the forenoon read___{reading? ready?} writing etc. Went this afternoon and saw{sow!} Morris{Marris!} Burger at Gillettes corners, found him very sick with inflamation{inflanation!} of the bladder, He thought that he would be able to go to work in two or three weeks. {new paragraph?} Dr. Parry{?} preached at the Chapel to day 03\06\{1899} (Monday) Worked at Benedict and Burnhams, 10 hours 03\07\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been very stormy, showed{showered?} hard. Clyd{Clyde?} Irving, Margaret, and Ruth, went to the Chapel to rehearse{reherse!} to{lo!} night but there was no one there. 03\08\{1899} (Wednesday) Weather to day was cold and fair. The Ladies Union had a supper and Entertainment at the Chapel this evening at which they cleared something over $7.00 03\09\{1899} (Thursday) The weather overhead has been fine to day, but I have not been up there, on the ground it was spashy{splashy? slushy?}. Mary has gone to the Grange. Clyde told me that Thomas Melbourn has moved to Beacon Falls and left his place, which is now for sale. 03\10\1899 (Friday) Worked to day at Benedict and Burnhams, blacksmithing. Bought a barrel{barrell!} of flour{flower!} off{of!} Thomas Kelley for 4.50 to day. Have worked very hard to day and as I am not accustomed{accostomed!} to tool-making and factory blacksmithing, and the others who I work with take care not to give me much information in regard to the work and my health is not very good, I am weary and tired tonight. 03\11\{1899} (Saturday) This evening I went to the Chapel at the request of Bertha French who has charge of the entertainment which is to be given next Tuesday evening,{,?} (but who is now very sick in bed), to help preserve order. 03\12\{1899} (Sunday) Did not get up very early this morning{norning!}. The weather has been warm and it has thawed, but very little snow is left, sent Irving to have George Cass and Charlie Hotchkiss come and get ready for the part they were to take in the Entertainment at the Chapel Tuesday evening {new paragraph?} Charlie Cass had an operation performed{preformed!} in the shape of his appendicitis{appendicitas!} being taken out, at St. Lukes Hospital at New York City. Went to the Chapel{Chapl!} this afternoon,{or . ?} But there was no service as the miniter was not met at the Trolley car. After Chapel went and saw John FRench about the Chapel supper which is to be given next week. 03\13\{1899} (Monday) The weather to day has been fine, the pleasantest{plesantest!} this year,{,?} so far. Went to the shop and worked all day. {new paragraph?} Received{Recived!} a letter this evening from Mr. Tucker who is in New Boston{?} Mass, which was sent to him from Gross, Hyde & Shipman, attorneys at law of hartford, which stated that they were going to have the Iinsurance{insurance?} case of the old shear shop assigned in the Waterbury Superior Court{Cort!} on the week of the 22nd of this month. There was a bad smash on the Highland division of the Consolidated Rail Road this side of Towantic{?} station yesterday{ysterday!} morning in which two men were killed and several injured,{, or .?} Two freight trains ran into each other head on on {written twice? an?} the top of a 80 ft embankment, and many of the cars rolled __wn{down?} to th_{the?} foot, and scattered the fr__gh{freight?} about. The Rail Road{Roaod!} Co hired all of the Farmers about there to hall{haul!} the greight back a distance of tow{two?} miles to a place where it could be loaded on the cars again. 03\14\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather today has been very nice but the mud is deep in some{?} places. At the factory yesterday we were told that Maurice Burger was coming to work next week, it was understood that I was {text is smudged?} to get through when he came; ___{text smudged} yesterday I was told that they wanted me to stay longer, and they were going to have three Blacksmiths, i.e. Charlie Kellie, Maurice Burger, and myself. Received{Recived!} my pay at the shop to day which amounted to $18.00 for last week Went to the Chapel this evening to the Entertainment which was given by the young ladies, it was a success every was although the attendance was not large. {Note in margin of text: Chapel} 03\15\1899 (Wednesday) The weather to day has been stormy most of the time, rain, hail, and sleet. {new paragraph?} Miss Minnie Norton the school teacher came here{hear? word smudged} and staid over night. 03\16\1899 (Thursday) The weather to day has been rather cool, and the traveling muddy. Went to the Grange this evening, but was so sleepy that I did not enjoy it very much. 03\17\{1899} (Friday) The weather to day has been cold and the roads very rought. A school meeting is called in this Saw Mill Plain district for to night to take some action against consolidating all of the school districts in the town. I did not attend as I am very tired and am in need of sleep To day is St. Patricks day and is ovserved by the Irish many of whom work at the factory where I do, they each wear a sprig of gre__{green?} or some other green emblem, but they do not know who St. Patrick{Patric!} was only that he was a great man who drove all the reptiles from Ireland. 03\18\1899 (Saturday) The weather has been very stormy, Sleet, and rain. This evening Clyde, Irving, Charlie Hotchkiss and myself{-?} went to Mr. Thoedor Munsons{?} and got a cook stove and put it in the cellar of the Chapel to __{be?} used at the supper to be given next{?} Wednesday evening, {new paragraph?} It rained very h___{hard?} and we did not get home till 9.30 o clock. 03\19\{1899} (Sunday) Mr. Bassett preached at Mill plain Chapel this afternoon. 03\20\{1899} (Monday) Worked to day at Benedict and Burnhams. This evening Charlie Hotchkiss, Clyde and I went to mrs. Munsons and got her stove and put it up in the Chapel cellar{cellear!}, to be used next Wednesday evening. 03\21\1899 (Tuesday) When I cam home from the shope this evening, we Clyde and I; went round by Mill Plain and finished{f_nisshed!} setting up the stove in teh Chapel. After which we came home __d{and?} after supper, Charlie Hotchkiss and George Cass came and we choped hask{?} for the supper at the Chapel tomorrow evening. A Letter came tonight from Gross Hyde and Shipman{?}, Attorneys in hartford notifying me to appear at the Superior court{cort!} to morrow{tommorrow?} morning at 10' o'clock{o clock?} as a witness at the trial of the{thi?} Orient Insurance Co against Barnard _{&?} Saw. 03\22\{1899} (Wednesday) This morning I went to the shop and shou_d{showed?} Mr. Byers{.?} the letter which I received{recived!} from _ross{Gross?}, Hyde and Shipman, and he told me that I could stay out, I came home and got ready and Irving drove the horse{.?} and carried C_yde{Clyde?} and I _own{down?} to Fathers and from there we walked in e rain to the trolley car and went{wen!} to the center, I went an{and?} bought{baught!} a pair of rubbers for which I paid 60 cts then went and had my _air{hair?} cut and shaved for which I paid .35 cts then to the Court{Cort!} house and the trial{tryal!} commenced{comenced!} I staid all day, and as they did not hear from Mr. Brainard, Mr. Hyde wanted me to go to Southington{Southingston?} and find him, Mr. Friller{?} gave me $10.00 and told me get him, I found Will Gillette and he said that he would go with me. We came out on the trolley car, and I went to the Chapel and got my supper, and Will went to Father's and got his, he then called for me at the Chapel and we started for Southington with Father{Father's?} horse. First we went to Henry Newell{Newells?} in Marion and he told us that Wall Dickerman could tell us where we could find Mr. Brainard, we stopped at Wall Dickermans and he told u_{us?} that we would find him at South end. We then went there and found that he is living with a Family named Ruande{?} on Elm{Elim?} Stree{Street?} in Meriden We then drove to to {written twice} Stillmans corner and Will took the trolley there and I kept on towards Meriden with the team,{,/} with the horse on a walk, Will reached Meriden and found Mr. Brainard and summonds him to appear in court{cort!} in the morning, he then started back on the trolley and met me on West Main Stree{Street!} in Meriden, we then started for home w_ich{which?} we reached at 2 o'clock A.M. wet and cold it having rain__{rained?} most of the way. The ground was covered with three inches of ice snow and at the to_{top?} of the Southington Mountain the trees{treees!} were laying, across the road broken and bent down with the weight of ice on them. 03\23\{1899} (Thursday) Did not get up this morning till eight o'clock,{, or ;} took the measurements of many of the timbers and lumber that was in the Old Shear Shop which was destroyed by fire on the evening of Oct _9{19?} 1896, and which timbers{?} and burnt stuff are now in my possession. Had breakfast adn started for town at quarter to nine, stopped at my shop and left a lease of the premises to Mr. Laroque and Mayton for five years, the Lease was dated Feb 15th 1899 and expires Feb 15 1904. Then went and took the trolley car at Wilver Street, after reaching town went to Jones and Morgan{?} and bought an umbrella of cousin Charlie Phillips for which I paid $1.18 then went to the Court{Cort!} House on Lenenworth Street which I reached at 10 O'clock, at which time the court{cort!} opened Mr. George E Judd was the first witness. He was followed I think by Mr. Henry. C.{?} Robinson of New York, who in turn gave his place to Han{Hon?} Frederick Kingsbury, then Mr. Thomas Porter of New York was called, then Mr. Robinson was recalled{recolled!}, after which it was dinner time and Mr. Tucker, Mr. Brainard, and myself went to the Franklin House and had dinner, after which we returned to the court and during the afternoon the testimony of Mr. Tracy and Mr. Robinson was taken, after which the court{cort!} adjourned{ajourned!} at 5 o'clock till next Thursday at 10 o'clock. Mr. Shipman gave me the plans and elevations of the old shear shop and I took them to Mr. Watson Hurlburt and ___t{left?} them there for him to figure an estimate of whate a building like the old one would cost. 03\24\{1899} (Friday) This morning went to work at Benedict and Burnhams. Mr. Burger whose{whoes!} place I am filling called to day and said that he __{is?} coming to work next monday. 03\25\{1899} (Saturday) The weather this morning was very nice, but it soone clouded{clowded!} in and{,?} tonight it began snowing. Charlie Hotchkiss, Clyde, Irving, Frank, and myself went to the Chape{Chapel?} and took down Mrs. Munsons stove and carried it home and set it up. {new paragraph?} Came home and ate supper after which Mary and I went to see Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, about the children, whom they say are troubeling their children, and who mr. Andrews has complained to the humane society. 03\26\{1899} (Sunday) Went to the Chapel this afternoon. {new paragraph?} Mr. Davenport preached, I took Fathers team and met him at the trolley car and carried him to the Chapell{Chapll!} and after service home. Mr. Frederick Upson{?} of Woodtick, died to day. 03\27\{1899} (Monday) Weather to day has been cool and traveling very muddy. Worked at Benedicts _(&?} Burnhams on an other fire, as Mr. Burger came back to work. This evening Mr. Hoggett{?} called and left a petition a_ainst{against?} consolidating{consolodating!} all of the school districts in the town, for me to sign and deliver to Wilson Pierpont to be given to Milan Northrop. Mr. Andrews borrowed my horse sled this evening. Mr. Coleman called on me to night with a friend and hinted that he would _ike{like?} to stay over night, but it was not very convenient to kee{keep?} him, he at one time lived on the Old Prospect road, but now lives in Northborupton{?} Mass. 03\28\1899 (Tuesday) It has rained almost all day and to night the wind blows hard. Received{Recived!} my Pay at Benedict & Burnhams $12.00 for 4 days 03\29\{1899} (Wednesday) Rained very hard last night. The Naugatuck river has been rising all day. {new paragraph?} Worked at Benedict and Burnhams, Mr. Byers told me that they would like me to stay and work next week. 03\30\{1899} (Thursday) This morning I took the trolley car and went to see Mr. Hurlburt at Mattatuck Street, aabout the estimate of the cost of the "Old Shear Shop." {. or ,?} he said that it would cost 10,500{?} dollars without the foundations, Mr. Tracy said it would cost $13,000 with foundation, Mr. Green Daolittle{Doolittle?} told me that he drew the check that paid for it, and it was {.?}$12,000 in 1873. Went to the Courthouse{Cort-house! 1 word?} at 10 o'clock and the case of Barnard Son & Co, via{nia?} Orient Insurance Co was called {new paragraph?} The first witness was George W Tucker, next myself, and then Fred Brainard of Meriden, the case was adjourned{ajourned!} at 2.30 to meet again at Winsted nest week Monday to hear the arguments and to finish. I ws{was?} then asked to go to the Scoville House with Mr. Shipman and Hyde will they settled{settlede!} with me, they gave me $10.00, with the $5.00 they gave me for going to Meriden, and the $10.00 they gave me in Winsted makes $25.00 in all they paid me. 03\31\1899 (Friday) This day is Fast day, nearly all of the factories are closed. Got up at seven o'clock and worked about home{house?} all day. The weather has been fine. Two of the Worden boys came and they an my children played hide and seek and yards-off. Brother Frank called this afternoon. This evening the woods on{an?} long hill and the Abrigador, were on fire. 04\01\1899 (Saturday) This is all fools day, and the children have{.?} enjoyed it in fooling every-body that they could. Worked at Benedict and Burnhams Mr. Kenworthy told me that they would like me to stay on eweek longer. 04\02\{1899} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Parry preached at the Chapel to day. 04\03\{1899} (Monday) Worked all day at Benedict & Burnhams. Am not feeling well 04\04\{1899} (Tuesday) Mr. Andrews moved from the Jessie Doolittle place to Tom Melbourns place. 04\05\{1899 (Wednesday) Am Feeling somewhat better. The ladies Union had a supper at the Chapel this evening, Mary went, but I stayed home. 04\06\{1899} (Thursday) Mary and several of the Children went to the Grange hall this evening to an stereptean{?} exhibition on birds given by the Grange Lecturer. 04\07\{1899} (Friday) Worked at Benedict & Burnhams, Maurice Burger; did not feel well It is raining very hard this evening. 04\08\{1899} (Saturday) The Naugatuck River was midling high to day owing{awing!} to last nights rain. Large quantities of drift wood has{have?} floated down, besides many barrels{barrells!}, boxes, etc. 04\09\{1899} (Sunday) To day went to Fathers and got his team and went to the trolley car and met Dr. Anderson and carried him to the Chapel where he preached This evening George Edwards and wife and hatty called. Wrote a letter to major Tucker New Boston Mass, One to Malachi Gillette, South Norfolk, Conn{Carm.!} and one to Fred J Woods. 04\10\{1899} (Monday) This day I worked at Benedict & Burnhams {new paragraph?} Irving carried me down, and came after me at night Benedict and Burnhams require four large engines to drive its machinery {new paragraph?} They also have eight small engines located in different parts of the concern{?} to use when the large engines are not running. They keep fourteen horses in the barn, six of which they use on double teams, the rest{next? word hard to read} single, also they have a locomotive{lacomotive! lacomative!} which is in constant use. The different departments are. The Office department " Mill " " Seamless Tube " " Braised " " City " Heat Steam & Light " " Wire Mill " Shipping " " Yard " " Barn " 04\11\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been fine, the grass is turning green, and robins are singing in the trees 04\12\{1899} (Wednesday) This evening our family met at Fathers{Fatheres?} it being his 69 birthday we were all there except Clyde who was in Ansonia{?}, and Fred and wife 04\13\1899 (Thursday) This has been the finest day of the season so far, but I have been inside of the Blacksmith shop all day from seven this morning till six tonight, except about 10 minutes this noon,{, or .?} Clyde returned home from Ansonia where he went yesterday morning on a visit to Cousin Emma Drews{?}. Two months ago to day I went to work at Benedict and Burnhams, but ex pect{expect?} that they will not want me after next Saturday night. 04\14\{1899} (Friday) The weather to day has been nice and spring-like. This evening Miles Panne{Paune? Payne?} called and wanted me to go to work for him next week, if Benedicts, Charlie Hotchkiss and Howard Neil called to practice{practise!} drumming soon George Cass came and, we marched to Charlie Cass at M rjor Tuckers place, going up by way of the mattatuck shop, and coming back by Hyrams Ables. 04\15\1899 (Saturday) The weather to day has been fine. Mr. Byers came to me at the shop and said that they would like me to stay another week and work for them, I said that I would stay. Last night Thomas Miles Payne wished that I could come{came!} to work for him. Mr. Lo Rogue{?} paid me 15.00 one months rent Which was due on my shop. I called to night to see Mr. Fred Woods about settling{settleing!} an old account, but he was not in.{"?} I told the bookkeeper that {-?} I would call again next monday evening 04\16\{1899} (Sunday) I got up at about seven o'clock and worked about the yard for a while this morning. It commenced{?} to rain at about 7.45 and rained harder and harder till afternoon when it began snowing, and continued till night. Clyde has been in bed sick all day. Some of the children went to the Chapel this afternoon to _undayschool{Sundayschool? Text is smudged}. Mr. Hannan preached ruing the service. In the Evening Mrs. Thoedore{Thoedare!} Munson and Agness Able{?} called to see Mary about the next supper. {04\17\1899} (Monday) {Only "Monday" is written to label this entry} Worked to day at Benedict & Burnhams. The weather to day has been fine. It is reported that Charlie Monroe{?} and Mrs. Stark are married 04\18\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather to day has{word smudged?} been warm{warn!} and spring-like. Maurice Berger has been sick and did not work yesterday or today{1 word?}. 04\19\{1899} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been clear and warm although it looks like storm this evening{evenining!}. There was a dwelling house burned in South Brooklyn this afternoon {new paragraph?} I saw from the shop the Steamer and hose wagon also the Hook and Ladder truck as they crossed the Bank Street bridge. This evening I went to the Chapel toe the Supper and Entertainment given by the ladies Union, which is the last supper to be giv_{given?} this _eason{season?}. 04\20\{1899} (Thursday) Worked at B and B to day. Went to the Grange this evening. 04\21\{1899} (Friday) This morning I got up at 20 minutes past 5,o'clock, went to work at seven, {new paragraph?} Worked till twelve, ate my dinner in the shop, and at one went to work, and worked till six. The weather was wet this forenoon, but it cleared up this afternoon. This evening George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Howard Neil, Henry Buyckinghan{?}, and a man that I did not know came to d_____{dinner?}. 04\22\{1899} (Saturday) Elmer Pierponts wife died this afternoon, aged 38 years. The weather to day has been nice and warm. 04\23{24!}\{1899} (Sunday) The weather to day has been warm and nice. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel,{, or .?} I carried him home with Fathers horse. 04\24{25!}\{1899} (Monday) The weather has been clear but rather cool to day. Maurice Berger has been to work to day. 04\25{26!}\{1899} (Tuesday) To day the weather has been warm and the roads very dusty. Went to the shop and worked till noon, Irving met me at the corner of Washington STreet at 12 o clock and brought me home, I ate dinner and got ready soon as possible, and Wilson Pierpont came and hitched into my two seated wagon{wagan!} and we went to Elmer Pierpotns house on Hospital{Haspital!} avenue to attend the funeral of his wife Lizzie who died last Saturday afternoon Mr. Hannah, Methodist minsiter attended, and the Pall bearers were Wilson Pierpont, __stin{Austin?}, and Charlie Pierpont and myself. {new paragraph?} They buried her in the Pine Grove Cemetery at Mill Plain In the evening Clyde and I went to the town clerks office to look the records in regard to Capt Phinias/Phileas{?} Castle who was an early settler at Hagpound{?}{,?} (East Farms) 04\26\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked at Benedict and Burnhams to day. Saw some boys in swimming in the Naugatuck River. 04\27\{1899} (Thursday) Worked at B and B, William Shanahan was out sick, he helped Maurice Burger, and helped me when Burger was out sick. 04\28\{1899} (Friday) There was a severe frost this morning and it was cold, worked at Benedict and Burnhams, Mr. Byers told me that the work is caught up and that they would not need me after tomorrow night {new paragraph?} But would like to have me come again when they are busy. Charlie Cass and his wife Tracy has{have?} move{moved?} from Mr. Tuckers, __{to? is this word crossed out?} the Doolittle place 04\29\1899 (Saturday) Got through working at Benedict and Burnhams to night. 04\30\1899 (Sunday) I went to day to Dr. Andersons{?} at No 144 Prospect Street _t{at?} half past two and carriee him to the{?} Mill Plain Chapel where he preached. {new paragraph?} The attendance{attendence!} was rather small. I heard tonight that William B{?} Pratt whose{whoes!} home was formly{formerly?} on East Mountain was drowned in Plymoth{?} last night while fishing He worked for me in 1892 at wagon woodworking. 05\01\{1899} (Monday) Went to work to day for Thomas M Payne on East Mountain. Made a heavy cart wheel with 2 1/2 spoke. This Evening Clydye and I plowed the East{Eeast!} garden There has{have?} been two alarms{arlarms!} of fire to day, one a little{two words?} before Seven this morning from the corner of Washington and South Main Streets, and one from the corner of Meadow and Bank Streets a little after 12 this noon. It is noining{raining?} now quite a little and thundering and lightening a good deal 9 o'clock P.M. Margarett{Margaret?}, Ruth and Irving went about the neightborhood this evening hanging May baskets{basketts! baskett! test difficult to read} an/on{?} the doors, but it came an{on?} to blow and rain so hard that they lost{last?} many of the flowers out of the baskets and then they came home{hoine?} 05\02\{1899} (Tuesday) This morning I went to work for Thomas Mils Payne, on East Mountain. This forenoon William{?} Purdy, and his wife, who was Jemie{? text difficult to read} Pratt, and Miss Libie Pratt, and Miles Payne and wife went Thomaston to attend the funeral of William{Willian!} Pratt who was drowned last Saturday night. I was left alone in the shop the rest of the day. 05\03\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked for Miles Payne to day. Plowed the North garden this morning and tonight. Bought of an agent, one Niagra, one Vergeunes{?} and one Warden grape vine for which I paid .50 cts 05\04\{1899} (Thursday) Worked for Miles Payne to day. Had Blyde go to Benedict &{?} Burnhams and get my pay $16.50 Went to the Grange tonight{1 word? text smudged?}. 05\05\1899{Friday) Worked to day for T Miles Payne{?}, on East Mountain, Repairing wagons {new paragraph?} Maurice Burgher{?} left word that they wanted me to come and work at Benedict and Burnhams, to morrow. 05\06\{1899} (Saturday) Worked for{fa!} Mr. Payne to day he paid me what he owed me 13.25 This evening Mary and I went to George Canners{Conners?} on West Side hild{hill?} to the celebration of their silver wedding. 05\07\{1899} (Sunday) Mr. Parry preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Went to Cheshire this afternoon with Mr. Tucker{?}. 05\08\{1899} (Monday) Went to work at Benedict & Burnhams to day. Mr. Burger was out sick. 05\09\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked at Benedict and Burnhams 05\10\1899 (Wednesday) Worked at Benedict and Burnhams This evening Clyde, Irving, Mary and Myself went out to East Farms to Arthur Pierponts to a dance in an addit__n{addition?} which he has built on to his South cow barn 30 x 40 ft There were about 75 present and all had a nice time. 05\11\{1899} (Thursday) Worked as usual to day, This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. 05\12\1899 (Friday) I worked to day at Benedict & Burnham_{Burnhams?} Brother Frank and Grissy his wife, William Gillette, and sister Iva started for North Goshen this morning to visit Cousin Malchi Gillette. The weather has been fine and clear. 05\13\{1899} (Saturday) The weather to day has been cloudy{?} in the forenoon and rained this afternoon, I worked at B. & B. 05\14\{1899} (Sunday) Clyde, Irving, Pierpont, Raymond, and myself went this morning out on the Southington mountain {new paragraph?} Staid home the rest of the day. Mr. Rafter of Waterville preached at the Chapel. 05\15\{1899} (Monday) The weather to day has been very cool.{.?} I worked at Benedict & Burnhams{?}. 05\16\1899 (Tuesday) Got up this morning at 2_{20?} minutes past 5 had breakfast and Irving drove the horse and we rode to the trolley car, which I took and went to Benedict and Burnhams,{,?} where I worked all day. Rode{Wrode!} home to night with maurice Burgher{?}. There has{have?} been two poliecemen!} appointed (Hickey and Brinkel) to ride on Bicycles{Bicicles!} to arrest scorchers{?} or fast riders who violate the law, which says that they must ride faster than ten miles an hour, within the City limits. They have arrested seven to day, but let then{them?} out on a bail of $50.00 05\17\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked at Benedict & Burnhams to ay. Last{Least?} night at about 8.30 I heard a noise that sounded like thunder under ground, I did not think much of it at the time, but I learn__{learned? word smudged} to day that it was an earthquake and was heard and felt in all of the towns about here, and along the Connecticut River, I{It?} was felt{?} in Hartford, Middletown, East Hampton, and as far South as Saybrook. The shock was so severe that it caused the dishes to rattle on the shelves in some houses, in Bristol it shook the plaster off from the ceilings of some of the houses. I{It?} was not as severe as the earth quake{2 words?} of 1884. {05\18\1899} (Thursday) {Only "Thursday" is written next to the entry} Went to work to day as usual. {new paragraph?} This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 05\19\1899 (Friday) The weat_er{weather? text smudged} this morning was quite ool, at noon it rained some, bu cleared up before night. This forenoon we welded a large head of steel auto a{on?} steel arbor for the seamless tube department which{whhich!} was a herd{hard?} Job it weighed about 700 pounds and was bad steel to weld. This evening I went to see Miss Tatem the school teacher about the school but she was sick with the intermittint/intermittent{?} fever, came{?} home and drummed a while, then went to bed very tired as I got up a{at?} four this morning and had worked all of the time since. 05\20\1899 (Saturday) Worked at Benedict and Burnhams today {new paragraph?} This evening Clyde and I went to the Town clerks office to look up the records{reckords!} in regard to the place once{ance!} owned by Capt Phineas Castle, now he REsident of Mr. A.B. Pierpont. 05\21\{1899} (Sunday) This morning Judge Boughton and I went to the old Pryor place out on the Middlebury road and mr. Irving Prior{?} and I traced{traiced!} the old Continental road through the Continental{Cantinental!} lot and past{?} the old Capt Nichols place and on past the place where the last Indians lived in Waterbury, which place is about 100{?} rods North of the house where Mr. Arden H Coe lives. {new paragraph?} The Indians who lived there were he last remnant{remenenet!} of the Mel_eleck{Melmeleck?} tribe and they remained{remaned!} till about Fifty years ago. Mr. Hannah preached at the Chapel. 05\22\{1899} (Monday) Worked as usual. This evening Mary Clyde and I went to Mr. Garrigus to an entertainment given by the University extension class of Storrs College{Colleage!} 05\23\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked till 4 o'clock, When I left the shop and went to the City hall and met Clyde, and we went into the vault{valt!} in the Town Clerks office and searched the records{reckards!} 05\24\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked; This evening Mary and I went to the Chapel meeing and they elected new officers, for the Episcopal{Episcapal!} denomination Morris Alcott, Congregational{Cangrigational!} Warren Hitchcock, Methodist{Metoodst!} Willie Garrigus, Baptist Robert Warden, Sec Arthur Pierpont, Treasurer Hiram Able, Sunday School Superintendent{Superintindent!} J Henry Garrigus, Librarian{Libraran!} Henry Cass; Organist Inez Beckwith{?}. 05\25\{1899} (Thursday) {This entry is labelled 05\24\{1899} (Thursday)} Worked at Benedict & Burnhams to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 05\26\1899 (Friday) While working at Benedict and Burnhams this morning Mr. Byars{?} came and told me that they would have to "lay me off" for a while, as they did not have work enough to keep{keepe!} me, am to get through Saturday night. This evening{,?} Charlie Hotchkiss{?} and George Cass, came and practiced drumming. We decided to go to Cheshire and drum for the "Old Soldiers{Souldiers!}" on decoration day. 05\27\{1899} (Saturday) I got through working at Benedict & Burnhams to night, and Mr. Musse{?} paid me what was d__{due?}, 17.40. I wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. Nichols of Cheshire telling him that a number of the boys would go over and drum, for the Old Veterans on Memorial day, Clyde carried the letter over, and Mr. Nichols told him that they were to have no parade in Cheshire, but that they were to have a march, speaking etc in Prospect, and told Clyde to go there and see Mr. Beers who lives near Prospect center, He rode there on his wheel and found Mr. Beers who seemed very much pleased to think that a drum Corps was coming. 05\28\1899 (Sunday) Got up at 7 o'clock, washed my harness and did other chores, had breakfast at 9 George Cass came to see aboutt going to Prospect to drum tuesday at 10, Irving and I hitched up and drove to Maruce Bergers{?} at Gilletts corners to see him about some carpenter work taht he spoke of having done yesterday, but he had decided not to do it, visited with him a while and then went to Prospect center and down the Rag Hollow Road to Mr. Beers but he had gone to Cheshire so I did not see him, left word there that we (the drummers would be on hand at 11.30 tuesday. {new paragraph?} Then drove East to Matthews{?} street and then turned North up said street till{tell!} we came to an old road that kept straight{strait!} ahead at the turn Southeast of Agustus Mass house, we went through the old road which was very rough and steep in some places and it brought us out at prospect station{statian!} on the Meriden Rail Road, we continued still north after crossing{crassing!} the tract and came out at the lower end of Rag hollow near the Old Gate house on the Plank road, we then drove home, and found Henry Buckingham{?} and Charlie Hotchkiss there to see me about going{gaing!} to Prospect to drum. I sent Henry Buckingham to Wolcott to notify Luke Henderson and Adelbert Norton, and I and Clyde went to Pine Grove Cemetery to place a flag on the grave of Mr. E L Pond{Pand?}, a veteran who died about two month ago, a committee{committiee!} of veterans{veteras!}, (Capt Bangs, Chancy Seeley Wm Melton and one whom I did not know) gave me the flag, we could not find the grave that we were sure was Mr. Ponds, so I stuck the flag in a newly made grave and, will find out tomorrow, which is his. Came home and found Aunt Tan Somers{?} and Cousin David there, who staid till it was quite dark, when we sat down to supper, after which George Cass Came, and staid a little while he said that Luke Henderson was going to Prospect, when he started home it was raining quite hard. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. {new paragraph?} To bed at 9 o'clock. {No entry is labelled for 05\29\1899} 05\29{30!}\{1899} (Monday) The weather to day has been cloudy{clowdy!} and a little wet. I worked about home till 4 o clock. When Irving and I went to the Town Clerks office in the City Hall, and looked the records{reckoids!} in regard to the history of East Farms, and the vicinity{vacinity!}. {new paragraph?} Came home at 7.30 and Charlie Cass, George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, irving and myself practiced drumming, and dirges{durges!}, for the memorial{memoral!} exercises tomorrow. 05\30{31!}\{1899} (Tuesday) This morning I got up at 5.30 got out the team and got ready to go to Prospect, Margaret, Ruth, Charlie Hotchkiss, Irving, and myself started in the two seated canopy top wagon and went to George Casses, and waited for him and nellie to get ready. {new paragraph?} We then drove to Prospect center, and put our teams out under the church sheds{sheads!}, and what there was of us "fell in," and marched to Mr. Beers house East of the Center, and reported for duty. We were told to wait till noon and then occassionally{accasionly!} marched round the green. The veterans arrived{arived!} to the number of about 15, and several others came from Cheshire, and we went into the Church and listened to an address by Judge George H Cowell of Waterbury and also by the Rev. Mr. Nichols, of Cheshire, late of Waterbury, also some fine singing by several young ladies of Prospect, and recitations. {new paragraph?} Out of a population of less than 500 men, women, and children, Prospect sent to the war 75 able bodied{bodyed!} soldiers{souldiers!}, this was more than any other town in the state sent, in proportion to its inhabitants. _fter{After?} the service in the Church we formed in the green in front, The Drum Band first, the{then?} the Veterans to the number{nunber!} of about 30 than about 20 sons of Veterans, the{then?} the School children from all parts of the town, each carrying bouquets and wreaths of flowers, and marched to the Cemetery to a Funeral dirge, there we marched from grave to grave of the dead soldiers{souldiers!} and placed flowers on each, the band playing "Safe in the arms of Jesus" after which we marched to the hall under the church were there was a bountiful colation served. A vote of thanks was given to the Drum Corps also to judge Cowell and Rev. Mr. Nichols, after supper we played out side, "Marching through Georgia" and "Old Dan Tucker"{?} after which we started for home. On the way we stopped at the Reservoir on east mountain and went to the boiling spring, which was of great interest to the others who had not seen it. We then came home, and to bed before 9 o'clock. 05{06!}\31{01!}\1899 (Wednesday) Remained at home all day, put up a vice in the carriage house and repaired George Cass_s{Casses?} buggy. In the evening Mary and I went to the Chapel to a meeting of the Sundayschool{1 word?} Officers and teachers. I also called on mr. Tucker. It was decided to hold a prayer{prgyer!} meeting in the Chapel next Sunday evening. 06\01\1899 (Thursday) Worked building a chicken yard to day. The weather was very warm. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 06\02\1899 (Friday) Finished the chicken yard to day. The afternoon went and visited the Mill Plain School {new paragraph?} Miss F May Tatem{?} teaches the primary room, my Pierpont and Ruth were there. The school was very orderly and the recitations good. Miss Minnie Norton teaches the hiher{higher?} grade, where Margaret and Irving attend, the lessons were well recited and the order very good. A little past 5 o'clock the Fire alarm{alarn!} gong sounded Number 14, which is corner of the Wolcott street and East main. The fire proved to be Fred Woods oil storage{storgge!} shed, at he Meriden Railroad Station I{It?} was Kerocene{Karocine!}, and gasoline and it soon all burned. 06\03\1899 (Saturday) This forenoon Clyde, Irving, and myself worked drawing{drowing!} stones from he North East corner of my lot to the foundation of the Blacksmith shop I am going to build by the brook on he Doolittle road. This afternoon I went to Robert Wordens{?} at East Farms and packed a pump{word hard to read} for him and repaired two gates, For which he paid me $1.00 which was the only dollar I have earned this week. 06\04\{1899} (Sunday) Went to the Chapel this afternoon Mr. Buckley preached. {new paragraph?} Mary and Clyde went to Trinity Church this evening, and saw Bishop Brewster confirm a class of sixteen members into the Episcopal faith among whom was Arthur and Mort Pierpont. 06\05\1899 (Monday) To day has been one of the hottest Helped Mary run the washing-machine{1 word or hyphenated?}, anc spent the rest of the day in writing Mrs. Hiram Able is 40 years old, and this evening, the neighbots to the number of about{alout!} 20 met at their house and congratulated them. 06\06\{1899} (Tuesday) Hot weather to day everi_____{everiry__y?} is suffering for want of rain. Painted the wagon house and port{part?} of the Barn. 06\07\1899 (Wednesday) The weather has been hotter than any day yet, till about 4 o'clock this afternoon, when a thunder shower went around North of us and it cooled the air very much. {new paragraph?} I worked painting all day, on my out buildings. This evening Mary and i went over to John Gallaghers to see him about the Flag raising exercises{excrcises!} that are to take place at the Grange. 06\08\1899 (Thursday) Got up at 5.30 this morning and after breakfast went to town to hear the case tried, "The City against John F Gallagher for violating the City ordinance{ordinence!} which requires milkmen to have a license. The court{courst!} was to be held in the new court house, but is put over till next Saturday. From thence I went to the Naugatuck Railroad Dep@ot and saw 35 new recruites{recrutes!} who had enlisted for three years, board the train, it was a sad sight, for some of the Mothers and sisters and sweethearts{sweethars!} were there and cried like children. {new paragraph?} There are to be hurried through to San- francisco and there take ship for Manilla. They are going in response{responce!} to the Presidents call for 35.000 men. {new paragraph?} After the train had left I got my team and drove to Bradley ville{1 word?}, To see Frank Howland, but he had gone to Oakville,{or .?} I drove there and found that he was surveying for Mr. Loren/Laren{?} Carter in the old deer Park, drove to Mr. Carters house and found that he was in the Center, Came to Mr. Carters office and found him. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 06\09\1899 (Friday) Weather very dry. Worked painting most of the day. 06\10{09!}\{1899} (Saturday) The Boys and I worked about home till about 5 o'clock, When I went to see Mr. James Porter about shingling the large barn at the Jessy Doolittle place, where Charlie Cass now lives Fifteen new recruites{recrutes!} left here this morning _________ ________ {word is underlined} for the Phillipines{Philipine!} Islands{Iislands!}, to serve 3 years. 06\11{10!}\{1899} (Sunday) Clyde and I with Irving went to the East Farms Cemetery and Started to make a map of it and a Record{Reckord!} of the persons who were buried there. Came home in time to go to the Chapel to the service, Mr. Parry of the Grand Street Baptist Church preached. 06\12\{1899} (Monday) This morning I hitched up the horse and went to James Porters at 9 o'clock and we went to A.L. Pecks, lumber yard on Meadow street to look at shingles. {new paragraph?} The cheapest they had were 3.25 per 1000 {new paragraph?} We also went to Tracy Brothers yard, and to The Waterbury Lumber Co's yard. {new paragraph?} The price was the same everywhere. {new paragraph?} So we came back and mr. Porter bought 6.500 hemlock{hemlack!} Shingles, from there we went Ladds grocery store on Grand Street, where Mr. Porter bought some groceries. We then went to a saloon{sbloon!} on Harrison alley and I sat in the wagon while he went into the "watercloset" he said, but he was gone a long time, and when he came out he felt good, I guess{gess!} he had had something good to drink. {new paragraph?} We then went to D.B. Wilsons store on East main STreet, and Mr. Porter bought some nails, then came home, I stoped at Mr. Porters and got his ladder, and took it to the Doolittle barn, and then ate my dinner. In the afternoon, I striped the roof of the old shingles and got some of the new ones. {Note in margin of text: 1/2 day.} 06\13\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked to day shingling Charlie{Chartie!} Casses arn. He helped me. {Note in margin of text: 10 hr{?}} 06\14\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked to day on Charlie Casse's barn. He helped me. {new paragraph?} Dexter Northrop died tonight at about 7.30 o clock. Went to town tonight to see Mr. Camp{?} about the mortgage{morgage!} on my house. 06\15\{1899} (Thursday) It was so hot that I only worked 6 hours, this was on Charlie Casses barn. Sent Mr. Camp my bill from Mr. Joseph Munder{?} deceased{deceised!} for last years Interest and my receipts{recipts!} for the same. 06\16\1899 (Friday) Yesterday was one of the hottest days ever known at this time of year. I worked shingling on Charlie Cass barn 8 hours. {Note in margin of text: 7 hr} This barn was built by Mr. Jessy Doolittle 60 years ago. Bur Chatfield{?} did the kewing{?} and joiner work and George Prichard{?} was his apprentice{apprintice!} it is a large barn 36 x 40 ft with 16 ft posts{pasts?}. I attended Dexter northrops funeral, he was 58 years of age {new paragraph?} He served three{th_ee!} years in the war in the 2nd Carm{?} Heavy __ {underlining from previous line} Artillery, was at the battle of Winchester, and at Appomottax{?} Court House when General{Genaral!} Lee Surrendered, he was also in many other battles. 06\17\{1899} (Saturday) Worked on the barn at Charlie Casses till noon. After dinnr went and saw Charlie Cass about repairing his barn pump and milk tank, after which I went to town, and took Pierpont with me. {new paragraph?} Went first to Hotchkiss & Templetons{?} hardware store and traded{traided!} a 1 5/8 shell reamer for a new scythe and .3{3?} lbs of 8d wire nails, also bought one foot of 4 1/2 inch leather belt for which I paid .35 cts, then went to Hemingways fish market and bough 1/2 peck of hard clams{?} for which I paid .30 cts, then to the Waterbury drug store and bought 2 sponges for which I paid .40 cts and 10 cts worth of saltpeter{saltpetre!}, from thence to Spencer and Pierpons and bought 1 bag of oats for which I paid 1.25 then to James Porters and reckoned the labor of shingling he barn, which amounted{announted!} to 10.75 and one bunch of shingles 1.15 which made 11.90 due me {Notes in margin of text: Next to "After dinner ..." 5 hr Next to "hardware store ..." 1899} 06\18\1899 (Sunday) This morning we got up at 7.30 o clock I roasted the 1/2 ___{lbs?} of clams in the fireplace in th cellar, and we had them for breakfast. {new paragraph?} About 10.30 Charlie Hotchkiss and and{written twice} got Rob Hotchkiss and went in search{serch!} of a _ailing{bailing?} spring, near the Meriden Road South of the house of mr. Griswold, we could not find it, so we went to Mr. Griswould{?} and visited a spell and _te{ate?} cherrys after which we came home, stopped on the way at John French, and Bertha gave us what chocolate{chockolate!} layer cake we could eat and had some nice water from their well. {new paragraph?} After supper of strawberry shortcake Mary and I went to East farms Cemetery and I finished making a map of the same, came home and to bed at 9.30 06\19\1899 (Monday) Helped Mary wash this{ihis!} morning, then set a tire on the buggy, and did odd jobs the est of the day. Received a check to dy from James Porter for 12.00 pay for work on Charles Casses barn. They had their School meeting at Eeast{?} Farm's last night, elected George Ben___{Benham?} Committee, Wilson Pierpont, Clerk. 06\20\1899 (Tuesday) Worked 4 hr at the Doolittle barn this forenoon repairing the sleepers under he floor. This afternoon worked for Mrs. Charles Frost weeding potatoes. 06\21\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked for Mrs. Charles Frost to day hoeing. This evening they had a strawberry festival at the Chapel there was a large number present. {new paragraph?} Mr. John Lines orchestra {?} furnished music. 06\22\{1899} (Thursday) Worked for Mrs. Charles Frost haying{?}. {new paragraph?} Went to th Grange this evening, They had a memorial service, The Rev. Mr. Buckley{?} spoke 06\23\1899 (Friday) Weather dry and hot, there is not hay scarcely, owing to the long draught{drauth!}. {new paragraph?} Worked for Mrs. Charles Frost. 06\24\{1899} (Saturday) The weather to day has been hot, about noon it began to thunder, and we worked very fast and got the hay up just in time so it did not get wet. It began raining at 4 o'clock, and rained till after night fall. Mrs. Frost paid me 7.60 for 2 days hoeing and 2 days and 3 hr haying, 15 cts per hr for hoeing and 20 for haying. 06\25\{1899} (Sunday) I_{It, "t" is written above text} has{hos!} rained some to day. It was childrens day at the Chapel and Mr. Devenport talked to the children Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lockhart had four children baptized. {new paragraph?} The attendance{attendence!} was large but not what it would have been had it not been for the rain. 06\26\{1899} (Monday) Worked to day for Mrs. Frost at mowing by hand. {new paragraph?} The weather has been cool and clear. {new paragraph?} This evening as we were at supper at 7.10 o clock there was a severe earthquake shock, which lasted about one minute and shook everything. Mr. Thoedore Munson{?} and wife, Hiran{Hiram?} Able and wife, Charlie Cass and wife, Albert Spender{?} and wife, myself and wife, Eddie Bronson and wife, and Miles Peck{?} & Agnes Able, went to Mr. Robert Wordens at East Farms. The occassion{occasion!} being his Forty first birth day{two words?}. {new paragraph?} We presented him with two light lap blankets. Had refreshments and Ice Cream, and came home at 11.30 06\27\1899 (Tuesday) To day "Buffalo Bill" (Col W.T. Cody{?},) Has been in Waterbury with his "Wild West and Congress of Rough riders of the World. {new paragraph?} The whole family went to town this forenoon and saw the street parade. {new paragraph?} This afternoon Clyde, Irving, Margaret, and myself went to the "Hop Meadows" wouth of the Electic car barns and saw the show. The programme consisted of 1 Overture; Star Spangled Banner, by Cow-boy Band 2 Grand Review; introducting the Rough Riders, of the world, Indians, Cow-Boys, Mexicans, Arabs, Scouts, Guides, and detachments of fully equipped Regular Soldiers of the armies{?} of America, England, Germany, and Russia, a color Guard of Cuban veterans, and a squad of Hawaiian, Porto{Puerto?} Rican{Ricon?} and Filipino{Phillipino?} Rough Riders, 3 Miss Annie oakley, a celebrated shot, who illustrated{illustriated!} her dexterity in shooting glass balls, from almost every position 4 Race of Races. Race between a Cow-boy, a Cossack{Cassack!}, a Mexican, an Arab, a Gaucho{Goucho!}, and an Indian. On Spanish-Mexican Bronco{Branco!}, Russian, Indain and Arabian horses. 5 U.S. Artillery Drill. By veterans of Capt Tharp's{Thorp's?} Battery D, Fifth Reg U S Artillery. 6 Illustrating{Illustriating!} a Prairie emegrant{?} tain crossing the plains, It is attacked by a band of Indians, who are in turn repulsed{ripulsed!} by "Buffalo Bill" and a number of scouts. 7 Pony Express.{,?} A former Post rider showed how dispatches{despatches!} were delivered on the plains, before the building of railroads{ailrodds!} and telegraph. 8 A group of Mexicans; who illustrated{illustriate_!} the use of the lasso. 9 The Battle of San Juan Hill. Introducting detachments of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 24th infantry, 9th and 10th Cavalry, Grimes battery, Garcias Cubian scouts, Pack train, Etc. Scene 1 A halt{?} on the Road to San Juan, " 2 Storming of the hill, 10 A Group of Riffian{Ruffian?} Arab Horsemen{Horsman! Horseman?}, illustrated{illustriated!} their style{stile!} of horsemanship, together{togather!} with natiove sports and pasttimes{pastimes!}. 11 Johnny Baker, Celebrated American Marksman. 12 Cossacks{Cassacks?}, from the Cancassus/Concassus{?} of Russia, in feats of horsemanship native dances, Etc. 13 Gimkana Race. 14 Cow-Boy fun. Picking objects from the ground, lassoing wild horses, riding buckers, etc. 15 Indians, from the Sioux, Arrapahoe{?}, Brule{?} and Cheynne{Cheyenne?} tribes illustrated{illustriated!} the Indian mode of fighting etc. {Note in margin of previous page, page 186 of manuscript: I remember all of this vividly, I was 10. M.H.} 16 Military musical drill, by a detachmen_{detachment?} of the 16th Lancers (Queens{?} own) British army, and a detachment from the Garde Kurassiers{?} of his Majesty{Magest!} Kaiser Wilhelm II 17 Sirth{Sixth?} United States Cavalry, veterans rom Col Summers Reg at Ft Meyer Va. 18 Attack on the Deadwood Mail, coach by Indians. 19 Racing by Indian boys on bareback horses. 20 Three minutes with the Rough riders of the world. 21 "Buffalo Bill" om feates{fetes!} of sharpshooting while riding at full speed. 22 Buffalow{Buffalow!} Hunt, as it was in the far west, exhibiting{erhibiting!} a herd of buffalo. 23 Attack on settlers Ca_in{Cabin?}, by Indians 24 Salute by entire Company. 06\28\1899 (Wednesday) This morning the weather was damp, went to Mrs. Frosts and worked till 10 o'clock, when it began to rain. Then came home and worked repairing chairs and repairing the grave stone of Mrs. Rily Alcott{?} who died 1877 aged 90. {Note in margin of text: 3 hr} This evening went to the School meeting, and the following Officers were elected. Committee{Comittee!} Warren Hitchcock. Clerk, B. F. Hoggett{?}. Treasurer, Martin Pond, Collector James Stovelle, {new paragraph?} They also voted to lay a tax of 5 mills on the list of 1899. {new paragraph?} And also voted to build a fence around the back part of the yard. {new paragraph?} Mark Warner has been Committee man for the past 12 years, and fought hard for the election this time. He canvassed the district thoroughly, as did we of the Hitchcock factor. Warner had 16 votes, Hitchcock 21 votes Albert Spender 1 and Mark Pond 1. {new paragraph?} We hope to have a better School now. 06\29\1899 (Thursday) Worked for Mrs. Charles Frost at haying 7 hours. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening I read a portion of a paper, the title of which was, "The assistance the French rendered the American's during the war of Independence{Indipendenc!}, including the march of Rachambeans army, {"togather, with" has been crossed out} and historical facts concerning the route. 06\30\{1899} (Friday) Worked for Mrs. Frost. 07\01\{1899} (Saturday) Worked for Mrs. Frost hoeing and haying. Very hot weather. Received 8.00 for four days work. 07\02\{1899} (Sunday) The weather was very warm all day, went to the Chapel this afternoon. Dr. Parry of the Grand STreet Baptist Church preached. 07\03\1899 (Monday) To day we got in part of the barn meadow at Mrs. Frosts Mother started to day for Detroit Mich{?} to visit Fred, she has taken dvantage of the excersion{excurtion!} of the Society of Christian Endeavor{Endeveor!}, who hold a national convention there 07\04\1899 (Tuesday) To day is the Fourth{Forth!} of July the children were up before three o'clock, and were firing blank pistol cartridges, caps, torpedoes, firecrackers, etc, Etc, When I got up I fired off my old musket, which greatly interested the boys, as it made as much noise as a cannon that they had, in the evening we went to Thoedore Munsons where the neighbors were collected and fired off fireworks Etc, and had cake, icecream{1 word?}, and other refreshments. 07\05\1899 (Wednesday) Worked at Mrs. Frosts all day had a severe shower this afternoon This forenoon as I was mowing in the North East corner of the barn meadow, next to the Meriden road Dr. Freebourne came from the East in his new horseless{horsless!} wagon, he was going very fast and made the dust fly. {new paragraph?}* His is the first horseless{horsless!} wagon owned by anyone in Waterbury, and the second that was ever here. The first was in the parade of Forepanis{Forepauis?} circus last year, both run with gasoline{gasolene!} and have rubber pneumatic tires, Dr. Freebourne went from Waterbury center to Hitchcocks pond a distance of five miles in twenty-five minutes yesterday, and returned to day in fifteen{fiftein!} minutes. 07\06\1899 (Thursday) Worked at Mrs. Frosts nine hours to day. It rained this forenoon but in the afternoon it was hot. Mrs. Gilbert Duryeea{?} died early this morning aged{gged!} 70 years. She was formerly{formily!} Mrs. Thomas Harper, and her Maiden name was Julia Farrell, daughter of Benjamin. 07\07\{1899} (Friday) Weather threatened rain this forenoon, But came clear at noon and we got in most{mast!} of the hay that was out at Mrs. Frsosts, and I got throught to night after working 9 hours, they paid me $7.60{?} the amount due. Mother Pierpont came and mary and her wnet to Mrs. Duryeas funeral at Pine Grove cemetery. {new paragraph?} Mother Pierpont, and Mrs. Duryea{?} went to school together{togather!} at Saw Mill Plain, when they were girls. 07\08\1899 (Saturday) It has rained hard most all day, Clyde and I went out to Mr. J. H. Garrigus, in the South part of Wolcott and he wishes me to come and work for him next Monday, from thence we went to Woodtick and then home, and repaired Charlie Casses milk wagon in the afternoon. 07\09\1899 (Sunday) Went top the Chapel{Chaple!} this afternoon and heard Mr. Raft__{Raften? Rafter?} of the Waterville Episcopal church preach, after which we went to East Farms and carried Mother Pierpont home, and Mary and I went to the Cemetery and finished a record{reckard!} of the grave stone inscriptions, that I was making. 07\10\1899 (Monday) Went to work for J Henry Garrigus this morning haying. 07\11\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked to day at Jacob Henry Garrigus 07\12\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked this day at Henry Garrigus 07\13\{1899} (Thursday) Worked to day at J Henry Garrigus. This evening went to the Flag raising, and Childrens day exercises at the Grange Hall. {new paragraph?} D_{Dr.?} John G. Davenport made the address ad Miss Bessie Garrigus was the Goddess-of-Liberty and raised the flag. {new paragraph?} George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Irving, and myself{mysilf?} drummed and Charlie Cass, fifed. At the exercises in the hall the crowd was so great that all of the room was taken and many could not get in. 07\14\1899 (Friday) This morning I arose at 5 o'clock and worked in the Garden till six. Then started to work at Mr. Garrigus, The clock was{ws!} 15 minutes slow and I was at George Hitchcocks when the whistles blew for seven and buy{busy?} hurrying the horse got there a little late. Had dinner there, which consisted of string beans, peas{pease!}, canned salmon{samon!}, boiled potatoes, berries, tea, coffee, etc. This evening we finished haying and I got through, Mr. Garrigus paid me 5.00 and still owes me 3.75 07\15\{1899} (Saturday) This day the weather has been perfect; I worked in the garden, while Clyde went{wend!} down to james Porter's and milked his cow, and Irving drove Mr. Painters cow to pasture, after which we ate breakfast of scrambled eggs and cold boiled ham. {new paragraph?} We then hitched up and went to Jacob Henry Garrigus, and helped him hoe his musk and watemelons{one word or hyphenated?}, and Clyde helped him cultivate his potatoes, while Irving and I set out about 200 cabbage plants, which Mr. Garrigus said he would give me, together{togather!} with the ground to grou_{grous? grow?} them on, we finished at noon, and then ate dinner under an apple tree in the Aouth orchard. AFter dinner Frank, Irving and I, had William Garrigus cut our hair, after which we went to the Reservoir near Shelton Hitchcocks, and had a swim and then drove home, passing on our way a party of men who are preparing{prepairing!} to put up a telegraph line from New York to Boston. {new paragraph?} We got home and had supper of boiled peas, after which I{?} hoed in the garden a spell and then read he papers, and Mary and Irving went to town to buy a bag of oats, and a wash-boiler. 07\16\1899 (Sunday) To day it has rained in showers, and has been very warm. Went to the Chapel{Chaple!} this afternoon and heard the Rev. Mr. Bassett preach. 07\17\1899 (Monday) This day I worked about home this Forenoon, and in the afternoon went to Mother Pierpont's a__{and?} repaired the East door where the sill and jamb ___{bow? had?} rotted{ratted?} away. In the evening mary and I went to Simosbille and visited Uncle Dwight Somers{Samers?}, and I called on Mr. Kenworthy to see about work a{at?} Benedict & Burnhams, he said that the Blacksmiths were now caught up with their work nicely, but ff{if?} there was a man needed in a permanent{perminent!} place he would give me the chance. Mr. Tobin{?} of Rogers Brothers sent Henry Buckinham to see me to day, to have me call and see him about working at Rogers Brother's 07\18\1899 (Tuesday) This forenoon I wrent to ____ __ {entire word or words are smudged and difficult to read. "work at"?} Rogers Brothers Factory and saw Mr. Tolen{Tobin?} and made a bargain to go to work tomorrow at 2.00 per day to start with and my pay to be raised after a while three or four weeks. Spent the rest of the day in drawing stone for my blacksmith shop. 07\19\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked to day at Rogers Bros My first Job was, to oil up the shafting, Then I repaired an overhead{over-head?} trolley, then repaired a step ladder, then made a lot of belt holders, then made a key for a lock to my cubbard{cubbord!}, and repaired several, belts etc. Mr. Burgher stoped this morning and wanted me to go to work at Benedict & Burnhams. 07\20\{1899} (Thursday) Worked at Rogers Brothers factory to day. Mary and I went to the Grang{Grange?} this evening. 07\21\{1899} (Friday) Worked at Rogers Brothers factory 07\22\{1899} (Saturday) Worked at Rogers BRothers. {new paragraph?} This evening Irving and I went to town and I called on Dr. Davenport, he gave me a picture of himself to be hung in the Mill Plain Chapel, we then bought a rool{roll?} of picture wire at Hassi's{Hassis?} store on Grand Street, and one gallon{gallond!} of molasses at Heaters store on East Main{?} STreet 07\23\1899 (Sunday) It rained very hard during the night and thundered and lightened. {new paragraph?} This afternoon Mary and I went to the Chapel and heard Mr. Davenport preach. {new paragraph?} They have put a new heating furnace{furnice!} in the cellar of the Chapel{Chepal!} last week. 07\24\1899 (Monday) I worked at Rogers Brothers Factory to day {The label 07\25\{1899} (Tuesday) has been crossed out next to this entry. Further down in the margin is the date 07\26\{1899} (Wednesday). What date does this entry get? Is the entry one entry with the label 07\26\{1899} (Wednesday)?} Worked to day at Rogers Brothers Factory to day {new paragraph?} Received{Recived!} my pay $9.00 for 4 days work last week. {Is this next paragraph labelled 07\26\{1899} (Wednesday) Mr. Harry Garrigus called and left #3.75 the amount he owed me. 07\27\{1899} (Thursday) Went to the Shop as usual {new paragraph?} Mary and i went to the Grange this evening 07\28\{1899} (Friday) Worked at Rogrs Bros. 07\29\1899 (Saturday) Worked at Rogers Brothers as usual. 07\30\{1899} (Sunday) Stayed about home all day, except that we went to the Chapel this afternoon. 07\31\{1899} (Monday) Worked at Rogers Brothers factory to day, from 7 o clock to 12.30 and from 1 P.M. to 5.30. 08\01\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked at Rogers Brothers factory to day. 08\02\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked as usual to day. Mother came home from Detroit Mick, to day, got to town at 8 o'cloc{o'clock?} {new paragraph?} The Mill Plain Sunday School held their annual picnic at the house of J.H. Garrigus to day, all of my family attended except myself, there were present about 200 people, and they had a good time. 08\03\1899 (Thursday) Worked at Rogers Brothers to day This evening Mary and I attended the Grang{Grange?}. 08\04\{1899} (Friday) Worked as usual {new paragraph?} This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice at Luke Hendersons house __{in?} Wolcott Clyde, Irving and myself went up in the Canopy top wagon, and carried the BAss drum also Howard Neils, George Atkinson's, and Irvings and mine, we drummed{drumbed!} nearly all of the way up. {new paragraph?} There were present, Adelbert Nortou, Howard Neil, who walked out Gardener hall, who walked out, Henry Buckinghan{Buckingham?}, who rode his wheel out, Georg Atlkinson, who came on his wheel, Charlie Cass who drove out, and Charlie Hotchkiss and George Cass, who drove out, besides Clyde Irving and myself. After drumming and marching till after 9 30{930?} o clock we went into the hous_{house?} and had cake and ice-cream, after which we came home, atopping on the way at John Frenches and we George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Clyde, Irving, and myself, marched round and round the house, till we got the girls up, got home at 12 o'clock. 08\05\1899 (Saturday) I worked to day at Rogers Brothers factory, got out at 4.30 and came home and worked laying stone wall till near dark, when I had to stop on account of my lame foot troubling{troubleing!} me, the pain being very great. 08\06\1899 (Sunday) Got up at 8 o'clock, had breakfast of beef soup and watermelon, after which I wrote 5 letters, then read the papers till 1 O'clock{o'clock!} when I got ready and went to teh Chapel __{an? and?} heard Mr. R.A. Collins preach, he came from Cheshire. After Chapel service mary and I went to Mr. Henry Garrigus and took supper there, we had baked beans, canned{caned!} salmon{samon!}, bread, potatoes etc. {new paragraph?} Sar Mrs. Lucian Upson{?} who is a real daughter of the REvolution {should there be a "," at the end of the previous line} that is, Her Father who was Levi Johnson of Wolcott{Woolcott!} was a soldier of the REvolutionary army. After hearing Miss Bessy play on the Piano, we came home, saw where the town are repairing the ZMeriden road from Munsons corner East For the purpose of building a bycible{bicicle!} path. This Evening mary and Irving went to the Chapel to a Prayer meeting When Clyde came home after goint to Arthur Pierponts after milk for Charlie Cass, he told us that he did not think that J J Byan{?} could live till morning, as he has had a bad day. 08\07\1899 (Monday) Got up this morning at 5 o'clock, and called Clyde and Irving and we went to work laying the stone wall, till half past 6 o clock when I went to the shop. {new paragraph?} Clyde has worked to day at James Porters cutting brush. {new paragraph?} After I got home tonight we worked on the wall again till dark. There was an awful{auful!} accident on the new trolley line that was opened last Thursday, between Stratfor and Shelton yesterday afternoon in which 29 people were killed, and a number wounded. The trolley car jumped the track on a trestle at Pecks Mills three miles north of Stratford, and fell 68 feet into the mud at the bottom{botton!} of the pond which was 7 ft deep, the water had been drawn{?} off to permit the building of the trestle. {new paragraph?} This was the worst accident I ever heard of about here happening on a railroad. 08\08\1899 (Tuesday) Worked at Rogers Brothers as usual. 08\09\{1899} (Wednesday) This day I received{recived!} my pay from Rogers Bros 13.50 for last weeks work 08\10\{1899} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. {new paragraph?} This evening Mary and I went to the Grange, there were 54 members present, the whole membership is about 140. 08\11\1899 (Friday) Worked at the International Silver Company's, factory on Silver street. {new paragraph?} Factory J is the name of Rogers Brothers plant, since it has been purchased{purcheased!} by he International Silver Co, some six months ago. This evening the drummers met here and after practicint{practiceng?} a while we marched into the house, and into the large room, where several ladies and children were assembled and had lemonade cake etc, and a good time generally. 08\12\{1899} (Saturday) Worked as usual, weather very hot. Mrs. Jennie{"Jennie" was inserted} Russell of Worcester went away this after noon. 08\13\1899 (Sunday) This forenoon the weather was very hot. Did not get up this morning until 8.30 o clock, had breakfast of roasted{rocasted!} round clams after which I read till nearly noon, when I got ready and at three went to the Chapel.{./} Rev. Dr. Rooland{?} preached, the attendance{attendence!} was not large. This afternoon I wrote a letter to Perry C Morris{?} First Slectman{Setectman!}, about the town paying the tuition{tution!} for Clyde and Irving going to the High school this coming{corning!} winter. Also wrote a letter to Brother Fred in Detroit, and another to the Rev. A G Hubbard of Woodstock Conn{?}, ordering a history of the town of Goshen, Conn. 08\14\1899 (Monday) Today my foot has pained me very much. Weather has been nice and cool. Worked as usual at Rogers Bros, Had Clyde pay my last years town and center school tax, he had to pay 2.25 extra for three Liens that are filed in the town clerks office. I have just came{come?} across a rule which I have had much use for before now, That is that One gallon of water weighs 3 1/3 pounds, and contains 231 cubic inches. {Note in margin of text: Weight of 1 gal of water} 08\15\{1899{ (Tuesday) The weather has been quite cool to day. Mrs. D.B. Hamilton, widow of Capt. D B Hamilton{the "a" in Hamilton is crossed out} offered last evening before the committee{cammittee!} on parks to buy the 45 acres of land bounded by Silver street on the West, Plank Road on the North, Brass{Bross?} Mill road on the East, and Ma_{Mad?} Riber on the South, and present it to the City of Waterbury for a park. The name to be Hamilton Park in honor of Captain hamilton. 08\16\1899 (Wednesday) Worked to day as usual at Rogers & Brothers. 08\17\{1899} (Thursday) To day I worked as usual. {new paragraph?} This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. They held an open meeting, the occassion{occasion!} being Floras might{?}. The Worthy Flora is Mrs. Thomas Fairclough of Wolcott. The meeting was largely{largly!} attended. The Programme was as{os!} follows, 1 Song by the Grange Choir, 2 Remarks by Judge Cowell, 3 Reading by Mr. Cook, of Natharolists{Naturalists?} club, 4 Singing by the German Concordia Quartette{Quartet?}, 5 Talk by Prof Sturg__{Sturggs?} of N. Haven Exp station{slation!}, 6 Recitation, Miss Deitridge, 7 Song, Mr. Byrnes, 8 Talk, Mr. D G. Porter, 9 Singing, Concordia{Concardia!} Singing Society{Saciety!}, {no number 10 is listed} 11 Talk on flowers, Mr. Dallis{?}, 12 Talk, D B Hotchkiss, 13 Spanish Dance, Miss Ida Mainard, 14 Song by Grange, Supper, 08\18\1899 (Friday) The weather to day has been hot although the sun has not shown. To day two men who are working on the American Telegraph an{on? and?} Telephone line from Boston to New York, putting up the poles came to our house to board. This evening the Drum Corps came and practiced and we went up to John French's and had lemonade and cake, there was{?} a number of girls and young folks there and we had a good time. 08\19\1899 (Saturday) Worked as usual. The independent{indipendent!} order of Faresters{Forrestors?} went to pleasure beach to day on an excursion. 08\20\{1899} (Sunday) To day is Sunday and it is very hot and dry, no rain has yet fallen this month We attended the Chapel this evening Mr. Fred Goodrich formity{formerly?} a Waterbury boy, but now of Minnesota{Minisota!} preached an excellent{exelelent!} sermon{cermon!}, after Chapel Mary and I drove out the Meriden Road to see the new bicycle{bicicle!} path that they are uilding. 08\21\{1899} (Monday) Worked at Rogers Brothers Fctory{?} Clyde went to the Adams Express office this morning and got a history of the town of Goshen which I bought of A. G Hibbard{?} of Woodstock{Woodstack!} for 3.25 he paid 25 cts express on it. 08\22\{1899} (Tuesday) The weather to day has been very warm. To morrow{Tomorrow?} Thomas Malone{Molone?} and Pat Mc Namara, two young men who are boarding here, and working on the American Telephone and Telegraph line, building it are going to be removed to Soughington{?}, along with the rest of the gang which numbers 75{?}. 08\23\{1899} (Wednesday) All of my family{familly!} exce__{except?} myself{muself!} went to High-rockj grove to the grange picnic, they had a fine time. 08\24\1899 (Thursday) Worked as usual at the shop. {new paragraph?} This evening mary and I went to the Grange. 08\25\1899 (Friday) Worked a usual at Rogers Brother_{Brothers?} {new paragraph?} This evening a number of the drummers went to Mr. Adelbert Nortons{?} in Wolcott to dru_{drum?}. They were Henry Buckingham, George Atkinson, Irving, Clyde, and myself, in my team. {new paragraph?} George{Gearge!} Cass, and Gardner Hall in George Casses team. {new paragraph?} Charlie Hotchkiss,{,?} and Sam Squires in Charlie Hotchkiss team, and Charlie Cass and wife in his team. {new paragraph?} We had a fine time, Drummed{?} most of the way up and march__{marched?} up the road to mr. Frank Munsons house, and down to Lewis Cooks, then returned and he lemonade and ice cream, got home at 12 o clock{o ctock!}. {Note in margin of text: I was there:{;?} M. Hall.} 08\26\{1899} (Saturday) Worked to day as usual. 08\27\{1899} (Sunday) Staid home till evening, when I drove to East Farms and saw Mr. Worden{Warden?} about going to town tomorrow{to-morrow?} night to see about sending our children who are to{too?} far advanced for the school in our district, to the Highschool in the center. Did not go to the Chapel as George Edwards called just before Chapel time{?} and I did not get ready Mr. Upson preached. He is from Milford. I knew him in 1876 when he preached in Wolcott. 08\28\{1899} (Monday) Worked as usual at Rogers Brothers 08\29\{1899} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 08\30\1899 (Wednesday) Worked to day. Had a smashup in the shop which will necessitate the shutting{shuttring?} down of the shop, a large driving pully{pulley?} on the main shaft broke. {new paragraph?} Robert Worden{Warden?} and I went to town tonight to see mr. Morris the First selectman, about getting our childre_{children?} into{snto?} the center school and having he state pay for it, the same as they do in other towns that have no highschool. We could not find him, we also went last monday night but failed to find him. 08\31\1899 (Thursday) This day I went to the shop and worked till 9.30 when I went to town and called at the Selectmens{?} office to see Mr. Morris the first selectman but he was not in, I then went to the Assessors office and saw sister Ive who orks there. From thence went and saw Wiffred{Wilfred?} Griggs a member of the school board, at 140 Grand street, talked about the center school He told me that the town board had nothing to do with the City schools, then went to the Bronson Library{Lybrary!} and saw Mr. Bassett the Chairman of the town school board he also told me that the City schools are entirely separate{sepirate!} from the town. {new paragraph?} I then reutnred to the Selectmens office and met Mr. Marris{?} who appeared very genteel. He admitted that he knew but little of school matters, but saw the injustice of obliging the parents of children having to pay 8 and 10.00 tu___hion{tuushion? tuition?} while the children of all other towns can go free, the state having to pay. 09\01\1899 (Friday) To day the weather has been very warm and dry. Worked in the shop as usual. This evening we had a Drum Corps meeting, there was present Chas Cass, Henry Buckingham, George Atkinson and Myself. We elected the following new members, Charlie Hotchkiss, George Cass, Clyde Miller _ammie{?} Squires, Irving Miller, Howard Neil, and Harry Buckingham{?} 09\02\1899 (Saturday) It began raining duyring the night and has rained at times all day. The belt which has been nade{made?} at the Farrell Foundry and machine Company's works came today, and we set{?} to work putting it on the main shaft, so the shop will start Tuesday. {new paragraph?} This evening Robert Worden{?} and I went toi see Mr. Kendrst{?} the town attorney about sending children to the center school He was off and we got no satisfaction. 09\03\{1899} (Sunday) Clyde, Irving and myself left home this morning, and drove over Silver Street to Dublin street, thence through Washington street to Brooklyn and on over Town Plob by the new Schoolhouse, then west and South over melmeleck hill to Brodleyville, Then South westerly{weste'rly!} to Guntown, then following in the vicinity{vacinity!} of the New England Railroad on the south side of{af!} it for a few miles we went to oxford, stoppin_{stopping?} in the woods on the way to feed the horse and eat our own dinner,{,?} of vituals that Mary had put up for us. {new paragraph?} Oxford is a country town situated in a valley, a small river runs through the village{villege!}. The place consists of two churches and about a dozen houses,{,?} probably here is a store, but we{us?} did not see it. From there we turned west by a church and went up an old road to Quaker farms, which was a pretty village{villege!} situated{sitiated?} on Eight mile River. The country in this section is very interesting. Hills of great size, with considerable valleys between and in places the sides of the hills are rent with gorges. The sides of many of the hills are for the mostpast{most-part?} covered with thick green woods, while the flat lands of the valleys and the tops of the hills are cleared to meadow and grazing land. From Quakers Farms{Farm_? plural?} we went to Zoar Bridge{?} by a very crooke_{crooked?} and hilly road,{,?} Zoar Bridge is built on the old suspension plan the calbes are of Five 1 1/2 inch wire ropes all bound together{togather!}, there are two of them, one on each side, and they are well anchored at the ends in solid masonry, the bridge is of wood painted white, except the iron which is black, which with the towers makes a very pickuresque structure. From the bridge we traveled a hilly, crooked, and lovely{tovely!} road through Stevenson to Monroe in Fairfield county. This village{?} consists of two churches a store, several houses, and a fine new building which I took to be a public library{lybrary!}, which together{togather!} with a nice center green{is "green" underlined?} made a pretty ountry village. Without stopping we continued our Westward course to Upper STepney which place we reached after dark, where we found lodgins at the house of Mr. Hawley. The weather has been warm, and as night set in flashes of lightening lit up the heavens, and soon thunder began to rool{roll?}, and at about nin o'clock we had a heavy shower. The distance traveled to day has been about 42 miles {new paragraph?} Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 09\04\1899 (Monday) This day; is Labor day; and is a legal holiday{hollowday!} in this state. This morning we arose at 5.45 and went out to take a look at Stepney{Stetney?}. {new paragraph?} After stolling{strooling!} about the park, I looked at my compass and wondered if the pointer had changed{chainged!} ends and the dark colored and pointed South, I could rardly{hardly?} believe{beleave!} that the sun was rising in the East, But the sun and compass was all right,{,?} and I was twisted. Stephney is a pretty place of about 12 or 15 houses, and two Churches Baptist and Methodist and one store which had the Post Office in it, It was kept by Mr. Hawley who we staid with. At 6.30 we had breakfast of ham and Eggs etc. After which I paid Mr. Hawley $1.50 for our lodgings etc, after which we hitched up and started for Reading Ridge nine miles distant, the road was very crooked and hilly but quite interesting, we stoped at a Blacksmith shop and had two new shoes pul{put?} on the horse's fore{?} feet, for which I paid 50 cts, at this place the road crossed a small river which ran over ledges and ro_ks{rocks/} to the exten_{extent?} that there was about seventyfive feet fall in about ten rods distance, and there was a Sawmill, a Grist mill, another mill, and a place where a mill had stood, which took the water one{?} after the other. {new paragraph?} After leaving the Blacksmith shop we journeyed on and after climbing a long steep and crooked hill reached Redding Ridge, where we turned North near the church and went about four miles to Putnam park. This park is a very interesting and historic{historick!} spot, there is a monument here erected to the memory of the men who suffered{seffered!} there. {There is a drawing of a monument in the middle of this page. There are four blocks with text in each corner around the monument. The following is written on the drawing of the monument: Erected to Commer{?} ate the winter quarters of The following is written in the block labelled South: Putnam. McDougal. Poor. Prsons. Huntington. The following is written in the block labelled North: The World if full of their Praises Posterity stands astonished at their Deeds. The following is written in the block labelled East: The men of 76 who suffered here To preserver forever their Memory The State of Connecticut has erected this monument. A.D. 1888. The following is written in the block labelled West: Erected to Commemorage the Winter Quarters of Putnam's Division of The Continental Army Nov 7 1778. May 25 1779.} {new paragraph?} There are still to be seen the remains of 130 fire places, each of which are all that is left of a hut about 10 x 16 feet square in which the soldiers staid. There were quartered here Poors New Hampshire Brigade also the brigades of Parsons, Huntington{?}, McDugal, and Colonel Elishia Sheldons Regiment of Calvary. {new paragraph?} The troops remained there from Nov 7th 1778 to May{Mgg!} 25 1779, a fin_{fins?} monument 10 ft square at the base and about 45 fet high stands within the old camp round. There has been many improvements{improvments!} made about the Park in the way of drives. Two block-houses, one each side of the entrance{enterence!}, three heavy cannons, several log buildings and a large pavillion{provillion!}, etc. There several large caves in a ledge North East of the old camp, and also two ponds, I_{It?} is not a favorite place for Church picnic parties, and public festivities. At 12.30 we got into our Spindle buggy and started for home, and were obliged to drive South towards Redding about 2 miles in order to get onto the Newtown{?} road. Went then to New-town{?} 10 miles. From thence in a round-a-bout way to Sandyhook{?} 5 miles, thence to Sandyhook station, 4 miles, where we left Irving to take the train to Waterbury. Clyde and I continued on{.?} and crossed the Housatonic river at the new iron bridge above the Rail Road bridge, and drove to Southbury 6 miles, then to Middlebury 6 miles, then to Waterbury, 6 miles, and home 2 miles, makeing a total of 53 miles traveled to day. _y{thy?} team. 09\05\1899 (Tuesday) Worked to day as usual at the International Silver works. 09\06\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked as usual, Received{Recived!} 13.50 my last weeks pay. 09\07\1899 (Thursday) Worked as usual to day, this evening Mary and I attended the Grange. 09\08\{1899} (Friday) To day I worked as usual. This evening we had a drum Corps meeting. 09\09\{1899} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\10\{1899} (Sunday) This forenoon Father Called and wanted me to go with him to a clambake out on Southington mountain at Mr. Morris Hemingways hotel, I told him that I would go Mr. Fred Brainard ar{or?} Mr. Runge of Meriden{Merriden!} called and wanted to buy a power blower which I have, I bargained to sell it to him for $4.00 Father called at noon for me to go to the clambake, and when we got there we found the bake nearly ready. They were baked the Rhode Island way that is by making a bed of loose{loase!} stones about 14 inches deep and 5 or 6 feet across and then bulding a fire on the bed which het{heat?} the stones very hot, hen when the stones are hot enought the fire is swept off the stones and they are covered with sea weed and they put on 1 barrel of little-neck{little-neh!} clams, and 1 barrel{barrell!} of long clams{clans!}, 1 dozen lobsters{lbsters!}, and 1/2 dozen blud fish, some chickens a lot of common{cammon!} potatoes and some sweet potatoes, also a lot of green corn, the whole of which they buries with Sea weed and covered with sail cloth, and the hot stones steamed it about 1/2 hour when it was done, there were about 20 persons present, and all had what they could eat and there was quite a little left. 09\11\1899 (Monday) {11?} Worked as usual to day 09\12\{1899} (Tuesday) Worked as usual in the shop 09\13\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked in the shop to day. 09\14\{1899} (Thursday) Worked as usual. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange 09\15\{1899} (Friday) Worked as usual. This evening the following members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps went to Marian{?}, Charles Cass, Clyde Miller and Sam Squires, Fiffers{Fifers?}, Henry Buckingham, Bass drummer, Gardener Hall, Irving Miller, Howard Neil, George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss and myself; snare drummers; we drove to the house of Mr. Billings Neil, where we formed and marched, South to the house of Mr. Bennett Upon{Upson?} and couter-marched{countermarched?} to the road that runs to Southington and Cowpounce{?}, then back to Mr. Neils where we had hot coffee, doughnuts, pie, cake, apples, grapes, etc, after which we started home, each wagon carried a torch which lit up the road, we got home at quarter to one. 09\16\1899 (Saturday) Worked as usual. Cousin Marion Gillette of North Goshen who has been at Fathers house since last sunday came to our house to day. 09\17\{1899} (Sunday) This morning we had breakfast of stewed oysters, after which we hitched Jack into th two seated canopy top wagon and drove Mt Carmel{?}, where had the horse put out{.?} and left orders to have it fed and then we, Clyde, Marion Gillette, Margaret, irving, and I took the trolley car and went to Light house{2 words?} point, riding 15 1/2 miles for 20 cts we remineed{remained?} there till 5 o'clock when we came home by the same way that we went, reached home at 9 o clock. Rev. Mr. Howell preached at Mill Plain{Plan!} Chapel 09\18\{1899} (Monday) Worked in th shop as usual. 09\19\{1899} (Tuesdayz) Worked as usual at the Factory of the international silver company which is designated{disignated!} as Factory J. 09\20\1899 (Wednesday) Worked as usual to day. Received{Recived!} my pay for last weeks work. 09\21\{1899} (Thursday) Worked as usual today. {new paragraph?} This evening mary and I went to he Grange. The meeting was in charge of WorthyPomona, who is Mrs. John Gallagher. 09\22\{1899} (Friday) This is my wifes birthday 39 years old, Worked as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had its weekly meeting this evening and elected officers as follows, Charles S Miller, Leader{?} Charles Cass, assistant leader, Gardner J Hall,{,?} SEcretary, George Cass, treasurer and Howard Neil property manager, {new paragraph?} To day is also Mrs. Sara H. Hine's birthday she is 50 years old. 09\23{24!}\1899 (Saturday) Worked as usual in Rogers Brothers factory, and as I have not worked at many different kinds of jobs, I think I can remember what I have done, First, I forged over a spoon blanking die for James Byrned, next made a new drop belt 9" wide for James Claffey, then ailed{oiled?} the shafting all over the shop, then turned up a polishing wheel of sea-horse hide, then went outside and orked till noon getting out a strump{?} that had fallen down the bank and crushed the fence down, next oiled up the loose pulley about the shop, which took till 12.30 then ate my dinner, after which, I went to work at the stumps and worked till 4.30 when I quit, and went home, the shop shuts down at 5 o'clock saturday nights, and I work 1/2 hour as{?} noon, so I get through at 4.30 09\24{25!}\{1899} (Sunday) {Only "Sunday" is written next to this entry} Stayed{?} about home all the forenoon except that I went horseback to James Stovells{?} and paid to him my Mill Plain School tax which amounted to $6.65, went to the Mill Plain Chapel, the Reverend{Reverand!} Mr. Granger of the third Congregational Church preached, after which Mary and I went out the Meriden road and back through East Farms, stopping at mother Pierponts and made arrangements for me coming to stay there nights, she stays there alone and I am afraid that some one may break into the house and injure her, a week ago last night some one stole a lot of chickens from her. 09\25\{1899} (Monday) Worked to day as usual. 09\26\1899 (Tuesday) While{Wh___!} workinga t the shop this forenoon, at about 10.o'clock I being outside heard Benedict & Burnhams whistle blowing for a long time, I went to the engineer and he went into the office and they ascertained{asertained!} that all the whistles in town were blowing in honor of the arrival{arival!} of Admiral{Admeral!} Dewey, in New York, Bay the whistling{whistleing?} was kept up for about an hour, and flags were run to the tops of the flagstaffs all over town. The noise reminded me of Lee's surrender in 1865 only there are more whistles in Waterbury now than then. 09\27\{1899} (Wednesday) Worked as usual to day at the shop. Today is my 41 st birthday. Mary and I went to the grange tonight 09\28\1899 (Thursday) Worked as usual to day. {new paragraph?} This evening about 50 members of the mad River Grange wne to visit the Watertown Grange, Mary and her Mother, and mrs. Anne Hall went with Wilson L. Pierpont{?}.{.?} and I took Clara French, the Grange meets in the Town Hall at Watertown and it is a good place for them. {new paragraph?} We furnished the programe{?} with singing, dramas, and re_itatins{recitations?} I recited "Songs of the Camp." {new paragraph?} We left to come home at 11 o'clock and We got home and went to bed at 1 o'clock. 09\29\1899 (Friday) I worked to day at the factory. This evening Company's A. and G. left Waterbury for New Haven to go to New York to take part in the Parade which is to be given in honor of Admiral{Admeral!} Dewey. 09\30\{1899} (Saturday) Worked as usual to day. {new paragraph?} Next monday is to be the town and City election, and there is considerable excitement among the Democrats. 10\01\1899 (Sunday) I worked about home till eleven o'clock and then Pierpont{small blank space precedes name}, Irving, Clyde, margaret, Ruth and myself, went after nuts, we first went to a large walnut ree east of the Doolittle place, where we piacked up quite a lot of them, from there we went east{-?} through the Doolittle woods picking up chestnuts as we went, then into Wilson Pierponts lot, and to Mrs. Charles Frosts lot, we got 1 1/2 bushels of butternuts and a bushel and a half of walnuts and chestnuts, we found them to be quite heavy before we got them home, we balanced{balenced!} the bag of nuts on a fence-stake{?} and carried the stake by the ends, one following the other, got home a little before 5. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\02\1899 (Monday) Worked as usual to day. {new paragraph?} The parade saturday in New York was ahead of any military parade ever given in New York then being over 55.000 men in line, from Connecticut there went the 1st and 2nd{"nd" is underlined} 2nd{"nd" is underlined} Companys Governors foot Guards. The Second Regiment went from New Haven on the steamer Skinnycook{Shinnycook?}, which broke a paddle wheel which made them so late tha_{that?} they only went through half of the parade. 10\03\1899 (Tuesday) Worked as usual to day. {new paragraph?} Yesterday was election in Waterbury verything went democratic{demacratic!} in the town and City except that eight{exght!} Aldermen were elected. I did not go to vot as I was very busy in the shop. 10\04\{1899} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been very nice, I have been working out of door setting window glass about the shop some of the time, this evening Clyde, Irving, and I worked on the stone wall __{we?} are building East of the house. Howard Neil called this evening. {new paragraph?} I received{recived!} my pay at the shop to day 13.50 10\05\1899 (Thursday) Worked to day at Roger & Brother's Factory, from 7 to 12.30 and from 1 to 5.30 {new paragraph?} This evening Mary and I attended the Grange meeting, there was a class of nine young ladies and three men taken in. The ladies were Flora Hitchcock, Miss Wells, Miss Kellie{?}, Mrs. Eddie, Miss Hurlburt, Miss Mable Gillette, Miss Laura Gillette, Miss Lauton{?} and Joanna Lund. {new paragraph?} The men were Mr. Eddie, Mr. Fowler, Mr.{Mrs.?} George Monroe. =====[end of physical journal book]===== {The following notes are written on the next page of the manuscript: Read by Margaret Miller Northrop Hall August. 1943, Read by Ruth Miller Brundage - Jan 1944 " " Frank Pierpont Miller, - March 1944. " " Raymond H Miller{?} Nov. 19__{1944?} " " Marian Northrop Kraft Sept. 1988 {Two pages later the following notes are written: Read by Ruth Miller Brundage June - 1944} =====[end of physical journal book]===== =====[[start of new Journal Book]]===== 10\06\1899 Friday This morning I got up at quarter past five o'clock and Irving and I put things in order in the new building for the meeting of the "Drum Band" this evening. Worked all day at Rogers Brothers factory. This evening the Drum Band met and we practiced from 8 to 10 o'clock. Rogers + Brothers factory commenced 8 hours to day. 10\07\1899 Saturday Worked in the factory to day as usual. Margaret and I went to the city this evening and purchased some groceries. I also bought two pairs of overalls at Mears store on East-Main street for 95 cts. 10\08\{1899} Sunday This morning I took the wood burning grate out of the kitchen stove and put in the coal grate and started a coal fire, after breakfas {breakfast??}, I mounted the horse and went to Mr. Farrigus {??} and had Willie cut my hair for which I paid him 20 cts. I then went east over across the gravel dam in the Reservoir to Ed Holmes and engaged three barrells of charcoal then went south to the Meriden road and by said Meridan road to the road that took me to East Farms. I stopped at the cemetery there and met Mr. John Todd and also mr. Franklin Todd of Erhart P.O. Medina County Ohio who formally lived in Wooleult {??}. Had a nice visit with him. A serious explosion occured at the factory of the Seaville Mfg. Co. at about 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning, which was heard a distance of three miles, by it 2 men were injured, and the roofs of the Jafian {??} shop were blown off, and the windows of all the buildings near were shattered. It was caused by an accumulation of gas in a Jafian {??} oven. Mr. Rafter of Waterville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 10\09\1899 Monday The weather to day has been very good except a little damp. Worked at Rogers Bros. factory, most of the time putting new pipes at the springs that supply the water trough by the side of the street. I have but little to write about, but must write something for practice as it is hard for me to write good, so I write a little every day. 10\10\{1899} Tuesday The weather to day has been perfect. Worked as usual. 10\11\{1899} Wednesday Worked in the factory. This forenight was very foggy, but it lifted about 9 o'clock and the weather was fair. The Wolcott fair was held to day, there was a large crowd present. Mary, Margaret, Ruth, Frank, and Raymond of my family attended. Wrote J.E. Smith that the Mattatuck Drum Band would be pleased to play at Lieutenant Kelloggs reception. 10\12\{1899} Thursday Worked to day as usual in the factory most of the time, only when I worked in the shop yard building a fire hose house. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. I filled the Lecturers chair in the place of Arthur Pierpont who was obliged to stay at home on account of a sick cow. 10\13\1899 Friday Worked in the factory as usual to day. This evening Margaret and I went to town and I bought a pair of shoes of G.W. Minor, for which I paid 2.00. Mary called to day on Mr. Byam at his home, and he as one of the Executive Committee of the Grange said that Mother might have the hall to hold Thanksgiving in. While Mary was visiting, Clyde {??} went to Ed Holmes and got three barrels of charcoal for which he is to pay 1.00. 10\14\{1899} Saturday Rogers Brothers factory did not run to day, but I worked cleaning out the water pipes that run from the steam pump to the water closets in the making room. 10\15\1899 Sunday Sunday is a very warm day for this time of year. This forenoon I went over to see George Cass {??}about getting a Bass Drum head for the bass drum that Henry Buckingham uses. While I was there I signed a joint note or bond of $150.00. The contracting parties being Mrs. Grace Cass {??}and Mr. Huntington and Warner of Woodbury. Mr. Garrison preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\16\{1899} Monday Worked as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band met at my place. We expect to turn out in the parade which is to be given in honor to Lieutenant Kellogg who is now on his way home from the Phillipines. The Colombia beat to day in the race with the Shamrock (both yats {??}) for the international cup which has been kept in this country 47 years. Warren Whitchcock, School com- mittee for this district called to night and enumerated the school children of my family. There were six of them between the ages of 4 and 16. 10\17\1899 Tuesday Worked as usual. Mr. C.E. Smith the secretary of the Committee on music for the Kellogg day parade sent me word that they had engaged ten brass bands to head the ten division s, and that Drum Corps could not turn out only as they went with the orders that participat- ed in the parade, I then went to the committee on music of the Brook- lyn athletic club who had seen me before, and they had engaged the Sacred heart Drum Corps. Then I offered our services to the foresters {??}, and they gladly accepted the offer. 10\18\1899 Wednesday Worked as usual in the factory to day. One week ago today Mr. David Porter told me that the deeds were being drawn, transferring the 45 acres of land south of the Plank Road from the heirs of Timothy Porter to Mrs. David B. Hamilton who intends to give it to the City of Waterbury for a public park. This evening some of the Drum Band boys met here and we put a new head in the Bass drum that Henry Buckingham uses. 10\19\{1899} Thursday I worked as usual to day, build- ing a fence on the North side of the yard at the factory. Great preperations {preparations??} are being made for the parade to be given in honor of Lieutenant kellogg tomorrow. this evening Mary and I attended the Grange. The fourth degree was worked on a class of sixteen. The entertainment programme was in charge of Miss Gurtrude {Gertrude??} U. Bradley and she invited all the granges in this vacinity {vicinity??} and there were present members from Watertown, Prospect, Bristol, Whigville, Cheshire, and Southington. They numbered about 410 members. A fine supper was served after the exercises in the lower hall. I had a talk with B.J.{??} Hoggett about getting the Hall for Thanksgiving Day. Came home and went to bed at 1.30 A.M. Mrs. Frederick Thomkins was buried from Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\20\{1899} Friday This morning I went to work and staid at the shop till 10 o'clock when I came home and got ready to turn out in the Parade that was given this afternoon. I met the members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps at 1 o'clock at Spensers feed store and we went from there to a hall on Bank Street, where we met the American Lodge of Foresters for whom we played. We turned out 14 pieces, they were Charles Cass, Clyde Miller, Harry Buckingham, and Luke Henderson, piffers{??}, Henry Buckingham, and Elgie Bronson, Bas Drummers, arthur Harrison, George Cass, Irving Miller, George Atkinson, Howard Neil, Charles Hotchkiss, Miles Booth, and myself, Snare Drummers. The division to which we were attached which was the 9th formed on Central Avenue and we started on the march at 15 minutes past 2 and passed through Church Street to Grand, then to Bank to Exchange Place and down South Main to Washington and to Brooklyn and then up Bank to Grand, down Grand to Union to Mill up Mill to East Main to Dublin and countermarched to Center Square then up North Main to Grove to Prospect down Prospect to the center out West Main to Central Ave. up Central Ave. to Hillside Ave. to North Willow to West Main to the North side of the green to East side of Green to South side of green where we passed the reviewing stand which was in the form of a gun- boat on which was Lieutenant Kellogg of the Navy, the City officers, His Excellency the Govoner {Governor??} of Connecticut Launsbury{??{ by name, and his staff, and many other men of note, often passing the Gunboat we marched up Church Street to Grand to Bank, and into the Foresters Hall where we were dismissed. There were about 3000 men in line with 10 Brass bands and several Drum bands. I think it is safe to say that we attracted as much attention as any of the organizations although we looked rough and had no uniforms. This evenings american which generally ridicules the Mattatuck Drum Band had the following. The Mattatuck Drum Corps attracted a lot of attention. Their specialty seems to be in making noise and in it they excelled. The drums, which looked like small barrels, gave out a hollow sound, deafening to the ears but effective, in as much as they drew the attention of the spectators. 10\21\1899 Saturday Worked as usual at the factory. The Mill did not run. The weather is growing colder. 10\22\{1899} Sunday Weather very cold this morning. Went to the Chapel this afternoon. There was a large attendance. The Rev. Mr. Davenport preached. 10\23\{1899} Monday The weather to day has been very warm. Worked as usual in the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Band met this evening and practiced. 10\24\1899 Tuesday Worked as usual to day. The leaves have fallen from the trees and the woods are on fire in many directions to day. 10\25\1899 Wednesday Worked as usual to day. This evening all of my family and I went to the Mill Plain Chapel to the supper and entertainment which was given by the Ladies Union. This was the first supper this fall and was well attended. The price of the supper was 15 cts and they made 9.00. The entertainment was very good. 10\26\{1899} Thursday Worked as usual to day. It is now certain that Mr. D.B. Hamilton owns the land that is to be given to the City for a Public Park to be known as Hamilton Park in honor of Capt. D.B. Hamilton. Mrs. Hamilton was out looking at the land to day. The grange let Mary hire their Hall for Thanksgiving day for $10.00. 10\27\{1899} Friday Worked as usual to day. The weather has been very warm. This is a dry fall. Many of the wells are dry and the streams are low. Went to {bed??} early this evening at about 8.30 o'clock. 10\28\{1899} Saturday Worked as usual to day, got through at 4.30 came home and laid well till after dark, when we ate our supper after which Clyde, Irving, Mary, and myself went to the new building and cut up cabbages for sour-crout till nine o'clock, it rained a little this evening. 10\29\{1899} Sunday This day is Sunday, but alas I have spent it in working in the shop. A shafting got out of line as was running dangerously, so Laurence Tobirl{??}, Fritz Snowman and myself went to work at nine this morning and worked all day repairing it, but only got it about half done at night, it will run however but not right. The weather to day has been dull with a little rain, but tonight it looks as if it were coming off colder. Dr. Anderson preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\30\1899 Monday Worked in the factory today, did not get through till 6.30 as I stayed to put in a lot of taper keys in the spur wheel on the Waterwheel shaft. The Mattatuck Drum Band met and practiced this evening. Quite a number of young ladies came to hear the music and have fun with the boys. 10\31\{1899} Tuesday Worked as usual in the factory. The weather has been wet all day. Went to see Mrs. Annie Hall about the Grange Records this evening. Stopped at John Frenches on my way home. Mrs. John French told this evening that Lauren Carter had foreclosed the mortgage on Thomas Melbournes{??} place. 11\01\1899 Wednesday Worked as usual to day in the factory. The news papers state today that the Boers of South africa who are at war with England have captured 2000 British troops to- gether with a large baggage train and battery of cannon. Went to see Mrs. Hall again tonight last night I walked but tonight I road {rode??} horse back. 11\02\{1899) Thursday Worked to day as usual in the factory. Last night as Mary and I were about to retire for the night, she called my attention to a great light in the South-east in the Naugatuck valley. The heavens were all lit up and the fire seemed to extend a great distance and looked like a great forest fire. This morning I learned that it was the greatest fire that had ever visited Waterbury. Nine dwelling houses and two tenement blocks being b urned to the ground in Simonsville. The fire swept up Stony Hill from near South Main Street to chapel Street and burned out 21 families and rendered 82 persons homeless. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. Mary payed 5.00 to the Secretary towards paying for the hall for Thanksgiving day. 11\03\1899 Friday Worked as usual in the factory to day. 11\04\{1899} Saturday Worked as usual to day, among other things I have helped place the boundry stones on the line between Rogers + Brothers property and the land Mrs. Hamilton has bought for a City Park. 11\05\{1899} Sunday After breakfast this morning we hitched Jack into the two seat wagon and Irving, Margaret, Ruth, and I went first to Simons- ville and saw where the great fire last Wednesday night burned ten houses and two blocks. From there we went through Naugatuck to Betheny and over to Prospect and then home where we arrived at 5 o'clock, we found Henry Buckingham there. He had come to copy some fife tunes, which he did, and Clyde and I made out the monthly report of the Mattatuck Drum Corps. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 11\06\1899 Monday I worked as usual to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. The monthly reports were read. 11\07\1899 Tuesday I got up at 5.30 o'clock had breakfast of bacon and eggs after which I went to work at Rogers Bros. factory where I spent the day in working at many different jobs. 11\08\{1899} Wednesday Worked to day as usual. The weather to day has been very nice. This evening we went to the Chapel to the supper furnished by the Ladies Union, they realized about 8.00. 11\09\{1899} Thursday Worked to day as usual. This forenoon George Partrel came to the shop to see me about the Mattatuck Drum Band going to Litchfield to play tomorrow in honor of the return of Captain Calvocoresses{??} of the United States Navy. At noon I sent word around by Clyde and George Cass{??} to different men, and at evening I went to Wolcott and saw Luke Anderson and Adelbert Norton about going. 11\10\1899 Friday Got up at 5 o'clock. Clyde and I went to Rogers Brothers factory where we oiled up the shafting, after which we returned home and ate breakfast, then we hitched the horse into the business wagon and loaded in five drums and Clyde, Irving and I drove to Ozera's {??} Dunworth's livery stable where the Mattatuck Drum Corps loaded into his big bus and we started for Litchfield where we arrived at 12:30 o'clock. We went to Mr. Seth Pratts' stable and had dinner near by at a resterant after which we formed and marched to the center of the West Park where played several pieces, after which we took our place in the line which was forming. The parde {parade??} first marched to East Street where we halted with the right resting on South Street and formed in two lines one on each side of the street after which Lieutenant Commander Colvacoresses{??} of the United States Navy was driven through the line everybody saluting, after which we marched down South Street and across to meadow, up meadow to West Street then to North to the residence of the late Dr. Buill{??} where we counter-marched to the center where we passed in review, before the Grand Stand after which we listened to remarks by the honorable George Woodworth, this was followed by an address by United States Senetor{Senator??} Platt after which the Honorable J. Demings Perkins made an address and oresented Commander Colvacoresses{??} with a sword which was given in behalf of the town of Litchfield. Colvoresses{??} replied in a fine speech in which he said that he did not deserve the honor that the people were giving him, that he had tried to do his duty as a good American officer should, that circumstances took him to Manilla Bay, and that by honoring him that they were honoring the branch of the service to which he is attached, the Navy. He was followed by State Senetor{Senator??} Pratt{??} after which all proceeded to the West end of the East Park where Colvocoresses{??} set out an oak tree, to be known as the Colvocaresses{??} oak, after this the parade was dismissed and we returned home which we reached at about 8:30 o'clock. Colvocoresses{??} was Capt. of the battleship Concord at the battle of Manilla Bay. 11\11\1899 Saturday Worked as usual to day in the factory. it has rained most of the time to day and this evening it is cooler. 11\12\1899 Sunday Went to the shop at 9 and worked till 12 o'clock in the Waterwheel could not do it at any other time as the Mill is running. This afternoon went to the Chapel and heard the Rev. Mr. Rafter preach. 11\13\1899 Monday Worked as usual to day, after dinner I went to town to get the check cashed that the Mattatuck Drum Band received for playing at Litchfield, wrode {rode??} in on the trolley car, went first to the Citizens National Bank but Mr. Curtis the cashier would not cash it as I did not know anyone there except himself, so I went to the Manufacturers Bank and they cashed it for me, got back to the shop at 2 o'clock. This evening the Drum Band met at my place and practiced. Those of the boys that were present that went to Litchfield were paid 2.00 the amount due them. The weather was very cold. 11\14\{1899} Tuesday Worked as usual to day. It began snowing about 5 o'clock this evening and now at 9:30 there is about 1 1/2 inches on the ground. 11\15\{1899} Wednesday This morning the snow lay on the ground two inches deep, the weather changed to fog this afternoon and part of the snow melted. The grange fair opened this evening. Mary, Clyde, and Margaret have gone. 11\16\1899 Thursday I worked as usual to day in the factory. Pierpoul and Irving drove the horse. When I went to work, we went in on the old Cheshire road till we got a little West of the new City line which crosses the road just East of my shop and there turned South to the Plank road and West along Plank road to a pair of bars beyond the residence of Fred Tompkins where I got out and walked across the new park property to the shop. The first work I did was to oil all of the main shafts in the shop, then pointed up a brick furnice {furnace??} that I built in the yard yesterday, then worked at blacksmithing a spell, then set windowglass till noon, \and then shortened a large belt and axled up the countershafts for the rools {??} then ate dinner. After which I helped rig up a heat- guage{gauge??} on the muffle {??} and then forged a large leaver {lever??} for a power press, then repaired a driving belt for a large drop, after which I put in a window glass, and it was time to stop work 5:30. Mary, Clyde, and Keith, and Pierpoul went to the grange fair tonight. 11\17\1899 Friday Worked to day as usual. This evening I went to Mr. Adelbert Nortons in Woodealt {??} and paid him the 2.00 due him from the Mattatuck Drum Band. I also engaged a hog of his to be butchered at about Christ- mas time, came home very fast as I was {on??} horseback. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic cemetery on Dublin Street was dedicated in Oct. 1858. The first person buried there was a young man named Pierce Rice, who lived on Williams Street. The first burial in the Calvary K.C.{??} Cemetery was a child of P.J. Bolans who was buried in July 1892. The first person buried in the new St. Joseph's Cemetery on Dublin Street was the wife of John J. McDonald who was buried 1898. A remarkable fact is that Mr. Patric Boylan dug the first Graves in each of the Dublin Street Cemetary's. 11\18\1899 Saturday Worked as usual to day. When I came home from the shop tonight, stopped at my shop and got some coats, vests hats and other things that belonged to the Drum Band. We, Irving, Pierpont{??} and I went to town and bought 1gt{??} of oysters and 2 lbs of crackers for .50 cts. We also bought a small blank book for .05 cts. and a pound of butter for .20 cts. 11\19\{1899} Sunday Went to Father's this forenoon to see him about getting the City to put a fire hydrant near my shop. Went to the Chapel this afternoon, Rev. Mr. Hannon preached. Also went to Father's this evening. Brother Frank and his wife were there, also Will Gillette and Ira. 11\20\1899 Monday Worked as usual to day in the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met at my place this evening for practice. Miles Booth, who is a trolley car conductor, came and invited the members to play next Friday evening to advertise a socible {sociable??} that is to be given by the Motor- Men and Conductors. Quite a number of the boys are going. 11\21\{1899} Tuesday Worked to day as usual. Morris Alcott showed me to day a written invitation which he had received to the wedding of Charles Monroe and Mrs. George Downs, which is to take place in Bristol Dec. 8th. 11\22\1899 Wednesday Worked as usual. Received my last weeks pay 13.50. Hear to day that Arthur Blewett who works for David J. Porter was taken to the hospital yesterday sick with the typhoid fever. He is a nice young man and his home is in Vermont. Sixteen years ago at seven o'clock in the morning on Nov 22nd 1883 Mary A. Pierpont and I were married in Mill Plain Chapel by the Rev. Mr. Micon who was then pastor of Trinity Church. We went to Boston on our wedding trip where we staid {stayed??} several days, and returning set up housekeeping in the chambers of mother Pierpont's house at East Farms. This evening my whole family except Clyde went to the supper at the Mill Plain Chapel, given by the Ladies Union, they cleared about $11.00. 11\23\1899 Thursday Worked to day repairing the governor on the waterwheel at the factory. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. The Lecturers' hour was in charge of the Watertown grange, and there were present about 70 visitors. Mrs. John McCoy who lives in the next house East became the mother of a child this noon. A family named Lawton has moved into the new house next South of Ervis E. Wright's. 11\24\{1899} Friday Worked to day as usual. This evening most of the members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps and several of the old members turned out in the center to advertise the dance which was given by the Conductors and Motormen of the trolley line. We here at home could hear the drumming very plain. 11\25\1899 Saturday This day I worked as usual till 4:30 o'clock. Clyde went to town this morning and bought 13 bushels of charcoal for which he paid 10 cts. per bushel, also 92 pounds of bailed {baled??} hay for 90 cts. also 1 bag of oats for 1.15. 11\26\{1899} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. rev. Dr. Davenport preached. This evening I wrode {rode??} horseback up to the Red Bridges and across the mad river and down the Woodtick and Meriden road to Father's, there I met Miss May Goldsmith and Mira Somers. William Gillette and Brother Frank was there also, his wife and her sister Mrs. Fanny Rumans from British Columbia. Soon I came home. A man by the name of Michael Murphy was found dead this morning in the old clay hole South of the Plank Road, west of the Brass Mill road. He had a bottle with him and to appearances had been drinking. He lived in Brooklin. 11\27\{1899} Monday Worked as usual to day. The Matta- tuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. Harry Kilbourn called and said that he could not act as janitor for Thanks- giving at the Grange Hall only to open and close it. 11\28\{1899} Tuesday Worked as usual. Mary went to see Mother about getting someone to wash dishes Thanksgiving. They talked of Mrs. Hesphelt and Mary stayed to see her. She said that she thought that she could. I drove down horseback and told Mother, at which she seemed much pleased. 11\29\{1899} Wednesday Worked as usual to day. 11\30\1899 Thursday To day is Thanksgiving. This morning I took a load of water in milk cans to the Grange Hall, got there before nine o'clock. I then took two loads of water, vituals {victuals??} and crockery, and got the hall ready. The Summers family met there to the number of fifty, had a very nice dinner also a very good literary entertain- ment and in the evening ice cream. All seemed to enjoy it very much and we left for home about 9:30. 12\01\{1899} Friday Worked as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the grange. 12\02\{1899} Saturday Worked as usual to day in the factory. After work Irving came to the shop with the big wagon and I sent him home, and then I went to Laurence Tobins and got an organ which I had agreed to buy and started home. At the New St. Joseph's Cemetery I met Clyde who was coming to meet me. We drove home and left the organ on the wagon which we ran down in the swamp. We then ate supper, after which Clyde and I went to the factory and we shortened the main belt on the little engine which was 18 inches wide. It took 1 1/2 hours, then we went to town and purchased some groceries after which we came home. We then unloaded the organ as all of the little ones were in bed and put it in the front room, where we intend to keep it till Christmas and then give it to the girls. 12\03\1899 Sunday This forenoon I stayed about home. Went to the Chapel the afternoon and heard Mr. Parry of the Grand Street Baptist Church preach an excellent sermon. Came home and took a horse back ride to see Daniel Squires but he was not home. The fire alarm gong has sounded twice to day, this forenoon for a fire near the corner of Bank and Grand Street and this afternoon for a fire near the corner of Franklin and Union Square. 12\04\{1899} Monday Worked to day in the factory. It is now half past ten o'clock and I am tired, but it seems as if I had left undone something if I go to sleep and do not write in this book, this is I suppose owing to habit. The fire gong blew an alarm at 5:30 this afternoon for Exchange Place. Mr. Byars who has charge of the burnising {??} machine department saw me to day and wanted to see Clara French about giving her a job at work. I told him where he could find her at Scovills factory, and he went to see her. She called this evening and told me to tell him that she would go to work Wednesday. The drum Corps met for practice this evening. Henry Buckingham was 44 years old to day. 12\05\1899 Tuesday Worked to day as usual. The Boers of South Africa are supris- ing the whole world by their deeds. They have driven the British into the Orange free Stautes {??} and into Natal{??}, notwithstanding that the British have an army of 100,000 men at Mooder river. 4,000 Boers were met by 10,000 British which they held in check for 10 hours killing 1,000 of their number. This evening I went to see Daniel Squares about going to the grange next Thursday evening, and from there to the shop where I worked 1 hour laising{??} a heavy belt. 12\06\{1899} Wednesday 2nd Snow Worked as usual to day. Received my last weeks pay 11.59. The snow fell deep enough to cover the ground. There was a supper at the Chapel this evening. 12\07\{1899} Thursday Worked as usual. The grange met to night. They took no nitice of my appeal to the grange in regard to paying the 5.00 which\ I paid last Saturday for the use of the hall Thanksgiving day. 12\08\1899 Friday 3rd Snow Worked as usual to day. Snow which had fallen during the night lay on the ground this morning to the depth of 1 1/2 inches. It had nearly all gone this evening. 12\09\1899 Saturday. Worked as usual to day in the factory. Mr. Charles Monroe and Mrs. Emma Downes were married in Bristol last Wednesday evening. 12\10\1899 Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Rafter of the Waterville Episcopal Church preached. 12\11{1899} Monday Worked as usual to day in the factory of Rogers & Brother. 12\12\{1899} Tuesday Worked to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to visit Mr. Robert Worden at East Farms. 12\13\1899 Wednesday Worked as usual to day. It rained nearly all day yesterday, which is the first rain we have had in weeks, nearly all of the wells in this section are very low or dry, and the streams are lower than they have been known to be in years. 12\14\{1899} Thursday Worked as usual in the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. It was the elec- tion of officers and B.F. Hoggett was elected, Master; Harry Coe, Overseer; Mrs. Warren B. Hitchcock, Lecturer; Warren B. Hitchcock, Steward; the meeting then closed at 10:30. J.J. Byam died last night at 11:30 o'clock of Brights disease after an illness of many months, he lived on Cherry Farm south of the Meriden road opposite Shelton Hitchcock's. 12\15\1899 Friday Worked as usual to day. The weather to day has been wet especially this forenoon. Saw Morris Alcott about getting an entertainment for the Chapel supper next Wednesday night. he was about to give it up when I encouraged him a little and did a little planning by which we soon had quite a programme planned and he is going to Water- ville to night to see about it. This evening I went to see Robert Worden about entertainment at the Chapel, went horse-back and got home about 7:30 o'clock. 12\16\1899 Saturday Worked as usual to day. The factory is going to shut down to night till after January 1st. Morris Alcott went to Waterville las night and saw Mr. Rafter about the entertainment at the Chapel. He will come and read and recite, also he will bring a piano player and another talented young lady. There are 13 young ladies who are practiced in a broom drill, who Mr. Rafter thinks will come and he was to let Morris know to day but he did not, so I went to Waterville to night to see about it. I wrode {rode??} my horse, after work found Harry West who had charge of the drill and he saw some of the young ladies and they were all anxious to come, so I came home stopping at Morris Alcott's house and letting him {know??} that they were coming and also at Warren Hitchcock's, but he was not at home. News has been received to day of a great battle that was fought a few days ago between the Boers of South Africa and the Brotish army of 60,000 men under General Briller in which the latter army was routed with great loss which included 11 cannons. The Boers are surprising the world by their acts and bravery. They have not yet been beaten in a battle in this war. 12\17\1899 Sunday The weather to day has been cold and stormy. Mr. J.J. Byam was buried from the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon, there were present about 250 persons, a number of which were of the order of Woodmen, and many Grangers also were present, the Rev. Mr. Waters of Woolcott{??} officiated and also the Grange buryal{burial??} service was used. After the funeral I saw Warren Hitchcock about the entertainment at the Chapel next Wednesday evening when I got home Irving gave me a dollar which Mr. Worden had left to have an advertisdement put in the newspaper tomorrow, but as Warren Hitchcock had already said that he was going to attend to it, I carried the money and gave it to Mrs. Munson. I then wrode {rode??} out the Meriden road to East Farms to see Mr. Worden, staid {stayed??} there about 1 1/2 hours then came home and ate supper of baked spair {spare??} rib. 12\18\1899 Monday Worked to day as usual in Rogers Brothers factory. The drum corps had a meeting this evening. Old Robert Hotchkiss, a veteran of the 20th Comm.{??} in the war of the Rebellion was there and he told of some of his experiences as a soldier at the battles of Chanslorville, Bullrun, Gettysburg, Chatanooga, Peach-tree Creek, Atlanta, Savannah, and other places, which very much interested the boys. 12\19\1899 Tuesday Worked as usual to day. 12\20\{1899} Wednesday Worked as usual to day. The Ladies Union had a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening, the supper was furnished by Mrs. Elmer Hitchcock, Mrs. Worden, Mrs. Milan Northrop, my wife and I think Mrs. Annie Munson. The entertainment consisted of a piano solo by Inez Bethweth, a drill by thirteen young ladies of Waterville who represented different nations by their flags and dress, a violin solo by Miss Dechand of Cherry Street, a piano solo by Miss Barker of Waterville, and readings by Rev. Mr. Rafter of Watervilee, the supper realized 7.00. 12\21\{1899} Thursday Worked as usual. This evening Robert Worden and I went to see Mr. Davenport about a letter he sent me about the old trouble at the Mill Plain Chapel being re- vived in regard to the piano which was bought two years ago. I have heard nothing about it except that Warren Hitchcock told Mr. Worden that Mr. Tucker showed him a lot of papers, and told him that I was to blame for the whold thing. 12\22\1899 Friday Worked as usual. This is the short- est day of the year. To day I went to town and had the check of 15.00 cashed at the Fourth National Bank, and this evening paid it to Mrs. Hine. 12\23\{1899} Saturday Worked as usual to day, the weather for the last week has been very warm, the ground has hardly been frozen more than two days at a time so far. This evening I went to the Chapel and helped trim it up for Christmas. There were but few people present, got home at about 10 o'clock. Rob Hotchkiss came to day and salted down the pork. 12\24\1899 Sunday A snow storm set in from the North East this morning which turned into rain, and has continued to rain hard all day, but has now at 9 o'clock cleared up. Ruth and I went to the Chapel this afternoon, there were but few there as it rained hard and they had no service. We walked home in the rain, accompany- ing Miss Agness Able as far as her home. 12\25\{1899} Monday This day is Christmas and we were up before six o'clock, and the children were at their stockings which were filled with little presents. Margaret and Ruth together had the organ which I bought of Laurel Tobin. They seemed to enjoy it very much, after breakfast Clyde went to East Farms to Grandma Pierpont's with some little presents, and she sent over some sheets and holders that she had made herself, only Clyde lost the holders. I jumped upon the horse's back and wrode {rode??} back and found the holders in front of the place where the old Baxter barn used to stand beyond the horse brook. After coming back I rode to Father's and carried down a bag of apples after which I went over to George Casses {Cass'??} where I stayed a while. At noon we went to Father's where all of our family were present except Brother Fred and his wife who are in Detroit, Mich. We had dinner at about 1:30 after which we went upon Crow Mountain where there is a lot of valuable wood land which is about to be cut off as many of the brass mills are about to give up burning oil and are going to burn wood again for annealing. In the evening we had a Christmas tree which was enjoyed by the little children as well as by the old folks. at about 9 o'clock we left for our several homes. Mr. Stephen Harrison died this morn- ing of heart disease, his wife is first cousin to my mother. 12\26\{1899} Tuesday Worked as usual. This evening Mary and I and the children went to the Chapel to the Sunday school Christmas entertainment, there was a good attendence {attendance??} the Chapel was well filled. 12\27\1899 Wednesday Worked in the factory as usual putting up timber-work for a new shaft. Received my last week's pay 13.50. Mr. Byers also gave me Clara French's pay, which I carried up to her this evening. 12\28\1899 Thursday Worked as usual in the factory to day. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening, there was a small attendence{attendance??} present, about 28. 12\29\{1899} Friday Worked as usual. The weather to day has been very cold, below the freezing poing, skating is very nice, and the boys enjoy it very much up on Frost's pond. 12\30\1899 Saturday Worked as usual to day. The weather has been cold all day. 12\31\{1899} Sunday Very cold weather to day. Miss Sophia Johnson was buried from the Chapel at one o'clock to day, she was a Swede{??} girl 28 years old who worked at one time for David G. Porter. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 1900 1\01\1900 {Monday} This is the first day of the New Year and is the beginning of another century. In years gone by I have known several persons who was {were??} born during the year 1800 and I used to wonder if they would any of them live to see 1900 they are all dead. John Abix who was the oldest died in 1893. I have known many persons who were born previous to 1800 and 17 years ago at a forth {fourth??} of July celebration in New York I met a man 103 years old who had seen and talked with General George Washington. I have spent all of this day about home, the weather has been cold and it snowed till about two o'clock, and there is about 5 inches now on the ground which has fallen to day. 1\02\1900 {Tuesday} Worked to day as usual in Rogers & Brother spoon factory at Mill Wright work. This day has been rather cold. I walked to the shop this morning as the horse was very smooth and I was afraid that it would slip on the snow. But to night Irving came after me as he had had the horse shod at my shop for which they charged 1.25. 1\03\{1900} Wednesday Worked as usual to day. This evening we, Mary, Clyde, Irving and myself went to the Chapel to the supper and entertain- ment. There was a good attendence {attendance??} and the entertainment was very good. When we came home the thermometer was six degrees below zero. 1\04\1900 Thursday Worked as usual to day. This has been the coldest day of the season so far, the thermometer stood at ten degrees below zero. 1\05\{1900} Friday Worked as usual. The streams are very low and wells are now dry that have stood the drouth {drought??} of the fall. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Able, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Spender, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Alcott, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Worden, and two of the Worden boys met at our house to make arrangements for the coming fair which is to be given at the Chapel next month. 1\06\1900 Saturday Worked as usual. Got out of the shop at 4:30 and came home and set two large window glass{glasses??} and also one glass in the door of the big clock. 1\07\1900 Sunday The weather to day has been very nice and not very cold. This afternoon we went to the Chapel the Rev. Mr. Buckley preached, after Chapel I went horseback out to Arthur Pierpont's and ordered a load of wood for the Chapel, after return- ing ate supper of roast spairrib{spare rib??} after which Mary and I went down to Father's and stayed till eleven o'clock when we came home it was raining and the road was rather slippery. 1\08\{1900} Monday Worked to day as usual. This morning it rained quite hard and was very slippery, but to night it had come off cold and it froze quite hard. We had a drum band meeting this evening which was well attended. 1\09\1900 Tuesday Worked in the factory as usual. We drew the water out of the ditch to day at the shop to repair the gates and con- denser strainer, and the boys caught a number of pickeral {??}. The ice men are getting in their ice at the Brass Mill Pond Hall and Upson are operating. Th City Ice Company are filling their houses at Wedges pond. Ed Pritchard is filling his houses at the upper pond at Wedges place, and the Mill Plain Ice Company are filling their houses. This evening sister Iva and William Gillette called and made us a visit. 1\10\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory as usual to day. I am not feeling well as I have a cold coming on, as has many others. It seems as if everybody had colds now. 1\11\1900 Thursday Worked in the factory putting a new main shaft and friction clutch so as to connect the small engine and waterwheel together without stopping the power. Weather has been cold to day and it began hailing at 5:30 o'clock, when I went to bed at 10 it was about 3 inches deep on the ground. We have received news that the town of Ladysmith in South Africa which is beseiged by the Boers cannot hold out much longer and that General White and his 10,000 British troops will have to surrender. General Roberts who the British Government has appointed com- mander-in-chief of the forces in South Africa has landed at Cape-Town last Tuesday and a reenforcement {reinforcement??} of 50,000 troops are on their way to join him, which all togather {together??} will make a British force of 225,000 men sent to South Africa, which is the bigest {biggest??} army which the British have ever put in the field. Great things are expected of General Roberts, as were of General White and General Buller, both of which have been defeated. 1\12\1900 Friday Worked to day as usual in the factory. This evening I went to see the Rev. Mr. Davenport about Chapel matters, he was very plesant {pleasant??}, but somewhat in a hurry as there was going to be a business meeting on his church at 8 o'clock. At 7:30 I went and called on Captain James Croft who is staying with his brother Fred at No. 48 Holmes avenue, he has been with the army in the Phillapine {Philipine??} Islands for the past year, and has taken part in all of the principle battles. He showed me many {refecks??} in the shape of Japanese and Spanish swords, canes, ctc. also many pictures of places where he had been. He expects to start for Montania {Montana??} on the 22nd of this month. I had a nice visit and enjoyed it very much, as I had not seen him in 13 years. 1\13\1900 Saturday Worked as usual in the factory. This evening Irving, who came with the team after me to the shop, and I went to town to have an advertisement put in the American, for the supper and entertainment to be given at the Mill Plain Chapel next Wednesday evening, we also went to Mark's store on south Main st. and bought a pain {pane??} of glass 11x24 for which we paid 22 cts. 1\14\1900 Sunday Got up this morning at 8:30 built the kitchen fire, by first laying in a hod of charcoal then wet it with kersene oil and lit it after which I put on the hard coal then I went to riddlering{??} the ashes, after which breakfast was ready, which was stewed oysters, after eating we went to the barn and did the chores, after which Irving and I repaired the dam which was leaking. We then sat in the house until it was time to get ready for the Chapel which we attended there was a goodly number present, Rev. D. Parry preached. After we got home from the Chapel Clyde and I hitched the horse into the sleigh and drove to Woodtick to Cousil David Frisbie to see him about smok- ing some hams, it snowed hard while we were going but stopped while we were there, while there Frank and Burt came with the school teacher, a Miss Britter who they were fooling with. We then went to Mr. John Todd's to see if Mrs. Todd would read at the Chapel next Wednesday night at the entertainment, she said that she would, we staid {stayed??} there till after nine o'clock when we came home where we arrived at 10:30. 1\15\1900 Monday Worked as usual to day in the factory. Sleighing very good, bus is getting thin. Hod drum corps meeting tonight. Weather has been very nice and not very cold. 1\16\1900 Tuesday Worked to day in the factory. This evening Mary and I went to Mr. John Todd's and carried five reading books which we left for Mrs. Todd to look over, we also went to Mr. J.H. Garrigus and I had Willie cut my hair and Mary sold Bessie a cupon {coupon??} for a silk skirt. 1\17\1900 Wednesday Worked in the factory to day. This evening we went to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment there were about 95 present and the entertainment was good, it consisted of a Recitation by Ruth Todd, a Duett {Duet??} by Inez Beckwith and Miss Wheeler, a violin solo by Master Tompkins who is 11 years old, reading by Mrs. J.R.S. Tood {??}, violin duett {duet??} by the Master's Thompkins, Piano and Mandolin by Miss Edith Burrell and her brother. 1\18\{1900} Thursday Worked in the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. They installed the new Officers and had a supper but as it was late we came home. 1\19\{1900} Friday Worked as usual. This morning it was very foggy so much so that when I went to work we could not see one telephone pole from the other and it has remain- ed foggy nearly all day. In the fog this morning two electric cars on the Naugatuck line crashed into each other below Hopeville, both cars were badly smashed and one man badly injured as were several passenger more or less injured one of the cars was in charge of William Kilbourn conductor. 1\20\1900 Saturday Worked as usual in the factory, got out at 4:30 and came home and cut wood till dark. 1\21\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Hannon preached there was a large attendence {attendance??}. Mr. Agustus Mashier is very sick. 1\22\1900 Monday Worked in the factory to day, stoped {stopped??} at five o'clock and went to the American Office and had the following advertisement put in the paper for tomorrow evening Mill Plain Chapel, Lecture, given by Rev. Dr. F.J. Parry. Subject, The Mirthful Side of Life. Wednesday evening Jan 24th 1900. admission 15 cts. children .10 Rogers and Brother factory resumed work to day after a shut down of about 4 weeks, starting on 8 hours time. Had a drum corps meeting this evening. 1\23\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day as usual. The weather to day has been warm and nice. Mr. Nelson Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Portland Orogon {Oregon??} visited the factory to day he was until 8 years ago bookeeper there, also he was a member of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 1\24\1900 Wednesday Worked a {as??} usual. Mr. Frank Allen's wife died yesterday aged 43 years. They live on East Moun- tain, over the line in Prospect. News has been received to day that General Buller with a force of 50,000 British has been defeated near the Tuglla {??} river in South Africa by the Boers. He was on the way to release General White at Lady- smith who is beseaged {besieged??}. This defeat will I think be the turning point of the war. There was a Lecture this evening at the Mill Plain Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. T.J. Parry Subject, "The Mirthful Side of Life." The chapel was well filled and the lecture good. Received 13.08 and there is more yet to come. 1\25\{1900} Thursday Worked in the factory to day. Weather wet and cold, to night it was very foggy. Mary and I went to wrode {rode??} up to the hall with Wilson L. Pierpont, it was very dark. 1\26\{1900} Friday Worked in the factory to day. The weather is very cold and windy. The papers to day says there is great rejoicing in England because General Warren who commands the leftof General Buller's army has captured "Spion Nop" {??} a hill that commands the reagon {region??} all about. 1\27\1900 Saturday Worked in the factory to day. Last night was very windy and cold, as has been today. News has come to day that when General Warren captured Spion Nop {??} with a force of 4,000 men he found that it had only been defended by 100 Bore riflemen not one of which was to be found, and no sooner had he established him- self there than batteries 3 miles to the Northwest and Northeast opened on him a tremendous shell fire which no human power could stand as the Boers had previously got the exact range. The British tried to sent up[ artilery {artillery??} but the Boers changed the range so as to rake the south solope, and it was impossible to get the guns up the hill, at night General Warren retired leaving the hill covered with dead and wounded. 1\28\1900 Sunday Mr. Agustus Mashier died last night at 11:30 of Brights disease. We attended the Chapel this after- noon Rev. Dr. John G. Davenport preached there was a good attendence {attendance??} although the weather was threatening at the time meeting opened, and it began snowing before meeting was out. Wrote a letter to Fred who is in Detroit this evening. 1\29\1900 Monday Worked to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band met and practiced. 1\30\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. Mr. Agustus Mashier was buried to day with Masonic honors in the Pine Grove Cemetery {Cemetary??}. He was never a church-man since I knew him, they had used the Episcopal service and Dr. Rooland{??} officiated. He was 89{??} years old. Elton Edwards told Mary as she was going to the funeral that Harice{??} Tucker and him had been into the old tannery building and broke out several of the windows. 1\31\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day as usual. The ladies union held a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening, there was not a large attendence {attendance??} present, the night was very cold, but the entertainment was good it consisted of recitations and music by Mr. Bacon and the Misses Barkers of Waterville, playing on the piano by Ray Worden etc. 2\01\1900 Thursday Worked in the factory to day as usual. This has been the coldest morn- ing thus far this winter. The ther- mometer stood at 5 about zero. This evening Mary went to the Grange, but I stayed home and worked whitewashing the cellear {cellar??} till 9:30 when I went to bed, the weather is very cold. 2\02\{1900} Friday Worked as usual in the factory. The weather has been very cold. 2\03\1900 Saturday Worked as usual to day, this morn- ing was very cold the thermometer standing at 4 degrees below zero. 2\04\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon the Rev. Mr. Parry preached. After Chapel Mr. Beckley who was killed at the Waterbury Manufacturing Co. last Friday was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery {Cemetary??}. Many of the people stayed to the funeral, we saw the procession coming in the distance. First about 50 Free Masons marching with their white aprons on, next came the minister in a carriage, then a bus filled with "Red Men" of the Indipendent {Independant??} Order, the{then??} the hears{hearse??} containing the corps {corpse??}, then hacks and carriages. The services at the grave were conducted by the Masons first, who used their usual form and droped {dropped??} into the grave a sprig of Green. The{then??} the "Red Men" who went through their ceremony which included the letting go of a white dove, which seemed at first bewildered but flew and alighted on the ridge of the Chapel where it remained till after we had departed. Around the Masons who droped {dropped??} a sprig of green into the grove was Mr. Gaylord Alcott who is sexton of the Pine Grove Cemetery {Cemetary??} and is the oldest Mason in Waterbury having joined the Order 52 years ago. 2\05\1900 Monday Worked as usual in the factory. It rained very hard all night and this morning, the Mad river was higher than I have seen it in a long time. 2\06\{1900} Tuesday Worked as usual to day. Mrs. Able and Mary went this afternoon soliciting for the Chapel Fair which is to be given next week, they went up the Doolittle and Woodtick roads also in the Meriden road from Mrs. Anna Halls. This evening Mr. Worden and I went to the Parish house of St. John's Church where the "Boy Choir" was rehearsing and say Mr. Minor the leader about getting them to go the {to??} the Chapel and sing at the Fair, they are to let us know next Friday evening. 2\07\1900 Wednesday Worked as usual to day in the factory. Received my pay for last weeks work $13.50. This evening Mary and I went up to Thoedore{??} Manson's and with others made up crash{??} enough to cover the Chapel floor, and also the dining room, we brought home the dining room crash{??} and Mary and I stitched it up on our sewing machine, and got through at eleven o'clock. After which I copied about 20 verses of Olliver Wendel Holmes' poem "Grandmothers Story" which took\ till half past one o'clock. 2\08\1900 Thursday Worked as usual to day. It has rained nearly all the time to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. I staid {stayed??} til nine o'clock and walked home, the roads were so muddy that my rubbers kept pulling off. Mary staid {stayed??} and is going to ride home with her brother Wilson L. Pierpont. 2\09\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual. Nelson Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Portland, Oregon called at the shop to day and I had a long talk with him, was glad he called. This evening Mr. Worden called and he and I went to the Parish house and saw Mr. Minor the Leader of the Boy Choir and he told us that he and 14 of the boys would come out to the Chapel and sing at the first night of the Fair, we then went to P.B. Norton's stable and enganged{engaged??} a bus to run use for 1.00 per night, we then stoped {stopped??} at Mr. Duzenbury's market and he told us that the Y.M.C.A. Orchestra would be at their building ready to come out at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening. 2\10\{1900} Saturday Worked to day as usual. To night after work Irving and I worked white- washing in the cellar. 2\11\1900 Sunday Got up at 7:30 and had breakfast of stewed oysters, stayed about home and read till noon when I got ready and went with Robert Worden to the trolley cars at Silver street top meet Dr. Rooland{??} who preached at the Chapel. Nelson Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Portland Oregon, who is here on a visit was at the Chapel, he expects to leave for the West tomorrow. This evening I went to St. John's Church to see Mr. Minor the leader of the Boy Choir about singing at the Chapel Wednesday night, as I was watching at one door to see him when he came out, he passed out an other and ran and jumped on a trolley car and started for Naugatuck where he lives. I went to Smith's Livery stable and got my horse and wrode {rode??} him home, stopping at Father's on the way. 2\12\1900 Monday Worked as usual in the factory to day, it has rained more or less all day and travelling is very muddy. This noon I went to the American office and had an advertisement put in the paper advertising the Chapel Fair for which I paid $2.00 for an inch of column space three days. This evening Mary and I went to the Chapel and with Hiram Able and Morris Alcott put the crash{??} on the floor and got the chairs put away and one booth erected. 2\13\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day as usual. Went to the Chapel this evening and helped get it ready for the Fair. Has rained very hard all day and the water in the river is higher than it has been before in years, and the shop had to shut down at half past two o'clock. 2\14\1900 Wednesday Worked to day as usual. It has cleared up and the weather is good. Went to the Chapel Fair this evening, there was a large crowd there. 2\15\{1900} Thursday Worked to day in the shop. Mr. Henry Carter of Wolcott died to day in the livery stable of Philo B. Norton on Phoenix Alley. He was sitting in a chair when he ex- claimed to Lyman Norton Lyme "I'm sick" and then fell over dead, he is aged 61 years. I have known him ever since I was a small boy, he was a good man, a leader in all Church matters, and a deacon. Has represented the town in the Legislator {Legislature??} several times, been Selectman many years was on the town school board, President of the Wolcott Agricultural Society. Master of Mad River Grange, and was chosen juror for many years in suc- cession, and was respected by all men. This evening all of my family except Margaret and Pierpont went to the Fair at Mill Plain Chapel, there was a large attendence {attendance??}. The Young Men's Christian Association's Orchestra furnished entertainment, and was fine. Uncle A.W. Goldsmith came out to the Chapel to see about repairing the brick work around the furnace in the cellar so as to keep the water out, he thought it would cost from 10 to 20 dollars. 2\16\1900 Friday Worked in the factory to day as usual. The weather to day has been clear and cool. the ladies of the neighborhood who are interested in Chapel work went to the Chapel to day and took down the trimmings and cleaned it out so that the men can go tonight and take the booths down. Mr. and Mrs. Thoedore {Theodore??} Munson had a new son born to them at noon to day. Mrs. McCouley who lives in a house that stands midway between the Wolcott and Woodtick roads and South of the Stilson road died last Munday {Monday??}, she was an old lady. 2\17\{1900} Saturday Worked in the factory, got through at 4:30 as usual saturday {Saturday??}. It has snowed hard since 9 o'clock this morning and there is about 8 inches of snow on the ground to- night. This evening Clyde, Irving and myself went to the Chapel and built a fire in the furnace in the cellar, the pit of which was nearly full of water and we had to bail it out before we could make the fire burn. Soon Hiram Able and Warren Hitch- cock came and we took down the booths and tables used at the fair, and took up the crash {??} that covered the carpet, also we swept it out and put things in order for the meeting tomorrow, we got through at nine o'clock and came home in the big farm wagon the weather was very stormy and the wind blew the snow with such force that it was hard to breath {breathe??}. 2\18\1900 Sunday To day the snow lies piled in drifts and the wind has blown hard all the time. Irving and I started at eleven for Woolcott to attend the funeral of Mr. Henry B. Carter we went by way of Mill Plain and the West Wolcott road as that way we caught less wind. The road for the most part was covered with snow but in places was bare and nearly all of the way the sleigh cut through to the ground. We reached the Church a little before one o'clock and after hitching the horse under the sheds and covering him well with blankets, went inside to get out of the wind and cold, soon the pro- cession arrived and the corps {corpse??} was borne into the Church and placed before the alter {altar??} by Mr. Austin B. Pierpont, Mr. William Fabor, Mr. Evelin Upson and Mr. Frederick Higgins who acted as pall carriers. The funereal discours {discourse??} was preached by the Rev. Mr. Waters. The Church was well filled, which was remarkable as the snow and wind togather {together??} with the cold was almost unbearable. After the sermon the Grange com- mitment service was used in the Church as the weather was so severe that it could not be used at the grave, after which the remains were placed in the ambulance which was used as a hearse and borne to the grave yard a {at??} the foot of the hill, the men only going to the grave, except the hack which contained the near relatives of the deceased, i.e. Mr. Carter wife Frederick Carter, brother Mable, adopted daughter and her husband. After the funeral we started home and in coming down the steep hill\ near the Nenry Carter place broke one of the shafts of the sleigh. I tied it up however and came along and we encountered big drifts of snow this side of Woodtick but managed to get along till we got this wside of Lilley Brook when we got into one so deep that the snow was coming over the dash board and the trace broke, I had a cold time fixing it and with a shovel which I carried dug a way through the rest of the way, only to find an- other drift farther on blocking the road up entirely fully six feet deep and five rods long this I dug through and found the rest of the way fairly easy. 2\19\{1900} Monday Worked as usual to day. This has been a very disagreeable day as the wind and snow blew hard and it has been very cold. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 2\20\1900 Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to Mrs. Able to see about arranging for the next supper at the Chapel which takes place one week from tomorrow night. Mrs. Able seemed rather stubborn and cared not wheather {whether??} the Chapel went ahead or not, she seemed rather tired. 2\21\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day in the factory. Last evening Murry Beebe family of Vermont and Miss Bessid Miles and a Mr. Pulver and Miss Cheffield were married at the house of Mr. David Shannon near the Grange hall. Murry is about 22 years of age and Bessie 19. The insurance on my shop of $1000.00 came due to day, on which there is a premium of 27.50, this evening I sent Clyde and Irving to Mr. John G. Jones with 20.00 and will pay the balance next week. This evening Bertha and Clara French and Olive Able came to our house to make arrangements for the married men's supper at the Chapel, also to talk over the young ladies' and single men's supper. 2\22\1900 Thursday This is Washington's Birth-day and the Factories are generally shut down as it is a legal holoday {holiday??}. I stay home and white washed the inside of the hen-coop this fore noon, as it was very stormy it having rained hard all night and today the mad River was highter than it has been before this year. This evening I went horse-back out to harry Laughton's just over the Cheshire line to get the money for Chapel fair tickets he had sold also stopped at Mr. Worden's, then came home ate supper and went to the Grange. 2\23\{1900} Friday Worked to day in the factory. The weather has been warm and damp. 2\24\1900 Saturday Worked to day as usual. Henry and Harry Buckingham came this evening and we practiced drumming and fifing sacred music, untill {until??} about 10 o'clock. Wrote a letter to Ridaback{??} & Co. of 141 Grand Street N.Y. about Military goods. 2\25\{1900} Sunday The weather to day has been cold and windy, a little snow fell this morning. Mr. Able called and told us that there would be no service in the Chapel on account of the cellar being flooded. I immediately went and saw James Porter about the drain as I never knew just how it was laid. I then went to East Farms and saw Mr. Worden and we went to the Chapel taking a lot of tools and Clyde, Irving and Pierpont. We found about a foot of water in the cellar. I found a bank of dirt in front of the drain pipe which I dug away. I then ran in a 16 ft. stick and by nailing on continuous poles punched a way clear through the pipe, which was about 50 ft. long, the water then ran out in about 1/2 hour, we then came home it being very cold. This evening we Mary and I went to Hiram Able's and paid to Mrs. Able $22.55 which I had got from the sale of tickets for the Chapel fair. Charles Cass and wife had a 10 pound baby girl bourn {born??} to them yesterday. 2\26\1900 Monday The weather to day has been very cold, to night the thermometer stood 4 above zero at 10 o'clock. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice in my house to night as it was to {too??} cold for them to meet in the new build- ing and also Clyde painted the stovepipe and stove with black japan last Saturday which made such a smell that one could not stay in the building. 2\27\{1900} Tuesday To day has been very cold 2 below zero this morning. News has come to day that Gen. Cronje of the Bore {??} army in South Africa has surrendered with 4,000 men yesterday morning to Lord Roberts who had him encompassed with an army of 50,000 English who have been bombarding him since a week ago Sunday morning. After work, i went out to Mr. Robert D. Barrett's with Mr. Byers who wished to see Mr. Barrett in the interests of the Royal {Cleanrun??} lodge of which Mr. Barrett is a member. Mr. Barrett is very sick. 2\28\1900 Wednesday The weather to day is not so cold. Worked in the factory as usual. This evening all of my family went to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment. The supper was a very good one and the entertainment interesting. It was furnished by the teachers of the school, Miss May Tatem and Miss Height, they had the children sing, recite, and march which was very interesting. The water in the Chapel cellar is making lots of trouble, the furnace which heats the building was put in new last summer and in order to have it heat proper the {they??} dug a pit two feet deep and bricked up the sides and placed the furnace in it, not the water comes in and fills it up so the fire will not burn, the Chapel committee had uncle Goldsmith lay the brickwork over again but still the water comes in, and he says that he cannot fix it till dry weather. I told them that I thought that I could fix it, and they told me to do so if I can. 3\01\1900 Thursday Worked as usual in the factory. This morning when I got up it was raining and so icy that I could not drive the horse to the shop so I had to walk. The rain kept coming harder and faster till night when the river was a foot higher than I have seen it for several years. The shop had to stop work at four o'clock because the water set back through the raice {race??} way into the wheel pit of the big engine. 3\02\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual in the factory. The weather has been quite cold to day and a little snow fell. This evening Clyde, Irving, Hiram Able and myself went to the Chapel and partly made a wooden pump to pump out the furnace pit, came home at nine o'clock and went to bed. 3\03\1900 Saturday Worked in the shop as usual except that tonight we had to draw the water out of the ditch and get into the water wheel and get out a stick that had cloged {clogged??} the gate. The weather is quite cold. 3\04\{1900} Sunday The weather has been very nice and warm to day. This morning Irving, Clyde and myself went to the Mill Plain Chapel and put in a copper dam pump to pump the water out of the pit that the furnace is in, it worked good. In the afternoon we attended worship, the Rev. Mr. Parry of the Grand Street Baptice {Baptist??} church preached. 3\05\1900 Monday Worked in the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening, we took a short march up to Mainson's corner. The French girls (Bertha and Clara) had a kitchen dance at thir {their??} house this evening. 3\06\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory. Mr. James Tobin the superintendent has been home sick yesterday and to day. This evening Irving and I went to the Chapel and worked repairing the furnace pit in the cellar. The young people of the neighbor- hood met in the Chapel to practice a drill that they expect to give some time in the future. 3\07\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory 9 hours this noon I went up on east mountain to see Miles Payne and was gone one hour, this evening Irving and I went to the Chapel and I worked on the furnace pit in the cellar. About 8 o'clock the young people came and the rehursed {rehearsed??} a fancy drill that is to be given in the Chapel two weeks from next Thursday evening. Morris Alcott also came and helped me on the furnace pit till 10 o'clock. To day Mary, Mrs. Able and my Mother went to the Chapel and worked quilting a bed quilt. When Pierpont was carrying Mother home in the team they met Clyde with Father's horse and buggy who waid that Sister Cara had been taken sick with a fit. 3\08\1900 Thursday Worked to day in the factory. This evening Irving and I went to the Chapel and worked on the furnace pit till 10:30 o'clock. Mary went to the grange. 3\09\1900 Friday Worked to day as usual in the fac- tory. Last night Michael Dunn died very sudden of heart disease he worked yesterday as usual in the shop and we were talking as we did almost every day he was 45 years old and had worked at Rogers and Brother's factory many years. The Connecticut Light and Power Company have today put up sever- al new electric arc lights one on the South side of East Main Street west of my shop, one near the Mattatuck factory, one on the Meriden road North of Carrington's brook and one at the fork of the Woodtick and Meriden roads, near the Mill Plain Chapel. The Mill Plain School closed to day for two weeks on account of many of the pupels {pupils??} being home sick with the measels {measles??}. This evening Irving and I went to the Chapel and worked a little while. 3\10\1900 Saturday Worked to day as usual in the shop. This evening after work I went horse back out on Southington mountain to see Sam Samuelson about mixing Carlsen's Portland cement. A family has moved to day into the Thomas Melbourne place, which is now owned by A.B. Pierpont. A Mr. Brewey of Watervill {??} has rented the Byam farm. 3\11\1900 Sunday The weather to day is rather cool. This morning I saddled the horse and went over to George Casses and then he and Charlie Hotchkiss and myself went horseback over to George Hines and he saddled his horse and we then rode to my house where we watered the horses and then went to Mr. Robert Hotchkiss then up to Mr. Thomas Fairclough's house in Wolcott where we got warm and he gave us plenty of apples to eat and cider to drink after which we went to Mr. William Prichard's and he gave me {the??} address of Earnest Nichols No. 78 Maple Street Bristol Conn. which I wanted. We then came home stopping on the way at Adelbert Norton's. This afternoon I went to the Chapel the Rev. Mr. Brickley of Trinity church preached. 3\12\{1900} Monday Worked to day in the factory. The weather has been very cold and windy. Mr. Michael Dunn who died Thursday night of a paraletic stroke had a very large funeral yesterday. It was from the Church of the Sacred heart (Roman Catholic) and was atten- ded by many carriages and over 200 people on foot, he was buried in the new Saint Joseph cemetery. The Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting to night, the minutes of several meetings past were read by the Secretary as was the Consti- tution and By Laws. 3\13\1900 Tuesday Worked as usual to day. The weather was very cold this morn- ing but is warmer to night. Irving and I went to the Chapel this evening and repaired the pump that pumps out the furnace pit. 3\14\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory to day. The weather has been very nice and clear. This evening, the married men furnished the supper at the Chapel, they cleared 19.00. 3\15\1900 Thursday Worked 10 hours to day as usual. It began snowing this morning at nine o'clock and has snowed all day at night it is about 4 inches deep and still snowing. Am going to bed at 9:30 as I am tired and lame. 3\16\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual. This morning the ground was cov- ered in many places with slush knee deep and it was hard traveling {travelling??} especially for the girls that worked in the factory. Clara French began working in the machine burnishing room at Rogers & Brothers factory, she left her home in time but before she reached the shop she was wet through and late so she turned back and went home. This evening the young folks and myself went to the Chapel, I tried a new barrell {barrel??} of Royal Crass{??} cement on the furnace pit, and found that it worked much better than the Alson's which we have had. There has been a great ice storm to day and the trees and building are covered with ice. 3\17\{1900} Saturday Worked to day as usual in the factory. This is Saint Patrick's day and is observed by the Irish by wearing green ribbons and other emblems. This day is remarkable from the fact that the British Government have given her Irish soldiers liberty to wear their national plant the Shamrock and the green and all of the high government officers are wearing, in years past it has been scrictly {strictly??} forbidden. Clyde and Bertha French went with my team to day canvassing for the Young Ladies supper for the Chapel which is to be given one week from next Wednesday evening. Clyde, Irving and myself went to the Chapel and worked on the furnace pit a while this evening. It has been very cold all day and the boys have had great sport skating on the frozen snow in the lots. 3\1\1900 Sunday Stayed about home all day except that I went to the service at the Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Trinkans of Waterville preached. 3\19\1800 {1900??} Monday Worked as usual. It has rained all day and much of the snow has disapeared {disappeared??}|. Stoped {stopped??} at my shop and looked at platform which needs repairing. Told Peter that I would see about Mr. Clark's wagon which he had run out. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice to night. 3\20\{1900} Tuesday Worked as usual. This is the first day of spring, and is warm and spring like. This evening I went and saw Sam Squires and George Cass and Chas Hotchkiss to see if they will come and practice at my house tomorrow night. The man who has moved into the Thomas Melbourn place is Mr. Smithfield and he works at the clock shop gets 2.75 per day. 3\21\1900 Wednesday Worked in the factory to day as usual. This evening Charles Hotchkiss, George Case, Clyde, Irving, Henry Bucking- ham, Harry Buckingham, Sam Squares and myself practiced drumming and fifing by the new method at my house. 3\22\{1900} Thursday Worked to day as usual. Henry Buckingham got through working at Rogers & Brothers this morning after working there 17 years. 3\23\1900 Friday Worked to day as usual in the factory. This evening the boys met for practice at my house. 3\24\{1900} Saturday Worked to day in the factory . This evening Clyde, Irving and I went to the Chapel and worked on the furnace pit. 3\25\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this after- noon, Rev. Dr. Davenport preached. 3\26\{1900} Monday Worked in the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band held a meeting to practice. We also went up to Charlie Casse's where we bid him good bye as he is about to move away to Southington. Every member of the Band was present. 3\27\1900 Tuesday Worked to day as usual. This evening the young people went to the Chapel to rehearse {reherse??} for the entertainment to be given at the Chapel tomorrow evening. Irving has been home from school sick. Henry Buckingham went to work at Seaville Mfg. Co's to day. 3\28\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day as usual. To day in the factory the boys that work in the making room struck for more pay. To day was pay day and this afternoon after they had received their pay they marched in a line about twelve in number to Mr. Tobin's office and asked for more pay. He told them to go back to work but they took their coats and went home. This evening the Ladies Union had a supper and entertainment at the Chapel. The young ladies furnish- ed the supper was fine and the entertainment was excellent. 3\29\1900 Thursday Worked as usual in the factory. This evening Charles Cass, Henry and Harry Buck- ingham, George Cass, Charles Hotchkiss and Irving and I met and practiced playing sacred music. General Hubert who was Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces in South Africa was buried to day. 3\30\{1900} Friday Worked as usual in the factory to day. Mr. Byers who is a foreman of the Machine Burnishing room of Rogers & Brothers moved to day into Mr. Carlson's house on the Southnayd road. 3\31\1900 Saturday Worked this day as usual, although the factory did not run for want of work (or orders). Received {recived??} a letter from Mrs. John J. Able No. 1604 Bolton Street Baltimore Md., enclosing two letters which Mr. James M. Somers of 158 Park St. Bridgeport sent her, giving much information regarding the Geneology of the Somer's family. 4\01\{1900} Sunday The weather to day has been clear and cool, there has been many forest fires. This forenoon Charlie Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Henry and Harry Buckingham, George Cass, Sam Squares, Clyde, Irving and myself met and rehearsed fifing and drumming sacred music, we got through at about 11:30 o'clock. This afternoon Mary and I went to Motehr Pierpont's at East Farms and there met Wilson and Charlie Pierpont and we went to the South Woods and found that Sidney Bronson had chopped over a piece of land that belonged to Mother Pierpont the bounds of which are not to be found. They agreed that I should trace the records and find the bounds if possible and then have Sid pay the price that the wood was worth standing. The Children went to the Mill Plain Chapel, the Rev. Dr. Parry preached. The Rev. Dr. Rooland of St. John's Church, handed in his resignation to take effect July 1st he has preached there 16 years. 4\02\1900 {Monday} Worked to day as usual in the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice at eight o'clock this evening after practicing a while we went up to John French's and drummed in the house to drive the rats away, after playing several tunes, the girls brought out cakes, fruit, coffeee etc. all of which was very good, at ten o'clock we came home, and I went to bed at 10:30. Charlie Cass moved to day from the Doolittle place to the Dick Frisbie place in Marion. 4\03\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory, the Connecticut Light and Power Company are surveying for a trolley line to connect the Waterbury line at Silver Street with the Bristol line at Compound Pond. They have surveyed up East Main Street to the Meriden Road and out the Mer- iden Road to Frank Lockhart's where they leave the road and run NorthWest back of Lock- hart's house and on up the run to Kilbourn's swamp and across the West Wolcott Road south of George Prichard's house and then North across Long HIll Road then East crossing the Wolcott Road again and then to the vicinity {vacinity??} of the Mad River which they follow to Woodtick. 4\04\1900 Wednesday Worked as usual in the factory. This evening I worked repairing my harness. 4\05\1900 Thursday Worked in the factory. This evening George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Charlie Cass, Harry Buckingham, Clyde, Irving, and myself practiced drumming and fifing the following tunes which we intend to play at the Chapel next Wednesday. Coronation, Portuguese Humn, Onward Christian Soldiers, and Auld Lansyne. Mary went to the Grange, I went to Mr. Carlson's and measured the distance from the house to the well for a pipe to connect the tank in house with the pump. 4\06\{1900} Friday This morning I wrote a letter to Montgomery Ward & Co. of Chicago about boot tops, also a letter to the M. Richardson Co. of New York, in which I sent 1.00 to pay last year's subscription of the "Blacksmith and Wheelwright" and a letter to Mr. Buell of Moodres{??} Conn. Worked in the factory ten hours. This evening I repaired the horse saddle, and then practiced drum- ming with Irving while Clyde played the fife. 4\07\1900 Saturday Worked in the factory nine hours although they pay for ten hours work Saturdays. The shop was shut down to day, but the machinists and several others worked. I worked rep- airing the main shaft where one of the pillow blacks had been burned out and was loose. The Waterbury Republican Publish- ing Co. offered to pay the expenses of ten School teachers of the town and city who obtained the largest number of votes of the people who buy the Republican News paper. Each paper entitled the purchaser to 5 votes. Yesterday evening the voting ended, and announced {??} the ten who are going is Cousin Jennie Phillips, she received about 70,000 votes. This evening Sam Squares, George Cass, Harry and Henry Buckingham, Clyde, Irving, and myself met and rehearsed drumming and fifing. We prac- tised till 10 o'clock. I sold to Miles Payne one planing {plaining??} machine for planing {plaining??} wood for which he paid me $10.00 he also paid me 1.00 for a saw arbour. He bought too a length of shaft two hangers and three belt pulleys, weight 300 lbs for which he is to pay $9.00. 4\08\1900 Sunday Got up at six this morning and white washed my little-room, after which I did the barn chores, then Pierpont and Raymond who were up called the boys and girls, and we had breakfast after which, Harry and Henry Buckingham, George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss came and we practiced drumming and fifing sacred music till near noon after which George Cass and Henry Buckingham went to Marion to see Charlie Cass, and Harry Buckingham stayed and copied {copyed??} music. I got washed and saddled the horse and went to Dan Square's to see if Sam would get Sidney Risland's drum tomorrow. I then came home and got ready for the Chapel service which I attended. The Rev. Mr. Rafter of Waterville preached, the service was fairly well attended, Mary and I came home together {togather??} crossing the lots, as we came home we saw away to the South, east and west great forest fires burning. After we had ate supper of baked potatoes, baked beef, escollaped oysters, pudding, etc., I went out to see Mr. Harry Garrigus about doing some joiner work at my shop, came home at eight o'clock. While I was there Henry Cass came to see Bessie. While we were eating supper George Cass and Charlie Hotchkiss came to see Clyde about making arrangements for the poverty supper to be given at the Chapel next Wednesday evening. 4\09\1900 Monday Worked in the factory to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice, it was voted to go to Marion and drum three weeks from to night. At 4 o'clock I left the shop and Clyde and I went to Mr. Carlson's and laid a water-pipe from the pump to the house, the well is a drilled well 6 in. in diameter and 66 ft. deep, the first 30 ft. is through earth and the remainder rock, they drilled 62 ft. before striking water and then it filled up to within 15 ft. of the top, I did not have pipe enough into six inches so I could not finish the job. 4\10\1900 Tuesday Worked as usual in the factory. Went to night after work to Mr. Carlson's and put in the re- mainder of the pipe, then came home had supper of roast beef of which I am fond, then went to the Chapel and rehearsed martial music for the enter- tainment next Wednesday evening, it was cold when we came home. 4\11\{1900} Wednesday Worked as usual in the factory. This evening, the young met of the neighborhood gave a poverty supper at the Chapel. The supper was the same as usual but they fined everybody a small fee that wore any jewelry {juelery??} white collars, cuffs, shirts, or ribbons {ribbens??}, neckties, etc. etc. For entertainment a few of the members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps played sacred music, it did not seem to take very well. Then we played the Russian march to the old style and time and that brought great applause. They took in 14.22. 4\12\1900 Thursday Worked in the factory to day as usual. To day is my Father's birthday and he is 70 years old, this evening all of the children and their wives {wives??} and all the grandchildren had supper at Father's in honor of the event, there were 21 present including Mr. William Gillette and Hattie Burgher of Prospect, Frank, who is a rooler{??} at Benedict & Burnham's had to work till 10 o'clock and could not be there and Fred and his wife who live in Detroit were absent. 4\13\1900 Friday This is Fast day and the factory is closed. This morning Clyde mounted on Father's horse and I and old Jack started for Woodbury. Went in East Main Street to Silver, then over new Washing- ton Street to the old Lawn Plot Road on Highland Avenue as it is now called then across Tamrack Swamp to the Middlebury Road which we follwoed to Middlebury then on past the lower end of Luassapough{??} Pond and over the hills to Wood- bury which we reached at noon. We went to Mr. Shelley's blacksmith shop and saw him, and told him that we were looking for some grand army men who knew about the exercises that were to be held on Decoration Day, he referred me to a Mr. Strong, and Mr. David L. Somers, who were members of the "Order of American Mechanics," who have charge of the exercises, we then went and had our horses put out at the Central Hotel and had dinner our selves for which we paid .50 cts. each for the dinner and .25 cts. each for the horses' feed. We then called on Mr. Strong at his Drug Store and gave him our terms which were $12.00 and expenses. He seemed pleased, and will let us know next week whether they will need us or not. We then went to the house of David L. Somers, which was situated off the road from Woodbury to Watertown. He too seemed pleased as it relieved him of a load, he had to look up a Drum Corps. We then came home via the Watertown and Bunker Hill roads where we turned South and came out onto the Middlebury road at Tamrack Swamp. We then stopped at Mr. George Connor's for a few minutes and then came home which we reached at about 6:30 o'clock. 4\1\1900 Saturday No work in the factory to day. Did not get up till 6:30 o'clock, had breakfast late and went to my shop with Clyde and loaded a lot of plant on the wagon for him to take to the shop of C.E. Smith on Benedict Street to have edged up, went with him the first load and he kept on drawing all day, I went to a barber's shop and had my hair cut and also got shaved, for which I paid 35 cts. I then went to the town clerk's office and looked over the land records to find out about the property of Austin Pierpont 1850, stayed there till noon, came home, got dinner, and went back again taking Irving with me, worked copying till 5 o'clock when we came home. 4\15\1900 Sunday Stayed about home till Chapel time when I went to the Service. This is Easter Sunday and the Chapel was filled nearly every seat being taken. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached. After service we came home, and I ground up some horse radish after which we ate supper of roast beef, after supper I jumped on the horse's back and went to Adelbert Norton's in Wolcott and got a uniform that he had that belonged to the Mattatuck Drum Corps. Ted Hine got shot in the leg last Friday by an Italian who was try- ing to sell him a revolver, and not knowing that it was loaded, it went off while he was showing him how it worked. 4\16\1900 Monday Worked in the shop to day as usual. Clyde worked drawing plank from my shop to Mr. Smith's mill and had them edged up and then drew them back again. The Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting this evening and they voted to appoint Howard Neal, Herman Gessert and George Somers a committee to act with the Leader to see about repairing the uniforms, also voted to have each member buy a pair of indigo blue pants to use with uniforms. 4\17\{1900} Tuesday Worked at Rogers & Brothers' factory. Charlie Trepanier commenced working at my shop putting down a new floor and the west staging. 4\18\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory as usual. Received my pay at the shop which amounted to 9.00. Wrote three postal cards to Concrete side-walk contractors this morning for Morris Alcott. Charlie Trepanier worked for me a spell to day. 4\19\1900 Thursday Worked to day as usual for Rogers & Brothers. This evening I went to the Grange and heard Dr. Munn lecture on the Mound builders of North America. 4\20\{1900} Friday Worked as usual to day. The weather has been wet and warm. We ploughed the garden this evening. 4\21\{1900} Saturday The factory shut down to day, but I had work. This evening I worked papering my room. 4\22\1900 Sunday Went to the Chapel to day, the Rev. Dr. Harman preached the attendance was not as large as it is sometimes. This evening I went out and saw Nelson Todd about land bounds. 4\23\1900 Monday Worked as usual to day. The weather has been fine. A family of Italians (I think) has moved into the Doolittle place to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening and after transacting the usual business we went out and marched down the Cheshire Road, up the Southayd Road to the Meriden Road out the Meriden and down the Doolittle Road to John French's where we stopped and had a drink of water and after play- ing several pieces, and getting Clara and John who had gone to bed up we marched home. This morning Clyde, Irving and I got up at 3:30 this morning and went to the Doolittle place and got a load of hay. 4\24\1900 Tuesday Worked as usual to day. This noon as the children were eating dinner Margaret had a sort of spasm, and Mary sent for the doctor who did notning for her and could not account for it. This evening I went to see Edwin Welton on Linden Street but he was not at home. 4\25\[1900} Wednesday Worked to day as usual at Rogers & Brothers Factory. This evening I went to the supper and entertainment at Mill Plain Chapel. This is the last regular supper to be given this season. The supper was a success about 10.00 was realized. The entertainment consisted of a selection on the piano, a reading by Mrs. Eddy, recitation by Lena Hurlburt, reading by a watch-shop girl, flute solo by Rev. Mr. Pinkus, bass solo by Mr. Buck of Waterville, reading by Mr. Rafter of Waterville etc. 4\26\{1900} Thursday Worked in the factory to day. The weather was very cold last night. This evening I received a uniform coat from Major Charles B. Andrus of the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford and Irving and I went to town with it and saw Mr. Gessert about having our coats made over similar to it. 4\27\{1900} Friday Worked in the factory to day as usual. The factory did not run to day. 4\28\{1900} Saturday Worked in the factory. This evening Irving and I went to town and saw Mr. Gessert and he said that the uniforms for the Mattatuck Drum Corps were not worth making over. We then went to Mr. Davenport's and borrowed the history of Fairfield County and also the history of Conn. by Barber. Irving then went to Mr. Gessert's tailor shop and got the coat that belonged to the Putnam Planx of Hartford and then both of us went to Goldstine's on South Main Street to see about having boot-tops made for the drum corps. 4\29\1900 Sunday This morning Irving, Pierpont and myself, and Clyde on his Bicycle went up to the North West part of Wolcott and got a lot of trailing arbutus. John Cunningham of the 9th Regt. United States Volunteers who died while in service in the Phillipine Islands last January was buried in Calvary Cemetary this afternoon with military honours, C.J.C.D.G.{??} attending in a body, and fired three volleys over the grave. The Rev. Dr. Anderson preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 4\30\1900 Monday Worked in the factory to day. This evening it was very cloudy and dark, we had a slight thunder shower about six o'clock. About 7 Herman Gessert, George Somers, Burt Haskins, and Howard Neal came in a double team, and George Cass and Harry Buckingham were in George Cass' team, Fred Somers and George Atkinson were in George's team, Charlie Hotchkiss and Sam Squires were in Charlie Hotchkiss' team, and I had Clyde, Irving, Henry Buckingham and myself in my own team, and we went to Marion where we drummed from Mr. Neal's to Charlie Cass' house where we had cake, lemonade, cider etc. after which we marched to Mrs. Neal's and had more refresh- ments, and then came home where we arrived at about 2 o'clock. As we went through East Farms the Southwoods were all on fire and a great amount of wood that was cut and piled ready for market was burning in amount I should judge about 200 cords, it belongs to Sidney Bronson and Benedict & Burnham. 5\01\{1900} Tuesday Ringland Brothers' Circus is in town to day and nearly all of the factories are closed. I worked planting in the garden till 9 o'clock when I hitched up and took the children down to see the street parade, which was the largest I ever saw. I stood near the Soldier's monument and by the clock in St. John's Church tower. It was 1/2 hour in passing. There were four bands of music, many open cages containing Lions, Hoppopotomas', Leopards, Tigers, etc. etc., also about 10 Elephants, one of which was drawing a heavy cannon, and many horse back riders etc., we came home after the parade, and worked in the garden till about 5 o'clock, when I rode to David Frisbie's at Woodtick, came home at dark, am not feeling well to day as I caught a bad cold yesterday and last night and have the grippe or influenza, which almost everyone is suffering with. 5\02\1900 Wednesday Worked as usual in the factory to day. Received my pay 13.50 for last week's work. 5\03\1900 Thursday Worked as usual to day in the factory. We had a thunder shower at six this evening and it is still raining. 5\04\{1900} Friday Worked in the factory today as usual. The weather is very cold. Quite a little snow fell this forenoon so the ground was covered, but it soon melted. 5\05\{1900} Saturday Worked to day. This evening Irving and I went to town. It was so cold that we wore our overcoats. We went first to Jones and Margan's Clothing Store where I bought a pair of blue pants for $3.50, a hat for .98 and they threw in a pair of webbing sus- penders. We then went to P.J. Boylan's hardware store and bought a lot of seed and a belt punch for .50 cts., we then went to Hemingway's fish market and bought 1/2 pk. of clams for .30 cts. We then went to City Corners to Brother Frank's and he gave me a lot of garden seed. We then came home which we reached about 9 o'clock. 5\06\1900 Sunday This morning Clyde took the horse and buggy and with a party of young folks went to Meriden Mountain. They were to be back before Chapel time but George Hine's horse had the colic and they thought it would die, so they were late about getting home. This afternoon I attended meeting at the Chapel, the Rev. Mr. Parry preached, the Chapel was well filled. 5\07\{1900} Monday Worked to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band met this evening and elected officers as follows: C.S. Miller Leader, Charles Cass Assistant Leader, George Cass Secretary, Charles Hotchkiss Treasurer, Howard Neal Property Manager. 5\08\1900 Tuesday Worked to day. This evening I rode horse-back to Cheshire center and saw Rev. Mr. Nichols about turning out in Cheshire Decoration Day. He thinks that they will have no exercises there. {5\9\1900} Wednesday Worked as usual today. The Ladies of Mill Plain gave a stocking sociable this evening in the Chapel, i.e. the ladies sent out a large number of very small stockings to the people, and they brought them to the door and each contained double the number of cents that the size of the stocking was that they wore. This was taken from the stocking and the stocking was returned, and they received a check which entitled each to ice cream and cake. They took in $41.00. 5\10\1900 Thursday Worked to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. I also went to Simonsville and saw Brother Frank. He was to find out from Jim Walker how the Second Reg't used to whiten their cross belts, but Jim had forgotton and Frank told me to see Major Spenser. 5\11\{1900} Friday Worked in the factory to day. This evening planted potatoes, and worked about the garden. There was a severe frost this morning as there has been for several mornings. {5\12\1900} Saturday Worked as usual to day. There was a frost this morning. This evening I got through work at 4:30 o'clock came home in the spindle buggy which Irving drove down after me, had supper of codfish and potatoes, after which I and Clyde went to the Mill Plain Chapel and helped Morris Alcott lift up the platform so as to get the crash from under it. I then went\ to see Mark Pond but he was not home. We then drove to town, and went and saw Mr. Minar about making some boottops for the Mattatuck Drum Band. I also bought a pair of shoes for 2.50, we then went to No. 61 Church Street and saw Major Spenser about whiting leather belts. He said use pulverized chalk, gum arabic and glycerine. We then went to the store of P.J. Baylor and bought a hoe for which I paid 45 cts. We then went to Hemingway's fish market and bought 1/2 peck of long clams for which I paid .30 cts., we then came home and then Clyde and I finished a grape arbor which we started this morning. 5\13\1900 Sunday This morning I arose at about 6:30, called Clyde and we ran the grape vines upon the arbor, after which we ate break- fast of boiled long clams. I then rode over to George Cass' to see if he would like to go to Cornwall Hollow Decoration Day, provided the drum band did not turn out, then came home and got ready for the Chapel which I attended at three o'clock. The Rev. Mr. hannon preached. When we were coming home Mrs. Cora Broadbent who has been doing house-work for Major Tucker told Mary that she is to get through at Mr. Tucker's tomorrow or next day as Mr. Charles Horn has rented Mr. Tucker's house and is going to move in Tuesday. While I was waiting for supper, Mary's brother Charlie Pierpont came and wanted me to go out to the South Woods and look at some land bounds with him and John and Elmer Pierpont. I ate a little supper of pork and cowslips, and started horseback and went out the plank road and got there before they did, found John Pierpont already there and in a hurry to get away. John had already been over the ground with Sid Bronson yesterday and Uncle Joe Somers this morning and found nearly all of the bounds. They decided to have Mr. Patten survey the land and make a map of it. John borrowed some maps from Jennie Bronson, and after we had finished I carried them home to her, I then went up and in the Meriden Road home, and then listened to Mary while she read to the children. Robert D. Barrett who lives in the old John Mix place, died at 11 o'clock last night of a tumor inside of the lower stomach. 5\14\{1900} Monday Worked to day in the factory. Mr. Charles Horne moved into Mr. George W. Tucker's house to day, the family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Horne, Mrs. Horne's mother, and a young man boarder. Mr. Horne is a superintendant at the Seaville Mfg. Co. 5\15\1900 Tuesday Worked in the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I went to Mr. Robert Barrett's funeral, it was held in the Mill Plain Chapel and the Rev. Mr. Hanman of the First Methodist Church officiated. He was buried on the South slope of the hill in the Mill Plain on Pine Grove Cemetary. This afternoon I went after the funeral to see Nelson Todd about the bounds in the South woods of East Farms. 5\16\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day as usual. Received my pay for last week's work. After I got home Irving, Pierpont, Raymond, Margaret, and Ruth went out to the South Woods at East Farms and gathered 1/2 bushel{??} of cowslips. 5\17\{1900} Thursday Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. The factory did not run to day on account of Forepough's Circus being in town. I spent the greater part of the day in working about home. this afternoon Wilson Pierpont and I went out to the South woods and looked over the bounds of Mother Pierpont's piece of woods that Sid Bronson had cut off. We found three of them, but the North West bound we could not find. 5\18\1900 Friday Worked as usual to day. 5\19\{1900} Saturday Worked to day, but the shop did not run. 5\20\1900 Sunday The sun shone bright this morning. I got up about seven o'clock, had breakfast of codfish potatoes oatmeal etc. after reading a spell in the History of Fairfield County, Irving, Pierpont, and I went out to see Nelson Todd and have him show us the bounds in the South woods, but he was not at home. We then went over to the old William Munson place and to an old Saw Mill site. This mill was built by Warren Austin and Charles Hall in company, when it was finished they got mad at each other and neither dared use the mill, so it ratted down not a vestige of it remains except some of the stone work on which it stood. This afternoon we went to the Chapel. Rev. Mr. Hannon preached. After Chapel Mary and I went to see Mother who has been very sick. 5\21\1900 Monday Worked to day in the factory. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps held its regular meeting for practice. 5\22\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day for Rogers & Brother's as usual. The factory ran 10 hours for the first time since last December. 5\23\{1900} Wednesday Worked as usual to day in the factory. This evening Mary and I went to the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society. The following officers were elected: Morris Alcott for the Episcopal Committee, Charles Schiller " Congregational Committee, Willie Garrigus " Methodist Committee, Robert Worden " Baptist Committee, Arthur J. Pierpont, Secretary, H.J. Able, Treasurer, Inez Beckwith, Organist, Mr. Garrigus, Sunday School Superintendant, Henry Cook, Asst. Superintendant. The treasurer reported 47.04 in Chapel treasury, and Mrs. Munson reported 199.44 in the treasury of the Ladies Union. Mr. Garrigus reported 42.08 in the Sunday School treasury. making a total of 288.56 in all. 5\24\1900 Thursday Worked to day as usual. The weather to day has been fine. Mary and I went this evening to the Grange. 5\25\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual. 5\26\{1900} Saturday Worked to day moving the fence on the North side of Rogers & Brothers shop to the new line adjoining the park. This evening Irving, Pierpont, and I went to town, and saw the new 10 inch morters and piles of bomb shells that were placed about the Soldier's monument yesterday. I then went and saw major Spenser about the program of exercises at the dedication of the Sedwick memorial at Cornwall Hollow. He sent me to Mr. Melton who is in the Waterbury shoe store, who had a program which was sent him by the Honorable Thoedore{??} Sedwick Gold of cornwall. I then went to H.W. Lakes drug store and bought 1 lb. of ground chalk, a small bottle of glycerine, and 1/4 lb of gum arabic. We then came home and I then drove to Arthur Pierpont's at East Farms, after Mary. The Storrs Agricultural College extension circle held their last meeting and a prize was to be awarded the one who had the best paper and Mary and Rev. Mr. Waters of Wolcott were the judges. 5\27\{1900} Sunday Stayed about home a good share of the day except that I went to the trolley car and met Mr. Davenport and carried him to the Chapel where he preached. There was a good attendence. I carried him back to the cars and then took Father's team which I had home. Clyde met me there with my own team, and we went and saw Charlie Hotchkiss about going to Cornwall Holloy{??} next Wednesday. We then came home and ate supper of boiled chicken. This evening Agness and Olive Able came and brought their little baby and played on the organ several pieces, they then were weighed and Agness weighed 121 lbs, Olive 122 1/4 lbs and the baby 26 lbs. 5\28\1900 Monday Worked all day as usual in Rogers & Brother's factory. The weather has been very cool to day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met this evening for practice, Herman Gessert presented a bill from his father Herbert Gessert for cleaning and repairing the Drum Corps coats and vests which amount- ed to 14.00 which was approved and ordered paid. 5\29\1900 Tuesday Worked this forenoon in the factory. Came home at noon and got ready to go to North Goshen, ate my dinner. Soon Charlie Hotchkiss came and said that Henry Cook was not going, so we made arrangement for Clyde to ride in the two seated canopy top wagon with George Cass, Rob, and Charlie Hotchkiss, while Irving rode with me. We started at two o'clock and went through Waterbury Center, to Watertown, then over newly worked roads, which were soft and dusty to East Morris, then through Litchfield center to Goshen East Street which we travelled to North Goshen, which we reached at 8 o'clock. We soon had our horses put out in comfortable barn stables, and Cousin Malachi, and Lillie and Marion had supper ready, which we ate with a relish, after which we fed the horses, and then thought of retiring for the night as we were quite tired, but Marion suggested that we sing which we did till near midnight while she played on the organ. In the meantime Cousin Lillie and Mal had got a great supply of bedding and blankets in the room which was their parlor and after we had done singing, at Cousin Lillie's request I told all the rest to leave the room, while she and I spread two beds on the floor. We then retired, Charles Hotchkiss and Clyde in a bed in an adjoining room and Rob Hotchkiss, George Cass, Irving and myself in the beds on the floor. It mattered not whether we had a high bed or a bed on the floor for we all slept sound. 5\30\{1900} Wednesday This morning we got up at quarter to four and after folding up the quilts and blankets we went to the barn and looked after the stock or rather the horses. We then went up to Mr. Thoeren Luddington's and got permission to use his boats on the north Pond and also the key to the little building where they store the oars {ores??}. We then went to the pond and took two boats and rowed to the North end and then started for the tipping rock about 1/4 mile distant. We picked some large winter- green berries, and young wintergreen on the way. The rock sets on the top of a large flat ledge, and it is said to weight 80 tons. It is somewhat the shape of an egg lying on its side. By lifting on the long end a little while it will tip to the East, the top moving about three inches, and then by using a very little power it will continue to rock back and forth. Robert Hotchkiss had his camera with him and took a picture of the rock and all of us on it. We then went back to cousin Mal's and had breakfast of fried ham and canned salmon {caned samon??} after which the boys went out on Beaver Pond in a boat fishing. Cousin Mall caught three pickeral that would weigh 3/4 of a pound each and Rob Hotchkiss caught one about the same size and another that weighed 2 3/4 lbs. We then got ready, and while we were hitching up to go to Cornwall Hollow there passed a number of teams all going too, each of which was decorated with flags and many contained an old veteran, dressed in blue with the cross of the Sixth Army Corps on his breast. The distance is four miles, and as we went down the mountain into the hollow we could look across the valley and see long lines of teams coming from every direction. We found a place to put our horses in the yard of a farmer just North of the Cemetary and then we took a look at the Memorial, which consisted of a base of cut granite about 12 ft. wide by 20 ft. long on the North end of which stands a mon- ument about 18 ft. in height and 2 1/2 ft. thick by 5 ft. at the base. On the front of the monument is the follow- ing inscription composed by Dr. William Welch of John Hopkin's University. This memorial including ordnance. Used in the Mexican and Civil wars And given by the government of the United States in honor of Maj. John Sedwick, Commander of the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Who gave his life for the Preservation of the Union. "A skillful soldier, a brave leader, a beloved commander, and loyal gentle- man. The fittest place where man can die, is where man died for man." On the North side is inscribed a list of the battles in which General Sedwick participated, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Peribla {??} Cherribusco, Il Molino del Ray, Mexico. Fair Oaks. Antietam. Fredericksburg. Gettysburg. The Wilderness, Spottsylvania. At Spottsylvania May 1 1864 Gen. Sedwick was killed. In front of the monument and mounted upon a large block of granite is a large howitzer which I should think is 10 ft. long and would fire a 10 in. shell, while on each side of the base stands three piles of bomb shells 10 in. in diameter. We then went into the little Baptist Church, and also into the Cemetary where we spent some time looking about. Soon we heard the music of a brass band in the distance and saw a cloud of dust which told that the procession from the Rail Road Station at Cornwall Bridge six miles away was approaching. A procession was immediately formd consisting of the Governor and his Staff officers, veterans of the war of the rebellion, and citizens headed by the Winsted Band which marched to General Sedwick's monument in the Cemetery, where the exercises opened by a prayer by Rev. W.C. Ferris. The next was the placing of a garland of leaves at the foot of the monument by the Admiral Foot Posts of New Haven, then General Laurence laid at the foot of the monument a Rebel battle blag which was captured at Spottsylvania Court House by the Sixth Corps, he tore off a strip and presented it to Hon. J.S. Gold, who was chairman of the Committee of Arrangements and is 82 years old. Then came the decorating of the soldiers graves by the veterans, while the assembly moved to the memorial which stands in the street in front of the Cemetary. Then came an address by J.S. Gold and he also presented the memorial to the town of Cornwall, next Miss Clara B. Sedwick unveiled the monument and the Hon. David L. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Selectment, accepted it in behalf of the town. Then the assembly adjourned to a large two center pole tent where dinner was served to all. It is estimated that there were present about 7,000 people. Free lemonade was also served throughout the day. After dinner the speakers assembled on the platform which had been erected in front of the Church. J.S. Gold read a poem which was written by Mrs. Elizabeth John Vail. There was also a poem read that was written by the Rev. Samuel J. Andrews. J.S. Gold had several letters of regret from gentlemen of high standing among which was one from President McKinley. Next came an address by his Excellency George E. Lansbury. Then followed a speech by Hon. E.J. Hill, ex-United States Senator. Also, the reading of letters of regret from Gen. Miles, USA., Gen. Wilson, and several other Generals of the U.S. Army. Then an address by Dr. Welch. Next came Governor Pingeree of Vermont who had come 400 miles to attend this dedication, he had served under General Sedgwick in the war. He was followed by the Rev. Samuel Seaville of Cornwall, who mad a spicy address. Then followed remarks by General Kent who was an officer under Gen. Sedgwick in the war. The exercises were then concluded by the Band playing several patriotic selections. We then went to the Barn and hitched up our horses and started for Waterbury 30 miles distant, it was then about 3:30 o'clock. We travelled from Cornwall Hollow up the mountain to Goshen Center, thence to Litchfield Center, then down South Street to the Thomaston Road which we took and came to Renold's Bridge, then through Waterville to Waterbury and home, which we reached at 9:30 o'clock. 5\31\{1900} Thursday Worked 10 hours in the factory to day. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening, it was Chaplin's night and he, Mr. Garrigus, wished me to read a poem but the print was so fine I could not see to read it and I got Mary to do it for me, and I came home as I was very sleepy. 6\01\1900 Friday Worked in the factory to day. 6\02\1900 Saturday Worked as usual to day, but the factory did not run. This evening I went to town to see Mr. Wallace Camp, about the mortgage on my house. 6\03\1900 Sunday I did not get up very early this morning, but when I did, I cut Pierpont's and Raymond's hair and ate breakfast of boild canned salmon, after which I helped Irving write an article on the Rev. John Read who preached in Waterbury in 1699. This afternoon my whole family went to the Chapel to hear the Rev. Mr. Buckley preach and also to hear his Choir sing. There were 24 singers in the Choir and such good singing was never heard in the Chapel before. After Chapel Clyde went and carried Mr. and Mrs. Porter home after which he came back to the Chapel and Mary, Ruth and Margaret rode home. 6\04\{1900} Monday Worked to day as usual in the fac- tory, I went out and worked out the fence that we are building between Rogers & Brother's property and Hamilton Park, after I had oiled up the shafting. 6\05\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. This forenoon I went to the Waterbury Lumber Co. and bought a lot of lumber for Rogers & Brother's. I also called on Mr. Wallace Camp to see about paying him the interest money I owe Mrs. Catherine Munger on a mortgage note she holds against me. Also I called on Mr. Porter Wood to see about the tuition money that the State pays for the education of children in High schools in every town except Waterbury. This evening I went to the Chapel and helped get ready for the straw- berry festival to be given tomorrow evening. 6\06\1900 Wednesday Worked painting roofs at the shop to day. This evening I drove my team t o carry passengers from the trolley cars to the Chapel, made nine trips altogether. The festival was a {success??}. The Chapel cleared about $38.00. Mary sold ice cream. Mr. John Lines' orchestra furnished the entertainment which was of a musical nature and was excellent. Came home and retired at eleven o'clock. 6\07\1900 Thursday Working painting the roof's of the Office and Packing Buildings. It began to rain at three o'clock and continued till the present time. It has washed much of the paint off the roofs. 6\08\{1900} Friday Worked painting roofs at the shop today. The lumber came that I ordered last Tuesday. 6\09\{1900} Saturday Worked in the factory to day. Got through at 4:30 and went to the Chapel and worked grading and repairing walk. 6\10\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Parry of the Grand Street Baptist Church preached. 6\11\{1900} Monday Went to the factory this morning but Mr. Tobin sent me up to the Brass Mill to repair the waterwheel so we could run water over it to help us out. The wheel is a 34 ft. overshot with 10 ft. buckets, and was made in 1845, has run ever since till about 4 weeks ago when it got clogged. 6\12\1900 Tuesday Worked to day at the factory paint- ing the roof over the buffing and burnishing rooms. 6\13\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory to day. There is great excitement in this neigh- borhood tonight over a rape that has been committed at East Farms. About 2 o'clock Windola Northrop who attends school there went out to the watercloset and after she had entered a man rushed in and grabbed her and held his hand over her mouth and threatened to kill her with a big knife he had in his hand if she made any noise. He then raped her and told her that if she told he would kill her. I heard of it at about 8 o'clock and immediately put the saddle on Jack's back and in a short time was at Charlie Browne's house. He told me about it and soon Mr. Northrop came. They were going to town to see Sheriff Rigney. They had all- ready been to Cheshire, but could get no trace of the man, who Mrs. Northrop, who met him on the road described as rather short and stout somewhat, with a smooth dark face, wore a brown hat, and brown coat and dark pants. When Milan Northrop and Charlie Brown started for town I started for Cheshire to see John Mass who lives at Gilletts Corner on the Plank Road. I stopped at Ed Welton's but they had seen nothing of him. I went on and soon reached John Masse's, they were in bed but I got him up and we found that a man answering that description had been there at about three o'clock and she had given him something to eat, and that he stopped at Mrs. Water's about one mile East nearly an hour later. John masse's boy also met him this side of Cheshire before five o'clock. Ed Bronson and George Benham had already been to Cheshire and they learned that a man of that description had been at Dunworth's Hotel and bought a glass of beer and then went on. They also learned that there is a bald spot on the top of his head, as he was passing a ball that chanced to play from some boys that were playing struck his hat and knocked it off. When I got back I stopped at Mother Pierpont's and telephoned to the police headquarters and let them know that the man had gone to Cheshire. I then went to Sid Bronson's and talked with them a spell, then went to Chas Brown's and left word for them to tell Milan and then started for home. I met Charlie Brown and Milan Northrop near Wedge's house. They had seen Sheriff Rigney and he is coming out in the morning. I then came home. 6\14\1900 Thursday Worked to day in the factory. 6\15\{1900} Friday Worked in the factory to day. 6\16\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory this forenoon. The factory shut down at noon, i.e. those that were working which in- cluded the machinists and several others, the rest of the hands did not work at all to day. This afternoon Clyde, Irving and I went to the Mill Plain Chapel and worked grading around it and mowed the grass. This evening Clyde and I went to town to see about having boot tops made for the Mattatuck Drum Band. We could not find anyone who would make them. 6\17\{1900} Sunday Mrs. Thatcher who lives with her family which includes her husband and four children in the old Levinas Warner place on the West Wolcott Road died last night. The death was caused as follows. Several days ago she with her son had been away with a new horse and on their return home the boy threw the reins on the horse's back as he had been in the habit of doing with the old horse when he started and ran away. Mrs. Thatcher attempted to jump from the wagon and caught her leg in the wheel which broke it. It was set about five hours after but not properly and Friday night lockjaw set in which caused her death. She was a splendid woman and loved by all who knew her. She is to be buried at Pine Grove Cemetary tomorrow afternoon. We all went to the Chapel this after- noon and heard the Rev. Mr. Bassett preach. After Chapel Clyde and I went to David Henderson's on the West Wolcott Road and saw Archie about learning the boys to fife. We then came home and had supper and I then went out to Robert Worden's and then to Charlie Cass' at Marion where I stayed till 10 o'clock got home at eleven. 6\18\{1900} Monday Worked to day in the factory. This evening I went to see Luther Bradley about doing some carpenter work about the Chapel. He was so busy that he could not do it. While I was riding out I met Edie Pierpont and she told me that Sheriff Rigney had caught the man who assaulted Windola Northrop last Wednesday. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. We marched to George Cass' and he gave some lemonade and bananas. Mrs. John Thatcher was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetary this afternoon, the funeral service was held in the Mill Plain Chapel and the Rev. Mr. Waters of Wolcott officiated. The Chapel was well filled, the pall- bearers were John Gallagher, Arden H. Cae, George W. Tucker and Wilson Pierpont. Mrs. Thatcher was 43 years old. 6\19\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 6\20\{1900} Wednesday Worked in the factory to day. This evening Clyde and I went to town and saw Mr. Mellon at the Waterbury Shoe Store about getting boot tops for the Mattatuck Drum Band. He thought he could furnish them for 1.74 per pair. I also bought a pair of everyday shoes for $1.50. We then went to Hotchkiss and Templeton's and bought two scythes for 1.50, one scythe for .60, five lbs. spikes .25, 2 screw hooks .10 and one emery scythe sharpener .15 cts. We went to see Mr. Davenport about coming to Mill Plain Chapel to preach Sunday, but he was not at home. Irving graduated from the eighth grade int he Crosby grammar school to day. 6\21\1900 Thursday Worked to day as usual. The National Republican Convention at Philadelphia have to day nominated President McKinley and Governor Roosevelt of New York candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. Mr. James Porter was taken sick this forenoon with chills and shakes, they called Dr. Axtelle. Irv's 14th birthday. 6\22\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Martelle came to work at Rogers & Brother's painting. 6\23\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory this forenoon, shut down at noon. this afternoon I went to Waterville to see John Chatfield who is a school visitor about the tuition fee we have to pay the city high school. He was not at home. Then went and saw Dr. Cook at Waterbury Center, after supper went and saw Mr. Chatfield, Mr. Martelle worked puttying. 6\24\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Davenport preached, there was a large attendance it being Children's Day. 6\25\{1900} Monday Worked in the factory to day, unload- ing a car load of box-stuff that came from Maine. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. Chas Hotchkiss reported 19.30 in the treasury. Mr. Martelle worked puttying and painting. 6\26\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory today. Mr. Austin B. Pierpont stopped peddling meat to day, he has peddled continuously for 31 years to my knowledge. Mr. Martelle worked puttying. 6\27\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day turning posts. Mr. Martelle worked puttying windows. 7\28\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory painting the roof on the burnishing shop. The weather has been very hot and I suffered from the heat on my head and considerable from the heat that came through the soles of the rubbers that I wore. About 4 o'clock Irving came and called me down, and said that the horse was in the Brass Mill Pond and drowning, we went there as fast as we could and found that they had driven in from the Brass Mill Road along the North side of the pond to a place that we used to call deep-hole and left the horse by the water where the bank was very steep while they undressed to go in swimming, he soon stepped in and the wagon pushed him farther out so that he was soon beyond his depth and the buggy kept him from turning toward the shore and he soon drowned. In his death struggle, he freed himself from the buggy and Clyde towed him ashore where he laid when I got there. I tied the lines together, and Clyde hitched the end to the shafts and we pulled the buggy out. I then sent him to get Wilson Pierpont to come with his pair of horses to pull Jack out of the water, and sent Irving home after tools to bury him with. Soon Irving returned and after a while Clyde andWilson came and we pulled the horse up on the side hill and dug a grave, while we were digging it thundered and lightened, and as we were turning the horse into the hole the rain began to fall in torrents, we partly filled the grave up and then went home as we were all wet through. Clyde will finish filling the grave tomorrow. 6\29\1900 Friday Worked at the factory to day. The shop shut down for the usual summer vacation to night. Austin B. Pierpont has assigned Liabilities over $29,000 assets over $15.000 so last night's paper stated. Austin Pierpont let me take his drivin horse to use. Clyde went to work for Arthur Pierpont to night. 6\30\{1900} Saturday Worked till noon to day, this afternoon Irving and I went to Tracy's lumberyard and I paid a bill that they sent for work and lumber bought in 1897 that amounted to $1.53. I then got some lumber for the Mill Plain Chapel for the steps and other repairing. We did a little work about the Chapel and then came home. This evening Irving went to James Stouells and paid my school tax which amounted to $7.00. They had the annual School meeting of the Mill Plain District last night and elected the following officers: Warren Hitchcock, Committee B. Frank Hoggett, Clerk. Mark Pond, Treasurer. James Stovelle, Collector. 7\01\1900 Sunday Got up at 8 o'clock this morning, had breakfast of baked beans, after which Margaret and I went to Cheshire and saw Elliott Doolittle about buying his grass that is standing in his lots on the Doolittle road. He is to let me know Wednesday whether I can have it or not, I offered hhim $8.00 for it. He told me that the Doolittle homestead is to be sold this week. It consists of the House and barn and 115 acres of land, except what he owns which is about 15 acres. From Mr. Doolittle's we went to Charlie Cass' in Marion and then home. This afternoon we went to the Chapel and heard Rev. Mr. Parry preach, then went and saw Thoedore{??} Munson about his grass which he wants to sell, offered him $10.00 for it. The weather to day has been nice and clear. 7\02\1900 Monday Worked to day at the factory painting the edges of the roofs. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. 7\03\1900 Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. The weather was very hot. Went and saw Theodore Munson this morning about his grass, but he had sold it. To night I saw Thomas Mills and engaged to buy the grass on the two lots west of his house for $10.00. 7\04\1900 Wednesday This is the One Hundrethand Twenty-fourth anniversary of the Independance of the United States, and should be observed with Thanks- givings, with bonfires, and with illuminations. One cannot help thinkint of the two little Republicks in South Africa, i.e. the Transvaalt, and Orange Free State, who are now at war with England under circumstances similar to those of our own Country in 1776. They with an army of 50,000 men are fighting the force of 250,000 trained soldiers that Great Britain has sent to conquer them. But the Boers are perservering and in the end I hope will be successful. Clyde came home last night from Arthur Pierpont's and early this morning we started and mowed at Fourmills, and we mowed most of the day, till we had the two lots down. irving mowed some too, the first he ever did, and towards the last he kept up and did it well for a new beginner. This evening all of us except Clyde, who went to Naugatuck to see the fireworks, went out to Robert Worden's and saw their fireworks, stayed till about 10 o'clock. 7\05\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day painting. To night after work we got in two loads of hay and heaped up the rest, as fast as we could as it began to rain. Clyde and Irving set up the posts and made the floor for a hay stack to day. 7\06\1900 Friday Worked at the factory to day. Had charge of a gang of painters and another gang that were removing the fence on the North side of the shop yard. The boys drew up all the hay to day from Thomas Mills'. 7\07\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went to town and left an order with Mr. Melton of the Waterbury shoe store for 15 pairs of leggins for the Mattatuck Drum Band. I then went to Mr. Bottel's store and bought two scythe whet stones for .08 cts. and several papers of 8 oz. tacks. Irving bought some butter and mustard. We stopped on the way home and I paid Henry Byrnes $7.00 towards a horse I am to buy of him. 7\08\1900 Sunday Irving and I made a cover for the hay stack this morning. This afternoon we all went to the Chapel. Dr. Rooland who was to preach did not come, so Morris Alcott read the Episcopal service. He made it very interesting. This evening Mary and I drove over to her brother Elmer's on Hospital Avenue, but they had gone away so we went up to her sister's Mrs. George Connors at the top of West side Hill, stayed {staid??} there till after nine o'clock. Mr. William Ackerman and his daughter of Jersey City were there visiting. Mrs. Eliza Clark Davis was buried from Mill Plain Chapel last Friday, she was aged 54 years. 7\09\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory. Had charge of a gang of painters, and a gang of men digging post holes and setting posts. This noon I went to the Fourth National Bank and had a Check for $25.00 that Peter Larague gave me yesterday for a lot of lumber. \this evening I paid Thomas Mills $10.00 for the hay I bought of him. \the Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting to night. They voted to adjourn the meetings till the 15th of August. 7\10\1900 Tuesday To day the weather has been very cool for this time of year. Worked at the factory looking after many men. I learned to night that the Doolittle place has been sold to Mr. Knapp the Livery Stable keeper. This evening Irving and I began cutting grass on the lot opposite the Mattatuck which I bought of James Porter for three dollars. 7\11\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Received my pay for last week's work. 7\12\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day, build- ing a new fence in front of the Com- pany's houses that Martain Cunning- ham and Henry Buckingham live in. This afternoon at about 4 o'clock there came up a sever thunderstorm, the lightning flashed and the thunder roared as loud as I ever heard it before, and a good shower of rain fell, which was much needed as we have had no rain before in several weeks. Irving brought home the horse that I bought of Henry Byrnes tonight, I paid $15.00 for it, it looks poor and thin. Mary and I went to the Grange to night. 7\13\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory building the fence in front of the Company's houses. 7\14\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory painting the Burnishing and Buffing shop. After I got home we brought up what hay we had mowed and put it on the stack. 7\15\{1900} Sunday Tis hard for me to set myself to writing my entry in this book to night, although I am not as tired and weary as I am many other nights, but it is hard to begin, I suppose it is my weakness that prompts me to feel that it is easier to let it go undone than to do it. What I write amounts to but little, but as I have acquired the habit of writing every night, and have done it several years, I feel that I have not fully completed my day's labor if I go to bed without writing. I have fallen fall short of the object I sought to attain when I first began to write every evening. When I was a schoolboy I was consider- ed an extra good writer, and I now have a gold pen and holder that I took as a prize for the best writing in the school of 60 scholars. Miss Manervy Webb was the teacher and the school was in the present primary school building near the corner of Cole and South Elm streets the first year school was ever kept there, 1873 I think. Hard work, carelessness, and lack of practice, made me so poor at writing that I could hardly read my own letters, so I resolved to write some every day expecting at the time to soon regain my lost art, but I find it has gone forever, for after two years I cannot wsee very much improvement. However I find some of my records very convenient to refer to, in regard to facts, dates, etc. etc. so considering all I think I will continue to scribble on for the sake of writing something every day. This afternoon I hitched my horse into the two-seated canopy top carriage and went to Father's and left my horse and took his and went to the trolley car at Silver Street and met Mr. Trinkus of Waterville and a quartette of four and took them all but two to the Chapel and they sang at the service. There was a large attendence, after the service I carried three of them back and Willey Garrigus carried the other two back. 7\16\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day, this forenoon painting the burnishing building and this afternoon helping to lay floor in the machine burnishing room. 7\17\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day laying floor in the machine burnishing room. \the floor stuff was 2" wide matched board maple and matched at the ends, the first I ever saw that way. It has been one of the hottest days I ever saw and I worked tso hard that the floor was wet with drops of sweat that ran off from us. This evening I and Irving mowed a little while as James Porter's swamp. He came down and among other things he told {tole??} me that the first brass caster at Benedict and Burnham's was an Englishman by the name of Green. The first at Scovill's that he remembers was a Mr. Benham and later Cealy Doolittle, the first at Holmes and Hotchkiss & Brown & Elton's was Preserved Carter. 7\18\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory at various jobs. This evening Mary and I went to town. 7\19\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 7\20\1900 Friday Worked at the factory to day paint- ing Martin Cunningham's house. 7\21\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day painting the inside of the machine burnishing room this forenoon, and getting the mill ready to start up this afternoon for Monday. 7\22\{1900} Sunday The Rev. Mr. Holden preached at Mill Plain Chapel this after- noon. 7\23\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day, caring for the belts, shafting, pipes, etc. which kept me very busy as the Mill started up this morning after a shutdown of three weeks. This evening we raked up hay and got in one load. Mary said that Mr. McKoy who digs the graves in Calvary Cemetary told her that he had buried thirty- six children from the first to the 19th of this month. 7\24\1900 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day getting Hugh Byrnes' room ready to start up; this is the plating room. This evening Irving and I and Mary got in two loads of hay. 7\25\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day paint- ing the windows in Mr. Byers' room which is the machine burnishing room. Yesterday's paper stated that Henry Hall, son of the late Nelson Hall, who is with the Regular U.S. Army in the Phillipine Islands is dead. Painters have finished working on the Mill Plain Chapel and it looks very good, the colors are gray trim- med with dark gray. 7\26\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day painting window sashes in the machine burnish- ing room. Irving went to work at Rogers & Broth- er's to day wiping blanks for John Rearden at the big drop. Nellie Connor had a tumor removed at the Hospital to day by Dr. Axtella and Dr. Anderson. 7\27\1900 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual, first oiled the shaft bearings all through the shop and looked the power over, which I do every morning to see that all is right, repaired {??} some stream pipes next, then painted windows in Mr. Byers' room. This evening I attended the school meeting at the Mill Plain School House. It was called to hear the report of a committee which was appointed at the annual meeting to ascertain the price of putting in a furnace and making a cellar under the schoolhouse for the same, also to lay a tax on the list of 1900,. The Committee reported that Wm. Knibbs would build the cellar for $235.00 i ft. deep. Gaffeney & Cronan would did it $287.00 10 ft. deep. Sam Samuelson $280.00 10 ft. deep and 250.00 7' deep. Mr. Disley will put in a furnace for $220.00 and Barlow Brothers will put it in for $250.00. Motion made by Mr. Truiss that the present Committee be instructed to put in suitable heating arrangements as soon as possible. Amended by Mr. Atkinson that the expense not exceed $600.00. "Carried." it was then voted to recind the vote passed at the annual meeting to lay a 10 mills tax, as some thought it illegal. Mr. Hoggett then made motion to lay 10 mills tax of list of 1900. Amended by Mr. Atkinson to 15 Mills. "Carried." 8 voted yes and 5 no, for the amendment on the original motion 8 voted no and 5 yes. the District Committee reported that there is $93,000 worth of taxable property in the district. Meeting adjourned. 7\28\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. As Irving and I were leaving the shop at 5 o'clock this afternoon, Pierpont who came after wus with the team told us that there was a man drowned in the Brass Mill Pond and had been in the water since 4 o'clock. We drove up to the ice-houses by the pond and found that he was in the water about half way between the overflow and the mouth of the ditch. Dr. Axtelle was there and offered $10.00 to anyone who would get him out, several boys and men undressed and dove after him and finally one found him in about 8 feet of water about 25 feet from the shore, but they could not get him to the shore. Finally a large strong man dove and got him by one leg and got him to the edge of the water. His name was John Ring or Ring- wood and he was about 85 years of age I should think. 7\29\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Hannon of the First M.E. Church preached. After Church Ruth and I went in the buggy out on Southington moun- tain and up around through Wood- tick for a ride. 7\30\1900 Monday Worked at the factory to day. Two men painted the smoke-stack to day, which is of iron and 90 feet high, 4 ft. diameter and round. They first placed a 30 ft. ladder at the botton of it and then they had a pole with an S hook tied on the upper end of it with a cotton string that they pushed up care- fully against the side of the stack and by nailing lengths on the bottom they made the pole long enough to reach the top, the man on the top kept pushing it up while the man at the bottom held in his hand a line the size of a clothes line which was hung double over the S hook at the top but he stood a distance from the stack which pulled the top out a little from the top and when the hook was within about 8 inches of the top the pole leaned over and the wind blew it still more and it fell and broke into several pieces. They got another pole and tried again and hooked the hook over the top rim of the chimney, they then spliced the end of the line onto a 3/4 inch rope and drew that up over the S hook and on the end of this rope they tied a light pair of tackles which they drew to the top, on the bottom end they hooked a seat board on which one man sat and the other drew him up and he painted the stack with a white wash brush on a handle about 6 feet long. 7\31\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. A strange accident happened last night, on Doublin Street. Mr McManus, a contractor, is building a sewer along the street and they were blasting with dynamite during the day, some of the cfharges in the holes failed to explode, but later blasts blew the rock to pieces, the stone was given to Patrick Phalen the police-man and left in his yard. About quarter to seven last night Joe, the son of Patrick, was wheeling dirt and as he finished, he said to a boy named Kenneydy, "this is my last load. Come down to the barn while I put up the wheel barrow." The Kenndy boy aged 6 years followed him to the barn having in his hand at the time a hatchet, and as he went he picked up a railroad spike which he tried to drive into a post. Soon the Phalen boy aged 14 years came and looked at the rocks near by that had been drawn in, and noticing a hole in one asked young Kennedy to let him take the spike and hatchet. He placed the spike in the hole and struck it about four blows and then looked at it, while he was doing this the Kennedy boy stepped back and turned round. The Phalen boy struck the spike once or twice more and there was a terrific explosion which blew the boy about thirty feet away but did not hurt him very much. It knocked the Phalen boy over back and killed him almost instantly. It seems that the hole into which Phalen drove the spike contained a charge of unexploded dynamite which he set off. 8\01\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Irving and I mowed grass near the pump station to night. The family of Knopfs who have bought 80 acres of the Doolittle place have been moving in to day. 8\02\1900 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 8\03\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory. 8\04\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory. 8\05\{1900} Sunday Went to the Chapel, Rev. Mr. Faster of N.Y. preached. Margaret and I went to Chestnut Hill Reservoir. 8\06\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This forenoon at blacksmith work and flashing up the roof around the new skylights over the back passage from the boiler room. This has been the hottest day of the year so far. 8\07\1900 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to John French's to see about Bertha going to work in the spoon shop. 8\08\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Miss Gertrude U. Bradley left to day for New York to sail for Paris to attend the great exposition. 8\09\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been very hot. 9\10\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The casting shop of the Cheshire Brass Company burned last night, also the barn at the Benedict & Burn- ham's Co. 8\11\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather has been very hot, the thermometer standing at 100 above zero in many of the rooms. Stayed at the shop till half past six o'clock shortening the engine belt, which is twenty-four inches wide. Then Irving, Pierpont and I went to town, and bought one half pk. of clams a lobster and watermelon. When we came home we stopped at Father's and found him a little better. Frank was there with his new graphaphone and played several pieces which I enjoyed. 8\12\1900 Sunday At about eight o'clock this morn- ing the weather changed from hot to cool weather. I stayed about home all day till about 5 o'clock when Mary and I went over to Southington and saw Charlie Cass. We stayed till after nine o'clock. Rev. Dr. Rooland preached at the Chapel to day. 8\13\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been much cooler. 8\14\1900 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. A bad accident occurred on East Moun- tain this morning a little before 7 o'clock. The wife of Mr. Rudolph who lives in the Thomas Payne place, and her sister, a German woman about thirty years of age started for town and soon the horse started on a mad run. Mrs. Rudolph was thrown out of the wagon above the watering trough and had her arm broken, her sister clung to the wagon till the foot of the mountain was reached when she was thrown out and the back of her head was stove in, her wrist was broken as was her middle finger on the same hand, and her leg was broken in two places. The buggy was smashed into kind- ling wood (it was bought new last week) and the horse ran to Simons- ville where it was caught. Dr. anderson attended the women and thought they would come out all right. Father seemed to be a very little better to day. This evening I rode up to John French's to see about Bertha going to work at the spoon shop. 8\15\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I rode horse-back up the Doolittle road to the Red Bridges and back by the Woodtick and Southmaid roads. I did not enjoy it very much on account of my shoes. The style now is to have the toes of the shoes run to a point and in order to let a person's foot in it is necessary to have the shoes much longer than they would otherwise have to be. My toes do not come wihtin two inches of the toe end {??} of my shoe, and as the stirrups on my saddle are of the Mexican pattern with guards so that one's foot cannot enter, only about three inches, the soles of my shoes bend up and it is hard to keep my feet in the stirrups so that riding is not very comfortable. I will not buy any more of those kind of shoes {and he never did-M. Hall, August 14, 1943.} 8\16\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day and tonight till 8 o'clock. 8\17\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory till 5:30 o'clock. 8\18\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory till 8 o'clock. After the power stopped Laurence Tabin and I put a strainer over a five inch pipe that takes the water from the wheel case and distributes it to the wash tubs about the shop. 8\19\{1900} Sunday Stayed about home till Brother Frank came to see me, when we hitched up and we drove to Mix-ville and saw where the fire burned the casting shop, we also went into the mill, from there we went to Prospect center, and from there out the Union City road to Simons- ville and left frank at Glenn Street where he lives, and then came home. 8\20\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. Morris Alcott told me to day that Major Tucker had sold his place. 8\21\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 8\22\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Called at Father's and saw him, he is but little better, it will be three weeks tomorrow since he was taken sick with the chills and fever, malaria. 8\23\{1900} Thursday Worked as usual to day. The weather has been clear and very pleas- ant. The Connecticut Brigade are in camp this week at Niantic, it includes the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of infantry, the Gilford Battery and I think the colored Battalian. Mrs. Louise A. Upson, wife of the late Lucian Upson, died this morning at the home of her daughter, Miss J. Henry Garrigus of the South end of Wolcott, she was 83 years old, and was remarkable in being a living daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier, her Father was Levi Johnson of Wolcott and lived on the road that runs East from the church, the cellar can now be seen near where the first road turns to the left. I heard today that George W. Tucker is going to Massachusetts to live. Margaret was taken with a chill this noon, Father is worse to day. 8\24\1900 Friday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day. When I came home to night I stopped at Father's and found him sick with a chill. In every house from Ashton's Corner to East Farms people are sick or have been so within one month, the cause of this sickness of chills and fever has yet to be learned as it was never known of before last year in this locality. 8\25\{1900} Saturday Worked to day at the factory. There was two large plating tubs brought to our factory from the factory of Rogers & Hamilton which the Silver Trust is closing up. This evening when I came home, I stopped at Father's and found him sick with a chill, Dr. Morgan and Dr. Fitssimons was there and I had quite a spirited talk with the Doctor because he did not do better, he got mad and so did I so there were two mad ones. Clyde, Pierpont, and I went to the Chapel and clipped the grass with a lawn mower and trimmed up the edges of the walks and driveway. 8\26\1900 Sunday Clyde came home from Arthur Pierpont's where he has worked for the past 4 weeks. This afternoon I went to the trolley car and met the Rev. Mr. Holden and carried him to the Mill Plain Chapel where he preached. I then took the carriage which was Father's home and was there when he had another chill which lasted about one half hour. Had a talk about changing doctors, Mother is very set on keeping Dr. Morgan, she said that I made Father much worse by talking to the Doctor yesterday but Father said, when she was out, that he thought the doctor had gone to work in earnest, and that I had made him get a move on himself, and to let the matter rest for a few days. I then came home and had supper of salmon salad and tomatoes after which Clyde, Irving and I went out to the South woods and looked at some posts and rails that Clyde cut for the Chapel sheds to hitch horses to. We then went to Arthur Pierpont's and looked at a stone post that Clyde split out. We then went to the house and Lucy gave us each a plate of ice cream, some peaches, etc. We then came home over the Meriden Road, which we reached a little before the nine o'clock whistle blew. The weather has been extremely hot all day. 8\27\1900 Monday Worked to day at the factory setting plating tubs which were brought from the Rogers and Hamilton shop. When Pierpont came with my dinner he said that Irving had had his finger cut off. I have since learned that he and Clyde were drilling a rock, and Irving was holding the drill when Clyde missed his blow and struck Irving on the finger which was close to the rock as the drill was in nearly the whole length and smashed. Mary and Clyde drove to Dr. Barber's office and he called in Dr. Castle and they cut the finger off at the second joint, it was the third finger on the right hand. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met this evening and practiced they decided to go to Southington to drum for a Fair to be held Sept. 2nd. 8\28\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day in the factory. This evening I went to Simonsville horse back to see brother Frank about changing doctors for Father, but he was not at home. 8\29\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the Factory to day. This evening I went to see Mary about Father. 8\30\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The new boot-legs for the Mattatuck Drum Band came to day, and this evening Charlie Hotchkiss, Henry Buckingham, George Cass and several others worked on them. 8\31\1900 Friday Worked to day as usual in the factory. Several of the drummers came and worked on the bootlegs. 9\01\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory from 7 till 12:30 and from 1 till 5:30, met Mary with the team at the Plank Road where the path from the spoon shop comes out and rode home with her. This evening, Clyde, Irving, Henry and Harry Buckingham worked on the boot-letgs for the Drum Corps, till we got them about finished. 9\02\1900 Sunday This morning we got up at 7:30 and did the chores, after which I sent Pierpont down to Martain Cunningham's with a note asking him if he would like to go to Wolcott to look at the Reservoirs that empty the factories along the Mad River with water so that we would know how much more there was in them. He sent word that he would be ready at noon. When he came we started and went first to Chestnut Hill reservoir and then over Spindle Hill to Cedar Swamp. We found that the water in Chestnut Hill reservoir had been drawn down about 12 feet and Cedar Swamp Pond was lowered about 6 feet. There are a great abundance of apples and grapes, but everything is suf- fering from the dry weather. The Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Father slept through the time for having a chill yesterday and did not have any. 9\03\1900 Monday This is Labor Day and is a legal holiday in this state. We got up at 5 o'clock and got the horse and canopy top wagon ready to go to Southington. We ate breakfast after which several members of the Drum Corps arrived and we started for Charlie Cass' in Marion, which we reached in due time. We found that he had a fine decorated wagon that he was going to take to the Fair at South- ington and which we were to drum for. He hitched two pairs of horses to it and we formed in front. There were present Charles Cass, Harry Buckingham, Roy Burch, and Clyde Miller, (Fifers;) Henry Buckingham, and Herman Gessert, (Bass Drummers) Irving Miller, Charles Hotchkiss, George Cass, George Atkinson, George Somers, Howard Neal and myself (Snare Drummers) We marched from Marion through Mill Dale to the Fairground. The road was very dusty and the weather hot. We played nearly all of the way. The ground is located on the East side of the main road nearly one mile North of the bridge over the Quinnapiac River at Mill Dale. We marched onto the Fairground playing the "Russian March." We seemed to attract a great deal of attention, and after reaching our place, were met by the officers of the association who invited us to refreshments, which proved to be soda water, Chockolet, Black- berry, Sweet Cider etc. etc. after which we did as we pleased till noon when we were given our dinner, which consisted of boiled oysters, roast beef, pork steak, etc. They had fine exhibits of cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, fruit, vegetables, etc. also good horse racing and cattle drawing. We left the Fairground for home after 4 o'clock and reached Marion before 6 and left for home about 8 o'clock. 9\04\1900 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Laurence Tobin and I worked till seven straightening up a shaft cuplin {??} in Mr. Byers' room. 9\05\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Laurence Tobin, James Byrnes, James Cahill, Fritz Snoman, and I worked till eight o'clock, raising up a spur gear on the waterwheel shaft, which had slipped down. 9\06\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving told me tonight that Father is better and sat up to day, and that Ervis Wright is sick with the typhoid fever {feaver??}. This evening Irving, Pierpont, and I went to the Chapel and began taking the furnace apart in order to repair the pit that it sits in. 9\07\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Irving, Clyde, and I went to the Chapel and worked taking the furnace out of the pit in the cellar. 9\08\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I stopped and saw Father who is getting along much better. 9\09\{1900} Sunday Rev. Dr. Rooland preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 9\10\1900 Monday Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met this evening and voted in Roy a member. 9\11\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 9\12\1900 Wednesday Worked at the facotyr to day painting skylights on the roof some of the time. At about 11 o'clock the wind began to blow for the first time in many days, and increased in violence until it had blown off many of the leaves as well as most of the apples, peaches, and other fruit, it blew down a large apple tree in Father's yard. The Mill Plain Chapel gave a peach festival this evening which was well attended. The Orchestra of the Second Church furnished music which was much enjoyed. Clyde and I went to see Mr. Kelsey about Austin Pierpont's account. 9\13\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Mary and I went to the Grange to night. 9\14\{1900} Friday I worked to day at the factory of Rogers & Brothers till 5:30 o'clock when I drove up to the Mill Plain Chapel and put up a shutter that the wind blew off from the Shannon memorial window last Wednesday. Sam Samuelson came and I made arrangements with him to fix the pit that the furnace sits in in the cellar. We then came home and ate supper of succotash after which Clyde, Irving and I worked on the new blacksmith shop till near 9 o'clock. 9\15\{1900} Saturday Worked to day at the factory, we put in place a large plating tub that was brought from Rogers & Hamilton's factory. When I came home I found Clyde and brother Frank cutting up the old apple tree that blew down at Father's. I stopped and helped run the crosscut saw to saw off the stump. We then came home and after supper worked on the blacksmith shop till about 9 o'clock. 9\16\1900 Sunday Got up at 6:30 o'clock and looked over my old account against A.B. Pierpont, which I have to make out for the receiver Mr. Kellogg. Then did the chores about the barn etc. till breakfast time, ate breakfast which consisted of stewed oysters, after which I tinkered up a little wagon for Pierpont and read till it was time to get ready for the Chapel, when Spenser Monroe called and wished I would help him get work as he is out of a job. I told him I would do what I could, I then went to the Chapel, got there in time to hear part of the sermon which was preached by Mr. Bassett of the Farm Street Methodist Church. After we got home, Clyde, Irving, Adolphus Grecter and myself started out to look at the Southington reservoir. We met Sidney Spender up by the Doolittle place and he went with us, we found the water very low but everything in good order, we also visited the old Upson burying ground in the South East part of the town of Woldcott, we then went to Arthur Merriman's to get a drink of sweet cider, but he had not made any yet so we came home, from the top of the mountain near Ed Holmes' place we saw a building burning on the hills far across the valley to the North East. I think near Kensington. It was quite dark when we got home, the boys rode their wheels and I went Horse-back. 9\17\1900 Monday I worked to day in the factory as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band met and practiced to night. The fire that we saw yesterday from the Southington mountain proved to be the barn at Miss Porter's School for Young Ladies in Farmington Center which was burned together with 75 tons of hay and farming tools. The barn was 40x80 feet with a cow shed 24x49 feet; it caught fire by spontaneous combustion in a large bin of oats. 9\18\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day at the factory moving the acid house to make room for the new addition which they began building onto the machine burnishing room. 9\19\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Last night at about 9:30 the fire alarm blew and this morning I learned that two houses situated on the South corner of South Main and West Clay streets were burned. 9\20\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The government census bureau announ- ced that the population of the Town and City of Waterbury is 51,142. 9\21\1900 Friday Worked to day in the factory as usual. 9\22\{1900} Saturday Worked to day at the factory. 9\23\{1900} Sunday Stayed about home all day except a while this afternoon. I went to the Chapel and heard Mr. Parry preach. This evening I wrote a letter to Fred who is in Detroit. 9\24\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice this evening. 9\25\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Father went to work to day, but came home at 4 o'clock and had a touch of the chills and fever {feaver??}. Clara French is home sick with the chills and fever {feaver??}. Mary and Raymond went to the City this afternoon and paid to Mr. Camp who is agent for Mrs. Munger 30.00 interest money. She then went to Mr. Kelsey's and gave the girl who was there her and my accounts with Austin Pierpont. She then went and saw her sister Nellie who she found sick in bed and very weak suffering from an operatioon which was performed at the Hospital several weeks ago. 9\26\1900 Wednesday I worked to day at the factory putting up a plank work to hold a wall of earth under the acid houses. To day is my birthday. I was born in 1858 and am 42 years old. I received my pay to day which amounted to 13.50. Mr. William Frey died at the Hospital last night, he has lived in this neigh- borhood all his life, he is I think about 42 years old. 9\27\1900 Thursday Worked to day in the factory as usual. The weather is very warm and the streams are low and springs, wells, etc. are drying up. Henry Buckingham is moving from the little house opposite the spoon shop to the house on the East corner of East Main and Niagra Streets. This morning I took eighty dollars which Mrs. Annie Munson sent to me night before last to Morris Alcott and he paid it to Mr. Woodruff for painting the Chapel. 9\28\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. I find that I lost my reckoning for the past five days by calling the 22nd the 23rd but I have marked the figures over which brings my birthday to the 26th when it should have been the 27th. Mother is down very sick again. Father had a chill this afternoon and came home from the shop at 4 o'clock. Cara is also sick. This morning Mary and I were awaken- ed by some one groaning and the voices of men over on the Southmaid Road. Today we learned that Mr. Hennisy came home at about two o'clock, and found an Italian in his house under the table. He had a fight with him and threw him out of the door, the dog then tackelled {??} him and chewed him considerable, then they dragged him down to the Mattatuck Shop and threatened to hang him to the beam over the gate and one of them went in after a rope but instead of getting it he telephoned for the police, who soon came and took him to the lockup. This morning he was tried and sent to the New Haven jail for 10 months. 9\29\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual, this evening we worked on the blacksmith shop. 9\30\{1900} Sunday The Rev. Dr. Anderson preached at the Chapel this afternoon, after Chapel Mary and Margaret went over to West Side Hill and saw Mary's sister Nellie Conner who is sick. Pierpont, Raymond, and i went out on Southington mountain and saw Mr. Samuelson, we then went to Mr. H.H. Garrigus' house and saw him about putting a bill before the next General Assembly so that the inhabitants of the town of Waterbury may have the same privileges that the people of the rest of the state enjoy. 10\01\1900 Monday Worked in the factory to day. This is town election, the candidates for Selectmen are John B. Doherty and George Boughton, Republican; Mortimer Doran and Mr. Disley Democrat; only a few from our shop voted and I think the ballot will be light. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for prac- tice this evening, we marched around the {Sentence left unfinished??} 10\02\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Mortimer Doron, Democrat, was elected First Selectman and Mr. Disley second, nearly all of the town officers elected were democrats. Yesterday morning Hiram Able left $45.00 when he went by to work for me to take to the shop and give to Morris Alcott to pay for the concrete walk at the Chapel, I gave it to Mr. Alcott as requested. 10\03\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 10\04\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I attended the grange, it is a splendid moonlight evening. 10\05\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. Father did not work to day or yesterday as he is feeling very weak. Mother is quite sick with the chills and fever {feaver??}. Tonight when I came home from work I stopped at Father's and he told me that Mr. Upson saw him to day and told him that he need not work any more only to look after things about the building and dam and to stay about the factory holidays and Sundays, and that the Waterbu- ry Brass Company would pay him $8.00 per week. 10\06\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Came home at 4:30. Clyde helped Mary move from the house corner of Cassett and Walnut Streets to a house on Coe Street. Mother is sick in bed to day with chills and fever {feaver??}. 10\07\{1900} Sunday This forenoon I went out to Sam Samuelson's to see when he is coming to do the work at the Chapel. Came home and after getting some lunch I went to the Chapel and heard Rev. Mr. Perry preach, after which I came home, and carried Mary out to her Mother's at East Farms and I went out to see Morris Bergher at Prospect. 10\08\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. Ida Baxter died to day with the typhoid fever {feaver??}, this has happened on her 17th birthday. 10\09\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day as usual. It has rained all day {rest of the sentence is illegible??} have filled a little. It is said that the Wolcott Fair which was to have been held tomorrow is to be postponed on account of the rain. A Polander boy who worked at the shop caught his hand in a pair of gears nad had 4 fingers cut off. Ida Baxter is to be buried from the Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. 10\10\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day, it has rained more or less all day which has filled the river up so we have all the water we need to run with at the shop. The Wolcott Fair was to have been held to day but was put off on account of the weather. Ida Baxter was buried from the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Clyde began his duties at the Chapel as janitor this day by opening it for the funeral. I received my pay at the shop to day for last week's work, it amounted to 13.50. 10\11\1900 Thursday I worked to day as usual in the shop. The weather has been fair and cool, and the Wolcott Fair has been held, it is said to have been the largest and best fair ever held in Wolcott. Of my family Pierpont and Irving were all that attended. Miss Gergrude U. Bradley returned from Europe night before last. 10\12\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This fore- noon I left the shop and went to town at 10 o'clock, saw Dr. Danoline{??} about the MIll Plain School, then went and saw attorney James Russell chjairman of the town board of education and left Irving's bill of tuition then went and saw Porter Woods about the consolidation of the town and city government, also met Mr. Carnes, the city engineer. He was surveying at the corner of South Main and Grand Streets where they are repairing the stone culvert. 10\13\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory this day. We had a car load of box stuff come which took us all day to unload, and we had to stay til near six o'clock to night. 10\14\{1900} Sunday Dr. Rooland preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\15\1900 Monday Worked at the factory to day. Mother has been up to day from her bed, Father has been in bed all day and is very weak. This evening I went to the City Hall and attended the joint meeting of the Selectmen and the town board of school visitors, among the business trans- acted was the matter of tuition of scholars in the high school, the board thought it a great injustice, but claimed that they could take no action in regard to the matter. 10\16\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day as usual in the factory. Sam Samuelson worked to day on the pit at the Chapel, he began yesterday. 10\17\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This morning there was a severe frost, the first we have had this fall. 10\18\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mary and I attended the Grange this evening. Mother Pierpont was elected Pomona{??} for the remainder of the year to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation fo Mrs. Eddy who has moved to Greenfield, Ohio. 10\19\1900 Friday Worked this day at the factory. 10\20\1900 Saturday Worked to day at the factory. 10\21\{1900} Sunday Worked to day at the factory from 9 to 2 o'clock. The cause of it was that we had to change some pulleys on the shafts and piece a large belt which we could not do when the power was running. Rev. Mr. Hannon preached at the Chapel. 10\22\{1900} Monday Worked to day at the factory. 10\23\{1900} Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. The weather has been very warm. 10\24\1900 Wednesday Worked at the factory, have been very busy, on account of the big load that has been added to the engines and water- wheel, there is 175 horse power pulling on the large engine, 35 horse power on the waterwheel and 40 on the little engine that runs the dynamos and this increased load causes the belts to brake and slip. I learned to day that Austin B. Pierpont has been discharged from bankruptcy. 10\25\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Heard to day that six writs of attachment has been served on Austin B. Pierpont, Arthur Pierpont and Lucy Pierpont, in all amount- ing to 22,000, by the creditors of Austin. Mary and I went to the Grange this evening, the Grange voted to have the executive committee see Wme.{??} Faber who is Trustee and have him make over the papers and deeds to the Board of Trustees which was appointed some time ago. 10\26\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual in the factory. This evening I went to the City Hall and attended the meeting of the Town Board of School Visitors. The people of the Oronoke school district were there in two factions, those from the "North end" and those from the "South end," they have failed to provide suitable accoma- dations for the scholars, and the Town Board has cut off their appropriation of public money which amounts to 20.00 a week. I brought before the Board the matter of having to pay $10,00 per term for each of my boys in the high school, and they assured me that they would have the matter brought before the Legislature. 10\31\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day as I have every working day since last Friday, have been very busy and at night tired and sleepy, and up late together with poor health have kept me from making my usual entry in this book at night. Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel last Sunday. Last night I went to a Republican rally at Polis Theater, Mr. Bruce and Samuel J. Fessenden spoke to a large audience. 11\01\1900 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. I received a telephone message from Rathbun of Hartford stating that the sound foney association of Hartford wished the Mattatuck Drum Corps to play in the parade to be given in that city next Saturday, but as our letter heads read that we had 21 men when in reality we only have 16, he did not know about hiring us until he had consulted the rest of the Committee. He said he would telephone later, as he did not telephone, I went to the Mattatuck shop this evening and called him up nad he told me that he had written me to the effect that we were engaged at our own terms i.e. 18.00 and expenses that we are to go on the train that brings the Torrington League and pay our own car fare which will be 1.08 and also pay for our own dinner which we are to have in New Britain, we are to play for the Harford Current at the head of a procession of about 100 men, and the Honorable Joseph Hawley will follow us in his automo- bile, and to present them our bill after the parade is over and they will pay it. I immediatedly sent Clyde down town to notify the boys there, and George Cass and I went to Marion to get a Bass Drum and to notify Charley Cass that there would be a meeting of the Drum Band tomorrow night. I am going to bed at 11:30. 11\02\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met and made ready to go to Hartford tomorrow. We had a lot of hard work to keep everybody good-natured and make the clothes fit. Herman Gessert did not bring his pants and I had to go to his house and get them which makes it 11:30 bed time. 11\03\{1900} Saturday Got up this morning at 4 o'clock and Clyde and I went to the spoon shop, and we oiled up the shaft bearings which took over an hour, we then came home and ate our breakfast and got into our uniforms and started for Spenser's Feed Store where we were to meet at eight o'clock, all were on time and we marched down East Main Street through Bank and Grand Streets to the depot, where we waited nearly an hour when we were put into a passenger car which was hitched onto the Torrington train when it came and we started for Hartford with 13 cars, we did not stop till we reached New Britain and there we waited quite a spell and we got out and strode about the place and looked at the new soldier's mon- ument, after which we went back to our trian where they brought us hot coffee and sandwiches, at 11:45 we started for hartford, we got out at the Asylum Street Station and went immediately to the Current's office on State Street where we were obliged to wait about an hour and while we waited we went and looked at the steam fire propeller, and also at the Connecticut River, we soon started and formed in the line and marched I should judge about 7 miles, there were 16,000 men in the parade and 50 bands and 50 Drum Corps. After the parade we went to the train and each had a bag of lunch given him and hot coffee, we reached Waterbury at 6:30 and marched to Henry Gessert's taylor rooms on Bank Street where we broke ranks and payed each of the boys their expenses, but kept the remainder till Monday night. The names of those who went were Charles Cass, David Wall, Clifford Keaton, Clyde Miller, harry Buckingham, and Roy Birch, fifers, Bury Young, George Somers, and Herman Gessert, Bass Drummers, Irving Miller, George Atkinson, George Cass, Howard Neal, Charles Hotchkiss, and myself, Snare Drummers. 11\04\1900 Sunday Stayed home till about 3 o'clock, Frank came after me as Father's horse was sick. I went down and found him all right, but Mother is much worse and Father no better. Ira wanted us to get together and decide on some plan for to help the old folks along so Will Gillette went and got Mary Jenner and we decided to change doctors. Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 11\05\1900 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting at which David Wall was voted in a member. 11\06\1900 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This has been Election day, the factory shut down from 12 to 2 so as to give the men a chance to go and vote. I left the shop at 1 and got back at 2 o'clock, after I had voted for McKinley for President of the United States and McLean for Governor of Conn. both candidates on the Republican ticket. 11\07\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Dr. B. Art. Ward moved from his house opposite M. Tuckers to town to day. The returns fo yesterday's election show that William McKinley is elected President and Theodore Roosevelt Vice President of the United States and that George P. McLean of Simsbury is elected Governor of Conn. Edward O. Keeler is elected Lieutenant Governor. Willie Garrigus and Fannie Hitchcock are married this evening at the bride's home on the Meriden Road, I suppose, as they were to be. 11\08\1900 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. There is a great scarcity of water I never knew so little water in Mad River. The City is repairing up the old pump station on the Plank Road and expect soon to pump the water from the river into the City water pipes. 11\09\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The first snow of the season fell to day. it has fell at intervals during the whole day and at times the ground was covered so as to be all white. Mary went to Ansonia to visit cous- in Emma Drew. 11\10\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and I went to the Chapel and put in the cold air pipe to the furnace. 11\11\{1900} Sunday This day has been rather cold and damp. The Rev. {illegible??} preached at the Chapel to day {illegible??} minister from {illegible??} church. This evening Margaret and I went to Bucks Hill and saw William Faber and family. 11\12\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory. there was a large parade in Bridgeport to day 20,000 men in lne, it being the 100 anniversary of the organization of the town, Mattatuck Drum Band met to night for practice. 11\13\{1900} Tuesday Worked to day at factory. There was a school meeting at the Saw Mill Plains school house this evening at which I attended. They voted to have the Committee Clerk, and Treasurer look up the matter of consolidation with the other committees of the town, Mr. Hitch- cock resigned and wished me to act for him. 11\14\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day as usual. This evening we put down the oilcloth in the sittingroom and put up the stove. 11\15\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening a party from Mill Plain which included myself and wife went to Waterville on the trolley cars and attended the fair given by St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Miss Olive Able went to work at Scoville last Monday 11\16\{1900} Friday Worked at the factoyr to day as usual. This evening Albert Spender and I went to the Selectmen's office and saw Mr. Doran about consolidation and also about paying tuition matters, he said he would be obliged to see the Town attorney. 11\17\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory to day, got through work at 4:30 and came home stopping on the way to see Father and Mother who are sick with the malaria. After I got home the boys and I worked building a forge in the blacksmith shop but did not complete it. 11\18\{1900} Sunday This morning I got up at 7 o'clock and went to work at the shop putting in an iron drip tub in the plating room. Laurence Tobin and I worked at it till 9 o'clock when we had it finished, after which I came home and rested till noon, after which I got ready and went to the Chapel and heard Rev. Mr. Hannon preach, theirewas a fair attendance. The weather to day has been very nice, and many people were out. Willie Garrigus and his bride were to the Chapel, they returned from their wedding trip to New Jersey last Thursday. 11\19\{1900} Monday Worked to day as usual. Father had a severe chill yesterday and Will Gillette went and told Frank and he and Rolland Jenner got Dr. Rabbinis to attend him. Father likes him very much. The fifers of the Mattatuck Drum Corps met here for practice this evening. It is now raining and it is much needed as the streams are very low. 11\20\{1900} Tuesday Worked at factory to day. Went to Brass Mill and got Father's pay for him which I left with him to night when I came home from shop. He had a chill to day. This evening I went to Mr. Mark Pond's house and there met Mr. Frank Hoggett and Warren Hitchcock, and arranged to see the committee of the several school districts of the town in regard to consolidating the City and Town Governments; came home and wrote a letter to mr. William Milton and it is now 12 o'clock. 11\21\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Dr. Parry of the Grand St. Baptist Church gave a lecture in the Mill Plain Chape, Subject the Laughable Side of Life. I and every member of my family attended. 11\22\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange, Mr. William Faber was there. 11\23\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Warren Hitchcock, B.F. Hoggett and myself drove over to Oronoke district to see Mr. William Johnson the School Committee in regard to consolidating the Town and City governments. He was not at home but his wife told me that we would find him in Watts Saloon. We then went and saw Mr. Rasmussin, Committee of the Town Plot district but he was in bed, we then came to the center and found Mr. Johnson in Watts' Saloon on South Main Street playing cards. He told us that he would call a meeting of the voters of the district and would also make out a list of the School expenses for the last 5 years and give it to me. 11\24\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde and I went and saw Mr. Rassmussin at Town Plot. He said his district is much opposed to consolidation and he has called a school meeting to be held next Satur- day evening. 11\25\{1900} Sunday The weather is cold and went, Pierpont and I went to Marion this forenoon to tell Charlie Cass that the Mattatuck Drum Corps was to turn out tomorrow night, it was after three o'clock when we got home so I did not go to the Chapel, but the rest of the family went. Mary and I went down to sister Mary Jenner's and there met Frank and Gussy, his wife. We agreed to pay the hired woman 7.50 her wages due, and to divide the sum among us, Frank, Fred, Mary, Iva, and myself, to pay. I wrote to Fred in Detroit and told him of it. Rev. Mr. Holden preached at Chapel. 11\26\{1900} Monday Worked at factory to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps played for Wodham's Post G.A.R. to advertise an entertainment that they gave in the City Hall, it was a lecture "The Battle of Gettysburgh" and was illustrated by maps and views on canvas reflected by a calcium light. Bought 1 ton of coal to day of F.J. Wood for which we paid 6.75. Mary received a lot of stationary from the Waturbury American and commenced corresponding for the paper tonight under the head of Mill Plain. 11\27\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory. Went to bed early. 11\28\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Warren Hitchcock and myself drove to Waterville and saw Mr. Edward's and Mr. Wolf who are Committees of the Waterville School district about opposing consolidation of the Waterbury town and City governments. They said that they would call a school meeting and get the opinions of the people. 11\29\{1900} Thursday This day is Thanksgiving and there is no work. This morning I was ready at 9 o'clock when Warren Hitchcock came and we drove to Simonsville to see Mr. Whightman the Committee of the School there, but he was not at home, we then went to South Brooklyn and saw Mr. Green, the committee of that district, he said that he would call a meeting, but thought that they would favor consolidation. We then went and saw Mr. Wills com- mittee of Bunker Hill district, he too said he would call a school meeting and that they were very much opposed to consolidation. We then drove to the center where I left Warren and he came home while I went to Uncle Joseph Somers' house on East Clay Street where were assembled Father, Mother, Uncles, Aunts, and cousins, to the number of fourty-nine and we ate Thanksgiving dinner, after which I walked to Simonsville and saw Mr. Whightman and he told me that he had a petition handed him this morning to call a school meeting, and that the people of Simonsville are much opposed to consolidation. I then returned to Uncle Joe's where we had ice cream in the evening, and listened to brother Frank's gramophone. We then went to Uncle Goldsmith's at the East end of Clay Street and saw a lot of Chinese and other foreign money, and many curiosities from China, Japan, the Phillipine Islands and other places that he had sent home, he is at present in the engine department of the United States Transport Meade which left San Francisco for China a short time ago, this will make his second trip to China. We then came home. Clyde and Irving walked and the rest of us rode in the two-seated wagon. Mrs. John Frey of Mill Plain died last night aged 68 years. This ends the entering of records in this book which is the third one I have filled. [[end of Journal Book]] [[new journal starts here: November 30, 1900 to April 21, 1902 Charles S. Miller Waterbury, Conn. Mill Plain District]] 11\30\1900 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning Constible Rametti came to the factory and sommonsed me to appear at the court of Common pleas (criminal side) to be held in New Haven next Monday {monday} morning at 10 o'clock, This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. Yesterday was Thanksgiving. 12\01\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I saw Town Clerk Brett about drafting a bill to be brought before the incoming Legislator {{illegible word}} Waterbury on an equal footing with the other towns of the state, He said that he would do all that he could about the matter, and soon he brought Mr. Gilfoil the newly elected Democratic Representative, who wishes me to call at his office, I then went and saw George Driggs at his home on West Main Street . He is Secretary and Treasurer of the American Pin Co. of Waterville and he told me many things about con- solidation that will be useful to me before this campaign {campaigne} is over. I then went to my team which was hitched by the North side of the green and there met Mary and Margaret who had been to hear Pro Russell read at St. Margaret's school and then we came home. I remember it, an anniversary of something.-M.H. 12\02\1900 Sunday We attended divine service at the Chapel this afternoon which was well filled. Rev. Mr. Perry preached, taking for his subject "The girl in the home". In the evening I called on William Purdy, Miles Payne, and Gilbert Hatchkiss on East Mountain. 12\03\{1900} Monday This morning I got up at 4 o'clock and Clyde and I went to Rogers and Brothers factory and oiled up the shafting. We then came home and I ate breakfast and got ready and took the 8, 12 train for New Haven where I arrived in due time and reported at the Court {Cort} House where I stood with the rest of the jurors but as 4 prisoners pleaded Guilty and another was sick, and for other reasons still other cases could not be heard Judge Stdley excused us till 10 o'clock next Monday morning. I then took a walk out Orange street and East Rock to the Soldiers Monument which I ascended by 106 steps which wound round a center column in a spiral form. After I came down I took the trolley cars back to the green after which I ate dinner and then went to the historical rooms at 144 Grove Street, where I looked at the old curious things after which I walked to the depot where I took the cars home. 12\04\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 12\05\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day This evening Warren Hitchcock, B. F. Hoggett and myself went to Wolcott and heard Sec. Hine of the state board of education speak on public libraries. The meeting was held in the church at the center. 12\06\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went and saw Mr. Frank Gilfoil the newly elected representative to the General Court, and made arrangements to have the law amended {amenden} regarding the tuition of scholars in the outlying districts who attend the high school in the City of Waterbury. He seems very glad to take the matter up. I then attended the town meeting at which it was voted to divide the Oronoke school distrcit according to the report of a committee which had been appointed for that purpose. They also voted to call the south end Oronoke district and the North end Park Road district Number 11. Meeting then ajourned. I then went to Simonsville and saw Mr. Webster who keeps a drug store there and who I had heard was working against paying his tuition for his boy, but he was not as earnest as I had hoped. 12\07\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day, this evening I attended the school meeting at the East Farm school house where they appointed a committee consisting of George Benham, Sidney P. Bronson, and Arthur J. Pierpont, to meet with the committe appointed by the districts to oppose consolidation. Mary went to the Grange fair which was held last night and to night. 12\08\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. The boys went and chopped wood at James Porter's woods at East Farms for the first time to day. 12\09\1900 Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis, assistant minister of St. John's episcopal church preached at Mill Plain Chapel to day. The boy choir of the same church did the singing. The attendance was the largest I ever saw at the Chapel at a regular meeting. The weather is very cold tonight. 12\10\{1900} Monday The weather to day is cold, thermometer stood 3 degrees above zero this morning. Clyde and I got up at 4 this morning and we went down to the spoon shop and oiled up the shafting after which we came home and ate breakfast, and then I started for New Haven. Pierpont carried me in the spindle buggy to the trolley cars at Silver street and then I rode to Nauga- tuck on them for which I paid 10 cents then I took the steam cars to New Haven for which I paid 75 cents. I met on the cars Mr. Samuel Wilson of Wolcott who was to serve on the jury also. We went to the county court house and had to wait till noon when they called us up into the court room and discharged us as there was no case to be tried. Judge Studley of the court sent us to the clerk and he paid us off. I received 12.96 for mileage {milege} , and wages, for two Mondays. Mr. Wilson and I went to the First nations Bank and got our checks cashed, and then went to Childs restaurant {restaurent} and had dinner for which I paid 25 cts. We then went to the Conn experiment station where we stayed till 4 o'clock when we took the trolley cars back to the center and I rode out to Brtanford on the new trolley road which is just completed. Came back on the next car and it was dark and cold. Took the 7.50 train home which I reached at 9.40 o'clock. 12\11\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The weather this morning was very cold. 12\12\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 12\13\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange, it being the election of offciers the following were elected. Harry Coe Master, Warren Hitchcock Overseer, Girtrude W Bradley Lecturer, Adelbert Hitchcock Steward, Charles Hotchkiss Assistant Steward, Wilson L. Pierpont Chaplain {Chaplin}, John Todd Treasurer Anna Hall Secretary, Lewis Hitchcock Gatekeeper. Mrs. Mary Pierpont {{Pamona??}} Mrs. John Todd {{Ceries??}}, Mrs. Thomas Fairclough {{Flora??}}, Edith Pierpont Lady assistant Steward. B. F. Hoggett executive committee. 12\14\{1900} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and I made two pots of saurkraut {saurcraut}, then the boys and Margaret and Ruth went to Frosts pond skating. 12\15\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 12\16\{1900} Sunday This morning Pierpont and I drove to Wolcott to Mr. H. A. {{Narton's??}} to see if we could buy a hog, but he had none. We then went to Charles {{Minars??}} one mile North of the center but he had none and did not know of any. Then came home. This afternoon went to the Chapel which was largely attended. Rev. Mr. Wrimner of Simonsville preached. 12\17\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather to day was has been very cold. 12\18\{1900} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Last Satursay yhe Mail carrier for the first rural distrcit in this part of the State began his duties. His route is out the plank road to the pump station then up the river road to the Southmaid road by the Mattatuck shop then over the Southmaid road to the Woodtick road to the Stilson road which he travels to the Pritchard road, then back to the Mad River at the twin bridges and up the Woodtick road to the Merritt Seat place, back to twin bridges and down the Doolittle road to our corner, then out Cheshire road to East farms schoolhouse, up to Meriden road, out Meriden road to the road that goes to Woodtick over which he passes, and at Woodtick West to the West Wolcott road and down to Mark {{Warriers??}} corner and back up to Browns corner, west over Chestnut hill to Bucks hill School house and down through Piersollville to the center of Woodbury. 12\19\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 12\20\{1900} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 12\21\{1900} Friday Worked as usual. This evening I went to the Chapel and worked with others in trimming it with evergreens for Christmas. 12\22\{1900} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended the meeting of the Committee of the School districts of the town at the City court room in the City hall to take measures to oppose consolidation. 12\23\{1900} Sunday Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel and the orchestra of the second church Sunday School furnished the music for the singing. The Chapel had more people in it than ever before at a preaching service; there were more than 200 present. 12\24\{1900} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The making and polishing and trimming rooms were shut down for their vacation. They paid off this afternoon and I received 13.50 for last week's work. This evening the boys and I went to the Chapel and prepared it for Christmas. 12\25\1900 Tuesday This day is Christmas. The first thing the boys and I did after they had enjoyed their presents was to work shingling the blacksmith shop partly after which we went up in Mrs. Frost's lot and got a Christmas tree and took it to the Chapel and set it up. We then came home and went to Father's where all of my brothers and sisters were met with their children to eat Christmas dinner, after which in the evening they had a Christmas tree and many presents were given. We also enjoyed some nice music and Fred sang sveral selections. He and Addie came from Detroit to spend Christmas here. 12\26\{1900} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon I left the shop and went to town and bought a present after which I came home and went to the Chapel and helped trim it up. At 7:30 the Christmas exercises opened with readings, recitations, singing, etc., after which the presents were given out to the scholars of the Sunday School {sundayschool} by Santa Claus {cloths} The Christmas tree looked very nice when lit up with little wax candles and trimmed with shiny balls and {{brade??}} 12\27\1900 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Grange had a Christmas tree this evening, and there was a large number present. Mary and the children attended but I stayed home and went to bed. 12\28\{1900} Friday Worked to day as usual. This evening I went to see Mr. Gilfoil about bringing a bill regarding tuition before the General assembly. He thought that it was unnecessary as the revised City charter would cover it. I then went to Bunker Hill and saw Mr. Wells about it; found him at the Chapel there where they were having a Christmas tree and exercises. He thinks consolidation will be fought to the end. I then took a trolley car home. 12\29\1900 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting and brother Fred was present and gave an exhibition of fire drumming. He is the best drummer that I know of. 12\30\{1900} Sunday Rev. Dr. Anderson preached at the Chapel to day. 12\31\{1900} Monday This is the last day of the nineteenth century. I worked at the factory as usual. This evening Clyde, Irving, Mary, and I went out to Jacob Henry Garrigris' and witnessed the marriage of their daughter Bessie to Arthur Joseph Pierpont. The ceremony was performed in the parlor by the Rev. Dr. Davenport of the second congregational church at 8:30 o'clock. Mortimer Pierpont and Jessie Garrigris acted as best man and brides maid. There were about sixty five guests present. They received many presents which included 2 clocks, 2 stands, an easy chair, spoons, ladles, trays, pictures, pillows {pilows}, holders, and many other things. Several who were there went to Waterbury center to see this century out, and the new one begin. There is to be lit on the green 36 electric arc lights, the band is to play and also the chimes and other exercises are to take place. Arthur and Bessie are going to leave at 11 o'clock for Meriden where they intend to take the express train for Boston and are to return Wednesday. Mrs. John Alexander died yesterday afternoon aged 84 years. [[end of 1900 entries]] [[CSM 1901 entries]] 1901 Twentieth Century 01\01\{1901} {Tuesday} This day was issued in by the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon. displays of fireworks, music, the shouting of men, and a grand illumination of the green by electricity. There was watch meetings in the Methodist and St. John's Episcopal churches, which ended at 12 o'clock and which was attended by an immense throng of people. Service also opened at midnight in the church of the immaculate conception and other catholic churches. This has been a general holiday. The stores, banks, and businesses Generally has been suspended. I did not work at factory. 01\02\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual; received my pay at the usual time this afternoon. Mrs. Jane Welton, half sister of David Porter, died at Mr. Porter's home yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock, aged 82 years. The same afternoon at about 7:30 Mr. Timothy Porter of Stamford aged 75 died. He was half brother of Mrs. Welton. The Ladies union had a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. 01\03\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mr. Charles D. Hine, secretary of the state board of Education, gave a fine lecture which was illustrated by {{calcicum??}} lights views. The subject was cities of Northern Italy, principally Venice. 01\04\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The weather is cold and clear, the travelling excellent. The ice men have cutting. 01\05\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening the Mill Plain Choir met at my house for practice. There were present Morris Alcott, Harnald Lanton, Charles Hotchkiss, Inez Beckswith, George Cass, and Edward Hutchens. The girls that sing did not come. 01\06\1901 Sunday Rev. Mr. Buckley of the Trinity church Preached at the Chapel to day. 01\07\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Yesterday there was a stabbing {{affray??}} on the John D. Johnson's pond down on East Main street. It seems that the boys stole wood of some Italians who live near the pond to build a fire on the ice. The Italians remonstrated, but the boys heeded them not, till the Italians, father and son, tried to drive them away. When the boys set upon the son with their shiny sticks, skates, etc., the father came to help him and a general fight began and the boy drew his knife and stabbed three of the boys and the rest ran, but soon returned and the Italians retired to their house opposite the new Hendrican school. The police soon came and arrested them and they are mow in the lockup. The condition of the boys who were stabbed is: two are in a critical condit- ion and the other is able to be about. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met this evening. 01\08\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The school at Mill Plain opened this morn- ing, with Miss F. May Fatem teacher in the primary room, Miss Daisy Falmage teacher in the middle room and Mrs. Barlow in the highest room. Yesterday Pierpont had a bad accident happen his hand. He was on Frost's pond and slipped and fell just as a boy named {{Greeter??}} came along on a bicycle {bicicle} he put out his hand to push away the wheel when it caught between the chain and sprocket wheel which nearly tore the index finger apart at the first joint. He came home and Mary took him down to Doctor Bartier who did it up. He is now getting along very nicely. Cousin Marion Gillettte of North Goshen was married New Years day to Mr. Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Goshen center. 01\09\1901 Wednesday Worked aat the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to see Mr. Gilfoil but he was in Hartford at the opening of the Legislature {{Legislator}}. I then went to the town clerk's office and saw Mr. Brett about drafting a bill for Mr. Gilfoil to present to the General Assembly. Then I went to Porter Woods' office and got there petitions against consolidating the town and City governments, and came home and directed one send to Warren B. Hitchcock of Mill Plain district, one to George Benham of East Farms district, one to Miles Payne of East Mountain district. 01\10\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening it is very icy and it still rains and freezes as it falls. Mary went to the Grange. 01\11\1901 {Friday} Worked to day as usual at the factory of Rogers & Brother. Everything is coated thick with ice and a little snow fell which has made very good sleighing. Many of the old trees are broken down and many of the small ones have broken branches causes by the great weight of ice. 01\12\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went to the Town Clerk's office and copied records of the present Tucker place at Mill Plain. 01\13\{1901} Sunday This morning I gor up at 8 o'clock and cooked the breakfast of stewews oysters after which Raymond and I drove to William Pritchard's in wolcott. In many places the trees were bent across the road and in some cases it was hard to get through. This afternoon Dr. Parry preached at the Chapel. There was a large attendance. 01\14\1901 Monday Worked to day at the factory. This evening I went and saw Representative {Representive} Gilfoil about bringing the tuition bill before the Legislature {Legislator}. I then attended the meeting of the commit- tees of the outlying districts held in the city court room at City hall to oppose consolidation. The special committee appointed to procure attorneys reported that they could not retain {{Grager??}} of Durby or Warner of Woodbury but that they could get Green Hendrick. Some of the district committees could not engage to vouch for the pay which would amount to $300.00 until they had reported back to their district which would take till next week and it looked as if the thing would fall through till I and our committee, Warren Hitchcock and B.F. Hoggett, gave our personal security for out districts share, and so reported when several other committees agreed to do the same and Mr. Hendrick was engaged. 01\15\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Clyde, Irving, and I went to Mrs. Theodore Munson's and got her cook stove and carried it over to the Chapel and set it up in the place of the one already there. 01\16\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. The Ladies Union of Mill Plain gave a supper and entertainment this evening which was in charge of the young ladies. The supper was good, and the entertainment fine. 01\17\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. The newly elected officers were installed and she is now {{Ceries??}} 01\18\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Harry {{Stilbourne??}} called and we figured up our old accounts and found that I owed him 33.00. I payed him 7.00 leaving a balance of 26.00 now due. There are many cases of the Grippe or influenza about here now as there are all through the Eastern part of the country. 100,000 cases are reported in New York City. 01\19\{1901} Saturday Worked to day in the factory as usual. The weather has been very cold. I went down town to night expecting to attend to some business but it was so cold and windy that I came home as soon as I could. The thermometer stood at 2 degrees below zero when we got home and the wind was blowing hard. 01\20\1901 Sunday Mr. Garrison of the Farm Street church preached at Mill Plain Chapel to day, he is a local preacher. 01\21\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. Queen Victoria is very sick at Orsbourn in the Island of Wight. Her death is expected at any time. 01\22\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the City hall and saw Mr. Brett, the town clerk, about the petition to be brought before the General Assembly. 01\23\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Queen Victoria died last night at 6:30 o'clock at the age of 82 years. Her death was caused, it is thought by many, to be due to worry over the reverses and defeats of the British army in South Africa which the small army of the Boers seem to be beating. I was {{a boating??}} on Jim Porter's swamp. Louis Monroe & Frank Wright & Lena Hespalt ere there. 01\24\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 01\25\1901 Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Wolcott and saw Evelyn Upson who is Representative from that town to the General Assembly to find out how much longer the Legislature will receive new business, and also to talk on consolidation matters. He told me that the time expires the 15th of next month and gave me much other information. 01\26\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening saw Town clerk Brett. Selectman Doran and Representative Frank P. Gilfoil about having a tuition bill drafted. 01\27\{1901} Sunday Henry Nalson Hall was buried to day. He died June 17th at Manilla, Philipine {Fillipine} Islands of malaria fever. He belonged to Co. L. 21, United States Infantry. Had previously served in the 9th infantry against the Indians in Calefornia, Arazona, and New- Mexico; also in the late Spanish war and was at the charge on San Juan hill July 2nd, 1898. When he died they buried him at Manilla and since cold weather the Government {{disintered??}} the remains of three hundred soldiers including Hall and brought them to San Francisco on the transport Grant, and Hall's remains were {was} sent home which they reached last Wednesday afternoon and were taken in charge of by undertaker Wake. The funeral was held from the under- taking rooms of the Boston furniture Company this afternoon and was attended by Companies A and G, C.N.G., and a great concourse of people. They marched with the funeral train to the Mill Plain Chapel which was filled to overflowing and many had to stand outside, while the cemetary hill was covered with people. Dr. Davenport preached the funeral sermon and the choir sang three very appropriate hymns. After the service the funeral formed in front of the Chapel. First a military guard of 16 men commanded by a Seargent bearing rifles on their shoul- ders, then the hearse, and six infantry men pall bearers. Three walked on each side of the hearse, then came the hacks and carriages carrying relatives and friends and then {{obay??}} 100 soldiers without arms marched two and two. At the grave the military men formed in a circle enclosing the grave, the mourn- ers standing within the circle. After the remarks and prayers by the minister, three {{vellies??}} were fixed by the guard over the grave and the bugler played the "taps" which ended the funeral service. The remains were enclosed in a heavy oak casket which was in a heavy box made of 1 1/2 " fine plank bound with band iron. On the end of the box was marked Henry N. Hall. Co. L. 21st U.S. Inf. on a card which was pasted on was the following Manilla P.I. Nov. 19th, 1900 I certify that Henry N. Hall, Late. Sergt. of Co. L. 21 Inf. U.S.A. died of Malarial fever at Manilla on June 18th, 1900, and that his remains have been placed in a proper hermetically sealed casket, and that their removal will not endanger public health. Charles Syrech Capt. Ass't. Surgeon U.S.A. For Board of Health. Henry N. Hall was son of the late Nelson Hall. 01\28\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory. This evening the pipes of the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. 01\29\1900 Tuesday Worked to day. This evening I went to town and saw Mr. Gilfoil about presenting my tuition bill before the Legislature. He says that he will present it tomorroe. 01\30\{1900} Wednesday Worked to day. 01\31\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Saw by this evening's paper that Mr. Gilfoil presented my tuition bill before the General Assembly. 02\01\{1901} Friday Worked as usual to day. 02\02\{1901} Saturday Worked as usual to day. This evening Mary and I went to town. I went to the town clerk's office and looked up some old records and then saw the Selectman. Queen Victoria of England is buried this day. 02\03\1901 Sunday This forenoon Clyde Irving, Pierpont and I went to the Chapel and swept it out, built fire, and got it ready for service this afternoon. Then Pierpont and I went upon the North end of Long hill to see where the district line between the City of Waterbury and the Bucks hill district runs. When we got home it was too late for Chapel service so I lay down and had a nap. Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Chapel. 02\04\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. It has snowed most of the time to day and there is now about 10 inches on the ground and it is still snowing. George Somers and Roy Birch came to night to attend the Drum Corps meeting but we had no meeting, so we stayed and Clyde made an ax handle and I a vice bench. 02\05\{1901} Tuesday Worked in the factory to day as usual. The weather has been Cold, windy and the air full of snow. 02\06\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 02\07\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 02\08\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather has been very cold for the past three days. Clyde worked this afternoon helping Wilson Pierpont cut ice. It was seventeen inches thick. 02\09\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. The shop closes at 5 o'clock Saturdays and as I work 1/2 hour at noon. I get out at half past four. Irving met me at the shop with the team and I rode home after which we shod the horse. She kicked like fun and Irving and Clyde held her at the nose with a pair of tongs. The choir of the Mill Plain Chapel met here this evening to rehearse the hymns they are to sing to morrow. There were present Mr. Hutchens, Harold Lanton, Charlie Hotchkiss, George Cass, Morris Alcott, Hiram Able, and Frank DeBisop, bass and tenor, Bertha French, Ida Spender, Clara French, Cara Miller, Agness Able, Annie Munson, alto and soprano, and Inez Beckwith organist. 02\10\{1901} Sunday Weather very cold and windy, but the sleighing is good. Rev. Mr. Holden preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. There was a good attendance considering the weather. After supper Margaret and I drove to George Sprague's on East Mountain and saw Miss Jennie about playing at the Chapel next Wednesday evening at the Fair. She said she would come if we sent after her. 02\11\1901 Monday I worked in the spoon manufactory of Rogers & Brothers, on Silver street, to day. This evening Mary, Clyde, Irving, and I went to the Chapel and with others who were there built the booths that are to be used st the fair for the sale of goods. We worked there till ten o'clock. 02\12\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The weather to night is very cold. Mary, Clyde, and Irving went to the Chapel this evening to get it ready for the fair tomorrow evening. Mary and Clyde have now (9 o'clock) got home, but Irving is yet there waiting for Mr. Walker to tune the piano. 02\13\1901 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This has been the coldest day of the winter so far. The wind has blown a gale and the thermometer has stood about zero. This evening the fair at the Mill Plain Chapel opened. I went and got there a little after eight and stayed till after nine when the entertainment was over. When I came home the entertainment consisted of music on the piano by Miss Jennie Sprague and Myrton Judd; Recitations by Pearle Fairchild, a girl by the name of Pullen and a little boy, a dialogue by George Sills and My daughter Margaret, and several songs. 02\14\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been windy and cold though not so bad as yesterday. This evening the orchestra of the Young Men's Christian Association are to furnish the entertainment and Clyde with Father's two-seated wagon and Irving with my two seated wagon and Mr. Warden with his two seated wagon have gone to the Y.M.C.A. building to meet them and bring them out. I intended to go to the fair, but I now think that I will not. 02\15\1901 Friday Worked at the factory to day. The weather is a little warmer, so that it has thawed some. The springs and streams are very low. We have had no rain since christmas and but little since the early part of last summer. This evening Clyde and I set three window panes, one in my room, 14X28", and two in the North West bed room, 14X26". 02\16\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and I chopped wood till supper time, and after sup- per we worked in the shop till nine o'clock. 02\17\{1901} Sunday The weather to day has been nice and warm. The boys and I went to the Chapel this forenoon and got it ready for service. When I was coming home I met Miles Payne who had come to see me about a wood saw arbor. I showed it to him and he took 49 {{??}} of steel stake holders. Father came to see me about Fred and money matters pertaining to his board which is long past due. I got ready to go to the Chapel but it was so late I backed out and stayed at home. This afternoon Clyde, Irving, Pierpont and I went up and looked at the piece of woods that Mr. {{Knapp??}} has beeen cutting off East of Frost's pond, and east of Hiram Able's house. Mary told me that Rev. Mr. Hannan preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This is his last Sunday there as he is soon to move to Brooklyn, N.Y. to take charge of a large church. 02\18\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The dust house got on fire this morning. 02\19\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Weather has been nice and warm. 02\20\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. There was a surprise party given by the young people of Mill Plain on Arthur Pierpont and his wife last evening. There were about 40 present. 02\21\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Mary went to town to day and reinsured my shop for $1000.00 for one year fpr the premium of 27.50 in the agency of J. G. Jones. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. {{Miles??}} Bradly was installed Lecturer. 02\22\{1901} Friday Worked at factory. This is Washington's birthday and is a holiday. The banks, schools, etc., are closed. I raised the flag on the pole upon Rogers and Brothers' office in honor of the day. 02\23\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 02\24\{1901} Sunday This forenoon I went to the factory and worked till 1 o'clock, refraining a clutch and belt on the main shaft. The weather has been cold to day so after I got home I staid there except that Mr. Warden came and got me to go up to Munson's corner to look at his wagon which broke down with him as he was going to the Chapel. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 02\25\1901 Monday Worked to day at the factory. This evening I went out to get signatures on a petition against consolidation of the City and Town governments. Went first to Mr. Mcloy's, then Thomas Mill's, thence to Mr. Andrew's, then to James Porter, then Albert Gillette, then Mr. Tyler, then Paul Hesphelt, then Mr. Hennessey, then Mr. Gillette, then Mr. Barbour, then Mr. Beckwith, then Mr. Anderson, then Lewis and Old John Frey, then Hiram Able, and then home. 02\26\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the facrtory to day. This evening Pierpont and I started out with the petition against Consolidation of the Town and City governments of Waterbury. We went first to Mr. Batchelor's on the plank road then to Mr. Carlson's on the Southmaid road, then to Mr. Atkinson's on the Wood- tick road then to Mr. Sherman's and Mr. W.H. Woodinge opposite the school house then to M. F. Fairchild's, then to Frank Welton's then to H. M. Judd's, then to Edward Baldwin's, then to John Thackerie's, then to H.H. Hulbert's on the Frost road, then to Wm. Atkinson's, then to Albert Spender's, then to J. L. Jones, then to Frederick Reel's and Thomas {{Holms'??}} on the Meriden Road, then home. 02\27\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening is the supper and en- tertainment at the Chapel. It is in charge of the young men, all of my family are there except me. 02\28\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. They had a debate; The subject of which was, Is it right for the United States to take from the Philipinos their Islands. For the Affirmative were Mr. Lewis Garrigus and Senator Garrigus of Indiana, Negative, William Lyler and myself. Time did not permit of my speaking only for a short time. 03\01\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory. At the time of the fire someone did not shut off the main valve of one of the four way hydrants {hidrants} and it froze up. We had to dig down by it and built a little {{fre??}} and throw it out. 03\02\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 03\03\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Parry Preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. There was a good attendance. Mr. Koot of Waterville drilled the choir for the first time last night at Inez Beckwith's. This evening Margaret and I went to Wolcott and saw Evelyn Upson. 03\04\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. I wrote a letter to Attorney Porter Wood, requesting an interview some evening. This day President McKinley is to be inaugurated President of the United States for the next 4 years. 03\05\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The weather this morning was very cold and windy. 03\06\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening all of my family attended the lecture given by Dr. Parry at the Mill Plain Chapel. The subject was Quo Vodis and it was illustrated by {{sterioptican??}} views. The attendance was small owing probably to the cold weather. 03\07\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended the meeting of the committees of the outside school districts at the City hall to prepare to oppose Consolidation of the Town and City governments of Waterbury. The Town has engaged Joe Barbour of Hartford to work in the Legislature. 03\08\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Irving, and I worked in the blacksmith shop till after 9 o'clock. The child of Theodore Munson was buried this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Daven- port officiated. He (the child) was one year old the 16th of February. 03\09\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\10\1901 Sunday Rev. Mr. Bentham of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. His choir of St. Paul's church came with him and joined with the Mill Plain choir which made the singing better than we ever had at an Episcopal service before. They numbered altogether about twenty six singers. 03\11\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. It rained all night and the river was quite high this morning. There was a leak in the embank- ment of the ditch at the shop and Tom Keegan and I with sledge and chistle cut through the frost and repaired it which took till noon, The river rose seven inches between 10 and 12 o'clock. When we returned to the shop the high water had obliged the engineer to take the main belt off from the engine, so the people were sent home. About two o'clock the water began falling and I put the belt back on again and got things ready to start again in the morning. This evening Irving, Clyde, and I made a heavy pair of hinges for the black- smith shop doors. {03\12\1901 Tuesday [no entry]} 03\13\1901 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Our boy Pierpont was taken very sick yesterday and last night he was very sick. Mary staid up with him all night and I was up a part of the time. To day we had Dr. Barber call and see him and he said he had a bad attack of influenza but he thought that he would come out all right. He is much better now but still breathes very hard. 03\14{1901} Thursdayt Worked at the factory to day. Ex President Benjamin Harrison died at 4 o'clock this morning. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 03\15\1901 Friday Worked to day at the factory to day. Mr. George B. Cantor died yesterday aged 54 years. 03\16\{1901} Saturday Worked at factory to day. This evening I went to the Town Clerk's office with Michael Cass of Silver Street to find out what we could about his property. I then went and saw Mr. Gilfoil, the representative to the Legisla- ture regarding the tuition bill which is now before the house. It seems that the towns of Middle- town and Wattingford are in the same condition as Waterbury, and have to pay a large tuition to the highschool by the parents of the children who attend. There has been one hearing already, and there is soon to be another. 03\17\{1901} Sunday Mr. Waters of Wolcott preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. {03\18\1901 Monday [no entry]} {03\19\1901 Tuesday [no entry]} 03\20\1901 Wednesday Worked to day in the factory as I did yesterday and the day before. I have not made an entry in this book since last Sunday night, which is due to my not feeling well, and after my day's work was over and opportunity offered I went to bed sick and tired. Monday evening Mary and I went up to Mr. Able's and spent the evening. The occasion was a gathering of the neighbors which Mr. and Mrs. Able had invited in honor of Miss Agness 22nd birthday. There were about thirty present and we had an enjoyable time. Last night I went to bed early. Mary and Irving went to a Lecture down to the highschool. News has come to day that the Boers in South Africa have rejected the terms of peace offered by the British Government and they intend to continue fighting. May they fight until they conquer and gain their liberty. 03\21\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 03\22\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. There is a party and dance this evening at John French's house which Bertha and Clara have got up as they are to move over into Charlie Monroe's house next week. 03\23\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory till eight o'clock this evening. The Mill Plain Chapel choir met at my house this evening to rehearse the hymns they are to sing tomorrow. 03\24\{1901} Sunday Although to day is Sunday I worked in the factory from 9 o'clock toll one refraining the main shaft, water wheel, etc., work that could not be done when the mill was running. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon, and the Second Congregational church. Sundayschool orchestra played for the singing. 03\25\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory this day as usual. 03\26\1901 Tuesday Worked this day at the factory of Rogers and Brother on Silver Street. It has rained nearly all day. 03\27\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the Town clerk's office and copied titles to Michael Cass's property on Silver Street. I then went to Judge Camel's office and saw rep- resentative Gilfoil who told me that the bill making the amount of the tuition fee that the state will pay for educating town scholars in highschools $30.00 instead of 20.00 as here to before, per year, and that my bill will not be brought up before April 9th. I then came out to Mill Plain Chapel and brought home my family. The supper was given by the married men and they cleared about $17.00. 03\28\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory this day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. In the early part of the evening they had a debate on the Philipine question. Those who spoke in favor of our government were Lewis Garrigus and Professor Davis G. Porter. Those in favor of the Philipine people were David Hotchkiss of Prospect, William Tyler of Bucks hill and myself. Soon after nine o'clock the young people had a masquerade dance. 03\29\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. School closed in the Mill Plain School to day for one week's vacation. Aquinaldo, President and leader of the Philipine Government and forces, was captured by General Frederick {{Funston??}} last Saturday. 03\30\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory till half past four when I came home and shod the horse and repaired the shafts on the farm wagon. School closed at Mill Plain yesterday for one week's vacation. The teachers are Miss May Fatern of Hartford in the primary room, Miss Talmage of Prospect in the intermediate room, and Miss White of Middlebury in the highest room. 03\31\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Fletcher of Oakville preached at Mill Plain. Chapel was well-filled. 04\01\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. The wind blew very hard all last night and has blown all day. This evening several members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. They were Roy Berch, Dave Waugh, Harry Buckingham, Irving, and myself. I received a card by mail to day an- nouncing the wedding of Mrs. Anna Hall and Wilson L. Pierpont, which is to take place April ninth. 04\02\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to John Wokelie's to see a horse that I am thinking of buying. I did not see it as Harry had it to the shop where he works. 04\03\1901 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. It has rained hard all day. This evening the boys and I worked in the blacksmith shop making a latch for the door, after which I came in and worked carving the seat of a chair. 04\04\{1901} Thursday Worked at factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 04\05\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This is Good Friday but I had to work putting in a big gear. 04\06\1901 Saturday Worked at factory to day. 04\07\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Parry preached at Mill Plain Chapel. This is Easter Sunday and the service was very interesting; it included considerable singing. This evening Margaret and I went to Evelyn Upson's. 04\08\1901 Monday Worked at factory to day. 04\09\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the committee at City hall that are opposed to consolidation and arranged to go to Hartford and oppose it before the committee on Citys and Boroughs tomorrow. Nearly all of the committees are going by way of the Highland division of the Consolidates road at a price of 100 up and return. 04\10\1901 Wednesday This morning Irving and I went to the shop and oiled up the shafting. The weather was rather wet. We then came home and ate breahfast, and then with Clyde started for Hartford. We drove to Marion and left our team at Charlie Cass's and then took the trolley cars al Mill Dale and rode to Lazy Lane for which we paid five cents. From thence we rode to Plainville on the trolley cars of the Connecticut Light and Power Co. (previously we had been riding on the Southington and Meriden Company's cars.) for which we paid 20 cts. At Plainville we took the cars on the new third rail system of the Highland div. which are the only third rail cars in the World except one line in Mass. and Rhode Island. They glided along very swiftly and we were soon in Hartford. The fare was 20 cts. We went first as we had plenty of time to the Wadsworth Athneum and looked at the fine paintings by Trumbell and the other paintings and relics. We then went and viewed the Conn- ecticut river which was very high, the water almost touching the East Hartford bridge. In East Hartford many of the houses were in water up to the windows. We then went to the Capitol where the hearing on consolidation was to take place in the Supreme Court room. The city was represented by lawyers Chas. Root and John {{Kellogg??}}, the town by Lawyers Brackelsly of Hartford, Carmody, Wood, Kendrick of Waterbury, and Joe Barber of Hartford. The City called Lawyer Terry, the Mayor of Hartford, Mr. Jenks of Waterville and one or two others, to testify in favor of Consolidating the Town and City governments. The town called to the stand the committees of the several school districts, namely Thomas Miles Payne of East Mountain, Mr. Edwards of Waterville, and several others, when it was too late to call more. I will say here that the hearing also took place yesterday. We left Hartford st 6 P.M. by third rail and came home the same way that we went. The Ladies Union had a supper at Mill Plain Chapel this evening. 04\11\1901 Thursday This morning Irving and I went to the shop and oiled the shafting. After breakfast I started for Hartford, drove to Marion, the walked to Mill Dale, and then took trolley to plainville and thence by trolley cars to New Britain and Hartford, fare 33 cts to Hartford from Mill Dale. I went immediately to the Capitol and at 2:30 the hearing began. There were several called who spoke against consolidation, including myself. I took the 6 o'clock third rail car out of Hartford to Plainville and came home. 04\12\1901 Friday This morning Clyde, Irving, and I went to the shop and oiled up. I then came home and May and I started for Hartford, driving to Mill Dale and there took the trolley to Meriden fare each 15 cts, then took the steam cars to Hartford fare each 40 cts. We went immedi ately to the Capitol and heard the lawyers' pleas for and against Consolidation. They were finished at nearly two o'clock. We then went to the top of the dome where we could see a great distance in every direction. The Connecticut river was high, the waters overflowing the lowlands and down the valley. After looking about the Capitol building we went to Calinder's restaurant and had dinner, after which we went to the {{Atheneran??}} and from there we took the New Britain trolley cars and came home by trolley to Mill Dale and drove the rest of the way. 04\13\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 04\14\1901 Sunday Rev Dr. John G. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 04\15\{1901} Monday Worked at factory to day. The weather has been cold and wet all day. This evening several of the young men of the neighborhood expected to give Wilson Pierpont and his new wife a serenade. 04\16\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 04\17\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and I worked making a heavy latch for the blacksmith shop and then whitewashed part of the West side of the cellar. 04\18\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange this evening. 04\19\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. Thomas Hill's girl, aged twenty years, was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. 04\20\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon after work, Clyde, Irving, Frank, P and I went to the Chapel and raked off the grass and trimmed about the walks, also fertilized the grass and rolled it down, after which we came home and ate supper of beef soup and Clyde went to the Chapel and opened it for the choir rehearsal, but they had none as it rained very hard. Mary and I went to the City and bought a lot of groceries and provisions. We returned home after nine. It rained hard all the time we were gone. 04\21\{1901} Sunday It rained hard all night and this morning the river was very high. The brook in the lower end of our lot was so high that it flowed over much of the ground in a great pond. Clyde and Irving went to the Chapel and pumped the water out of the furnace pit and built a frire and had things ready for sunday school and service, but it rained so hard that no one came but Inez Beckwith and Henry Cass. We, Clyde, Irving, Ruth, Frank, Pierpont, and I stayed till after three o'clock, when we came home and ate supper of fried shod and scalloped{{escaloped}} oysters. After supper Irving and I went to the Spoon shop and saw that everything was all right for running in the morning. The water was the highest it has been in years. We then drove to the Brass mill and found the water ready to run over the grovel dam. We drove and told Father who has charge of the dam there, and he gave us some shovels and a pick and we, with Will Gillette, went there and raised the bank about a foot higher. It was quite dark when we were done. We then came home. 04\22\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been wet and cold. 04\23\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The weather is cold snd rainy. Fritz Hanson is moving from the Ashton place to the Edward Scott farm on the old Prospect Road. Wilson Pierpont is also moving his new wife's goods from her house, the one next to Grange Hall, to his place at East Farms. 04\24\1901 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. It has rained all day. This evening the Ladies gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel. 04\25\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. This is the 29th day that it has rained in succession. 04\26\{1901} Friday I worked at the factory to day. The weather has been cool and clear. Wilson Pierpont has been moving his wife's goods to his house to day and Clyde has been helping him this afternoon. Mary, Clyde, and Irving have gone to a party at Albert Spender's this evening to surprise Miss Ida this being her twentieth birthday. Irving and I plowed the East garden this evening. 04\27\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 04\28\{1901) Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Chapel to day. 04\29\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been rather warm. 04\30\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The bill consolidating the town and city governments passed the house to day by a large majority so the Waterbury American says. We had a little shower this afternoon. 05\01\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Planted onion seed to night, my first planting. 05\02\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. This is neighbor's night, and there were present about 186 members present. They came from Cheshire, Prospect, Southington, one from Whigville, one from Bristol, several from Plymouth, some from Watertown, one from Middlebury, and a large number from Beach Valley. There was also present State master Patterson of Hope Grange of Torrington, and State Overseer of Weston. The program was good but very loud and the supper did not end till near one o'clock this morning. 05\03\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 05\04\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 05\05\{1901} Sunday This has been a nice warm day. The buds on cherry and plum trees are about to burst into blossom. Rev. Mr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. After chapel Margaret and I went for a ride over the Long hill road and across the new Pond at Lake-wood thence up Bucks Hill and past Wm. Tyler's farm with its large peach orchards to the highest point on on the road where we turned East and went to Mr. John Bishop's where there is a high tower built for observation. This is the highest {{illegibleword}} in Waterbury and from this point could be seen Ivy mountain in Goshen, Mt. Tom in Litchfield, Mokath mountain in Cornwall, the Hanging mountain in Naugatuck, Middle- bury center and many other places. There were several fires in the woods in the distance, the largest of which was to the Southward and seemed to be in the neighborhood of Mark Warmers. When we came home we came across wincum bridge and past Buckshill school house and down North Main Street to Cherry to East Main and home. At the corner of Dublin Street we saw the fire that we had seen from the tower and it seemed to be near the Brass Mill. At Wolcott street it looked as if it was North of East main St. At Ashton's corner we thought that it was my shop as it was directly back of Mr. Wright's house but when we got to my sho we saw it was in Cavalry Cemetary about a dozen rods South of my house and there was a large number of people at work putting it out. 05\06\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 05\07\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The Carpenters are out on a Strike for eight hours work and two dollars and a half per day. They have been out since the first of May. Several of the contractors have given in to them, but some say they will not. {05\08\1901 Wednesday [no entry]} {05\09\1901 Thursday [no entry]} 05\10{*08}\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 50 machinists struck at the Waterbury Clock Co. to day because the company discharged two men who belonged to the machinists union. The strike of the carpenters is ended, The Master carpenters agreeing to give them 8 hours after Nov. 1 at 10 hours' pay. 05\11\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Irving, Pierpont, and I went to the Chapel and cut the grass with a lawn mower and trimmed the edges of the drives and walks. 05\12\1901 Sunday This morning Laurence Tobin and I went to the shop and repaired the governon and gate to the waterwheel, which took us till half past one o'clock. I then came home and ate dinner and soon Mr. Howard Wright, a medical student who attends a college during its terms and works in the vacation, at present at the factory, came and we hitched up and we drove to Marion where we looked over several ploughed pieces of ground in search of Indian arrow points we finally drove to compounce pond looking all the way but failed to find any. We drove partly around the lake and out onto the road at the South end then taking the road west we went up the mountain to Wolcott and then home. Mary told me that the Rev. C. E. Bentham of Waterville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 05\13\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. There were but six members present, but there were a large number of boys and visitors. {05\14\1901 Tuesday [no entry]} 05\15\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory yesterday and all night, 23 hours in all continuously. Mr. Bloomfield's son-in-law died and Mr. Bloomfield, who is the regular watch- man, had to be out and I took his place and got home at about half past seven this morning. Mrs. Ashton, widow of Richard, died yesterday morning, aged 79 years. She is to be buried in the Pine Grove Cemetary. She lived in her own house corner of the Meriden and Cheshire roads. 05\16\1901 Thursday Watched at the factory last night. At 6 o'clock I had to make a round of all of the rooms and close the doors and windows. In making a round I had first to go into the pipe room and insert a key in a circular lock which connected two electric wires which were connected with a clockwork in the main office which punched a hole in a paper dile so they could see that the watchman went his beat all right. From the pipe room I went to the men's burnishing room and there turned the key then to the further end of the firls burnishing room, then through the stock room to the North end of the shipping room, using the key every time, then to the main office then up the office stairs to the room over the office, then to the east die sinkers room, then to the packing room, then down stairs and through the {{slackend making??} rooms to the west end of the polishing room, then back and to the girls inspecting room, then to the trimming room then up stairs and through the long room to the west stairs down and back to the polishing room then through the muffle rooms to the belt turning off room, then back to the satin room the place of beginning. I had also to keep steam up in the boilers, had to make a round every hour from six at night to five in the morning. 05\17\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\18\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory. It is expected that many of the machinists of Waterbury will strike monday for nine hours time and ten hours pay. 05\19\{1901} Sunday There was no minister at the Chapel to day. It was Methodist sunday but William Garrigus's committee failed to get one, so the service was led by Hiram Able, and consisted of lesson reading, singing and prayer. 05\20\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This is an eventful day for Waterbury. There are over 800 machinists on strike and nearly all of the machinists are out from Holmes, Booth, & Hayden's; The Ring Co., Blume and Atwoods, The Farrell Foundry and Machine Co., The Waterbury Machine Co., Manville Bros., The E. J. Manville Co., Randolph & Clows, Blake & Johnson's, Steel & Johnson's, The Waterbury Clock Co. and others. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice this evening. Mary has gone to Prospect to a grange meeting with Wilson Pierpont and his wife. 05\21\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. There are about 500 of the 800 machinists out on strike. It is estimated that there 50,000 machinists in the United States on strike. 05\22\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening we had a meeting at the Mill Plain Chapel of which I was chairman and the following officers were elected for the coming year. Morris Alcott, Episcopal committee, Charles S. Miller, Congregational committee, Hiram Able, Methodist committee, and Robert Worden, Baptist committee, Arthur Pierpont, Secretary, Hiram Able, Treasurer, Al Judd, Sunday School Superintendent, Henry Cass, Librarian, and Inez Beckwith, organist. 05\23\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. MAry and I attended the grange this evening. Mr. John Leines engaged the Mattatuck Drum Band to play for the Veterans of the Civil war next Decoration day at 1:00 each man. 05\24\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 05\25\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. I received by Adams Express to day from New York a set of nine volumes of Redpaths history of the world, which I subscribed for a week ago, the price of which is 35.00 to be paid for in installments of 2.00 a month to John Wanamaker of New York. I paid 1.00 when I subscribed. 05\26\{1901} Sunday I got up at 5 o'clock and fed the horse and got ready and had Mary put up some lunch after which I drove to the corner of Walnut and Orange streets and met Howard Wright and we drove to Pines Bridge. We were in search of Indian history and Indian relics. We went through the Cemetary at Pines Bridge. The oldest grave stone bore the date of 1797. We heard of an Indian burying ground on the West side of the river. We found it located on the West side of the Rail Road about three-fourths of a mile south of the main road that crosses the river and upon a high bluff, on the south side of which runs a little brook. There were several stones, some of brown stone and at least one of blue stone. All were broken not one standing. On one stone was the name of Joseph Riggs, died 1791, on another Mrs. Joseph Riggs, and on another the name of Johnson. From the burying which contained about twenty graves many of which were unmarked. We went up onto the flats on the West side of the river between Beacon Falls and Pines Bridge and searched for Indian flint. Mr. Wright found one fine arrow point made of dark flint, but I found nothing but quartz chips and other signs of Indian occupation. We then drove back to Pines then West to the edge of Oxford and up on Riggs street to a point on the highland where we turned to the right and crosseed over a rough mountain South of Andrews moun- tain and came out at the south end of Naugatuck village. We then came home which we reached at about 7:30 o'clock. J. G. Davenport preached at Mill Plain. 05\27\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice this evening. There were present Clifford Heaton, Roy Birch, David Waugh, Harry Buckinham, and Clyde Miller, Fiffers, George Cass, Irving Miller, and myself, Snare Drummers, and George Somers Bass Drummer. 05\28\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a special meeting to night to prepare to turn out Decoration day. There were present Clifford Heaton, Clyde Miller, and Harry Buckinham, Fiffers. Chas. Hotchkiss, George Atkinson, Irving Miller, George Cass, and myself Snare Drummers. 05\29\{1901} Wednesday Today {{Forepaugh's??}} Circus is in town and the Factory did not run, so Irving and I papered the front hall and stairway which took all day. 05\30\{1901} Thursday This is Decoration day and the Mattatuck Drum Corps assembled at Grand Army Hall at 10 o'clock. At 10:30 the parade formed in front of the hall as follows, a firing squad of Co. A. C. N. G., the veterans of the civil war about 50 in number, the sons of veterans, and a few veterans of the late Spanish war. We marched to the Soldier's mon- ument where prayer was offered by the Chaplain of the sons of vetera- ns after which there was singing by a quartette of Highschool boys after which Rev. Dr. Davenport read Lincoln's address at Gettysburgh after which Rev. Mr. Grauger delivered an address after which there was more singing then the Drum band played a durge, after which the firing squad fired three volleys and then we marched away to the first church where the veterans were photographed. We then went to the hall where dinner was served. At 1:30 o'clock we marched to Polis theater where Rev. Dr. Parry delivered an illustrated lecture on the civil war which was very instructive. This forenoon delegations of the Wadhams Post G. A. B. visited the several cemetaries in the town and placed flowers and flags on the graves of dead soldiers, and at four in the afternoon the Warman's relief corps and the sons of veterans decorated the urn in the Riverside Cemetary which was erected to the unknown dead. The members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps that turned out were: Fred Peltier (Drum Major), Chas. Cass, Dave Waugh, Clif Heaton, Clyde Miller, Roy Birch, and Harry Buckingham (fiffers), myself, (Bass Drummer) Gardener Hall, George Cass, Charles Hochkiss, Irving Miller, and George Atkinson (snare drummers). 05\31\1901 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\01\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 06\02\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 06\03\{1901} Monday Worked at factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. Mr. Baldwin of the Wolcott Road came to hear us drum. 06\04\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\05\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. After work F. Pierpont and I went up to William Blewett's and bought two dozen tomatoe plants for which I paid 50 cts. 06\06\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 06\07\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 06\08\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 06\09\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bentham preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. A meeting of the Chapel committee was held this afternoon and I was appointed chairman for one year. 06\10\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 06\11\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Clyde, Pierpont, Irving, Margaret, and Ruth, and myself went to the Chapel and put the crash over the carpet and got things ready for the festival tomorrow night. I heard to day that the charter for the Cheshire trolley road which has passed the legislator provides that the road shall run on or near the old Cheshire road. This will bring it by my house. 06\12\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Ladies gave a straw- berry festival at the Mill Plain Chapel this evening which was well attended. John Lines orchestra furnished music. 06\13\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mr. Wright, Irving and I went up to Wilson Pierpont's, Springfield meadow to look after Indian arrow points. We found many chips, but only found one quartz bird arrow point. 06\14\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\15\1901 Saturday I worked at the factory to day. This afternoon Irving, Clyde, Pierpont, and I worked at my shop repairing the runway that goes to the storeroom over the back shed. After supper I went to town to attend the meeting of the committees of the various school districts of the town to arrange to pay the lawyers for opposing consolidation, but the meeting had been put off till July 1st and Mr. Ferrell did not notify us. Pete Laroque paid me 25.00 rent for my shop. 06\16\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This evening Mary and I drove out to John Tood's and then up through Woodtick to William Prichard's but they were not at home so we went up accross Wolcott hill and then home. The new flag pole that is to be raised at Wolcott center lay there on three or four horses and we looked at it. I should think it is 75 feet long. They are to have a public flag raising July 4th. 06\17\1901 Monday I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met at our place for practice. 06\18\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the boys and I planted in the garden seeds in the places where the ones formerly did not come up. 06\19\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 0620\{1901} Thursday Worked at factory. 06\21\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 06\22\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 06\23\{1901} Sunday This morning Howard Wright and I went to Wolcott to look after Indian relics but we found none. We got home at noon and ate dinner after which I went to the Chapel which was crowded as it was children's day. Mr. Daven- port officiated or talked to the children. After the service there was a funeral from the Chapel Mrs. Woodhill being the person buried. George Benham's three children were baptized as was one by the name of George Gale. 06\24\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Irving, Pierpont, and I worked at John Reid's getting hay from his story meadow on the East side of the road at the top of the hill near the old Coles Graniss place I took the meadow to cut on shares. 06\25\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the boys and I worked at the hay at Reid's. Mr. Howard Wright came and helped us. 06\26\{1901} Wednesday Worked this day at Rogers & Brothers factory. The weather has been very hot. 06\27\{1901} Thursday I worked at the factory to day. The weather has been very hot. This evening Irving and I in one team and Clyde and Olive Able in another, went to Wolcott center and attended an entertainment given by the Wolcott Flag association in a tent on the green. The programs consisted of first, Drum Major exercise by Major Fred Peltier. Second a Duet by Miss Upson and Miss Haugh. Third Songs by two minstrels. 4th Clog dance by Hogan Brothers, 5th Dialogue by some young people of Wolcott, which was well rendered. 6th Song and remarks by Luke Henderson, who was dressed as a nigger minstrel. 7th Mr. J. B. Clark Song. 8th Slight of hand tricks by Mr. Sting and Mr. Merrill. 9th {{illegible word??}} Quartette of Co. A. 2nd, Regt. C. N. G. sang several slections, one of which was, "My old Kentucky home." 10th Recitation by Mrs. J. R. S. Todd, entitled "Our Flag". 10th William Gillette and Mr. Davis who impersonated {personited} two old Rubins. 12th Story by David B. Wilson. The next as the drawing of a parlor lamp, which each that paid an entrance fee had a check that entitled him to a chance. No. 323 drew it and it was held by a boy named Herbert A. Snow, who lives in Woodtick. 06\28\1901 Friday I worked this day at the factory, and it has been very hot. The thermometer stood at 100 degrees above zero in some of the rooms. This evening I attended the annual School meeting at Saw Mill Plains School house. Meeting was called to order by the Clerk Mr. Hoggett at 8:20 o'clock. Mr. Theodore I. Munson was elected chairman, minutes of the last meetings were read and and accepted. Report of the committee Warren B. Hitchcock was read and accepted. Treasurer Martin Pond reported the district to be 2,050 dollars in dept and $107.00 on hand. Tax Collector James Strovelle's report was accepted. Next was the election of Officers for the coming year, and Warren Hitchcock was elected, Committee. B. F. Hoggett, Clerk. Martin Pond, Treasurer. James Strovelle, Tax Collector. It was then voted to lay a tax of 10 mills on the dollar on the list of 1901. Voted to elect two additional committee men, and William Atkinson and Theodore Munson were elected. 06\29\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been hot. This evening we got up two loads of hay from Thomas Mills and then I went to Oakville on the new trolley road to see Mr. Fletcher about preaching at the Chapel tomorrow. I did not see him as he had gone to Bridgeport. 06\30\{1901} Sunday This morning I went to Oakville and saw Mr. Fletcher and he said he would come to Mill Plain and preach this afternoon, which he did after I carried him to the trolley car. I drove home and did not go away again as it was too hot. 07\01\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather is very hot. The thermometer stands 100 in the shade. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice and made arrangements to go to Wolcott July 4th to attend the flag raising. 07\02\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day till 4 o'clock when we shut down on account of the heat. The thermometer registered 103 in many of the rooms. Cousin Ann Frisbie who lives in Woodtick had a slight shock yesterday and it is reported that she is quite sick to day. We had a thunder shower this evening that cooled off the air some. 07\03\1901 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been very comfortable. Barney Burns and Mary Ann Cummings of Niagra Street were married at the Church of the Sacred Heart this morning. A house on Hickory Street (Abrigador) was struck by lightning last evening. Edward Byers who lives on the Southnayd road had a son born Sunday. 07\04\1901 Thursday There has been the least noise this day of any 4th of July I can recall. At sun rise I heard no heavy cannon as Church bells as has been the custom of former years. At 9 o'clock Wm. Gaithwait came to my house with a four horse wagon to take the members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps to Wolcott to attend the Flag raising. About 12 of the boys went. We were met this side of Wolcott center by William French who gave us each a drink of sweet cider. We then reloaded our drums at the town hall, and then took a hand at raising the flag pole, which now stands in front of the Church on the green and is 68 feet in height. The large Wolcott tent was next raised, and several times we were called on to drum and fife. We were soon joined by several members of the old Wolcott Drum Band which I joined in 1876, when Mr. Levi Atkins was leader. The Wolcott Drum Band was organized in 1766 at the time of organizing the first military company in Farmingbury parish of which Aaron Harrison was Captain, Herman Hall, Lieutenant, and Josiah Rogers Ensign. The exercises began at 2 o'clock by raising the flag. Mr. Henry Minor who is 91 years old, and who has helped raise 4 other liberty poles on Wolcott green, pulled up the flag, after which the drum band played the "Three Cheers" at which the cannon was fired and the Church bell rang and the band played {plaid} "Rally around the flag", after which the school children sang while they stood about the foot of the pole. All then went to the big tent where we listened to a speech by Mr. Waters, the minister, and also a speech by Mr. John Saxe of Waterbury. The band had a fine dinner in the tent, and then after playing several pieces we came home. 07\05\{1901} Friday This morning Clyde did not feel well and I stayed home from the shop and we went down to Father's to mow. Before noon Clyde came and we, Clyde, Irving, and I cut all of his grass, but it rained this afternoon and we got in but little after which we came home and I worked at odd jobs of repair work. 07\06\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The shop shut down for the 4th, 5th, and 6th, but I had work repairing. 07\07\{1901} Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon, after Chapel Margeret and I went to Wolcott to see Arthur Harrison and we got caught in a shower at Mr. Norton's at the foot of the hill so we went into his barn and staid till it was over. 07\08\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The making, trimming, polishing, and muffle room started up this morning. 07\09\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Jane Porter told me that he had a thermom- eter that he bought 55 years ago for .75 cts, and when he built his house in 1848 he hung it in the North west corner where the L part joins on, and it has hung there ever since. He has been in the habit of watching it in hot weather and has never seen it above 100 degrees till Tuesday, one week ago to day when it was 104 and he thinks it the hottest day ever known since he can remember. He was born in 1818. 07\10\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\11\1901 Thursday I worked at the factory to day until 5:30 o'clock. 07\12\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 07\13\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening we drew a load of hay from Tom Mills' lot and put it on the stack. 07\14\{1901} Sunday I worked at the factory seven and one half hours to day, and am very tired as it has been very hot. We had to line up a shaft for a large drop which we could not do when the power is running. Howard Wright came to see me this morning and ate breakfast with us. We intended to take a ride which I would have enjoyed very much. I did not attend the service at the Chapel as I wished to do. They had an Episcopal service which was con- ducted by the Rev. Mr. Pooley of Oakville who is assistant to Rev. Mr. Cunningham of Watertown. I got through work at 4:30 o'clock and have spent the rest of the day in sitting down and reading. 07\15\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day for the mast part repairing the hydraulic press but we could not get it to force over two hundred and fifty tons owing to a leek in the plunger. It had ought to force 600 tons. We cut a new packing and now have it in the press and will try it tomorrow. We finished haying at Mills lots to day. The boys mowed about one and one half acres this forenoon and we drew it up in two loads tonight. After supper Clyde and Irving went horse back up to Atkinson's dead- meadow in swimming. The weather to day has been very hot. 07\16\1901 Tuesday This has been a very hot day. I worked at the factory as usual. The first thing this morning I oiled the shafting and saw that all the belts, barings, and etc. were all right. I found in William Kennedy's room that the main loose pulley had set fast on the shaft, after "oiling up". Laurence Tobin and I put new packing into the hydraulic press, but it still leaked between a ring of the piston so there will have to be a new ring made. Then John Templeton and I got the pulley loose in William Kennedy's room so they could work there all right. Then, after dinner, we cuppled the shaft in the buffing room so they could work there, and after that we got in two guides for a new heavy drop and set one of them up. I have done many other odd jobs, all together making a busy day and as it was very warm, so much so that it was hard to breathe over head in the shop where we worked some of the time and my clothes were sweat through. After work I came home and worked on a little two-wheeled cart for Pierpont and after supper we took two old cats over into Elliott Doolittle's lot and shot them, after which Clyde shot at Walter Mill's hat which was set on a stick about six rods away. He did not hit the hat but the gun hit him a knock in the shoulder which made him stagger back a few steps. The gun is an old musket which was formerly a flint lock and made in 1811 and was used in the War of 1812. My grandfather Miller had it for a training musket and he gave it to me. 07\17\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I wrote a letter to Mr. J. R. Orr of New Haven who has lately bought the Oak Tree house in Southbury. 07\18\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange meeting. Mr. William Atkinson approached me in regard to joining a court of the order of America which is to be organized in Mill Plain. 07\19\1901 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather has been very hot and dry. 07\20\{1901} Saturday Went to work at 4:30 o'clock this morning and repaired a 10" belt that drives a pair of spoon rolls that broke yesterday afternoon. It took till six when I came home and got my breakfast and returned to work at eight. When I got back there was a lot of work waiting for me. Clyde is going to Buffalo next Monday to the pan-American exposition and he went this evening and bought his ticket at the Rail Road depot for which he paid $12.00. 07\21\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Pruner of Simonville preached at Mill Plain Chapel. The weather has been very hot and dry. This morning as it was very hot I put the saddle on the horse and rode out the Cheshire road to the lot beyond the Goodyear place and there turned in and went through the lots to the old Holt place on bound live highway, and then followed the old highway North to the Cheshire road thence east of Cheshire road to the old Backbone road up the backbone road to the road that goes to Ed Todd's brick house, down Todd's road nearly to the house where I turned North and went through the woods to the Meriden road and then in Meriden road and back home. Martin Pierpont, who is going to Buffalo tomorrow with Clyde, came tonight and is staying with him. 07\22\{1901} Monday This is thought by many to be the hottest day so far this year. There are many deaths reported in the papers to night caused by the heat. The city thermometer registered 97 degrees in the shade but many others went up to 104. This morning we got up at about four o'clock, and Clyde and Martin Pierpont got ready and Irving took them to the depot in the buggy at 5:30 to take the train for Buffalo to attend the Pan American exposition. Jessie Pond and her mother Mrs. Martin Pond also left on the same train. They are going to New York and there ferry over to Jersey City where they take the Lehigh valley train which takes them to Buffalo without change of cars. The meeting to organize a Court of Foresters in Mill Plain was held in the School house this evening. It was called to order by B. F. Hoggett and Mr. Twiss was elected chairman. B. F. Hoggett was elected Sec. Mr. J. J. McDonald was introduced and remarked about the "Order of Foresters". Next, Mr. Carney of Waterville spoke on the same subject as did Mr. George Husker, Wm. {{Kleuche??}}, Mr. Green Davis, and Alex Haxton. It was then voted that the chairman appoint an organization committee of five, and he appointed William Atkinson, Theodore Munson, Warren Hitchcock, Benjamin Hoggett, and Oscar Fairchild committee. It was also voted to call the Mill Plain Court, "Court D. B. Hamilton." Twenty men signed application papers and will have to go to Waterville to be obligated, among them was myself. 07\23\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory till three o'clock a little before three as Laurence Tobin, John Templeton, and I were taking off a {{cuplin??}} box from a 2 1/2 " shaft. As I was on one side turning the screw and they were on the other side with a brass punch and sledge a piece of brass flew from the punch and struck me in the head and cut a hole in my forehead about one inch long. I worked a little while longer and then came home, as the sweat and spider webs that we put on to stop the blood smarted. We had a postal from Clyde which stated that they were stranded in jersey City as they missed the ferry and no train was going west till evening; that their tickets would be good and would have to wait 9 hours. 07\24\1901 Worked at the factory to day as usual. No news from Clyde to day. James Farrell died this morning at the soldiers' home in Norotan Heights, aged 69 years and 8 months. He was son of Benjamin Farrell and was born on the plank road where Mr. Batchelor now lives. 07\25\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. The Grange voted to let the new order of Foresters, which is to be organized in Mill Plain, rent the upper hall for 75.00 per year. 07\26\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Morris Alcott, Mr. Judd, and I went to Waterville and were ex- amined by Doctor Ryder who passed es as candidates to become members of the order of Foresters. 07\27\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. After work Irving, Pierpont, and I set two tires on the wheels of my best buggy. While we were eating supper, about 8 o'clock, Clyde and Mart Pierpont came in, having just returned from the Pan American Buffalo and Niagra Falls. They left Buffalo at 4 o'clock this morning and came by way of Mohawk valley and Hudson River to New York City andthen home. They intended to stay till Monday but Mart was taken sick so they came to day. 07\28\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Parry preached at Mill Plain Chapel. I did not attend. Pierpont and I took the team and went over to West side hill and saw Mr. Benham. We then went to the old oronoke school house, then turned South and went to the Meloneleck hill road and over Town flat and through Brooklyn and home. 07\29\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\30\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\31\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\01\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The Mill Plain Chapel Sunday school had their annual picnic to day at Compounce lake. Mary and the Children went and they report a good time. They rode over in three buses to the number of about 60 and many others went by private teams. 08\02\1901 Friday Worked at the factory. 08\03\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day one and one half hours overtime. To day Mary and the children went out to Theodore Munson's cottage at Hitchcock's pond and spent the day. 08\04\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Hollister preached at the Mill Plain Union Chapel to day. The notice that action on the resignation of the episcopal committee would take place next Friday evening at 8 o'clock was read. After supper Mary and I went over to west side hill and I went to Mr. Benham's and she stopped at her sister's where I called later and spent the evening. 08\05\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Loevelette Upson died this forenoon at about 10 o'clock of dysentery. 08\06\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day ten hours as usual. This evening at 8 o'clock I attended a town meeting held in the City hall. After reading of the warning I nominated John O'Neal chairman and he was elected. They then voted to appropriate $900.00 state money for the repair of special section if highways in the town, also voted to build a new bridge across the Mad River at the Rutter place or between Munson's corner and the Chapel at Saw Mill Plain. 08\07\{1901} Wednesday Worked this forenoon in the factory. It rained hard this forenoon but cleared away at 11 o'clock. I came home at noon and Mary and I went out to Levelette Upson's funeral. We got there at five minutes to two as we supposed the funeral was to be at two but it was held at one, but we heard the last of Dr. Davenport's prayer. There was a good number of friends and neighbors present. He was taken to Woodtick and buried. In the funeral procession were first the minister with Mr. Twiss in a single carriage, next the carriage with the pall bearersm who were Embert Wright, Adelbert Hitchcock, John Todd, and Edward Todd. Next came the hearse, then about four double carriages and then came six or eight single teams. After the service at the grave, I came home by the Woodtick road and left George Alexander who rode to the burying ground with me at the Meriden road. Mary started home afoot, but George Hitchcock overtook her and gave her a ride to his house when Mr. Judd came along and gave her a ride home. When I got home I found Clyde getting ready to go to Ida Spender's wedding which was to be held in the Mill Plain Chapel at five o'clock. So we all went and saw Ida married to Frank Debissop, by Rev. Mr. Davenport. The Chapel was prettily trimmed with ferns and flowers. The ushers were Clarence and Arthur Worden, Clifford Heaton, and Clyde and Sidney Spender and Mary DeBissop stood up with the bride and groom. We then came home and ate supper of bread and milk, after which we worked in the garden a while after which I dressed Raymon's foot that he cut with an ax last Friday. 08\08\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 08\09\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mary and the children and Miss Picket went up to Mr. Garrigus's place in Wolcott and picked bill berries. This evening Mary, Clyde, and I went to the Chapel to a meeting to elect a committee to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Morris Alcott from the Episcopal Committee. 08\10\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day till 4:30 when I came home and set a tire in the spindle buggy. 08\11\1901 Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this P. M. This evening Mary and I went over to West side hill. She stopped at her brother Elmer's and I went to see Mr. Benham and we talked over the tuition matter. 08\12\{1901} Monday Worked as usual to day. This evening Clyde, Mary, and I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Union Chapel society and elected Chas. Mashier episcopal committee in the place of Morris Alcott who resigned. 08\13\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening nineteen of the men of Mill Plain went to Waterville and were initiated into the Order of Foresters of America. 08\14\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Agnes Able commenced working at the New England Watch factory. Mark Pond started this morning for Buffalo to attend the exposition. 08\15\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. 08\16\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock to night. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting to night to take action in regard to turning out for a drummers convention that is to be held in Waterbury the 24th of this month. 08\17\1901 Saturday Worked till 5:30 this evening. We have had heavy showers this afternoon and tonight. 08\18\{1901} Sunday The weather has been very nice to day. This afternoon the children of Mother Pierpont met at her home at East Farms. There were present: Charles J. Pierpont and wife, Austin B. Pierpont and wife, Nellie Pierpont Connor and husband George, Wilson L. Pierpont and wife, Elmer Pierpont and wife, and Mary Pierpont Miller and husband who is myself. We all sat on the rocks under the butternut trees back of the house and had our picture taken. Rev. Mr. Moffett of the Waterville methodist church preached at the Mill Plain Union Chapel. 08\19\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting this evening and decided to turn out next Saturday to the drummers' convention to be given in this City. 08\20\{1901} Tuesday Worked to day at factory. The weather has been very warm. This evening Mr. Eugene Benham of West side hill and I went to see C. S. Chap- man, corner of North Willow and Rosiland avenue aboue the vote raising the tuition for children in the highschool from 30.00 to 60.00 per year. He said that he thought it was intended to mean only scholars from other towns, and not those who reside in Waterbury outside the City. We then went to see Mr. Tinker, superinten- dent of schools, and he said that it cost 60.00 to educate scholars in the Highschool and that it meant all scholars outside the present City. We showed him the charter and he was puzzled at first, but\ thought that the board could only charge 30.00 according to that. {08\21\1901 Wednesday [no entry]} {08\22\1901 Thursday [no entry]} {08\23\1901 Friday [no entry]} {08\24\1901 Saturday [no entry]} 08\25\1901 Sunday I have neglected to enter any events in this journal since last tuesday night. Wednesday Aug 21st I worked at the factory as usual. Wednesday evening I went to the Grange hall where the Court of Foresters named Court D. B. Hamilton was instituted, by state Grand Chief Randil of Rockville and State Grand Treasurer Dickinson of Meriden, assisted by the officers of Court Walsh of Waterville. There were 40 members at the organization. After the exercises a supper was served in the lower hall which made it very late when I got home as I turned from the Cheshire road onto the Doolittle road near my house. I nearly ran into another team which I noticed was a canopy top buggy. I unhitched the horse and went into the house at quarter to one. Thursday Aug 22. Worked at the factory as usual. When Pierpot brought my dinner to day at the shop he told me that Father had 45 chickens stolen from his coop last night. I told it to Morris Alcott and he said that he met James O'Bryan last night in his canopy top wagon near Mr. Travers' on the Stilson road, a little time before I met the canopy top wagon. This led me to think that the O'Briens might have stolen the chickens. When I went home I saw Will Gillette at Father's and told him that it was the O'Briens that stole the chickens I thought, so then we agreed on a plan of action which we carried out and was as follows. I went to the Grange and remained there till 9:30 o'clock when I left and mounted my horse and went up the Woodtick road and across over lovers lane to Mark Warner's where I left my horse under a shed and then called at the house where I saw George. I asked him where his father was and he told me that he was down the road, and we went and found him and Morris Alcott down near the Levinas Warner place where the O'Briens lived. I left them and went and hid back of a stone wall cast of the house across the road. In the mean time Will Gillette had driven to Simonville and got brother Frank and drove to Mark Warner's and they stationed themselves where they could watch. At twenty minutes past eleven the O'Briens came out and hitched up their team and started up the Buckhill road. I ran as fast as I could and got my horse and Will Gillette gave two sandwiches which I put into my packet and then I started after the O'Briens. The night was dark as pitch. I drove past Lakewood and up the main Buckhill road to where the road that goes to Waterville turns off where I dismounted and lit some matches and saw that the tracks turned towards Waterville. I then followed on, stopping at times to listen for some times I heard the team. When I was going down the hill into Waterville I passed them at a place where they had driven out on the side of the road and stopped. I left on down the hill and round the corner till I was out of sight, when I started fast as the horse could run to the Buckhill road which I turned up and waited till I saw them go down the street and turn towards the rail road. I could not follow as they would see me, for the electric lights were very bright. When they were out of sight I started and followed them under the rail road after which they turned south, then west, and then south onto main street where I could follow the tracks no farther as the road was so hard. I then went up to the center and tried to find an officer, but he had just left on an electric car for Waterbury. I then drove back to the Warner place where I left my horse and reported to the boys what I knew and then took my place back of the wall where I had been before I lay there a long time in the rain till about half past three o'clock when Frank and Will joined me and we all waited till five minutes past four when the O'Briens came down the Bucks hill road and stopped at the corner of the Wolcott road and sat there in the wagon a little while and then drove into the barn yard and up to the wood house and unhitched the horse and one of them led him to the barn while the other worked about the wagon unloading chickens I judged as we could hear them. They then drew the wagon to the barn and lit a lantern and cared for the house, after which they went to the wood shed and picked up two or three bogs of chicken and carried them into the wood house or around the South end, and soon after went into the house. We then went back to the shed where we left the horse and started across the lots to the Bucks hill road and then went to Waterville to find where they stole the chickens. We did not find out. But we found that the following persons had had chickens stolen, and it has been since proved that they were taken by the James and Joseph O'Brien. Mr. Greatsinger of Waterville had 83 stolen. Mr. Lorenson had 64. David Sprague had 10. Mr. Johnson, 14, and a man who lives on the upper Waterville road had 6 stolen. Mr. Noble of Wolcott had 32 stolen. Mr. Garthwaits, 14. Mr. Kilbourne, 26. Mr. Baldwin, 24. Mr. Mc Carthy, 6. Mr. Mc Kniff, 12. Mr. Marrow, 46. Mr. Frey, 30. and Father, 45, total 410. There are probably others that we have not heard of. After canvassing Waterville Will and I drove to Father's, leaving Frank in the center where he ate breakfast at about 8 o'clock, after which I came home and lay down till noon when I went to work in the shop. Will went and saw prosecuting attorney Durant and then with detective Cabay went to the Warner place and arrested the O'Briens. Father went there in the afternoon and identified a lot of his hens but could not catch but 8 of them. The prisoners were locked up but in the afternoon James was released on $300.00 bonds and he imme- diately left town, saying that he was going to South Africa. Mother, Morris Alcott, Mr. Fray, and I were summonsed to court at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Saturday, Aug. 24, I went to the shop at 5:30 and oiled up. Then came home and went to City hall to the trial of the O'Briens. James had fled the town but Joseph was there and stood trial but was bound over to the superior Court under bonds of $500.00. I then went and saw Perry Morris at his livery stable on Spring street. I also saw Dr. Davenport and he told me that he would be at the Chapel to day. I then came home, ate dinner, and put on my drum corpd uniform and taking a number of drums went back to town and met my Corps at Cherry Street and marched to the North side of the green where there were assembled about a dozen corps. The occasion being a convention of the drummers and fifers of this part of the state, we started on a march down Bank street to Brooklyn and across to South main Street and back to the center where we went into the City hall as it was raining very hard, and had been for nearly half of the march. As soon as the Corps got into the hall I came home as I was completely played out and could do no more. To day Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. There was a large attendance. 08\26\{1901} Monday This morning I went to the Police court and the bond of three hundred dollars for the ofference of Mr. O'Brien was called and settled so I came home and went to work at the factory at noon and worked till 9 o'clock to night, as the shop ran till that time. 08\27\1901 Tuesday Worked 13 1/2 hours at the factory to day. Clyde and Irving finished painting the sharehouse at my Carriage shop to day the first coat. {08\28\1901 Wednesday [no entry]} 08\29\{1901} Thursday Am tired and sleepy to night. Yesterday I worked as usual and last night I watched at the factory as Mr. Bloomfield the regular watchman was sick with the malaria. To day I have not slept any as it was hot and the flies bit. 08\30\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock this evening. Received my last week's pay this P. M. $10.80 was out 1 1/2 days. 08\31\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt] and Cousin Marion, his wife of Goshen, came to our house this afternoon visiting. This evening Mr. Eugene Benham called to see me about tuition matters. We met at Porter Woods law office this evening and agreed to attend the meeting of the City board of education to be held in the City hall next monday evening at eight o'clock. 09\01\{1901} Sunday Sam Ovaitt [Oviatt] and Marion staid with me all day. This afternoon we went out to the top of Southington mountain and looked at the peach orchards. Clyde, Marion, Sam, and I went. We had father's horse as mine is lame. 09\02\1901 Monday This is labor day, and is a legal holiday. There has been a parade of the "Trades unions" about the center this noon, and picnics at the driving park on the Watertown road and at Forest park on the Bucks hill road. I went this morning and saw Charles S. Chapman in regard to the tuition matter, and called at Judge Cowell's office but he was not in town. This evening I went to the center and met Eugene Benham and Porter L. Wood and we went to the high school to attend a meeting of the City board of Education, but they did not meet as there was not a quorum present. 09\03\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hourd to day. This evening I went to the center and there met Mr. Benham and Mr. Woods and we went to the Highschool snd attended the meeting of the Board of education, and they voted to let the tuition remain the same as it has been for the people of the towns of Waterbury in $30.00 per year but after Jan. 1st, 1902, the non-residents of the town of Waterbury will have to pay $60.00 tuition for scholars who attend the high school, and after Jan. 1st the new charter provides that the first taxation district must pay $30.00 tuition for every scholar who attends the highschool. 09\04\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of Court D. B. Hamilton Foresters of America. 09\05\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock to night. 09\06\1901 Friday Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock to night. This morning Clyde was taken with severe pains in the back of his neck which pained him to move and he has been in bed nearly all day. President Mc Kinley was shot at Buffalo, N. Y., to day while in the temple of music at the pan-Amer- ican exposition by a stranger who fired two shots which took effect in the abdomen. 09\07\{1901} Saturday Worked to day at the factory. The papers dtate that while the con- dition of the president is critical, that one of the bullets has been re- moved and hopes are entertained for his recovery. 09\08\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The condition of the President is said to be much better to day. 09\09\1901 Monday Worked in the factory to day 13 1/2 hours. The condition of the President is still improving. It is thought that a plot was laid by the Order of Anarchists to kill him and the lot fell to Leon Czolasz who committed the deed, and that he would have been punished by death if he had not done it. 09\10\{1901} Tuesday Worked 10 hours at the factory. This evening the boys and I went to the Chapel and got it ready for the peach festival tomorrow night. 09\11\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to West Side Hill and saw Mr. Benham and we together went to Porter L. Woods's office in exchange place and saw him about the Town meeting which has been peti- tioned for. I then came to Mill Plain and attended the peach festival at the Chapel, but did not stay very long. I walked home and went to bed at 10:40. 09\12\{1901} Thursday Worked at the Factory. Miss Olive Able began working at the spoon shop this morning in the machine burnishing room. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. Clyde joined to night and took the first degree. 09\13\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. To night we blasted a big rock which was in front of the house by the road. The condition of the President has changed much for the worse, and the papers to- night report him in a critical state. 09\14\1901 Saturday President Mc Kinley died this morning at 2:15 o'clock. We were first notified of his death by the toling of St. John's church bell at about six o'clock, then came the paper telling that death was caused by gangrene settung un around the bullets which Czolgosz shot into him. It is now said that the bullets were poisoned. 09\15\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 09\16\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day. I bought to day for Roland Jenner of Rogers and Brothers 6 tea spoons, 1 butter knife, and 1 sugar shell, for 2.50. 09\17\{1901} Tuesday Worked at factory to day. President Roosevelt has issued a procla- mation to the effect that next Thursday be observed by the Nation as President Mc Kinley's funeral day. 09\18\{1901} Wednesday I worked at the factory to day. Mr. George Rockwell, Secretary of the International combine, whose headquarters are at Rogers Bros. factory, said today ,"that nobody shall work in the factory tomorrow." This evening I attended a meeting of the democratic voters of the fifth ward, hwo appointed a committee of nine to make up a ward ticket. The meeting was held at N0. 10 Grand Street (up stairs). 09\19\{1901} Thursday This morning I got up at about six o'clock and the boys and I drilled a hole in a rock by the side of the road in front of the South garden, and after breakfast I blasted it. This being the day that expresident. Mc Kinley is to be buried at Canton, Ohio. The children went to school as usual where they remained till ten o'clock, and all the schools had memorial services appropriate to the day. For myself, Mary and I went to St. John's Church where union services of all the protestant churches in the City were held. There were so many that the church could not hold them and they had the Second Congregational church opened and had service there also. The service opened by a hymn by the boy choir, then prayer by Rev. Mr. Davenport, then, Hymn "Nearer my god to thee" by the congregation. This was followed by an address by Rev. Mr. Parry of the first Baptist church, next song, then prayer by Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's, then song and an address by Rev. Dr. Anderson, and service closed by the singing of "America" by all. After church was out Mary Margaret, Ruth, and I took the trolley car at the corner of the green and went to the Waterbury Cattle show and Fair which is being held at the driving park on the Watertown road, nearly all the cattle were taken away yesterday but Arthur Pierpont had forty five head there and there were a few more belonging to others. The poul- try exhibit was large and there was a great variety of fowls. The fruit and vegetable exhibit was rather small but what was there was very good. There was also a great variety of needle-work, pies, cakes, bread, etc., etc. There were a great num- ber of fakers and catch penny shows. For music they had the Waterbury military band, and the Drummer boy of the Rapponhannoe was there with his son and they played several pieces such as "Marching through Georgia" and several Durges. At about 12:30 a carriage drove onto the ground bring- ing Mayor Kilduff, Dr. Parry, and Father Slocum. All business was stopped and the Band played "Nearer my god to thee," after which Mayor Kilduff made a speech, after which the Rev. William Slocum of the Church of the immaculate conception, deliver- ed a very fine address. This was followed by a prayer by Rev. Dr. Parry. The exercises were held out of respect to our dead President. There were not many people at the fair, but as Margaret and I were coming down on the trolley we met ten cars crowded with people going to the fair, so that in the afternoon there was a great crowd there. Margaret and I came to the City hall which we reached at ten min- utes past two, and we went in only to find it crowded with people who had come to attend the Memorial Service in honor of President William Mc Kinley. The services opened at 2:30 with music by the American Band which played a portion of the twelfth Mass Lead Stindly Light, Holy City, and the Star Spangled Banner. Next came an address by Mayor E. G. Kilduff, then a prayer by Rev. F. D. Brickley, then the singing of the Hymn By the Audience, "Nearer, My God to Thee." Next an address by John O'neill. Next Song by the Concordia Society, then Address by Rev. Dr. Parry. Next, Hymn, "Lead Kindly Light" by a Quartette, then an address by Rev. William J. Slocum, next Singing of the Hymn, "America", by the audience. This was followed by the Benediction by Rev. Dr. J. G. Davenport. We got out of the hall as soon as we could and saw the Militia men, the Veterans of the war of the Rebellion, and the Sons of Veterans as they came out and marched away. At 3:30 o'clock the hour that President Mc Kinley's funeral started from the Church at Canton, Ohio. St. John's Church bell began to toll, and continued tolling about one half hour. At the same time all the trains in the United States no matter where they were came to a stand still and so remained for five minutes, as did also the trolley cars in Waterbury and I understand they did in nearly or all the other Cities. After the services in City Hall the American Band gave a Memorial Concert on the Green, which consisted of six selections as follows, March, Sacred Medley, Flower Song, Patriotic Selection Hymns, "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God to Thee" and Sang "Star Spangled Banner". After this Margaret and I boarded an East Main Street car where we were joined by Mary and Ruth who had just returned from the Driving park and we came home. 09\20\{1901} Friday I worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\21\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\22\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 09\23\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\24\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The trial of Leon Czolgosz began yesterday at Buffalo, N.Y. He is charged with murdering President Mc Kinley. 09\25\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. The jury found Czolgosz guilty of murder in the first degree yerter- day afternoon for the murder of President Mc Kinley. He is to receive his sentence tomorrow at 2 o'clock. 09\26\1901 {Thursday} Worked at the factory to day. The weather has been very nice all day. My name appears to day on the ticket of the Democratic party as a representative to the convention to nominate the candidates for the City school board. They have closed the Meriden road at Munson's corner which turns the travel of that thoroughfare down past our house. The road is closed be- cause they are taking down the bridge over the Mad River near Major Tucker's, and are taking it to replace the wooden bridges at the Mad River crossing near B. F. Hoggett. 09\27\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. Czolgosz, the murderer of President Mc Kinley, was sentenced to be electrocuted to day, during the week beginning Oct. 28th. 09\28\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. At the primary election held yesterday evening, the ticket that I was on was defeated. 09\29\1901 Sunday Rev. Dr. Anderson preached at Mill Plain Chapel. As the bridge across the Mad River on the Meriden road was down and there was no way of crossing, the attendance was small. 09\30\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros. to day. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met at my place for practice. Arthur Pierpont and his wife called and he reckoned up his accounts with Clyde in regard to their milk business. 10\01\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. I see by the papers to day that the Republicans nominated Judge Cowell for mayor and George Boughton and William Atkinson for selectmen last evening. 10\02\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Received my pay which amounted to thirteen dollars and fifty cents for last week's work. 10\03\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange. 10\04\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This morining and evening Irving and I worked drilling a deck hole in the big rock which is in the water ditch in the North West corner of my lot. 10\05\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory to day till five o'clock. After I got home from the shop we fired the blast in the big rock which blew it all to pieces. We used over 1/2 pound of black blasting powder and it moved every bit of the stone. 10\06\{1901} Sunday This morning Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, and I went over in the woods to the North East and picked up a lot of chestnuts. This afternoon we went to the Chapel and heard Rev. Mr. Parry preach. After we got home Mary and I went to Sam Wilson's who lives near the Great falls on the Mad River in Wolcott. We got home at about nine o'clock and it was very cold. 10\07\{1901} Monday This morning I got up at 5:30 o'clock and wrote several letters, after which we ate breakfast of hash potatoesm etc. Then, Pierpont carried me to Silver Street where I took the trolley car to the center as this is City election. I went immediately to attorney Porter Woods's office, but found it closed, but as I was coming away I met Mr. Benham and we went to City Hall and saw Town clerk Brett and asked him to draw up a motion to present at the annual town meeting providing that the tuition fee of scholars living in the town of Waterbury and attending the highschool in said town shall be paid by the town of Waterbury. Mr. Brett sent us to Town attorney Carmody but we could not find him, so Mr. Benham went in search of Mr. Wood and I went up in the hall and drew up a motion in writing as the time of calling the meeting had arrived, but just then Mr. Benham and Mr. Woods came with his motion and the meeting was called to order by Town Clerk Brett who read the warning, after which the Select men's yearly report was accepted, then the tuition motion was read by Mr. Woods and it was carried by a unanimous vote, after which the meeting ajourned to meet again at eight o'clock this evening, and the crowd dispersed to their several voting places. I went to the building erected for voting purposes of Scoville street and voted the straight Republican ticket for City officers, George H. Cowell for mayor, etc. I also voted against amending the constitution of the State of Connecticut. I then went to Hotchkiss and Templetons hard- ware store and bought two pounds of blunt toe calks for which I paid twelve cents. I then went to Dexter's Drug store and bought twenty five trolley car tickets for which I paid one dollar. I then took the trolley car home and then changed my clothes and went to the shop which I reached at ten o'clock, and worked till half past five. When I came home and after working a spell had supper of sweet potatoes, meat, etc. I have spent the evening in reading, writing, etc. The Mattatuck drum Corps met for practice this evening. 10\08\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The following were elected at yesterday's election: Mayor Edward G. Kilduff, democrat; City Clerk, Michael J. Ryan, democrat; City Treasurer, George A. Gibson, democrat; Comptroller, Michael D. Russel, dem.; Sheriff, John W. Mc Donald, dem.; Agents Bronson Library Fund; H. A. Fuller, dem., and Earl A. Smith, republican. Selectmen, Mortimer Doran, dem.; William T. Disley, dem., and George A. Boughton, republican. Board of Education: Isadore Chase, dem., George W. Russell, dem., Charles Y. Kent, dem.; Timothy J. Carmady, dem.; Dr. E. W. Goodenough, republican; Chas. S. Chapman, rep., and Wilfred E. Griggs. Town Clerk, Frank P. Brett, dem. Tax Collector, William E. Thoms, dem. Board of Relief: John J. Siefn, John F. Healey, and Edwin W. Biggerstaff, Rep. Constables: Maurice F. Carmady, dem.; Thomas H. Pryor, dem; Walter B. Lannen, dem; Edward J. Donahue, dem; William M. Gillette, rep. John Barrie, rep., and George O. Booth, rep. For Aldermen, the First, Second, and Third Wards went Republican and the Fourth and FIfth went Democratic. The question of Constitutional amend- ment was voted favorable. 10\09\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 10\10\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the Mad River Grange. 10\11\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory. 10\12\{1901} Saturday To day I have worked repairing the roof of my blacksmith shop. I mean the shop that I have leased to Mr. Laroque. This evening Irving and I went to the Chapel and repaired the walls of the pit that the furnace is set in. 10\13\1901 Sunday Rev. Mr. Pooley of Oakville preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Frank came to see me this afternoon and stayed till after Chapel commenced, so I did not get there till after service was over. 10\14\1901 Monday Worked at the factory to day till 9 o'clock. 10\15\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual, till 8:30 o'clock. Mrs. Levelette Upson is to keep house for Major Tucker. John Mc Coy has moved to day from the Cemetary house east of us to day to a house on east main street. 10\16\{1901} Wednesday Worked in the factory 10 hours to day. The Wolcott Fair was held to day and it is estimated that there were 9000 people there. 10\17\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory till 8:30 o'clock to night. 10\18\1901 Friday Worked at the factory till 8:30 o'clock. 10\19\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory to day till 4:30 o'clock. Irving and I shod Clyde's milk horse this evening. 10\20\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Pruner preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\21\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory 13 hours. 10\22\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory 13 hours. 10\23\1901 Wednesday This morning I got up at four o'clock and Irving and I went to the shop and we oiled up the shafting after which we came home and had breakfast and we got ready and Mary and I started and rove with old Nell to Cheshire depot where we put the horse in a barn owned by a widow lady. We then went to the depot to take the train for New Haven to attend the cel- ebration, this being the week of the Bi- Centennial of Yale College, President Roosevelt came to Farmington yesterday to visit his sister, and we understood that he was going to New Haven on the regular train on which we were going, but he came down on a special train of two cars and an engine ten minutes ahead of the regular. As the train passed the Cheshire station the President came to the rear door of the train and waved his hand. Our train was ten minutes late in reaching New Haven, and on looking out of the car windows we saw the Governor's Foor Guards in their Grenadier red coats and bear skin hats drawn up in line and ready to march. We got out of the cars and hurried fast as possible to get a glimpse of the president but we could not reach the column before it started. We hurried across streets and around blocks to reach the front of the parade but the crowd was every where and twice we were in time to see only the rear end, i. e. the rough riders and artillery. The buildings everywhere were trimmed with blue bunting and yellow chinese lanterns. While the president was going from the rail- road station to the Colleges, cannons were being fired from ships in the harbor and all of the Church bells in the City were ringing and many whistles were blowing altogether the President received a very patrioric reception. At ten o'clock several companies of the 1st Regt. C. N. G., headed by Colts band of Hartford, marched through Center street and formed on the right side of Elm Street at present arms. This was followed by the 2nd Regiment, 10 companies which lined up on Elm street, then the colored batallion followed, and lined up on Center street. Then came the Second Regiment band followed by the Governor's Foot Guards, the Gatlin Gun platoon, and the mounted infantry which lined up on Center Street. The procession came from Yale College and marched down Elm Street through Center to the Phelph Gate of the College, into the Campus and out through the Vanderbilt gate and across Chapel street to the Hyperion theater building. The procession was headed by a squad of Policemen, then came mounted marshalls followed by a brass band, then Yale College graduates, hundreds and thousands of them, some coming from the ends of the world to attend this bicentennial of Yale College. Hundreds of the graduates were clad in robes of various colors and hats with square tops also which distinguished their degree of learning. There were some there that graduated in 1830. Among the most noted graduates walked President Roosevelt. He was clad in gray citizen's clothes and President Hadley of Yale marched by him, while in front marched two detectives and six others followed. My wife and I stood in front of Center Church and I had a fine view of the President as he posed. He is a nice looking man though not so large as I expected to see. Back of the graduates came the Yale students but they could not get into the hall as it was already full uf the graduates. The title of L. L. D. was conferred upon the President in the Hyperion by Professor Hadley, after which he went to Proffesor Henry Farnum's house on prospect hill and had dinner. Mary and I waited in front of the Hyperion to see the President come out after the exercises were over, but he came out of the rear entrance and was driven up on block and over to Prospect hill, I heard the crowd cheer up the street and saw the mounted police and the President's carriage crossing the horses were on a dead run. Mary and I went through the Campus and into the Chapel. We also went into University hall which is not yet fully finished. We then walked out to East Rock and went up the Soldier's monument where we had a fine view of the surrounding country and the City and harbor although it was a little hazy. We then walked to Whitney avenue and took the trolley cars to Mount Carmel (fare 20 cts). We got our team and drove home, where I found Mr. Atkinson and Mr. B. F. Hoggett waiting to see me to find out about the boundaries of the highway that passes their houses. I told them that I would give them a copy of the original layout. 10\24\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. 10\25\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory ten hours. We did not work to night as the Rogers Bros. benefit association has a sociable in the City hall this evening and the boys and girls all want to go. 10\26\1901 Saturday Worked to day at the factory. This evening the boys and I drew stones out of the swamp. 10\27\{1901} Sunday I had to work in the factory putting a large pulley on the main shaft to run some new drops we are putting in. Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 10\28\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory thirteen hours to day. This evening two boys, Glen Cornelus and Elmer Coe of Wolcott, came to learn to drum. This is the week that Czolgoz, the murderer of President Mc Kinley, is to be electrocuted and the time is set for him to be put to death tomorrow morning at seven o'clock. 10\29\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory 13 hours to day. Leon Colgosz, the murderer of President Mc Kinley, was electrocuted at Auburn Prison, N.Y., this morning at 7:11. 10\30\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory 10 hours to day. 10\31\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory 13 hours to day. 11\01\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory 13 hours. Sent Post Office Order to John Wanamaker of New York for $1.50, a payment on Red- path's history of the World. 11\02\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory 9 hours but they give ten hours pay. Last night a delegation from the trim- ming room went before Mr. Rockwell in his office and complained of having to work nights in the dust and of the time of washing up being reduced, etc. He told them that he would have the best blower in the market put in next January that would exhaust all the dust out of the room, and that they might have twenty five minutes to cool their wheels and wash up in, but he hoped they would continue to get the work out as he was pushed with orders if part of them worked two nights and the other part two other nights. This was agreed to. Tonight after I got home I sharpened a lot of stone drills, and Irving and I made a hitching post out of a two inch bar of round iron. 11\03\{1901} Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. The Meriden turnpike is still closed to travel. They have but one {{abutmnt??}} partly built for the new bridge at the Mad River crossing near Major Tuckers. This morning I rode out to Gillette corners and saw John Mass about the horse that Mr. Sinnette wishes to sell me. 11\04\{1901} Monday Worked at Rogers & Brothers spoon factory 13 hours. 11\05\{1901} Tuesday Worked in the factory 13 hours. This is election day in which the people vote for representatives to the Constitutional Convention to be held to amend the constitution of the state of Connecticut. Stephen W. Kellogg and Francis P. Guil- foile were the candidates of Waterbury. The former Republican and the latter dem- ocrat. I did not go to vote. This afternoon Irving went to Mr. Sinnette's at Gillette's corners and got a large black horse that I am thinking of buying. 11\06\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening the Ladies union of Mill Plain Chapel society held a meeting and elected officers for the coming year. They also had a supper and entertainment. The entertainment was given by members of St. Paul's methodist church. 11\07\{1901} Thursday Worked in the factory 13 hours. 11\08\{1901} Friday Worked in the factory 13 hours. 11\09\{1901} Saturday Worked in the factory 5 hours. {11\10\1901 Sunday [no entry]} 11\11\1901 Monday Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Episcopal Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel yesterday afternoon. Saturday afternoon my wife and I started with our team and drove to Mr. Samuel Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] in Goshen center. We left home at 1:30 and went by way of the center of Waterbury to Watertown, then to East Morris and through Litch- field center to Goshen, which we reached at about 7 o'clock. He lives in the first house east of the meeting house on the Torrington road (on the south side of the road) The family consists of Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt], his wife, who was Marion Gillette of North Goshen, a cousin of mine, his mother, and Miss Rosa Hubbard, who has lived in the family for many years and is about 40 years of age. We stayed over night and the next forenoon Marion, Mary, and I went to Church. The edifice was about half-filled with people. Probably there would have been more there if the weather had not been so cold and windy. In the afternoon Mary and I went to the Cemetary and spent about an hour looking at the monuments, etc. We then returned to Mr. Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] and had supper, after which we went out to the barn and did the chores. I milked three of the cows out of his seventeen and Sam and Marion milked the rest. They then run the milk through a ma- chine which separated the cream from the milk. After the pigs, hens, horses, etc., had been cared for we went into the house and Marion played on her organ while she and I sang till bed time. We got up early this morning and did the chores after which we had breakfast and then started for home. We came though Goshen East Street, and over Chestnut hill in Litchfield where we stopped for an hour and a half and visited Mr. William Morse and wife. We also stopped at the new Branch dam which they are raising fifteen feet higher. They had a large force of men at work and four steam derricks in operation along the top of the dam. We then came through Renols bridge and Waterville home which we reached at half past four. 11\12\1901 Tuesday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. 11\13\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory 10 hours. To day we had the first snow of the season. 11\14\{1901} Thursday Worked thirteen hours at the factory. It snowed again to day so that it lay on the ground to the depth of two inches. I paid James Sinnelt twenty five dollars on the big black horse. 11\15\{1901} Friday Worked thirteen hours in the shop. Mr. Joseph Bloomfield died this morning at quarter past seven. He has worked for Rogers Bros. for the past 30 years and as night watchman 25 years. 11\16\1901 Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. 11\17\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffiatt preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 11\18\{1901} Monday Worked in the factory thirteen hours. 11\19\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening I went to the tax collector's office and saw Mr. Thoms about a bill of 80 cts he sent me with liens and casts which amounted in all to 2.48. He found that it was a mistake on his part and abated all but the 80 cts. 11\20\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening we went to the Chapel to a supper and an entertainment which was managed by Miss Fannie Porter. They cleared $12.64. 11\21\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. 11\22\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. I paid James Sinnett twenty five dollars to day, a balance owed him on a horse. 11\23\{1901} Saturday To day I worked ten hours. After work we shod old Nell. 11\24\{1901} Sunday This has been a very stormy day. This morning the snow lay on the ground about an inch thick and the wind blew very hard, but it began to rain at 8 o'clock and kept it up all day. Rev. Mr. Holden preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 11\25\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours to day. This evening Clyde, Pierpont, Irving, and myself went out to Ed Pritchard's place at Wedges and got an old mill- stone that I bought of William Howd several years ago. Saturday noght there was a man by the name of Bowe shot on the plank road by an Italian who lives in the Harper's Ferry house. Bowe and several others tried to get into the Italians' house and also threw stones at it. When the Italians fired and the shot struck Bowe in the stomach, he walked to the center and from there was carried home in a hack. He lived on Silvian avenue. At 10:30 P.M. he expired. The Italians are under arrest, charged with murder. 11\26\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. 11\27\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours 11\28\{1901} Thursday Thanksgiving day State of Connecticut By His Excellency George P. McLean, Governor, A Proclamation. In harmony with the sacred custom of the fathers, and in grateful recognition of the ever-present fulfilment of the promises of God, I hereby appoint Thanksgiving the twenty- eighth day of November, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, and I recommend that the people of Connecticut, as the children of one father, dedicate this day to deeds of charity and brotherly love and in their churches and homes render praise and thanksiving to the God of Nations, for the full measure of peace and plenty he has given to our beloved commonwealth. Given under my hand and seal of the State, at the Capitol at Hartford, this fifteenth day of November, on the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, and the independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-sixth. George P. Mc Lean By his Excellency's Command: Charles G. R. Winal, Secretary. The Somers family met at the home of Andrew W. Goldsmith on Clay St. There were present 41 persons. They were: uncle Dwight Somers and Wife and Joe and Eugene Smith, uncle Joe and family of five; Uncle Goldsmith and family of two; Father and Cara, Iva, and Mother; George Somers and WIfe; Robert Somers, Wife and child; William Gillette, Charles Phillips and Wife; myself, Wife, and six children; Frank Miller and wife; Ben Chatfied, Frank Frisbie, Rolland Jenner, Wife and two daughters, and Amy Miller. 11\29\{1901} Friday I worked at the factory ten hours. The weather has been very cold. 11\30\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening I went out to Adelbert Hitch- cock's in Wolcott to see if I could sell old Nell. 12\01\{1901} Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 12\02\1901 Monday Worked thirteen hours at Rogers & Brother's factory. Saturday evening at about quarter to six as two brothers James and John Sinnett, who live with their father on the Chatfield place on the plank road at Gillett's corner, were driving home from work the britchen broke as they were descending the hill in front of Robert Hotchkiss and the horse broke into a run and became unmanage- able and as they turned the corner by the Wedge place the buggy tipped and they were thrown out. John struck on his head and was unconscious when James found him. James also received a head wound and his wrist was broken. He carried his brother into Mr. Blackburn's house and they sent for Dr. Donahue who ordered James taken to the hospital where he died at ten minutes past three this morning. The brothers worked at Rogers & Brothers. James is a polisher and John a rooler. {12\03\1901 Tuesday [no entry]} {12\04\1901 Wednesday [no entry]} {12\05\1901 Thursday [no entry]} {12\06\1901 Friday [no entry]} {12\07\1901 Saturday [no entry]} 12\08\1901 Sunday I have been busy, tired, and indolent for the past five days that I have failed to keep a record each day. Tuesday I worked 13 hours at the factory. Wednesday I worked 10 hours. In the evening the ladies' Union gave a supper and entertain- ment at the Chapel. I had charge of the en- tertainment, which was furnished by the Driggs school Orchestra under the management of Miss Niven, Principal; I furnished three of the five teams that carried the entertainers from the trolley cars to the Chapel, and also paid their car fare, 1.12. Thursday I worked at the factory thirteen hours. Friday " " " " " fifteeen " Saturday " " " " ' ten " Today Mr. Bishop, a layman, preached at Mill Plain Chapel. The weather has been very cold some of the time during the past week. Yesterday morning the thermometer stood at seven below zero, but to day the weather has been warmer so it has thawed a little. The sleighing has been good for the past three days. 12\09\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory thirteen hours to day. The weather has been warmer and it has thawed quite a little. 12\10\{1901} Tuesday Worked thirteen hours. 12\11\{1901} Wednesday Worked ten hours. 12\12\{1901} Thursday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. 12\13\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory thirteen hours. 12\14\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. 12\15\{1901} Sunday Rev. Mr. Pruner preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 12\16\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours. Clyde began peddling milk for Arthur Merriman yesterday. Merriman has bought out Arthur Pierpont's day route. 12\17\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. 12\18\{1901} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening the Ladies' union held a supper and entertainment at the Mill Plain Chapel. All of my family attended. The price of supper was 15 cts each, and the entertainment consisted of recitations, music on violin and piano together with singing, and a dialogue entitled the district school. 12\19\1901 Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening I went to the Chapel and helped tie greens for christmas. 12\20\{1901} Friday Worked ten hours to day at the factory. This evening I went to the chapel and helped trim it for christmas. 12\21\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening I went to the Chapel and helped trim it for Christmas. 12\22\{1901} Sunday Had Christmas service at Chapel. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached and the Choir rendered several special selections. 12\23\{1901} Monday Worked at Rogers Brothers factory ten hours. This morning at about 8 o'clock Clyde and Irving were geting some christmas trees for Rev. Dr. Davenport over on the ledge by the Mad River and in order to get such trees as they wanted they sowed the tops off from some very high hemlock trees. As Clyde was descending one of the tall trees two of the branches that he had hold of broke at the same time and he fell a distance of twenty five feet to the ground. He called and Irving went to his assistance and helped him get home. They hitched up soon as possible and drove to Dr. Barber's office on North Main Street and found that Clyde had sprained his left wrist and broken his fore finger on the right hand and cut and bruised his head besides several other bruises about the body. 12\24\1901 {Tuesday} Worked at the factory ten hours to day. This being Christmas eve the factory closed at 5 o'clock. I received my pay for last week's work which amounted to 13.50. Clyde has been in bed nearly all day. His hand is badly swollen. 12\25\{1901} Wednesday This is Christmas day. This morning the children were up early and dressed and then went down stairs and opened their stockings and found them full of presents. I foun in mine a watch made by New England Watch Co. of this City. On the wrapper was written Papa from Clyde, Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, Raymond, and Mama. This noon we went to Father's where all of my brothers and sisters and their wives were assembled, except Fred and his wife who live in Detroit. In the afternoon we had dinner, and in the evening a christmas tree for the Children, but there were some presents for the grown up people. I received a linen handkerchief from Clyde. 12\26\{1901} Thursday Worked at the Chapel this evening with Hiram, Able, and Agnes getting ready for the Christmas entertainment tomorrow evening. Worked at the factory ten hours. Rogers & Brothers factory finished 35,000 gross of spoons, knifes, forks, ladles, etc., this past yeat. 12\27\{1901} Friday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening the Mill Plain Chapel held its Christmas celebration. The Chapel was filled full of people, both young and old. The programs consisted of Recitations, songs, dialogues, music, etc. They also had a Christmas tree and a fire place. A Santa Claus came in through the fire place and gave presents to all the scholars and teachers. 12\28\{1901} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. The spoon shop shut down to night for the new year's vacation. 12\29\{1901} Sunday Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The day has been very stormy and the attendance was small. 12\30\{1901} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours repairing. 12\31\{1901} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. Repairing the engine, Mr. Beniji Lockwood of the Charles Engine Co. of Providence, R. I., where the engine was made thirty years ago, has charge of the work and I am helping him. [[end of 1901 entries]] [[CSM 1902]] 01\01\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours on the engine. This evening the Ladies Union gave an oyster supper and entertainment at the Chapel. 01\02\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange, and all of the young folks went skating up on Frost's pond. 01\03\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory 10 hours. 01\04\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory 10 hours. The highway and new bridge at the crossing of the Mad River at the old tannery pond on the Meriden Road is now open to the public. The weather is very cold to day. 01\05\1902 Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Yesterday the papers contained an account of the sinking of the steam ship Wala-Wala off cape Menecino on the Pacific coast which had been run into by a French bark. Cousin Willie Goldsmith was supposed to have been on board as this is the ship that he sailed. This morning a telegram came from the ship Company that he was aboard. but was among those that was saved. The Walla Walla went down last Thursday. 01\06\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day piping and also at other odd jobs. This evening Irving, Pierpont and I went to the Chapel and took down a portion of the furnace pipe which is rusted out and am going to send in to Barlow Brothers to be repaired. I then called on Charles Mashier and talked over Chapel business. 01\07\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours this day. This evening the Foresters Fair opened at the Grange hall. I went up to Farm street to see Rev. Mr. Bassett. I found him in the basement of the church conducting a prayer meeting which was well attended. After the meeting was over I did my business with him and drove home. 01\08\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory 10 hours to day. James Gibbons, who works at the shop, injured his foot by driving a pick ax through it. I did it up and stopped the flow of blood so that they could take him down to the doctor. 01\09\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. 01\10\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening the boys and I went to the Chapel and took down the Christmas green and tried to put up the new furnace pipe but it would not go as it is too small. Cousin Willie Goldsmith telegraphe from San Francisco that he was aboard the Walla Walla but wass all O.K. He sent the message last Sunday night. 01\11\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory ten 1/2 hours. The boys and I went to the chapel and put up the furnace pipe and oiled the clock and swept out the building. 01\12\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Waters of Wolcott preached at the Chapel. I worked at the factory this forenoon form 9 to 12 o'clock putting wooden cogs in a big iron {{belvel??}} gear which we have got to run tomorrow when we start up the shop. This evening Margaret and I went up to Woodtick and saw Mr. Gustave Cornelius. Were gone from home one hour. 01\13\1902 Monday Worked at the factory ten hours. They started up the factory to day, all except the trimming, plating, burnishing, buffing, and packing rooms. 01\14\{1902} Tuesday I went to work at six this morning as I had to put the gear in that runs the trimming room and they wanted to start it up. I came home and ate breakfast after seven o'clock. To day we put a large exhaust fan in place in the trimming room whixh has thegreatest capacity of any exhaust fan in Waterbury. It is a 60" double fan, is to make 1300 revolutions per minute and weighs 1 and 1/2 tons. Laurence Tobin and I went to the vacant factory of Rogers and Hamilton and took out a bolting box and a large belt pulley off from the main shaft in the making room, and we got their chain tackles, all of which we brought to Rogers & Brothers factory. 01\15\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. I had charge of the entertainment at the Chapel to night. 01\16\{1902} Thursday Worked as usual to day 10 hours. This evening Mary and I attended the grange. Mr. Rich of Meriden left a type writer to day. 01\17\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory ten hours to day. 01\18\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory 9 hours. 01\19\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preaches at the Chapel to day. Aside from going to Chapel I stayed home all day and did some copying on the typewriter which is a Blickensderfer. 01\20\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended the first meeting of the City board of ed- ucation, and the Committees of the outlying school districts. The object of the meeting was to form some plan by which the City board and the district Committees can work together in harmony. Secretary Charles D. Hine, of the State board of education, was there and addressed the meeting and also gave much useful information. 01\21\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. 01\22\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening Clyde and I lengthened out a set of reach irons one foot for Arthur Merriman for which I charge 1.00. Raymond, F. Pierpont, Irving, and Margaret all have the mumps. 01\23\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. This noon we started up the new exhaust fan in the trimming room. It is a double 60 in. fan, of greater capacity than any other in this City and requires 38 horse power to drive it. 01\24\1902 Friday Worked at the factory today. 01\25\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. All odf my children except Ruth are confined to the house with the mumps. 01\26\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Claskey conducted the Episcopal service at the Mill Plain Chapel. Mr Claskey is assistant to Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church. St. John's church was originally St. James Church. 01\27\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours as usual. This evening I filed a wood saw for Milan Northrop and also one for Ed Branson. My five children who have the mumps are a little better. The weather is very warm and rainy. Have had but little cold weather so far. 01\28\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours. 01\29\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. Pierpont, Raymond, and Margaret have recovered from the mumps and went to school to day. We attended an entertainment at the Chapel which was given by the young Ladies. 01\30\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. Mary ent to the Grange this evening but I stayed home and did some copying on the typewriter. 01\31\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory 10 hours. 02\01\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory nine hours. This evening Irving and I went to Woodtick to instruct a class indrumming. We had frosted coke, cocoa, and other refreshment which Miss Cornelius prepared. {02\02\1902 Sunday [no entry]} 02\03\1902 Monday Yesterday the weather was wet, stormy, and cold. The wind blew a gale. In the afternoon I attended divine service at the Mill Plain Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Parry of the Grand Street Baptist church officiated. After supper Mary and I went down to Father's. We had not been there when the fire alarm whistle blew three blasts which was a signal that there was a fire in exchange place. This was at 6:30 P.M. Wm. Gillette, who was there, thought that it might be his father's office, as he had had a large wood fire there in the afternoon, and he started to take the trolley car to go down. Iva happened to go to the kitchen and called our attention to the red sky and I saw a blaze which led me to think that a big fire had started, so I slipped on my overcoat and articles and started but met Will outside of the yard coming back. He said that it was a big fire and he wanted to take his horse, so we went to he barn and hitched him into Father's buggy and started first on a trot then a gallop, and finally on a run. We left the horse at Philo B. Norton's stable and walked to exchange place which we reached at 6:50 and found that the fire was at Reid & Hughes dry goods tore on the West side of Bank street. The wind was blowing fierce and soon the building was wrapped in flames and the ajoining buildings were igniting. Then a general alarm calling out the en- tire fire department of the city was sounded but it was to non purpose. The flames spread to the buildings on the East side of Bank street and across, sweeping all before them to South Main street, which it crossed, and burned the buildings to Brook street. They also spread to the Franklin Hotel and burned the long row of blocks along Grand Street to Levenworth street. Chief enginer Snagg and Mayor Kilduff, seeing that the center of the City was likely to be burned out, called on Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Torrington, Nagatuck, and Watertown for help, and they all responded by sending hose pipe and steamers, so at one time we had seven steamers at work. By midnight the fire seemed to be under control and I came home. At 2 A.M. I looked and could see no signs of fire but at 5 the heavens were all aglow, and the wind still blowing. When I went to work I drove down and found that the Scoville house was in ruins, it haveng taken fire at about two o'clock, from some unknown cause. The fire had burned, besides the Scoville House, all but three blocks from Center Street to Grand street, on the West side of Bank, and the same number on the East side, and all but three blocks from exchange place to Scoville street on the West side of South Main, and four on the East side, and all the buildings from Bank to Levenworth streets, on Grand, except the Waterbury Bank and one house. The loss is estimated at $3,000,000. Such a fire was never known of before in this City, and probably not in the state. At about nine o'clock fifteen strokes were sounded on the City hall bell which out the entire militia force, and they were set on guard duty at the streets where the firemen were at work and also to guard the property which had been saved. 02\04\{1902} Tuesday Worked ten hours at the factory. The chief topic of conversation of every- body has been the Great Fire. Last evening a train from Meriden brought over 500 people, and the City is filled with strangers to day. There were thirty buildings destroyrd by the fire, and more than one hundred business establishments. 02\05\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. The City is thronged with visitord who come to view the ruins of the fire. The train that brought the steamer from New Haven was comoposed of an engine, flat car, and caboose, with the firemen in the caboose when they left New Haven, but soon the speed in- creased so that the steamer began to rock on its fastenings on the car and the firemen had to go out and hold it on. The train went faster, and faster, till it passed the beacon where they saw the fire, and the engineer threw the throttle wide open and the speed was so great that the men feared they would be swept from the car in going round the curves. This together with the driving snow and wind benumbed them so they were nearly frozen when they reached Waterbury. They declared that the speed and cold made it the most diagreeable ride ever taken in this vicinity. The run from New Haven to Waterbury was made in thirty two minutes. The run from Hartford was made in forty one minutes. A man who was at the depot at New Britain when the train passed told me that he saw only a streak as it passed. 02\06\1902 Thursday Worked as usual. This evening Irving and I worked ironing Arthur Merriman's milk wagon. Mary and Clyde went to the Grange. 02\07\{1902} Friday Worked as usual. I went to town to night after work. After supper we worked on the milk wagon. 02\08\{1902} Saturday Worked as usual. Irving and I went to Mr. Cornelius to teach the boys to drum. 02\09\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Caskey, who is assistant to Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church, preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. News has reached us to day that a great fire is raging in Paterson, New Jersey. The loss has already reached millions. 02\10\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours. The loss at the Paterson fire is reported at $2,000,000. 02\11\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 02\12\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening we went to the Chapel. During the entertainment I recited "The Song of the Camp." 02\13\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening I worked ironing Arthur Merriman's milk wagon. 02\14\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening we worked on Arthur Merriman's milk wagon. 02\15\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory ten hours. Margaret Julia Mills and I went to Woodrick this evening. 02\16\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I had to work at the shop six hours. 02\17\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours. About 15 inches of snow fell to day. The girls on the hand burnishing and machine burnishing rooms went home at noon. 02\18\{1902} Tuesday Worked ten hours. 02\19\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. We got up this morning at 5 o'clock and the boys and I put the wagon body on the sled so that Irving could get a load of coal this afternoon At half past five I went to Mr. Able's and got Miss Agnes and carried fer in the sleigh down past the Mattatuck factory as the snow drifts were very deep along the Doolittle road. At quarter to seven I left home and went to work. Pierpont {is} going to bring back the team. After work to night Pierpont came after me and we went to Turnbull's store and saw the famous painting of the blacksmith which is valued at $50,000. After supper I filed a saw for Wilson Pierpont. 02\20\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary, Clyde, and I went to the Grange. 02\21\{1902} Friday Worked as usual to day. It has snowed nearly all day but only about 5 inches has fallen. 02\22\{1902} Saturday Washington's birthday. When I got up this morning at 5 o'clock I looked out and saw that the snow lay deep on the ground and it was still snowing hard. We dug out the paths about the house and barn and then hitched up old John into the pring, and Clyde started ahead horseback with old Nell and we went up the Doolittle road to Manson's corner and broke out the road. When we came back we stopped at Mr. Abel's and Mrs. Abel wished us to get some pancake flower and 50 cts worth of fresh pork when we went to town. We started for town about half past nine and as there had been only one team in the Cheshire road it was slow traveling. We went first to J. G. Jones's insurance office in the Apothecaries Hall where I had the insurance on my shop renewed, which expired yesterday. The amount was $1000 and the premium I had to pay was 27.00. We then got a lot of groceries at Turnbull's general store on East Main St. Some oysters at Hemingway's, and a box of crackers at the National Biscuit Co.'s. Mr. Abel's goods we got at Mc Carty's. Business in general was at a stand still, although a few shops were running. The trolley cars only ran from the Car barns to the center. It stopped snowing at about five o'clock and the snow is about two and one half feet deep on the level, including the 15 inches that fell a few days ago. 02\23\1902 Sunday This morning we went to the Chapel and dug out the paths. No teams got through the Meriden road to day. The drifts are very deep. There were 26 at the Sunday school, but there was no service. At about six this evening two engines came in the Meriden railroad and plowed it out, but they have only got the trolley cars running to Benedict and Burnham's, on the South Main street line. 02\24\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. A stranger who was a tramp and whose home is in Mass., was discovered by Dr. Axtelle to have the small pox as he was talking with two policemen on Bank street this forenoon. He was immediately taken to the pest house, and an old man who had had it sent to take care of him. He was aged 28 years. He had stayed in the police station one night and in the Salvation Army home three nights, so that a large number of people had been exposed. 02\25\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning I drove to Hiram Able's and got Olive and Agnes and carried them to the Trolley car track at Silver street as they could not walk on account of the deep soft snow, it having rained all night. This evening I went to town after work, and brought the Abel girls home from the end of the trolley track. The slush was knee deep most of the way and the Doolittle road was nearly impassible. 02\26\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. The weather to day has been rather warm, and the travelling very bad. This morning I carried the Abel Girls to Silver Street and met them there at night and carried them home. {02/27/1902} Thursday Worked to day at the factory as usual. This morning I carried the Abel girls to the trolley cars so that they could go to work. The travelling was the worst I ever saw. This evening when I went to the trolley cars to meet the Abel girls. (Agnes works in the New England Watch shop, and Olive works at Rogers Bros.) I found a long line of men and women standing on a point of firm snow that ran out into the slush which was knee deep. I drove out to them and carried them to the sidewalk corner of Silver and East Main Streets I had my large box sleigh and made two trips. I then carried the Abel girls home. 02\28\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. This morning I sent Clyde up after the Abel girls, and then carried them to Silver street. It has rained hard nearly all day and this evening when Pierpont came for me at the shop I soon had a big load of girls in my sleigh who wished to be carried to the side walk on East Main Street I carried one load and came back for another, in the two loads I carried about thirty. I then carried Bertha French and Olive Abel home. 03\01\1901 {1902} Saturday Worked at the factory ten and one half hours. This morning when I got to the shop they had cut the 24 inch belt off the engine fly wheel on account of the high water. It took till 8:30 to put it on again and then it ran till 4 o'clock when the high water forced us to cut it off again. The weather has been very warm and the snow has melted fast. 03\02\{1902} Sunday This day I worked at the factory from 9 till 2 o'clock, putting on the 24 in. main belt which was taken off yesterday after- noon on account of the high water while we were putting it on the river rose over a foot, as it was raining very hard and the weather was warm. 03\03\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 03\04\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. The doctors are having a rush of business vaccinating people. They charge one dollar each and some of them vaccinate over one hundred a day. The snow is nearly all gone and the weather is warm. 03\05\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This is pay- day and I received my pay Fifteen dollars and nineteen cents for last week's work. This morning it began snowing at about 8:30 o'clock and has kept it up ever since. There is about nine inches on the ground. This evening Irving came for me with the wood sled, and I carried Olly Able, Elsie Anderson, and Bertha French, home. 03\06\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 03\07\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\08\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening it stormed hard and I stayed home and worked on picture frame. 03\09\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Caskey preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 03\10\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. It is reported that there are 15 cases of small- pox in town to day. 03\11\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. All of the employees of the New England Watch Factory are ordered to be vaccinated by Drs. Axtelle and Anderson at the Company's expense. They began at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. All of the school children are ordered by the board of education to be vaccinated by next Thursday or they cannot attend school. 03\12\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Another case of small pox has broken out this morning and the patient has been removed to the pest house. All of the school children in the out lying districts are ordered vaccinated by next Monday or they cannot attend school Supper and Entertainer in charge of the Young men. 03\13\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\14\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day. There were two more cases of small pox reported to day making eighteen in all. Gregory Byrnes, son of Stephen, was drowned in the mud hole opposite the Farmers Home this afternoon he was aged seventeen years. 03\15\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day 10 hours. This evening Irving and I went up to Mr. Clemmet Cornelus in Wood- tick and gacve the Wolcott boys a drumming lesson. We stayed there till 9:15 o'clock when we drove down to Theodore Munson's where a large number of friends and neighbors had assembled and surprised Mrs. Mun- son. It being her birth-day 33 years old, we stayed there till after midnight. 03\16\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Pruner preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This forenoon I rode horseback out to Morris Burger's in prospect, and from there to Henry Hodges and then North up the old Bound road and across the lots by the old Poach place onto the Scott road and home. The mud was breast deep on the horse in many places. 03\17\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This morning we sent the children to school, but the teachers sent them home again because they had not been vaccinated. There were only about 18 out of the whole three rooms that were vaccinated. In the three rooms were about 100 scholars. 03\18\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The factory commenced working till 7 o'clock last night, but I did not work. This evening I vaccinated Margaret, Ruth, Frank Pierpont, and Raymond with vaccine points purchased of H. W. Lake for 10 cts. 03\19\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. There are 23 cases of small pox in town now. Mary vaccinated me this evening. 03\20\{1902} Thursday I worked at the factory to day ten hours. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 03\21\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon notices were posted in all the rooms at the factory to the effect that all of the employees not previously vaccinated must be at the expense of the Company. 03\22\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening Irving and I went to William French's at Wolcott Center and gave drum- ming lessons to about a dozen of the Wolcott boys. We had a rough muddy ride. In some places the mud was so deep that the wheels went in up to the hubs. Although the snow has been all but gone about here for some time, there are many drifts left in Wolcott. There was one near the Fairground where the road from Hag- field comes to the main road that is six feet deep. 03\23\1902 Sunday To day I worked at the factory seven hours putting up a set of idle pulleys over where the roughers out men work. Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Yesterday Dr. Anderson came to the shop to vaccinate the people that work there. There were but 38 vaccinated out of the 400 that work there. 03\24\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\25\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 03\26\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening all of us went to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment given by the Young people. To day Clyde took old Nell down to Sackett's stable and had her sold at auction. She brought 15.00. 03\27\1902 Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 03\28\{1902} Friday This is "Good Friday", a legal holiday. Business is generally suspended but our shop worked except the packing, buffing, plating, and burnishig rooms. 03\29\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Irving, Harry Buckingham, and I went to Mr. Cornelus's house in Woodtick and gave a drumming lesson to the following boys: Clemmet, Gustave, and Charlie Corneilus, Chris Tuttle, Francis Taft, Edward Garthwait, Elair Baker, and several others. The weather to day has been damp and foggy and the roads were quite muddy. 03\30\{1902} Sunday They wanted me to work at the factory to day connecting the main shaft with the new shaft that they are putting through the center of the polishing room, but my arm which was vaccinated has been so bad that I did not work, and could not, and I am very glad as I do not like to work Sundays. Rev. Mr. Fletcher of Oakville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This is Easter Sunday and the Chapel looked very nice with all of the flowers about the alter. 03\31\{1902} Monday This morning I went to the factory and worked one half hour when I came home because I did not feel well from the effect of vaccination. This forenoon the boys and I began painting the house white. This evening the following members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps went to Nangatuck and attended a concert and sociable given by the Nangatuck Drum Corps. Fifers: Clifford Heaton, Harry Buckingham, Sam Squires, and Clyde Miller; Snare Drummers: Howard Neal, Irving Miller, myself and Gardener Hall; Bass Drummer: Henry Buckingham. 04\01\{1902} Tuesday Worked at factory. 04\02\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning, about 6 o'clock, the fire bell on City Hall and the Fire alarm whistle on the electric power house sounded number 54 and it turned out to be at the corner of River and Baldwin Streets. The fire was caused by one Mrs. Stack, who lived on Pemberton street who it is supposed attempted to light a fire with kerosine oil by pouring it from a lamp into the stove. The lamp exploded which set her clothing on fire and she was burned to death. Her husband who was asleep in an ajoining room rushed in and tried to save her but he was also burned so that it is ex- pected that he cannot live. A young son of Mr. and Mrs. Stacks died yesterday and they had a Wake last night which lasted till 5 o'clock this morning when the last of the people went away. 04\03\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the Grange. 04\04\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory. 04\05\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening Margaret, Ruth, and I went to Woodtick and I gave a lesson in drumming to a class of boys. 04\06\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Parry preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 04\07\1902 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather has been dull and rainy. This evening I worked finishing and varnishing eight oak picture frames that I had made for pictures 14 X 18 inches. 04\08\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The small pox has broken out in the family of Mr. Trepania of Silver street again, and they have two policemen guarding the house. 04\09\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening all of my family attended the supper and entertainment given by the married men at the Chapel. The supper was excellent and the enter- tainment the best so far this season. 04\10\{1902} Thursday Worked as usual. After work I went to town. 04\11\1902 Friday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers ten hours as usual. 04\12\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. Freddie Jones went to work at the factory this morning. This evening Irving, Harry Buckingham and I went to William French's house on Wolcott hill and gave drumming in- structions to Clement & Cornelis, Gustave Cornelis, Elmer Coe, Francis Scott, Marty Taft, Hilaire Baker, Edward Garthwait, Theodore Wielers, Cyrus Tuttle, Rollo Hammel, and Herbert Snow were not there. 04\13\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Stanfield of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 04\14\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Dr. Kilmartin, the health officer, reports finding three more cases pf small pox to day. This makes more than 50 cases that the Board of health claims to have found, but it is my opinion that there is not a case of genuine small pox in the City of Waterbury. 04\15\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 04\16\{1902} Wednesday Worked in the factory. 04\17\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. Got up at 5 o'clock and painted on the house till it was time to go to the shop and painted again after supper. {04\18\1902} Friday Worked as usual in the factory. 04\19\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory till half past four. This evening I went to Wolcott to give a lesson in drumming to a class of boys. Margaret and Ruth went with me and I left them at Mr. Clement Cornelius's in Woodtick while I went to Mr. Harvey Coe's at Hagfields and instructed the boys. 04\20\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett of the Farm Street Methodist Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel to day. 04\21\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Dr. Linsley of Hartford and Dr. Townsend of New Haven, members of the State board of health, were in town to day and examined the patients at the Pest- house, and 30 others who are sick at their own homes, 70 in all and pro- nounce it small pox. 04\22\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary, Irving, and I went to the Chapel and got the tables etc. ready for the fair which is to be held tomorrow night and the night after. The girls came and trimmed the tables and booths etc. There were Alice Beckwith, Bertha and Clara French, Agnes and Olive Able, Mrs. Munson, my wife and others, Clarance Warden, Clifford Heaton Irving, Robert Beckwith were also there, beside Hiram Abel. 04\23\1902 Wednesday This morning I repaired the buggy till it was time to go to the shop. I went to work as usual at Rogers & Bros. but soon went to the factory of Rogers & Hamilton on the upper end of North Main Street and worked there with Laurence Tobin and John Templeton taking out machinery till twenty minutes to twelve, when we took the trolley car and came to Rogers & Bros. factory and had our dinner we then went back and took down shafting etc. till night, the machinery and shafting is to be brought to Rogers Bros. factory. At 5.15 we came again to Silver Street on the electric car and Tobin and Templeton went to the shop and I came home. The Fair at Mill Plain Chapel opened to night, but I did not go, as I felt tired and sick, but went to bed at 8 o'clock. I would like to note here that Mrs. Homer Twitchell of Union City died Sunday afternoon at one o'clock of an internal cancer, she was buried at East Farms cemetery yesterday afternoon by the side of her former husband Mr. William E. Austin, she was formerly Miss Hattie Ashton. 04\24\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening I went to the Fair at the Chapel, there was a large attendance and the entertainment which consisted of music by an Orchestra was good. 04\25\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening we painted on the house. 04\26\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Irving, Harry Buckingham, Clifford Heaton, and I went to Woodtick to the house of Charles S. Tuttle to give instructions to my little drummers. 04\27\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. 04\28\{1902} Monday Worked as usual to day. This morning and evening we painted on the house. The Mattatuck Drum Corps held a meeting this evening. 04\29\{1902} Tuesday Worked as usual. This morning we painted on the house. This evneing it rained a little so we plowed the East garden partly. 04\30\{1902} Wednesday Worked to day in the factory of Rogers & Brothers. The Government of the United States appro- priated yesterday $130,000.00 for a public building in Waterbury. 05\01\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\02\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\03\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening Irving, Harry Buckingham and I went to Wolcott and taught a number of boys to drum. 05\04\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon, the building was well filed. 05\05\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual to day. {last sentence is unintelligible??} Corps held a meeting in my carriage house, and elected the following officers for the coming year. Leader, Clifford Heaton, assistant Leader Irving Miller, Secretary Charles S. Miller, Treasurer Gardener Hall. 05\06\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to James Slovell's and paid my last year's school tax which amounted to $21.00 and interest 1.60 rate of taxation 15 mills. We learned to day that a great fire last night destroyed the central part of the town of New Milford causing a loss of $500,000.00. 05\07\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day, ten hours. This evening we finished planting our onions. 05\08\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evneing everybody attended an orange supper at the Chapel which consisted of orange shortcakes, oranges cut up, and meats, pies etc. etc. There was also a fine entertainment which consisted of recitations, singing, violin and piano, music etc. The Chapel was well filled to overflowing and the net proceeds were about thirty dollars and a profit of about $20.00. I presented the Chapel with one dozen silver spoons, one dozen silver knives and forks, which Mr. Frank Ells of Rogers & Brothers gave me. 05\09\{1902} Friday Worked at Rogers & Brothers as usual. After work to day I went to towna nd bought a pair of shoes at Allen and Bradley's for $1.25. 05\10\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. This evneing Clyde, Irving, Harry Buckingham, Clifford Heaton and I went to Harvey Coe's in Wolcott and taught about seventeen boys to fife and drum. After we were through practicing they passed "raspberry schrub" to drink. 05\11\1902 Sunday Rev. Mr. Stanfield of the Waterville episcopal church preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This afternoon I measured the walnut tree which we set up about three rods eastward of the North East corner of my house and it measured one and one half inches. 05\12\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice, on motion of Howard Neal it was voted that the dues be paid during the past winter months. 05\13\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. We finished painting the windows in our house to day. This evening Constable Ray Perkins came and summoned Mary to appear before the Superior Court at Waterbury to- morrow at 10 o'clock as creditor in a case against Austin B. Pierpont who assigned insolvent debtor in March 1899. 05\14\{1902} Wednesday This morning I got up at 5 o'clock and marked out a pair of homes for Clyde to take to town and have sowed out on a band saw. I then ate my breakfast and went to the shop where I worked one hour oiling up the shafting, I then came home and changed my clothes and Mary and I walked to the trolley car at Silver Street and then rode to the center, and went immediately to the Court house on Levenworth Street where the Superior Court met at ten o'clock Judge Robinson presided. The charge of fraud was brought against Austin B. Pierpont and his son Arthur J. Pierpont and an attempt was made to prove that Austin sold his farm to Arthur on Mar 1st 1899 to prevent those that he owed from having it when he assigned in June 19.00 the witnesses for the plaintiff were William Tyler of Bucks Hill, Chas Bennett, of Cheshire, Warren Hall of Waterbury, Valentine Bohl of this City, Mr. Linsley of Woodbury, Henry Nettleton of Washing- ton, Mrs. Austin B. Pierpont, Mrs. Mary A Pierpont, and my wife. TGhe Witnesses for the defense were Austin B. Pierpont, Arthur J. Pierpont, Edwin Todd of Marion, George W. tucker, John Pierpont, D.B. Wilson and myself. The creditors claimed their several amounts aggregated over $29,000 and placed the price of the farm at $10,000. It was proved that Arthur bought the farm in good faith not knowing of his father's indebtedness at the time, and the Judge decided the case in his favor. 05\15\{1902} Thursday I got up at four o'clock this morning and Clyde and I went to Hiram Able's and ploughed his gardens, we got home soon after six, and I ate my breakfast and went to the shop. Irving dislocated his thumb this even- ing while jumping over the fence in front of the house. Dr. Lodge set it, charged $1.00. Mary and Clyde went to the Grange. 05\16\{1902} Friday Worked in the shop to day. 05\17\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Went to Wolcott this evening. 05\18\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The consolidated Rail Road commenced running regular trains from Waterbury to New Haven, by way of Cheshire to day. 05\19\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 05\20\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. To night Mary and I went to Middlebury and attended the Grange meeting there. 05\21\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 05\22\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\23\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. 05\24\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening I went to the City to see George Platt about turning out Decoration day. 05\25\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 05\26\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band met at my house this evening. 05\27\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. Last night the horse that Clyde and Arthur Merriman were peddling milk with got frighten- ed at the cars at Silver Street and dashed down past the spoon shop just at the people that work there were coming out, there were many narrow escapes. 05\28\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory this day. This evneing the Mill Plain Chapel Society held its annual meeting at the Chapel and elected the following Officers Committee to represent the Episcopal denomination Austin B. Pierpont Com. for the Congregational Charles S. Miller for the Baptist Robert Warden for the Methodist Hiram Abel Secretary, Arthur J. Pierpont Treasurer, Hiram Abel, Organist, Inez Beckwith Sunday School superintendant Mr. Judd Librarian, Clifton Heaton The Ladies Union reported a balance of $177.93 on hand and the Chapel Treasurer $56.25 making $234.18 cash on hand. It was voted that the Chairman of the Chapel Committee myself should pre- pare a report for the past year and give the same to the Sec. It was also voted that I should buy 25 new singing books (the Church Hymnary). 05\29\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 05\30\{1902} Friday This is Decoration or Memorial day and this morning Clyde, Irving, and myself put on our Continental uniforms and with Clifton Heaton and Charlie Hotchkiss started towards the Center drumming we were soon joined by George Cass and we marched to the trolley cars at Silver street which we boarded and rode to Grand Army Hall on East Main Street, we were here joined by the other boys so we had the following. Fred Pelitier, Drum Major Charles Cass, Clyde Miller, Harry Buckingham, and Clifton Heaton. Fifers C.S. Miller, Bass drummer Charles Hotchkiss, Irving Miller and George Cass, snare drummers. At 10 minutes to ten, the veterans of {unintelligible sentence??} to the Soldier's monument where the line formed. Lieutenant Colonel Gettes Chief Marshal, it was composed of the American Band, Companies A and G of the Conn. National Guard, the Hubernian Rifles, the Veterans of the Civil War, the Sons of Veterans, the Veterans of the late Spanish war, the Sacred Heat Drum Corps and several civil organizations etc. The line of march was along the south side of the Green to exchange place through Bank St. to Center to Levenworth to Grand to South Main to East Main, to Cherry, where we countermarched to North Willow Street then countermarched to Grand Army Hall where we had dinner. At one o'clock we fell in and marched to the Soldier's monument where the exercises were held they consisted of prayer by the Chaplain of the S. of V. The reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by Mr. Byatt an address, the best I ever heard, by the Rev. Dr. Slocum, the firing of three volleys, by a firing squad of Co. A. a dirge by the Mattatuck Drum Corps, and the Benediction. 05\31\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. 06\01\1902 Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 06\02\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\03\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\04\{1902} Wednesday To day Buffalo Bill's Wild West Circus exhibited in Waterbury. The children went down and viewed the parade, they said that they counted 225 horses in the parade. This morning early about five o'clock Clyde, Irving, Pierpont and I went to the Chapel and clipped the grass with a lawn mower, and got the ashes out of the cellar, and riddled them and put them on the drive way. We then came home and ate breakfast after which the boys went and saw the circus parade, and then went up to the Branch Reservoir and then on to East Morris, and back home, which they reached at about 2.30 o'clock, having rode over 33 miles as their cyclometer on the bicycle showed. But I took the horse and went up to Mr. Able's and ploughed his garden, which took till noon. This afternoon I made a pair of Homes for plowing etc. 06\05\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. I saw by the papers that the terms of peace were signed, last Saturday between the English Government and the Boers in South Africa. The terms as published are, that the Boer prisoners 25,800 of them be returned from St. Helena, Bermuda, and India, and all set at liberty that none of the rebels in Cape Colony shall be executed, that the Boer language may be taught in the schools, that the Officers of the Governments of the Transs Valle and Orange Free State shall be Dutch, that the Boers must give up their fire arms, except their rifles. 06\06\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. 06\07\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory 9 hours but they give 10 hours pay at Rogers & Bros. Saturday. This evening I went to Mr. Harvey Coe's in Wolcott and gave drumming lessons. 06\08\1902 Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 06\09\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\10\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. I ordered of Maynard Merrill & Co. of New York 25 copies of the Church Humnary for the Mill Plain Chapel. To day when Mary brought my dinner to the shop, she told me that some one had entered Mother Pierpont's house yesterday and took One Hundred Dollars. 06\11\{1902} Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory. This evening The Ladies gave a Straw- berry festival at the Chapel. Mr. John Lines' Orchestra furnished entertainment, I think without a doubt his is the best orchestra in the City as all of the musicians are experienced professionals of the leading bands of the City. 06\12\{1902} Thursday Worked a the factory as usual. Mrs. Francis French (formerly Pond) of Torrington and first wife of William French of Wolcott, was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. This evening Mary and I attended the Grange, it was Flora's night and she had a special entertainment of Recitations, Music, Minstrels, etc. 06\13\1902 Friday Worked as usual in Rogers & Brother's factory. This evening the voters of Saw Mill Plains school district met in the school house and transacted the following business. Elected Warren Hitchcock Committee " B.F. Hoggett Clerk " James Stovelle Tax Collector " Martin Pond Treasurer Voted to lay a tax of four mills on the list of 1902 Voted to pay the committee $50.00 for the coming year. Voted to comply with the recommendations of the board of school visitors in regard to repairing the school house. Voted to adjourn at about 10 o'clock. 06\14\{1902} Saturday Worked in the factory to day 11 1/2 hours. This afternoon the factories of The Benedict & Burnham Mfg. Co. The Holmes Booth & Hayden's Co., The Waterbury Brass Co. The Chase Rooling Mill Co., The Water- bury Button Co., The Scoville Mfg. Co., The E.J. Monville Machine Co., The Manville Co., The New England Watch Co., The Waterbury Lumber and Coal Co., The Randolph O. Clowes Co. and several others, shut down, and are to till next October and pay the help full pay. 06\15\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I took 25 new Church Hymnaries to the Chapel which I purchased of Maynard Merrill & Co. of N.Y. 06\16\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 06\17\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Yesterday the proposed New Constitution was rejected by the electors of Conn. 06\18\{1902} Wednesday Worked at Rogers & Brothers as usual to day. 06\19\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\20\1902 Friday Worked at the factory ten hours. Mains Circus is in town to day and Margaret and Ruth have gone to see it with Clemment and May Cornelius. To day has been the picnic of the East Farms School, held in George Benham's Grove. Mary and the little children went. 06\21\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening Irving and I shod the horse and set one buggy tire. 06\22\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport officiated at the Chapel. This is Children's day and the Chapel was crowded, the Children sung and recited, Ruth received a present from Dr. Davenport for not being absent from Sunday School during the past year, it was a testament. Ruth, Frank, Pierpont, and Raymond, Henry Miller were baptised by Mr. Davenport. After service I drove out to the Lewis burying ground near the Southington reservoir and then North upon old road and turned West and came out by Arthur Ferrell's house, then over through Woodtick home. I then attended a Memorial service at Grange Hall at which Dr. Anderson officiated. 06\23\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\24\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. 06\25\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. It is reported that Edward II King of England died this day. Clyde and Irving howed James Porter's potatoes this forenoon, and this afternoon Irving and Pierpont got in the hay that they mowed in James Porter's door yard yesterday. 06\26\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I attended the Mad River Grange. It is reported to day that King Edward is not dead, but a little improved in his health. 06\27\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This morning the boys and I got up at four o'clock and went down to Father's and I mowed till six, when I came home and went to the shop, but the boys kept mowing till near noon and mowed nearly all of the lot. Father and Gussie went to Bristol with a load of goods for Frank to day. 06\28\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the Chapel and counted the singing books and found that there was 36 old books there and 25 new ones. 06\29\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bruno preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon, the attendence was small as it rained very hard. 06\30\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day, we took out the drivind pulley on the main shaft and put on a larger one which was 78 inches in diam- eter. This evening I gave instructions in drumming to Fred Jones, F. Pierpont Miller, John Mulhurn, Seth Anderson, Joseph Pierpont, Clarance Brown and Walter Mills. 07\01\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\02\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. 07\03\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Clifton Heaton, and Sidney Spender, left on the six o'clock train on the Naugatuck Road for New York to spend the 4th. Mary and I went to the Grange but I came home before it opened. 07\04\{1902} Friday Bang, Bang, Bang, Pop, Pop, Pop there has been a continual roar of cannon and fire works in every direction all day, this evening the heavens were lit with rockets and Roman candles in all directions, we went up on the big rock on Red Oak Hill back of Mr. Knops and had a good view of them. I worked at hay this afternoon, getting in 70 heaps from mr. Mill's meadow. 07\05\{1902} Saturday I did not go to the shop to day, but worked about home this forenoon. This afternoon Margaret, Pierpont, and I went out on Southington Mountain but the horse was taken sick and lay down, so we came home. 07\06\1902 Sunday Rev. Dr. Parry preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This evening I took Clyde over to Arthur Merriman's in Southington to have him ready for work tomorrow morning, as he is going to peddle milk for him. 07\07\{1902} Monday Worked in the factory to day as usual. I came home to dinner to day, for the first time since I worked at Rogers & Bros. nearly 3 years. 07\08\{1902} Tuesday Worked in the factory as usual. 07\09\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 07\10\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. James Byrnes broke his leg last night just above the ankle. This forenoon a sheriff came to the shop and read a warrant for me to appear before the City court this afternoon to act as juryman but later he returned and left word that they did not want me till tomorrow afternoon. 07\11\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the City Court in the City Hall at two o'clock, and was sworn with five others to act as juryman on a case of eviction of one Mr. Cane against Mr. Kelser, Mr. Cane owns a house on Woodlawn Terrace which he rented to Mr. Kelser on the 2nd of June he served eviction papers on Kelser but he has not evacuated hence the suit. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. 07\12\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory. 07\13\{1902} Sunday Rev. mr. Barnes preached at the Chapel this P.M. Mr. Judd, Mr. Warden, Clyde and I went over to Morris Park and saw Mr. Hemmingway about holding the Mill Plain Sunday School picnic there. We then went to Arthur Merriman's and left Clyde, and then came home. 07\14\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving went to work for Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt] at Goshen Center to day, he went by train to Torrington. 07\15\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Susy Bronson and Charlie Brown were married yesterday forenoon by the Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church. 07\16\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\17\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 07\18\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day. Mary told me this morning before I got up that she heard at the Grange last night that Rev. Dr. Parry died yesterday afternoon, and later I learned he died very suddenly of neuraliga of the heart, he rode to the Post Office on his wheel in the afternoon and not feeling well went home, and was soon dead. He was pastor of the first Baptist Church on Grand Street and was aged 55 years. 07\19\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day, putting i a new bulkhead and repairing the ditch. 07\20\{1902} Sunday No service at the Chapel to day on account of Dr. Parry's funeral. This afternoon I went to the funeral service of Dr. Parry at the 1st Baptist Church of Grand St. The church was crowded, there were twelve ministers, nearly all took part in the service. Father Slocum of the Church of the Immaculate Conception was there. This is the first time I ever knew a Roman Catholic priest to attend service in a Protestant church. The remains are to be taken to Philadelphia tomorrow for internment. There were about 50 present at Sunday School at Mill Plain. 07\21\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory. The shop resumed operations to day after a shutdown of three weeks, all except the Burnishing, Buffing, Plating and packing departments. 07\22\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 07\23\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. 07\24\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory. 07\25\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory. 07\26\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. 07\27\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bruno preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 07\28\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 07\27\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 07\28\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. There was an Italian killed on the Meriden Rail road this forenoon, a little East of the Horse Brook. He with other laborers were on a hand car, which they had just lifted on the track, after the New Haven train had passed, when an excursion train bearing the Baptist and Methodiest Sunday Schools of Simonsville, which were going to Hanover Park came along round the curve and struck the hand car throwing the men in several directions and killed one by the engine passing over him. 07\31\1902 Thursday Worked in the factory to day. The following rule is useful to obtain the distance across the corners of a square. Multiply the side of the square by 1.414. To obtain the distance across the corners of an octagon, multiply one side by 1.155. 08\01\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 08\02\1902 Saturday This morning F. Pierpont and I got up at 4:30 and went to the factory and oiled up the shafting after which we came home, ate breadkfast, and started for Jashen. We drove first to Ferryville 9 miles, then to East Church, 2 miles, thence to Harwingston, 7 miles, thence to Farring- ton 5 miles, there to Goshen 6 miles. We left home at twenty minutes past seven, and reached Samuel Ovaritt's in Goshen at quarter to four. We found Irving there at work gettin in hay. 08\03\1902 Sunday This morning we got up at about 5 o'clock and I helped milk there was a hired man by the name of Sam Mansfield. Irving, myself and Samuel Ovaritt, who did the milking, we milked thirteen cows, after which Sam Mansfield ran the milk through a separator {separator} which took about 15 minutes, in the meantime Irving and Sam had the choers {chores} done and then we went into the house and had breakfast, of pancakes, corned beef, salt pork, potatoes, cake pie, etc. After breakfast, we, Pierpont, Irving, and I went for a walk up to the slaughter and on into the woods, we followed a cart path for a long distance, till we thought it time to start home, when we started South West by the compass, and came out onto the cart path near where first entered the woods. We then went to the house and got ready and went to church, service began at 10:45 and ended at 12. the minister was from Winchester who exchanged with the regular preacher, the church is a fine one inside for a country town, has stained glass memorial windoes {windows}, pipe organ, nice class room, piano, etc., etc. after service we went to Mr. Ovaritts and had dinner of boiled chicken, etc, and after dinner Irving and Sam Mansfield froze some ice cream, which was very nice. Irving and I then walked over to Canada village {villege} one and half miles and visited with Fred Lencus till after four when we came home and ate supper, after which we did the chores and then had ice cream again and visited till bed time. Rev. Mr. Smith of Simonsville Baptist church preached at Mill plain Chapel. 08\04\1902 Monday This morning we got up at five o'clock and did the chores we then had breakfast of pancakes and codfish which Rose Hubbard had prepared for us. then after bidding all of the folks good bye, except cousin Marion and Mother Ovaitt [Oviatt], Pierpont and I started at quarter to seven for Waterbury. we came from Goshen center through Litchfield, to East Morris thence to the West Branch reservoir and to Renals Bridge to Waterville where we turned and came across country to Lakewood and on home which we reached at quarter to twelve, the day has been very warm, and driving hot. got ready and went to work at Rogers and Bros. factory at half past twelve, and worked till 5:30. 08\05\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. Mary and the children spent this day at Abrinsons cottage at Hitchcocks pond on Southington Mountain. 08\06\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory ten hours. This day Mary went to Yalesville with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Todd and attended a Phonological meeting at the residence of Mr. Norris Barnes, they also went through his peach orchards. Margaret and Amy Miller went to Bucks Hill visiting at William Fabers. after work I went down town and did several errands, and a few minutes before six it began to rain hard and we had the most severe thunder storm we have had this season. I went up Walcott street and paid Mr. Fowler $1.50 for a box of envelopes he had printed for me, we then came home the rain coming down in torrents till we were nearly home. I put on some dry clothes and drove to Mr. Todds he lives in the North West corner of Cheshire, waited till nearly nine before they came, then got Mary and came home. 08\07\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory ten hours. Mary and the children went to barn- pounce pond the occasion {acassion} being the picnic of the Mill Plain Sunday school. there were about 88 there in all, some 40 went in busses and the rest in private teams. This evening I stopped at my shop and Peter Larogue gave me a check for 20.00 for last months rent. 08\{08}\1902 Friday I worked in the factory to day. This morning Pierpont and I worked in the garden straightening {straitiening} up the corn that the wind blew down during the storm Wednesday. 08\09\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory to day from 7 to 12:30. and from 1 to 4:30. Nine hours at 10 hours pay each Saturday. The great trolley car strike in New Haven was ended this morning by the Company taking back the men that were discharged. This evening I opened the Chapel for the Choir rehearsal. there were but four there, and they adjourned at nine o'clock. 08\10\1902 Sunday This morning Raymond and Pierpont got up at about 6:30 and I arose soon after, we did the chores {choers} and then called Mary and the girls, and we soon had breakfast of boiled meat and potatoes etc. I then hitched up and Margaret and Pierpont and I went out to Theodore Munsons cottage at the pond on Southing- ton mountain near Shelton Hitchcocks and he gave me a ride in his new gasonline launch, which ran at a rate of about seven miles an hour. at quarter to twelve we started for home, and brought Mrs. Munsons goods to her house, she is coming home this afternoon. When we reached home we had dinner of meat and pudding, after which we got ready and went to Mill Plain Chapel where Mr. Lewish preached. after service we came home had supper, and I stayed about home the rest of the day. 08\11\1902 Monday Worked at the factory to day. The great Trolley car strike in New Haven was ended Saturday night by the Company taking back the men they had discharged. At our shop the timmers, polishers, buffers, etc. have joined unions and last Saturday they sent a com- mittee into the Office to try and get more pay for the trimmers but they did not succeed, what the result may be I do not know. The price of coal has advanced to 9.50 per ton, one year ago it was about $4.00 per ton. 08\12\{1902) Tuesday Worked at the factory. The watch factory commenced work yesterday after a vacation of two weeks. Agness Able has not gone to work as her mother is sick and needs her to do housework. 08\13\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\14\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning was very foggy. I could not see from one telephone pole to the other. Clyde got through peddlering milk for Arthur Merreman to day. 08\15\{1902} Friday Worked in the factory to day. Clyde has about 250 points. An expert from Boston has been at the factory and he tells us that we have 17 ft fall of water on our wheels and one is a 40 inch 8" bucket and the other 20 inch diameter 5" bucket 15 horse power. The Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Walcott holds 43,000,000 gallons of water, Hitchcocks Reservoir holds 39,000,000 gallons, and Cedar Swamp 34, 000,000 gallons. This evening I rode horse back to James STovells and paid my Mill Plain School tax $8.30. 08\16\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the rehearsal at the Chapel of the choir. Clyde mowed yesterday and to day in Porters swamp, and yesterday brought home two loads of hay and to day we put one load in Fathers barn and one load on our stack. 08\17\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett of Waterville preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 08\18\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 08\19\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. When I came home from the shop to night there were three surveyors at work in front of my house survey- ing for a trolley road from Cheshire to Waterbury. 08\20\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\21\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory. 08\22\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\23\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory this forenoon. Came home at 12:30 and ate dinner and then we got ready to go to South Britain. Soon Henry bass drove into the yard and we hitched up and waited a while for Charlie bass to come from Southing- ton. after he came we started. Clyde and Cliften Heaten in one team with Fathers horse, charlie and Henry bass in another buggy with Henrys horse, and I with my two seated canopy top. I picked up Henry and Harry Buckingham down by the "Farmers Home" and tied their bass drum on the back of the wagon, and one snare drum on each side and then we drove through Waterbury Center and over West-side hill and on through Middle- bury and Southbury to South Britain. we started at twenty min- utes past three and reached South Britain at quarter to seven. We saw by way over many large pieces of silo corn growing and a great abun- dance of apples, potatoes, etc. Met George bass and Charles Hotchkiss about a mile this side of Britain near the old flood bridge, they had boys who took our teams and we marched into the village playing "Yankee Doodle",. After marching about a while we went to the factory of the Hawkins Co. where we found Mr. Hawkins much surprised at our coming. then with him Mrs. Hawkins and Mable we went to a hall where we found a fine supper awaiting us which had been prepared {prepaired} by the people, there were lots of good things Salmon {samon}, dried beef, sandwiches, pressed beef, rye bread, layer cake of all kinds as well as frosted, each was served with a plate on which were a piece of squash, blackberry and apple pie, chocolate {chockalet} creams and other candies, ice cream, watermelon, bananas, etc. etc. and as we ate some young ladies played on the piano and at intervals a graphaphone was playing. After the supper was finished I in behalf of the Abattatuck Drum Corps thanked the people for the entertainment and refreshments, after which we played two or three tunes. I would like to state here that provisions kept coming in at the beginning of the evening and the supply was so great that they sent men out to tell the people not to send in any more and they fed every body in the Hall yet there was a large quantity left. AFter we had played in the Hall we marched about the village and played for the benefit of several ladies who had never heard a Drum Band before. We then marched to Mr. Hawkins factory where we left our drums and then went to the several places where we were to sleep. Henry and Harry Buckingham at Mr. John Squires, Charlie and George bass, Charles Hotchkiss, Clifton heaton, and Henry bass at Mr. Platts, Clyde and I at Mr Hubbells. In the morning we strolled about the village after which we returned to Mr. Hubbell's and had breakfast. We then went down the street and met the rest of the boys and at quarter to eleven we went from Mr. Hawkins factory to the Church in full uniform and attended divine worship. After church we marched back to the factory after which we had dinner, and at about five o'clock we started home, which we reached at about 7 o'clock. 08\25\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory. Clyde went to Sam Ovaitts [Oviatt's] in Goshen today. 08\26\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Worked night and morning getting saddle etc ready to go to New London. 08\27\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 08\28\{1902} Worked at the factory to day. Clyde and Irving came home from Goshen. 09\04\1902 Friday August 29 was Olive Abel's birthday 20 years old, the occasion was celebrated by a party at her home in the evening. This morning we got up at an early hour; Clyde went down to Father's and got his horse, while Irving got out from Wilson Pierpont, and we saddled up. I on my own horse {hourse}, and we went over and had Miss Alice Beckwith take our photographs, after which we came home, fed the horses, ate breakfast, and started for New London, rode to Cheshire, thence to Yalesville, thence to Durham, thence to Higgannum, to Haddam, to Shaylerville, to Fuler- ville, where we stayed over night with Mr. John S. Warner, he hesitated at first about keeping us, finally he said that he could keep our horses, and we told him that we could sleep on the barn floor, to which he consented, we unsaddled and put the horses in the barn and unrolled our blankets, ate our supper of such provisions as we had, then spread our blankets on the hay and slept. We traveled about 40 miles that day. 08\30\{1902} Saturday We were awakened by a man coming into the barn to feed the stock at daybreak, we fed our horses, rolled up our blankets and had breakfast in the house of hash and pan-cakes, we then paid Mr. Warner $1.50 for keeping, breakfast, etc. He then showed us about his tobacco fields, sheds, etc. We had a piece of sumatra tobacco which had just been cut of about three and one half acres, which was covered with a cloth tent 8 1/2 feet high, in making the top as cover 1800 yards of coarse {course} cotton cloth was used, it took a woman one month to stitch it together, and she used $5.00 of thread, the sides were made of burlap. His two tobacco sheds measured together in length 350 feet and were 27 feet wide, 2 stories high and full. We left Tylerville at about 7.20 and soon came to the Universalist camp meeting at Goodsperds Landing, where we stopped a little while, and then drove to the River, which we crossed of the Ferry boat F.l. Fowler, on leaving the Connecticut River we drove to Hadline where we each bought four quarts of oats and then drove on to North Lyme, the roads through this region were very dusty as there had been no rain in a month, while at home it had rained nearly every day. At North Lyme we got permission of Mr. S. Nelson Jewett to pass through his yard to the big brook and wash our horses' backs, feed, bathe, eat our dinners etc., while there. Mr. Jewett came to see us, after looking at our blankets, clothes, saddles, etc. that were spread about on the grass, he ex- claimed, I don't see how in the devil you get all them things on those hourses' backs. We asked him if he had any good water to drink, to which he answered, yes sir, you go up to that well by the road {rode} and you will find as good water as there is in this town or any other town, or in this state or the United States or any other country. he soon left us and we saddled our horses and star- ted for North Lime two miles distant. We had just crossed the line into New London county, and the weather was intensely not. After, corn, and all kinds of crops (except hay) seemed much better than here, the trees were loaded {loded} with apples and all kinds of fruit. After passing through the village of N. Lime we traveled to East Lyme or Flanders as the people there call it, passing on the way Powers Lakes, which were Natural beauriful lakes, about one mile and one half long, each. there were two of them, one on the North side of the road, and the other on the South side, about two miles apart. after passing the last one, we came onto the New London and Lyme turnpike which is a fine wide road. After leaving Flanders we galloped rapidly on passing many places which had been burned, some shops and factories, but many were dwelling houses. I judge that we saw at least twelve places that had been destroyed by fire during the day. Our road lay through a rich level country. at about 4 o clock we crossed the head of {Ni}antic bay and found a place to put up our horses at Mr. Willis & Minors, two miles West of New London at a place known throughout that region as Jardon, but on the map as Waterford. As Mr. Miner had no objections of our sleeping in his barn we walked to the City and bought our supper at the Globe restaurant on Bank street and also bought provis- ions for the next day. while we were returning the heavens were lit up by the flahshes of the search lights on the Forts at Fishers, Phim, Gull, and Block Islands. We remained up sometime, then lay down on our blankets and slept. 08\31\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. DAvenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel. We were up this morning at about six, ate our breakfast of crackers, cheese, cakes, dried beef, etc., after wich we walked to New London, went first to find Edward C. Ford who once lived in WATER- bury, but now is manager at N. Lon- don for the Southern New England Telephone Compant. He lives at No. 4 Summit Street, which we had a great time in finding. and when we got there his daughter told us that he had gone to the beach to bathe. We then went to the corner of Voxhall and William streets and took a trolley car for ocean Beach, which we reached in due time. This beach fronts on the Sound and is about one mile WEst of the lighthouse. We watched the bathers quite a while after which we started west along the beach but were soon stopped by a creek that came in from the North. We then followed the bank of this creek around till it brought us back up the beach where we started, we then crossed over the street and through some cottage yards to the shore and we followed it till we came to some private grounds near the Light House. Soon after we came to the beach we heard the firing of heavy cannons off on Fishers Island, and soon we saw a great WArship leave the harbor and sail away to the South West, the firing continued all the rest of the afternoon, we soon reached a point opposite the Peaquot House where we stopped and wrote a letter home, Clyde writing the events of the first day, I the second, and Irving the third, we then walked up the harbor street till we were tired, then we took the cars and went to Voxhall street and from thence to Mr. Fords', we found him at home, and also found Mr. Walter Morse of Waterbury there, had a fine visit and he told us of a steam boat "Gipsey" that left at 5 o'clock for Norwich. we were pleased to take it and sailed up the Thames River past the United States coaling station at Groton, and saw the Old Man-of-War Constitution (Ironsides) on the New London side. the whole sail was one of the pleasantest I ever enjoyed, it was Old Home week in Norwich and everywhere, Flags, bunting, and decorations, were in abundance. We only stayed long enough to catch a trolley car which took us back to New London. the fare up, on the boat was 20 cts. and on the trolley car we paid 5 cts. four times coming down. We immediately walked out to Mr. Miners, ate our crackers, biscuits, etc. and lay down on our blankets and slept. 09\01\{1902} Monday This is Labor Day and is a Legal hallow day. In New London there was a parade of about 500 workingmen in line. In other Cities it was observed by pa- rades of Labor organizations. We were up at an early hour ate our breakfast of what was left from the day before, and started for New London but soon took a foot path across lots for "Jordan" we soon came to a bridge of a single plank a foot wide and about two hundred feet long, which we crossed and came to the center. there is an inlet at this point that sets back from the sound and we thought that we would like to take a sail, so I went to a little house by the side of the water and asked the women ther if I could hire a boat, the old little women said that we could take hers, so we rowed down to the Sound about four miles, and went in bathing, but the water was very cold. We then sailed back and paid the old women twentyfive cents, then we walked up the Rail Road to Fort Trumbull two miles distant. we went all about the Fort it is now out of date, and is only used for headquarters for officers and troops. they are taking the cannons out of it and are carrying them actoss the river to Fort Griswold. Fort Trumbull is finely built of solid cut masonry, and must have been impregnable, before the days of steel rifled cannon, several of the old cannon that are there now are sixteen feet long with sixteen inch smooth bores, and measure over four feet across the britch on the outside. After leaving the Fort we went to a restaurant and had dinner, after which we went to the dock and took a steamer for Fishers Island which we reached in about an hours' time. We walked at once to the South end and saw the signal station, search, light, lookout, etc. The war ships had been sighted on all were on the alert, the guards told us that Block Island had been captured by the fleet the night before, and they expected an attack sometime during the night, the pickets soon saw us and drove us away, we then [went] over to the camp where there were about 1100 troops encamped, the camp was the same as other camps that I have seen, except that our Regiment had steeple, instead [of] tents. We went from the camp to the Mortar battery but the guards would not let us near it, so we went back in the rear of the works on a hill about half of a mile away and with the lid of our field glass was able {abel} to see all inside. there were four mortars in pits about thirty feet deep with walls of solid concrete perpendicular {perpanticular} for about thirty feet. these walls were on three sides and the other side was open. the pit was about thirty feet square, and at the top of the concrete walls the earth slanted up about eighteen feet higher, there were two of these pits each containing two mortars, on the front the ground slopes to the water in the form of a natural hill, while to the right and left of the pits are the "Range Finders" and in the space between the pits are the boilers, and mag- azine. we then went over to Fort Wright. the guards would not let us very near this Fort so we saw but little except six long range 12 inch rifled steel cannon and two rapid fire guns, each of the cannon had a pit for itself {itsself}, at this Fort a man was killed a little while before we got there, he was loading a cannon and didd not have the cartridge clear in and in closing the breech cap it struck the head of the cartridge with such force that it exploded, blowing him to atoms. we stayed till twenty minutes to five, the boat leaving at five, and the dock was one and one half miles away. we started byt the roads were so crooked that we got bewildered and nearly got left, with a bound we jumped onto the boat after the wheel had begun to turn. We reached New London and went to the Eastern Ship building Company's yards, where are building two of the largest iron ships ever built. they are for the Union Pacific Rail Road and are to run between San Francisco and Japan, and China. they are 625 feet long and seventy eight feet high from the ground to the top of the deck. (We then climbed {climed} up Groton hights.) I would here state that 1000 men have been working on the ships two years and now they have all of the men working on one of the ships in hopes to get it finished by next summer. After ascending Groton hights we visited Groton battle monument, but could not go up it as it was too late. In front of the monument stands a long breech loading steel rifled cannon. We then went over to Old Fort Griswold. As far as I could judge it has not been changed since Revolutionary times and the ditch, walls, gates, and embank- ments are much the same as then. Where Colonel Ledyard stood when Major Bromfild killed him with his own sword, there is a granite stone about 8 inches high, which is enclosed by an iron fence. On the stone was carved, On this spot Colonel William Ledyars was killed by his own sword in the hands of a British officer Sept 6th 1781. We also visited the lower or Western works of the fort. these have all been made over, and mounted with heavy cast-iron cannon, which are now out-of-date, some of the guns have been taken down, but the works are well kept. We remained on the parapet of the fort till nine o'clock watching the search lights, when we went down and crossed the ferry and made our way back to Mr. Miner's, where we lay down, but were soon aroused up by the heaviest firing of cannon that I ever dreamed of. We went outside, the heavens were lit up by the red flashes, and the roar was tremendous, jarring and shaking everthing. The firing we learned since was between the war ships and the Forts on Gull Island, over 10 miles from where we were. There was firing at intervals during the night so we did not sleep very much, but at about five in the morn- ing it commenced heavier and fas- ter than before and continued for about an hour. We got up at 5 and cared for the horses, ate our breakfast of such food as we had, saddled our horses and started for home. We drove first to New London and bought a "Morning Telegraph" to see an account of the battle the night before, and then rode out Broad street and kept on the Hartford and New London turnpike, came to Chesterfield, thence to Salem, about three miles farther on we stopped at a farm house and bought some bread and milk for dinner, and fed our horses, with oats that we bought of a woman of Salem. we then set out for Colchester, where we stopped {stoped} and Irving had a shoe put on his horse, and I got shaved. we then rode on to Abarlborough where we bought some oats at a country store, and then went on, but I was suf- fering from a pain in my shoulder {shouldier} and side, and told the boys to find a place where we could stay over night. we stopped {stoped} at the next house which proved to be the best place I ever stopped {stoped} at. we had a fine supper, good beds, good stables for the horses, and a hearty breakfast of ham, eggs, bread, potatoes, cake, pie, etc. the Man's name was Frank W. Coleman, and he lived 14 miles from Hartford on the Hartford and N. London turnpike, in the town of Marlborough opposite Terrymugas Lake. We left a little after seven in the morn- ing and soon came to Marlborough Mills. but alas, the mills are gone, the two large cotton mills burned down some years ago and the silk mill has moved its business to Paterson New Jersey. we continued on through Glas- tonbury, and East Hartford, passing on the way hundreds of acres of tobacco, everything throughout this region grew thrifty and it seemed a sin that such good land could not be put to a better use, than raising that which is an injury to mankind. we crossed over the temporary bridge that spans {spands} the Connecticut River, and through Hartford to West Hartford, where we stopped {stoped} and Irving had another shoe put on his horse, and we continued on to Farmington where we bought oats at a Grist Mill and fed our horses, and ate our own lunch. We then went on to Briston where we ate supper with my brother Frank, and stayed till about seven o'clock, when we rode through Bristol, and Walcott home, which we reached after nine o'clock. Thursday I did not go to work to day but this evening I went to the Grange with Mary. 09\05\1902 Friday I worked at the factory to day, had a hard days work, as things were many that needed to be done. 09\06\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. To day Clyde and Irving mowed what was left not already mowed of James Porter's swamp, and we put it into Father's barn tonight. 09\07\{1902} Sunday There was a memorial service held at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon at three o'clock, in memory of Rev. Francis Parry of the First Baptist church. The Ministers present were Dr. Davenport of the Second Congregational Church, Rev. Mr. Bassett of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Mr. Lewish of St. John's Episcopal Church, Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist Church, Mr. Holden, assistant to Dr. DAvenport, and Mr. Blanchard, a retired Methodist minister. The order of exercises were as follows. Hymn, 589 Church Hymnary. Invocation, Rev. Charles L. Smith. Scripture Lesson, Rev. John. N. Lewish. Prayer, Rev. Edward D. Bassett. Hymn 943' Address, Rev. John Lewis. Hymn 938 Address Dr. John G. Davenport. Offertory. Hymn, 946 Benediction. Dr. John G. Davenport. The chapel was crowded, and the collection amounted to $10.02 09\08\1902 Monday Worked at the factory. This day a committee of Polisher and Ragwheelers went into the office and presented their grievance {grevence} to Mr. Rockwell. 09\09\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. There is much talking about strike to day at the factory. 09\10\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening we attended the Peach festival at the Chapel. there was a large attendance. the net recips. are about $24.00. Mr. John Limes and his Orchestra furnished music. 09\11\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. There is quite a little excitement about strike, several committees called on Mr. Rockwell, but he wishes them to call tomorrow. 09\12\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Committees from the Trimmers, Polishers, Roughingout, Ragwheelers, and Buffers departments, waited on Mr. Rockwell in the office and presented grievances {grievencies} etc., as well a demand for more pay. It is said that he would give the pay, but did not wish to do away with the contract system {sistem}, or recognize the Labor union at present. Today Mary's sister Mrs. George W. Connor of West Side Hill had an operation, in the form of a removal of something that stopped the passage of the intestines, and the doctors found a cancer. they say it is only a matter of time, and that a short time before she will succomb {secome} to it. 09\13\1902 {Saturday} This is Clyde's birthday he is 18 years old. I worked at the factory as usual. 09\14\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes assistant ot Mr. Lewis of St. John's church preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 09\15\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory. This morning at 7.30 the rag wheelers at the factory to the number of about 40 went out on strike, because they were not given more pay. they were soon followed by the Stampers who num- bered 11 men, and soon a few of the trimmers went out. 09\16\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The strikers are still out, and the Trim- ming, two inspecting, two wash and the muffle rooms will have to shut down to night. Ergot. 09\17\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. The works at Rogers and Brothers were shut down to day owing to the strike. This afternoon President with the committees of the several rooms met Mr. Rockwell and Mr. Tobin in the Office and a partial settlement was reached, and the mill will start up tomorrow. 09\18\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual to day. The factory started up this morn- ing but not with a full force, the rest are to come in tomorrow. 09\19\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Nearly all hands came to work to day. 09\20\{1920} Saturday Worked at the factory. The girls at the Mattatuck shop struck yesterday because they were cut down 25 cts. per day in their pay, and because a man by the name of Saunders was put over them as boss, in the place of Nellie Cass. 09\21\{1902} Sunday I worked at the factory five hours to day putting new packing in the heater. Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The strike at the Mattatuck factory has been settled by the Company giving the girls back the 25 cts per day. 09\22\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This is Mary's birthday. This evening the boys and I painted one coat of lead {led} on the spindle buggy. 09\23\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 09\24\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 09\25\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. The weather is very wet, it having rained nearly every day more or less since the first of August. Owing to the great strike of the coal miners in Pennsylvania, the price of hard coal has reached the high price of $13.50 per ton. This is the highest it has been since the Civil war, when I remember father paying $18.00 per ton. It has since been down to $4.50 per ton. Mary and I went to the Grange. 09\26\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting this evening. We learned to day that the International Silver Company has been bought out by the newly organized United STates Silver Co. 09\27\1902 Saturday Worked as usual at the factory to day. This is my birthday and Mary invited Father and Mother, and Frank and his wife to supper. I am forty-four years old, and I received two lead pencils, and a very pretty set of pearl sleeve buttons from the children. This evening I went up to Walcott to instruct a class of boys in the art of drumming. it is a dark wet night. 09\28\1902 Sunday This forenoon I worked as fast as I could ailing two harnesses, and getting the team ready to get the minister for the Chapel. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 09\29\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory. 09\30\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Waterbury agricultural fair opened to day. it is being held at the Driving Park on the Watertown road. The weather is wet as it has been for a long time. 10\01\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as ususal. I received my pay for last week's work as I do every Wednesday. it amounted to 13.50. The price of anthracite coal has reached the highest price I ever knew $20.00 per ton, and it cannot be obtained in many cases at that as the supply is out. To day the casters at Scovills factory could not work as the coal is out. this means a general shut-down for the works. The high price is owing to the great strike in the coal fields of Pennsylvania which has lasted 21 weeks. 10\02\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to the grange. A motion was made by William Faber that the Executive Committee be in- structed not to let the hall for six months. I amended the motion so that it should lie over for one week, which was carried. 10\13\1902 Friday Worked at the factory as usual. Today I applied to Mr. Rockwell for more pay, he said "I will look it up." Which means I suppose that I will not get it. 10\04\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Henry Cass, Harry Buckingham, Robert Beckwith and I went up to Woodtick and gave a drum- ming lesson to a number of boys. Yesterday President Roosevelt and the owners of the coal mines and the committee of the miners met at WAshington but no agreement was reached. This evening I received a valuable lot of books from cousin Elliot Somers. 10\05\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 10\06\{1902} Monday Worked as usual. 10\07\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as ususal. President Stone of Penn has called out the entire Militia force of the State, to protect the men who wish to go to work in the mines against the strikers. 10\08\{1902} Wednesday Worked as usual. The Ladies' Union had a supper and en- tertainment at the Chapel this evening. I did not attend. 10\09\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening Mary and I attended the meeting of the Grange. it was voted that the Executive Committee be instructed not to rent the hall for six months. This vote is intended to drive the Forersters out of the hall who are paying $75.00 per year or over 3.00 per night for the use of it. 10\10\10\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Danbury fair started Tuesday and will end tomorrow. yesterday was Waterbury day and many went from here. The last train for Waterbury left Danbury at about 6.30 and was to run onto a siding at Sandyhook for the regular westbound train to pass. but for some reason the train kept straight {strait} ahead on th emain track and ran into the regular, causing the death of one young lady and the injuring of twenty others. Among the passengers was Mr. James Tobin, superintendent at the factory where I work. When the young lady (Miss Quinland of Nangatuck) who was killed, came in, he got up and gave her his seat as she wished to sit near her friends. and he took a seat on the left hand side of the car a few seats farther back, when the crash came, he saw the car crushed to splinters ahead of him and the people go down, but the car stopped {stoped} one seat ahead of him, the young lady in it being caught, but he was not injured. 10\11\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory till 4.30. I did not go to Wolcott this evening on account of the rain. As Clyde had not returned from New Britain where he has gone to play foot-ball with the Highschool team, and Irving wished to study. I went and opened the Cahpel for the Choir rehearsal {rehersal}. There were Inez Beckwith, Bertha and Clara French, Mrs. Munson, Agness, and Olive Abel, Mr. Burgess, and Mr. Wood the instructor, present. We stayed till after 10 o'clock, and came home in the rain. 10\12\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewish of St. John's church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\13\1902 Monday Worked at the Factory to day. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Garrigus yesterday afternoon. 10\14\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. It is stated that the great coal strike is ended. 10\15\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon Mary and I went to the Wolcott fair, it was held on a lot at the place where the Bristol road turns of f from the main Wolcott road one mile South of the center. there was a great crowd of people present, and all of the place was occupied for hitching horses in the lots and roads that could be found. 10\16\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. Mary and I attended the Grange this evening. The Propect grange was present and furnished the programme. 10\17\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Last evening when we were coming home we noticed an eclipse of the moon, which became total at about 1.30. we did not stay up any longer to see it. This evening the boys of the Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice. 10\18\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Flanigan has worked at the Chapel two days digging a ditch to drain the cellar- pit where the furnace is. he got through last night. The great coal strike is ended. coal is $20.00 per ton to day. This evening I went to Adelbert Norton's at Wolcott to teach the boys how to drum. 10\19\{1902} Sunday Worked at the factory 5 hours to day. Rev. Mr. Stockdale preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\201902 Monday Worked at the factory. 10\21\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 10\22\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 10\23\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. Mary and I attended the grange. 10\24\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory till 9.30 = 14 hours. 10\25\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Wolcott and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys. 10\26\1902 Sunday Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\27\{1902} Monday Worked as usual to day. To day it was decided that Clyde has won the second scholarship in the great educational contest given by the REpublican news paper, he having 550 points. This entitles him to a four years course in the Holy Cross College at Worcester Mass. This is a Catholic College and he is thinking of exchanging with George H. Smith, who won first prize but who prefers Syracuse University. he asks {askes} $50.00 for the exchange. I have been to a Republican rally at Polia's theatre. the theatre was addressed by Sec. of the Navy Mr. Moody and Joe Barber of Hartford. 10\28\{1902} Tuesday Worked as usual. Mr. George H. Smith came this evening and Clyde gave him his note for 8 months for 40.00 to pay the difference in the scholarships. So now he is going to Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. To day I bargained for a Webster's {Webesters} Dictionary and an Educator from the New York World publishing Co. on the following conditions i.e. that I pay one dollar tomorrow, and .20 cts per week for 18 months which gives me the daily and sunday World. 10\29\1902 Wednesday Woked at the factory to day. It snowed quite a little this forenoon. 10\30\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory. 10\31\1902 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Clyde's picture is in to day's Republican, and it is printed that he is going to Lafayette College at Easton Penn. 11\01\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving, Harry Bucking- ham, Henry bass, and Clyfton Heaton went to Wolcott and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys. 11\02\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist church preached at the Cahpel this p.m. 11\03\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 11\04\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory nine and one half hours. This evening the following members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps turned out Clyde Miller, Clifton, Heaton, and Harry Buckingham, Fifers. Henry bass and Henry Buckingham, Bass Drummers. George Cass, Charlie Hotchkiss, Irving Miller, and myself, snare drummers. We took the trolley at Silver Street and went to the Naugatuck Rail Toad where we boarded a train for Watertown. We immediately on our arrival there marched to the House of M. Buck- ingham who has this day been el- ected representative {representivite} to the Legislator and escorted him through the principal streets of the town and back to his house where we had refreshments and at eleven o' clock we started home on the train. when we reached Waterbury we walked up Bank and through Center Street where we met some members of the Republican club, who engaged us to go serenad- ing. We went first to the headquarters of the Waterbury Club on North Main STreet, where Mr. George Lilley, who had just been elected Congressman at large, came out and said that he could not make a speech, but if we would go to his house he would give us some refreshments so we marched to his home on North Willow street and had sandwiches, cakes, coffee, etc. soon the Italian brass band came with a delegation of about 300 more, and we left and marched to the home of Mr. John Lines on Grand street. he had retired but soon came out and made a short speech. we then went to the home of Mr. Cross whowith Mr. Lines had been elected represen -tative {representive}, and lived on Grove STreet. he too got up and came out, and made a few remarks. we then broke up and came home, and I went to bed at about 2 o'clock this morning. 11\05\1902 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day ten hours, and tonight I intend to go to bed early. 11\06\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening Ruth, Margaret, Pierpont, Raymond and I sorted over apples and picked out 15 1/2 bushels of specked cider apples. we got through at about quarter to eleven. 11\07\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. The young boys of the drum band who are learning met and practiced this evening. 11\08\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Rob Beckwith , Arthur Heaton, and I went to Harvy Coe's in Wolcott and gave a drumming lesson. 11\09\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 11\10\1902 Monday Worked at the factory from 7 this morning till 12:30 and from 1 to 5:30. Rob BEckwith called this evening and I lent him Fred's drum. 11\11\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Fair given by the Ladies of Mill Plain at the Chapel opened this evening. there was a large attendance, and the entertainment was nice. it was given by people from Waterville. everybody except my- self seemed to have a good time. 11\12\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. Went to the Chapel to night. 11\13\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening I went to the grange. 11\14\1902 Friday Worked at the factory as usual. this evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps met and practiced. 11\15\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening the following members of the Mattatuck Drum Corps marched to the home of Mr. John Brown in Wolcott. he lives corner of the West street on the Chestnut hill road. Clifton Heaton, Larry Buckingham, Clyde Miller, (fifers). Henry Cass, and Irving Miller (Bass Drummers). Robert Beckwith and I, snare Drummers. Arthur Heaton, Henry Beckwith, Fred Jones, Clerance Brown, Wlater Mills and Frank P. Miller, went with us. The Wolcott drummer boys were there, also a large number of friends and neighbors, to the of about 100 all told. 11\16\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffiatt of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 11\17\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory 11 hours, moved back the main pulley in the North shaft of the polishing room. The City engineers have been at work to day and for several days past relaying out the Cheshire road from Silver Street to Calvary Cemetary gate to a 60 ft. roadway, and the engineers of the Conn. Light and power Co. have been surveying for a trolley line to Cheshire. 11\18\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory ten hours as usual. 11\19\{1920} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The City engineers have been working surveying about my house to day for the widening of East Main Street and the building of the Cheshire trolley line. 11\20\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended the Grange with Mary. There were a large number of visitors from Watertown Grange there about 54 and they furnished the programme for the Lecturer's hour. The Somers family is to meet in the Baptist Church in Simonsville to observe Thanksgiving. 11\21\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. The papers of to day state that a settlement has been reached between the International Silver Company and the newly organized United States Silver Co., who have lately acquired the controlling stock of the International Co., by which the Internation al Co. can retain their business by turning oover tothe US. Co,=. 1,000,000 worth of the prefered stock and taking $2,000,000 of common stock on which they have got to pay and interst to the U.S. Co. of $140,000 per year. they also gain control of the C. Rogers Co. in Meriden. the three Rogrsers's returning and are to receive salaries {saleries} of 5,000 two of them and the other $6,000 for 5 years. 11\22\1902 Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. Nineteen years ago this morning at 7 o' clock I was married in the Mill Plain Chapel, to Mary A. Pierpont. 11\23\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. John T. DAvenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this P.M. 11\24\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual today. 11\25\{1902} Worked at the factory to day. 11\26\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Ann, Wife of David L. Friskie died at their home in Woodtick last night at 6 o'clock. I worked till 7 tonight in the waterwheel at the factory, repairing the gate stern. 11\27\1902 Thursday This is Thanksgiving and the Somers family attended their annual reunion at the Baptist Church in Simonsville. the meeting was in charge of Uncle Dwight Somers. 11\28\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory till noon to day. This afternoon Mary and I went to cousin Ann's funeral at Woodtick. There were many people there. Mrs. Henry Pierpont was buried at East Farms this noon. Mary attended the burial. 11\29\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. The boys worked chopping down trees up on Wilson Pierpont's Springfield meadow. we are to have half of the wood for chopping. This evening Margaret, Ruth, and I went up to Adelbert Norton's in Wolcott and I gave a class of boys their lesson in drumming. the girls played and sang. Mr. Clem Corneilus told me that Peter Larogue would give me 3,000 dollars for my shop if I would sell. 11\30\1902 Sunday Seth Brell of Plymouth preached at the Chapel this afternoon. he is a student attending Yale College {Colleage}. Mrs. Judd, the mother of Mrs. Thomas Hill of Wolcott was buried from the Chapel this afternoon at one o'clock. 12\01\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual to day. About two and one half inches of snow fell last night. 12\02\{1902} Worked at the factory. 12\03\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Irving Pierpont and I went to the Chapel and I loaded a blast in the ditch that the boys had dug to drain the cellar. The hole that they drilled in the rock was about sixteen inches deep and I put in about five inches of dynamite {dinimite} then, four inches of black powder into this. I put the fuse, then five inches of dynamite {dinimite} and then tamped. I felt a long fuse, Irving lit it and we waited a long time but it did not go off. we did not go near it abain but came home. And I filled {filed} a crass cut sewer. 12\04\1902 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mrs. Nellie Connor died this afternoon at 2 o' clock of cancer in the stomach after an illness of many weeks. She was 59 years old. This evening I attended the GRange. it was charter members night and there were many of the older mem- bers present. of the 50 charter mem- bers in 1887 there are but 19 left that are members now. 12\01\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 12\06\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to Wison & Singletons and bought a pair of pants for which I paid 4.00. 12\07\1902 Sunday Yesterday it snowed and this morning it was snowing again and kept it up till about 4 o'clock. Nellie, Mary's sister was buried from her home on West side Hill this afternoon. the relatives and a few neighbors assembled at the house at 2 o'clock and the Rev. Mr. Brickley read prayers, then they took her to Trinity Church, where the funeral services were held. the Church was well filled, with friends considering the weather which was cold and stormy. we then took her to Pine Grove Cemetery, where they buried her east of the Chapel on the hill. we reached there at 4 o'clock. There were many pieces of flowers which were very nice. 12\08\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. The shop went{?} till 9 o'clock to night but I did not work as I was not feeling well, but Pierpont and I shod the horse. 12\09\{1902} Tuesday Worked till 9 o'clock to night. This is the coldest day since 1884 at this time of year. this morning the thermometer was 15 degrees below zero and to night it is 6 below. 12\10\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. The Ladies Union gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this ev- ening. The entertainment was fur- nished by Mr. and Mrs. Sills, and consisted of recitations, dialogue, and reading. 05 cts admission and 10 cts supper. 12\11\1902 Thursday Worked till 9 o'clock to night. 12\12\{1902} Friday Worked 10 hours to day. Sleighing is still good though the snow is thin. Some of the Mattaluck boys came and practiced this evening. Margaret and Amy went to Bristol to visit Brother Frank and Missy{?}. 12\13\{1902} Saturday Worked as usual at the factory. It is cold and snowing, blowing and drifting. the Chapel Choir met for practice at Mr. Able's this evening, and as the snow was deep I took my horse and bob sleigh and went and got Inez Beckwith, Bertha, and Clara French and Mrs. Munson and carried them to Mr. Able's house. I then went down to Fred Tompkins' and got Olive Able who was snowed in there and carried her home. I then came home, and Clyde took the team back and car- ried the girls home again. 12\14\{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes of St. Johns Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel. Coal is very scarce, hard coal is selling for $12.00 per ton and the dealers will not sell it in lots larger than 1/2 ton, soft coal is $8.00. In Seymour they are out of coal only three tons on hand in the dealers' bins. the schools are to be closed, and the coal taken for poor families, in many other places it is nearly gone. 12\15\{1902} Monday Worked as usual at Rogers & Bros. The snow is 15 inches deep on the level, and sleighing is fine. 12\16\1902 Tuesday Worked 10 hours. It has rained all day and the snow is nearly gone. 12\17\1902 Wednesday Worked 10 hours at the factory as usal. Received {Recived} 14.80 my last week pay. The Labor union known as the Metal Workers Union are to try and get established 9 hours a working day after Mar 1st 1903. James While who lives in Mrs. Wilson Pierpont's house north of the Grange Hall, has bought of David Shannon a lot 100 ft front on the Southmaid Road south of where he lives. he paid I think $600.00. 12\18\{1902} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. The Officers of the Grange were elected to night, -- Warren Hitchco- ck was elected Master, Lewis Garrigus, Overseer, Bessie White, Lecturer, Mrs. Anna Pierpont Secretary, C.S. Miller, Chaplain, etc. etc. Cort. D. B. Hamilton, elected Officers last night Morris Alcott, was elected Worthy Chief. 12\19\{1902} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary, myself, Margaret, Ruth, Pierpont, and Raymond, went to the East Farms Schoolhouse, and witnessed the Christmas exercises and the distribution of presents. all who attended brought a five cent present and there were distributed throughout the audience numbers two of a kind and the rule was to exchange presents with the person who had the same number as he had. The schoolhouse was well filled {filed} with people, and all had a good time. a christmas tree well loaded with presents and Santa Claus were featured. that attracted much attention. 12\20\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Pierpont and I went to the center and bought two sets of No. 6 horse shoes for the horse. The MIll Plain Chapel Choir met here tonight and practiced. they are Inez Beckwith, Organist, Clara French, Olive Abel, and Agnes J. Abel, soprano, Bertha French, and Mrs. Thoedore Munson, alto, Mr. McLowery, Sidney Spender, and Clifton Heaton, Tenor, Clyde Miller, Hiram Abel, Mr. Judd, and Mr. Burgess, Bass. 12\21\1902 Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett of the Farm STreet Meth- odist church preached at Mill Plain Chapel, this afternoon. It has rained hard all day and I did not go to service. but this evening I went down home. 12\22\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory 10 hours. The water in Mad River was so high during the night that the watchman John REARdon, and the engineer, Martin Cunningham were obliged to take the main belt off, so that the main part of the factory could not run. 12\23\{1902} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 12\24\1902 Wednesday I worked at the factory to day as usual. The whistle blew at 5 o'clock so all hands went home having worked 9 hours but will receive {recive} 10 hours pay. 12\25\{1902} Thursday This day is Christmas and we have observed it in the following manner {maner}. Enjoyed seeing the children open their stockings and take out their presents, after which we ate breakfast, Clyde, Irving, Pierpont and I then went down the old Prospect road and past Scott's pond and over in the woods near the old Baldwin cellar after running ground pine with which to trim the Chapel, but we found the snow so deep that we could get but little. we then came home and got ready and went down to Fathers' where we had Christmas dinner at 1 o'clock. Turkey, chicken pie, Indian pudding, all kinds of sweet cakes, and pies, nuts, etc., etc. in the evening we had a christmas tree, on which there were presents for all. I received {recived} a pair of knit scotch gloves, two pairs of woolen {wolen} stockings, and a handkerchief {hankerchief}, besides several small sums of money. after the presents had been given Will Gillette and I had some raw oysters and crackers to eat and cider to drink which was very pleasant {plesant}, while the others ate cake and other refreshments. We got home at about nine o'clock. It has snowed nearly all day, and the snow is about 8 inches deep on the ground. 12\26\{1902} Friday Worked as usual at the factory. this evening I went to help trim the Chapel for their Christmas entertainment. 12\27\{1902} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mill Plain Choir went over to Mr. Woods' to rehearse {reherse} this evening. he lives on the Watertown road first house above the iron bridge. I worked sawing wood till 9 o'clock, it is very cold zero". 12\28\{1902} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport conducted the Christmas service at the Chapel. this makes the 19th Christmas he has been there, Mr. Eldridge of the first Methodist church having been there one Christmas. After service I went to the factory and repaired the fire sprinkling pipe in the plating room. This evening I attended service at the Second Church. 12\29\{1902} Monday Worked at the factory ten hours. The thermometer registered below zero yester- day morning and this morning. 12\30\1902 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. The shop shuts down tomorrow night for the winter vacation so they say. They had the Christmas Sunday School entertainment at the Chapel this evening. they consisted of singing, recitations, etc., etc., also a Christmas tree, and Santa Claus, and presents for all the scholars. The Chapel was crowded, with men, women, and children. 12\31\{1902} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening I went and saw Frank Judd about shingling the front part of my shop. Jan. 1 1903 to May 31, 1904 Charles S. Miller Waterbury, Conn. Mill Plain District 01\01\1903 Thursday The factory shut down last night for the winter vacation. To day we took off the engine belt and are to send it to the Jewell belt Company in Hartford to have another thickness put on it. we also took out the bevel gear {geer} on the water-wheel shaft and are to send it to Bristol to have new wooden cogs put in. 01\02\1903 Friday Worked at the factory to day on repair jobs. Coal is scarce. Irving went all over town looking for some this afternoon but could find none at any price. 01\03\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 01\04\1903 Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 01\05\{1903} Monday This morning I was not feeling well so I did not go to the shop. Got up after Seven and ate breakfast after which I soled two pairs of shoes, then ran the washing machine for Mary and worked in the black-smith shop till noon, when we had dinner. after which I went to Professor Coultier's office in the Platt Building corner of E. Main St. and Phoenix AVe. and had my eyes fitted to a pair of eye glasses, the backs {bacs} of which are to be rolled gold and are to cost $4.00. came home over Long hill, and after supper filed a cross cut saw for Eddie Bronson. 01\06\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory, weather Cold. 01\07\1903 Wednesday Worked at the factory. 01\08\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. After work to night I went to W. B. Coulters and got a pair of eye-glasses the backs {bacs} of which are rolled {roled} gold and the price $4.00. Irving went to the Waterbury lumber and Coal Company and bought 1/2 ton of soft coal for which he paid $4.25. 01\09\{1903} Friday Worked as usual at the factory. 01\10\{1903} Saturday Worked at leveling up the heavy drops at the factory. 01\11\1903 Sunday Worked at barn chores {choers} a little time this morning, then Father came and told us that the trolley cars are not running as the men have struck. We then went to Austin Pierpont's and told him as he was to get the minister for the Chapel who usually {usualy} came on the car to Silver street. It was snowing quite hard, but Austin drove to church street and got Mr. Lewis and he preached. The City Board {Bord} of Public works was out yesterday afternoon looking over the proposed trolley route to Cheshire. They say that the road {rode} in front of my house is to be cut down 4 feet and the two rows {roes} of trees in front of David Porter's house are to be cut. also Mr. Wright's bank is to be cut back 10 feet etc., etc. 01\12\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Not a trolley car is running to day on account of the strike. the tracks are covered with ice from the storm last night to the depth of three inches in many places. the boys and girls of the neighbor- hood are having a fine time sliding on the ice on the hill in front of my house. they go 5 or 6 rods beyond the bridge over Mad River. 01\13\{1903} Tuesday Worked repairing the waterwheel at the factory. This evening I went out sliding with the boys and girls. we had three double- ripers. the boys Clyde and Irving went to Wolcott and got another that belongs to brother Fred, that has been stored at David Frisbie's for several years. 01\14\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day getting things ready to start up tomorrow. It is said that the Connecticut Power and Lighting Company ran a trolley car to the depot this after noon from the car barns. this is the first car out since last Saturday. Mary and the Children have gone to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment given by {buy} the East Farms folks. The entertainment is in charge of Miss Sedig the school teacher. 01\15\1903 {1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual to day. The Ladies cleared 15.93 at the supper last night. The strike of th eTrolley car men is still on as single car has been run over some of the streets to day. Factory started, except plating, Burnishing, and Buffing departments. 01\16\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day putting elevator in the trimming shop. The Trolley Company ran a few cars to day. but not on time, not many people rode. One Mr. Lockwood has moved into the Old Barns Place, where Johm French used to live on the Doolittle road. I got a pair of eyeglasses of Prof. Coulter of steel for which I paid 2.50. 01\17\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory 9 hours. Only a few of the trolley cars ran to day, but few people ride upon them. only 30 people rode yesterday. nearly everybody wears buttons with the words "We Walk" on them and the sympathy of the public is with the strikers. Last night a crowd of about 500 collected about the car barns and broke many of the windows {windoes} with stones and scared the men who are lodged there who were brought from New York to break the strike. The Mill Plain Chapel Choir met at my house for practice this evening. 01\18\1903{1902} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett of the Farm street Methodist church preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 01\19\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory. This evening May and Emily Corneilus of Woodtick came and made arrangements for the Mill Plain people to give an enter- tainment in the Chapel at that place on Feb. 4th. 01\20\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. Did not feel well on account of a sore throat. This evening I went to see Mr. Wood about getting the Chapel Choir to sing at Wood- tick. Also went to East Farms and saw Charlie Brown, Edith Pierpont and Miss Selid about the entertainment. 01\21\{1903} Wednesday This morning my throat was very sore so I did not go to work. I lay in bed till 8:30 when I got up, had breakfast, read awhile, then repaired a number of sets of blinds that have been broken. This morning it rained quite hard and the roads were very icy. 01\22\{1903} Thursday Did not feel well this morning but got up at seven. After breakfast I made two ax handles for Clyde and worked on a set of small bob sleighs that I am making. 01\23\{1903} Friday Went to work this morning. Found plenty to do. The trolley car strike is no nearer a settlement than it was a week ago. Mr. Alden Young, President of the Conn- ecticut Lighting and Power Company, has been in town to day, but nothing as far as we have heard has been done towards a settlement. Last evening Mary and I attended the Grange. The new officers were in- stalled and I was installed Chaplain. 01\24\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual to day. Warren Hitchcock has had a telephone put in his house last Wednesday. Went to John French's to see if I could get Bertha and Clara to sing at Woodtick Chapel Feb 4th. Also went to Mr. Beckwith's and invited the Choir to go and sing, which invitation they accepted. 01\25\1902{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. There were but few there on account of the snow storm. 01\26\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. The finishing department started to day. 01\27\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the Board of Public Works in the City Hall annex in the Old Bronson Library building, corner of Levenworth St. I was there wirh other property owners along the Cheshire road to determine the location of the tracks, whether in the middle or on one side of the road. To day the striking motor men and con- ductors started to run buses along the streets where the trolley cars run. 01\28\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended the supper and entertainment at the Mill Plain Chapel. It was in charge of the young ladies. They cleared $12.32. 01\29\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory. This evening I went over and saw Helen and Laura Gillette to see if they would take part in an entertainment to be given at the Woodtick Chapel next Wed- nesday night. Helen will sing and Laura will recite. 01\30\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening I saw Charlie Knap and he said that he would take a load of people up to Woodtick next Wednesday evening. Mary and the children went to east Farms to a social held in the school house. Cara went with them. 01\31\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening I went to Woodtick with Pierpont and saw the inside of the Chapel and made arrangements with Mary Cor- neilus for the entertainment next Wed- nesday evening. I also attended the rehearsal of the Mill Plain Chapel at Inez Beckwith's. Pierpont and I also went to town and bought some groceries. 02\01\1902{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Baptist church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. A crowd of about 5000 gathered about the center late last night and smashed several trolley cars, hurt a lot of the non-union men tried to set the trolley barns on fire and had a great racket generally. The police were unable to do anything to prevent it. 02\02\1902 {1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. This morning I saw by the bulletin at Tochia's store that 1000 troops had been ordered to Waterbury on account of the riot Saturday night. Later I learned that Mayor Kilduff ordered of Governor Chaim- berlain through County sheriff Dunham the Militia and Compa- nies A, B, Y, K, and H of Hartford and D of Bristol, and E of New Britain of the First Regiment, and later came Company C of Rockville, and G of South Manchester. These arrived early last eve- ning, and about 10 o'clock five Com- panies arrived from New Haven. B, C, D, E, F, of the 2nd Reg. and were com- manded by Colonel Schultze. Lieutenant Malloy had under his command the Gatlin gun division consisting of two machine guns and one 10 pounder. They are quartered as follows: First at the Auditorium on South Main Street, 2nd Regt. at the Armory and at the High School. One of the machine guns is stationed at the Armory and the other at the Power house of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co. The whole military body is commanded by General Frost. Companies A and G of this City are also on duty. The whole number of men under arms is 1000. There has been nothing for them to do to day. There were 18 non-union men injured last night. No one killed, twelve cars were badly broken by stones being thrown through them. 02\03\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening Pierpont and I went to the City after work. We saw the soldiers cooking their supper in front of the Armory and in front of the Auditorium they had fires in the gutters over which they cooked their vitals in large frying pans and kettles, each of which was about 4 ft. long and about 2 ft. wide. The trolley cars are running but no one rides. 02\04\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. It has rained all day and this evening also. We could not go to Wood- tick to give our entertainment, but Mary and I went up and made ar- rangements to give it tomorrow even- ing. We came back and told all we could see and I wento to East Farms and saw Charles Brown and he said that he would go and take a load tomorrow evening. 02\05\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening as I left the shop at 5 o'clock Pierpont gave me a letter saying that Clem Corneilus could not come down with his team after the people to night, so I thought I would take my own team and Father's, and then I went to East Farms and saw Charlie Brown but he was not going, so I went up and saw Arthur Pierpont who said that he would go and take his team and vegetable wagon, and take a load. So I came home and got ready soon as possible and we met at the Chapel at 7:30 and loaded into the wagons and we started, two double teams and four single. We reached Woodtick at 8 o'clock. Our program consisted of singing several selections by the Mill Plain Choir, readings, recitations, solos, etc. There was a chorus of 8 girls blacked up who sanf twice. One [iece was "The Ole Folks at Home" and also a "Shadow Pantomime", which was very funny. They had supper and also ice cream. Got home at 11:30 and to bed at 12. The First Regiment left town to day. 02\06\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The New Haven Companies of the 2nd Regt. left for home to day. 02\07\{1903} Saturday Worked as usual to day. There has been no trouble over the strike to day. The cars are running but few people ride on them. 02\08\{1903} Sunday Rain and ice, there were but few at the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Barnes of St. John's preached. Companies A and G were relieved from service to day. There is no military force on duty in the City now. 02\09\{1903} Monday Worked as usual to day. I have just heard a heavy explosion in the City, probably another trolley car is blown up. 02\10\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to the City hall annex to attend a meeting of the Board of Public Works in regard to extending the trolley tracks to Cheshire, but the meeting was put over on account of the death of City engineer Corn's little boy, who died of a contagious disease and the house is quarantined and he is in it. The trolley companies' receipts averaged for last year $800.00 per day. 02\11\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. It is said that there are 86,000 trolley car conductors and motor men in the United States that belong to the union and that each of these have con- tributed $1.00 to the cause of the strikers here, making $86,000; and that they intend to get 25 automobiles right away to carry passengers on our streets. 02\12\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Went to see Frank Judd about shingling my shop. 02\13\1903 Friday Worked at the factory to day. Clyde and Frank Judd worked shingling on my shop this after- noon. This evening Pierpont and I went to Hotchkiss & Templetons and bought 24 lbs. of shingle nails and 5 lbs. of 10 A nails, cost $1.05. Ruth Miller's birthday, 13 years. 02\14\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. Frank Judd and Clyde worked shingling and putting up stagings on my shop this day. Roy Judd and Irving helped. They put on about five thousand. The strikers started a new bus on the East Main street line yesterday. They have about 20 buses running now about the City. 02\15\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02\16\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 02\17\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. Snow fell to the depths of about one foot to day. The rural Free Delivery mail man did not make his trip to day. The trolley cars only run on some of their lines to day as the "scabs" or strike- breakers, so called, but who are really New York toughs who are brought here to run the cars as no one in Waterbury will do it, are not able to on account of the snow. Although the strike has now lasted 40 days, hardly any one rides in the cars. The strikers are running buses which are well-patronized. 02\18\{1903} Wednesday Worked as usual to day. This morning the thermometer registered 14 degrees below zero. 02\19\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Bertha French is quite sick with a swelling in the throat. The sleighing is fine. Clyde has been drawing wood from James Porter's woods back of Luther Bradley's To night after work I carried Miss Welton who lives in Watertown to the Naugatuck depot, and then went to Allen & Bradley's and bought a pair of shoes for 98 cts. and a pair of Arctic overshoes for 98. Mary and Clyde went to the Grange this evening. George Pierpont was married to Annie Slowson at her home on Adams Street at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mary went to the wedding. Fourteen below zero this morning. 02\20\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening a hot sociable was given at the Chapel for the benefit of the Sunday School. They cleared about 4.90. The thermometer was 8 below zero this morning. 02\21\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. The linemen in the employ of the Conn. Power and Lighting Company went out on strike because the Company hired a non-union man from Bridgeport to be their boss. Thetrimmers have also struck for an advance to 2.00 per day from 1.50 and 1.75. To day Ralph Blakeslee took the school children for a sleigh ride to Naugatuck and through the principle streets of the City. They went in 42 large two-horse sleighs. The Mill Plain Choir met for practice here this evening. Those present were: Clara French, Agnes and Olive Able, Clifford Heaton, Sidney Spender, Clyde and Irving Miller, Mr. Allen Burgess, and Mr. John Wood, who is the instructor. This evenig I went to J. G. Jane's office and had the insurance on my shop renewed. It is $1000.00 on which I paid $30.00. The thermometer was 17 below zero this morning. 02\22\{1903} Sunday Rev. John G. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. His sermon was a discourse on George Washington, this being his birthday & have forgotten the text. Sleighing never was better than to day. 02\23\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual to day. The electric light trimmers, the line men, the motor men, and conductors, all in the employ of the Connecticut Power and Lighting Company are out on strike and to night not an electric street light is to be seen. Margaret {is} 14 years old to day. 02\24\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory. 02\25\1903 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The City was in darkness last night owing to the striking trimmers. The company got some new men from New York to take their places but the union men got them away. Colonel Burpee has sent to New Haven to Sheriff Dunham to have a lot of deputies sent here again. Before when they were here it cost the County $300 per day. There was a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. 02\26\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mary and Clyde attended the Grange. The citizens held a mass meeting in the City Hall last evening to oppose a bill requiring labor unions to be incorporated. That has been presen- ted by Senator Tracy to the Legislature. The hall was packed. 02\27\{1903} Friday Worked as usual. 02\28\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. The first of the large automobiles arrived from Hartford last night and it is to be put into commission on our streets to day. It is to be run by the striking conductors and motormen. There are seven more coming. 03\01\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist Church preaches at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I did not attend as I have a bad cold. 03\02\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual to day. 03\03\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory. Oscar L. Fairchild and family moved from their place opposite the Mill Plain school house to a place he has lately traded for in Southbury. 03\04\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. There is hardly an electric street light burning to night in Waterbury owing to the strike. The boys break the globes in spite of the deputies that the high sheriff has sent here. 03\05\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\06\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening several boys came and we drummed a while. Mary and the small children went to East Farms and attended the sociable given by the teacher Miss Selig in the school house. 03\07\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\08\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. Pierpont and I drove to Bristol this morn- ing to visit brother Frank. We staid there till 5 o'clock when we started home in the rain. The mud was very deep, up to the hubs in some places, and the rain came down in torrents. We did not get home till 8 o'clock. 03\09\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. Last night, at quarter to ten, a policeman named Paul Mendelsohn was shot and killed on a trolley car at the terminus near Forest Park on North Main Street by some one yet unknown. As the motorman and conductor tell it, four masked men attacked the car and fired a volley of pistol shots, one of which struck the policeman over the heart. This is the 58th day of the strike. 03\10\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. There is great excitement in the town over yesterday's, or rather Sunday's, murder. 03\11\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. The funeral of Paul Mendelsohn was largely attended to day. He was buried in the Milchezedeck cemetary on the Plank Road. The funeral of the Italian who was shot in the "Dog's Nest" Sunday was a large one, and passed by here he being buried in the Cavalry Cemetary. Mary and the children have gone to the Chapel to a supper and entertainment. The Connecticut Power and Lighting Company ran its cars out East Main Street to Silver this afternoon, the first time since the strike began but once, i.e., two months. Each car is guarded by policemen and deputies. 03\12\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. 03\13\{1903} Friday Worked as usual. $18, 850.00 is the amount of the reward offered for the information that will lead to the conviction of the paries that murdered Paul Mendelsohn last Sunday evening. $10,000.00 is offered by the state. $5,000 by the Trolley Company. $3,000 by the citizens of Waterbury. $200 by the City of Waterbury. $250 by the Central Labor Union. $200 by the Old Fellows, and $200 from some other society. 03\14\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. After work, Pierpont and I planted some sweet peas, lettuce, radishes, and tomato seed. We also transplanted some currant bushes. 03\15\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Stockdale preached at the Chapel to day. We heard to day that Judge Elmer has had injunctions served on the officers of all of the trade unions in the City. They were served yesterday afternoon. Mr. Jones, who lived in the Butler Frost place, has moved into Mrs. Frost's house which was formerly occupied by John French. This is Mr. Fred Tompkin's birthday, 68 years old. 03\16\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\17\{1903} Tuesday This is St. Patrick's day. I worked as usual to day. 03\18\{1903} Wednesday Worked as usual. This is Agnes Able's 24th birthday. To day Mr. Marlon of the Central Labor Union went to New York to consult with President Young of the Connecticut Lighting and Power Company in regard to a settlement of the strike. 03\19\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\20\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual to day. 03\21\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. After work the boys and I worked draying stoves from the new ditch at the Chapel. We got very wet as it rained hard. 03\22\{1903} Sunday Worked at barn work for a spell this morning getting the team ready to carry the minister to the Chapel. Mr. Davenport preached this afternoon. 03\23\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory. Mr. Byers norified Mr. Rockwell that he is going to get through at Rogers Brothers and is going to Newbury- port to work for Mr. Risley at the Towel Companies works. 03\24\{1903} Tuesday Worked as usual. 03\25\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. The ladies had a supper at the Chapel this evening. 03\26\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory. 03\27\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. 03\28\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. I sent a written application to Mr. Rockwell for the position that Mr. Byers now holds, i.e., that of foreman of the machine burnish- ing room. 03\29\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bruno preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 03\30\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. I applied to Mr. Rockwell in person for the position of foreman of Mr. Byer's burnishing room. He said that two others had applied before me but the he would let me know in two or three days. 03\31\1903 Tuesday Worked as usual at the factory. Thepolice arrested five strikers and 13 others yesterday charged with murderous assault. They had a hearing to day but I have not heard how it came out. About 8:20 o'clock this forenoon a head-on collision occured on the Naugatuck Rail Road just below the place where the Meriden Rail Road crosses below Booth & Haydens. An engineer and fireman were killed outright and one other fatally injured, and 14 hurt. 04\01\1903 Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory. The strikers were tried before the City court yesterday and 5 of them were bound over to the next term of the Superior Court, and the case was continued till to day when the rest were bound over. 04\02\{1903} Thursday Worked as usual. This morning and evening we worked building a front fence. 04\03\{1903} Friday Worked as usual. The weather is warm and nice. 04\04\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. The weather has changed from warm this morning to freezing cold to night with snow on the ground. 04\05\{1903} Sunday Cold. Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simons- ville Baptist Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. George Edwards and wife and son Elton called this afternoon. Mary, Margaret and Ruth went down to Charlie Pierpont's this afternoon. 04\06\{1903} Monday Worked as usual at the factory. 04\07\{1903} Tuesdat Worked in the factory as usual. This evening I went to Driggs and Smiths and hired a man to come to the Chapel and tune the piano. 04\08\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. It has rained very hard all day. There was an entertainment and supper at the Chapel this evening in charge of the young men. They cleared $20.10. 04\09\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 04\10\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual repairing the exhaust pipes in the trimming room. The factory did not run as this is Good Friday. 04\11\{1903} Saturday I staid home and worked building a new fence in front of my house to day. 04\12\{1903} Sunday Easter Sunday. Rev. Mr. Holden preached at the Chapel. The altar was very prettily trimmed with flowers. Mr. Davenport was to preach but was called to Middlebury to attend the funeral of Rev. Mr. Griggs of the Congregational Church. 04\13\{1903} Monday Worked at the fatcory to day as usual. Mr. Edward Byers sold his horse harness and wagon for $15.00 to Charles Judd. Worked on the fence this morning. 04\14\1903 Worked at the factory to day. The wind has been in the North East all day and it has rained nearly all thetime. I went to the office to see Mr. Rockwell about taking charge of Mr. Byers' room, but he has been in Meriden all day. He has been in Virginia and New York, New Jersey, etc., for the past two weeks and I could not see him before. 04\15\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning I called at the office and saw Mr. Rockwell about taking charge of Mr. Byers' room. He said that he would look it up and he called Mr. Byers in soon. Afterwards Mr. Byers told me that I am to have it, but that Minnie Dugan is to have charge of the work. It has rained all day. To morrow at 12:30 the Minnesota is to be launched at New London. I intended to see it, but cannot on account of my work, and am afraid it will not be launched on time owing to the bad weather. 04\16\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This morning I thought that I was to have charge of the machine burnish- ing room, but this afternoon Mr. Byers told me that he thinks that I am turned down. Minnie Dugab is to have charge of the work and they expect to get along some way. 04\17\{1903} Friday To day I saw Mr. Rockwell and Mr. Tobin in the office and they told me of the arrangements that they were making in regard to the machine burnishing room. I am left out. They told me that they would give me more pay. The largest ship in the world was launched at New London yesterday. She is the Minnesota, 630 ft. long, 76 ft. ide, 88 ft. high to top of deck, will carry 38,000 tons of coal and 286,000 barrels of flour. 04\18\1903 Saturday I worked at the factory to day as usual. After work or at 4:30 I carried Mr. Byers's tool chest to Adams Express office on center street, and shipped it to Newburyport, Mass. I then drove to Mr. Dallas's flower store on Union street, and just before I entered William Atchenson told me that Mr. Swift's barn at Mill Plain was on fire and that the firemen had just started. I did an errand and started fast as possible. When I reached Mill Plain I found the old tannery in flames. Mr. Swift's barn had burned and the sinders had been carried by the wind to the tannery and started that. It caught at about 5 o'clock and at six the frame was falling. So fast did it burn, the woods, lots, fences, etc. took fire, as did also Mr. Knapp's barn twice. Mr. Swift lost all his tools, horse, wagons, bicycle, etc. 04\19\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at Mill Plain Chapel. There were large crowds out to see the ruins of the Tannery and Mr. Swift's barn. 04\20\{1903} Monday Worked in the factory as usual. Worked on the front fence this morning and evening. 04\21\{1903} Tuesday Worked on the fence morning and evening, and in Rogers & Brothers factory during the day, ten hours. 04\22\{1903} Wednesday Worked in the factory as usual to day. Received my pay to day, $15.00 instead of $13.50 which I have been getting. 04\23\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 04\24\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met and practiced as usual. 04\25\{1903} Saturday Worked as usual to the factory to day. This evening we worked on the fence. 04\26\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Haldon preached at the Chapel to day. Gaylord Alcott died this forenoon, aged 79 years. Major George Tucker has sold his place to James White. 04\27\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the woods out on the South hill were on fire, and the report spread that Wilson Pierpont's house was on fire. Frank Hoggett, Frank White, Lydia Janes, and several others started to go out but turned back at our house. Edith Pierpont came driving up the road greatly excited because some one had told her that her house had burned down. Wrote a letter to Mr. Edward Ford, No. 4 Summit St, New London. 04\28\{1903} Tuesday Worked in the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended Gaylord Alcott's funeral. It was held from the Chapel at 2:30 o'clock and was largely attended. The service in the Chapel was conduc- ted by the Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church. The services at the grave were under the auspices of the Free Masons. After the funeral I went to town and bought 5 gals. of Linseed oil @ 55 cts., and 33 lbs. of venetian red @ 2 1/2 cts of the Apothecaries Hall, Co., and a box of coal from Miller and Strickland's for 15 cts, and we went to the Post Office and got 2 P.O. Orders for $1.25 and $2.00, then came home. Mary and Ruth went to the wedding of Willie Conner and Carra Millis. It was held in the black corner of North Willow and West Main Street. 04\29\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Received a letter from R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. of Wallingford requesting me to come over and see them about taking charge of their machine burnishing room. 04\30\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Wrote to R. Wallace and sons that I would not come. Mary and Irving went to the Grange this evening. Clyde went to an en- tertanment given by the high school debating club. 05\01\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Tobin took me into the machine burnishing room to make some burnishers for the machines that burnish the buts of the blades. Wrote a letter on my type writer to the Connecticut Magazine of Hartford renewing my subscription for 1 year, $2.00. 05\02\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory. Yesterday Superintendent Tobin told me to go into the machine burnishing room and make a set of new burnishers for one of the knife blade shoulder machines. This evening I went to Woodtick and gave a class of boys a drumming lesson. 05\03\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 05\04\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory. 05\05\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\06\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. 05\07\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as ususal. Worked in the machine burnishing room making burnishers for the knife handle burnishing machines yesterday and to day. 05\08\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual to day. After work I went to town and bought a box of crackers for $1.30 and then went and saw Mr. Hayes at #38 Walnut Street and he engaged the Mattatuck Drum Corps to play for Wadham's Post No. 49 G.A.R. on May 30th which is Decoration Day. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting this evening. 05\09\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to Adelbert Norton's on Wolcott and gave a drumming lesson to a class of boys. 05\10\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. It is reported that two boys or young men were drowned at Shelton Hitchcock's pond at about 2 o'clock this morning. They were fishing and two of them attended to change their seats and tipped the boat over. Their names were James Corr and Willie Garthwait and Corr lived on East Main Street near Orange while Garthwait lived on the Main Wolcott Street on Wolcott line 05\11\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual to day. It was found that Will Garth- wait swam to the shore yesterday morning but was exhausted and they did not find him for some time. Corr's body has not yet been found. This afternoon they have been firing off dynamite in the water in hope to raise it but did not succeed. They killed many fish. Clyde and Irving went out and saw them fire the dynamite. There was a great forest fire on the Wolcott mountain North of the Southington Resorvoir this afternoon. 05\12\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual to day. 05\13\{1903} Wednesday Worked as usual to day. Irving went to work or Mr. Joseph Smith, learning to be an architect. 05\14\{1903} Thursday Worked at Rogers & Brothers as usual to day. 05\15\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory. 05\16\{1903} Saturday Worked as usual in the factory. All or nearly all of the factories in the city closed at noon to day except ours, and gave the men a half holiday and a full week's pay. This is to last till next Sept. The machine shops and the Waterbury Clock shop work 9 hours all the year round. I went to Harry Coe's in Wolcott and gave a drumming lesson to the boys. 05\17\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett of Waterville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. Margaret, Keith and I drove to Waterville and I visited Haber Welton who is very rich. Uncle Ben Somers called to day and he showed me the place on Mad River where the Indians used to dig the lead. 05\18\1903 Monday Worked the factory to day as usual. This evening I drove to see Mr. Russell but did not find him. I then went to Hotchkiss and Templeton's hardware store and bought some seed beans, then went to the Post Office but found it closed. I then waited for Irving and when he came we drove to Mr. Robert Worden's on Orange Street and saw him about the service which is to be held at the Chapel next Sunday. Yesterday they had a fierce riot in Bridgeport between the trolley strikers and the strike-breakers. Over 40 persons were injured. 05\19\1903 Tuesday Worked as usual to day. This evening I went to town and went to Mr. Margroff's office to see him about playing in Watertown Decoration Day, but his was not in. I then went and saw Mr. Russell and he wanted to hire 10 men to play next Saturday evening: 4 fifers, 4 snare-drum- mers and 2 bass drummers. We {{illegble word}} on 75 cts. per man. I then went to see Mr. Worden about the 20 th anniversary service at the Chapel. He could not get Mr. Haywood and wished me to see Mr. Smith of Simonsville. Then Irving and I came home. After supper, Clyde and I went and saw Mr. Atkinson about getting the uniform that belongs to the Mattatuck Drum Corps that George wore. We did not get it. We then went to Dan Squires after Sam's rig, but he was not at home. 05\20\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening I went to see Mr. Daven- port about the Sunday service but he was away at a wedding. I then went to see Dr. Anderson but could find no one. I then went to Simonsville to see Mr. Smith but could find no one. I stopped in the center and got Irving and we hurried home but got wet as it rained quite a little. 05\21\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. 05\22\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. 05\23\{1903} Saturday This morning we got up early and Pierpont, Margaret, Ruth and Annie and myself drove over to Milldale and left the team at Mr. Noble's and took the trolley car and went via Southington, Plainville, New Britain to Hartford. We visited the Aethenium, Capitol, etc., and went over to East Hartford and saw the sights. We then came home by the third rail to Plainville and then by trolley to Southington where we took our team. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps turned turned out for the "Patriotic Order Sons of America" There were present: Fifers, Charlie Cass, Clyde Miller, Clifton Heaton, and Henry Beckwith. Bass Drummers, Henry Cass and Irving Miller. Snare Drummers, Harry Buck- ingham, Rob Beckwith, Joe Pierpont and myself. 05\24\1903 Sunday The twentieth anniversary of the found- ing of Mill Plain Chapel which will be the 27th of this month was observed by special service at the Chapel this afternoon. Dr. Davenport, Dr. Anderson, Mr. Buckley and Rev. Mr. Smith were the ministers present. There was a large congregation and the service was very interesting. There was 17 present who were there at the dedication 20 years ago. 05\25\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to see George Edwards. 05\26\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening I went to Arthur Harrison's in Wolcott and got his Bass Drum which he wished me to letter. With the following "Wolcott Drum Band", organized 1767. 05\27\1903 Wedenesday Worked as usual at the factory. This evening was held the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society and the following officers were elected: Episcopal Committee Ausitn B. Pierpont Congregational " Henry Cook Baptist " Henry Judd Methodist " Chas. Monroe Secretary Arthur Pierpont Treasurer Hiram Able Organist Inez Beckwith Sunday School Super. Henry Judd. " " Librarian Sidney Spender Money in the Chapel treasury " " S. School " " " Ladies' Union " 05\28\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. 05\29\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps had a meeting for practice. There were present Chas. Cass, Henry Beckwith, Harry Buckingham, Clyde Miller, Clifton Heaton, Henry Cass, Irving Miller and myself. 05\30\{1903} Saturday This is Decoration Day. No work. The Mattatuck Drum Corps played for Wadham's Post. Besides the men mentioned above there were present Rob Beckwith, Joe Pierpont, George Cass and Charles Hotchkiss. Frank De Bisop acted as Drum Majoe. 05\31\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached at the Chapel to day. 06\01\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\02\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the fatcory to day. The trial of the strikers who attacked the motorman and conductor at Labor's siding at Waterville last February began to day. The strikers had for attorneys: John O'Neal, James Russell of Waterbury, Senator Kennedy of Nauga- tuck, Beveher of Meriden, C. S. Hamilton of New Haven, and Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport, while the state has Williams of Derby and John Kellogg. 06\03\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\04\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Last night when I went to bed the moon looked like a dull red ball of fire and the sun looked the same when it arose this morning and kept looking duller and fainter till about three o'clock this aftrenoon it was no longer to be seen. The at- mosphere has been full of smoke and at times objects a quarter of a mile away could not be seen. We could not make out where all the smoke came from. Everything is coated with a thin layer of white ashes or dust. Some say that there are great forest fires raging up about Plymouth. This evening the young people of Mill Plain went up to Saint Paul's Methodist Church at Farm Street and furnished an entertainment for a sup- per. I made the program announcements and recited "The Dutch Volunteer". 06\05\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps held a meeting for practice. Mr. james Tobin came home from his vacation. The darkness of yesterday was caused by great forest fires in New York state in the region about Lake George and Northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. 06\06\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Corps marched to Harry Coe's home in Wolcott where we were entertained with refreshments, etc., by Mr. and Mrs. Coe. There were Clyde Miller, Henry Beckwith, Harry Buckingham, Arthur Heaton and Clifton Heaton, Fifers. Henry Cass and Irving Miller, Bass Drummers. Chas. Miller, Seth Anderson, Clarence Brown, Rob Beckwith, Fred Jones and Joseph Pierpont, Snare Drummers and I would add Henry Buckingham and Adelbert Norton to the Bass Drum- mers. 06\07\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Haywood, the new minister, at the Grand Street Baptist Church, preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. We had for supper this evening a peck of round clams which Clyde brought for a clam bake over to John French's, but they could not have it on account of the rain. This is the first rain we have had of any account in eight weeks. This evening we saw a reflection of a great fire in the North East. I should think it was in the direction of Mr. John Todd's place. Saw it at about 10 o'clock P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Mulhern, who lives next house east, had a son born to them last evening. 06\08\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The fire that we saw last night has proved to be Arthur Merri- man's cow barn just over the Southington line east of Hitchcock's Pond. 06\09\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 06\10\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 06\11\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\12\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 06\13\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Adelbert Norton's in Wolcott and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys. 06\14\{1903} Sunday George Johnson was buried from his old home. Rev. Mr. Holden officiated. I was one of the pall bearers. The others were Hubert Wedge, Max Reed, Hiram Abel, and he was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetary. Rev. Mr. Barnes preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 06\15\1903 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\16\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as us- ual. 06\17\1903 Wednesday Worked to day in the factory. Margaret graduated from the Crosby Grammar School to day. The Mayor of the City of Waterbury (Edward G. Kilduff), the Board of Alder- men, and the Board of Public Works, were arrested to day on warrants issued by Judge Stoddard for not complying with the order of the Court, in not allowing the City sewerage to empty into the Nauga- tuck River. The order was issued three years ago last January. 06\18\{1903} Thursday Worked as usual. Clyde and 74 others graduated from the Waterbury high school to day. They had the graduating exercises in Polias Theater this evening. We attended. The building was filled to overflowing. My nephew Harry Connor and a Miss Curtiss of Woodbury were married in Woodbury at the home of the bride this afternoon. 06\19\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met this evening for practice. 06\20\{1903} Saturday Worked as usual. Did not go away this evening as it stormed hard. 06\21\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Basset preached at the Chapel to day. There were but few present as it rained hard. Agnes Abel is sick with bumbago. 06\22\1903 Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 06\23\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. 06\24\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory. Grace Cass came to work at Rogers &\ Brothers this morning in the inspecting room. 06\25\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. Received a new lap robe by Adams Express this evening from Montgomery Ward's and Co. of Chicago for which I paid $1.35. 06\26\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Corps held a meeting this evening and decided to go to South Britain, July 4th. 06\27\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a drum corps meeting at Andrew Slater's house in Woodtick. 06\28\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Davenport officiated at the Chapel this afternoon. It was children's day and the Chapel was more than full. There were several babies baptized and Mr. Davenport gave prizes to several children who had attended Sunday School every day during the past year. 06\29\1903 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\30\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Barnam's and Bailey's great circus exhibited in town to day. 07\01\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\02\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice this evening and made prep- arations to go to South Britain to- morrow. The factory shut down to night for the summer vacation. {07\03\1903 Friday [no entry]} {07\04\1903 Saturday [no entry]} 07\05\{1903} Sunday Yesterday morning I got up at four and helped the small boys celebrate the 4th of July by firing firecrackers and my old musket. Then I got ready and we started for South Britain. There were Charlie Cass, Henry Cass, and Clyde Miller in Charlie Cass's team. Joe Pierpont and Harry Buckingham in Joe Pierpont's team. Irving Miller and Clifton Heaton in Father's team. Fred Jones, Rob Beck- with and myself in my team. We started at quarter to seven and drove through Watertown to North Woodbury where we met George Cass and Charlie Hotchkiss and we marched through Woodbury Street to the Curtis House where we had cool drinks. We then got into our teams and drove through Transylvania to South Britain which we reached at 12 o'clock. We put our teams out at a barn in the lower part of the village and then marched back to the west bank of the Pomperang River, back of Mr. Hawkin's factory where we found picnic tables waiting. We sat down with about 200 others, men, women, and children, and had a fine dinner. In the afternoon we witnessed a ball game and saw 5 or 6 men shoot at clay pigeons. After the picnic Robert Beckwith and I were taken to Mr. Mitchel's where we were to board while we staid in South Britain. After supper we marched and drummed to a high hill west of the village where we witnessed a fine dis- play of fireworks. We then marched back to the village playing "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" and left our drums at Mr. Hawkin's shop and we went to our several boarding places. In the morning I got up at 6 o'clock and strolled through the village to the picnic ground where I found fragments of cake, bis- cuit, etc., which I crumbled and threw into the river to see the fish jump at them. There were great numbers of them, mostly {{duce??}} and shiners of large size, some of which were a foot long. In the meantime the other boys had gotten up at 4 o'clock and they walked over to Bennett's Bridge and to Sandy Hook where they saw where the Rail Road bridge had been burned over the Pomperang River. At quarter to 11 we formed and marched to the Meth- odist Church, the Congregational Church being in a state of repairs and many of its members attending the Methodist. After dinner, George Cass took me in his team to Mr. Mitchel's who lives on the east bank of the Hous- atonic River about two miles above Sandy Hook. It was a fine place and well kept, with fine grounds and a large flower garden. Every thing was in good order. We stayed about two hours when we drove to South Britain by way of Bennett's Bridge. About 6 we started for home coming through Southbury and over the Strongtown Hills through Middle- bury. Reached home about 9 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Smith preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 07\06\{1903} Monday Sister Iva was married this afternoon at 2:30 to William M. Gillette by the Rev. Joseph Anderson. They were married at Father's house and there were present a large number of people. 07\07\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 07\08\1903 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\09\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory. 07\10\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The new iron smoke stack was raised to day. It is 90 ft. high and 4 ft. 6 in. in diameter. Mr. J. Daily raised it. 07\11\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. 07\12\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. John's Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 07\13\1903 Monday Worked in the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day. The factory started up this morning after a shut down of one week. It has been a hard day for me, on account of the belts not run- ning good. Mr. Dibble of Shelton put in a new governor on the large water wheel to day. This evening Margaret, Ruth and Pierpont went out to Mr. Garrigus's and got Mr. Cooks one horse mowing machine, which I have borrowed of him. 07\14\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This afternoon we had a very hard shower. 07\15\1903 Wednesday To day I mowed at father's place with the one-horse mowing machine. We mowed the whole lot. 07\16\{1903} Thursday To day I mowed the lot corner of the Cheshire and Harper-ferry roads near the bridge and the lot where Tom Mill's horse stands and we got in the Hay or Father's, 4 loads (1 horse). Clyde came after 5 o'clock and Irving after 6. 07\17\{1903} Friday Mowed by hand the swamp in the lot where Tom Mills lives and got the good hay and put it in my stack and one load in my barn. The Mattatuck Drum Corps met for practice this evening. I was tired and did not play. 07\18\1903 Saturday This forenoon I mowed the large lot corner of the plank road and Harper Ferry road opposite the City pumping station, i.e., with machine but there remains much land mowing. This afternoon it rained and for a while Marion Brewster, Loise Jenner, Amy Miller, Margaret, Ruth and I looked at a lot of pictures that I have got. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon at work at odd jobs and in the garden. Last Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock Bertha French was getting ready for bed and was partly undressed when she wanted something downstairs. She went to get it and as she was looking under the cough the lamp set the fringe on fire, which in turn ignited the carpet, curtains, papers, etc., etc. She screamed and John came and they put the furniture out of doors and put the rest of the fire out with water, and thus ended what might have been a bad fire. 07\19\1903 Sunday Rev. Mr. Stockdale preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 07\20\{1903} Monday I got in four loads of hay in good condition from the corner lot on the Plank Road. 07\21\{1903} Tuesday Mowed in the swale in the corner lot on the Plank Road and put in a load of bog hay in Father's barn. 07\22\{1903} Wednesday Mowed the remainder of the boggy swale and got in all of the hay in father's barn. 07\23\{1903} Thursday Worked in the west garden all of the forenoon and helped Clyde hoe potatoes up in Wilson Pierpont's Springfield meadow. 07\24\{1903} Friday Went to work in the factory this morning. There was lots of work for me to do. I went to work getting three new drops in running order. 07\25\{1903} Saturday Worked as usual in the factory. 07\26\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Holden preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The attendance was rather small. 07\27\1903 Monday Worked at the factory as usual. Pope Leo XIII was buried at Rome last Saturday at sunset. Clyde went to work for Arthur Pier- pont to day. 07\28\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. 07\29\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening as I left the factory Pierpont told me that he heard that there was a girl drowned in the Brass Mill Pond. I started up the street and found out on inquiry that a little child had been drowned in the muck hole south of the Plank Road near Mr. Fred Tompkin's house. I drove over and found a small crowd around a child about 6 years old who had been on a raft with her brother and had fallen off and was drowned. She had been out of the water but a few minutes. Her name was Schafer and she lived on East Main St. opposite the old tan shop pond. 07\30\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. Agnes Abel went to work at Rogers & Brothers to day. 07\31\1903 Friday Worked with Thomas Keelier repairing the flume gate at the old Brass Mill ditch nearly all day. This morning Irving and I mowed the swamp. 08\01\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I carried Johnny Herfs new drum up to him. I bought it of the Rogers Music house of Middle- town, N. Y., for $6.50 and paid 50 cts express. Wolcott drummers met at Mr. Baker's. 08\02\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Reed, a colored preacher, officiated at the Mill Plain Chapel. 08\03\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 08\04\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 08\05\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\06\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The making department went on 8 hours time to day. The trimming department started on 8 hours last Monday. 08\07\1903 Friday Worked at the factory to day. The Mill Plain Sunday School had a picnic at Compounce to day. They went over in three buses, i.e., Arthur Pierpont's, Ed Holmes's, and Ed Todd's, and several single teams. 08\08\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. They stopped making forks of the jumbo pattern yesterday. Sent home about 34 men. 08\09\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 08\10\{1903} Monday Worked at the factroy to day. The great trolley strike which has lasted seven months was declared off last night. 08\11\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. 08\12\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factroy to day. Laurence Tobin went to Litchfield's to day to remain a while to improve his health. Clyde came home from Cheshire where he has been working to have his teeth fixed as they have ached bad for the last three days. 08\13\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory. 08\14\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. This evening Irving, Henry Cass, Cliff Heaton, Fred Jones, and Clarence Brown went over to Robert Beckwith's and drummed for a while after which Mr. Beckwith invited us into the house where they gave us frosted cake, watermelon, root beer, etc., for refreshments. 08\15\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening Pierpont, Irving and I finished the hinges and hung the front and west gates in our fence. 08\16\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 08\17\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\18\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. John Templeton was sent to New Haven jail for chasing his wife with a razor. We worked on the big gate this morning and to night. 08\19\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 08\20\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\21\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as I generally do. Harry Andrews of Wolcott died yesterday of Pleurisy aged 32 years. 08\22\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I rving, Pierpont and I welded and set a set of new arms on my spindle wagon. Clyde came home from working for Arthur Pierpont. 08\23\{1903} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I attended Harry Andrews' funeral at Wolcott Center at 2 o'clock this afternoon. There was a great number present. The church was crowded and many had to stand outside. Rev. Mr. Waters officiated. I was one many had to stand outside. Frank Coles, Willie Pritchard, Arthur Harrison, B. F. Hoggett, and another who I did not know. After the funeral I drove down past Mark Tuttle's corner and turned into a cart path which continued east over the mountain and I finally came out near where the City of New Britain is building a large reservoir. I then went down onto the Compounce road and to Marion and home. 08\24\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory. David Shannon died last night of heart disease at 10 minutes past six. He had been out looking about his home lot with his wife and returned and was sitting on the veranda when he died suddenly. 08\25\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended David Shannon's funeral. It was held in the Chapel which was crowded with people. Rev. Dr. Davenport officiated. 08\26\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Clyde has been working digging his potatoes up in Wilson Pierpont's Springfield meadow. To day he sold 10 bushels @ .70 $7.00. Yesterday 5 bu @ .70 3.50 4 bu @ .65 2.50 6.10/13.10. 08\27\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory. Clyde sold 3 by @ 65 to day. 08\28\1903 Friday Worked at the factory to day. 08\29\{1903} Saturday This morning I went to New Haven Jail for Mr. Rockwell who is secretary of the International Silver Company after John Templeton's who has been serving 10 days for quarreling with his wife. I was to have met him at the Jail. I got there at 8:05 but he had gone to the depot. I went there and found him. He had seen a friend and borrowed enough money to buy a ticket home, so we took the 8:43 train via Cheshire home. I left him at the Dublin Street Station and came home, stopping at the shop a minute on the way, and changed my clothes and went to work. This is Olly Able's birth-day. She is 21 years old. 08\30\{1903} Sunday I worked at the factory three and one half hours to day getting two polishing lathes ready to run. This afternoon I attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel. Rev. Mr. Davenport officiated. 08\31\1903 Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I drove to town after work and bought 18 one and one sixteenth common buggy spokes for which I paid 98 cts. I then came home and after supper went to the new building till Harry Beckwith came and said that his father wished me to make a spanner wrench out of a piece of machinery steel that they had to unscrew some bugs out of a parcopine boiler. I made it with Pierpont to strike. 09\01\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory this day. This evening I went to town and bought 10 pounds of 14 3/16 tool steel for $1.50 and a bar of 14 1/4 iron for 42 cts to make some sleigh shoes of. After supper I painted on my buggy. Bertha French and Cliff Heaton came and they practiced singing. 09\02\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory as usual. 09\03\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory. 09\04\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory. 09\05\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock to night. 09\06\{1903} Sunday This forenoon Mary and I attended worship at the Second Congregational Church of which we are members. Clyde and Irving became members with nine others. This afternoon we attended service at the Chapel. Rev. Mr. Smith offi- cialed. 09\07\1903 Monday This is a legal holiday, "Labor Day". I worked about home till 10 o'clock when we hitched up and Pierpont, Raymond and I went down town and saw the parade of "Union men". It was quite long taking about 3/4 of an hour to pass. There were 5 bands and 5 drum corps. Clyde went to Wolcott to the clam and corn roast. They had a ball game between the Wolcott nine and a nine from Mill Plain. The Mill Plain beat. They also had a tug-of-war, potato race, tub race, foot race, wheel-barrow race. Clyde took the first and second prize for the tub race, which was given on Pritchard's Pond. He, crossing the pond, came back and crossed again before the others got over. 09\08\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day and till 8 o'clock to night. 09\09\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 09\10\1903 Thusday Worked at the factory to day. 09\11\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening we had a surprise party at our house and on Clyde. About 50 of his friends and neighbors came. They pre- sented him with a present in the form of thirty dollars. They played games and danced. Clyde had been to the dentist and had some of his teeth drawn and others filled and had no idea of a party till he got into the house and saw all of the folks. 09\12\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory. This evening we set the stone hitching post that Clyde made in the street west of the house. The Choir met for practitce at the Chapel this evening. 09\13\{1903} Sunday This is Clyde's birthday, 19 years old. I worked at the factory all day repair- ing the 20 inch turbine waterwheel. Tonight I am tired, sick, and weary. Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Chapel. 09\14\{1903} Monday This morning Clyde and I took the 8:55 train on the Naugatuck Rail Road. He bought his ticket for Easton, Pa, paid $4.42. I bought mine for New York, $1.95. We reached New York at 10:30. Clyde left a suit of clothes at a store on 3rd Ave. to be pressed. We then went to the East River Bridge where we staid for some time viewing the sights and then started for the Pennsylvania Rail-Road Station in Jersey City, stopping on the way at 65 Cortland Street (Robert Ingers & Co.) where I bought a set of ankle supports and Clyde bought a pair of white slippers. We waited for the train which left at 1:05. I bid Clyde good-bye at the gate to the enclosure where the trains start, and after he had gone I took the 23rd Street ferry back to N.Y. I walked out 24th Street to 9th Ave where I took the elevated cars to 155th Street Station where I took the train on the Putnam division of the N.Y. Central to Brewster's where I changed and took the N.Y. and New England road to Waterbury which I reached at 8:05. Pierpont was on Grand Street waiting for me and we drove home. 09\15\{1903} Tuesday Staid about home all day, not feeling well. 09\16\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. There was a very hard wind storm this afternoon. The rain fell in torrents and many trees and branches were broken down. We had a letter from Clyde which told us that he reached Easton all right, and that he wished us to send him a bed and a bed- ding, so Mary, Pierpont and I went down home and packed up a bed that William Gillette and Iva had bought but could not get up stairs in the house. While we were there Cara knock- ed my lantern off from the sink and it blazed up and I threw it out of doors, where it burned up. At about 5:30 George Paretree's Livery Barns, corner of Brook and East Main Streets, took fire and burned out the inside but the firemen got the better of it. 09\17\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\18\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory. 09\19\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory. After work I fitted the sleigh shoes to the runners. 09\20\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This forenoon Pierpont and I rode horseback. He had Wilson Pierpont's dolly. We went out the Meriden Road to the Todd Road where we took the "Old Bound Line Road" which we followed to Todd's saw-mill where we turned to the right and went to the bridge at the head of the Saw Mill Pond where we turned to the left and went through the woods and came out at the north end of Hitch- cock's Pond, back of Hemingway's Hotel. We then rode north to the Southington Reservoir which we crossed on the dam. We then went north on the old road that runs on the top of the Southington mountain till we came out near the house of Benjamin Bronson, east of the north east burying ground in Wolcott. We passed four or five celllars on the old road, then we turned back a mile and went east down the mountain till we came to the new road that goes to the dam that the City of New Britain is build- ing for a reservoir. We took this road and followed it about a mile till we came to where they are building the dam. We then went down the mountain to the distributing dam where we saw the waters of Roaring Brook tumble over the rocks in its fall of 400 feet. We then climbed back and mounted our horses and rode to the Compounce Road which we followed south till we came to the road that goes west up the mountain past the Old Lewis Burying Ground, which we followed till we struck the South- ington Mountain Road and followed it and the Meriden Turnpike home. Today Irving and Henry Cass have gone on a trolley excursion to Mount Tom in Mass. They drove to Mill Dale and there took the trolley, fare $1.00 for round trip. 09\21\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory as usual. 09\22\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. This is Mary's birthday, 43 years old. 09\23\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory. This evening I carried Miss Welton to town when I went down after work, and bought two sheets of tin, 20" X 28" @ 14 cts per sheet. 09\24\{1903} Thursday Worked at the shop to day as usual. 09\25\{1903} Friday Worked as usual. 09\26\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory this forenoon. This P.M. worked on my own shop repairing stairs, etc. To day was the fiftieth anniversary of Father's and Mother's wedding. The occasion was celebrated by many friends calling on them, and by the giving of gold presents. About $50.00 in gold money was given and a breast pin to mother, a gold-handled umbrella to father and several other presents. 09\27\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bruno preached at the Chapel. After service we went to Father's and ate supper. This is my birthday, 45 years old. 09\28\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory. This evening I went to Walter Garrigus's and paid him $3.00 for lumber. 09\29\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Brother's. A petition was sent to sent to the office of all the silver shops in New England asking for 9 hours for a day's work, the pay to remain the same as now. The petition was sent by the labor unions. 09\30\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. Mary read a letter from Clyde this evening. 10\01\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. To day I called on Mr. Rockwell in the office and had a business talk. Mr. Judd opened his grocery store in the new Forester's Hall to day. 10\02\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\03\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. Last evening Charles Monroe called and wished the Mattatuck Drum Band to play at a flag raising at the new Hamilton Hall. A number of the boys came and practiced drumming. They were Clarence Brown, Harry Buck- ingham, Seth Anderson, Rob Beckwith, James Alcott, Fred Jones, Joe Pierpont and Irving. This evening I stopped and worked at the roof of my shop. Morris Bergher of Prospect died yesterday. I worked with him four years ago at Ben- edict & Burnham's, blacksmithing. Hiram Abel told me this evening that Mrs. Buss of Spenser, Mass. is dead and is to be buried at the Pine Grove Cemetary. She was formerly Emily Doolittle, aged 58. 10\04\1903 Sunday I worked all day taking out the little waterwheel which became loose on the shaft. Rev. Mr. Reed preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. He is a colored preacher. 10\05\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mrs Buss was buried at the Pine Grove Cemetary. 10\06\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Band attended a flag raising at the new Forester's Hall this evening. There were present: Fifers, Harry Buckingham, Arthur Heaton, Bass Drummers: Henry Buckingham, and Henry Cass, Snare Drummers: Clarence Brown, Fred Jones, Irving Miller, James Alcott, Rob Beckwith and myself. 10\07\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day as usual. 10\08\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory as usual. 10\09\{1903} Friday Worked as usual to day. 10\10\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. 10\11\1903 Sunday Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel. Rev. Mr. Carnes preached. 10\12\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\13\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. We had a letter from Clyde telling of the floods in the Deleware and Lehigh Rivers at Easton. The Deleware rose over thirty feet. 10\14\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 10\15\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory. 10\16\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 10\17\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory. 10\18\{1903} Sunday This morning Irving and I took a large wardrobe that Mary had got apart and put it up in Irving's room, but before we had it finished William Atkinson came and made arrangements for the Mattatuck Drum Band to turn out some evening to advertise the fair to be given by the Foresters in their new hall. This afternoon we attended services at the Chapel. No minister came but Mr. Judd conducted the service. 10\19\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. To night I brought home six 50 lb. standard weights to repair and test my large scales with that I am going to let Mr. Henry Judd take he keeps the store in the forester's hall. Chatfield and Chatfield are build- ing a receiving vault in the Mill Plain Cemetary. Elsie French went to work at the factory of Rogers & Brothers. 10\20\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers. Paid Thomas Mills $13.00 for hay. 10\21\1903 Wednesday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Bro. Pierpont inspired his ankle by jumping in the sand bank up by the red bridge. We put new cards in the big clock to night. 10\22\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 10\23\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. Last Saturday Ervice E. Wright had George Atkinson arrested for alienating his wife's affections, in a suit of damages of $10,000. Atkinson had a hearing to day and tried to have the bond reduced, but the judge, Wheeler, would not grant it. 10\24\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band turned out to advertise the opening fair of the new Hamilton Hall to be given next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights in Mill Plain. There were present Charles Cass, Arthur Heaton, and Harry Buckingham (Fifers). Henry Buckingham, Irving Miller and Henry Cass (Bass Drummers), Clarence Brown, Fred Jones, Joe Pierpont, Charles Miller, James Alcott and Rob Beckwith (Snare Drummers). We rode in on a wagon owned by Ned Pritchard, started from my house at 7:45, went to Silver Street and marched down East Main Street to Exchange Place, down Bank o Meadow, through Meadow to South Main, up South Main up North Main to Cherry, down Cherry to East Main where we got into the wagon and rode to Hamilton Hall. 10\25\{1903} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel at Mill Plain. I attended the service and stayed home the rest of the time because I am very lame. 10\26\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a school meeting in the Saw Mill Plain school house. Said meeting was called to provide some means for providing suitable means for the educating the scholars of the class in the 7th grade. B. F. Hoggett, Warren Hitchcock, Charles Miller and James Strovelle were ap- pointed a committee to provide such means. It snowed a few flakes to day. 10\27\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. To night they open the fair in the new Hamilton Hall. Mary has gone and is working in the kitchen. 10\28\1903 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Margaret, Ruth, and I worked on a show case in my desk room this evening. {10\29\1903 Thursday [no entry]} 10\30\1903 Friday Yesterday morning I had Pierpont carry me to the Highland Division Station of the New York, New Haven and Hartfors Rail Road where I took an excursion train for Boston at 6:45. Arrived at Boston 11:05 at the Southern Terminal Station where I took the elevated cars to the North Union Depot where I took train at 12:30 on the Boston and Maine Rail Road and arrived at Newburyport 1:53. Mr. Byers met me at the Depot and we went to the Fowle Mfg's works where I saw sterling silver ware in processes of works, bowls, pitchers, spoons, etc., etc. At 3:35 took train for Boston where I ate supper and took trolley for Black Bay Station. Stopped at the Merchants and Manufacturers Exposition a few minutes and took train for Waterbury at 6:50, arrived 11:45. Irving met me at Depot with team. Paid $200 for excursion to Fair, 90 cts. to Newburyport, and 77 cts. return to Boston. To night I attended the Forester's Fair at their new Hamilton Hall. I worked in the factory as usual to day. 10\31\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening all of our folks attended the Forester's Fair. Got home at mid- night. 11\01\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Smith of Simonsville Baptist Church preached this afternoon at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 11\02\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\03\{1903} Tuesday Worked as usual. 11\04\{1903} Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory to day. Charles Hotchkiss (son of Robert) and Miss Edith Platt of South Britain were married this afternoon at the Congre- gational Church in South Britain this afternoon. Bertha French acted as brides- maid and George Monroe as groom. 11\05\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\06\1903 Friday Worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros. 11\07\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory as usual. Pierpont brought 1/4 ton of soft coal of the City Lumber & Coal Co. for $1.50 and he drew it home in the little dump carts. 11\08\1903 Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes of St. John's Church preached at Mill Plain Chapel this P.M. This morning Pat Slavin and his boy Henry and I drove to the new dam that the City of New Britain is building over on the Southing- ton mountain. We then drove around the north end of the place where the pond is to be and down an old road to the Compounce, from thence over through Lazy Lane to a road that runs north and south, which we followed and it brought us out at H. D. Smith's forging shop. We then drove home. 11\09\{1903} Monday Worked as usual. Colonel Sheriff Dougherty came to the shop and summonsed me to appear at the Superior Court next Thursday as Juror. 11\10\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory. I received a copy of Collier's eweekly which I subscribed for last June. It is dated Oct 17, 1903, Vol XXXII, No. 3. Agnes Abel went home to day at noon to day no work. 11\11\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Received an other copy of Collier's Weekly for Nov 7th, 1903, vol. XXXII, No. 6. 11\12\{1903} Thursday Went to the Court House at 9:30 and registered as Juror but was excused till tomorrow at 10 o'clock. 11\13\{1903} Friday Went to the Superior Court at 10 and was excused till 2 o'clock but stayed in the court room and listened to the plea of John O' Neil and State Attorney Williams. At 2 we met and I sat in my chair till near 6 o'clock but my turn did not come. Out of the 60 jurors summonsed 7 were selected and 14 left to be examined next Tuesday. I among the members. 11\14\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. 11\15\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 11\16\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\17\1903 Tuesday This morning at 9:30 I went to the Court House and was examined, but was found lacking in all the qualities necessary for a Juror to try the eight boys now under arrest for assaulting the motorman and conductor on a trolley car at Faber's switch on the night of Feb. 26th last. Altogether there has been 97 men summonsed to get the panel of jurors. I was excused at 11 o'clock and came home and this afternoon repaired the windows in my blacksmith shop at home and worked ironing a bob-sleigh that I am building. Mary, Margaret, Ruth and Irving have gone to the Chapel to a rehearsal for the Sunday School Christmas en- tertainment. 11\18\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving has gone to Waterville to drill with the Grange team at St. Paul's fair. Margaret has gone with him. The factory went on 8 hours time tomorrow Thursday. 11\19\{1903} Thursday Worked as usual at the factory. Ralph N. Blakesdale has bought the Doolittle Farm of Mrs. Knapp and to day he has drawn a number of loads of manure out and has had two teams plowing in the lot north of the house and has had nine men getting out stones. 11\20\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. 11\21\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\22\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bruno preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This day is the 20th anniversary of my marriage, and Father and Mother, sisters Mary and Cara, Roland Jenner and his children, and Amy came to supper. They gave me several pieces of china and Roland Jenner gave $1.00 and Mother Pierpont who was present gave $5.00. 11\23\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This evening we worked making shaft shackles for bobs. 11\24\1903 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\25\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 11\26\{1903} Thursday Thanksgiving day. I worked making a pair of shaft shackles for the set of bob sleighs that I am making. At noon I got ready and went to Hamilton Hall to the reunion of the Somers family. There were fifty three present including several who were not part of the family. Dinner was served in the banquet hall at 1:30 o'clock and consisted of all kinds of meats, fowls, vegetables, oysters, nuts, etc. After dinner many retired to the upper hall and enjoyed music, singing, dancing, etc. At 6:30 we again sat down at the tables and enjoyed ice cream and coke. The party broke up at 9 o'clock. Mother paid $5.00 for the use of the hall, etc. 11\27\1903 Friday Worked in the factory nine hours. The factory shut down Wednesday night for the rest of the week, but the mechanics are working as are the packers. Mary brought a ton of coal for $7.00 of Fred Woods. 11\28\{1903} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening we laid carpet and oil cloth in the sitting room and put up the coal stove. 11\29\{1903} Sunday Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Wrote a letter to Newburyport this evening. 11\30\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The burnishing and buffing rooms went on eight hours time to night. They begin work at 8 tomorrow morning and quit at 5. 12\01\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. To night Hiram Abel told me that he had the Insurance on the Chapel renewed for three years. It is insured for $3,000.00 and the amount paid is $50.00. The Grange are holding a fair to night. Mary and Irving have gone. It is snowing quite hard at this time, 9 P.M. 11\02\{1903} Wednesday Worked at the factory. Snow is about 6 in. deep and it has drifted a little. There were but few at the Grange Fair last night. Mr. Cooper came and borrowed my team this afternoon. 12\03\{1903} Thursday Worked as usual. 12\04{sic duplicate entry}\{1903} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. 12\04\{1903} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Mill Plain Sunday School met at my house and rehearsed Christmas exercises. 12\05\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I worked on my sleighs. 12\06\{1903} Sunday Rev. Mr. Reed of the Colored Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Sid Spender, Inez Beckwith, Bertha and Clara French and Mr. Payne called this evening. 12\07\{1903} Monday Worked at the factory to day. Wrote a letter to Clyde last night. 12\08\{1903} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. 12\09\{1903} Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory. Mary has been down town working at a rummage sale which is given by the ladies of the Mill Plain Chapel at a store on Harrison Alley. 12\10\1903 Thursday Worked at the factory. The Machine Burnishing Room has worked this week exceot last night till 9 o'clock. 12\11\{1903} Friday Worked as usual to day. The Mill Plain Sunday School met to rehearse Christmas exercises at my house this evening. 12\12\1903 Saturday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mill Plain Chapel Choir met at my house for practice this evening. There were present Inez Beckwith, Mrs. Swift, Mrs. Munson, Olive Abel, Agnes Abel, Clara French, Cliff Heaton, (who is home from Yale) Sid Spender, Mr. Burgess, Hiram Abel, Irving Miller, Mr. Strong, and Mr. Wood, the Instructor. 12\13\1903 Rev Ab. Barnes preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. Worked three hours at the factory putting on a new maine belt. 12\14\1903 Worked at the factory as usual. 12\15\1903 Worked at the factory. 12\16\1903 Worked at the factory. This evening the ladies gave a supper at the Chapel, realized over 12,00 They are cutting ice at Wedges and the Brass Mill ponds. 12\17\1903 Worked at the factory as usual. 12\18\1903 Worked at the factory today as usual. The weather is very cold all day. Last night the Grangers elected officers. Warren Hitchcock elected Master, Charles Mashier, Overseer. S.B. Piwepour -- Lecturer, Jacob Farrigus Chaplain, etc. 12\19\1903 Worked at the factory to day This evening Pierpout -- and I went to the Waterbury Lumber and coal Co. on Meaday Street and got two pieces of white wood boards 7/8 thick 6" wild and 6' long. Two pieces 2 1/2" long 8" wide 7/8 thick one piece 3/8 thick 3' long 14" wide, all plained and sandpapered for which I paid 1.50. We then went to Hemingways fish market and bought 1 pt of oysters paid 15 cts, and to Spensers feed store and got a log of oats. Very cold all day. 12\20\03 Rained hard all day long. Staid home, did odd jobs and read. (Mary, Keith, and Kay maid went to the Chapel. No service 19 in sunday School. Rev. Ab. Zieter of Sernousville came, drive out. 12\21\1903 Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\22\1903 Worked at the factory this evening the Sunday school children met at the Chapel for rehersal for Christmas. As Irving was blowing out the lamps on the chandilier, it fell to the floor and smashed. 12\23\1903 Worked at the factory to day Clyde came walking in at about 1 o'clock having arrived to spend from Lafayette College {Coledge} of Easton Pa. We did not expect him till tomorrow and was greatly surpris- ed. Ralph Blakeslee finished drawing manure to his farm to day, he has drawn about 800 loads and about 4/5 of them weighed 5,000 lbs each the other 1/5 (thru horse teams) weighed 7,000 lbs, he weighed each load. 12\24\1903 Worked at the factory till 5 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Snapp and family moved from the Doolittle place to their new farm in Cheshire. 12\25\1903 This day is Christmas, and it has been observed by our family as follows. We got up early this morning and found our stockings (mine included) of presents, which were unpacked much to the amusement of the children, after which we ate breakfast. After which I worked on the sleigh which I am building till noon. We then got ready and went down to fathers where we all had dinner. Beside our own family there were present Judge Gillette and wife and Willie Goldsmith who has just returned after an absence of six years, during which he has traveled the world over, the last distant land visited was Alaska which he left about the middle of last October. After dinner they had a Christmas tree which was loaded {loded} with presents for all. I received two hankerchiefs, a neck- tie, a pair of suspenders, an Indian arrow pain of cunning workman- ship, etc. I enjoyed a fine visit with Judge Gillette, who is one of the best learned men in the state. 12\26\1903 This seems the shortest day I ever saw. Got up at about eight o'clock, went to work in my shop on the sleigh I am making, soon had breakfast, after which Clyde and Irving came and went to work on two double rippers that are broken, and we worked all day till six in the evening. This evening Irving went to the Choir rehearsel at Inez Beckwiths. It snowed hard this forenoon, and after dinner it came off cold till now it is zero. 12\27\1903 Cold all day, only a few at the Chapel. Mr. Holden preached. 12\28\1903 Worked at the factory to day. It is growing cold 10 below zero now 9 o'clock. Mr. Miles Ovaitt [Oviatt] died at Portland Oregon Dec 19th aged 73 years He moved from here in May 1892 having lived in the house opposite the spoon shop on silver street, he was engineer at Rogers & Brothers for several years. 12\29\1903 Worked at the factory to day as usual. The machine burnishing room shut down to day for two weeks. 12\30\1903 Worked at the factory to day. The trimming room shut down to day for two weeks. 12\31\1903 Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening we went to the Forersters Hall to a rehearsal {rehersal} of the Mill Plain Sunday School exercises for Christmas, which is to be given tomorrow evening. After the rehearsal {rehersal} was over a lot of us went to a dance which Charles Bass gave in his new barn. I drove down with my bob sleigh and had on thirteen boys and girls when I got there. We stayed and I watched the dance till midnight when we went into the house and had cake, coffee, etc. after which we wished each other a happy new year, and went home. [[CSM 1904]] 01\01\1904 Friday New Year's Day Worked ironing my new sleigh and helping the boys repair two double- rippers. This evening the Mill Plain Sunday School gave a Christmas entertain- ment in Hamilton Hall. It was under the management of Mr. Judd and Agnes Abel and was very pleasing to all. 01\02\1904 Saturday Worked at the factory to day. It snowed all day. Very cold. 01\03\{1904} Sunday Snow about 14 inches deep and very cold. Iva came after me because Cara was very bad. Clyde, Pierpont and I took a snow plough and went up the Doolittle Road and to the Chapel where we ploughed out the paths and came down the Southmaid Road and down home and then up to my house. Went to the Chapel this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Brooks preached. Frank Lockhart died this afternoon at half past three this afternoon. He was taken sick Friday with typhoid pneumonia. 01\04\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This has been a remarkably cold day. This morning the thermometer stood at zero but now at 9 o'clock it is 24 below. This is as cold as I ever knew it to be. 01\05\{1904} Tuesday Worked all day thawing out water pipes. This is the coldest day I ever knew. The thermometer stood at 25 below zero at my house, 30 below at John French's, 25 below at Mrs. Lockhart'd, 28 below at Rogers & Brother's spoon shop, 26 below at Waterville, and 26 below at East Main Street. Now at 8 o'clock it is 21 below. 01\06\{1904} Wednesday Worked at the factory of the International Silver Company. This was the coldest morning I ever knew. The thermometer stood 28 degrees below zero at my house at quarter to seven. Clyde left for Lafayette College at Easton on the 7:50 train this morning on the Naugatuck Rail Road. Frank Lockhart was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. When Irving came home tonight he said that a passenger train was burned this evening on the Naugatuck road after six it caught from a lamp that exploded. All of the passengers got out. 01\07\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. We received a postal from Clyde stating that he reached College all O. K. He says that there is only a few inches of snow in Easton and that the Delaware River isn't frozen over. 01\08\1904 Friday Worked at the factory as usual. 01\09\{1904} Saturday Worked as usual to day. 01\10\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Irving has given up being janitor at the Chapel and Mr. Candee began his duties to day. 01\11\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day. 01\12\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory. The Making room started up this morning. 01\13\{1904} Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory to day. 01\14\{1904} Thursday Worked as usual at the factory. The whistle has blown for the first time to day. 01\15\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory to day. This evening about 50 young people njoyed the sliding on the hill in front of our house. I am very lame now, but I worked painting my sleigh. 01\16\1904 Saturday Worked as usual at the factory. Mr. Delehanty has taken charge of the trimming room. Mr. Charles Allen has been put on the facing job. 01\17\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Last Saturday evening there was held a prayer meeting in the Chapel and I suppose there was one to night, as a notice was read to that effect to day. 01\18\1904 Monday Worked at the factory to day. It has been very cold all day. 01\19\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. This morning the thermometer registered 24 degrees below zero where it usually hangs by the back door, but Pierpont carried it for me and hung it on the wire fence down by the brook and it went down to 34 below. This is the coldest I ever heard of in Waterbury. 01\20\{1904} Wednesday Worked as usual. Last Saturday they Connecticut Lightning and Power Company turned the electric current from the New Power station at Bull's Bridge in New Milford onto the Oakville and Waterville lines of trolley cars. The Oakville line worked all right, but the Waterville troubled them, burning the insulation off the wires and setting many of the poles on fire all the way to Bull's Bridge. 01\21\{1904} Thursday Worked as usual. To night I painted on my sleigh. 01\22\{1904} Friday Worked as usual. Stripped my sleigh to night. 01\23\{1904} Saturday Worked as usual. Painted and varnished on sleigh. 01\24\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Holden preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this after- noon. After service Raymond, Pierpont and I drove out the Cheshire Road and looked at the survey stakes where they are going to build the new trolley line to Cheshire. 01\25\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went and notified Clara French, Clarence Brown, and Olive Abel, that they could go to work tomorrow, Clarence to start at 8 o'clock and the other two at noon. 01\26\{1904} Tuesday Worked as usual at the factory. It began snowing at noon and continued till eight to night after which Pierpont and I hitched the horse onto the snowplough and went up the Doolittle Road, down the Meriden and Southnayd to the Cheshire and then west to father's where we stopped and had hot coffee and doughnuts after which we came back and went down the Harper Ferry road to Charlie Cass and then home. 01\27\1904 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day as usual. The evening the boys and I put the bells on our new sleigh and put the straps on the shafts, etc. 01\28\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Used my new sleigh for the first time this morning. 01\29\1904 Friday Worked at the factory as usual to day. It has snowed nearly all day. This afternoon the Board of Puvlic Works came out and looked over the route of the proposed new trolley line to Cheshire. This evening I went to a play in Palias theater colled the "Waterburyans", given by Boston parties partly for the ben- efit of the boys club. There were 920 school children that took part in the play. 01\30\{1904} Saturday Worked. This evening I went to J. G. Jones and renewed the insurance on my blacksmith shop, which runs out Feb 21st $1000.00 at $30.00 per year. 01\31\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Brunal preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Yesterday Pierpont hitched onto the snowplough and ploughed out the paths about the neighborhood. 02\01\{1904} {Monday} Worked at the factory to day as usual. 02\02\1904 Tuesday Worked at the factory to day till noon. This afternoon I attended a meeting of the Board of Public Works held in the old Bronson Library, for the purpose of hearing the property owners along the line of the proposed Chedhire Street Trolley Railway. David Porter objected to having the shade trees cut in front of his house and the bank moved. He wants the road moved south where the barns now stand and the barns moved away. In front of my house they in- tended to take 10 ft off my front yard, but I now think they will go on the other side of the street. 02\03\{1904} Wednesday Worked as usual. Last night Chas. Cass came and hired my horse to use to take a party of young people sleigh riding over to Morris Park. One of his horses was sick. 02\04\{1904} Thursday Worked as usual. Weather very cold. Made arrangements to attend the launching of the Dakota (one of the largest ships even built) at New London Saturday. 02\05\1904 Friday Worked at the factory to day. It has been a bright nice day. I hope the weather will be as fine tomorrow as it is to day. I have nearly every- thing arranged to start for New London in the morning. 02\06\{1904} Saturday Got up at 4:30 this morning ate breakfast and got ready and Irving hitched up at 5:30 I started for New London with Pierpont to drive. It was raining very hard and froze as it fell, coating everything with ice. We went to Mr. James Tobin's on Dublin Street and found him nearly ready and we drove to the depot, it being quite dark. We bought tickets for New London and went to New Haven by way of the Naugatuck Rail Road, chang- ing cars at New Haven, reached New London shortly after ten and I went to the Office of the Southern New England Telephone Company, where I found Edward C. Ford, and he directed us to the ship yards of the Eastern Ship- building Company at Groton. We then took the ferry boat "Col/ Ledyard" and crossed to the Groton side of the Thames River and walked to the ship yardm but could not get in till twelve o'clock but we could see the great ship from anywhere in the vicinity as it was the largest thing ever built there. The "Dakota" is 630 feet long, 73 feet 6 inches wide, 88 feet high to Captain's bridge, 56 feet high to main deck but there are 5 more decks to go on above this, 177 ft high to top of mast. The cargo capacity is about 30,000 tons. She is equipped with 16 Niclausse water tube boilers, and two 5,000 horse power engines. The Minnesota twin sister to the Dakota was launched last April and lies in the river by the side of the shops. They are the biggest ships ever yet built in the world and there are but four harbors in the United States that they can enter where loaded, via Portland, Me., Seattle, New London and I have forgotten the other (they cannot enter New York harbor.) We stayed outside viewing the ship and derricks, etc. till they opened the gates and then we went in and saw the preparation for launching. The keel of the ship rested on sticks of yellow pine over 20 ft long and 14 X 188 which rested on the granite bed which had been blasted away and smoothed for the purpose. Along both sides of the keel and resting on the ends of these sticks timbers 12 X 18 inches were bolted together forming a solid timber way 18 in by 5 feet which extended the whole length of the ship and out into the water about 200 feet. This is known as the bed way, on the outside of this is bolted a stick 6 X 18 which projects up above the bed way 6 inches. This in turn is shored up by sticks of chestnut which are braced against the stick and the other end runs back into the ground. The whole surface of the bed ways are coated with an inch of tallow and top of this a sliding way is placed composed of timber 12 X 18 bolted together making a way as long as the ship and 4 ft 6 inches wide, top of this is placed the packing, that is timbers fitted between the running ways and the bottom of the ship, at the front end and {{illegible word}} is a frame work of timbers called a "cradle" which the ship rests in, between the running way and the packing wedges were driven which were of oak 6 ft long and tapered from 1/2" to 6". These were driven in about 10 in apart by using sticks of timber about 16 ft long 8 X 16 through which holes were bared one near each end and 2 near the center. Through these holes were ropes, which were grasped by two men on each side of the stick and other men had hold in other places about 20 men to each stick. There was one of these gangs gor about every 16 wedges, and they began driving all together, first on one wedge and then on another, and so back and forth. It was a busy scene. A large number of these gangs. They would back away a half dozen paces and then rush at the wedge with their stick of timber hitting it a tremendous blow, and the sound of the many blows on each side of the ship made the earth tremble. And thus they raised the ship off the keel blocks. To prevent it from sliding on the bed ways, "triggers" were placed two on each side, which were made by log screwing a large block on the bed way and about 10 ft front of this another block was screwed on the sliding way, between these a stick of 12X12 timber was placed. When the time to launch came these triggers were hoisted out by hydraulic jacks, but there was another arrangement at the upper end of the ways. (The ways slanted at an angle of about 20 degrees) which consisted of a stick of oak 6" X 8", one end of which was bolted to the sliding way and the upper end to the bedway. These had to be sawed in to before the ship could be released. This was done by gang crosscut saws, that is crosscut saws about 12' long and with three handles on each end so it took 6 men to run each saw. On the outside of each of the oak sticks at the place where they were to be sawed a piece of pasteboard was pasted with a mark down across it where it was to be sawed. This was marked in inches and the last two in fractions of inches. After the triggers had been hacked out and a girl, Miss Mary Belle Flemington of Ellendale, North Dakota, who had come all the way for the purpose, held a bottle of wine in her hand ready to dash it against the bow, was ready. President Harrison of the Eastern Ship- Building Company gave the order to saw the two oak sticks asunder. The twelve men set to work with a will, a man stationed for the purpose watched the marks on the paste boards and they shouted 1, two, three, four, 1/2, 3/4, 5, etc., while President Harrison guided the speed of the saws so that one should not get ahead of the other. It was expected that when these sticks were sawed in to the ship would move but it did not. Large jack screws had been placed against the ends of the way, and a crowd of men moved these while others ran against the sliding ways with their rams, and still others drove wedges in the kerf where the oak sticks had been sawed. In about five minutes I saw that it moved a trifle and the screws began to move easier then. It could be seen it moved a little and then Miss Flemington broke the bottle of wine which splashed all over her and all about at the same time saying "I christen thee the Dakota" and it moved a very little faster and faster and faster till it rushed into the water. At the lower end of the ways the weight was so great and the friction so much that the whole bow of the ship was hid from sight in a cloud of smoke. At the same time the ship moved the men began to cheer and it seemed that 100 whistles began blowing and a mighty din arose. There were a couple of tugs hitched to it and as she went out in to the river they checked her so that she only went half way across. They then anchored her there. Mr. Tobin and I then went to the South ferry but the crowd was so great that we walked to the North ferry but both boats were running on the South ferry and we had to wait a long time before the boat came for us. We then crossed over and went to a restaurant and had dinner and I called on Ed Ford a few minutes, after which we took the express train that leaves there at 3:52 and arrived in New Haven at 5:05. We then took the loop train which leaves at 5:10 and due in Waterbury at 6:00 but above Mt. Carmel there was a caboose on the track and we had to wait for a freight train to back down and get, which made us an hour late. 02\07\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Brooks preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 02\08\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day. The City of Baltimore is on fire and already the loss has reached over 100,000,000 dollars. 02\09\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. It is reported that the loss caused by the great fire in Baltimore is over 300,000,000 dollars. The fire is now under control. They called help from Philadelphia, New York, and other places. 02\10\{1904} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. The war between Japan and Russia has began by the Japanese sinking eleven Russian gun boats. The ladies gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. Cleared over $13.00. The entertainment was furnished by the Woodtick people. 02\11\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 02\12\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory to day. The young ladies of Mill Plain gave the young men a sleigh ride to Morris Park hotel, and a supper this evening. Telephoned Mr. Sewell about trolley tracks and he told me to telephone Mr. Hill of N. Haven and the R. & L. Co. would stand the expense. 02\13\{1904} Saturday Worked as usual to day. I have reached an understanding with the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company that they will just come into my front yard with their tracks and that they will lower my front fence down 4 feet to the grade of the street. This evening I went to see Chas Monroe, and brought home a load of men and women from the Choir rehearsal at French's. 02\14\1904 Sunday Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I did not attend. At six this evening Irving looked out and saw a bright light on the sky, so we hitched up and started to see what it was. We found it to be George Hitchcock's house on fire. It started at half past four and had been burning ever since. It burned to the ground but the barns were saved owing to the snow that had fallen on the roof. They saved nearly all of Mr. Hitchcock's furniture and the house was fully covered by in- surance. Willie Garrigus, who lived upstairs, saved his tools and a chamber set. George Hitchcock moved his furniture, etc. over into the Griswald house which he had bought some time ago. While we were going to this fire, we saw another, in the direction of Lakewood. 02\15\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. To day I leased my carriage shop to Peter Laroque for three years longer for $20.00 per month. 02\16\1904 Tuesday Worked at the factory. This is the eighth week of continuous sleighing, and there has hardly been a day in that time when it has thawed. To day has been the coldest to be out in yet. Yesterday Ed Holmes's house and barns, etc., over on Southington Mountain burned to the ground. There was no one at home at the time. He was away in the woods burning charcoal, and his wife had gone over to their son Charlie's house. They are Swede people and live at the place formally known as the Capt. Nathaniel Lewis place. 02\17\1904 Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 02\18\{1904} Thursday Worked as usual. 02\19\1904 Friday Worked at the factory. 02\20\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory 10 1/2 hr to day. The Mill and all of the factory which runs by the engiune shut down at noon to day so that they could bore out the cylinder. 02\21\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I did not attend. 02\22\{1904} Monday Worked as usual to day. Washington's birthday. Banks closed. No school. The roads were very slippery this morning. 02\23\{1904} Tuesday Worked as usual to day. Had a talk with Superintendent Tobin about working at some other work than the job I am now on. 02\24\{1904} Wednesday Worked at the factory to day. 02\25\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. I told Mr. Tobin that I was going to get through a week from next Saturday, because I am getting to home to do the work. He told me not to get through but take a rest, and he would give me any job in the shop that I wished so that I should not be on my foot so much and that he would hire a man to take my place while I was gone, and that I could have all the help I wanted when I came back. Manager Rockwell told me the same thing. He told me to send John French to see him and he would set him to work if I wished. I saw John French when coming home from work and he said that he would go to the shop and see about the job in the morning. 02\26\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory as usual. John French called at the shop and Mr. Tobin gave him the job at $2.00 per day. This evening about 32 people went to the Bunker Hill Chapel and attended the supper and entertainment given there. 02\27\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening I worked on a small fire engine that I and the boys are making. 02\28\1904 Sunday Rev. Alexander Hamilton preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening I attended a Christian endeavor meeting at the Chapel. 02\29\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day as usual. John French went to work at the factory of Rogers & Brothers this morning. I sold my large bob sleigh to day to Henry Judd for $20.00 to be paid for by installments to be paid by May 1st. 03\01\1904 Tuesday Worked at the factory as usual. It has snowed and rained nearly all day. 03\02\1904 Wednesday Worked at the factory. Cousin David L. Frisbie died last night at his home in Woodtick aged 62 years and 11 months, after a long and painful illness. Mary and Mother Pierpont (who has been staying with us since New Years) Ruth, Pierpont, and Raymond went out to East Farms to an entertain- ment given in the Schoolhouse. William Gillette and Iva came after me after supper and we drove out to Woodtick and saw cousin Frank and Burt Frisbie, and found that cousin David is to be buried Friday afternoon at two o'clock. We went in a sleigh, but the sleighing is getting thin as it is warm. We have had good sleighing since the day before New Years. 03\03\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Twenty Russians left Ansonia day before yesterday, at the call of their country, to serve in the Russian army in their war with Japan. 03\04\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory. Cousin David L. Frisbie was buried this afternoon. This evening several of the boys of the neighborhood called and drummed. The ice is over 30 inches thick on several of the ponds about here which is the thickest ever known by the oldest people. 03\05\{1904} Saturday Worked as usual. I got through work at the factory to night for two weeks, as I am very lame and it is hard to get along. 03\06\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Brooks of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Raymond, Pierpont and I went to Woodtick by way of the Meriden and Todd roads. We found the roads very slippery but the neverslip horse shoes held the horse well. {03\07\1904 Monday [no entry]} 03\08\{1904} Tuesday Yesterday morning I hitched up and started for New Haven at 8 o'clock. It was raining slightly when I started. Went by way of the back road through Naugatuck and the East side of Bethany Center. I left the direct road and turning to the right went over a narrow and crooked road, which passed through a rocky and wooded country and brought me out at Woodbridge Center. I took the direct road from there to New Haven. When near Westville it began to rain so I put up the umbrella and drove to a livery stable in Westville where I had the horse put out and fed at 12 o'clock. I then took the Whailey Avenue trolley cars and went to Howard Ave. where I saw Dr. Sweet. He examined my foot and said the cords and sinews were swollen and strained, and that I must keep off from it for a spell or they would materate and raise the devil with me. He said get some strong hops and make a strong tea of them and bathe the foot three times a day 15 minutes each time, and then put on some liniment that would color everything red and cover with oilsilk and after I had used up the bottles of this, to use two other bottles he gave me. He charged $4.00. I left there about 1:40 and went to the house which Benedict Arnold once lived in and which they are now tearing down and got some lath and one hand-made lath nail. I then went to a restaurant on Crown Street and got a dinner of roast beef for which I paid 15 cts. While getting dinner John Hine, son of Mrs. Sarah Porter Hine came past me. He told me that he had a plumb- ers store down the street a few doors and invited me down there. I went and found that he had a fine large store. I bought a pipe 1" by 3/4" cross, and then went to the Green and took a car to Westville. Here I took my team and drove across to Dinwell Avenue, the rain falling in torrents and the wind blowing a gale. Left Westville 3:30. Through Centerville many of the houses were surrounded with water 6" deep top of the ice and the streets were all flooded so in many places the water was a foot deep on the trolley track. Above Mr. Carmel I left the turnpike and took the road that runs under the mountain. The rain was falling fast all the time and in some places the water was two feet deep. Soon I came to a place where the water was up to the buggy body for a distance of 12 or 13 rods, on a little I came to a bridge which was under water and attempted to drive over it when the horse went down. It seemed that the bridge was covered with snow about three ft deep and the water had softened it and the horse went through to the plank which were all right. I thought that I would not go much farther as it was getting dark so I stopped at a large white farmhouse above Brooksvale and knocked at the door. A lady came and I asked if I could stay over night as the road was dangerous. She called an old man who said that they had not got good accomodations for my horse, but if I could put up with such as they had, they would keep me. They sent a boy out to the barn and he showed me a good stable where I put the horse out and gave him plenty of good hay. We then went into the house and they gave me a good supper. The family consisted of Mr. Alexander Doolittle and wife and daughter Emma. He was 80 years old, his wife 75 and Emma about 30. They were of the good old American type, and were very nice people. I had a nice room to sleep in and in morning a fine breakfast, after which at about 9 o'clock I resumed my journey and found the water over the road in several places but the streams had gone down as it had stopped raining during the night. I reached home at 11 o' clock. This afternoon I cleaned out many of my old paint pots, etc. and got ready to paint my blinds. 03\09\{1904} Wednesday This morning I went to town and bought 2 galls. of linseed oil and 1 lb of lampblack. Came home and painted blinds. 03\10\{1904} Thursday Painted blinds all day. 03\11\1904 Friday Painted blinds all day in the cellar. 03\12\1904 Saturday Painted blinds all day. Finished the 34 pairs first coat. 03\13\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at Mill Plain Chapel, assisted by Mr. Parson. 03\14\{1904} Monday Painted blinds all day. It is reported that Port Arthur has been captured by the Japanese. Arthur Pierpont drew five large loads of hay from Ralph Blakeslee'd barn, which he bought off Charles Knapp before he moved away. 03\15\{1904} Tuesday Worked painting blinds all day. 03\16\1904 Wednesday Finished painting blinds this morning and then painted the lattice work of the verandas and the veranda floors. This is Mrs. Theodore Munson's birthday. Mary thinks she is 38 years old. 03\17\{1904} Thursday This forenoon I painted the floor of the girl's room and the hall floors and also the floor of my room. This afternoon I took two plank to Thomas Heaton's shop on Benedict Street to have them sawed into felloes. {03\18\1904 Friday [no entry]} {03\19\1904 Saturday [no entry]} 03\20\{1904} Sunday Friday morning I went to Heaton's shop and got the felloes for which I paid 50 cts, came home, and repaired the buggy shafts. When Margaret came at noon we got ready and started for Goshen, went by way of Waterville, Thomaston, and Farring- ton. Started at 2 P.M. Got there at 7:45. There was a little snow on the ground here that had fallen during the forenoon, but when we reached Camps Mills we came to good sleighing and in Goshen the snow lay five inches deep, beside great drifts of old snow. After we left Goshen East Street and turned west towards the center we passed through a drift that had been dug out for the road for about twenty rods where the snow was two feet higher than our heads as we sat in the buggy. I will state here that we passed through about twenty five rods of ice cakes that had been washed upon the road by the Naugatuck River a short distance south of Frost's bridge. As the cakes of ice lay every way upon the road they would average four feet in depth, and through this they chopped the road way. The cakes were about 20 inches thick. We reached Samuel Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] in Goshen soon after dark where we staid till this afternoon. Yesterday I went to the woods and helped them draw out logs. the snow lay four feet deep but was so hard that the horses only went in about 18 inches except when they pulled hard when their hind feet went way down. I never saw such deep snow before. We drew one load of logs over to the saw mill in West Goshen. This morning we went to church then had dinner and started for home at two o'clock. Came through Litchfield center, Morris center, Bethlehem, and Watertown, found many drifts till we reached Watertown. Reached home at quarter to eight. Friday was Agnes Abel's birthday; 25 years old. 03\21\{1904} Monday Worked about home at odd jobs. 03\22\{1904} Tuesday Worked in my blacksmith shop all day build- ing a small fire engine. Clyde came home from college this forenoon. He left Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., at five yesterday afternoon and came to New Yorl on an express train. There he took a boat to New Haven and there took the trolley to Derby and Seymour, then took steam car to Nau- gatuck, and trolley the rest of the way to Silver Street. The young men gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. 03\23\{1904} Wednesday Worked about home all day. Am very lame. 03\24\{1904} Thursday To day Clyde and I rode horse back over on Southington Mountain to where they are building a large dam for the water supply for the City of New Britain. They are not working on the dam but everything is ready to start when the weather will permit. When we came home we stayed at Arthur Merriman's and went through his new home. 03\25\{1904} Friday I worked to day on the little fire engine. 03\26\{1904} Saturday Went to town this morning and bought a pair of shoes for $1.50. Saw Ed Johnson at the waterworks shop. Worked about home the rest of the time. 03\27\{1904} Sunday Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 03\28\1904 Monday I went to work to day at Rogers & Bros. factory at my new job which seems to be my old one with more to look after. I find plenty of work that has been waiting for me for some time. I hope that I can be able to stand it. 03\29\{1904} Tuesday Worked as usual at the factory to day. Mr. Bolton moved into Annie Hall Pierpont's house to day. 03\30\{1904} Wednesday Worked as usual to day in the factory. To day I went to town and had a check of $20.00 cashed at the Fourth National Bank. I then got a P.O. Order for $11.75 and sent it to Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago; also an order for $4.00 and sent it to John Wanamaker of New York. The main shaft that runs the plating room and machine burnishing room broke this morning at about 10 minutes past 8 o'clock. 03\31\{1904} Thursday Worked as usual in the factory to day. The shop shut down tonight for two weeks. George French and another man from Naugatuck called to see me about drumming this evening. {04\01\1904 Friday [no entry]} 04\02\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. Ralph Blakeslee has rented his house to a family that has moved in to day. He has had four or five teams at work to day filing in the hollow above his barn. 04\03\1904 Sunday This is Easter Sunday. The Chapel was crowded with men, women, and children. Dr. Davenport officiated and the choir rendered several selections which were very nice. 04\04\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory. Came home to dinner. 04\05\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory. Came home to dinner. 04\06\{1904} Wednesday Worked repairing in the spoon shop to day. The woods in the Cavalry Cemetary caught fire as some of the workmen were burning heaps of brush and the fire spread rapidly till the whole grounds were on fire. My house and Thomas Mills' house were in great danger of burning but alderman Ralph Blakeslee came along and he telephoned to the fire department and they came with a steamer and hose wagon andpumped from the river and put out the fire on this side. This evening I carried Clyde to Cheshire where he took the trolley car to New Haven where he will take the 10 o'clock boat to New York and there take an express train to Easton at 4 in the morning. 04\07\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. This evening an officer came and sum- monsed me to court tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the superior court. It is a case of an Italian being killed at Holmes Booth & Haydens. I know nothing of it. 04\08\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Ralph Blakeslee has had a large force of men and five pairs of horses getting the stores off his farm to day. 04\09\{1904} Saturday Worked in the factory to day. Ralph Blakeslee has had eight pairs of horses and 20 men at work on his farm to day getting stones off. He brought the men out in a band wagon this morning. 04\10\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes, assistant rector of St. John's Church, preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 04\11\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory to day. They started up the plating and machine burnishing rooms this afternoon. 04\12{*}\1904 Tuesday To day I attended court at the Superior Court room in the Court House on a case of an Italian who was killed at the factory of Holmes, Booth & Hayden's, in Nov, 1902. I was called as an expert on mechan- ical matters. 04\13{*}\{1904} Wednesday Worked at the factory. 04\14{*15}\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day putting in the new main shaft. 04\15{*16}\1904 Friday Worked at the factory as usual. Walter Garrigus had a son born to them this morning. 04\16{*17}\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. This evening we went to Father's to a birth-day party. Father's birth- day was last Tuesday, 12th. He says that he is 75 years old and mother's was yesterday. She is 70 years old. 04\17\{1904} Sunday Dr. Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Chapel this afternoon. {04\18\1904 Monday} Worked as usual to day. The Factory started up to day after a shutdown of two weeks. 04\19\{1904} Tuesday Worked in the factory to day. The weather is very cold. Snowed a little to day. 04\20\{1904} Wednesday Worked to day. Weather is very cold all day. Snowed a little. 04\21\1904 Thursday Worked at the factory to day. Ordered a road map of New Haven County. L.J. Richards Co. of Pawtucket, R. I. this morning for 1.50 cts. But this afternoon Mr. Tobin came to me in the shop and told that there was an agent there that had a map of New Haven County. I found that he was an agent for the Richards Co. and was selling them for 98 cts. I told him that I had ordered one, but I did not think it right to make me pay 1.50 in Pawucket when I could get one here for 98 cts. After considerable talk he let me have 52 cts so my map will cost 98 cts. 04\22\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory. 04\23\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory. Drew a load of hay from Father's. This evening the Choir met at our house. 04\24\{1904} Sunday Irving, Mr. Henry S. Allen and I went to Cheshire and looked over the old copper mines and also the old copper mines. 04\25\{1904} Monday Worked as usual in the factory. Varnished the drums. 04\26\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory. This evening I attended the Chapel fair given in Hamilton Hall. 04\27\{1904} Wednesday Worked in the factory. This evening I attended the fair. 04\28\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory. 04\29\1904 Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. 04\30\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory to day. It is said that we cleared over a hundred dollars at the Chapel fair. 05\01\1904 Sunday Rev. Mr. Brooks preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Agnes J. Abel joined the Second Congregational Church this fore- noon. 05\02\1904 Monday Worked at the factory to day. I have been down to a meeting of the Board of Education held in the High School and there I set forth the condition of the Mill Plain School. The Carpenters are out on strike because the builders will give then but $2.50. They want $2.80. 05\03\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory. The papers are full of what I said at the meeting of the Board of Education last night. 05\04\{1904} Wednesday Worked as usual at the factory. To night I fixed drums all the evening. 05\05\1904 Thursday Worked at the factory. 05\06\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory. 05\07\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory. All of the departments were shut down except the Machinist and Die sinking. John R. Platt of Prospect died last Thursday afternoon. 05\08\1904 Sunday Rev. Mr. Barnes of St. John's Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 05\09\{1904} Monday Worked in the machine burnishing room some of the time to day as Lawrence Tobin is home sick with the rheumatism. 05\10\{1904} Tuesday Worked at the factory to day. Ralph Blakeslee had 31 horses engaged drawing stones off the lot back of the house to day. 05\11\{1904} Wednesday Worked at the factory. David Porter has Nelson Dingwell moving his barn from the south side of the road up in back of his house. They have got it across the road to day. 05\12\{1904} Thursday Worked at the factory to day. They are drawing ties and poles for the new trolley line to Cheshire. the Connecticut Railway and Light- ing Company are laying rails up Cole street for the Baldwin street extension. Worked planting the garden this morning and evening. 05\13\{1904} Friday Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting this evening. 05\14\{1904} Saturday Worked repairing the waterwheel gears to day. Went to night to see Mr. Eagan at the Grand Army Hall about drumming Memorial day. 05\15\{1904} Sunday Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 05\16\{1904} Monday Worked at the factory. The engineers are working on the new layout for the Cheshire trolley. 05\17\{1904} Tuesday Worked as usual. 05\18\{1904} Wednesday (Worked) To day several loads of sections of building went past, for barracks for the workmen who are to work on the new trolley road. 05\19\{1904} Thursday Worked in the machine burnishing room to day. Mr. Ley of Springfield has the contract of building the new trolley road to Cheshire. The price is said to be $175,000.00 for the eight miles. He has rented A. B. Pierpont's upper barn for $10.00 per month, half of Mother Pierpont's barn for 500 per month and has put up a large building back of the Old Finton Delaney place. He expects to keep horses, men, and tools in these buildings. 05\20\1904 Friday Worked at factory. Work was began to day on the Cheshire Street Railway. Two wheel scrapers and a plow worked by four pairs of horses began work on the hill East of my shop. They lowered the road quite a little, carrying the dirt into the swamp. The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out this evening to a Barn dance, given by Cort D. B. Hamilton of Hamilton Hall. There were about 500 present and many funny costumes. 05\21\{1904} Saturday Worked at the factory. All except the mechanical department has shut down. The force working on the trolley road has been about doubled to day. [[end of Journal]] //start of new vol// JOURNAL of Charles Somers Miller, 1904-1906 05\22\1904(Sun) Rev Mc Holden preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. About 100 Italians passed our house on their way to their quarters at East Farms to day, they are to work on the new trolley road. This afternoon after service at the Chapel Irving, Mary, Clara and Bertha French and I went to ride out through East Farms to Elmer Hitchcocks and up past the Byan place, to the Meriden Road and home, we stopped at the place where George Hitchcock is building a new house where the old one was burned down, He is setting the new one about fifteen feet farther back from the street. 05\23\1904(Mon) Worked at the factory. They cut down the row of large elm trees East of D.G. Porters to day. 05\24\1904(Tue) Worked in the factory to day as usual The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening, 05\25\1904(Wed) Worked in the factory of Rogers & Brothers as usual. The annual meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Association was held and the following were elected officers for the coming year. A. B. Pierpont. Episcopal Committee Henry Cook. Congregational " Charles Monroe Methodist " Henry Judd Baptist " Henry Judd Sunday School Super't Inez Beckwith. Organist. Sidney Spender Librarian 05\26\1904(Thur) Worked at the factory as usual. Fifteen Double dump Carts came from Hartford last night, and 50 Italians arrived{. this} to work on the new trolley-road. This morning nine double dump carts and a large force of men began working on the hill by my house. This evening I worked in the garden till dark, and then drove to the Apothacaries hall and bought a white-| wash brush for 1.50 05\27\1904(Fri) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Lay has about 200 men to work on the trolley line They are grading the hill by my house. The Mattatuck Drum Band had a rehersal to night 05\28\1904(Sat) Only the mechanics and Die sinkers worked at the factory to day. We worked in the garden this evening. They took Robert Hatchkiss to the soldiers home at Noroton this forenoon He enlisted in Waterbury in Co 20th Reg. C. V. his first battle was Chansallersville, was in the Shenedore valley. at Gettysburgh, then went and joined the army under Gen Grant at Chattanoga went with Sherman to Atlanta and the sea at Savanah then marched up through South Carolina and North Carolina and through Virginia to Washington. Went through more than twenty battles and never received a wound. He is broken in health and is feeble, 65 years old. 05\29\1904(Sun) No minister at the Chapel this afternoon had a praise service conducted by Mr. Abel. Last night at about midnight five double dump carts and 12 horses arrived from New Haven and are quartered in Ralph Blakeslee's barn at the Doolittle place they are to work on the New Cheshire Trolley Road. 05\30\1904(Mon) Decoration Day. We arose early this morning and had breakfast before six o'clock. Then the members of the Mattatuck Drum Band came. They were Chas Cass, H. Clifton Heaton, David Waughh, Harry Buckingham, Fred Lund and Arthur Heaton (Fifers); Irving Miller, Joe Pierpont, and Henry Cass (Bass Drummers); Robert Beckwith, James Olcott, George Cass, Clarence Brown, Fred Jones, and Chas S Miller, Snare Drummers; James Haloran, Drum Major, We left my house at 7.15 and marched to the end of the Trolley linen {sic} to Silver street where we took the East Main street car to Oakville, where we took the Steam cars to Watertown. We marched to the town hall, Then escorted the Old veterans, Firemen, and School children, to the Lawn Cemetery, then back to the Evergreen Cemetery and to the New Cemetary, then back to town hall where, they had speaking, singing etc. We came home on the 12.43 train, to West Main street and marched playing from the center {to} through East Main Street to Silver Street where we broke ranks and went home. In the afternoon, Harry Buckingham, Clif Heaton, and Sidney Spender came; Also Laease{??} James, Marion Brewster, and Amy Miller{??} and they had a lot of fun, Irving and Pierpont took the horse and plough and went out and ploughed Pat Hayses garden. Yesterday the bays and I went out over the survey of the proposed trolley road and I counted 116 holes drilled in the bolders ready to be loaded and fired between the land of the Colnary Cemetery and the crossing at Wedges. One Hundred Italians came to day from Boston to work on the railroad. 05\31\1904({Mon}Tue) Worked at the factory. As I was hoeing in the garden this evening I heard 38 blasts fired in rapid succession out along the line. 06\01\1904(Wed) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went down to my shop property and measured the distance from the boundry stone between Ervice{??} E. Wright's property and my East boundry fence next to James Porters property and found it was 60'10" to the second post in the fence, the distance to the line strait across was 60' 8 1/2" The distance from the North West corner of Mrs. Hines house to the center of the boundry stone was 74' 1" I then went to the Chapel where there was a meeting of the members of the Pine Grove Cemetery association, there were but about 14 present, and they elected the following trustees, James Porter, Mark L. Warner, Warren B. Hitchcock, Theodore Munson, Hiram Abel, Elliot Doolittle, and Ward B. Porter, The Pine Grove Cemetary Association has in the Bank $4,632.56 Perminent Fund $3,700.00 Cash on hand. {erasure of next date heading} From June 1st 1903 to June 1 1904 there has been 88 burials. 06\02\1904(Thur) Worked at the factory this afternoon. This forenoon, as I had been thinking during the night that I ought to do something about the cutting down of the road in front of my shop, as they, (the Trolley Company) are cutting it down five feet, where by agreement they were to cut it but three, and by so doing were going to leave the shop door four feet above the street. I went first and got William Gillette, and we went to Ralph Blakeslee's farm and telephoned to New Haven to Engines Hill, and I told him of it and of the damage it was to be to me and that it would oblige me to lower the whole factory two or three feet, and I told him that they had better stop work at that point. He told me that he would come and see me, and see if something could be done to make matters satisfactory, but could not come to day. we made an appointment to meet at 11 o'clock to morrow and my shop, and he said that one Mr Turner his assistant had already started for Waterbury and that I could see him and arrange matters till tomorrow. I found Mr Turner at about 10.30 at the concrete bridge they are bulding over Carrington Brook by David Porters, and we walked up to my shop. I told him the circumstances and he stoped {stopped} the men working there. 06\03\{1904} (Friday) This morning I met Mr. Hill and Mr. Turner of New Haven at my blacksmith shop and we planned to have the ground in front of the door graded so it can be used to good advantage, but not to consider the matter settled till we could see how it worked. They are cutting down the street in front 4' and 4{???}. I am very lame and have not worked to day, have worked about home and watched the men work cutting down the road in front of the house. They are taking it down 2.7 feet, it is very hard work on account of the rocks. They have done much blasting. Ralph Blakeslee came and took me up to his place and showed me where they were getting the stones out and where they were planting potatoes. He is filling up a swamp East of the old barn with the rocks about 9 feet deep and there is more than 1/2 acre in the swamp. The Mattatuck Drum Band Elected Officers met for {???}. 06\04\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Fred Ley{??} & Co. have more than 300 men working on the Trolley line, they have many double dump carts. About 30 Italian laborors {laborers} passed by to night with trunks on their heads and backs on their way to Boston, having left the trolley work. 06\05\1904 (Sunday) Frank and Gussy{??} called on us and he and Will Gillette, Irving Pierpont and I went out over the line of the new trolley extension to Summit. They are now working building a concrete arch over Carrington Brook near David Porters. Next they are cutting down the road on the hill in front of my Carraige shop 4{?}4 and are carring{carrying} the dirt, some of it East and some of it West and filling in at the foot of the hills. Next they are cutting down the hill East of Mad{??} River and front of my house and filling in the flat at the bottom. Next they have opened a pit in the lot East of the Calvary cemetery gate. Next they are cutting at Wedges corner at the crossing over the Cheshire road. Next they are cutting in Milan Northrop's lot East of the Lane{??} at East Farms. Next they are cutting in Griswold's lot and filling in his pond. Next they are beginning a rack{??} cut by Mitchels{??} cut on the Rail Road beyond Cat{??} Swamp. Next they are cutting a small cut this side of Summit and are digging for a bridge near Summit Station. We turned North here and went to the Cheshire Road and then went North over the Old Backbone Road to the Meriden Road where we stoped {stopped} at the Wheelmens Rest and had some cool drinks, and then drove home. Rev. Mr. Smith of Simonsville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 06\06\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory as usual. This eveing I went to town and bought three brass nipples{??} and two iron ells. 06\07\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\08\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we attended a Strawberry Festival at the Chapel. It was crowded and they cleared over 40{??}. 06\09\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This has been a wet day. 06\10\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 06\11\1904 (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This evening we finished the new chicken yard and then planted beans, corn etc. 06\12\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After service Margaret, Ruth, Amy and Mary Miller, and I went to ride out along the new line of the trolley road. We drove through East Farms, out the Plank Road through Gillette's Corner and on to Rag Hollow and over to the notch{??} in the rock's{??} then up to Cheshire Center. Then we drove up the Southington Road past the new Power House and turned to the left and drove home through Moses Farms. 06\13\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\14\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Workman have finished the new concrete arch over Carrington Brook near David Porters and now all of the workmen have left off work west of here and have gone east to work, expecting the steam shovels to finish here when they come. 06\15\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked as usual to day. The blasting along the new trolley line as {at} six o'clock sounds like war or batteries of cannons. We will hear 15 or 20 reports[??} not far off, then a dozen away in the distance and more and more till it is almost a continous roar of blasts while Ralph Blakeslee's shakes{??} everything. They say tha blasting breaks up setting hens, but notwithstanding all this rumble and roar, Mary had a hen come off a few days ago with 14 chickens from 14 eggs and one yesterday with 13 chickens from a setting of 13 eggs. 06\16\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory this day. This evening I worked hoeing in the garden. When Irving came {??}the told of the Excursion steamer Gen. Slocam taking fire in Hell Gate this morning and over 500 people were burned and drowned. 06\17\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice to night, 06\18\1904 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. The plating, burnishing and buffing rooms did not work yesterday or to day. They had a school meeting in the Saw Mill Plain School Houe this evening and they voted to build on one or two rooms. They also elected a committee of five to confer with the Board of Education in regard to the same. It consisted of Thomas Heaton, Charles Miller, Hiram Abel{??}, Morris Alcott, James White, and the committee{??} Warren B. Hitchcock. 06\19\{1904} (Sunday) The methodist minister of Simonsville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 06\20\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\21\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out for the Graduating Class of the High School last night which went about the City and serenaded the Professors and teachers. It was a long march and I was so lame that I was obliged to drop out. This is the first time I ever left the ranks while on duty in over 30 years of drumming and marching. 06\22\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This has been one of the most disagreeable days of my life. I have suffered all day with my lame foot, besides a fierce toothache that has caused my face to swell and I am in pain all through my head. Irving's graduating class held class exercises in Assembly Hall this afternoon. This evening I attended a meeting of the City Board of Education. 06\23\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I, with some of my family, attended the Graduating Exercises of the High School of which Irving is one, in Polis{??} Theatre. The attendence {attendance} was very large, and the exercises fine. Ron{??} Walter Chandler of New York was the orator and the best I ever heard. 06\24\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Went to Cheshire and saw Elliot Doolittle about selling his land to Ralph Blakeslee. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice, were payed off for service at Watertown. 06\25\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a meeting of the electors of the Saw Mill Plains School District, in the school house for the purpose of electing Officers for the ensuing year, etc. 06\26\{1904} (Sunday) This is Children's Day at the Chapel and it was crowded. The building was prettily trimed {trimmed} with flowers and ferns which made it very attractive. Rev. J. G. Davenport officiated. 06\27\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended the celebration of unvailing {unveiling} the Monument that marks the spot where Count {??} Rachambeau's army of 6000 men encamped on the night of June 27, 1781 and also the next year, their return from Yorktown. Alderman Ralph Blakeslee took me over. The monument was erected by the American Irish Historical Society aided by several French societies of this city. Before the ceremonies ended, Mr. Blakeslee and I left and we then went to Cheshire and saw Mr. Elliot Doolittle about selling his land on the Doolittle Road and we talked and Mr. Blakeslee talked till 10 o'clock when Mr. Doolittle agreed to sell it for $4,500, on piece of 19 1/2 acres and one of 24 acres, the larget situated{??} on the East side of the Doolittle Road and is bounded East on Wilson{??} Pierpont, South on Huber Wedge, Pat Hays and land belonging to the Catholic people, West on Mary Doolittle and North on Ralph Blakeslee. The smaller piece lies on the West side of the Doolittle or Frost Road and is bounded East on highway, South on land belonging to the Mattatuck Mfg.{?} COmpany, West on the Mad River and North on Mr. Blakeslee's land. He paid $100 down and Mrs. Doolittle gave a receipt for the same. Mr. Doolittle is coming to Waterbury next week and they are going to have the papers drawn. 06\28\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory as usual. 06\29\1904 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory as usual. 06\30\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. B. S. Wedge{??} died yesterday, aged 58 years. 07\01\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory. The Mattatuck Drum Band met at my house for practice. 07\02\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. The shop shut down to night fo the July vacation. This evening Frank, Raymond and I went to town and I bought a staw hat for each of them for which I paid {??}.00. I also bought a suit of clothes of Charles Phillips at Jones and Morgans which they charged 18.00 but he finally let me have it for 12.00. The boys bought a lot of fireworks and a watermelon. The steam shovel came to day to work on the trolley road. They brought it up on rails which they put down for the purpose. The hill was so steep and the rails so poorly laid that it got stuck in one place and droped {dropped} through in a nother so they only got as far as Fathers by night. It weighs 35 tons as it stands now and 42 tons when put together. 07\03\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. {?----------?}, assistant to Mr. Haywood of the First Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 07\04\1904 (Monday) Indipendence {Independence} Day. Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Frank and I went to Nangatuck and saw the parade this forenoon. This evening Mary, Margaret, Ruth, Frank, Raymond, Irving, Amy and I went up the Watertown Road and saw them se off $1000.00 worth of fireworks on the side hill east of the town house. We all rode in the two seated wagon except Amy and Irving who went by trolley. 07\05\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory, took out the little waterwheel gear shaft. 07\06\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day, turning up a shaft for the little water wheel. Ralph Blakeslee has bought the two lots north of my place of Doctor Mary Doolittle of Ansonia. 07\07\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. The steam shovel commenced digging this morning at 10.30 in front of Fathers barn for the new trolley line. 07\08\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\09\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I stoped {stopped} and saw the Steam Shovel work. It has moved 600 yards of gravel to day. 07\10\{1904} (Sunday) Mr. Mc Kinley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After service, Irving, Clara French, Ruth and I drove out the Plank Road to Alfred Brook's place and there went down the mountain to Mixville and down to Tucker's farm and on to Cheshire to see where they are working on the trolley road. 07\11\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Clyde came to night from Northfield, Mass. where he has been attending a convention of the Y.M.C.A. for students from all the Colleges this side of the Missippi {Mississippi} Rover and Canada. He went to Northfield from Lafayette College June 20th. 07\12\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\13\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\14\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank said that from our house he saw men at work ploughing and getting out stones for Ralph Blakeslee in his walnut tree lot, and men at work hawling {hauling} stones off his barn lot, and men ploughing in his south lot and the West side of the road and men {???} in the lot above, and men spreding {spreading} manure in the lot above that which altogather {altogether} made a busy time of farming. This evening Sidney Spender, Stewart Judd, H. C. Heaton and Irving as a quartet, had a rehersal {rehearsal} at our house. Inez Beckwith played. 07\15\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Garrigus died this afternoon. Attended a school meeting at Mill Plain this evening. 07\16\{1904} (Saturday) I did not work to day as I was not feeling well. Went down and saw the steam shovel work this afternoon. 07\17\{1904} (Sunday) Attended the funeral of Walter Garrigus' little boy, and then went to the Chapel. Mr. Maffett{??} preached and also attended the funeral. 07\18\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This has been a hard day for me as I have not felt well. I asked for permission to be out of the shop for several days, which was granted. 07\19\{1904} (Tuesday) Clyde, Frank, Raymond and I worked haying to day. We mowed and got in the lot corner of the Cheshire and Harper-|Ferry Roads and part of the lot this way of it {??} where Thomas Mill's house stands. Workman worked drilling in the rock opposite my shop all last night and I can hear them now. There are 4 men holing drills and 8 strikers. They wish to blast away enough rock to make the road 60 ft.{??} wide. 07\20\{1904} (Wednesday) Mowed the meadow{??} where Mills house stands and nearly all of the corner lot across the river from the pump station. I went around the East portion of Ralph Blakeslee's farm with him and showed him the bounds. 07\21\{1904} (Thursday) Irving stayed out and helped us. We finished mowing by hand in the corner lot and got in all of the hay. I then took Henry Cook's mowing machine home. 07\22\{1904} (Friday) I went with all of my folks{??} to the Mill Plain Sunday School Picnic at Compound Pond. We drove all the way. There were three buss loads and several single teams. It took about two hours to drive over. {07\23\1904 (Saturday) [no entry]} {07\24\1904 (Sunday) [no entry]} {07\25\1904 (Monday) [no entry]} 07\26\1904 (Tuesday) Last Saturday, Clyde, Irving and I drove to Samuel Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] in Goshen. We went to Oakville, then to Minortown, then North Woodbury, then to Washington Center, then Washington depot, then New Preston depot then to New Preston then to Lake Waramaug, then to Warren, then East Cornwall, West Goshen and Goshen, distance 44 1/2 miles. Laft Waterboury at 8 in the morning and reached Goshen at 9 at night. Had a fine supper. We then went to bed, the boys in the middle chamber and I in the front, which was good enough for President Rosevelt {Roosevelt}. Sunday morning the boys helped milk the 24 cows that Sam is now milking after which we had breakfast and then attended worship at the Goshen Church. After meeting we went home and ate dinner, after which we staid about all the afternoon as it rained hard. Late in the afternoon we went up to Ivy Mountin and up the tower, but it was so foggy that we could scarcely see the ground. Monday, we got up and after breakfast, ground up the scythes and Clyde, Irving, Fred Williams and I went mowing in the North swamp Before noon we had mowed nearly all of it. After dinner we hitched up and started for home at 3 o'clock. We came through Farrington{??}, East Litchfield, Camps Mills{??}, Fluteville, and then turned and went over Plymouth Hill and through Ferryville{??} and Wolcott, home, which we reached at 8 o'clock. Mr. Mc Kinley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel last Sunday afternoon. Clyde went to work at Mathew's {Matthew's} and Willard's this morning. 07\27\1904 (Wednesday) I worked about home all day to day. Ralph Blakeslee began filling in the Frost Road at the foot of the hill by the North end of my house lot. {07\28\1904 (Thursday) [no entry]} 07\29\{1904} (Friday) Yesterday morning Frank Pierpont, Raymond and I went to Stratford to Cousin Melville Curtis{??}. We drove to Nangatuck, MAry,Ruth, and Amy going to bring the team back. There we took the steam cars and went to Seymour where we took the new trolley line to Derby where we took the Bridgeport trolley and went to Stratford. In the afternoon we went over to Milford and to Walnut beach where we dug some clams. We reached home about 7 o'clock. This morning we went to Bridgeport when Cousin Melville went in{??} and on to Fairfield where we staid some time visiting the old cemetary {cemetery}, etc. We then came back to Stratford and had dinner. In the afternoon we went to the river below Washington Bridge and hired a row boat and sailed to Milford Point where Raymond went in swimming and where we got a mess{??} of mussels. I then rowed back against the wind and tide and we took the trolley cars to Ansonia and the steam cars home. 07\30\{1904} (Saturday) I worked about home all day. Mary and Ruth went on an excurtion {excursion} to Glen Island to day. 07\31\1904 (Sunday) Mr. Long preached at the Chapel to day. 08\01\{1904} (Monday) Went to work at the factory to day. 08\02\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory as usual to day. This evening Ralph Blakeslee came to see me about filling in the road along the West side of my lot. I only wanted it filled to the first telephone pole, but he intended to fill it to a point near my big gate. He has agreed to fill to the afore said telephone pole. 08\03\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Fred T. Ley{??} and Company of Springfield, Mass. who are building the new trolley line for the Conn. Lighting and Railway Company have made the bridge over the Mad River ready for the rails. 08\04\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. They are laying new 12" water pipes along silver{??} street for the new high water service which is to be taken from the East Mountain Reservoir. 08\05\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I came home by way of the Chapel and stoped {stopped} at Judds Store and bought a bottle of ink, a letter pad and box of blacking{??} for which I paid 15 cts. When I got to the brook by my place, I had to unhich {unhitch} and leave the buggy as it was all dug up to lay in 2 lines of 24" tile pipe. After Irving came we went and drew the buggy over and while there, Mrs. Butler came and we helped her across. She was going up to Mrs. Jones who is sick, having had a baby girl this afternoon. This evening a few boys came and drummed. Clyde, Irving and Margaret have gone to a party down to their cousins, Louise{??} Jenner's. Sent a letter to the Blacksmith and Wheelwright containing 1.00. 08\06\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. After work I stoped {stopped} and saw the steam shovel work for a while, and then came up and watched Ralph Blakeslee's men draw stones and fill in the road against my lot. When Clyde came, we sawed up some of the old timbers that were in the frame of the old shear{??} shop that burned in Oct. 1896. 08\07\1904 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Read (Colored) preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After service, Irving, Louise Jennes{??}, Mariam{??} Brewster, Clifton Heaton, Jasie{??} Logan of Fonton, Mass. and myself went to ride to see the work that is being done on the new trolley road. We drove out the Plank Road and at times got out to see the work that is being done over at the crossing of the Mixville Brook. Yesterday a train of five dump gravel cars broke loose of the engine that was holding them and ran down the steep grade and off the end of the trestle that had been constructed to dump off from and fell thirty feet, landing in a heap all smashed. Clif {Cliff}, the girls and I walked over the layout and brooks while Irving drove the team down through Rag Hollow and met us near the Tucker Place. We then drove through the Notch-|in-|the-|Rocks and on through West Cheshire to Cheshire where we saw the trolley car come in from New Haven. They are working in places all the way from here to Cheshire on the new road. From Cheshire, we drove South till we came to the second road that turns to the right, which we took and traveled till we came to the road that turns south, beyond which the road was but little traveled, so we turned south and drove a long distance before we came to a house. Here Irving enquired the way, and we found we were within a mile of Brooksvale, but we turned the first right hand road and came onto the New Haven Road which we followed back to Notch-|in-|the-|Rocks and then we came home after which Irving took the girls home with the team. 08\08\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Clara French and Agnes Abel went to work to day at noon. Clyde told me that Olive Abel is not going to work any more as she is to be married the 15th of next month. Mr. Stagg, an inspector of the tracks on the new trolley road, came to board at our house tonight. 08\09\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\10\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. They have brought the steam shovel up to a point about midway between my house and Thomas Mills. 08\11\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. They are laying the trolley rails by my shop to day. The rails are the longest I have ever seen, over 70 feet and 6" high. 08\12\1904 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The steam shovel is working in the bank opposite my house. Many of the people of the neighborhood came to see it work. To day they laid the tracks for the gravel trains to run on past the front gate of my house, and tonight the little engine brought up two cars and left them. 08\13\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The boys and I finished sawing up the remaining timber of the frame of the old shear shop to night. Ralph Blakeslee has finished filling in the foot of the hill on the Frost Road to night. He has put in there over 3000 loads of stones. 08\14\1904 (Sunday) Patrie Slavin, Dennis Slavin and Patrick's son Henry, Clyde and I drove out along the line of the new trolley road to its end in Cheshire. They are working in place all along the line. The hardest places are at the Roaring Brook near the Blakeslee Road in Cheshire, and the fill across the Mix meadows. At the Roaring Brook they have a high fill of over 50 feet I think and a little west, a deep rock cut. At the Mix meadows there is a fill 38 ft. high and a little west there si a cut 58 ft. deep. Rev. Mr. Smith of the Advent Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. 08\15\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory today as usual. This afternoon Thomas Mills house took fire from sparks sent out by the little locomotive that draws the gravel train. They put it out after it had burned a hole in the roof. One of the horses working in the rock cut near Wilson Pierponts backed off the stone arch over the "Horse Brook" and fell back into the water and would have drowned had not an Italian held his head above water while another man cut the harness off. They then got him out and found no serious injuries. This forenoon, two of the gravel cars ran away while being loaded at the steam shovel and ran down to Thom {Tom} Mills house where one jumped the track and ran into the bank and upset. Mrs. Spenser Monroe had a girl baby born this morning. 08\16\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this morning and all day. 08\17\{1904} (Wednesday) This forenoon a constable came to the factory and summoned me to go to cort {court} this afternoon to do juror duty. I worked till noon and then went to the City Court held in City Hall at 2 o'clock and sat with five other jurors on the case of Mrs. Margaret Dorothy against one Malone and Mc Cahey{??}. Mrs. Dorothy leased the above parties a building on East Main Street for hotel purposes in July 1902 for a term of 5 years, and since June they have not paid the rent on time and according to the lease and{??} she wishes to put them out. After hearing the evidence, the Jury decided in favor of the plaintiff. The blasting about here is something terific {terrific}. Ralph Blakeslee set off some wind{??} blasts that shook a vase off from the shelf in my house. To night we attended a meeting and entertainment at Hamilton Call{??}. The Paymaster for Walter Burk & Co. who is building three miles of the east end of the Cheshire trolley line has ran away yesterday with $6,000 which had been given him to pay off the help. Will Gillette went over to Cheshire late last night and attached{??} cars, tools, horses, carts, steam drills, boilers, derricks, locomotives etc. 08\18\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\19\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Five years ago to day I went to work at Rogers and Brother{??} Factory. Ralph Balkeslee had a force of men at work digging out the west and north ditch in my lot so he can drain his swamp better. The Mattatuck Drum Band held a meeting. 08\20\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. The steam shovel is at work in the bank opposite my house. 08\21\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Basset preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I attended a Christian Endevor {Endeavor} Meeting this evening in the Chapel. Harry Wakelee was buried at Woodtick this afternoon. 08\22\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory of Rogers and Hamilton to day at steam fitting work about the boilers. 08\23\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at Rogers and Hamiltons to day at steam fitting. I have just returned from a strole {stroll?} with Laurence Tobin{??} and Dennis Slavin. We looked at the steam shovel and at the little locomotive that had ran off the track and at the cars that ran away down the hill this afternoon and got smashed and at the grade they are making to lay the trolley rails in east of my house and at the steam drill up in Ralph Blakeslee's lot that they are using to get the field racks out with. 08\24\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Clara and Bertha French came and helped Clyde get things ready for an entertainment at the grange. 08\25\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening when I came home from work, a constible {constable} had been to see sister Iva and left 58 warrants with her for Will, gar{?????????} the property which he had attached{??} that belonged to Walter Berk Co. constructers of the Cheshire Trolley Road whoes {whose} paymaster ran away with $4,200 last Friday. The writs were gotten out by the Italian laborours {laborers} who have had no pay for 45 and in some cases 60 days. Today they put up the trolley wire from Silver Street to the Mad River. Yesterday Mary sent Frank and he brought Mr. Baker, an old man who lives up near the Red Bridges ({???} Lee's father-|in-|lay {law) and he sat in our front yard and watched the steam shovel work and visited. To day she sent and had Mrs. Chas{??} Frost, Mrs. Porter and Mother Pierpont come who with a dozen more had quite a visit. 08\26\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. To day a construction car came out to the Mad River about noon. This is the first car that has come over the new trolley tracks from Silver Street to the bridge over Mad River. 08\27\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory all day. They have moved the steam shovel to the pit in the lot east of Calvary Cemetery to day. 08\28\1904 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After service Amy, Margaret, Frank and I went for a ride. We drove out the Plank Road and saw where they are working on the new trolley road to Gillette's Corner and then turned South and came out on the main Prospect Road, which we followed west to East Mountain where we saw the new water pipe they are putting in for the high service in Waterbury, and we there had to drive around by the Gilbert Hotchkiss place on account of the road being closed. 08\29\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Olive Abel is 22 years old to day. 08\30\{1904} (Tuesday) This morning Clyde, Irving and I got up at 3.30, ate breakfast and drove to Seymour where we left the horse at a livery stable and then took the trolley cars for Stratford. Soon after we got aboard we paid our fare of five cents. When we reached Ansonia we paid five cents more and got a transfer. At Derby we left the Ansonia cars and got aboard of the Bridgeport cars and used our transfers. Soon we paid five cents more and then five cents again, and at Paradise Green we paid five cents again, and this took us to the pole in Stratford, where we met Charlie Stagg and we went to his house where he gave us some second hand clothing and then we went to the boat house and got his launch ready and got aboard. Had trouble starting the engine, sailed to the mouth of the Housatonic{??} River intending to fish for blue fish, but it was so rough that we could not get out side of the break water, so we turned back and fished inside and we caught two little fish. After a time we went to the mouth of a creek on the east side of the river below Washington Bridge and fished for a long time. Charlie caught four or five but none of the rest caught any. We had lunch and then sailed out{??} the river four or five miles and back again to the landing where we left the boat and then went and called on Cousin Clarissa and Melville Curtis, and there took the trolley cars to Shelton and Derby to Seymour, wher {where} we took the horse and drove home, reached here at ten minutes past ten. This day the cars have run regular to the Mad River. Had school meeting this night. 08\31\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\01\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening after work I went to the apothecaries hall and bought one{??} gallon{??} of boiled linseed oil for 60 cts. All the girls in the machine burnishing room went up to Olive Abel's to supper. There were ten of them, and they went on invatation {invitation} of Olive, who expects to be married the 14th of this month. 09\02\1904 (Friday) Worked as usual to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 09\03\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Commenced working on the dow{??} to day. This evening at about 8 o'clock a train of gravel cars ran away without any engine down the hill in front of my house and a little this side of the bridge, jumped the track. No one was hurt. 09\04\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel to day. This morning we took the trolley at the bridge and went to church at the Second Congregational. 09\05\{1904} (Monday) Although this is Labor Day, a legal holiday, I have worked hard on Roger's bras {brass??} dow{??}. They are moving the steam shovel to East Farms. Have got it as far as Rob Hotchkiss. The Mill Plain Christian Endevor {Endeavor} Society gave a picnic at Quassapaucy{??} to dya. They went in 3 large busses. Mary and Frank, Raymond and Ruth drove over. 09\06\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\07\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening as I came home from work they were unloading rails this side of the bridge for the new trolley road. They were 70 ft. long and 6 in. high and weighed 1570 lbs. each. I can remember when the longest railroad rails about here were 16 1/2 feet long and two men could lift them easily. 09\08\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 09\09\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\10\1904 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mrs. Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Goshen came to day. 09\11\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After Chapel, Mrs. Ovaitt [Oviatt], Margaret, Agnes Abel, Wilber{??} and I went for a drive out the Meriden Road and down through East Farms and in the Plank Road. 09\12\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This noon I heard of the death of Charlie Conner. He was killed by the cars on Saybrook{??} Saturday night. 09\13\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Irving, Vernon{??}, Abel and I went over to the Foresters{??} Hall and got sixteen double seats and took them to the Chapel to be used at the wedding of Olive Abel tomorrow. 09\14\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day till 10.30. I then came home and got ready, had dinner and then Mary, Clyde, Irving, Ruth and I walked to the bridge over Mad River where we took the trolley car and went to the bridge over the Nangatuck River at West Main Street where we took a hack{??} and went to the home of Mr. George W. Connor to attend the funeral of their son, Charlie. The house was full of relations and friends. Rev. Mrs. Buckley of Trinity Church officiated. We then went to Trinity Church where the funeral service was held. The church was well filled, about half of the congregation being workmen of the Waterbury Brass Company where Charlie was superintendent. Soon after the service commenced there was a great down pore {pour} of rain with thunder and lightening so we had to wait some time till the rain had abated when we went to the Pine Grove Cemetary {Cemetery} where he was buried by the side of his mother. Olive Abel and Allen Burges were married this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Mill Plain Chapel. While they were standing there it rained torrents and the thunder and lightening was terific {terrific}. 09\15\{1904} (Thursday) Worked as usual to day. Mrs. Ovaitt [Oviatt] left our house to day for Bristol. Clyde left on the 6.15 train for Easton last night. 09\16\1904 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\17\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I worked on the little fire engine that I am building. 09\18\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Zeiter{??} of the Simonsville Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Irving, Amy, and I drove over to Mix's meadows in Cheshire where the engine and six gravel cars ran off a trestle 38 ft. high on the new trolley road. 09\19\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. John French did not work this forenoon. 09\20\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\21\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory as usual to day. 09\22\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This is Mary's birthday, 44 years old. Had a heavy frost this morning. 09\23\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\24\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\25\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 09\26\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory as usual This is Fannie and Mary Porters birthday, 48 years old. 09\27\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Burges returned from their wedding trip to Penn last night. This is my birthday, 46 years old. 09\28\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This evening about 40 boys with drums and fifes, tin pans, horns, cow bells, and other bells went up to Hiram Abel's and gave Allen Burges and Olive a serenade. They fired guns and then played three times on the drums and fifes, as no one came out, then they began to pound and make a great racket that sounded as if all thunder and bedlem {bedlam} was let loos {loose}, which they kept up for some time till Mrs. Abel came out with a broom and drove them all out of the yard. 09\29\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09\30\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\01\{1904} (Saturday) To day Frank, Raymond, Ruth and I went out to Mother Pierponts and picked up apples. We sent the first load of 14 bags full home at about 10 o'clock, and Mary and Margaret came back with Frank. When he brought the team back we picked up two loads more, and finished at about four, after which we went up on the hill and picked up chestnuts. We had half a bushel that we had found. Last night the boys serenaded Allen Burges and his new wife at Hiram Ables {Abels}. 10\02\1904 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Haris preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 10\03\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\04\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys of the neighborhood came in and Mary read Sy Clfe{??} to them. 10\05\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. They began working till 9 o'clock last Monday night in the making, polishing, trimming and machine rooms. 10\06\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\07\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory as usual. 10\08\{1904} (Saturday) Worked as usual to day. 10\09\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mary, Margaret, Irving and I went to ride out to ALfred Brooks' place to see the work on the new trolley lines {????????}. 10\10\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\11\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory all day. This evening Raymond Bolton, Clarence Brown, Fred Lund and Henry Beckwith came and heard Mary read the "Green Mountain Boys". Pete gave me check for 40.00. 10\12\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The Wolcott Fair was to have been held to day but was postponed on account of the rain. 10\13\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory as usual. 10\14\1904 (Friday) Worked at the factory as usual. Mary and the boys and girls went to the Wolcott Fair. I wrote a letter to Chas{??} Stagg of Stratford this evening. 10\15\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving got through working for Joseph Smith to night. He has been studying architecture. 10\16\{1904} (Sunday) Re. Mr. Moffelt of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mary and I went to Mr. Judds where we took tea and in the evening we went to the Christian Endever {Endeavor} Meetings. 10\17\1904 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Irving went to work at the Farrell Foundry{???} and Machine Company at mechanical drawing{??} this morning. 10\18\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Sent an order to Montgomery Ward & Co. of Chicago, also an order for goods to Sears Roebuck & Co. of the same place to night. 10\19\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This is our payday. I received my pay, 15.75, for last weeks work. This evening we attended a rally of the Christian Endever {Endeavor} Society at the Mill Plain Chael. Rev. Mr. Harris was there and presided. After the service, refreshments were served. 10\20\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. They have finished digging the cellar of the new Mill Plain School House. Mr. Walker who has charge of the new Hamilton Park is putting walks and drives about it. After work we picked over apples and have about 9 bushels. Tomorrow Frank and Raymond are going to take them out to Mintres{??} Cider Mill on the Plank Road and have them "made up". 10\21\1904 (Friday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brother this day. We had a heavy rain storm accompanied with much wind this forenoon, but it cleared up about two o'clock. 10\22\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Ralph Blakeslee told me that he thought he would accept the nomination for Representative to the Legislator {Legislature}. 10\23\{1904} (Sunday) This forenoon at about ten o'clock Patrie{??} and Dennis Slavin, Irving, I and Pat's boy Henry started in my two seated wagon and drove over to the Meriden Mountain. We left the horse at the foot of the path that leads to the top of West Peak, and went up to the summit where we had a fine view of the Sound, Long Island, and all of the surrounding counrt, saw Mt. Tom{??} in Massachusetts and Manadonack{??} in New Hampshire. We then went over to the new tower on East Peak and went to the top. We then got the team and went through the Hubbard Park and on to West Main Street, where we turned north just before we reached the Waterbury R. R. crossing and drove up through Cat Hole Pass to Kensington and from there to Southington and home, which we reached at 8 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternon. 10\24\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Bolton got through die sinking{??} at the shop Saturday night. Elsie and Cara French went to work at Platt Companies{??} Button Shop this morning. 10\25\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening as we were coming home from work we saw that the trolley company were{??} cutting away the bank in front of Ervice{??} Wright's place. A number of the boys of the neighborhood came in to hear Mary read the "Green Mountain Boys". 10\26\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\27\1904 (Thursday) I worked for Rogers $ Brother from 7 to 12.30 and from 1 to 5.30. Ten hours, (our regular days work) to day. This evenign Mary went to a usical entertainment at St. Margarets School but they did not have it, as the principle {principal} musition {musician} is sick. I went to see Mr. Jones about being made a voter, and he said that he will be made tomorrow. 10\28\1904 (Friday) Worked in the factory to day as usual. They had a party over to Charlie Casses'{??} to night, a surprise on Henry and Grace. Quite a number of the young folks met at my house and went ver in a body. 10\29\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I, with Ruth, went to the center and Ruth got her mother's new hat and a quart of oysters and then we came home, and I brought Agnes Abel up from Silver Street. 10\30\{1904} (Sunday) Rev.{??} Mr.{??} Anderson preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. After service I went out to Wedge's{??} and looked at the new concrete arch just completed. 10\31\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening sister Iva gave a Haloween {Halloween} party at Father's house. Everybody had to wear a mask. Mary had a rig{??} for me which made me look like a farmer, but I went over to Frenches and Bertha dressed me up like an old woman and Mary or no one else knew me. 11\01\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\02\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the Chapel to a supper and entertainment given by the ladies union. The supper was excellent and cost 15 cts. each. The entertainment consisted of singing and recestations {recitations}. 11\03\{1904} (Thursday) I worked to day as usual. The Grangers had a musical entertainment in their hall this evening. Mary and Irving went. 11\04\1904 (Friday) I worked today moving the fence out into the street in front of the shop. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band went to the center and marched to the corner of South Main and then to East Main Street and to Hamilton Hall escorting a Band wagon load of Republican speakers who spoke to an audience of men, women, boys and girls. They were all Republicans and spoke for Theodore Rosevelt {Roosevelt} for President. 11\05\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\06\1904 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris of the First Methodist Church preached at the Chapel to day. This forenoon at abouy a quarter to ten, sister Iva came and said that Cara had been having an unpleasant time and had gone away, they knew not where, and she wanted something done to prevent her from repeating it many more times, as Amy says that she cannot stand it and longer and Will says that he will get out if he has to put up with it. I went down and saw Will and made arrangements to have him see a lawyer and see if we could not have a consivator{??} appointed over her effects and person. I attended service at the Chapel this afternoon as is my custom. After service Ruth, Irving, Miss Marshal and I went out along the line of the new trolley road that is being built. We went as far as the cut that they are putting through the ledge east of the bridge east of Gillette Corners, then came home by the Plank Road. 11\07\{1904} (Monday) Worked to day moving the fence and gatehouse in front of the factory farther out into the street. Warren Hitchcock's wife had a little girl baby born lst Friday, wight {weight} 3 lbs. Mr. Mulhern's wife had a baby girl born to them a few days ago. 11\08\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory to day as usual. This is Presidental Day and I voted for Theodore Rosevelt {Roosevelt} for president and the strait Republican ticket. 11\09\{1904] (Wednesday) Worked as usual, came home at 5 o'clock. At{???} I am going to Watertown with the Mattatuck Drum Band. 11\10\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Last night I went to Watertown with the Drum Corps, 12 men. We left the bridge on the 6.22 trolley car and went to the Nangatuck Rail Road Station where we took the steam cars. At Watertown we headed a parade which was given in honor of the Republican victory. {11\11\{1904} (Friday) [no entry]} 11\12\{1904} (Saturday) Worked yesterday and to day. Last night there was a great Republican rally in town on account of the Rep' victory. I turned out and drummed with the Mattatuck Drum Band, 13 men. There were thousands in line, nearly factory in town being represented by a large body of men. 11\13\{1904} (Sunday) Very stormy, wind, rain, snow, hail and sleet. No service at the Chapel, but they had Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. Judd at our house to supper. 11\14\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\15\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked to day in the factory. 11\16\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked as usual today in the factory. This evening Ruth, Margaret, Frank, Ray and I attended a lecture at East Farms School House. 11\17\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Workmen began laying tracks for the trolley road east of the Mad River Bridge. Mary and Irving have gone to the Grange Fair. 11\18\{1904} (Friday) I worked as usual to day. Mr. Charlie Stagg of Stratford came to board with us to day. He is an inspector of the track laying for the Connecticut Electric Railway and Lighting Company. The Grange Fair is on to night. 11\19\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Barlow Brothers Store and bought three lengths and one elbow of stove pipe of Russian iron for which I paid 2.00 and a zine covered stove board for 1.00. 11\20\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I attended the Christian Endever {Endeavor} Meeting this evening. Wrote a letter to Clyde. 11\21\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Went to the Nangatuck freight depot and got two cushions and a box that came from Chicago. 11\22\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The workmen are digging and blasting in front of my house to day for the tracks. Twenty one years ago to day I was married to Miss Mary A. Pierpont of East Farms in Mill Plain Chapel. 11\23\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The belt that drives the grea fan in the trimming room got wet this noon and came apart this afternoon. We repaired it and had it running by three o'clock. 11\24\1904 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. The Somers family met at Uncle Joe's house and had dinner. There were about 40 present. They laid the rails past my house to day for the trolley road. Wrote a letter to Mr. Albert Hill, New Haven. 11\25\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Charlie Stagg came again after spending Thanksgiving at his home in Stratford. They finished laying tarck to day for this fal,l laid to a little beyond Calvary Cemetery gate. 11\26\1904 (Saturday) Worked as usual to day. This evening I drove to town and got one quart of oysters for 35 cts., came home and we put the roof on the wood shed. 11\27\1904 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams, assistant to Mr. Davenport, preached at the Chapel this afternoon. He has preached at South Britain for some years past. The weather has been cold and snowy. 11\28\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Charlie Cass went to work at the Waterbury Lumber and Coal Company this morning. Sherman Monroe went to work as stationary engineer for Reid and Hughes this morning. Warren Hitchcock's little child died last Friday and was buried yesterday afternoon. 11\29\1904 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Went to fathers and got an organ that I bought for Mary in 1876, paid $225.00 for it. 11\30\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Ladies Union gave a supper and entertainment in the Chapel. Ther {There} was a large number present and they cleared $14.00. 12\01\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. I carried{??} Miss Welton in town to night. We worked cleaning the organ. 12\02\1904 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. I went to the Fourth National Bank this noon and got two checks cashed, one from Emil{?} Marggraff of Watertown for $19.20 and one from Ralph Blakeslee for $18.00. They were for the Mattatuck Drum Band and were pay for playing in a parade in Watertown and in a parade in Waterbury after election. 12\03\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. It has been very cold, a little snow fell. 12\04\{1904} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel to day. 12\05\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Snow fell to the depth of 3 inches to day. 12\06\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and girls of the neighborhood called in and Mary read to them a while, after which they practiced singing Christmas carols for the Chapel entertainment. 12\07\1904 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\08\{1904] (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\09\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\10\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Peter Laroque paid check of 20.oo to day. 12\11\1904 (Sunday) This day has been cold and stormy. Rev. Mr. Verder preached at the Chapel this afternoon. He is assistant to Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church. 12\12\{1904} (Monday) Worked at the factory all day. It has snowed nearly all day but the snow is only about three inches deep. 12\13\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked in the shop all day. It snowed all night and the snow was 15 inches deep this morning. I got up soon after five, and hitched into{??} the snow plow and made a path to the end of the trolley line and up the Southmaid Road to Mr. Frey's and came home. Hitched into my sleigh after breakfast and went to the shop, (drove up and got Agnes Abel). It continued to snow till noon and in all 18 inches fell. 12\14\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked in the factory. This evening I drove out to Mr. Marities{??} on the Plank Road to order some cider for Mr. George Rockwell, Secretary of International Silver Co., and for Fred Chase, President of the Chase Rolling Co. It was a hard, cold drive, the snow being deep and the thermometer 6 below zero when I got home. I then went to James Porter's and he lent me and old fashioned shirt and vest to wear at the Fair of the Patriotic Sons of America to be given in City Hall. I then went out to Char{??} Cass, and then came home. Captain Baugs{??} was buried in the Pixie Grove Cemetery to day. The bugle sounding "taps"{??} and the musket firing three vollies {volleys} were heard throughout tis region. 12\15\1904 (Thursday) Worked at the factory all day. This evening I got ready soon as possible and Bob Beckwith came and we went over to Charlie Casses' and we finished our rigging out{??}, Charlie with continental coat, buff facings, no shirt, buff pants, white stockings, buff boot tops, black wig with stubby whiskers and bandage about head with blood spot on it. I was dressed with pants, stockings etc. like Charlie, but had white waist belt, an old fashioned shirt and sleves {sleeves} rolled up and thrown open at brest {breast??} and an old fashioned vest, thrown open in front, gray wig on my head and mustache and eye brows white. Bob was dressed in Cuff{??} continental uniform. We drove to City Hall and soon went over to "Platt's Clock{??}" where the parade started and we headed it and went down South Main St., up Grand, up Bank and to City Hall. In the Hall we paid {played} "Yankee Doodle" on the stage. It was hard marching as the snow was deep. 12\16\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I called for Charles Cass and we went to the City and drummed through the streets about the center to the City Hall. We did not play on the stage owing to the small attendence. It is cold to nigh {night}. 12\17\{1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day till 5 o'clock. This evening Charlie, Bob and I drummed about the streets and on the stage. We also looked at the moving pictures. Stayed till about 11 o'clock when we drove home, it snowing very hard. The making department shut down to day. 12\18\{1904} (Sunday) At two o'clock I went to the undertaking rooms of Mr. Edmurador{??} on Center Street and attended the funeral of Mattie Wedge{??} Baxter Hill who died of pneumonia at Henry Wedge's last Thursday. Rev. Mr. Harris officiated and the pall bearers{??} were Max Reed, Mr. Blackbourn, Wilson Pierpont and I. She was buried on the East side of the Pine Grove Cemetery. Rev. Mr. Stockdale preached at the Chapel this afternoon. About 6 inches of snow fell last night. This morning we hitched a small stone drag{??} back of it and Frank, Ray and I ploughed out the roads over to Casie's{??} and up the Southmaid out the Meriden and down the Doolittle roads. 12\19\{1904} (Monday) Worked today at the factory. I made scrapers for the workmen to clear the snow off from the pond in Hamilton Park. 12\20\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. They stoped {stopped} work in the machine burnishing room to day. 12\21\{1904} (Wednesday) Worked. Allen Burges brought home my sleigh which he has had on his trip to Morris{??}, Watertown selling tea since Sunday night. Clyde came home from Lafayette College this evening at about 8 o'clock. Will Gillette and Iva caled to see Clyde but he and Irving had gone skating on the Brass Mill Pond. Will and Iva then started north up the road. We think they went to serenade Burt Frisbie up in Woodtick who is lately married. 12\22\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This morning the thermometer stood 14 degrees below zero. This evening Clyde, Irving, Mary and I went up to the Chapel and trimed {trimmed} it. There were several young men that came and helped as did Clara French. 12\23\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. I carried Ruth to the rehersel {rehearsal} of the Sunday School children at the Chapel. 12\24\1904 (Saturday) Worked at the factory ti day. The buffers got through work to day. Shelbourne Rockwell gave me a Christmas present yesterday. I do not know what it is but I think it is a book. This is Christmas Eve and there is a row of stockings hung up in our sittingroom some of which are already filled. 12\25\{1904} (Sunday) Christmas. This morning we all got up at day light and all unpacked their stockings, Grandma Pierpont (who came over yesterday) and all. I had a pair of wolen {woolen} mittens, some handkerchiefs, oranges, candies, etc and $5.00 in cash. The childrens' stockings were well filled. The weather has been very cold all day and at four o'clock it began snowing. The attendence at the Chapel was large and the singing better than I ever heard there before by the Choir. Dr. Davenport read a story to the people which was very interesting. 12\26\1904 (Monday) This day is observed as a holiday for Chirstmas. We had dinner at Fathers and in the afternoon Frank(brother) , Clyde, Irving, Vernon Abel and I went to Nangatuck and went through the new school house that Mr. Whittimore is building and is to give to Nangatuck as a present. It is certainly a nice building. When we came home we walked up the railroad to Platts Mills and saw the steamshovel and steam derricks and drills that are at work double tracking the Nangatuck Rail Road. In the evening we had a Christmas tree at Fathers and lots of presents for all. 12\27\{1904} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Robert Hotchkiss died at the soldiers home at Noroton{??} and is to be buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery tomorrow afternoon. It has stormed hard all day and the Christmas entertainment at the Chapel is posponed {postponed} till tomorrow evening. 12\28\1904 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we went to the Christmas entertainment at the Chapel. 12\29\{1904} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\30\{1904} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 12\31\1905 {1904} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. After work, Frank and I went to the Waterbury Lumber Yard and got some oak board that I had left there last night to be plained. We then went to the Danbury Hat Store and I bought a black felt hat for 1.90. Then went to Hotchkiss & Fempletons and got some brass screws and round nickel head screws for 55 cts. Sleighing is about gone. //end of 1904 entries// [CSM Journal for 1905] 01/01/1905 (Sunday) This morning I took the trolley and went to the second church. This afternoon Edward Manwaning who has been sick over two years at Mr. Barry Garrigus' with consumption and who died last {[blank]} was buried from the Chapel at 3 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Davenport officiated. 01/02/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory getting things ready to start up to morrow. The Japanese captured Port Arthur from the Russians yesterday. The Russians surrendered about 20,000 men. 01/03/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked lining up an idler and bracing the same so as to make the new belt on the Brown engine run true. This morning it was very slipery {slippery} but it has snowed nearly all day and is still blowing and snowing so that sleighing has come again. The making department started up to day. 01/04/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked to day in the factory. The ladies gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. 01/05/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Last evening there was a school meeting called but I objected to any business being done as the meeting had not been advertised. 01/06/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Florence Abel began working in the watch shop yesterday. 01/07/{1905} (Saturday) Worked as usual at the factory to day. 01/08/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Verder preached at the Chapel to day. 01/09/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The roads are very icy and some bare{?} ground. 01/10/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked. 01/11/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. I saw Mr. Rockwell about getting more pay. He said that "he would look it up". 01/12/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 01/13/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. The {They} too Henry Buckingham's wifle {wife} to the insane asylum at Middletown yesterday. 01/14/{1905} (Saturday) Worked in the factory to day. This evening the Chapel choir met at our house and practiced. 01/15/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Moffett preached at the Chapel this afternoon. He said that probably this was his last sermon, as he expected to be transfered to another field of labor. He is the Methodist Minister at Waterville. Clara French told me that her father got hurt at the factory yesterday after I left. 01/16/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory as usual. They started up the plating department this moring. Minnie{??} Dugan sent for Agnes Abel to come to work tomorrow noon. 01/17/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory. This evening after work, I went to Hotchkiss and Fempletons and bought three dozen brass round head screws for 45 cts. I also bought two five stove pipe ells for 50 cts. of Minor on Grand Street. I sent my subscription for the Conn. Magazine to night - 2.00. Enclosed in a letter, 6.00 to Ralph Blakeslee for wood. Enclosed in letter to P.F. Callier, Providence R.I., 1.30 to pay balance of contract for weekly paper. Enclosed in letter, 5.20 to P.F. Callier and son, New York to pay for this year's supscription to Callier's Weekly. 01/18/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. William Warren died at his home on the East side of the Woodtick Road opposite the school house (a little north) this morning at 5 o'clock of pneumonia. 01/19/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory ten hours. Mr. John Lines was buried this afternoon from the First Baptist Church, the Rev. John Davenport officiating. Mr. Lines was a man whom was well liked by everybody. For years he was superintendent of the Upper Shops at the Scoville Mfg. Co. He was also a veteran fireman and veteran soldier having served over three years in the 14th Conn. Infantry, in the war of the Rebellion took part in thirty battles. For years he was at the head of Lines Orchestra. 01/20/{1905} (Friday) Worked this forenoon. This afternoon I attended Willaim Warren's funeral. It was held in the Chapel and was the largest funeral ever held there, the concarse{??} of people being so great that all the standing room was taken and about seventy five stood outside. Mr. Warren was Assistant Superintendent at the watch shop and that factory shut down this afternoon. There were about fourteen nice floral pieces given by friends and relations. The funeral was paid for by the New England Watch Co. 01/21/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day {???} some of the time. The rest of the time I was at the old Rogers & Hamilton factory taking out the machinery and stock and bringing them down to our shop. They are also taking out the Engine. 01/22/{1905} (Sunday) Cold and stormy. Carried mother Pierpont to the Chapel, but did not stay as I was not feeling well. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached. 01/23/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 01/24/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory, was up to Rogers and Hamilton factory this afternoon. 01/25/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. We had a great snow all day and to night I ploughed out the road up to Ralph Blakeslee's barn and up the Southmayd {Southmaid} Road to Judd's Store. 01/26/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory, 9 hours. Mr. John Frey died last night at 9 o'clock of pneumonia, aged 77 years last Tuesday. I dug and plowed out the Doolittle Road to Mr. Ables this morning{??}. 01/27/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory of Rogers and Hamilton all day taking out pipe fiiting, grit{?} etc. Hubert Wedge got badly hurt at the factory of the Waterbury Lumber and Coal Co. yesterday by a belt braking {breaking} and the hooks catching him in the neck. 01/28/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the unoccupied shop of Rogers & Hamilton on Griggs Street. To day Ralph Blakeslee gave his annual sleigh ride to the school children of Waterbury. He had 60 large sleighs, each drawn by 2 large horses except one and that had 4 horses. There were about three thousand children in the sleighs. 01/29/1904 {1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Anderson of the First Congregational Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. John Frey was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery this afternoon. 01/30/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 01/31/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 02/01/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The weather is very cold. The thermometer stood at 15 below zero this morning. 02/02/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Cold, thermometer stood 16 below this morning. 02/03/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The themometer {thermometer} stood 4 below this morning. Went this evening to Nangatuck to see P.O. Laughlin{?}. 02/04/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Colder this morning. The thermometer was 18 below zero this morning. 02/05/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02/06/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The snow fell to a depth of 6 inches this forenoon. Yesterday Sidney Spender was 21 years old. I went to see James Porter this evening. 02/07/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 02/08/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. There are many sick persons about Mill Plain at this time. Mrs. Lockhart is sick with Pluresy{?} and Jaunders[?}. Earnest Welton's wife is very sick with pneumonia. Chas{?} Cass is down with the Grip. Mrs. Morrow is sick with influenza and Murry Bubec{?} is also sick. 02/09/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 02/10/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Went to Rogers & Hamilton and got a lood {load} of steam fittings. 02/11/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and I brought up a large iron straitening plate from my shop that weighed 3200 lbs., drew it upon my sled with my horse. Last night the boys gave a magic lantern exhibition in our house. There were about 20 children present who paid .01 ct. admission. 02/12/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This forenoon at 11 o'clock Margaret and I left home and drove to Bristol. We found the snow very deep and more than half the distance, the roads are dug out by hand. Drifts 10 feet deep are to be found in many places. The weather was cold. We {When} we started, the themometer {thermometer} stood 14 above zero and it remained cold all the way up. Got to Bristol at 2 and put the horse out at a livery stable and then went up to Franks on High Street, staid there till four and started for home in a blinding snow storm. It was after five before we got out of Bristol and we were obliged to travel slow up the mountain so darkness set in when we were near Cedar Swamp Pond, and it was hard to see the track. As we were driving down the hill this side of the Ransom Hall Pond{???}, we ran a runner up on the drift and it tipped us over and threw the horse down. I had Margaret hold the horse down and then unhitched him and pulled the sleigh back and the horse jumped up and we tipped the sleigh up and started again. It was now raining very hard. We reached home at 8 o'clock. 02/13/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Yesterday Ruth was 14 years old and tonight a large number of young people of the neighborhood gave her a surprise party. 02/14/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening a party of the Grangers went to Cheshre {Cheshire} in Arthur Pierpont's bob sled. Mary and Irving went from our house. 02/15/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mary went to the Foresters' supper and dance and also went to the Grange. 02/16/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. The fire inspector came around the factory to day. 02/17/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. I had a talk with Mr. Rockwell this forenoon about nickel silver. After work I went to Simonsville to see Robert Somers about metal. 02/18/{1905} (Saturday) Worked to day. This evening I went to town and bought a pair of gloves. 02/19/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Bassett preached at the Chapel. Went to Simonsville and saw Rob Somers. 02/20/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Went to J.G. Jones and had my shop insured, {???}1000.00.{?} 02/21/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 02/22/{1905} (Wednesday) Washingtons birth day. This morning I raised the flag {???} the office at the factory. 02/23/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to the D.A.R. entertainment at the Second Church. The {They} had a great collection of old relicks {relics}. 02/24/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory. This is Margaret's 16th birthday and the young people gave her a party tonight. 02/25/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Frank is sick with something that looks like poison that has broken out on his body. 02/26/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel. Margaret, Ruth, Raymond and I went for a sleigh ride out the Plank Road to where they are working on the new trolley road. The steam shovel is at work this side of Rag Hollow Brook and they have steam drills at work in rock cuts near Ed Welton's house at East Farms and at Shingle Mill Brook in Cheshire. 02/27/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 02/28/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory as usual to day. 03/01/{1905} (Wednesday) Did not feel well so I did not go to work. This evening I attended the entertainment and supper at the Chapel. The building was filled. The entertainment consisted of music by the new orchestra and singing by a Miss Goodwin and Mr. Walter Haden. 03/02/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. I sent home Major Tucker's scrap book by Adams Express to day. They found the little Italian boy who was drowned in Scoville Ditch day before yesterday, this afternoon at about four o'clock. 03/03/1904 {1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Mary and Irving have gone to Southington with a party of Grangers in Wilson Pierpont's team sleigh. 03/05{04}/{1905} (Saturday) Worked in the factory to day as usual. 03/06{05}/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 03/06/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Dayton Woodin told me to day that he has bought the De Lay place on the Woodtick Road and expects to move there by April 1st. 03/07/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked to day. 03/08/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 03/09/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 03/10/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Murkden{??} in Manchura has fallen to the Japanese and people look for the end of the war now. 03/11/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 03/12/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Verder preached at Mill Plain Chapel. 03/13/{1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory of Rogers & Hamilton on Griggs Street drawing the water out of the pipes etc. and making preperations {preparations} to abandon the shop. 03/14/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory of Rogers and Hamilton. 03/15/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at Rogers & Brother factory. 03/16/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at Rogers & Bro.'s this forenoon and at Rogers and Haniltons this afternoon. 03/17/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory of Rogers & Hamilton to day. This is St. Patricks day. 03/18/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. The finishing department started to day to work Saturdays for the first time this year. This is Agnes Able's birthday, 26 years old. 03/19/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Moffelt{?} of Waterville preached at the Chapel. Mort Pierpont's birthday, 21 years old. 03/20/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. A lot of men began work getting the poles ready for the trolley wire to day. 03/21/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03/22/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked in the factory. This evening Mary and I took supper at Charles Monroe's. The workmen have set the trolley poles on the North side of the road nearly to my house. 03/23/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 03/24/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory. 03/25/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 03/26/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. 03/27/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03/28/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 03/29/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The trolley men were putting up poles in front of my house to day. The Ladies Union gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening which I attended. 03/30/1904 {1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Susia{?} and Mr. Whitikes{?} of Boston came to our house and engaged board to come tomorrow morning. They are foremen on the new trolley road. 53 Italians came yesterday. 03/31/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. The boarders came this morning. Mother Pierpont went up to Charlie's to day after staying here over three months. 04/01/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 04/02/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. Vernon Abel was confermed {confirmed} at St. Johns Church this forenoon and Clara French at Trinity this evening. 04/03/{1905} (Monday) Worked moving the sheds opposite the factory to day. Bertha French began working at the pin factory in Oakville to day. There was a fire that burned over the lots between the Plank Road and East Main St. near Mad River. They called out the fire steamer from town to put it out. 04/04/1905 (Tuesday) I worked this day at the factory of Rogers & Brother moving the horse sheds that stand opposite the office, so they will stand parallel with the street. I ordered 300 ft. of 3/4" cotton woven hose pipe of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., price 9 cts. per ft. 04/05/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 04/06/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Susia began keeping his horse{?} in my barn to day. 04/07/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 04/08/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory this day as usual. Came home and Frank and I welded the axles for the hose{??} east we are building. 04/09/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Reed of the colored baptist church preached at the Chapel to day. After service, Ruth, Margaret, Clara French and Irving drove out the Meriden Road to Arthur Pierpont's and Irving had a talk with him about enlisting in Co. A 2nd. Regt. C. N. G.{???} We then drove to the rock cut near Ed Weltons where we saw a steam drill at work. Then in the Plank Road and saw the locomotive which has arrived last night and then home. 04/10/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory this day raising the roof of the 40 ft. horse shed. 04/11/1905 (Tuesday) I worked to day at carpenter work at the factory. 04/12/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Christian Endever {Endeavor} Society held a business meeting and afterwards an entertainment in the Chapel. There were about eighteen at the business meeting. The entertainment consisted of gessing {guessing} on advertisement pictures, i.e. look at the picture and gess {guess} what it advertised. There were about fifty pictures and Miss Faterm{??} gessed {guessed} the largest number and received a box of candy as a prize. Thn many of the young ladies carred {carried??} baskets of eatibles which were auctioned off and I happened to buy Margarets. The gentleman who bought the box was supposed to divide its contense {contents} with the lady who furnished it. They raised over six dollars, which it was voted to keep as a nuculus {nucleus} for a fund to buy library books with. My father is 75 years old to day. 04/13/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 04/14/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 04/15/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This is Mother's birthday, 71 years old. We went down home and had supper there in honor of the event. 04/16/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Very cold and a little snow. 04/17/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. They laid 1200 feet of rails on the new trolley road. Began at the edge of Otter[??} Swamp, this side of the Horse Brook and laid west, east of said point{??}. They are laid to the Cemetery at East Farms. 04/18/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 04/19/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I received my weekly pay to day, 15.00. 04/20/{1905} (Thursday) Worked as usual to day. Fred Thompkins and Milan Northrop have sold their places on the Plank Road to the City for the park to take possession. Northrop got 3,500.00 and Thompkins about 2,300.00. Mrs. Augustus Moshier died yesterday aged 55 years. Died of the sickness known as plurel{??} pneumonia. 04/21/{1905} (Friday) This is Good Friday and the factories do not work. Got up this morning at the usual time and ate breakfast with Mr. Susia and Mr. Whitiker who went to work as usual on the trolley road. Mr. Susia had a general oversight over the building of this end and Mr. Whitiker has charge of building the stone arch near the East Farms Cemetery. After breakfast, Irving and I sawed up a lot of logs with the crosscut saw, after which we went down to the lot west of the swamp west of James Porter's barn and ploughed for potatoes till about four o'clock when it began to rain and it continued to rain hard the rest of the day. Mrs. Moshier was buried this afternoon. 04/22/{1905} (Saturday) I worked this morning on a little hose cart I am making. Then went to ploughing and finished the piece I began yesterday. Frank then harrowed it and we then furrowed it out, which took till nearly five o'clock. We then came home and Father came and we tried the little fire engine we had made. Father was pleased as it worked like one which he used to belong to{?}. We then went out by the Calvary Cemetary {Cemetery} Gate and saw them lay the connecting rail so now the rails are laid out to the cross road near the East Farms Station. 04/23/{1905} (Sunday) "Easter Sunday". This morning I went to Church at the Second Congregational. Mr. Davenport preached. On the afternoon, I attended service at the Chapel. Mr. Davenport officiated there also. The attendance was large and the service nice. After service, Margaret, Florence Abel, Minnie Lewis and I went for a ride out along the line of the new Cheshire trolley to Cheshire and back over Dicks Road home. 04/24/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 04/25/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked as usual. 04/26/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Haywood preached at the Chapel to night. 04/27/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 04/28/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 04/29/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Paid Mr. Camp 30.00. Bought of D.B. Wilson 2 bags plaster for 1.50, 1 {??} potatoes of I.D{??}. Spencer, 90 cts., one bag oats 1.10. 04/30/{1905} (Sunday) Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel. Mary and I went with Iva and Wm. Gillette to High Rock Grove, Beacon Falls and Pines Bridge. 05/01/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05/02/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 05/03/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory as usual to day. 05/04/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 05/05/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 05/06/{1905} (Saturday) Worked as usual to day at factory. 05/07/{1905} (Sunday) This morning we went to church at the cummunion {communion} service. Clifton Heaton joined the church (Second Congregational). This afternoon Margaret and I went to Uncle Goldsmith's and got a lot of curosities {curiosities} of Willie{?} that he had gathered from all parts of the world. We then went to the Chapel and attended service. Rev. Mr. Harris officiated. After service as I was backing the horse, out of the shed Kathalene {Kathleen} Judd came and told us that Mr. Lee's{??} house was on fire. I drove up there fast taking Hiram Abel, Margaret, Amy, George Hanson, and Bob Beckwith. We found William Mc Grath's barn in ashes and, and a cinder had blown over the river to Mr. Lee's house and set the roof on fire, but Vernon Abel climed {climbed} up the gable{?} shingles with a pail of water and put it out. It burned a hole in the roof. 05/08/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. This evening we went to Hamilton Hall and fitted up my currosities {curiosities} for exhibition. 05/09/{1905} (Tuesday) I spent this day at Hamilton Hall arranging my exibit {exhibit} of Curos and collecting them from others who loned {loaned} them to me. 05/10/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked this day at the factory. The Chapel fair opened this evening at Hamilton Hall. The attendence was large. I had a fine collection of curiosities on exbition {exhibition}. 05/11/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Attended the fair this eve. 05/12/{1905} (Friday) Worked painting on the inspecting room of the factory. We are to paint the whole plant green. {05/13/1905} (Saturday) Worked. {05/14/1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley{??} preached at the MIll Plain Chapel this P.M. 05/15/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day painting the inspecting and south side of the polishing rooms. The 60 ton locomotive made several trips up and down past my place to day. 05/16/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Agnes Abel is sick and did not work to day or yesterday. Charles Cass planted his potatoes to day. 05/17/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05/18/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mary and Irving have gone to Watertown to a Grange meeting. The New Mill Plain Schoolhouse is nearly completed. 05/19/1905 (Friday) Worked wiring the{??} and piping the large desk in the main office to day. This evenign Nelson Dingwell called and we looked the shop over in regard to setting it down three feet. It is now three ft. 6" higher then the trolley tracks. He wants $265.00{??} to do the job. This evening a number of Mattatuck boys came and practiced for Decoration Day. 05/20/{1905} (Saturday) Worked painting Mr. Tobins new office and putting in the shipping{??} room and Rogers & Hamiltons water closet. 05/21/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalter, the new methodist minister of Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, I carried Mary out to Mother Pierpont's and then with Frank and Margaret went over to Suttons cut and saw Cliff Whittiker fire 12 rock blasts and a mine that blew up a whole bank of earth and hard-|pan. They dug four holes or tunnels into the face of the bank for a distance of 10 feet and in these they placed 150 sticks of diamite {dynamite} and then packed mud and clay on it and tamped{??} the holes full again and fired them with a battery. The sight was grand. Earth black, red, and grey was thrown into the air in every direction 100 ft, togather {together} with rocks, stumps, bushes, trees etc. This, with the cloud of white smoke, made an interesting sight. We then got our team and started home, stopping at East Farms and getting Mary. As we were coming to the arch at Wedges, we saw people looking from the new trolley track down on to the Plank Road and seeing a cloud of dust, we climbed the embankment and saw Co. A. 2 Regt. C.N.Y. {??} in heavy marching order going to summit to encamp for the night and to spend tomorrow as field-|day. We jumped into the team and drove as possible and came onto the road ahead of them at E. Farms Station and went to George Falmaye's where we put the horse under the shed and waited for them. They left the Plank Road at Mintie's{??} and marched west and into the lots to the south where they put up their shelter tents and built several fires, it being cold and by this time it was dark, so we started home which we reached about 9 o'clock. 05/22/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day putting in Mr. Hayden's water closet and repairing the heavy Peck{?} lifter drop. There are several cases of scarlet fever about Mill Plain, little George Hitchcock, one of the Warren children, a child of Mr. Beckwith's, and one of the Henesey children on the Plank Road. 05/23/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory at water closet and painting the trimming rooom bridge. 05/24/{1904} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory painting nearly all day. This evening Frank and I repaired a Breed weeder and intend to use it on our potatoes in the morning. 05/25/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory painting skylights nearly all day. This morning Irving, Frank and I went down and ran the Breeds weeder over our potatoes. They elected the same officers at the Chapel last night that they had last year. 05/26/{1905} (Friday) Worked painting ventilators etc. to day. 05/27/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory, painting windows on the trimming room this forenoon and dressing the wood work in the closet in the main office this afternoon. 05/28/{1905} (Sunday) This morning the first trolley car passed my house. It was the construction car and had a platform car in front containing a large coil of trolley wire. As the cars moved along, the wire unwound and workmen fastened it to the cross wires overhead. They put up about one mile of wire. It reached from the bridge over Mad River to Wilson Pierponts and back again. Got home at about quarter to eight. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mary, Irving, Clara French and I went out the Plank Road for a short drive. We went to Summit and across to the Cheshire Road and home. 05/29/1905 (Monday) Worked painting windoes {windows} on the trimming shop to day. 05/30/1905 (Tuesday) Decoration Day. This morning the Mattatuck Drum Band left the bridge at 7.37 and went to Oakville on the trolley and there took the steam cars to Watertown where we took part in the Memorial exercises. We marched from the station to the town hall, where the lines formed soon after 9 o'clock. It consisted of Marshal, Mattatuck Drum Band, Firemen, School Children, Verterans in bus, speakers of the day in cariage {carraige}, and citizens in carraiges. We marched from Town Hall to Town Cemetery, to Evergreen Cemetery, to Town Hall. At the Town Hall the exercises were as follows, Song by Mrs. Grannis "Star Spangled Banner", Prayer by Chaplain Rev. V. Mac Nicoll, Song by Quartette, "Kellers American Hymn", Adress by Thomas F. Divine, Song by Mrs. R.S. Mary, {???} to night{???} Roll of Honor by Secretary John L. Scott, Song by Quartette, "Vacant Chair", Song by Quartette and Audience, "America" Benediction. There were with the Drum Band, Irving Miller, Major Chas{?} Cass, Fred Lund, Clifton Heaton, and Harry Buckingham., "Fifers". Joe Pierpont, Fred Williams and Stewart Judd, Bass Drummers. James Olcott, Clarence Brown, Bob Beckwith, Gardener{?} Hall and C.S. Miller, snare drummers. A party of young ladies and young men also went from Mill Plain. 05/31/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked painting windows to day. 06/01/1905 (Thursday) Worked painting cornace {cornice} on trimming room. 06/02/1905 (Friday) Worked painting on trimming room. James Porter and his wife were married 60 years ago yesterday and have lived togather {together} ever since. {06/03/1905} (Saturday) Worked repairing the electric shandilier {chandelier} in the office and painting on the front of the making room. 06/04/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This morning Frank and I drove out the Meriden Road and up to Tood's{??} saw mill where we looked at a lot of slabs, and then out and across the gravel dam to Sam Samuelsons but we did not see him as he had gone away. We then drove home stopping at East Farms and saw Mort Pierpont's cellar for his new house. This afternoon after sevice, Frank Howland, Margaret, Ruth and I drove out the Plank road to Gillette Corners and got John Mass and with his wife Ruby, and little girl we went over to the cave where in early times the Indians kept a girl hid for a long time, hoping to get a ransom but she was finally rescued by the whites. We then drove down through Mixville and home. 06/05/{1905} (Monday) Worked hubbing in a large ladle die, and painting. We hoed our pootatoes this evening. 06/06/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked painting 4 hours this forenoon and piping this afternoon, as it rained. 06/07/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at odd jobs about the shop as it was stormy. 06/08/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at painting at the factory one half day. After work Frank and I went to the Waterbury Lumber and Coal Co's. and got a load of lumber. 06/09/{1905} (Friday) Ringling's Brothers Circus is in town to day and there is no work as nearly all the factories have shut down. This morning early, Irving, Frank and Clara French went down to the Nangatuck depot to see them unlode {unload} the circus cars, and at ten, Mary, Frank, Raymond and I went to see the parade. We saw it come in West Main Street. It was a large parade, over a mile in length, consisting of many chariots, one of which was drawn by 24 gray horse, 4 abrest {abreast}. Another was drawn by 20 Shetland ponies, 4 abrest {abreast}. There were 25 elephants and a large number of camils {camels} etc. After the parade had passed, we went to the grounds south of West Main Street next to the Nangatuck River ,back of the car barns, and went round the tents and into a side show where were exibited {exhibited} Japanese and Russian war scenes. We (Ray, Frank, Stella Benham, Carrie Benham and I) came to the center and we found Mary, and came home, where we had dinner and then I worked on the new engine house that we were building till evening when we, Frank, Ray and I, went to the circus. They had three rings, and there was so much to see that I have forgotten nearly all as I am sleepy. 06/10/{1905} (Saturday) Worked painting on the factory to day. 06/11/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I stayed home. This forenoon I went out the trolley line to Suttons cut. They expect to begin laying the rails tomorrow east of Ed Weltons. 06/12/1905 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 06/13/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this day painting the burnishing shop. 06/14/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked painting the burnishing shop. Helen, Laura and Mable Gillette, three sisters, were maried this afternoon. 06/15/1905 (Thursday) Worked painting on the factory all day. 06/16/{1905} (Friday) Worked painting on the factory. Had School meeting tonight and elected Henry Judd Committee {??}, Mark L. Warner Clerk, Martin Pond Treasurer, and John F. Gallagher Tax Collector. There was a large attendence at the meeting. 06/17/{1905} (Saturday) Worked painting the factory. 06/18/{1905} (Sunday) Went with B.F. Howland out on the old town bound looking after the Peter Gilkey cellar. 06/19/{1905} (Monday) Worked painting on the shop to day. 06/20/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory at odd jobs. This evening saw the night gang that is working under Clif Whittiker beyond Calvary Cemetery digging away the bank. They carry it in train to the other side of the Cheshire line. 06/21/1905 (Wednesday) Worked about the shop at odd jobs as it rained. I went to town and saw Dentist Brewster about having my teeth filled and fixed. He said that it would cost from 15.00 to $20.00 and I am to go to his office next Monday afternoon. (Margin note: Tony Petti) Tony Petti sent me his figures for stonework about my shop, 120.00. Mr. Dingwell's figures for lowering it is 265.00. This is Irving's 19th birthday and Father, Mother, Mr. and Mrs. Susia came to supper in honor of the event. Will Gillette and Iva intended to come but could not as he has to stay in the Cort {Court} House with the three prisoners who murdered old Mr. Lochwood over near the Park Road. 06/22/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 06/23/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory, went to Woodtick this evening to see Chas Tuttle. 06/24/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Ploughed out my potatoes this evening. 06/25/{1905} (Sunday) Childrens' day at the Chapel. Dr. Davenport talked to the children and read a story. Margaret and I went to Woodtick and saw Chas Tuttle. 06/26/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory this forenoon till half past twelve. Then I went to Dr. Brewster's dentist rooms on Bank Street and had him treat two dead teeth and fill one which took him till quarter to six. I then came home and finished hoeing my potatoes. 06/27/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day painting and taking down awnings on the office. Three of Taylors painters came to work to day. To night is the election of officers of the Christian Endever {Endeavor} Society. Mary and the girls have gone. 06/28/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day till 12.30, then went to Dr. Brewster and he worked at my teeth till 5.30. Came home on the trolley and after supper, took Mary and went up to John Gallagher's and paid my school tax of $5.00. It is said that they laid the last rails on the Waterbury and Cheshire trolley line yesterday. 06/29/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 06/30/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. A train load of the Italians who work on the trolley line were sent to Derby to night to work on some concrete piers they are putting in there. 07/01/1905 (Saturday) I worked at the factory till 12.30 then went to Dr. Brewster and had him work on my teeth. Paid him $10.00. A new trolley car went out over the new line tonight. This is the first car out. The factory shut down to night for vacation. 07/02/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Margaret and I drove out the Plank Road and through the Notch-|in-| the-|Rocks to Pecks Lane which we went up and in through Mase's{??} farm and home. The rails are laid all the way to Cheshire and they were putting up the trolley wire at Summit. The steam shovel is working a little this side of the Notch-|in-|the-|Rocks and one engine carries the dirt to Summit and the other carries it to Cheshire. 07/02/1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel. After service, Margaret and I drove over to Cheshire by way the Plank Road, saw them putting up the trolley wire at Summit. We went over through the Notch-|in-|the-|Rocks and turned up Peeks Lane to Frank Slopers. 07/03/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/04/1905 (Tuesday) Band, Bang, Bang, Pop, Pop, Pop all day long. Forth {Fourth} of July is passing. There has been a grand parade in Waterbury to day for the first time since 1865 (on the 4th). There were 7 devisions (divisions) composed of local organizations. The Mattatuck Drum Band headed the fifth division and we had a very warm march. Govonor {Governor} Roberts and Staff were here. This evening there was a fine display of fire works, given near the Waterville road. Frank, Ray and I went to see it. We drove up the Watertown road. 07/05/{1905} (Tuesday) {Wednesday} Worked to day at the factory. 07/06/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory this forenoon thill 12.30, then went to Dr. Brewster's and he finished fixing my teeth, charged 14.00. Agnes Abel started this morning for Spenser{??}, Mass. Bertha and Clara French went to New Milford. 07/07/{1905} (Friday) Worked linig up the trimming room shaft{??}. Clyde came home from Coledge {College} at Easton to spend his vacation. 07/08/1905 (Saturday) Worked lining trimming room shaft. 07/09/{1905} (Sunday) Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. Clif Whitiker left this afternoon at 5 o'clock for Boston where he is to take charge of a gang of telephone pole men. 07/10/1905 (Monday) Worked on the trimming room shaft. Clyde went to work for the Conn. Railway and Lighting Company to day, as conductor on the Oakville and East Main line. 07/11/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. The hand burnishers came in to work to day. To night Clyde, Irving and I went out to Summit and saw the place where the track is settleing {settling}. It is down about three feet and the hole is said to be 27 ft. deep and about 75 ft. long. 07/12/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/13/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/14/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/15/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/16/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Wagner preached at the Chapel to day. 07/17/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The factory started up to day. 07/18/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07/19/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Bertha and Clara French returned home from Northville and South Britain yesterday. 07/20/{1905} (Thursday) Worked to day in the factory. Agnes Abel returned from Spenser, Mass. where she has been spending her vacation to day. Her sister, Mrs. Allen Burgess, had a boy baby yesterday. 07/21/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 07/22/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. William Gillette and Iva returned home from Detroit to night where they have been visiting brother Fred. 07/23/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 07/24/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 07/25/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. The machine burnishing room started up to day. 07/26/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Mr. Lease's baby died last night. 07/27/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Clara is 40 years old to day, had a birthday party. 07/28/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Lease's baby was buried to day. 07/29/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Charles Cass went to Marion to day and Monday he starts for New Hampshre {Hampshire} with his family where he intends to stay till cold weather, hoping to improve his wife's health. She is sick with consumption. 07/30/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Brooks of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Clyde came home this morning at about 2.30. He had been conductoring {conducting} on a special trolley car, and got to his room at midnight. Soon after he was awakened by the cry of fire and opening his blinds, found the livery stable adjoining only two feet away in flames. He gave the alarm and got the people out of the block and the firemen put the fire out, but his room was all wet and the windows burned away on the side next to the stable. There were eight horses burned to death. He boards on Gilbert Street. 07/31/{1905} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. The trolley company began digging in my yard this forenoon. 08/01/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 08/02/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Miss Jessie Pond was married this afternoon to Mr. Cornell. 08/03/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory till three o'clock bricking {breaking?} up the door and windows in John Reardon's (the watchman) house. Then came home because I was not feeling well. 08/04/{1905} (Friday) An eventful day. I was aroused at 2.45 this morning by Will Gillette who called me up and told me that Mr. Wales, superintendent of the trolley company, called him and said that Clyde had been arrested and was held for $5000 bail in the police station. We hurried to town and saw Charles Pierpont, George Connor and Ralph Blakeslee and asked them to give bonds for his appearance in the City Court. They all greed {agreed} and we went to the police station where Ralph Blakeslee the whole bond saying $5000. I'd give 45,000 for that boy. Clyde was released, and we shook his hand and returned home, got breakfast and went back to town at 7 o'clock getting ready for the court. In the meantime, Will Gillette and Mr. Blakeslee saw attorney Megs (the prosecutor) and concluded that as the facts were as follows, that Clyde and Harry Coleman, his moterman, were coming in West Main Street at 12 o'clock, they saw the reflection of a fire on a building and they ran{?} to it and saw a barrel of paper etc. standing in a corner ablase {ablaze}. Clyde pulled the barrell away and stamped the fire out, while Coleman went for an officer. Soon (about three minutes) another officer Donohue came with a man with a shot gun and placed Clyde under arrest. The policeman left the man with the gun to guard Clyde with orders to shoot him in the leg if he tries to run, while he went away and saw Chief Snagg who told him to do his duty. He came back and called a patroll {patrol} wagon and took Clyde to the police station. There was no case against him and the Court dismissed him. The morning paper (Republican) however came out with conspicuous head lines stating that the fire-|bug had been caught etc. which stured {stirred} people up very much and Clyde seemed to have the sympathy of many. 08/05/{1905} (Saturday) Yesterday afternoon I was invited to ride over to Cheshire on the new trolley road. The car ran from Waterbury center to the Waverly Inn in Cheshire in 32 minutes and we went to Dickermans corner in Milldale and made the return run in 9 minutes (4 miles). This day I have spent about home. This afternoon I repaired a wheel on my big wagon. B. F. Howland came to see me this afternoon and stayed to supper. 08/06/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I took Sidney Spender and Inez Beckwith, Irving also accompanied us, out to Gillette Corners and saw the Indian cave. We then drove out the Plank Road to Rag Hollow and through Mixville, home. 08/07/1905 (Monday) This day I repaired a pump at the Moshier place for William Atkinson for which he paid me $6.00. The State Rail Road Commesioners {Commissioners} went over the new Cheshire line to day. Ralph Blakeslee is drawing{?} the stones from the swamp at the foot of my lot. Miss Bessie Parks is staying at our house now. Night before last was her first. 08/08/{1905} (Tuesday) To day Frank, Raymond and I went to Hartford. We drove over to Milldale and left the horse at Mr. Nobles and took the trolley cars to Plainville thence to New Britain and to Hartford, fare 25 cts. At Hartford we saw the construction of the stone bridge that they are building across the Connecticut River, the large steam propeller fire engine etc., and I went to see Dr. Sweet about my lame foot. He did not know what the matter is, but told me to beat up an egg and stir in salt and bind it on my foot every night and also use some of his liniment three times a day for two weeks and then come and see him. 08/09/{1905} (Wednesday) To day I have staid about home, except I went to Ed Todds and bought 111 ft. of 2" chestnut plank for 2 cts. per ft. The Connecticut Railroad and Lighting Company started their cars on the new road to Mt. Carmel to day. The first car left the center at 5.45 and they have been running every 1/2 hour since. 08/10/{1905} (Thursday) Staid about home all day. Frank worked for the man that is building the new house below Mrs. Shannon's drawing stone for a well. About 5 o'clock, a Mr. Hull of Tarrington came and wanted to find the place where his father lived pryor {prior} to 1829. We went looking and he thought that it was the Martin Widge place. 08/11/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory till 3.30 when I came to my shop and met Mr. Albert B. Hill of New Haven who represents the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company in regard to lowering my shop. The cost will be about $600.00, six hundred dollars. He said that that he would give $300.00. Mary and the family went to a picnic at Burt Frisbies in Woodtick. 08/12/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The trolley cars to Mt. Carmel{?} ran of{??} 15 minute skegule {schedule} to day. 08/13/{1905} (Sunday) Mr. Mc Kinley prreached at the Chapel to day. The trolley cars are carrying crowds to New Haven to day. The East Main St. cars began running to Calvary Cemetary {Cemetery} to day. 08/14/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 08/15/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 08/16/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 08/18/1905 (Friday) Worked yesterday till 8 o'clock last night putting trusses under the bridge that crosses the ditch. To day I worked 10 hours. The Mill Plain Sunday School went to Compounce{??} to have their annual picnic. 08/19/1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Stoark and Mr. Mc Manns called at our house to see about taking up the front faucet{?} and grading the yard. 08/20/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalter of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. The trolley cars are running heavily ladened all day on the New Haven line. 08/21/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08/22/{1905} (Tuesday) Went to Hartford to day by trolley, fare 45 cts. each way. Saw Dr. Sweet, went to Capitol, saw G.D. Hine{?}. Saw{?} state board of education. Went to Springfield and back, fare 25 cts., came home. Started 7 S.M. back 4.40.{????} The Conn. Railway and Lighting Co. began grading in my yard, Mc Manns 1 man. 08/23/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the shop. Mc Manns had 5 men and boss working in my yard, one horse and cart. 08/24/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. There were 10 men and two teams at work in my yard to day. It rained this afternoon. Cousin Emma and Helen Drew from Ansonia came to day by trolley from their home via New Haven. 08/25/1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. There were 10 men and 2 teams at work in my yard to day. 08/27/1905 (Sunday) Yesterday I worked as usual. 10 men and 2 teams worked grading my yard. Last night Mary and I took the trolley and went to Cheshire, thence to Dickermans corner, thence to Lazy Lane, thence to Compounce, then to Bristol and staid over night with Brother Frank on High Street. This morning George Edwards came and took us to his home in Whigville where we staid till 6.50 when he carried us to the Railroad station in Bristol where we took the cars and came to Waterville and then came home by trolley. We had to get off at the Mattatuck factory as there was a car off the track having been struck by one of the New Haven cars. 08/28/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. There were 8 men, two carts and a boss at work in my yard to day. 08/29/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. There were ten men working grading my yard. 08/30/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. It rained nearly all day, but seven men worked a while and three more longer till near noon, grading. They took Olive Burgess to her home on Ward Street this afternoon and Agnes went there to live. Had a school meeting in the new school house this evening. We met in the old school house but adjourned to the new as all the desks and seats had been removed. 08/31/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Mr. Mc Manns had 7 men, the boss and one cart working in my yard to day. Mr. Hill called to see how the work was progressing. 09/01/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 7 men and boss worked in my yard to day. 09/02/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 6 men and boss worked in my yard this day. 09/03/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harris preached at the Chapel to day. 09/04/1905 (Monday) I worked at the factory 4 hours this forenoon packing the stem of the turbine waterwheel. Irving and Vernon Abel are in New York having gone there Saturday night, were going by trolley to New Haven and by boat from there. 09/05/{1905} (Tuesday) I staid home and worked putting back the fence in front of my plce. There were six Italians and Mr. Dwyer, the foreman. Irving came home from New York last night. School opened to day and was kept for the first time in the New Saw Mill Plains School House. Mr. Ward and Mr. Howland called last night. 09/06/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked grading about my house. Superintendent Stark of the Conn. Railway and Lighting Co. came and ordered Foreman Dwyer and his seven men to quit at noon which they did. Went to the Chapel to a peach festival this eve. 09/07/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory all day. Mr. Dingwell, house mover, William Knibbs, mason, and Henry Hotchkiss, joiner, met at my shop this evening to see about lowering the building. 09/08/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09/09/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 09/10/{1905} (Sunday) Went by trolley to Savin Rock to day. Started at about 11 A.M., back 9 P.M. Father, Mother, Wm. Gillette, Iva, Roll and Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Dinnisk{?}. Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Chapel. 09/11/1905 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Clyde left this morning for College at Easton where he is to study two years longer. 09/12/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 09/13/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. The Mad River Agricultural Society held its fair in the Grange Hall this afternoon opening at 4 o'clock with a baby show. 09/14/1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Fred Bowers dug about 19 bushels of potatoes to day. The Grange Fair was held to day in the lot between the David Shannon place and the Cemetary {Cemetery} and in the Grange Hall. There was an attendance of about 1,500. 09/15/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Fred Bowers dug 15 bushels of potatoes and I carried them down to Fathers to night. 09/16/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Fred Bowers dug 18 bu. of potatoes to day. Gave James Porter three bushels to pay for the land. 09/17/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fairchild of the Simonsville Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I went to Prospect and saw Mrs. Ecabert{??} Hitchcock this afternoon. 09/18/{1905} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Fred Bowers worked cleaning my shop cellar. A very wet day. 09/19/{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Recived {Received} a letter from Mr. Sewell to day. Fred Bowers worked cleaning my shop cellar. Rained all day. 09/20/1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Wet all day. 09/21/{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. It has been clear to day. 09/22/{1905} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Fred Bowers worked digging potatoes to day, dug 16 bushels. This is Mary's birthday, 45 years old. 09/23/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at home with Fred Bowers rebuilding the old fence by the oak tree in my yard. 09/24/{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Stancliff of Waterville preached at the Chapel. 09/25/{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Engineer Hill and Mr. Sewell called to see me at my shop about fixing it. They offered $350.00 which I did not take. 09/26/1905 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Had a heavy frost last night, the first. 09/27/{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This is my birthday, 47 years old. Morton{?} Pierpont and Jessie Garrigus were married at 4 o'clock at the bride's home this afternoon by the Rev. Dr. John Davenport. Irving and I went to Waterville and saw John Sewell about my shop property. I told him that I should not take less than $700.00 for the damage they caused and he said that it was up to Mr. Hill and he would telephone him tomorrow. Paid William Camp $36.00 interest on morgage {mortgage} note on my house. 09/28/{1905} (Thursday) Worked as usual at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society and they voted to call the corner where I lived Oak Corner and call the streets and roads about Mill Plain by their present names. 09/29/{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 09/30/{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Hill of New Haven called me up by telephone and we settled on the price of damage done to my shop property by the trolley company cutting down the street, by setting the amount at $440.00 for which he will send the check. 10/01/1905 (Sunday) This morning Frank, Irving, Margaret and I started and drove to George Edwards in Burlington where we staid till 4 o'clock. When we started for home, came by Compounce Pond. Rev. Mr. Salsman preached at the Chapel. 10\02\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. To day is City election. Ralph Blakeslee is Republican candidate for mayor, and Mr. Thames{?} the democrat. 10\03\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Mr.Thames{?} is elected mayor of the City of Waterbury over Ralph Blakeslee (Republican) by a majority of 582 votes. 10\04\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the Mill Plain Chapel and saw Inez Beckwith married to Sidney Spender by the Rev. De Witt Williams. This evening Irving and I went to Simonsville and saw Robert Somers who had just returned from Wallingford where he had attended a meeting of stockholders of the new Wallingford Metal Company. Met for the purpose of electing officers. Frank Welton is elected President. Mr. Cullenbeck of Wallingford, Secretary and Colonel Levenworth, Treasurer. I told Cousin Robert that I would put in $1000.00. 10\05\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to see Judge Gillette about drawing the deed of my shop property to Mrs. Larocque{?}. 10\06\1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory till 2.30 when I went to town to have the deeds drawn to sell my Carriage factory. Went to Judge Gillette's office where I was to meet Mrs. Larocque. Got there, but I found no one. Soon Lauren Carter came and said that he had $1000.00 for Mr. Larocque. He waited a while and went away. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Larocque came, and I went over to the City Hall to fing {find} Mr. Gillette. Found him over in the Courthouse. After a time we went to his office and called Mr. Carter, but Mr. Carter would not give the money to Mrs. Larocque untill {until} I held the property free from all incumberence {encumbrance}, so Mr. Gillette said come tomorrow afternoon and I am to have Edwin Welton there. I went and saw Mr. Welton at his home on Linden Street and he said that he would be at the Gillette Office at 4.30 tomorrow. Ralph Blakeslee is bailing his hay, has two stacks bailed already. 10\06{07}\1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day till 4 P.M. then went to Judge Gillette's Office where I met Mr. Welton, Mr. Carter, and Mr. and Mrs. Larocque came later having been detained on account of a fire on East Main Street. I signed a warranty deed conveying my shop property to Mrs. Larocque and Mr. Carter gave me a check for $1000.000 and Mrs. Larocque gave me a check for $16.00 and a bank note on Edward Scott for $80.00 and cash $904.00. I then paid Edwin Welton $1053.00 which I owed him, $870.00 on a mortgage note and the remainder interest. He then gave me the note and a Quit Claim deed, and also the old mortgage deed. Ralph Blakeslee has mowed his farm over the second time. Got more hay than I ever saw got before in a year. 10\08\{1905} (Sunday) I worked at the factory from 9 to 5.30 packing the cylinder head of the Brown Engine. George Henry of Cambridge, Martin Cunningham, the engineer and myself and John French worked. Professor David G. Porter died last evening at 6 o'clock of applexy {apoplexy}. Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. 10\09\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory till 9 o'clock this evening. This evening we repaired the Brown engine as the packing that we put in yesterday blew out. This noon I deposited in the Waterbury Savings Bank $867.00. 10\10\{1905} (Tuesday) Went to Hartford and saw Dr. Sweet. Went by trolley to Plainville and by third rail the rest of the way. Came home by trolley all the way. Stoped {Stopped} in Cheshire and saw Mr. Lanyon{?}, the town clerk. 10\11\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. About 7 o'clock John French came and said that they could not shut the gate to the waterwheel, so I went to the shop and found a large hole washed under the head rack, so we cannot use the wheel tomorrow. David Porter was buried to day. Rev. Mr. Haywood of the First Baptist Church officiated. 10\12\1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\13\1905 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\14\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Last night we brought up the saw table from the carriage shop. 10\15\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Walters preached at the Chapel to day. After service Mary and I went out and saw Mort Pierpont's house. It is nearly ready for plastering. 10\16\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day repairing the waterwheel which broke down this morning. 10\17\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\18\1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\19\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Margaret and I went to Prospect to an entertainment. Irving and Mr. Boyd went also. 10\21\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Shod the horse this evening. 10\22\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 10\23\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\24\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\25\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon at 4 o'clock as Mr. Willis Hall who has just built a house just east of the Cheshire line for his son Gardener, was driving by my house with a business wagon looded {loaded} with wood, while crossing the trolley track, a Cheshire car came and struck the horse and broke his leg, threw Mr. Hall over onto the wood and injured him considerable. It also broke the shafts{??}. Dr. Bland{?} came after an hour and a quarter and shot the horse. 10\26\1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\27\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\28\{1905} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\29\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalter preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\30\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 10\31\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this day. Wrote Mr. Hill of New Haven, asking him to send check for $440.00. 11\01\1905 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mary told me that Mrs. Burgess is to have her operation performed to day by Doctors Anderson and Graves. 11\02\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Irving went to the funeral of Colonel Schukes at New Haven this afternoon with the 2nd Regt. 11\03\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 11\04\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\05\1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Saalsman{?} preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This morning John French, Spenser Monroe, Mr. Bock, Irving and I took the trolley cars and went to Mansfields point in East Haven where we dug a lot of clams, oysters, mussels etc. and then fished a spell and came home. 11\06\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society. They voted to petition the City Board of Aldermen for two electric lights to be placed on the Meriden Road and one on the Southmaid Road. 11\07\1905 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day repairing electric lights, wires, etc., also making patterns, polishing wheels, etc.,etc. This evening I recived {received} a check from the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co. for $400.00 for damage done my shop and also $40.00 for work and new posts that I did on the fence in front of my house. This evening Irving and I dug holes for the new posts in the new clothes yard that we are making for Mary. 11\08\1905 (Wednesday) I worked in the factory to day ten hours. I signed receipt which read as follows, George J. Roberts, Contractor, Farifield Ave. , and Water St. Bridgeport, Conn. To Charles S. Miller Mill Plain, Waterbury, Conn. Date What For Amount Total Amount 1905 To payment towards lowering 11\1 East End Carriage Company's shop and any and all damages. It said Miller's shop property on East Main Street, Waterbury caused by change in grade of highway and constructing the Cheshire Street Railway. 400.00 to payment in full covering expenses of new posts changing fence, any and all damage caused by changing grade of highway and constructing the Cheshire Street Railway in front of said Miller's residence on East Main Street, Waterbury. 40.00 440.00 ------------------------------------------------------------Right of way Approved --------------------------------------------------------------- Payment Approved {Signature} EWP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recived {Received} pay November 8th 1905 From George J. Roberts, Contractor. Four hundred forty -----------------Dollars in full for above bill $440.00 Charles S. Miller Please receipt and return to E. W. Poole, Agent. 11\09\1905 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This noon I went to the Colonial Trust Company's Bank and had my check from the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co. cashed and took the cash to the Dime Savings Bank and deposited it. 11\10\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary, Irving, and I went to the Polis Theater to see the "Old Homestead". 11\11\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we worked grading the new clothes yard. Frank and Raymond went to Ed Todd's Saw Mill and got a load of slabs 81 ft. They paid him 5.00 for 2 1/2 {???} already bought. 11\12\1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Cousin Anna Pierpont, Margaret and I went for a ride over to West Peak in Hubbard Park but it was so haisy {hazy} that we could see but little, and it was getting dark so we came home. 11\13\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\14\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. We put up the clothes wires in the new yard to night. 11\15\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this day. 11\16\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Edward Scott paid me the amount of 80.00 of a note I held against him. I painted the new clothes posts red this evening. 11\17\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Cousin Marion Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Goshen came to visit us to day. Her health is poor and Dr. Wadhams advised her to stay away from home awhile. 11\18\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\19\{1905} (Sunday) At noon Mr Tobin came and told me that a fire plug blew out and had wet some of the main belts in the factory so I went and dried them by using hot sand, worked 3 1/2 hr. 11\21{20}\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\22{21}\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Henry Judd moved into the Johnson house last Thursday. They have drilled to a depth of 120 ft. in the Pine Grove Cemetery to day. The well at the new school has gone dry. 11\23{22}\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory making sectional polishing wheels for backing off spoons. This evening Ruth and I went to see Cousin Robert Somers who told me that the Wallingford Metal Co. are considering a proposition from the Meriden Board of Trade to locate in Meriden. 11\23\1905 (Thursday) I worked at the factory of Rogers and Bros. to day. 11\24\{1905} (Friday) Worked this day at the factory. Ralph Blakeslee has had a thrashing machine and a straw bailer at work at his farm to day. 11\25\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory till seven o'clock this evening. 11\26\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 11\27\{1905} (Monday) Worked as usual to day. 11\28\1905 (Tuesday) (Margin note: First snow) I worked at the factory to day as usual. The first snow fo {of} the season fell this afternoon when the ground was covered an inch deep. Frank and Raymond went down town this evening to carry a transparancy about the streets advertising Company A dance tomorrow evening. This Christian Endevor {Endeavor} Society give {gave] an entertainment at the Chapel this evening. Mary, Ruth and Marion Ovaitt [Oviatt] have gone. 11\29\1905 {Wednesday} Worked at the factory to day. Co. A. 2nd Regt. is giving a dance this eveing {evening} in their armory on Phoenix Ave. Irving has charge of the coat room, and Frank has gone to help. Ruth, Marion Ovaitt [Oviatt], Margaret and Mr. Boyd have gone from here. Will Goldsmith came to day and engaged 1 bu. of potatoes for tomorrow to be delivered at the Forester's Hall. It has rained nearly all day. Frank went to the depot and got 125 ft. of woven garden hose which came by freight on the New England Rail Road fron {from} the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. 11\30\{1905} (Thursday) This is Thanksgiving day, and the Somers family met at the Foresters Hall in Mill Plain and observed the occasion with a dinner and dancing and singing music, etc., etc. 49 persons were present and all had a good time. 12\01\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory. The shop worked to night. Post Master Gurnesey has his new house nearly finished. It is located above Kilbournes on the West Wolcott Road. 12\02\1905 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I worked repairing my bob sleigh. 12\03\{1905} (Sunday) I staid about home, it being very rainy till four o'clock in the afternoon when Ruth and I took the Cheshire trolley cars and soon paid the conductor 5 cts. which took us to Cheshire line where we paid 10 cts. which took us to Cheshire. Here we found the Milldale car waiting, which we took and paid 5 cts. and rode to Milldale where we found the Southington car waiting which we boarded. Paid 5 cts. which took us to Lazy Lane where we paid 5 cts. which took us to Plainville where we boarded the New Britain car and road to White Oak Park on a transfer and then paid 5 cts. which took us to New Britain where we boarded the Hartford car and paid 10 cts. which took us to the City Hall in Hartford where we arrived at 6.25. We went to Goodwins Drug Store where I purchased a bottle of Dr. Sweet's Joint Liniment and then caught the same car and came home the same as we went arriving at 9 o'clock. 12\04\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\05\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\06\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The Forerster's {Forester's} Fair opened this evening at Hamilton Hall, Mill Plain. 12\07\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to town and bought a pair of shoes. 12\08\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\09\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Marion Ovaitt [Oviatt] returned from a visit to Bristol where she has been for several days. The Forerster's {Forester's} Fair ended this night. It has been held four evenings. 12\10\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. About 8 inches of snow fell during the night and this morning, Irving took the snow plough and made a path up the Frost Road, in the Meriden, down the Southmaid, and up the Cheshire, home. I took the 12 o'clock trolley car and went to Bristol, 2 hours ride, 40 cts. fare. Saw brother Frank and came home at six. 12\11\{1905} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. (James Lauton died in Hacketts saloon this forenon, the 12th.) (Walter Morse's house on Mitchell Ave. burned this forenoon, the 12th.) William Howd has moved into Luther Bradley's house to day. 12\12\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\13\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this day. This evening the Ladies gave and entertainment and supper at the Chapel. There was a good number present. Dr. Davenport was there and thanked them for a bed quilt that they made him a present of. 12\14\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\15\{1905} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys and girls have gone up to Frosts pond skating. I saw by the paper that there were 3,318 school children in Waterbury. Of this number, 500 do not attend school. 12\16\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 12\17\1905 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fairchild preached at the Chapel to day. 12\18\{1905} (Monday) Worked this day at Rogers & Brothers Silver Factory on Silver Street. 12\19\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening I began trimming the Chapel for Christmas. Lillie Jones broke her leg last night while skating at Frost's Pond. 12\20\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Clyde came home from Colleage {College} to spend the Christmas vacation. This evening we worked a tthe Chapel. 12\21\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. The weather is rather mild. This evening we worked trimming the Chapel. 12\22\{1905} (Friday) I staid home and trimmed the Chapel for Christmas. 12\23\{1905} (Saturday) I worked nearly all day trimming the Chapel. Clyde, Margaret, and the small boys helped me. 12\24\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport at the Chapel this P.M. After service he went out J.H. Garrigus{??} and married Annie Garrigus to Lewis Hitchcock. We went to service at the Second Congregational Church this evening. 12\25\1906 {1905} (Monday) Merry Christmas. We got up all at the same time and came down stairs, Raymond first then Frank, Ruth, Margaret, Irving, Clyde, Mary and myself. We found our stockings loaded and lots of presents that could not be got inside. After breakfast the boys and girls went up to Frost's Pond skating but I dug out a ditch in the swamp. At 12.30 we all went down to Fathers where we had Christmas dinner. There were present Father, Mother, Frank and his wife Gussie from Bristol, I and my wife and children, Mary and her husband Rolland Jenner of Cae{?} Street and children Louese {Louise?} and Effel. 12\26\{1905} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon Mr. Mulhern's chimney took fire and Mrs. Mulhern put it out as she supposed by putting salt on it at the upper stove pipe hole. Soon Mr. Mulhern saw as he was coming down from the Cemetery that the house was on fire. He got a ladder and Mr. Smith, the grocery man placed it on the roof of the varanda {veranda} and climbed up the volley{??} of the roof and with pails of water, put out the fire on the out side and they went up in the attic and put it out there. In the meantime the boys telephoned for the firemen, and the steamer and hose wagon came out, but Clyde headed them off at Tom Mills' house. 12\27\{1905} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The factory shut down all but the polishing room. 12\28\{1905} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. The weather is very mild with no snow. 12\29\{1905} (Friday) Worked to day as usual. Sheriff Doroughty came to the shop and summoned me to report in New Haven next Tuesday at the Superior Cort {Court} to do juror duty. 12\30\{1905} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The polishing room shut down to night. This closes everything except the packing room. 12\31\{1905} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chpel this afternoon. This evening the Choir gave a Can-ta ta. //end of 1905 entries// [CSM Journal for 1906] 01\01\1906 (Monday) This morning Frank and I went out to Todds Saw Mill on the "Old Bound Line Road" and got a load of slabs. Clyde and I sawed them up. 01\02\{1906} (Tuesday) I went to New Haven and served on juror duty in the Civil side of the Superior Cort {Court}, in a case of one Douglas against Galway in a suit to recover ownership of a pair of horses, three hacks{?} ro carriages etc. We gave the verdict to the plantiff and awarded him $650.00 damages for the defendant keeping them 10 1/2 months. Mrs. James Strovell who lives on the Stilson Road died of a shock and appoplexy {apoplexy} early yesterday morning. 01\03\1906 (Wednesday) Went to New Haven this morning. Sat all day as juror on a case of Linch against Landey, but it is not finished. Came home on the car that leaves New Haven at 5.18, got home at 7. It is raining and the ground is covered with ice. There has been but one snow fall this winter so far, and that very light. Clyde left this morning for Colleage {College}. 01\04\{1906} (Thursday) Attended court at New Haven to day. 01\05\{1906} (Friday) Attended court at New Haven to day. Brought in verdict for plaintiff and damage of $25.00 in case of Lynch against Landy. This case has been on for the last two days and a half. Started on a case of Johnson against Opper this afternoon. Four day at New Haven @ 3.00 = 12.00, sixty miles travel @ .06, $3.60 + 12.00 = 15.60 due. 01\06\1906 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day on the general repairs. Sheriff Wm. Gillette placed an attachment on the grocery store of Smith & Wood in Hamilton Hall, Mill Plain this morning. 01\07\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Nichols preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This morning we attended worship at the Second Congregational Church. Margaret joined the church and became a member. 01\08\{1906} (Monday) Worked in the factory to day. 01\09\{1906} (Tuesday) Went to New Haven to day. The case of Johnson vs. Opper was again taken up and was decided in favor of the plaintiff Johnson and to recover 30.00 cost. The lawyers were Hamilton for Johnson and Stoddard and Goodhart for defendant. At four o'clock the case of Rogers appeal for Probace was taken up and I was not drawn on the panel. 01\10\{1906} (Wednesday) Attended court in New Haven. The Rogers case was finished at 4 o'clock in favor of the defendant, and the case of Adams against Lindsley was started. I am drawn on this case. The attournies {attorneys} for the Rogers case were Newton, Church, {??} Hewitt for plaintiff and Bristol, Stoddard, Beach $ Fisher for defendant. 01\11\1906 (Thursday) Went to New Haven to day. The case against Lindsley was settled when we came into court and we were excused till two o'clock. Charlie Tuttle, Ed Holmes (jurors from Wolcott) and I went over and examined the curosities {curiosities} in the Peabody Museum, which a part of Yale College. We staid there till time for dinner, when I went to Childs Resterant {Restaurant} on Church Street and had an oyster stew, .20 cts. When Court opened at 2 o'clock, the Case of Semon, Trustee vs. Adams was opened and I was thrown off, and Judge Thair excused me so I came home. This evening Frank, Raymond, Irving and I went up to the Chapel and took down the Christmas greens, and we brought them home and burned them in the garden. 01\12\{1906} (Friday) This morning I went to New Haven and attended the Superior Court. At noon the Judge excused me till ten o'clock Tuesday morning. I went out and took dinner, and then took the trolley car at the corner of State and Chapel and went to Wallingford via Fairhaven, Mounaese{??}, and North Haven. I walked from Wallingford Center to Wallice's factory where I took the trolley for Meriden. These roads seemed to run through an interesting country but it was so foggy that I could see but little. From Meriden I came to Milldale, then Cheshire and home. Four days at the Superior Court @ 3.00 = $12.00 60 miles travel @.06 per mile 3.60 + 12.00 = 15.60 add last week 15.60 = 31.20. 01\13\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day on general repairs making up stands for the iron tubs in the wash rooms. 01\14\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Snow fell to the depth of four inches this morning and I have seen several sleighs, the first this winter. 01\15\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\16\{1906} (Tuesday) Went to New Haven to the Superior Court. The case of Semon{??} Trustee vs. Adams was decided this morning. C.S. Hamilton for Semon and Slade, Slade, & Slade for Adams. 01\17\{1906} (Wednesday) Went to New Haven and was put on the case of Williams against Egan of Waterbury. Took all the forenoon. Verdict in favor Williams and $640.10 damage awarded. This afternoon, the case of Garry against Wurr was on. We the jury were out from 3.30 till 6 o'clock. Verdict rendered for defendant. Ely & Barclay for Williams and Cole for Egan. Rosenburg for Garry, Rosenbluth for Wurr. 01\18\1906 (Thursday) Went to New Haven to day. The case of Russell against the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company was put on and we decided it in favor of the plaintiff with $700 damage. The lawyers were Hamilton and Walsh for the plaintiff and Hicks for defence. 01\19\{1906} (Friday) Went to New Haven to day and sat on the case of {?} Sandee & Morse vs. Woodruff. Court adjourned till next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. Four days at New Haven 12.00, travel 3.60 = 15.60 + 31.20 = $46.80. 01\20\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\21\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalters preached at the Chapel{?} this afternoon. To day has been very warm. I went to meeting without any overcoat and was very warm. Max Reed has sold his place and bought Frank Judd's place. 01\22\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day making a new kind of polishing wheel for Mr. Haywood who has taken charge of the polishing department. He came from Reid & Bartons, Providence R.I. 01\23\{1906} (Tuesday) I went to New Haven to day, the case of Morse & Candee vs. Woodruff. We decided in favor of the plaintiff and awarded him $500 damage. 01\24\{1906} (Wednesday) Went to New Haven. The case of Pricella vs. Cole was put on to day and I was not drawn as juror and Judge Thair excused me before noon. So I went to the Art Gallery at Yale, corner of Chapel and High Sts. and then went down to Bell dock and saw them unload coal and lumber from ships and barges, Left New Haven at 3.20 and came home by trolley, through Hamden and Cheshire. 01\25\1906 (Thursday) I went to New Haven and atteded the Superior Court but as the same case was on (Pricilla vs. Cole et. al.) we staid about the Court house till noon when we were excused and I came home. 01\26\{1906} (Friday) I went to New Haven. Found that the Juoriors {Jurors} found a verdict after being out from 4 to 6 o'clock for the plaintiff with 200 damage. Fitz Gerald & Wals for plaintiff. Paige, Banks & Hincks for the defendent {defendant}. This evening Frank P. Welton and Robert Somers called and I subscribed $1000 for the organization of a new German Silver and Brass Company to be organized Mar. 1st and the factory is to be located on the meadows on the Watertown road near the Buncker {Bunker} Hill Chapel. Four days this week at New Haven @ 3.00 per day, 12.00 30 miles @ .12 cts. per mile 3.60 = 15.60 add 46.80 = 62.40. 01\27\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\28\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. John Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. 01\29\1906 (Monday) I worked at the Chapel {factory???} to day as usual. 01\30\{1906} (Tuesday) I went to New Haven to day and sat on the case of Mrs. Geelan, Administrator against the Benedict & Company coal dealers. This case is now ready for the Judge's charge. They have the drilled well finished in the Pine Grove Cemetery and have taken the drilling machine to Wolcott. They went down 176 feet and claim to have a flow of 12 gallons of water per minute. 01\31\{1906} (Wednesday) I went to New Haven this morning. The Geeland vs. Benedict case was decided in favor of the defendant. The Doctor George Leiniger Chemical Co. vs. Peck was next called and I was drawn off the jury. 02\01\1906 (Thursday) Went to New Haven this morning. Was excused at noon. Called at Mr. Alexander Doolittle's at Brooks Vale this afternoon. 02\02\{1906} (Friday) Went to New Haven this morning. Excused at noon. Stoped {Stopped} at Mt. Carmel this afternoon. At New Haven 4days this week @ 3.00 = 12.00 30 miles @.12 3.60 + 12.00 = 15.60 + 62.40 = 78.00. 02\03\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 02\04\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Reed (colored) preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02\05\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\06\1906 (Tuesday) Went to New Haven to day. The case of Docotr George Lenninger Chemical Co. vs. Peck was decided in favor of the defendant. The lawyers were Wright for plaintiff and Thomas for defendant. 02\07\{1906} (Wednesday) Cold this morning about zero, but no ice cut yet this winter and no sleighinhg except one day. I went to New Haven but the case that was to have been tried to day was settled out of Court last night, so we were out of business and came home. 02\08\{1906} (Thursday) Went to New Haven but was drawn off the jury. Judge Thair excused me at noon. I went over to Yale Colleage {College} and saw Clifton Heaton. Took the 2.eight{2.08??} car home. Last night I went with Sheriff Wm. Gillette to the store in the Forersters Hall and got my heavy scales. He posted a notice that the goods would be sold Feb. 21st. The Ladies Union held an entertainment and supper at the Chapel last evening, cleared about $12.00. 02\09\1906 (Friday) I went to New Haven to day, and the case of Raynor against the City of New Haven was begun and I am on the case. Account 4 days @3.00 12.00 30 miles @.12 3.60 = 15.60 + 78.00 = 93.60 02\10\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\11\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Wolatencroft preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02\12\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 02\13\{1906} (Tuesday) I went to New Havem this morning and found that the case of Raynor vs. City of New Haven was withdrawn. But the case of Jacobi vs. Austin of Wallingford was put on and I am on this case. 02\14\{1906} (Wednesday) Went to New Haven to day. The case that was put on yesterday was decided in favor of plaintiff with $425.00 damage. The case of Clark vs. Dunn was put on but I was drawn off the jury. 02\15\{1906} (Thursday) Attended the Su[erior Court at New Haven. The case of Clark against Dunn was decided for the plaintiff. The case of Clark against Unmae et als was put on. I am on the Jury. 02\16\{1906} (Friday) At New Haven to day. Clark vs. Unmae still on. Four days at New Haven this week at 3.00 per day 12.00 60 miles travel at .06 per mile = 3.60 = 15.60 + 93.60 = 109.20 02\17\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Miss Alice Rosevelt {Roosevelt} was married to day to Senetor {Senator} Longworth at the Whitehouse in Washington. 02\18\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Wagner preached at the Chapel to day. 02\19\1906 (Monday) I worked this day at the factory of Rogers & Brother. This afternoon I recived {received} a telephone message from Mrs. Jarrett stating that there would be no Court at New Haven tomorrow, but it would be held next day. 02\20\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked to day as usual at the factory. I recived {received} a letter from Mr. Fowler, Clerk of the Superior Court at New Haven stating that I was excused till 10 o'clock tomorrow. 02\21\{1906} (Wednesday) I attended Court at New Haven to day. The case of Doughlass against Unmack{??} was decided for the plaintiff with O'Connor to pay damage to Doughlass of $740.00 damage. Juror George D. Hall's father died last Saturday and was buried yesterday and that was the reason that no court was held yesterday. Mr. Hall lived in Wallingford. 02\22\{1906} (Thursday) Went to New Haven and sat on the case of Moony vs. The Connecticut Railing and Lighting Co. 02\23\1906 (Friday) Went to New Haven to day. Case of Mooney against the Conn. Railway and Lighting CO. on all day. Three day{s} at New Haven @3.00 9.00 mileage 3.60 12.60 + 109.20 = 121.80. 02\24\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 02\25\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel. 02\26\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 02\27\{1906} (Tuesday) Went to New Haven on the trolley car that leaves here at 8 o'clock, reached there at 9.30, went to Court at 10 and received Judge Thairs charge on the case of Mrs. Mooney of Derby against the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company for injuries received in Ansonia a year ago last August that resulted in his death. The Jury went out at 10.20 A.M. and were out till 3 P.M. when we disagreed{??} and the Court accepted it. From first to last the Jury ballot stood 4 for plaintiff and 8 for defendent {defendant}. Oliver Ambler of Southbury, Duncan Gibbard of Prospect, Charles Maker and myself of Waterbury were for the plaintiff. David Plum{?} of Prospect, Howard Hecox of Southbury, Mr. French, James Bucklee, and Mr. Butter{?} of Seymour, George D. Hall of Wallingford, and Charles R. Baldwin of New Haven were for the Trolley Company. 02\28\1906 (Wednesday) Attended Superior Court at New Haven. The Case of Whitings appeal from the New Haven Probate Court was put on and the Jurors chozen {chosen} were Holmes of Wolcott, Butter, French and Buckley of Seymour, Hall of Wallingford, Tuttle of Wolcott, Maker and myself of Waterbury, Clark of Woodbridge, Ambler and Hecox of Southbury, and David Plumb of Prospect. The day was taken up in hearing evidence. I would like to note here that Mr. Henry B. Hall of Wallingford, one of my fellow jurymen died early this morning. Yesterday he was in attendance at court and left at 2 o'clock, apparantly well as usual, died apoplexy. 03\01\1906 (Thursday) Attended Court at New Haven. The entire day was taken up by examining one witness. 03\02\{1906} (Friday) Attended Court at New Haven. Mr. Leroy Whiting, the same witness that was on the stand yesterday, was on today till three o'clock when Judge Dow was called to testify. At Court 4 day @3.00 = 12.00 60 miles @.06 3.60 15.60 121.80 = 137.40. 03\03\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory this day. Mr. Haywood of Providence has taken charge of the polishing room. 03\04\{1906} (Sunday) It rained hard all night and the streams were quite high this morning. Rev. Mr. Smith preached at the Chapel (Baptist) to day. Mr. Henry Judd called this evening and said that he is going to call a school meeting the 13th. 03\05\1906 (Monday) I worked to day at the factory of Rogers & Brothers, or the Inrerntional Silver Co. (Factory J{???}) The Waterbury Athletic Association is about to be organized with a Capitol of $10,000 and have purchased four acres of land south of Wedges Corner of Morris{??} Reed for a ball field. 03\06\{1906} (Tuesday) I attended Court and the Whiting Case was continued all day. Mrs. Leroy Whiting was the witness, and it took up nearly all day to her her evidence. 03\07\{1906} (Wednesday) I attended Superior Court at New Haven. The Colonel Whiting case was continued. A young lady was the first witness called, was succeeded by two spiritualists from Niantic{?} Campground who had known Mr E. L. Whiting. They testified that he was queer. Next came a Grand Army Nurse and then Mrs. Cooley. A nurse was on the stand the remainder of the day. 03\08\{1906} (Thursday) Attended the Whitting case in the Superior Court at New Haven to day. This is the 6th day of the trial. The weather to day has been as nice as any day I ever knew at this time of year. Went down home this evening and saw Amy who had just returned from New York where she has been for a month past working at milinery {millinery} work. 03\09\{1906} (Friday) Attended the Whiting trial at New Haven to day. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the first witness was put on for the defence. I saw Mr. Fowler, Clerk of the Superior Court of New Haven and he told me that Amy Miller might go out of the state provided her father and mother gave their consent. Four days at Court @3.00 = 12.00 32 miles travel @.12 cts. 3.84 = 15.84 + 137.40 = 153.24. Ten weeks, 4 miles extra travel @.06 = .24 per week 2.40 155.64 03\10\1906 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Recived {Received} a letter stating that a meeting is to be held in the Business Mens Rooms in the Jones and Morgans Building next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock to elect dirielars{??} and for any other business proper to come before said meeting. This is to be the first meeting of the stockholders. The letter is signed by Frank P. Welton, Robert D. Somers, and Abel Kenworthy. 03\11\{1906} (Sunday) A lay preacher from Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 03\12\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Board of Education in the High School Building with Mr. Henry Judd. 03\13\{1906} (Tuesday) Sat at the Whiting Case in the Superior Court in New Haven all day. Attended school meeting at Mill Plain. Mr. Judd resigned from Committee. 03\14\{1906} (Wednesday) The Whiting Case was settled by the brothers Le Roy and Howard Whting this forenoon and we jurors were excused till tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Clerk Fowler paid me a check of $80.40 for five week service to Feb. 5th or 6th. To night I attended a meeting of the Waterbury Metal Company held in the Waterbury Business Mens Association's rooms for the purpose of organizing the new company. There were I should think about 50 stockholders present, and they elected a board of directory consisting of Frank Welton, Robert Somers, Cornilus Tracy, Abel Kenworthy, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Beardsley and Ambrose Wells. The name was also changed to the "Waterbury Rolling Mills Incorporated". 03\15\{1906} (Thursday) Went to New Haven, was challenged off from the case that was called. I then started for Hartford at noon by trolley, but the fierce storm and snow hindered so that I did not reach Plainville till 4 o'clock and as the New Britain cars were not running on time, I returned and came home. 03\16\{1906} (Friday) 90.72 due Worked at the factory to day. Three days at New Haven @$3.00 9.00 68 miles travel @.06 4.08 .06 18.08 4.08 03\17\1906 {Saturday} I worked at the factory to day. There are five weeks pay due me at the factory. 03\18\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Walters of the first Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Irving, Clara French, Lydia Jones and I went out for a sleighride after service, up to Wolcott Center. 03\19\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory. It is snowing and I went round the ú with the snow plough after work. 03\20\{1906} (Tuesday) I attended Court at New Haven to day. The case of {? ?} vs. Merrill was decided for the plaintiff with $400 for damage. The case of {? ?} vs. the City of Derby was put on this afternoon. I was drawn off, and am excused till next Tuesday. 03\21\1906 (Wednesday) I attended a meeting of the Board of Public Works last evening and they assured me that they would grant me a new street light on the Meriden Road, next week when I am to appear in the interest of the Mill Plain Improvement Society. This morning when Joe Pierpont called to leave the milk this morning, he told us that his father's house burned to the ground at 12 o'clock last night. We went out quick and took the goods that had been saved over to Austin Pierponts and Mother Pierponts. There were in the house at the time Wilson and his three sons Joe, Charlie, and Nathan. The smoke awoke them and they escaped with their clothes and saved some of the furniture. Wilson lost all his clothes except a night shirt and vest, pants, shoes, and hat which he had on, all the money he had about $5.00, watch etc. He came over to our house and we fitted him out with clothes and I gave him $10.00 and he went down town and got shirts etc. He expects to live in Mother Pierponts house for the present. 03\22\1906 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day, recived {received} three weeks pay i.e. 3/3/06, 3/10/06, and 3/17/06. Clyde came home for his spring vacation last night. 03\23\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde and I went to town to see if we could borrow a transit for Clyde to survey Arthur Pierpont's farm with. We saw George Chatfield and he is using his. We then saw Ben Chatfield and he said that he would see if he could find one. 03\24\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. James Porter died this morning at four o'clock after a long illness. Would have been 88 years old next Monday. 03\25\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Ben Chatfield called and said that his father had a transit that Clyde could take. He went and got it at Albert Chatfields. This evening Mary, Mother Pierpont and I went out home and Mary and I went up to Arthur's. 03\26\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day repairing the hydraulic press so that each stroke of the pump would send the guage pointer 5 tons ahead up to 650 tons. I hardened 8 steel dies this afternoon. 03\27\1906 (Tuesday) I went to Court at New Haven this morning and the Case of Mc Earney vs. the City of Derby was still on trial and is expected to last till the end of the week. At noon the judge excused me for the term. The Judge's name is Thair of Norwich. The Clerk is Edward A. Anketell Assistant, Mr. Fowler Stenographer, Mrs. Merrit Carter. Mr. Fowler gave me acheck for $104.64, the balance of my pay. 03\28\{1906} (Wednesday) To day I staid about home all day except I went to the Dimes Savings Bank and deposited the checks I received for Jury duty which amounted $185.04. 03\29\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Clyde and Arthur Dunn have been surveying to day. To night Clyde went to New Haven. 03\30\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\31\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank and I took the five o'clock trolley car and went to Ives Corner and walked a mile to Brooks Vale to Mr. Alexander Doolittle's to see if he wanted Frank to work for him during vacation, but he did not as he had a man and boy already. 04\01\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Nichols preached at the Chapel this P.M. Ruth and I went for a ride to Cheshire and Prospect, found lots of mud. 04\02\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mr. Henry Judd and I attended the meeting of the Board of Education. Mark Warner, John Gallagher, B.F. Hoggett, and Ned Pritchard were also there. 04\03\1906 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory today. 04\04\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 04\05\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory, hardened six dies. 04\06\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Sister Iva had a child born this morning at two o'clock named Mansfield Miller Gillette. To day I drew from the Citizens Bank two hundred and fifty dollars and this evening I took it to Simonsville and gave it to Robert Somers' wife (he not being at home) to give to her brother Frank P. Welton. I then came out to the Chapel to the supper and entertainment. 04\07\1906 (Saturday) I worked at Rogers & Brothers factory to day. 04\08\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchum preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Ruth and I went out to Morris Rid's place and saw the grand stand and base ball ground that they are building. Then we took the trolley cars and went to Uncle Will Somers, but he was not at home so we went over to Cousin Rob Somers and he was not at home. We then went to church in the Simonsville Baptist Church. The Rev. Mr. Williams of the Second Congregational Church preached. Then we took the trolley cars up through Baldwin Street to exchange place and out East Main St. home. 04\09\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Hardened 5 dies. It has snowed to the depth of about four inches to day. 04\10\1906 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day, hardened six dies. The snow had all gone this morning. 04\11\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory, hardened six dies and 1 punch. This evening Irving and I went to Cheshire to see Mr. Jacob D. Walters who is County Comissioner. 04\12\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory this day. I had Irving go down to fathers and telephone to Cheshire to see if Mr. Walters was at home. Soon he returned and said that he would be home in about an hour. We boarded the 7.30 car at my gate and went to Cheshire and found Mr. Walters home, second house North of the Acadamy. I told him that they intended to have a Saloon at Wedges Corner and that we were oposed {opposed} to it. He assured me that no license should be granted etc. We spent about an hour with him and then came home. 04\13\1906 (Friday) This is Fast Day and I stayed home and worked in the swamp grubbing out the bogs. The first game was played at the new ball grounds south of Wedge's Corner this afternoon between the Newark's and Waterbury's there were about 10,000 persons present. 04\14\{1906} (Saturday) Worked to day at the factory. 04\15\{1906} (Sunday) "Easter Sunday". Rained hard all the forenoon. Cleared up after noon. Frank and Raymond Munson took my team and went to several houses and got flowers for the Chapel. The service there was grand. Dr. Davenport officiated and they had the best singing that I hever heard there. The Choir was composed of Clara G. French, Maragret Miller, Fritsa Hansen, and Lydia Jones, Sopranos. Bertha J. French, Mrs. F. Young, Mrs. F.A. Munson, Bessie Parks and Minnie Judd, "Altos". Sidney J. Spender, H. Clifton Heaton and George Hansen, "Tenors". Stewart H. Judd, Clarence Brown, Henry Beckwith and Irving C. Miller, "Basses". "Organist" Morton W. Judd. "Director" Godfrey K. Reed. 04\16\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day, hardened 5 dies. This evening James White, Henry Judd, Mr. Packer and Dayton Wooding went before the Board of Education with a petition to have me appointed School Committee of the Saw Mill Plain District. They had 33 signers. Opposed was Mark L. Watner, John F. Gallagher, Edward S. Pritchard, and B.F. Haggett with a petition for Chas Lee. I have been told by Mr. Judd that I am appointed. 04\17\1906 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Lewis Beckwith is sick with the Pleuracy {Pleurisy} and Pneumonia, was taken sick Fast Day. 04\18\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Went to Mark Pond's this evening to see about school matters. Lewis Beckwith died this noon of Pleural Pneumonia. 04\19\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. San Francisco, Cal. is nearly destroyed by an earthquake and fire. Yesterday morning at 5.30 occured a shock which lasted three minutes that felt{?} many of the large buildings to the ground, and burst the water mains so that the firemen had no water, and the City is now burning up. 04\20\1906 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 04\21\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went up to James White's and he and Miss Bessie went up to Mark Warner's who is Clerk of the School District and Bessie and I went in, while Mr. White went up to Rob Wakelee's and we or rather Bessie copied some of the records of the votes taken at School Meetings pertaining to the New School House. She took them in short-|hand. 04\22\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fairchild of Simonsville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Margaret and I drove out to Arthur Pierpont's and up to Charlie Tuttle's after service. 04\23\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory till 7.30 this evening. In yesterday's Sunday Herald there appeared a long article entitled "Miller Lands Place". A.B. Pierpont sold the "Old Wedge Place" near the arch Saturday to a frenchman. 04\24\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day and this morning. 04\25\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day till 8 o'clock. 04\26\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went up to John Gallagher's and Mark Warner's and I got the district tax list from Mr. Warner. 04\27\1906 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\28\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day till six o'clock. 04\29\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Dinsmore of the First Congregational Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The first Sunday game of base ball was played at the new field at Wedges Corner to day. This evening Mary and I called at George Benhams. 04\30\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\01\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I took the district tax list to the assessor's office to have a new list made. I then cam back to Mill Plain and visited the School. 05\02\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to John Gallagher's and saw him about the District tax I am laying. Allen Burgess moved into the Fred Frost place last Saturday. 05\03\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. After work, Raymond and I planted potatoes down to fathers. Frank and Irving finished ploughing at Murry Beeke's. 05\04\{1906} (Wednesday) {duplicate entry =? Friday} Worked at the factory to day. 05\05\{1906} (Thursday) {duplicate entry =? Saturday} Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\04\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory.* Went to John Gallagher's and saw his tax book and saw Mark L. Warner and showed him my appointment of School Committee and he showed me the notice he received from Clerk Fitzgerald. 05\05\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. We finished planting potatoes to night. 05\06\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Smith of Simonsville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Margaret and I went for a ride after service at Gillette's corner. We took in Burnice Falmage and we went down through Matthews Street and over by Lights Pond and down the Mountain to Alexander Doolittle's at Brooks Vale where we staid till 8 o'clock. 05\07\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Mr. Stovells and got an old tax book. Mr. Hoggett came to my house and lift {left} a copy of a warning of a school meeting while I was gone. 05\08\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went to Hotchkiss & Templetons and bought two ounces of onion seed for 30 cts. After I got home I went up to Mr. Hoggett and he told me that he would call a meeting of the Building Committeee next Thursday evening at 8.30. Henry Cook has the frame of his house up. 05\09\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\10\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a meeting of the Building Committee of Mill Plain of Ed Pritchard's house. 05\11\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Went up to James Whetes this evening. 05\12\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I posted a notice on the sign board at the School House calling a School Meeting for Monday eving {evening}, May 21st. I also took a copy to the District Clerk, Mark L. Warner. 05\13\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. {? ?} preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Theodore Munson{?} and I drove out to Hitchcocks Pond. 05\14\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This morning at half past four I heard a rumble that felt like an earthquake. The doors and windows shook. I{It??} proved to be the mgazines {magazines???} at the Union Metallic Cartridge Companies in Bridgeport {??????}. Nearly all the windows in Bridgeport and many in Stratford were broken, and the report was heard in New London and Litchfield. This evening I attended the meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society. I was chosen a committee to see about getting police protection for this part of the town next circus day. 05\15\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Miss Welton won $500.00 from St. Ann's Fair to day. {05\16 through 05\22 lacking} 05\23\{1906} (Wednesday) Owing to a press of work and business, all of my time has been used and I have made no entries for several days. I have worked in the shop every day except 2 1/2 hours last Thursday forenoon when I went down town and got the District tax list and I worked three hours Sunday forenoon. Last Friday evening I took the tax book up to John Gallagher and left the tax sheet with Mark Warner. Sunday, Rev. Mr. Buckwalter preached at the Chapel. Monday evening we had a School Meeting and on Motion of Thomas Holmes, it was voted that we pay all the bills that come before this meeting i.e. 367.75. Yes 22 No 17 This evening I attended the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society. The following officers were elected. Committee A.B. Pierpont 9 Episcopal J.H. Garrigus 12{??} Methodist C.S. Miller 11{??} Congregational Henry M. Judd Baptist Secretary Bessie White 12 Treasurer H.J. Abel 16 Sunday School Superintendent Henry M. Judd Organist Mr. Reed Librarian Joe Pierpont . 05\24\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day piping a wash bowl in Mr. Tobin's office. Finished planting the East Garden to night. Thomas Mills had me make some teeth for his hand cultivator. Mad dogs have done great damag [damage} and the City government has ordered every dog in the town tied up or shot on account of the rabies. 05\25\1906 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\26\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\27\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon at a meeting of the Chapel Committee. I was chosen chairman of the board. After service I drove over to Waterville and on over to where they have started to build the new Waterbury Rooling Mills Factory. 05\28\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. It has rained all day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Society. There were but few there on acout {account} of the rain and no business was done. 05\29\1906 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went out to George Benhams and he showed me how to file tax leans{?} on school property. Irving has gone to New Haven where he is to meet Clifton Heaton and both are going to Easton, Pa. to visit Clyde at Lafayettee {Lafayette} Colledge {College}. 05\30\1906 (Wednesday - Decorations Day) We worked about home this forenoon and after dinner, Frank, Raymond and I hitched up and drove over by Lakewood to Waterville and over to where they are building the new Waterbury Rooling Mills Inc., and watched them put in some of the concrete foundations, and then we went to where they are widening the trestle near the Oakville Company's factory for the trolley tracks. We then went to Watertown and found that they had got the tracks laid from the foot of Candee{??} Hill to a point this side of the Catholic Church in Watertown. From the Center we came South west of the Middlebury Road till we struck the Woodbury and Waterbury stage road which we followed home. 05\31\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. We had a frost yesterday morning that did much damage to gardens. Had a letter from Clyde and a postal from Irving stating that he was a {at} Jersey City and about to take cars for Easton. 06\01\1906 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Henry Cook is having his new house painted and Mr. Carlson is having the frame of his houses put up to day. They are being built on the west side of the Southmaid Road. 06\02\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Frank and I went to town and bought some garden seeds, and other things. When we were coming home, we met thirty trolley cars coming for the Ball grounds and nearly all were loaded. Ralph Blakeslee showed me some rye last night that was 6' 10" high. The Mill Plain Sunshine Circle met here yesterday afternoon. 06\03\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketcham of Woolcott {Wolcott} preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Last night at about 10.30, Irving came home after having spent since last Tuesday with Clyde in Easton, Pa. 06\04\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening we went over to John French's and moved their piano to Charlie Monroe's to be used next Wednesday at the wedding of Miss Elsie French. 06\05\1906 (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory. This evening we set out pepper and tomatoe {tomato} plants in the garden. 06\06\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Elsie French and Willie Bock were married at Charlie Monroe's house this afternoon by the Rev. Mr. Fairchild of Simonsville. This evening I attended a meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association and the following Trustees were elected, Mark L. Warner, Hiram J. Abel, Warren Hitchcock, Theodore Munson, Ralph N. Blakeslee, Mr. Jessel, and Mr. Candee. 06\07\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. The lightening struck about here during Tuesday night's thunder storm as follows, Struck a telephone pole on Niagra Street. Struck a tree in Porter's Woods over on the Meriden road. Struck a tree in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Struck a house over at the foot of East Mountain on the South side of the Prospect Road. George Hitchcock has sold his house and 40 acres of land to Franklin Peck of Waterbury. 06\08\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\09\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\10\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Dallas preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, I took Mary and Mother Pierpont for a ride out the Meriden Road and in the Cheshire Road. This morning sister Cara called and told us that Judge Charles Gillette died of heart trouble this morning. 06\11\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. I attended the meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society and they appointed a committee of Mr. James White, Mr. Spender and Mr. Hoggett to push through the grading of the Meriden Road in front of the school, also Mr. Pond, a committee to interview the property owners in regard to opening a new road from the Woodtick Road near his house to the Woolcott {Wolcott} Road near Mr. Kilbourne's. Also we elected the following officers, James White President, Benjamin F. Hoggett Vice President, M. Packer Secretary and B.F. Pond Treasurer. Old Home Week opened in Meriden to day. Minnie Lewis and a Massachusetts fellow were married to day. 06\12\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. Barnum and Baily's great circus has been held on the James Porter farm to day. The tents consisted of one five center pole managerie {menagerie} tent, one ten center pole circus tent, one 2 center pole dressing tent, one one center pole dressing tent, one large two center pole side show{??} tent (on south side of Cheshire Road), one small two center pole side show tent on south side of road. The first three tents were on North side of road. There were also two three center pole tents for horses, one six center pole tent for {????} the men, one blacksmith shop tent, two cook tents, and three small tents for washing dishes, supplies etc. These tents were on the Southmaid Road. Thye had 500 horses and have 1200 people on their pay roll. Yesterday they exibeted {exhibited} in Holeyoke, Mass. Tomorrow they are to exibit {exhibit} in Bridgeport. Thursday in New Haven, Friday in Hartford, Saturday in Springfield, and all of next week in Boston. 06\13\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Judge Gillette was buried at Pines Bridge yesterday afternoon from his home corner of Prospect and Buckingham Street. Mary and a party consisting of Stewart Judd, Mort Pierpont, Arthur Pierpont, John Tood, George Warner, Bertha Lud, Bertha French went this morning to Commencement at the Connecticut Mechanical and Agricultural College at Storos{??}. 06\14\1906 (Thursday) This forenoon I visited the Mill Plain School and this afternoon Mary and I went to Meriden and saw what we could of the celebration. We missed the parade but enjoyed the Love Exhibit on the Parish house of St. Andrews Church. We drove over. 06\15\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 06\16\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\17\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. {? ?} of the Farm Street Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Margaret, Henry Beckwith and I went for a ride out the Cheshire Road, up the Scott Road to Scotts Upper Pond and we drove over across the dam to the Baldwin place on the old bound line road, then on East to the road that goes from Prospect Center to Summit and home by the Plank Road. 06\18\{1906} (Monday) Worked to day at the factory. This evening I pasted a notice for a School Meeting to be held Monday, June 25th at 8 o'clock P.M. 06\19\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we moved the French girls piano home from Monroes. Went to Mr. Ponds and figured school acts. 06\20\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Paid my school tax, 9.10 to John Gallagher, collector, and got Mark Warner's bill for wood. 06\21\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. We all went to Polis Theter {Theater} to night to the graduating exercises of the High School scholars. 06\22\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went and saw Mrs. Judge Gillette and she gave me all the Judge's collection of minerals and Indian relics. 06\23\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\24\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchum of Wolcott preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 06\25\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Had school meeting this evening. Mark Warren elected Committee, B.F. Hoggett Clerk, George Warner Treasurer, and John Gallagher Tax Collector. Margaret went to work in Miller & Pecks dry goods store to day. 06\26\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\27\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This forenoon at about 9 o'clock, Eugene Rowley, John Scott and {------} Sullivan lost their lives at the factory of the Benedict & Burnham Co. by being drowned and suffocated in a cellar{??} of oil. 06\28\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\29\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory as usual. 06\30\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 07\01\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon, it being Childrens' Day. 07\02\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day. 07\03\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\04\{1906} (Wednesday) Rained by{??} showers till after dinner. There is no celebration that I know of anywhere to day. Everything is very quiet. 07\05\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\06\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Ralph Blakeslee commenced haying to day. Mary Porter called and told Mary that I could have the hay in the swamp opposite the house for 4.00 and the hay in the lot this side of Mrs. Hines and that on Bilberry{?} Hill. 07\07\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory putting back the big Peck lifter drop that I took out day before yesterday to have the foundation bed stone chipped level. 07\08\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lepley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. {??} 07\09\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society this evening, and we talked over the building of a new road from Murtain Ponds over to the West Wolcott Road to come out between Robert Welton's house and barn. Robert Welton was there and offered the land for the right-|of-|way through the property that he owns. Irving left home this morning at four o'clock for Camp at Nyantic where the 2nd and 4th Regts. are to spend this week. 07\10\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Platt's large elevator took fire this morning and burned to the extent of $5,000.00 damage. A large quantity of grain was burned. It is located on Benedict St. 07\11\1906 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual, 11 1/2 hrs. The finishing department of the factory started up Monday "full time" after a shut down of a week. The making department has not stoped {stopped} at all, only one day, July 4th. This is the first year that it has run without a stop. 07\12\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 07\13\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Milo Peck has leased the Byam Place out on the Southington Mountain for three years. This evening after work, I carried the District Committee man's book and the key to the School house up to Mark L. Warner. 07\14\1906 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Last evening the Trustees of Pine Grove Cemetary {Cemetery} met and voted to buy the lot adjoining the Cemetary {Cemetery} property on the South and North of Mrs. David Shannon's property of Ralph N. Blakeslee. The vote stood 5 for and 2 against, Mark Warner and Warren Hitchcock against, and Mr. Jessel, Thae{?} Munson, Hiram Abel, Thomas Candee and Mr. Blakeslee for it. But Hitchcock and Warren are standing out against it, and they and Blakeslee have consulted Chas Root, the lawyer and he has given it as his opinion that they have not the power to sell. 07\15\{1906} (Sunday) I worked repairing the waterwheel three hours this morning. Rev. Mr. Bulkwalter preached at the Chapel this P.M. Mort Pierpont and Jessie had a son born to them night before last, Laurence Austin. //end of vol 1904-06// 07\16\1906 (Monday) I worked for the International Silver Co. to day at the factory of Rogers & Brother. In the forenoon Laurence Tobin and I went up to the factory of Rogers and Hamilton and set some iron plates in the floor of the boiler room and we took a load of wheels out of the trimming room and brought them down to our shop. They say that this is the last time that we are going up there as the factory is to be occupied by another company. 07\17\{1906} (Tuesday) I staid about home all day some time up in Ralph Blakeslee's barn watching a man put a reaper and binder together. This evening I went over to John Frenches and had him stitch up a trace{??} 07\18\{1906} (Wednesday) We went up to Mr. Blakeslee's and saw them use the reaper together with the binder attachment some time. Then Frank, Raymond and I mowed the lot corner of the Harpers Ferry Road and Cheshire Road. 07\19\{1906} (Thursday) Early this morning Irving and I went down and mowed in Thomas Mills' home lot and afterwards Frank mowed the rest of the lot with the machine. We got in four loads. Mary and Ruth attended a picnic at Arthur Pierpont's given by the Grangers. 07\20\{1906} (Friday) We all went to day to a picnic of the Mill Plain Sunday School at Compound pond. Mary, Margaret, and Ruth went on the trolley cars and Frank, Raymond, Mrs. Candee, and Florence White drove. Irving came over in the evening. It took me two hours to drive over. There were about 50 there, and about 15 children went over in Arthur Pierpont's vegetable wagon. 07\21\1906 (Saturday) Today I mowed the swale{??} west of Thomas Mills' house, and then opened out a lot of hay we had cocked{??} up, and just as it was dry and we went for the team to get it in with, a shower came and wet it all. We shook it out later and put it in winnows. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess went to the shore at Walnut Beach this afternoon. We mowed part of the lot above Hiram Able's lot this afternoon. 07\22\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Phipps formerly of Propsect preached at the Chapel this P.M. After service Bessie White, Clara French, Irving and I went for a ride. We went over across Lake Wood and up North Main Street, over to Perkins Ave. to Waterville and over the new bridge to where they are putting in the foundations for the Waterbury Rolling{??} Mills factory and then up Bunker Hill, and down to Robbins Street which we turned up to Middlebury Road, out Middlebury and up the Park Road past where Thomas Lockwood was murdered, to the Litchfield and New Haven Turnpike which we traveled to Union City, then up the Waterbury Road to the Pearl Lake Road and soon home. 07\22\{1906} (Monday) Irving and I got up early this morning and we went up and mowed in the stony meadow above Mr. Able's. It has been cloudy all day and we could not get in any hay although we got one lot ready but had to heap it up as soon as possible and it rained long and wet it. This evening I went down to Father's and Wm. Gillette showed me some old papers that were his father's, among them a writ "To The Constable of Stratford", dated 1711. 07\23\{1906} (Tuesday) Today has been cloudy and we have worked about the gardens. Mrs. Abel and Agnes and the children, Wilbur and Olive Bergess' baby went to Walnut Beach to see Olive who has been there since last Saturday. Ruth went out to Mort Pierpont's this morning to work. Thomas Candy, the sexton of Pine Grove Cemetery, has bought Mr. Carlson's place on the Southmaid Road. 07\24\{1906} (Wednesday) We got in all the hay that was out at Jones and also that at Thomas Mills. 07\25\{1906} (Thursday) This morning we started haying in the lot corner of the Harpers Ferry and Plank Road and got nearly all of it in. Henry Cass told me this morning that Berkeley S. Hotchkiss died soon after six this evening. He was in his buggy coming out East Main St. near Dublin when an automobile nearly ran into him and his horses started to run, but were soon stopped and he was dead when taken from the team. 07\27\1906 (Friday) This morning Frank mowed the circus lot east of Mrs. Hines' house and we got it in together with what was left in the lot corner of Plank and Harper's Ferry roads. I mowed seven swaths{??} across the swamp opposite James Porter's house and we raked up a lot of course{??} hay in the Sherman Bronson lot. 07\28\{1906} (Saturday) Today we got three loads of hay from Mr. Blakeslee's lot, and one load from Mr. Porter's lot. 07\29\{1906} (Sunday) Today Mary, Margaret and Irving and I went by trolley to Cheshire and attended church after which we took the trolley and went to Mt. Carmel and went up the north side of the mountain and over to the third peak to Mr. Brockett's cottage where we found Charlie Pierpont, his wife and Anna. After a time, Mr. Brockett came and we went to the place where they draw the water up the ledge, at this point it over 200 ft high, and the spring is out from the bottom a distance so that a large wire stretched from the spring to the top of the ledge is over 300 ft long, and at the top of the ledge there is a windlass{??} to which is wound a small cord which runs over a double pulley that runs on the wire and by unwinding the windlass, the pulleys run down the wire to the spring and a pail is lowered from the pulley into the water and by winding up the windlass, the pail of water is lifted from the water and drawing up to the pulleys which in turn runs up the wire to the top of the ledge. We then went down the south side of the ledge of the third peak to "Abram's Cave" which by mean of a lantern and candles Irving, Margaret and I went through. We went in a crevice only large enough for one at a time in an easterly downward direction about 4 rods, then turning to the right down straight 10 ft, then west into a room that hold 14 people, then up and south 60{80??} ft and in a small hole to the right into a large crevice and then back out. Rev. Mr. Ketchum of Wolcott preached at the Chapel. 07\30\1906 (Monday) I went to work at the factory to day as John French called yesterday and said they needed me. Today Colonel Cummings' "Wild West" and "F.F. Main's Great Show"{??} was given on the lot between James Porter's house and my father's place. Mary, Ruth, Margaret, Irving and I went in the evening and Frank and Raymond went in the afternoon. The show was very nice, admission 25 cts. 07\31\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 08\01\1906 (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory. Mary, Frank and Raymond went out to Harry Garrigus's and picked about 8 quarts of blueberries{??}. 08\02\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. Joseph F. Platt has bought Mr. Albert Spender's place for $2,250. 08\03\1906 (Friday) I worked at the factory today. 08\04\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory today. This evening the boys and I took the little fire engine up to the bridge on the Meriden Road near Mr. White's and tried it. It worked well. Threw water 20 ft over Mr. White's house. 08\05\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Smith of the Union City Baptist Chapel preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 08\06\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Very warm weather. This evening I attended a meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association held in the Chapel. It was voted to sell a strip of land along the bank of the river to the Mattatuck Mfg. Co for a pond for $100. Also to buy the lot south of the Cemetery of Ralph Blakeslee for $1,700.00. Vote on the first sale stood, 27 cast all in favor. On the purchase, 30 votes cast all in favor. 08\07\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked to day for the International Silver Company at their spoon factory on Silver Street. 08\08\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked to day 11 1/2 hr. in the factory. 08\09\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\10\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 08\11\1906 (Saturday) I worked at the factory today until noon, when I came home on the trolley car, had dinner, after which Frank and Raymond hitched up and Irving and I started for Goshen. We drove up through Wolcott to Hancock's station where we crossed the New England Rail Road and went up the Todd Hollow Road to the first road that turned off to the left which we took and soon came to a road that ran north along the top of a ridge which we traveled. This took us through a fine country where there were fine farms well kept. The view from the road was grand. Off to the right, Terryville, Bristol, East Plymoth and the hills of many other towns were to be seen. To the left, Watertown, Plymoth and many other towns could be seen. We crossed the state road that runs from Plymoth to Terryville and had gone north two or three miles when a hard shower overtook us, and we drove under a shed. Soon the owner came and he proved to be Mr. Buell{??}, father of Rev. Seth Buell who I have heard preach in our chapel but is now living in Nebraska. He showed us about the place, took us into the shop where there was a gasoline engine, jig saw, wood cut off saw, slitting saw, forge, etc. also into the milk room which they built themselves and a three story hen house. We left there about 6.30 and went through a nice country to Harwington{?} where we turned west and went down by the church beyond which we took the first road to the right and went to Torrington. But darkness overtook us before we reached there. We had the horse put out at the Allen House stable and fed, while we walked to No 248 South Main St. to Mr. L C Hull's. But we did not find anybody home so we went to the stable and left at 9.30 for Goshen. It grew very dark before we reached West Torrington and it thundered and lightninged often. We bought a lantern and started up the hill. Soon it began to rain, a little at first but soon it poured. We had blankets and a rubber boat which covered us well, which with an umbrella kept us nearly dry, although the water ran from the umbrella in streams, and the road was running like a river. But we kept on and reached Samuel Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] after the storm had subsideed at about eleven o'clock. They were all up and after we had put the horse out and fed him, we went in the house and had a good supper of blackberry shortcake and went to bed. In the morning it was clear and cool. We had a late breakfast of beef steak and vegetables and at quarter to eleven Marion, Irving and I went to church which was the next building west up the hill. The edifice was well filled and the service interesting. Have forgotten the minister's name. We stayed about the house, had dinner and started for home at 3.30, came south from Goshen center to the Litchfield line, then east over the hills to the town house and south along Chestnut Hill past where Grandpa Miller used to live (one half mile south of the Torrington Road on the east side of the street) and on over the hills through Northfield to the south past of Thomaston where we struck the Nangatuck River which we followed to Waterbury and drove home. Got there at 8.30. 08\13\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Rev. Mr. Kitchum preached at the Chapel yesterday. Warren Hitchcock and William Atkinson have bought Thomas Holmes' place on the Meriden Road. 08\14\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory this day, Mary, Raymond, Mother and Ruth went to the seashore at Forth Trumbull Beach to day. 08\15\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company began digging in front of my house this morning for the double track which they are going to put in all the way to Mt. Carmel. To day is Raymond's birthday. He is 11 years old and is my youngest child. 08\16\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Irving, Frank and I got up early and mowed in Porter's swamp this morning. 08\17\{1906} (Friday) Worked in the factory to day. This evening Irving, Frank, John French and I mowed in Porter's Swamp. 08\18\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys took our little fire engine over the third dam and pumped from near the gate, The hose reached up the Southmaid Road to Mr. Carlson's house and the water nearly over it. they then took it over to John French's and played three streams all over his house. 08\19\{1906} (Sunday) Very hot. Rev. Mr. Phipps at Chapel. 08\20\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Had adjourned school meeting to night. Voted to pay the bills of the building committee which were E.S. Pritchard $83.00, Thomas Heaton $162.00, and B.F. Hoggett 10.00. This with other bills already paid makes a total of $18,619.72 that the new school house has cost. They voted that the committee lay walks and finish grading the grounds. It was also voted that the hiring of a janitor be left with the committee. 08\21\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening John French came and we welded a set of axles for him. A number of young ladies came this evening and had a choir rehearsal. 08\22\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked. Frank has gone to Savin Rock to day. I went up to the old Rogers and Hamilton Factory and got a rolling{??} mill. Charles Blackburn's barn burned last night at midnight, cause unknown. 08\23\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. They have placed a cannon in Hamilton Park to day. It is a relic of the Civil War and was used I think by Co J. 10th Illinois Regt. The City bought it in 1877 I think from the Farrell Foundry in Ansonia. Paid Thomas Mills 11.00 for grass. 08\24\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 08\25\1906 (Saturday) Worked at factory. 08\26\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel. After service Irving, Bessie Parks, Margaret and I went for a ride up and saw the concrete foundations they are putting in for the new Waterbury Rolling Mills. We then went north past the poor house and over Nova Scotia Hill and turned west and went into Watertown by Hemingway's Silk Factory. We attended service in the new Methodist church after which we drove home. 08\27\{1906} (Monday) I have had a stiff neck for the past two days but this morning I got up and fed the horse and got my scythe to mow the clothes yard but when I took the first stroke I was taken with a great pain in the neck and could not move my arms without causing more pain. I got into the house and sent Ruth for Dr. Barber. He came about 10 o'clock and said that I had the rheumatism of the neck and gave me medicine to take which was worse than the rheumatism. This afternoon I got better and cleaned the shelf clock. I also watched the men move the track in front of the house. They worked all night last night and the night before. 08\28\1906 (Tuesday) I went to work at the factory to day. 08\29\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Bessie Barks left boarding at our house to day. 08\30\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\31\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Thomas Holmes gave a moving picture entertainment in Hamilton Hall this evening. 09\01\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mr. Lewis C. Hull of Torrington called this evening and borrowed Beers History of New Haven County. 09\02\{1906} (Sunday) This afternoon a man and his wife, another man and his wife had trouble with their automobile in front of my house and they came into the yard and sat down while the younger man repaired the machinery. I got into a conversation with the old gentleman who proved to be H. Wales Lines of Meriden who I showed several of my old documents and he borrowed a letter I had, written by Harris Hotchkiss of Plainfield N.J. in 1878 giving a description of Waterbury as it was when he was a boy together with his business experience here. 09\03\{1906} (Monday) Labor Day. Staid about home all day. 09\04\1906 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. The labor unions had a great parade in town yesterday, about 5,000 men and 60 young ladies who belong to the Danbury's Hatters Union took part in the parade. Tonight Irving and I helped John French move his piano. I ordered 3 tons of coal for the Chapel of John McElligot for $7.00 per ton{??}. 09\05\1906 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brother to day as I usually do. This evening Frank and I helped John French to finish moving. We brought over two loads. 09\06\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Theodore Abel told us that his sister Mrs. Allen Burgess "passed away" this afternoon at about 5 o'clock. Burr Johnson finished haying in the swamp opposite the James Porter place this afternoon and I paid him $3.00. This is the last of my haying. I have a good supply of good hay and bedding on hand. A large gang of men are laying the double trolley track in front of my house today. 09\07\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. The funeral of Olive Abel Burgess is to be held Sunday at one PM in the Mill Plain Chapel. She died of quick consumption and was aged 24 years. The workmen are going to work all night on the double track. Anthony Ashbourn was killed by the cars nears the Manhan{??} Canal last Monday and is to be buried in the Mill Plain Cemetery tomorrow. Mary, Irving, Margaret and Ruth have gone to a lecture in the Second Congregational Church. Ruth expects to join next Sunday. Frank and Raymond are in bed up stairs and Clyde is in Atlantic City, conductor on the trolley cars. 09\08\1906 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\09\{1906} (Sunday) Mrs. Olive Abel Burgess was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Walters of the first Methodist Church officiated. The Chapel was filled to overflowing and there was a great quantity of flowers. The Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the regular service. Yesterday Anthony Washburn was buried from the Chapel. 09\10\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory today as usual. Commenced working nights at the factory till 7 o'clock. 09\11\{!906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\12\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. I received a letter from H. Wales Lines of Meriden today. Mr. William White has bought the Levelette Upson place yesterday. 09\13\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory today. Cora French and George Bradley were married last night by the Rev. Mr. Nichols at his house. This evening I took $250.00 and paid it to Robert Somers to be paid to the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. as a payment of stock Clyde is 22 years old to day. 09\14\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory today. James Stovelle and Miss Cole were married in Brooklyn, N.Y. last Wednesday night. 09\15\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Tonight after work I went up to John French's and helped him clean his well. 09\16\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchem preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Mary and the two boys, Frank and Raymond, together with Roy Munson returned from the shore this noon where they went yesterday with Miss Pickett to Adelbert Hitchcock's cottage at Rockfeller's crossing about two miles west of Savin Rock. This evening nearly all the church going people about here went to the Second Congregational Church, the occasion being the twenty fifth anniversary of Dr. Davenport's pastorate. 09\17\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory. This evening we worked digging a well back of the engine house. The factory began working till 9 o'clock P.M. to night. 09\18\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mrs. Annie Garrigus Hitchcock was buried from her father;s home this afternoon. Rev. Mr. John Davenport officiating. She was buried in the Woodtick Cemetery. Dr. Davenport married her to Louis B Hitchcock last Christmas Eve. The funeral was largely attended. 09\19\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Wrote letter to Judge Welch of Torrington and to James W Hayne, Postmaster of Torrington. 09\20\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\21\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\22\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 46 years ago to day my wife Mary was born at East Farms. The trolley cars ran on the double track this morning for the first time past my place. 09\23\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It will be twenty five years in November when he first came to Mill Plain and preached in the schoolhouse. He preached there ten times before the Chapel was built. Mr. Mayberry who died in Middletown was buried from the Chapel yesterday afternoon. Mr. Knipp and Mr. Swartz who work at Scoville's have moved into the Thomas Holmes place on the Meriden Road. Emma Drew of Ansonia came to visit me last night. To day she sang in the Chapel choir and after service she, Irving, Mary and I went for a ride out the Meriden Road and across past the Byam place and in the Cheshire Road. This evening we went to the Second Church and Dr. Davenport preached the same sermon that he preached when he first came to Waterbury. 09\24\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we worked digging the well. 09\25\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at factory to day. This evening we finished digging the well and stoned up a little of it. Received a letter from H Wales Lines of Meriden stating that he is going to call some Sunday. 09\26\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked in the factory to day. The Mad River Grange Agricultural Fair Association held their exhibition on the south end lot of the Pine Grove Cemetery to day. 09\27\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. I am 48 years old to day and am remembered as follows. Mary gave me a white shirt. Cousin Helen Drew, a nice handkerchief, and Margaret, two blue handkerchiefs. 09\28\1906 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Tonight we pumped the water out of the well and stoned up some of it. 09\29\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\30\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Dinsomre preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I did not attend as I was not well, had a head cold. 10\01\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\02\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a Republican Convention of which I was a member to nominate delegates to the convention, to nominate a candidate for Judge of Probate. I suggested James White from my ward, the 5th. 10\03\1906 (Wednesday) I worked at the International Silver Co's Factory J. The International Silver Co. now owns 29 different factories in the United States and Canada. 10\04\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. The Danbury Fair is now going on all this week. 27 car loads of people left Waterbury this morning to attend. More people attended yesterday than ever before. 10\05\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\06\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 10\07\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Nichols preached at the Chapel. Something happened to the trolley to day. At about 11 o'clock the cars stopped running on the Cheshire line. They say that the power has given out at the Cheshire end. Many people went out this morning and had to get home as best they could. Some walked from Cheshire. One man walked from Milldale. 10\08\{1906} (Monday) I worked in the factory to day. We learned that about one hundred feet of the embankment to the race way at the New Milford Power Company's plant at Bulls Bridge washed away yesterday (caused by muskrats burrowing through) which was the cause of the cars not running yesterday. The street lights in Waterbury, Southington, Plainville, and New Britain were out. To day the cars are running at long intervals and many factories that get their power from there are out of business. 10\09\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. They have about 150 men at work repairing the break at Bull's Bridge. The cars are off time all day. It has rained hard all the afternoon. 10\10\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The Wolcott Fair was to have been held to day but on account on the rain it was put over till tomorrow. 10\11\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. The Wolcott Fair was held to day on Mr. Thomas Fairdough's lot one mile south of the center. They say that there was a large crowd there. Frank drove Arthur Pierpont's bus. It snowed quite hard for about one hour after dinner and it melted as fast as it fell. 10\12\1906 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\13\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Fred Frost, aged 60 was killed this forenoon at about 10 o'clock at the waiting station near the Mattatuck factory. He and his wife were going to their farm which is situated one mile north of here and they had just alighted from a trolley car when an automobile owned by A.M. Young of New York came by and struck him killing him instantly. He sold a few days ago the property left him by his father Wm Butler Frost, corner of Union Street and Union Square to Father Slacome for a hospital and expected to go to Newberryport, Mass. to live in a few days. 10\14\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lewis preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I went with Frank up to Browns Meadows where the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc are building their mills. This last week they have put up the steel frame of the casting shop. The steel for the mill is expected this week. 10\15\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Coroner Mix found the man that drove the auto responsible for the death of Fred Frost, to day. Cleaned out our new well and finished it up to day. 10\16\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\17\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company has a hearing last evening before the Board of Public Works in regard to putting the trolley tracks up the Meriden Road to the Stilson Road. There were many outsiders at the hearing who were opposed to it, fearing that Mr. Charles Clark of Milldale will not be able to get his charter for the track in the Meriden Road. 10\18\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\19\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The Mill Plain Choir met at my house for practice tonight. There were 18 present. 10\20\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. It has rained hard all day. Frank and Ray have been out to Mother Pierpont's picking up apples all day yesterday but could not go to day on account of the rain. 10\21\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchman preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This evening I saw Joseph Long at his home 174 Prospect Street about the early history of the brass manufacturing business at Wolcottville. 10\22\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Margaret and Ruth began to night to take sewing lessons in town. 10\23\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked to day at the factory. 10\24\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The Ladies Union held a meeting at the Chapel and elected officers and this evening held a supper and entertainment, cleared about 8.00. 10\25\1906 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\26\{1906} (Friday) Worked to day in the factory. 10\27\{1906} (Saturday) Today I worked in the factory ten hours. 10\28\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. The Committee held a meeting after service and talked over sundry matters and appointed Mr. J.H. Garrigus to repair the rail on the side of the front steps and patch the roof of the shed. 10\29\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\30\1906 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\31\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked in the factory to day. Last evening the Democrats nominated Mark L. Warner of Mill Plain candidate for Representative to the Legislature. 11\01\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\02\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. I went to the corner of Canal and Grand Streets and bought a ball of linen thread and a piece of black wax and came home and repaired me harness. 11\03\{1906} (Saturday) I worked at the factory, except a little time this morning when I went to Mr. George Rockwell's house, No. 30 First Avenue and measured his steam pipes and went to the M.F. Daily's Co. and ordered asbestos covering for them. Frank and Raymond took eight bushels of apples out to Minties Cider Mill on the Plank Road and brought back 25 gallons of cider. This evening I filled a six gallon keg and took it down to father. I then went up to James Stovelle's and engaged the Foresters Hall for the Somers family to hold their reunion in next Thanksgiving Day. 09\04\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalter preached at the Chapel. This morning Frank, Raymond and I took the trolley car and went to the Bunker Hill Chapel where we alighted and walked over Steels Brook on the footbridge to the Waterbury Rolling Mills and saw that they had the iron frame of the mill up. The casting shop is nearly covered in and they are putting the rood on the boiler house. I saw Mr. Robert K. Brown near here and had a long talk with him on historical matters. From the mill we went north east and crossed the Nangatuck River on a wire foot bridge 225 feet span. We then walked down the Nangatuck Rail Road to Brown's Bridge where they have built some high concrete abutments{???} for the lower Waterville road to cross the canal and rail road on. We then viewed the new concrete walls about West Main Street and the site where the New Station is to be built. Farther on they are filling over the meadows between the Nangatuck railroad and the river where they are building a new bridge on the north side of the present wooden covered one. They have two steel stringers in place that reach from the middle pier to the south side, a span of 115 ft, the girders{??} are 9 ft in height. We then saw the new bridge over Bank and Washington streets and took a look at the concrete retaining that Benedict & Burnham are building on the east side of the Nangatuck which is about 50 feet farther out into the river than the present wall is and this wall is over 100 ft out from the original bank as it was when I was a boy. They are also extending the sewer south under Washington Street Bridge. 11\05\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The church at Prospect burned last night. It was valued at $6000.00, insured for 3500.00, cause of fire unknown. 11\06\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. This is State Election day and I went at about 8 o'clock to Union Square and voted the Republican ticket. It was as follows: Governor Rollin S. Woods, Lieutenant Governor Evert J. Lake, Secretary Theodore Bodenwein, Treasurer Freeman Patten, Comptroller Thomas T. Bradstreet, Attorney General Marcus H. Holcomb, Representative at Large George L. Lilley, Representative in Congress Nehemiah D. Sperry, Senator Irving H. Chase, Sheriff Jacob D. Walter (not elected), Judge of Probate Robert A Lowe, (I did not vote for him) Representatives to the Legislature Augustus J. Goodrich, Abner P. Hayes. Justices of the Peace: Charles W. Bauby Lucien F. Burpee Ulysses G Church Edward F. Cole George H. Cowell George H. Freeman Abner P. Hayes John P. Kellog Joseph E. Lauber Laurance L. Lewis Samuel J. Marsh Patrick J. Memahom Charles E. Megs Frederick M. Peasley Joseph H. Reid Howard B. Snow 11\07\1906 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\08\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\09\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\10\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\11\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Stansfield of Waterville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. This morning Frank, Raymond, John French and I took the first trolley car and at 7 o'clock and went to Mansfield's pont{??} in the extreme south east part of East Haven and dug out of a creek near No-mans-land about one bushel of oysters, one half bushel mussels and 1/2 bushel of long clams. It rained very hard while we were there and we got wet through. We left there about one o'clock and took the trolley car at Momargen{??} and paid 5 cts to East Haven where we took the car that came from Branford, paid 5 cts to New Haven Green where we took the car for Mt. Carmel on transfer to Whitneyville, paid 5 cts to Mt. Carmel, where we took the Connecticut Railway 10 cts to Cheshire, paid 10 cts to Welton's Crossing, paid 5 cts home where we arrive at 4 P.M. 11\12\1906 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\13\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\14\1906 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Yesterday the power from Bulls Bridge gave out again and the factories that are depending on that electric power were obliged to shut down, and the cars are off time. This evening Mary and Irving and 27 other Grangers went to Cheshire to visit the Grange there. They were dressed in the clothes of the olden time, as it is Old Folks Night. 11\15\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. It began snowing this forenoon at about 10 o'clock and tonight there was six inches of snow on the ground. I took the horse and snow-plough and went up the Frost Road, over the Meriden, down the Southmaid and up the Cheshire roads. It is now raining. 11\16\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The Mill Plain Choir met for rehearsal at Bessie White's, first house west of Mad River on the Meriden Road. 11\17\{1906} (Saturday) To day I worked at Mr. George Rockwell's house, No 30 First Avenue, covering his steam pipes with asbestos covering. 11\18\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Phipps preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The weather to day has been very warm. I spoke to Elsie Anderson about playing at the Chapel on Sundays. 11\19\{1906} (Monday) Worked at Mr. Rockwell's house all day. 11\20\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at Mr. Rockwell's house nearly all day. This afternoon I went up to see the Waterbury Rolling Mills which are being built. They have the boiler house and casting shop nearly completed and are putting the roof on the rolling mill. They were putting the string{?} pieces on the bridge over Steels Brook. While I was there one of them which they had placed fell over, catching a man's leg under it and crushing the ankle. He was an Italian and no one knew his name. 11\21\1906 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I received my weekly pay to day as I do every Wednesday $15. 11\22\{1906} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. The factory is running till 9 o'clock this week. Last week it did not work only till six. Twenty three years ago this morning I was married. 11\23\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Collies and Sherwoods and bought a pair of shoes for 2.50. 11\24\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\25\{1906} (Sunday) This morning John French and I took the first trolley car east and went to Mt Carmel where we took the consolidated cars to New Haven Green. Then we took the Branford car to East Haven Green and there changed and took the Momorguin{??} car to No-mans-land where we crossed over to Mansfields Grove and we then went up the creek nearly 1/2 mile where we got a lot of oysters, clams, mussels etc. We reached there at 9.15, having been 2 1/2 hours going. It was low tide at 1.20 and we had all the food that we could carry and started for home at 2.30. After we reached New Haven Green, the cars were crowded but we got home at 5.30. When I got home, I found Eleanor and Susan Moss and their brother at supper with my folks. They were from Cheshire and in the evening we all went to the Second Congregational Church. Friday evening Irving went to New Haven and staid with Cliff Heaton over night in Yale College and yesterday attended the football game between Harvard and Yale teams. Yale beat 6 to 0, there were 32,000 persons present. To day there was a game at the field at Wedges Corner between the Nangatuck and Waterbury teams at which there was 6,000 present. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. 11\26\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. They are cutting down the large maple trees on the south side of the East Main St Road opposite the Meriden Road to make room for the roadway between the trolley track and the sidewalk. They are large trees, three ft. in diameter and there are I think five of them. 11\27\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 11\28\1906 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I went up to the works of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. and paid to Robert Somers two hundred and fifty dollars, a payment of one quarter of my portion of stock. They have the casting shop about completed and the mill is being enclosed in the engine room is ready for the engine which has been shipped. Clyde came at about eight and surprised us all, having come from Easton since 11 this morning. 11\29\{1906} (Thursday) Thanksgiving. This forenoon all of my family went up to Hamilton Hall to the annual Somers family reunion. We had dinner at noon (Dwight L Somers in charge), after which a business meeting was called and I was chosen chairman, but as several of the men wished to go to see the ball game, we adjourned to meet again at about six o'clock. At about the appointed time, the meeting was resumed just as the ice cream was being served and the following business was transacted: on notion of William Gillettte, Dwight L. Somers was elected president, Mr. Joseph H Somers was elected vice president, myself secretary and Mrs. Charles Phillips treasurer. An entertainment committee consisting of William Gillette, Irving Miller, Robert Somers, Mrs. Benjamin Chatfield and Mrs. Rolland Jenner was elected. It was also voted to assess each member, as near equally as may be, a sum sufficient to pay the rent of the hall and other incidental expenses, the treasurer to make the collection. It was also voted to name the organization the Somers Family Association. There were about fifty who sat down to dinner. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Dwight L Somers (2), Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Somers (4), Gordon Somers (5), Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Somers (7), Mr. and Mrs. Louis Somers (9), Mrs. Lillian Somers Smith (10), Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Somers (12), Mr. and Mrs. George Somers (14), Miss Lizzie Somers (15), Miss Josephine Somers (16), Miss Myra Somers (17), Miss May Somers (18), Mr. and Mrs. Heman Miller (20), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Bristol (22), Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller (24), Clyde A. Miller of Lafayette '07 (25), Irving C. Miller (26), Margaret Miller (27), Ruth Miller (28), Raymond and Frank P. Miller (30), Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Jenner (32), Miss Louise Jenner 933), Miss Ethel Jenner (34), Miss Cara Miller (35), Mr. and Mrs. William Gillette (37), Mansfield Gillette (38), Miss Amy Miller (39), Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Goldsmith (41), Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips (43), Mr. William Goldsmith (44), Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Chatfield (46), Roda Chatfield (47), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woolworth (49), Miss Frances Woolworth (50), Mr. and Mrs. Bert Frisbie (52), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frisbie (54) and Mrs. Charles Gillette (55). The entertainment consisted of a bountiful thanksgiving dinner, music, singing, recitations, dancing, etc. etc. Besides those already mentioned, there were present several others including Miss Thayer, Mr. Boyd and Clifton Heaton of Yale. It was announced that the reunion next year should be held in the same hall and Mrs. Heman Miller will act as hostess. 11\30\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\01\1906 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\02\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Went to Cheshire this afternoon. When I got home all the folks were up to the Chapel to the Christian Endeavor Meeting. 12\03\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Snow fell to the depth of three inches to day. 12\04\1906 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 12\05\{1906} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Tonight Frank and I shod the horse with never slip shoes. 12\06\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The snow is all gone. 12\07\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the shop all day. 12\08\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 12\09\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck, assistant at Trinity Church, preached at Chapel. 12\10\1906 (Monday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day. 12\11\{1906} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This morning it was very icy as it rained and froze all night. We had the mill Plain Chapel insured yesterday for $2,500. The factory of Rogers & Brothers are working till 9 o'clock at night this week. 12\12\{1906} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers to day as usual. The people who live on the Frost Road in the Saw Mill Plain District are myself at the south end corner of the Cheshire Road, then next is Ralph Blakeslee's house, occupied by Mr. Sweet and wife, next Mrs. Frost's house occupied by John French and family, opposite is Hiram Abel and family, next beyond the brook is Mr. Jones and family, next on the west side is Mrs. Frost (widow of Charles) and Mary, and Warren Hitchcock and family, then beyond the Meriden Road lives Theodore Munson and family and his mother who is very sick. Further on is the Butler Frost place, now owned by Mrs. Frederick Frost of Hartford, who had sued Alden Young for killing her husband with his automobile, house now occupied by Allen Burgess, Agnes Abel and his child, next lives Sam Atkinson and wife, next on the west side Mr. Platt and housekeep, then William Atkinson next, at the bend in the road top of the hill lives George Atkinson and wife. At the foot of the hill lives Charles Lee, his wife and two young daughters, opposite lives Rufus A. Pulford and wife in a house that he built. Next to Charles Lee lives Benjamin Franklin Haggett and wife, then Earnest Robinson and family and beyond, the Frost Road meets the Woodtick Road at the Red Bridge so called. 12\13\1906 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Last night at 6 o'clock died Mr. Samuel Dodd of Meriden. He was president of the International Silver Company. 12\14\{1906} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Cousin Hellen Drew came from Ansonia night before last and is at our house. Last evening she and I drove out to J. Henry Garrigus and I got a roll of salve{??} and paid him 1.00. To night she and Walter Boyd are going to attend an entertainment at the Buckingham Hall called Messiah. 12\15\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Helen Drew went away yesterday afternoon. The factory shut down this afternoon on account of Mr. Dodd's funeral (he is buried in Meriden). Frank, Raymond and I took the horse and drove over Chestnut Hill, saw some men fishing at the reservoir and then went up onto the Bucks Hill Road south of Burday{??} Welton's and came south a little way and turned to the right and went north over World's End Hill and continued north and east and north until we came out on a strange road where we turned to the left and went down a very steep hill and came on to another road running at right angles to the one we were on which we followed, it being very dark, and finally we came to Hancock's Station. Then we took the road to the Gate House on the Nangatuck River where the towns of Thomaston and Waterbury meet and there followed a boy who had a lantern fastened under teams. On the way here Raymond took the trolley car home and Frank and I drove to the center of Waterbury and we bought one quart of oysters for thirty five cents and then we drove home reaching there at about 7. 12\16\1906 (Sunday) Went to the Second Congregational Church this morning and heard a minister from Boston preach. This afternoon I went to Cheshire on the trolley car and looked through the cemeteries at the center and then went to Brooks Vale and called on Mr. Alexander Doolittle, staid there till nine, and walked to the trolley line at Ives Corner. It was so dark that I could hardly keep the road some of the way. 12\17\{1906} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\18\{1906} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. About midnight last night, Clyde came home to spend his vacation. He brought Mr. Kimball, a classmate whose home is at Port Deposit, Maryland with him. When he got here, he climbed up the grape arbor and got into the boys window and went down and let Kimball in. 12\19\1906 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\20\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Jennine Phillips came and ordered 1/2 dozen Mystic desert spoons. 12\21\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 12\22\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\23\{1906} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport was at the Chapel this afternoon. This makes the 22nd Christmas he has been there. This has been a cold day. 12\24\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day, Clyde and Chester Kimball went to Hartford and saw the new bridge across the Connecticut River that is being built. They have the arches finished. They also went into the Capital and upon the top of the dome. 12\25\{1906} (Tuesday) Christmas. This morning we all got up at about 7.30 and we filed downstairs, Raymond, Frank, Ruth, Margaret, Irving, Clyde, Chester Kimball, Mary and I. We emptied our stockings and had lots of fun, after which Clyde and I went out the Meriden Road beyond the watering trough and got a Christmas tree and took it over to the Chapel. We then came home and after breakfast I shod the horse while the boys cut up some wood. At noon we got ready and went down to Father's where we had dinner. There were present Father and Mother, Frank and his wife Gussie, I and my wife and Clyde, Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Frank and Raymond and Chester Kimball, Mary and her husband, Roland Jenner and Louise and Effel, Cara, Iva and her husband William Gillette and son Mansfield, Fred's daughter Amy, he is in Detroit, and Mrs. Charles Gillette. In the evening we had a Christmas tree and all received presents, after which a lunch was served and we left for home at nine o'clock. In the afternoon Irving, Frank and I went up and saw the new mills of The Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. They have the buildings about finished except putting in the windows in the mill. The engine has not come yet. 12\26\{1906} (Wednesday) This morning I got up at 7 o'clock, had breakfast and hitched up the horse into the two seated wagon and Frank and I started for East haven to get some oysters, leaving Clyde, Raymond and Chester Kimball to come on by trolley car. We drove over the Old Cheshire Road through the notch-in-the-rocks where we turned short to the right and along the road under the mountain through Brooks Vale and onto the New Haven turnpike north of Mt Carmel. We stopped under the church sheds and fed the horse at Mt Carmel, and then went on to Angurville where we turned east and took the first road south through Fair Haven along the east side of Quinnapiac{??} River and on to East Haven Green where we turned south and saw Clyde, Raymond and Kimball who had just left the Branford car at the Green. We then traveled on to Mansfield's Grove, but stopped before we reached the Grove and left the horses in the woods and we got into a brook and got about four bushels of oysters and after feeding the horse and eating lunch, we started for home. We were obliged to stop and put in new calks{??} into the horses shoes to keep him from slipping and came past the stone church in East Haven at 20 minutes to 4 and drove on to Mt. Carmel where we fed the horse and put in new calks{??} as the road was very hard and icy, which made the horse lam and we had to go slow, but we got home at eleven o'clock. 12\27\{1906} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\28\{1906} (Friday) Worked at the factory. They had a Christmas tree at the Chapel this evening. 12\29\{1906} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. The packing room shut down tonight, thus all of the shop is closed for vacation. 12\30\1906 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport at the Chapel, his sermon included a review of the past year's events and he said that he attended a funeral this morning before service which made the 100th person he had buried since coming to Waterbury 25 years ago. 12\31\{1906} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 01\01\1907 (Tuesday) New Years Day. The weather has been warm. This morning foggy, then sunshine and tonight cloudy, but it has been warm and the ground is quite muddy. I have spent the day in working, putting up a washing machine in John Fabin's room. Only about a dozen worked. There are about 400 that work when the shop is running. This evening Clyde went to town and Clifton Heaton called to see him. In the parlor Irving, Chester Kimball, Clifton and Margaret are playing cars. Clyde and Chester of Lafayette and Clifton of Yale, all in class of '07. 01\02\1907 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Albert Moss told me that the concrete for the arch at Cotton Hollow on the trolley line was made 1,2 and 5 i.e. one bag 100 lbs Portland cement 2 wheel barrows of sand and 5 wheel barrows broken stone or small cobbles. 01\03\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory putting in machines for washing forks in John Tobin's room. 01\04\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. They started the engine and did a little work to day. 01\05\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving was promoted to sergeant in Co A, 2nd Regt., C.N.G.{??} last night, Clarence Brown has gone to work in the rolling mill at Benedict & Burnhams. Loaned book pumps and hydraulics to Martin Cunningham to day. 01\06\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Smith of the Baptist Chapel at Union City preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 01\07\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros to day. This evening I called on the honorable Frederick J. Kinsbury and we talked about the early history of the brass industry in Waterbury. 01\08\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went down to father's. 01\09\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Went to the Chapel this evening to a supper and entertainment given by the ladies. 01\10\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 01\11\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\12\1907 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day, 01\13\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Frederick Buck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 01\14\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Kent Bender came to board with us to day. He has gone to work in the Mattatuck shop. 01\15\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\16\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Sent a history of early brass industry and a list of the original men who founded it in the Nangatuck Valley. 01\17\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory of the Rogers & Brothers this forenoon. This afternoon I attended a stockholders meeting of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. in their new office near their factory on the Brown meadows. The same directors were reelected. They are Mr. A.H. Wells, F.P. Welton, R. S. Somers, M.E. Keeley, F.R. Beardsley, Corneilas{??} Tracy and Abel Kenworthy. President Ambrose H. Wells, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer Frederick Beardsley, Vice President Abel Kenworthy, Treasurer Frank P. Welton, General Manager William G. Martin. 01\18\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. We hitched into the sleigh this morning for the first time this winter. Sleighing is good although this evening is is misting and foggy. 01\19\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. The City of Kingston on the island of Jamaica was destroyed by an earthquake last Monday. There were 400 killed and over 1000 injured. 01\20\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Phipps preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This day has been very warm and the sleighing has all gone. 01\21\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 01\22\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked as usual to day. 01\23\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. I find that my pay is raised .25 a day. 01\24\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This was the coldest day so far. The thermometer registered 22 below zero this morning. This evening Sheriff William Gillette called and wanted me to go up to Woodtick with him as he was going to serve a writ of attachment on DeWit Cowles Wedrove to Mr. Cowle's house and attached a large fine pair of horses for a bill of $110.00 which on Wooding of Wolcott Center claimed that Cowles owed him. Mr. Clement Cornelius went bondsman for him in the sum of 200.00. 01\25\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. It has snowed all day but it is only about three inches deep. 01\26\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. To day Ralph Blakeslee gave the school children of Waterbury a sleigh ride. He had one hundred and sixteen loads drawn by two hundred and thirty two fine horses. The horses were furnished by Blakeslee about 120, Chase Rolling Mill 28, and the others by the Scoville Mfg Co, Benedict and Burnham Mfg Co, The Waterbury Brass Co, Tracey Brass, The Waterbury Lumber & Coal Co, The Brass City Lumber Co, The City Lumber & Coal Co and others, besides all the big sleighs that Waterbury could furnish. Twelve came from Meriden, two from Plainville, from from Bristol, seven from Nangatuck, some from Middlebury, Watertown, and Waterville. There were a little less than 6,000 children in the sleighs. The parade formed on the north side of the green and after having their pictures taken by a moving picture machine, went out West Main St, up North Willany{??}, through Grove, up Bishop, over Elizabeth, down North Main, over Silver, in Dublin, down Mill, down Baldwin, down Washington, up South Main, out East Main to Stanley Park and counter march to the Green and dismissed. 01\27\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. Margaret, Irving, Mr. Bender and I went for a sleigh ride over to Mr. Mosses in Cheshire. Last night Sheriff Gillette came and named{?} me to appear before the Superior Court Criminal Side to be held at New Haven on Tuesday, the 29th day of January 1907 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. 01\28\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory. The first trolley cars ran through to New Haven this morning. They bore the words Newhave, Congress Ave to Davenport Ave. Hitherto they ran to Mt. Carmel and we had to change there and take the consolidated cars for New Haven. 01\29{1907} (Tuesday) This morning I got on the trolley car at my gate and went to New Haven, started at six minutes after eight o'clock and arrived there 9.30. At 10 went into the juror room of the criminal side of the County Court House and jurors kept coming in till the room would not hold them. Some were sent into Sheriff Dunham's office to make more room. There were finally 58 men there. In due time we were called up a long flight of stairs into the court room and the roll called. We were then sent back and they began calling up one at a time, by lot, and after putting them a most rigid examination, accepted or excused them as the case might be. My turn came at about three o'clock in the afternoon when the messenger ran through the rooms calling Charles S. Miller of Waterbury. I followed him and was given the foreman's chair in Court. Thereupon the clerk administered an oath and the states attorney Williams asked my name and how long I had lived in Waterbury. I replied all my life. What is your occupation? Reply. I look after the general mechanical work at the International Silver Works. Do you believe in capital punishment? Reply. I think there are causes that demand it. he then put the question in stronger language and I replied that I did. Do you know of any reason why you cannot fairly and conscientiously try this case? Reply. I do not. The attorneys for the defence then took me and asked numerous questions among which were, are you interested in any other business other than that which you have spoken? Reply. I am. What is it, the name I mean? Reply. The Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. Is Mr. Williams the attorney for that corporation? Reply. He is not. Defense, accepted. State: accepted as eleventh juror. And I took my seat. They then examined about eight other men and then selected a Mr. Mansfield of Wallingford for the 12th man. He is a druggist. The remainder of the day was taken up in the examination of a doctor from the New Haven Hospital who prepared the autopsy on the murdered man. Before the examination of the doctor was begun, the following oath was administered to us. You solemnly swear by the name of the ever living God, that without respect of persons or favor of any man, you will well and truly try and true deliverance make between the state of Connecticut and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, according to law and the evidence before you; so help you God. The following are the jurors chosen and their place of residence: 1. Frederick Drapier of Nangatuck 2. Thomas Crane, Ansonia 3. Charles A. Bradley, Southbury 4. W. H. Todd, North Haven 5. Arthur Benham, West Haven 6. S. E. Dudley, North Branford 7. John R. Loomis, West Haven 8. John Clark, West Haven 9. J. W. Talmage, Hamden 10. George W. Thorpe, Meriden 11. Charles S. Miller, Waterbury 12. R. N. Mansfield, Wallingford 01\31\1907 (Thursday) Yesterday I went to New Haven and attended court, but as Judge Case charge us not to talk about the case or read any news papers, I will write nothing about it now. Last night I staid at Mr. Alexander Doolittle's in the south west corner of the town of Cheshire. This morning I took breakfast and took the train to Brooksvale on the Canal Railroad and went to New Haven and attended Court all day. 02\01\{1907} (Friday) This morning I started for New Haven at 7.42 in a hard snow storm. The cars ran very slow on account of the snow and when we reached Mt. Carmel, the car that should have come north went back to New Haven just before we reached there, causing a delay of about 24 minutes before another car came. When we had exchanged crews and started, I asked the conductor what time we would reach New Haven and he said 10.15. I told him of the other car coming and going back and that I was a juror in the Superior Court on an important case and that Judge Case might think that the Consolidated Rail Road was to blame if the Court had to wait and that they might hear from it. He went to a telephone and called some one and soon returned and ran the car very fast all the way to New Haven so I reached there at 10.04 and before the Court opened. 02\02\{1907} (Saturday) To day I worked at the factory all day making copper pickle baskets for Mr. White's part. 02\03\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Westworth of the seventh day advent denomination preached an excellent sermon at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mr. Jacob Garrigus, wife and daughter, Fannie Manwarren and her son Paul came and took supper. Albert Moss and his sister Sue, Fritzie Hanson and Amy were also there, which with our own family made 15 to supper and we all went to the Chapel to an illustrated lecture on the life of Christ given by Mr. Westworth. To day is Clara French's birthday, 25 years old I think. Mr. Noble's house up in Wolcott burned this morning. It stood at the north end of Plumb Street on the left hand side, the way of Cedar Swamp Pond. 02\04\1907 (Monday) I worked t the factory to day putting drain and steam pipes under the plating room. This evening I wrote brother Fred of Detroit, Mich. and H. Wales Lines of Meriden. 02\05\{1907} (Tuesday) This morning the snow had fallen to the depth of about 15 inches and the trolley cars were only partly running. I drove to the Nangatuck {?????} Rail Road depot and found it crowded with working people anxious to go to Oakville, Waterville, Nangatuck and other points to work. But no trains. Finally we learned that a train was coming from the north which should leave according to schedule at 8.55. It left Waterville at 8.18. Next we got word that it was stuck fast in the snow at the West Main Street crossing and was delayed one half hour. It finally came and we started down the road, very slow in some places and at Derby had to wait until a scraper and two engines had plowed out the road from New Haven. We then went in, reaching there at ten minutes to twelve. On the train at Derby I found two other jurors, Mr. Drapier of Nangatuck and Mr. Charles Bradley of South Britain who had come to Waterbury the night before. There was no Court held so we reported to Clerk Fowler which entitled us to our pay. I then went to Child's Restaurant and got a stew of oysters for 20 cts and then came back to the green and took the Derby trolley car to Derby where I changed and got aboard of the Ansonia car which I rode to Seymour where I walked to the rail road station and got aboard the steam cars and came to Nangatuck where I walked to the east side of the river and took the trolley home where I arrived at six o'clock. 02\06\{1907} (Wednesday) To day I went to New Haven by trolley through Cheshire. Snow drifts were deep all the way, in some places up to the car windows. This is my fifth day of attending the trial of Sam Knox for the murder of one Mr. Kelley on Church Street, New Haven nearly opposite the post office on the night of Jan 1st. 02\07\{1907} (Thursday) Went to New Haven to day and sat in the Superior Court on the murder trial of a colored man, Sam Know. All of the evidence was given and both state and defence rested. And Judge Case said that we would have to come again next week, so he would adjourn till 10 o'clock next Tuesday. 02\08\1907 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Found plenty of work. Sleighing is good all about here. 02\09\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory all day. 02\10\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck (Episcopal) preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mary, Ruth, Arline, and Geraldine Belding and I drove up to Dayton C. Wooding's and gave him an agreement allowing DeWitt Cole of Wolcott permission to cross his home lots in drawing wood from the East Hill. We then went to Woodtick and south past Chas Tuttle's and John R. S. Todd's to the Meriden Road. And in the Meriden Road and down to East Farms and home. It snowed very hard while we were coming south from Woodtick and we stopped at Arthur Pierpont's and borrowed a lantern. 02\11\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\12\{1907} (Tuesday) This is Lincoln Day. Attended Court at New Haven. The day as spent in arguments. The first to speak was Assistant State Attorney Wheeler, then Attorney Isabel, then Goodhart, then State Attorney Williams who ended at 4.30. This morning the thermometer was 10ø below zero. 02\13\1907 Attended Court at New Haven. After the opening at 10 o'clock we received the Judge;s charge, Judge Case, and at 10 minutes to eleven, we retired to the jury room and soon elected Mr. Mansfield of Wallingford foreman and myself clerk. We then balloted and it stood Manslaughter 1, Murder 2nd Degree 3, Homicide 1, and Not Guilty 1. In all we took 6 ballots and deliberated on the case 2 hours. We then wrapped on the door and were admitted into the court room where we were asked for our verdict and our foreman announced manslaughter. The state attorney thought that the Judge should give the maximum penalty and defence thought that it should be a light penalty. The judge then sentenced him to state prison to serve there from five to seven years. We then went to the Clerk's office and he paid us in cash. I received $39.24. I then went to Child's Restaurant and had dinner and looked about the city till about 4 o'clock when I took the trolley car and went to Brooksvale where I visited Mr. Doolittle for a time and then walked north and over to the trolley line where I got a car and came home. 02\14\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Mrs. James Porter died this morning, aged 90 years and 6 months. Her maiden name was Sophia Beecher and she was born on the west side of the road that runs from Summit to Prospect Center in a house that stood on the site of the present one north of the watering place. 02\15\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. A large party of my friends and neighbors met at my house this evening and gave me 15.00 which had been raised by subscription from making snow paths. 02\16\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Mrs. James Porter was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery this afternoon. 02\17\1907 (Sunday) Rev. John G. davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I was not there for this morning. I went to Meriden and visited the honorable H Wales Lines. Had a most profitable and enjoyable visit. Took dinner and supper and in the afternoon went for a walk with him. We visited first. Dea E. B. Everitt, then Ex Gov Abrian Chamberlain, and John Coe, the last two resides on Colony Street. 02\18\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The first regular trolley car ran to Watertown to day. 02\19\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 02\20\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The young men gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. 02\21\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day putting in a pump to pump water for the closets. This evening the Grange gave a masquerade ball and Mr. Beuder, Margaret, Ruth, Amy, Fritzie Hanson and George Hanson went from here. 02\22\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Washington's birthday. I raised the flag over the office. Irving went to New York to day. 02\23\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\24\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Walters preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 02\25\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\26\1907 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went to Nangatuck and saw Mr. William Ward about historic matters concerning Nangatuck. 02\27\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. They tried the new gas furnace to day for the first time, hardened four dies. 02\28\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Mary went to the Grange this evening. The thermometer was ten degrees below zero this morning and we now have had five weeks of continuous sleighing. 03\01\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Howard J. Rice of New Haven left a Remington typewrote for us to try. After work tonight Frank, Raymond and I went down town to see Co F of New Haven, or the New Haven Grays as they are commonly known, come in and march up Bank Street. They are the crack company of New Haven and are composed of business and professional men for the most part. They are here on invitation of Co A or the Chatfield Guards to a banquet to be given at the Hotel Elton in their honor. The governor Rollin Woodruf is here also. While waiting at exchange place, we found Ruth, Margaret, Bertha and Clara French and Fritzie Hanson and we all went to the depot{??} where Co A went and came up to the armory with the two companies. The Grays wore their gray uniforms, the same kind that I wore when I belonged to the 2nd Regt in 1878. 03\02\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. I learned this morning that the special train that was baring{??} the company of Grays and Governor Woodruf home from the banquet at the Hotel Elton last night was wrecked by a head on collision near the Eagle Brewery one half mile south of the depot and both engineers and both firemen were killed and about twenty of the soldiers were wounded. Two were taken to the Waterbury Hospital and the rest were taken to New Haven by trolley. I went to night and saw the wrecking crew move the last of the tender from the track. 03\03\{1907} (Sunday) I worked at the factory until ten o'clock. Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel to day. This evening Margaret, Amy, Irving and I went over to Prospect near Rag Hollow and went through the mansion that Mr. Albert B. Field is building. 03\04\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 03\05\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\06\1907 (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory of Rogers & Brothers. This evening Sheriff Gillette came and summoned me to court tomorrow morning in a case of Peter Laroque against the Fred F. Ley Co for obstructing the highway and cutting off his business. 03\07\1907 (Thursday) This morning I went to the Superior Court and this afternoon I was put on the witness stand to testify. The witnesses called were Ervis & Wright, Peter Laroque, myself and Mr. Montey and the blacksmith. The Court then adjourned to meet again next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. 03\08\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I worked putting rims on my little buggy wheels. Pete Laroque has rented the Slavin Blacksmith Shop on Silver Street and is fitting it up to carry on the carriage repair business. One Mr. Pease is doing business in the shop that I built and sold to Laroque who leased it to Pease. 03\09\1907 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. George Wilcox of Meriden, President of the International Silver Company, visited the factory. 03\10\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The attendance was small on account of the snow storm. We brought home one dozen singing books to be repaired at the Waterbury Blank Book Co. There are already one dozen there. On counting the books we find that there are 42 books. This includes all that we know of. 03\11\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Last Saturday night at about 10 o'clock, Mrs. Lucretia Munson died, aged 67 years. She was widow of Seneka L. Munson, who lived corner of the Meriden and Frost Roads and died about twelve years ago, and mother to Theodore and William Munson. 03\13\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory four and one half hours. yesterday I went to William Brewster's office and he worked repairing my teeth from eight to ten o'clock. I then went to the court house and attended the trial of Laroque against the Fred F. Lye Co as witness in the Superior Court. Came home at one o'clock, had dinner and attended the funeral of Mrs. Lucretia Munson which was held at her house at two o'clock. I then went to the Chapel and attended the funeral of a Mr. Gary of Union City who was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery at the same time that Mrs. Munson was. I then came home and got aboard of the trolley car and went to New Haven. Went to a book store near the corner of Chapel and York streets to buy a book but found it closed. I then came down Chapel Street and bought two quires{??} of typewriting paper and boarded the Waterbury trolley car and came to Ives Corner and walked to Brooksvale to Mr. Alexander Doolittles where I stayed over night. This morning I got up and after a breakfast of ham and eggs, Arthur and I went out and saw a calf that was born without any tail. I then went to the house and left $2.00 and walked to Ives Corner and took the car and came home. At eighteen minutes to ten I took a car and went to town after which I went to Mr. Brewster's office and he worked on my teeth till noon when I came home and had dinner of fried cod fish after which I went to the shop. The first express trolley car came from New Haven yesterday morning and began doing business. It comes from New Haven, passes through Waterbury to Nangatuck where it starts on its return trip. Mr. George Pritchard, aged 88, died of old age this morning at his home on the east side of the Wolcott Road between the Stilson and Pritchard Roads. 03\14\1907 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. The case of Peter Laroque against the Fred F. Ley Co was decided today in favor of Laroque with damage of $250.00. Yesterday Michael Haran who lived above Bucks Hill was found frozen to death in his house where he had been lying on the floor for about two weeks. Two of his cows had died of starvation, and some of the hens. He had lived alone in a house that stood between Bucks and Spindle Hills. 03\15\{1907} (Friday) I worked in the factory to day as usual. Mr. Mulken had my horse to day. Paid 2.00. 03\16\1907 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. I used my sleigh last Thursday for the last time this winter I think. 03\17\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckwalter of Waterville Methodist Church preached at the chapel this afternoon. The snow is nearly all gone. This is St. Patrick's Day, and the Irish observe it be wearing a twig of shamrock. Last Friday Mr. J. H. Coupland, agent for the Blickensderfer Mfg Co of Stamford called at my house and took my typewriter to Middletown where he is to sell it for 20.00 and he is to send me a new one next Monday from the factory for which I am to pay a balance of $30. Last Saturday a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Back. Mrs. Back was formerly Elsie French. 03\18\{1907} (Monday) I worked in the factory to day as usual. To night I worked recovering an old lounge{???}. 03\19\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\29\1907 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. My new typewriter came to day by Adams Express and I went to their office on Center Street and paid them thirty dollars and fifty cents, which with my old writer makes $50.00. The Waterbury American stated to night that Ernis{?} E. Wright has been appointed administrator on the estate of Mrs. James Porter. 03\21\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Finished trimming the lounge{???} to night. 03\22\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\23\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Harold Drew of Ansonia called this evening and took the trolley car to New Haven where he is to study. He is in the law school at Yale College. 03\24\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Westworth of Hartford preached at the Chapel this afternoon and this evening he gave an illustrated temperance lecture. Yesterday was a fine day and last night it thundered and lightninged, but to day it rained and this afternoon it hailed and now it is snowing. I went out and saw Hubert Wedge about some lumber. He is getting the second floor of his new house ready to rent. 03\25\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory all day. Edward S. Pritchard of the Stilson Road had rented his house to George Kyle and is going to move to Meadows End the middle April. Rob Hotchkiss went to work at Shelton lat Wednesday. 03\26\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\27\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory all day. 03\28\{1907} (Thursday) Worked in the factory to day. Mary, Ruth, Margaret, Frank, Raymond and Irving had gone to an entertainment at the Grange Hall. We received a letter from Clyde last night. He is spending this vacation with Chester Kimball at his home in Port Deposit, MD. They intended visiting friends in Baltimore Monday and Tuesday and yesterday Clyde intended going to Washington while Chester went home to attend a sociable that he had agreed to. They are to return to College next week. To night after work, Frank and I went to town and bought a set of steel tires for .90, two lbs of barbed wire staple .10, one pane of glass 14 x 28 .31 cts, one horse whip .50 twenty five lbs white lead 1.07. 03\29\1907 (Friday) Fast day. We spent the forenoon building a fence along the east side of the garden between my property and that of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. After dinner Frank and I went out on the Southington Mountain and saw Ed Holmes, and the mud that we drove through was very deep. From Arthur Pierpont's to the Meriden Road, it was up to the hubs of the wagon the greater part of the way, and for a distance of half of a mile this side of the Cheshire line it was very deep and in places all the way it was bad. 03\30\1907 (Saturday) Worked at the factory all day. This evening I put a set of tires on my piano buggy wheels. 03\31\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel after which he attended a funeral at the cemetery of a Mrs. Walker, sister of Edward Pritchard. When we had come home and had supper, Margaret and I drove out to Elwen{??} Hitchcock's and left an Easter lilly that the Chapel ladies sent to him as he is sick. We then went to Mr. Doolittle's at Brooksvale where we met his son Judson Doolittle who is a civil engineer and lives at Mt Vernon{??}, N.Y. and is employed in the Greenwood Cemetery. 04\01\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. It snowed about two inches last night and it is very cold to day. 04\02\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Allen Burgess moved into the Rodier place yesterday. A family has moved into the Robert Hotchkiss place to day. 04\03\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The young ladies gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel this evening. Frank went down to Mr. Doolittle's horseback and took his lantern home. The name of Dublin Street was changed by the Board of Aldermen last week to Hamilton Avenue. 04\04\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Mary, Margaret, Irving and Ruth went to the Grange Hall to a sociable. There is a great famine in China. The people are dying of starvation by the hundreds every day. This country is sending relief. I gave one dollar a week ago Sunday at the Mill Plain Chapel. They cast the first metal at the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. last Saturday and began rolling last Monday. 04\05\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\06\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I shod the horse. 04\07\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel to day. Mr. Elliott called to see me to day. 04\08\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory 10 hours. 04\09\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. It began snowing this morning and has snowed hard all day. It is now about 7 inches deep. After I got home tonight, I hitched onto the snowplough and made a path up the Doolittle Road, then in the Meriden, down the Southmaid and up the Cheshire roads home. 04\10\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The snow lay on the ground 12 inches deep this morning. 04\11\{1907} (Thursday) Worked in the factory. This evening Irving and I made picture frames. 04\12\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\13\{1907} (Saturday) Worked in the factory all day. Bertha French got through working at Rogers & Bros to night. 04\14\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 04\15\{1907} (Monday) Worked in the factory to day. This evening Mary, Margaret, Frank, Raymond, Mr. Bender and I went to Polia's Theater and heard Capt Peary lecture on his trip to the Arctic regions. He has been farther north than any man ever living. He expects to start again next year. 04\16\1907 (Tuesday) Worked in the factory to day as usual. 04\17\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\18\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day laying a tile pipe from the new water closet in the girls inspecting room to the river. 04\19\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory. It has snowed hard to day so that it lay on the ground an inch thick to night. 04\20\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. After work, Frank and I drove up through the Bunker Hill district across the lower end of Watertown to a Mr. Joseph Blanchett's just over the line in Woodbury where I engaged 1600 ft of chestnut boards to be delivered within four weeks at $20.00 per thousand. The weather was very windy and cold. We came home through Middlebury and saw where the new trolley road is being built. 04\21\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchem of Wolcott preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Godfrey Reed has taken charge of the choir again. Played the organ to day. 04\22\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Irving and I went to Mr. H. Wales Lines in Meriden and got and old bible that he loaned me to exhibit in my case of old rare books at the Chapel Fair to be given tomorrow night. The book was published in London on 1610 and was printed by Robert Barker. 04\23\1907 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Attended the chapel Fair at Hamilton Hall this evening. There was a large attendance. 04\24\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Clara French got through working at the spoon shop to night. This evening I carried Mr. Lines' bible home. He gave me two pictures of Senator Orville Platt. 04\25\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. To night I paid Hubert Wedge ten dollars for timber. 04\26\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Clara French went to work at the watch shop yesterday noon as stenographer. Bertha French went to work in Attorney Makepeace's office yesterday. 04\27\{1907} (Saturday) Worked in the factory to day till six o'clock taking the Peck lifter to pieces. After work we went to the Chapel and fixed rail by the side of the front steps, the organ and the clock. 04\28\{1907} (Sunday) Irving, Margaret and I went on to the train to Litchfield station and walked up to where Grandfather Miller used to live. We stopped by the way and got some arbutus{??}. There we called on Mr. Harris at the corner of the Torrington Road after which wee walked to Torrington and took the train to Waterville and the trolley home. 04\29\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This afternoon I attended a stockholder's meeting of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. and it was voted to increase the capitol stock from 100,000.00 to 200,000.00. 04\30\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Planted garden this evening. 05\01\1907 (Wednesday) Worked at he factory to day. They auctioned off building lots at Highlawn to day, sold two, highest price 185.00.. 05\02\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. They have sold a number of building lots at Hamilton Park plot, opposite me old blacksmith shop. 05\03\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. It is reported that they auctioned off five building lots at Highlawn yesterday and to day for prices ranging from 180.00 down to 100.00. 05\04\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. It has rained most of the time to day. 05\05\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I worked at the factory 4 1/2 hours to day repairing a stem pipe. 05\06\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory. It is reputed to day that they have sold 10 building lots at Hamilton Park Plot along the Meriden Road and up back of Father's. 05\07\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\08\1907 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The weather is cold and rainy. 05\09\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day putting up the lifter for the Peck drop. 05\10\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. After work, Frank and I went to the Foresters Hall and carried some tables and trimming over to the Chapel. 05\11\{1907} (Saturday) Worked as usual at the factory to day. It has been cold to day, mowed this morning and noon. 05\12\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I went on the trolley car to Cheshire, got off at Richard's Corner and walked to Brooksvale and examined the place where a Mr. Hitchcock dug for gold nearly 100 years ago. I then went to Mr. Doolittle's and visited with him a short time and came home on the trolley car. 05\13\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Last Wednesday the bill incorporating the Waterbury and Milldale trolley line passed the legislature. This evening Frank and I printed the Chapel steps and rails at the side of the steps. 05\14\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\15\1907 (Wednesday) I worked at the Rogers & Brothers factory to day. After work I worked making a horse power to run a saw. Had supper of baked meat pie and boiled canned corn, after which I rode on the trolley car to City Hall where I paid my tax of nine dollars. 05\16\{1907} (Thursday) I have worked in the factory to day ten hours. It has rained in showers all day. 05\17\{1907} (Friday) Worked in the factory to day. Mr. Douglas Maltly died yesterday afternoon. 05\18\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank ploughed Father's and Mr. Harvey's gardens this afternoon. 05\19\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Arnold of the Methodist Church in Waterville preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I drove across the Harper's Ferry Road to the Prospect Road which I followed to Prospect where I saw the new Soldier's Monument which was placed on the Green last fall and is to be dedicated next Decoration Day. I then went down the Cheshire Road to Matthews Street and over across to Gillette's Corner and in the Plank Road. Miss Mable Lines came to day and Margaret, Ruth, Mr. Bener and her went for a walk to Prospect Center where they met Burnis Falmage when she came out of the Grange Hall which they use for a Church since the old one burned. And together they walked to Miss Falmage's house near Summit and then came home. This as a matter of record is the first Sunday Ruth has missed from Sunday School in five years. 05\20\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. As I was driving through Hamilton Park this morning to the shop, I noticed that all the water was out of the ditch and on entering I found that the earth embankment between the bulkhead and the wheel pit had in some way let a portion of the water through and had forced the wall in quite a little. The watchman discovered it at nine o'clock last night and he notified Superintendent Tobin and he got several men and they shut the head gate but there was a big stick under it so a lot of water still passed through. I took Fint Gleason, Patrick { } and Andrew the Italian and went up to the dam and by putting small bundles of brusk and then sod and earth in front of the gate succeeded in stopping the water. We found that the gates are badly rotted and will have to be new. This will take some time and will give me a chance to repair the waterwheel which needs it very much and which I intended working night and Sundays on. Frank ploughed Mr. Jones's garden to night. 05\21\1907 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank ploughed the Misses Porters' garden to day. Mr. Blanchette of Woodbury sent me 1200 ft of chestnut boards yesterday. 05\22\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked in the factory to day. This evening the meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society was held in the Chapel and I was elected Chairman. The reports showed a balance in the Chapel treasury of 57.20 and in the treasury of the ladies union of 320.00. The following officers were elected for the coming year. Chapel Committee for the Episcopal Denomination - Austin B. Pierpont Methodist - Hiram Abel Congregational - Charles S. Miller Baptist - Henry Judd Secretary - Bessie White Treasurer - Henry Cook Sunday School Superintendent - Henry Judd Organist - Mr. Godfrey Reed. Librarian - Earl Munson Janitor - Mrs. Munson The matter of incorporating the society was taken up and it was voted that the matter be left with the Chapel Committee. 04\23\{1907} (Thursday) I worked repairing the waterwheels to day. Mr. Cattell and a boy were killed by the Watertown train at the crossing near the town house or Brookside home by the engine striking the wagon as he was driving across the tracks. 04\24\1907 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day repairing the 1200 pound Peck lifter hammer putting in a city water pipe from the street 2' in diameter, repairing the waterwheel etc. Buffalo Bill's Wild West show exhibited on the Porter lot this side of Father's. They are giving only one performance which was this afternoon starting at 4 o'clock and closing at six. Were late in getting here and it was all owing to a shotness of help. 05\25\{1907} (Saturday) I worked in the factory to day till noon when the shop shut down for a half holiday. All of the factories in Waterbury shut down Saturday afternoon or work nine hours and give a full week's pay except our shop. Some of the help handed in a petition to the office last Wednesday asking for Saturday afternoon off with full pay which was rejected. They then asked for Saturday afternoon without pay which was given. Yesterday forenoon another petition was sent in asking for work and pay Saturday afternoon the same as we have been having. haven't heard what may be done. I did not sign any of the papers. This afternoon Frank, Raymond and I ploughed the lower gardens and stacked up 1830 ft of chestnut boards which I bought of Mr. Blanchette of Woodbury to build over our barn with. 05\26\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Andrews of Hartford preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening rev. Mr. Westworth gave an illustrated stereoptician lecture which was well attended considering the rainy weather. 05\27\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary, Margaret, Ruth, Mr. Bender, Bessie White, Mrs. White and I went to the armory to see the battalion drill of Companies A and G. The drilling was very good and there were many people present to witness it. Company A gave a competitive drill in which nine men took part, one after another were put out on account of making mistakes until only two were left, Sergeant Louis Stocking and Sergeant Irving C. Miller. The prize was awarded to Sergeant Irving C. Miller in the form of a gold medal by Major Tilson of New Haven. He also took the Hitchcock medal for bringing in the most recruits to the Company. After the medals were awarded they had a dance. 05\28\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory to day. The weather has been very cold. Usually at this time of year, we are gathering flowers for the veterans to decorate the deceased soldier's graves but this year there is no flowers to be found to speak of. I have not seen a honeysuckle, daisy or lilac in bloom. 05\29\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Clyde came home this afternoon, bringing with him a Mr. Woolcock whose home is in Pennsylvania. They came from New York where their senior class of Lafayette College had a supper at the Hoffman house last night. Clyde told me that he has secured a position from the City of Waterbury making maps etc. Miss Maud Honeyman of Plainfield, New Jersey came this afternoon. She is engaged to be married to Mr. Bender and came on invitation of Mary and to the surprise of Mr. Bender. There was a severe frost this morning and water froze over 1/4 inch thick with ice. 05\30\1907 (Wednesday) Decoration Day. This morning Irving, Clyde, Stewart Judd and I got our drums out and Clyde fifed and the rest drummed for a time. We also got the fire engine out and showed Mr. Woolcock how it worked. This afternoon, Margaret, Ruth and I went to Prospect to the dedication of the Soldier's Monument. There were present about 1300 people, veterans from Waterbury, Cheshire, Nangatuck, Betheny and other places, the Boys Brigade from St. Pauls Church and the Cheshire Band and Nangatuck Drum Corps were in attendance. There was singing and speaking by Rev. Mr. Soule{?} of Nangatuck Judy Cowell, Senator Phalon, Representative Lavergne G. Clark, the Honorable F. D. Bradstree of Thomaston. Clyde and Mr. Woolcock left this afternoon for college at Easton Pa. 05\31\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory. Clyde went back to college yesterday afternoon. 06\01\1907 (Saturday) I worked in the factory to day packing the shafts of the two waterwheels and this afternoon put in a new galvanized iron pipe to take the city water from the watermeter to the boiler room in place of the old one that was full of rust. Mr. Bender and Miss Maud Honeyman to whom he is engaged to be married went up to Bidwell Street to look at a house that they are talking of buying. 06\02\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service the Committee held a meeting and appointed A. B. Pierpont Chairman. The Committee voted that the Secretary count the money that is collected and give it to the Treasurer and that the Committee approve all bills and that the Chairman keep a record of the bills so approved. Also that I look up the matter of the new water supply put in the Chapel in the regard to health. 06\03\1907 (Monday) I worked in the factory to day repairing the waterwheels and helping Mr. Daylie's men put in a new 6" section pipe to the big steam pump. Tonight shod the hose and planted sweet corn. Miss Maud Honeyman went home to day. 06\04\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory to day. 06\05\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Phillip Frey is to move in Mrs. Anna Hall Pierpont's house next to the Grange Hall where Mr. Rooland the mail carrier has moved out. I attended the meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association this evening and the following officers were elected: Trustees Mark L. Warner, Hiram Able, Warren Hitchcock, Theodore Munson, Ralph Blakeslee, Mr. Jessell and Mr. Candy, Austin B. Pierpont, Charles S. Miller, auditors. They had a new map of the grounds drawn by Mr. Patten. 06\06\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 06\07\{1907} (Friday) Worked as usual to day in the factory. 06\08\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I repaired the shaft iron on my new concord buggy. 06\09\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Clara, Bertha French, Margaret and I went for a drive up to Wolcott past Pritchard's Saw Mill and over the hill at the meeting house and down past Mark Tuttle's corner and home through Woodtick. 06\10\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Robert Hotchkiss has bought of William Atkinson the Gallagher place up by the red bridge. 06\11\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers which is Factory J of the International Silver Company. 06\12\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked in the factory to day, Yesterday afternoon, as Cousin Robert D. Somers was showing a man how to run a pair of straightening rolls at the Waterbury Rolling mills, the glove on his hand caught between the metal and the roll and drew his hand in up to the wrist. He showed remarkable grit, not uttering a sound as the hand was being crushed by the roll except to give directions to the man to stop the machine and while others sickened, he looked at the ruined hand and considered if there was not a chance to save it. They telephoned and Dr. A.A. Crane came and had him taken to the hospital where the hand was amputated three inches above the wrist joint by Dr. Crane, Dr. Frost, Dr. Demming, and Dr. Graves. At last account he was comfortable. 06\13\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Irving brought home the tickets that are to take us to Easton to see Clyde graduate from Lafayette College. They cost 3.65 each. We had a severe frost yesterday morning and one Tuesday morning. 06\14\1907 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. We are getting ready this evening to leave on the 6.35 train in the morning for Easton to see Clyde graduate from Lafayette College. Mary, Ruth, Margaret, Irving and I are going. 06\28\{1907} (Friday) To night at 6.30 I arrived home and after supper attended the Saw Mill Plain School meeting which had been called by Committee man Mark L. Warner. On the informal ballot that was taken, there was 46 votes cast of which Warren Hitchcock received 28 and I received 23. On the formal vote which was next taken, I received 24 and Warren 23 votes so I am the Committeeman. The other officers are Clerk B. F. Haggett, Treasurer James White, Collector John Galagher,. They voted to lay a tax of four mills on the list of 1906 and to pay Miss Totem 20.00 for service as principle and to pay the collector 75.00 and not to pay me anything. {Here follows the record of the weeks (6/15 - 6/27) that were previously skipped over above:} 06\15\{1907} (Saturday) We, Mary, Margaret, Ruth, Irving and I left Waterbury on the 6.50 train and went to New York where we went across the city and river to the Delaware and Lacawana train and went across New Jersey to Easton where Clyde met us at the the station and we took the trolley to College Hill but when near the top of the hill, the top of the car took fire and we had to walk the rest of the way to the house of Mrs. Carwin, corner of Porter and High Streets. There were besides us a Mr. and Mrs. John Kimball and Mary of Port Deposit, MD, a young lady from Scranton, PA, and a young man from down in New Jersey. In the evening Clyde came and we went to the theater to a play given by some students of the college entitled Lafayette (College) Fifty Years Ago. 06\16\{1907} (Sunday) After breakfast this morning, we attended religious service at the Chapel at the College. Had a sermon by President Warfield. The Chapel was well filled and the senior class came in dressed in their gowns and caps of black. Clyde was with them. After service we walked across the campus of seven or eight acres surrounded by college buildings on all sides to the hall where Clyde and Chester Kimball roomed. They have a sitting room and two bedrooms. They have them all fixed up in attractive stile. On the side wall are many familiar photographs of Waterbury people. Soon we went to dinner, all of our party went to our boarding place except Irving and I. We went to Clyde's club in Marteen Hall where we ate dinner, had roast beef, corn, greens, pudding, ice cream, coffee etc. I then went to where Mary and the girls were and got ready to go up Weygadp Mountain. After waiting some time, Clyde, Chester, Irving and a couple of pretty girls came, and we walked to the foot of the mountain where Mary and Mrs. Kimball took the trolley car and the rest walked to the top where there is a large brick hotel from which we had a fine view in every direction, north through the Delaware Water gap thirty miles away, west over a fine farming country and through the wind gap many miles away, south over the City of Easton and the mountains beyond, east and east{??} across the Delaware and into New Jersey a great distance, in this direction more than half of the ground was ploughed and panted, much of it with wheat. We went out on the point of the mountain where we could look down to the river 500 ft below and had a fine view of the road and country. We went back and met Mary and Mrs. Kimball and I went out to the peak again with Mary. We then came back and took the trolley at a platform made of concrete where the seat was a plank 40 or 50 ft long, 14 in. wide and 2 1/2 thick set up on end all of which was made of concrete in one piece. Near by was a dancing pavilion, the floor posts, seats and steps of which were all one piece of concrete. About the grounds were many seats 6 ft long that could be carried about made of one piece of concrete. Stading on the mountain we could see the smoke and steam rising from two great Portland cement works at the west and two beyond the Delaware north, and the Vulcanite and another works at the south while at the foot of the mountain on the Jersey side there is a mine where they are getting out cement rock. The cement works run night, day and Sunday. We came home by trolley to the foot of the mountain and walked the rest of the way. After supper, Mary and the girls went to service at the College Chapel but I took a walk down by the river and around to the center of the town, just as the church bells were ringing and went into the First Dutch Reformed Church, the chimes of which were playing familiar hymn ("I Need Thee Every Hour"). The service was the same as the Congregational except that the people stood up when they prayed. The church was built in 1776. In 1777 important Indian treaties were made within it, and it was used for a hospital during the Revolutionary War. It is fine inside, largest organ I ever saw. 06\17\{1907} (Monday) This morning I took a walk about the town and among other things saw a big canal boat come up the canal by the Delaware and into a lock and after being lifted up about six feet, it was drawn out and went up the Lehigh River. The boat was empty and weighed about 18 tons and was drawn by two mules. The same boat when loaded would weigh about 120 tons and yet two mules would draw it. They have begun haying here, saw one large field mowed. The grass grows large and higher than at home. At two o'clock we went to the College exercises which were held on the south side of Old South College on a platform built for the occasion and trimmed with many colors of hunting, also wired with hundreds of electric lights for use in the evening. I could not hear the programme but saw one student after another speak and at intervals the Allentown Band played. Then came the awarding of the presents. These consisted of toys etc. such as nigger dolls, horse, drum, frogs etc. each of which had some reference to some deed, joke or act of the student such as one who had had some hobby received a little toy horse, another who had taken the part of an Irishman in some play received an Irish flag. Several who had taken the part of girls in the theater received girls' hats, another who was just married received a toy baby etc. etc. They were all accomplished with very able remarks but I could not hear them Clyde received a small kerosene oil can about which was wrapped a card bearing the word fire in big letters. This had reference to the time that he was arrested for putting out the fire at McArthur's back two years ago. In the evening we went to a promenade{??} which was held at the same place. I went with Mary and Mrs. Kimball and we sat on the steps of Old South and listened to a fine band concert. Towards the end of it Mr. James Gayley of New York who is worth over eleven millions of dollars and a graduate came marching down through the crowd with a brass band he had hired playing "There Will Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight." After a time he and his wife and three or four others marched down to the center with the band playing. After the exercises in the afternoon, Irving and I went up the Lehigh in the trolley cars to Island Park. On the way we saw many factories and we went under two suspension foot bridges said to be about 130 feet above the river and over 1/2 mile long. Near the park is a chain bridge over which he mules cross as the draw the canal boats. 06\18\{1907} (Tuesday) At the appointed time Irving met me and we took the trolly cars and went up the Lehigh Valley to South Bethlehem, passing through Freemansburgh and several villages and the best farming country that I ever saw, so stones and hundreds of acres of wheat, barley and rye and thousands of acres ploughed and planted with potatoes, corn and many other things. The houses were mostly built of stone, some of brick and a few of wood, nearly all plain two stories high, with slate roof. The barns were nearly all of stone and very large, all slate roofs and small queer looking holes through the ends to ventilate the hay. In many places the fences were post and rail, four rails high, the posts were of slate 2" thick, 12 or 14" wide and about 4' 6" high above ground, with holes in them the same as wood in which the rails were put. The horses used by the farmers were the largest and best I ever saw anywhere, saw two and three working in different parts of the same cornfield cultivating. In going up the valley we saw many factories, also iron and zinc works, but at South Bethlehem saw the largest steel works that I could imagine as large as all of the shops in Waterbury put together, and employ 20,00 men and cover a distance of three miles by the side of the Lehigh River. And there are more forges, furnaces and fires than I ever saw before and more large tacks and chimneys that all in Waterbury put together. We crossed over to Bethlehem paying 2 cts toll at the bridge and went back to Easton by trolley, and got up on the campus just as they were arranging to take Burr Mc Kintosh's big picture (said to be the largest ever taken in the world 14' long 11' high). They placed the chairs in a circle about 150 ft in diameter and had the classes sitting in groups and the visitors standing in back together with several class bands. The camera was in the center of the circle and when all was ready it made on very slow revolution and the picture was taken. Mary, Irving and I stood back of Clyde and I suppose that we are in the picture. In the afternoon we went to a ball game between the Bucknell College team and the Lafayette. Soon the senior class came marching onto the grounds, followed by a band, then class of '76 and other bands and classes till all down to 06 were there and many of the older graduates beside, 11 large bands in all. After marching clear round the grounds and part way again, the classes formed "company front" on the north side of the ground, bands consolidated in front, and all marched across the ground. Bands playing all together "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "How Firm A Foundation". The colors of the dress of the several classes, the fine appearance of all, and the long front of the bands, about 1/4 of a mile I should judge (the classes were nearly double that length) made an appearance which for beauty could not be excelled and the music was grand beyond description. At a dinner which was given to the older graduates in a large tent on the campus, the sum of $50,000 was subscribed and the competes a fund of half a million dollars which has been raised for an endowment college fund. This evening Clyde, Irving and the girls have gone up to Paxinosa{??} to a college dance. 06\19\{1907} (Wednesday) At 10 o'clock we were in Pardee Hall where the graduating exercises were to be held. Soon we heard a band coming playing "Tell Me The Old Old Story" and the seats on the large stage were soon filled with the most learned men that this and other states afforded, Governor Stuart of Penn, Gov Hughs of New York, several Chief Justices and High Judges, professors, doctors etc. The senior class marched in and took seats that had been reserved for them in front of the stage and the auditorium was soon crowded. The exercises opened with a prayer by Rev. William Henry Roberts D.D.,L.L.D. of Philadelphia, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He was introduced by President Warfield. All of the men who occupied the stage were dressed in robes or gowns and caps which were trimmed with rich colors denoting their degree of learning. Next came the Salutatory which was delivered by a student of Easton in Latin, then an oration by Edmond G. Wilson of West Philadelphia, then conferring of prizes, next oration "The Early History of Medicine", with valedictory address by Henry Claud Updegrove of Easton. He did well. There were many wet eyes when he bade the College and class fairwell. After this the class sang their parting song and gave the class cheer. Then an address by James Gayley, M.E., S.O.D. of New York, he is Vice President of the United States Steel Co. and a civil engineer and worth over eleven millions. Next conferring of degrees by President Warfield, Clyde marched upon the platform with the other candidates for the degree and received the degree granted by Lafayette College of C.E. After the class degrees were given, the Governors of New York and Penn and several Chief Justices were given the degree of D.l. and many other doctors and professors were granted degrees, then the Benediction. Soon a parade was formed in front of the auditorium and marched, headed by the band playing 'How Firm A Foundation." to a tent on the west side of the campus where the ladies of Easton had prepared a dinner for the thousands of college men that were there. In the afternoon we went about the town and over to Phillipsburgh and saw many things of interest among which was the famous Greens Bridge, two miles south east of Phillipsburgh. The young folks went up to Island Park this evening. 06\20\{1907} (Thursday) Irving and I left Easton and went to Allentown by trolley, expecting to go to Perkeyomen but were four minute late for the train so we bought tickets to Lansdale $1.00 and went there by express train, passing through a long tunnel at Acorn. From Lansdale, we went by trolley to Norristown and walked across a wooden covered bridge (counting our paces and found it to be 1000 ft long) to Bridgeport where we took train to Valley Forge, .18 cts. Went through Washington's headquarters, saw Varnum's headquarters, Fort Huntington, Fort Washington, walked for miles along breastworks and entrenchments, saw where huts stood where soldiers lived, went up observatory tower 120 steps, saw the whole camp, four miles long, three wide, saw soldiers' graves, old redoubts etc. etc. Took cars to Philadelphia 58 cts, stayed over night at Winsor Hotel near City Hall. 06\21\{1907} (Friday) We went to a restaurant and had breakfast after which we went to John Wanamakers Store, corner of Broad and Market streets and after walking about two miles and going down three stories below the street level and up five above. we succeeded in buying a collar, tire, shawl strap and rubber cloth. We then went up to Fairmont Park. I was there was the Centennial Exposition in 1876 but had not been in Philadelphia since. Saw nothing that I recognized in that part of the city. We then took trolley to Independence Hall and went through it. We then went to the Penn R R station and bought tickets for Port Deposit, MD. Took express to Perryville on the Susquehanna River and train to Port Deposit. We found Mr. John Kimball in his office and he soon got a buggy and took us about the place and up to the Jacob Tome Institute which is beautifully located on a hill east of the town. The buildings are of stone well built and everything is there that money can buy to make a good institute. We found Mary in one of the buildings. She had come in from Mr. Kimball's farm with a two seated carriage and she took us out to the Waterworks and there we saw the best filtration plant that has ever been built. We returned to Mr. Kimball's office and there found Chester who had just come from Lafayette College. He told us that Mary, Clyde and the girls expected to leave Easton for home that day. We then started for Mr. Kimball's home, Mr. K{?} and I in the buggy and the rest in the two seated carriage. Mr. K took me up the River Road and showed me where the ice piled up so high that they made a tunnel through it for the cars to pass through and there were great granite quarries where they were using compressed air to drill with. A man could drill 10 5/8" holes with their drill while I could drill one by hand. We reached Mr. Kimball's home, two miles from the town up on a hill and the finest place I ever saw, large house, barn three stories high with hay bay 120' long, 16' wide and three stories high, barn floor 36' wide. He has 16 acres wheat, 14 acres corn and many of other truck{??}. We had a fine supper and went to bed and slept sound. 06\22\{1907} (Saturday) We left Mr. Kimball's this morning at eight o'clock in a buggy and he drove us to the Port Deposit depot where we bought tickets for Washington $2.01. Went to Perryville where we changed cars and crossed the Susquhanna River to Havre De Grace and sped on to Washington, passing through two long tunnels at Baltimore. At Washington we went into a colored barber shop and got shaved and had our shoes blackened. Then we went up Pennsylvania Avenue and up 68 steps to the Capitol which we went through and up 347 steps to the top of the dome where we could look all over the city. We then came down Pennsylvania Ave. to the White House which we went through. We saw many other buildings but did not stay to look at them, but went to the dock and took the steamer to Mt. Vernon. As we were walking to the tomb where Washington lies, we met Mr. William Leggett and his new wife from Waterbury. They were on their wedding trip and were the only people that we knew after we left Easton. At the tomb we saw the marble caskets that contain Washington and his wife, then we went to the mansion, saw the kitchen with its great fire place and crane, got drink of water from the old well, saw the room and bed, 2nd floor, where Washington died, room and bed, 3rd floor, where Mrs. Washington died, Lafayette Chamber and all the other rooms and halls. They are furnished as they were when Washington was alive. The brick barn, coach house with his old coach, bake house, laundry building, butter house, spinning house and many other houses are the same as they were while Washington was living. When we passed Mt. Vernon, the bell on the boat tolled and the band played "Rock of Ages". Every vessel tolls its bell or lowers its flag while passing. We took trolley to Alexandria, on the way we passed through a woodland which was fragrant with the odor of the white honey suckle. It runs in a vine and has many white blossoms. At A-, we bought tickets from Fredericksburg, 1.40 and took express train not stopping until we got there. The land through which we passed is mostly clay, sand and not very productive. Reached there at 7.34 and went to the Excelsion{?} Hotel, the only hotel in the place, had supper of steak, rice, potatoes, southern cup cakes, apricots, and coffee, supper bread and breakfast 1.50 each. The hotel stands on the west side of Main Street which runs nearly north and south with buildings 2 and a few 3 stories high and touch each other, not a tree to be seen in the length of the street. This street is paved, but the other streets are not, and where we cross them stones are placed nearly two feet apart and we had to step from one to the other in crossing. 06\23\{1907} (Sunday) After breakfast this morning, Irving, I and a man from Texas hired Mr. J. A. Turner who was a Confederate soldier and was in the battle of Dec 13th 1862 and a three seated top wagon, pair of horses with a colored driver, and went over the battle field, saw where the Union forces were repulsed, where Mere's Irish brigade was cut to pieces, where the New Jersey Regiment which got nearest the Confederate works was annihilated, where the Confederate line of battle was, where the rebel batteries were posted on Maryes Heights{??} and where the Washington batteries were that mowed the Union men down, where the federal batteries were on the east side of the Rappahannac{??}, where the buildings where shattered by our shot and shell, and several buildings with many bullet holes in them, saw where the bridges were thrown across the river over which our troops marched. Went up to Falmouth and saw where President Lincoln reviewed the union army. Saw Washington's home and where his mother is buried. Saw General Murser's{??} home and his monument, the Rising Sun Tavern, where Washington entertained Lafayette, the cemetery where 16,000 Union soldiers who were killed in the battle are buried, and another where 2,500 Confederates who were killed are buried, after paying Mr. Turner 1.00 each, Irving and I went to St. George's Episcopal Church where we attended service. This church had 15 cannon balls shot through its steeple during the battle. After service, we went to the station and bought tickets to Richmond $1.85 and traveled through a country that was much of the way sand, clay or swamp, not many houses or towns and here and there nigger huts and shanties. At Richmond we went about the town and to the Capitol and about the park where there are many grey squirrels. Saw 14 at once on the grass. After looking about, and as the weather was becoming hot, we took the trolley to Peterburgh, .40 cts where we went over many of the old military works which were used during the siege. Went out toe the crater 2 1/2 miles south west where the Union men blew up a rebel battery with four tons of powder and a Mass Regt charged in but, not being reinforced, were all killed or captured. Went along the works to Fort Stedman two miles, and darkness coming up, we turned back to town and got rooms at the Stafford house 1.00 each. 06\24\{1907} (Monday) This morning we went to a restaurant and ordered breakfast, but it was so rank and the place so full of flies that we could not eat, so went to the station and took the train to City Point. The train consisted of an engine, one freight and one passenger car. The passenger car was divided in the middle by a baggage apartment and front of this the black people rode, and back of it, the white. At City Point, we took the steamer Pocohontas and stopped at the principal landings as we sailed down the James River. Stopped at Jamestown for 1/2 hour and went ashore and saw the old church tower built 1610 and the old fort and grave yard and many other things of interest. We stopped at Newport News and Old Point Comfort and landed at Norfolk just before dark, having sailed 100 miles for 1.00. We went direct to the Gladstone Hotel where we engaged rooms for .75 cts each and then went out to the Exposition grounds. They looked just fine as all of the buildings were outline with electric lights while several search lights were throwing their lights in every direction. It is eleven miles from the city to the grounds and costs 10 cts by trolley. 06\25\{1907} (Tuesday) WE spent all day at the Exposition, coming back to the hotel to night. Got our meals last night and to day at Hudson's English Kitchen for 50 cts. Supper tasted good last night as we had nothing to eat during the day, and the night before we were so hot and tired that we went to bed, having eaten nothing since breakfast. 06\26\{1907} (Wednesday) We expected to sail for home tonight but could get no tickets as they had all been sold and we found that the next best thing was to engage passage on the Jamestown for New York and leave tomorrow noon. So we paid 6.50 for tickets including state rooms. We then went over to the Portsmouth Navy Yard where we spent the afternoon looking at war ships, torpedo boats, submarine boats, shops, cannons, dry docks, new guns that they are putting into the Missouri that have a 12" bare{??} and are 42 ft long. We went aboard of the battle ship, Kentucky, and returned to Norfolk at about 4 o'clock and took a boat and went up to the Exposition to see where the fire was this morning. When we got there we found six squares burned over, on which stood last night hotels, saloons, restaurants, play houses and other buildings including many stores. It started at five this morning and is still burning in the evening. We came back by trolley. 06\27\{1907} (Thursday) We got up early, had breakfast and took trolley at corner of Main and { } streets for Point Pleasant. It was an express and went very fast, When near the end of the line, a car that was in back of us ran into the rear of our car as we stopped to let a passenger off. It smashed the platform and broke the door and rear end, but no one was hurt. We soon took the boat and went across to Old Point Comfort and went immediately to Fortress Monroe which is the largest fort in the United States. WE walked nearly around it on the parapet, saw many large disappearing guns and many things of interest, among which was a fence over 1/2 mile long with rails of iron top and bottom but the pickets were musket barrels set in three to the foot about. Went back by boat and trolley to Norfolk and went aboard our boat which was the Berkley, but she only carried us across the bay to Pinners Point where we landed in a large warehouse which covered about six acres and was filled with cotton, pig iron, barrels, and hagsheads of vegetables and a great variety of merchandise. We passed through to the south side and went on board the Jamestown ocean steamer which lay at the south side of the building and was taking on board a cargo of freight. On the south side of the ship lay two barges loaded with barrels of new potatoes and there were 20 negroes on each barge loading them into the Jamestown. As they were rolling them in in, I timed them by my watch and they put in twelve barrels a minute from each barge and they kept it up for two and one half hours after we got there, and the barges were about half unloaded when we arrived. As I was watching the potatoes go into the vessel, a fleet of twelve sloops{??} and schooners went by drawn by a tug all loaded to the water's edge with barrels of potatoes and two other schooners followed them all loaded with new potatoes. While they were loading the potatoes into two gang ways on one side, on the other they were loading in pig iron, cotton, peanuts, carpets, and other manufactured goods until it seemed as though they would sink the ship. Finally we got under way at five o'clock and steamed up through Hampton Roads and out into the ocean. Before dark we had supper for which we paid 1.00 each but I did not eat much as I was not hungry. We made the acquaintance of a Mr. Roes of Houston and Mr. Langley of Galveston, Texas and we sat on the deck and talked till quite late when we went to our state room No 31 and went to bed. I was not sleepy but the rocking of the ship soon put me asleep and I knew nothing until day break when we were off Delaware Bay and land in sight. About eight we were able to see the Jersey coast and we kept it in sight all the way to New York. The lag line showed that we were going about 14 miles an hour. We reached New York at one o'clock and dock at Pier No 26, North River. We walked over and took the Faunt{??} Avenue elevated cars and went to 42nd street where we went to Grand Central depot and bought tickets for New Haven, 1.50. Then we went to Childs Restaurant and had dinner, took train at three o'clock and reached New Haven about five and took trolley for Waterbury, which we reached at 6.30 at my own gate having traveled all the distance without injury or accident for which I thank God. To night I attended a meeting of the voters of the Saw Mill Plain School District and was elected District Committee. 06\29\1907 (Saturday) I worked to day at the factory. 06\30\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. After service I went to see Mr. James White but he was not at home. I walked home and took Raymond, Frank and went to Austin Pierpont's and told him to order 30 tons of egg coal at 7.00 per ton for the Mill Plain School. I then drove round by Mr. White's and talked school matters a while, when I came home and went down and saw mother. 07\01\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory all day. 07\02\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\03\1907 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 07\04\{1907} (Thursday) Worked with Frank and mowed the orchard est of the house where Mr. White lives for the Mattatuck Company. 07\05\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 07\06\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory repairing, the factory shut down Thursday for the rest of the week. 07\07\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel. 07\08\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Frank finished mowing the field back of the Mattatuck factory to day and drew the hay to town for them. 07\09\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank finished haying in the meadow east of the Mattatuck factory ditch. 07\10\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\11\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank mowed and got in the hay in the yard in front of the Mattatuck factory. 07\12\{1907} (Friday) I worked in the factory. It has rained nearly all day. 07\13\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. After work I went up to Mr. James White's and helped Frank get in the hay, after which I came home and raked up my hay, when Nathan Pierpont came with his father's machine and I took it and went down to Father's and mowed as long as Frank and I could see, when Frank took the machine home. 07\14\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel this P.M. I went for a trolley ride over to Cheshire and called on Mr. Doolittle. The new trolley road was opened for travel yesterday from Nangatuck to Seymour and to day crowds went that way to New Haven. 07\15\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Mark L. Warner came this evening and gave me the key to the school house and turned over the Committee man's book. 07\16\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I attended a meeting of the board of "Public Works' in regard to a layout of the Woodtick Road from the Meriden Road to the north line of the Old School property. I reported in favor of the layout. Mr. Raymond and Frank Welton were also there. 07\17\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\18\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\19\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank got in the last of Father's hay to day. 07\20\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I mowed the grass on the west side of the road opposite my house. 07\21\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr { } preached at the Chapel. After service Mary, Ruth, Bessie White, Bessie Parks and I went out to Arthur Pierpont's for a ride. This evening the young people of the neighborhood held a praise service at my house. 07\22\1907 (Monday) {Margin note: Wooster Mc Guen} I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I ordered of Mr. Mc Elligott thirty tons of egg coal for the Mill Plain School Adelbert Chandler has bought the Wooster Mc Guen place in Oxford and is moving there to day. 07\23\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Frank and Raymond worked at Mr. White's raking and getting in hay. Irving left yesterday morning at four o'clock for Camp Woodruff at Nyantic where he's to stay with the soldiers the rest of the week. 07\24\{1907} (Wednesday) This morning I went to Mr. Banley's office and countermanded an order that Austin Pierpont had given him for 30 tons of coal for the mill Plain School. I then went to Hotchkiss and Templetons and bought a Newport lawn mower for the school. Cost{??} 6.50. Worked in the factory 9 hours. 07\25\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory all day. Frank mowed the lot corner of the Cheshire and Harpers Ferry roads and drew it up to the house and tonight Clyde and I stacked it. 07\26\{1907} (Friday) Worked in the factory all day. Frank mowed the lot that Thomas Mills house stands in. 07\27\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Clyde, Frank, Raymond and I got up at four this morning and did the hand mowing in the meadow that Thomas Mills' house stands in. We worked as long as we could see carting hay and building stacks. Irving came home from camp to night at seven o'clock. 07\28\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 07\29\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank mowed for Maurice Reed this forenoon and this afternoon mowed the west part of the lot corner of the Harpers Ferry Road and the Plank Road. Tonight Clyde, Irving, Raymond, Frank and I took our scythes and did all of the hand mowing there. 07\30\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked to day moving the old grit shed at the factory. After work we got three loads of hay in to the barn at the James Porter place and brought our load home. Mr. Grant, Mr. Levenworth, Mr. _______ and I began moving a store {stone??} building at the factory to day. 07\31\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day moving the building. We worked till nine o'clock to night getting in hay from the corner lot. Put thee loads in Porter's barn and brought one load home. This finishes our haying. 08\01\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory, got the building in place and started on another, the carpenter shop. Little James Elliott died this morning at the Misses Porters'. 08\02\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening I worked tearing down my barn. 08\03\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. night and morning worked tearing down barn. 08\04\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaughn of Waterville preached at the Chapel. 08\05\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory jacking up the carpenter shop. 08\06\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 08\07\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory moving the carpenter's shop. This is said to be the hottest day this year. 08\08\{1907} (Thursday) Worked moving the carpenter's shop. Had it in place to night. Clyde and I hewed timber for our barn. 08\09\1907 (Friday) I worked at the factory. 08\10\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we hewed timber for barn. 08\11\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 08\12\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to see building inspector Chatfield to obtain a permit to build my barn. 08\13\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. After work I met Mr. and Mrs. White at the school house and engaged them to clean the buildings. Obtained a building permit of Mr. Chatfield to build my barn. 08\14\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Frank came home from the shore to day, but Mary did not come. Mr. and Mrs. White cleaned the school house to day. 08\15\{1907} (Thursday) I worked in the factory to day. Mary came home from Fort Trumble Beach, Milford to day. 08\16\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Williams began work at the school to day. 08\17\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. They have been laying out curved driveways in the new part of the Pine Grove Cemetery. 08\18\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harold preached at the chapel this afternoon. 08\19\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. Winters who lives in the third house above the school house on the Woodtick Road, same side, died this morning. 08\20\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked moving the old joiner's shop into place at the factory. This evening I shod the horse and then Frank, Raymond and I went to the brass mill place to get some sticks of timber but they were so large that we could not handle them. 08\21\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we worked hewing timber for the barn. When we stopped at dusk, Irving saw smoke rising from over the hill south of us and he and Walter Mills went up through the cemetery to see what it was. Soon Walter returned and said that it was the Blodgett barn on the Plank Road and that the house was in danger and to come with the engine soon as possible. We hitched up and fastened the engine back of the wagon, went to the fire. When we got there the city engine and chemical engine were there so we ran our engine into the Grove house yard and saw{??} the house burn down. No one was living in the house when the fire started as Martin Burns and wife who had been living there were in Danbury where they had gone to bury a child. The house was built I think by Benjamin Farrell when he built the saw mill opposite. He lived there many years after which the place was sold and by which name it has gone by ever since although he has been dead about ten years. 08\22\1907 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 08\23\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Drew sheks{??} from the old Brass Mill. 08\24\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. it rained quite hard to day., the first in 76 days except two slight showers. 08\25\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at Chapel. 08\26\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\27\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\28\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory tearing out the muffles that stood on the south side of the large chimney. Ms. Judd finished painting the porches to the school house. 08\29\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Mrs. Anna Lurch of Easton Pa. came to day on a visit. To night Clyde, Anna Lurch, Margaret, Irving, Ruth and mr. Bender went to Cheshire to an entertainment which is given on the green for the benefit of the library. 08\30\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. They are building a new house on Edson Avenue. Yesterday they sold about ten building lots at Highlawn at prices from $110 to $2.10. 08\31\1907 (Saturday) To day I worked 9 hours as is the custom at our shop Saturdays. All of the other shops in town shut down Saturday afternoon or run nine hours all of the days of the week. After work the boys and I dug for the foundation of the barn. We lighted torches and worked till we finished at about nine o'clock. 09\01\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Frank, Raymond and I went for a ride. We drove down East Main and over Silver and Washington Streets to Highland Avenue, then South to the Town Plot Schoolhouse then west over Meloneleck Hill and took the road south and down a steep hill and over Hop{??} Brook then the Old Litchfield and New Haven Turnpike which we traveled under the arch and took the first road to the left which brought us out in Millville. We then drove to Nangatuck and over to the east side of the river where we put Raymond aboard of the trolley cars and we drove home by the back road. Raymond got home twenty minutes ahead of us. The earth is so dry that the meadows are all brown and the pastures dried up. In the woods many of the trees are dead and the leaves have turned yellow and dropped off while everywhere under the trees the ground is covered. Much of the corn is a failure and in some instance whole gardens have failed. 09\02\1907 (Monday) This is Labor Day and I stayed home and worked on the barn when it did not rain. When it did I set two tires on the team wagon. 09\03\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\04\1907 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory this forenoon and this afternoon visited the school and appointed Miss Peck principle and arranged the matter of having the ninth grade taught in the Saw Mill Plain School. We have had showers more or less all day. 09\05\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\06\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 09\07\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory as usual. 09\08\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 09\09\1907 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\10\{1907} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 09\11\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 09\12\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\13\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Clyde is twenty three years old to day and this evening we had a party supper and there were present beside our own folks, Will Gillette and Iva, Miss Anna Lurch and a Miss { }. 09\14\1907 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day lowering down the roof of the building that used to be used for storing grit etc. in and which we have now moved and joined to the old carpenter shop in the new yard. This evening by working hard the boys and I mixed tow batches of concrete and put it in the farms under the sills of the new barn, a batch is one wheelbarrow of cement (Atlas Portland), two of sand and five of cobble stone. 09\15\{1907} (Sunday) This morning I attended service in the Second Congregational Church and heard Rev. John Davenport preach. After service I took the trolley and went down South Main Street to Nangatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia, and Derby, where I took the Bridgeport car and went through Shelton and by the Housatonic River to Stratford where at the "Pole", I left the car and walked along the road to the Washington drawbridge where I saw the new steel railroad bridge up the river with its new draw that lifts up. While I was on the Washington bridge, a tug came up the river having two barges laden with coal in toe, and I saw the man open the draw. It is swung by an electric motor which turns the pinion that swings the draw. I then walked to the east end of the bridge (for about an hour while I was on the bridge there were automobiles crossing nearly every minute and some of the time two, three and four and trolley cars quite often) where I took the trolley to "Meadows End" and there walked along the beach to Fort Trumble Beach, where I boarded a New Haven car and at New Haven, I got on to a Waterbury car and came home. Rev. Mr. McNichol of Nangatuck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 09\16\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory at joiner work on the buildings that we have moved. Mr. Grant helped me. 09\17\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. Mr. Chatfield's men put up a derrick and commenced taking up the wall between the ditch and pickle room. Frank went to night with John French to move Elsie's furniture from South Main St. to their new home on East Main near the junction of Wolcott. To night Raymond and I mixed a batch of concrete and put it into the farms under the sills of our new barn. 09\18\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory as usual. 09\19\{1907} (Thursday) I worked to night putting concrete into the forms under the sills of the barn. At the factory I worked at joiner work at the old joiner shop. Clyde has been sick since Monday with a severe billions attack, has had Dr. Cowen, a woman doctor. Day before yesterday Mr. Clark saw a deer crossing the road between my house and Mr. Blakeslee's barn. 09\20\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day at joiner work The City has a derrick in the muck hole opposite the farmers home and are going to clean it all out and make a clean basin and put a fountain in the center. 09\21\1907 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day eight hours. As beginning this week, minors and women can only work fifty eight hours per week according to law, and they shut down the whole factory. I finished the concrete foundation of my barn to night. 09\22\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Thomas Nolan, a foreman in the Farrell Foundry, called to day and spent the afternoon. Mr. Cande's wife and little boy called about five o'clock and staid till after supper. They were all very much interesting the fire engine and especially the new sprinkler. 09\23\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day inside as it has rained hard all day. 09\24\1907 (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory to day at joiner work. After work Frank and I went to Hotchkiss and Templeton's and I bought for the Mill Plain School District 4 feather dusters $1.80, 1 Whisk Broom .25, toilet paper .10, in all 5.15. I also bought for myself a brick trowel at a store on East Main St where they are selling out, for .40 cts. Irving and Mr. Bender took a load of his goods down to Misses Porters'. 09\25\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\26\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as I usually do. there was a hard frost this morning. Mr. Bender left this morning for New York. From thence he is going to Plainfield N.J. to marry Maud Honeyman. Clyde went to see Dr. Benedict to night. 09\27\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the Rogers & Brothers all day. This is my birthday. Born 1858. Frost this morning. Went up to the Schoolhouse to repair the watercloset this evening. 09\28\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory moving the little building that Edward Cunningham makes boxes in, over and joined it onto the girls inspecting room. The City made voters to day and Clyde and Irving were made. 09\29\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Gulick preached at the Chapel. Margaret began singing in the Second Congregational Church choir last Sunday. It rained all the forenoon but it cleared up this afternoon and after service and supper I took a ride on the trolley car to Cheshire. 09\30\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day finishing up the building that Mr. Cunningham makes boxes in. 10\01\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked putting up a trolley track over the pickle tubs and putting in a water tub and various other jobs. 10\02\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day making a draft tube for the the pickle tubs. 10\03\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory with Mr. James Grant on the draft tube and had my gang of men unload a car of grits F. {Frank??} went to Mc Cormick's mill and got Mr. White's cider to night. 10\04\1907 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. To night Frank and I went to the school house and worked with Mr. Camdey on the sewer pipe and the cesspool. 10\05\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\06\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I went on the trolley car to the Notch-in-The-Rocks where I got off and walked south picking up a few chestnuts on the side of the road as I went till finally I came to Brooksvale where I visited Mr. Alexander Doolittle and family a while, and then walked to Ives Corner where I took the trolley home. When I reached home, Irving had just returned from Bulls Bridge where he and Walter Boyd and another young man had walked to day. They left Waterbury at 5.30 this morning and walked to Middlebury to Woodbury to Rosbury to New Milford where they took dinner at a hotel at 12.40, then on to Bulls Bridge 34 miles. They then took train to Bridgeport and home. 10\07\{1907} (Monday) Worked in the factory to day. This is Election Day and the voting has been done by machines for the first time. Our factory closed at 11.00 and we went to vote on Union Square. There were about 88 men ahead of me and it took about half of an hour for me to vote. Clyde and Irving voted for the first time. 10\08\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. William Thomas was reelected Mayor and the whole Democratic ticket elected except town clerk. To day at about quarter past nine a whirl wind passed over a portion of the city which did much damage in blowing over a two story barn on Town Plot, blew in one side of Holmes Both and Hayden's Casting Shop and did much other damage. At our factory it lifted the cap{??} from the trap door on top of the office and landed it in the street and broke in a big skylight under which four girls were working, but none were injured. At Father's it blew down one of the large Maple trees on the front yard and broke down eight more, blew the water closet away and broke down the well {???}. At my house it blew down the maple tree in the north west corner of my lot and broke down a grape arbor, broke a branch from an apple tree, blew down two fences and broke several branches on the oak in the corner of the front yard. Mr. Candy has been sick for the past two days and the doctor says that it is pneumonia to day, so to night I engaged Mr. Williams to take his place. I also went to the school house and repaired the water closet. 10\09\1907 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\10\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Large crowds went from here yesterday and to day to the Danbury Fair. Ralph Blakeslee has cut and carried from his farm forty tons of hay this year and raised over thirty acres of rye. 10\11\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory making over the doors of the muffle room. Yesterday Dana Elliott Doolittle died at his home at Masses Farms in Cheshire. He had gone to the barn to do the chores and did not return later. They found him lifeless. He was aged { } and was the son of Jesie and is to be buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery. 10\12\1907 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day on odd jobs. Frank and Raymond went out to Mr. Lease's on the Edward Scott farm and bought 15 bushels of apples at 10 cts per bushel and toed them to Minties Cider Mill on the Plank Road and had them made into cider which nearly filled the cask and he bought three gallons to have it full. 10\13\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. Mr. Thomas Candy died last night at 8 o'clock of pneumonia. He has been janitor of the school and sexton of the cemetery, is to be buried next Tuesday from the Chapel. This evening I took some guide bars{??} out to Austin Pierpont's that Irving has been making. 10\14\1907 (Monday) I took the enumeration of the scholars in the Saw Mill Plain School District to day and find that there is 140. It has taken all day and I have worked hard. 10\15\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked in the factory to day. We unloaded a can of oil. 10\16\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Wolcott Fair to day, there was a large attendance. Frank, Raymond and Irving went. 10\17\1907 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\18\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory finished moving the old box building to day. I took the school enumeration list to Justice of the peace McMahon and swore to 10\19\{1907} (Saturday) Worked to day at the factory. 10\20\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lepley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\21\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Brother-in-law William Gillette received the appointment of Clerk of the District Court to day with a salary of three thousand dollars. 10\22\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day putting doors on the old box shop. 10\23\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\24\{1907} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 10\25\{1907} (Friday) To day I worked at the factory as usual. Have worked every evening this week on the frame of the new barn. 10\26\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. After work Frank and Raymond with myself worked on the frame of our barn till 10 o'clock. It was very cold. 10\27\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It rained at times all the afternoon. 10\28\{1907} (Monday) I worked all the afternoon taking the showcase apart that Rogers & Brothers had at the Worlds Fair at Chicago 1893, and on the box store house in the forenoon. After work, Frank and I went to town and I bought a rip saw for 2.25 and three 3 cornered files for .25 six inches long. I then came and saw Mrs. Little who has just moved into their new house on Edson Street about their children who are scholars. They have two, Elsie 10 and Milton 6 years old. I then went and saw Mrs. Candy about what is due on Mr. Candy's account. 10\29\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\30\{1907] (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day sorting iron and put up a flower pipe from the trimming room to the annealing{??} furnace in the muffle room. 10\31\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory putting in a heating coil in the little building that Mr. Edward Cunningham makes boxes in. This is Halloween or Cabbage Night and Margaret and Ruth have gone to a party down town. Clyde has gone to another party and Mary, Frank, Raymond and Irving have gone up to Grange Hall to the Grange Fair. I having not{??} been out and a party of boys have put a sign board 10 ft long and 8 high in front of our gate. 11\01\1907 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. The Grange Fair is going on to night and Ruth, Margaret, Burnace Falmage, Irving and Mary are there. I went to Oakville by trolley to see Rev. James Reese about seeing the incorporated article of association of the Oakville Congregational Chapel. He sent me to Mrs. Robinson who lives on Falls Avenue. He showed them to me and I then came home. 11\02\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day cleaning the yard. Mr. James Grant gets through to night and is going to work at the American Pin Company in Waterville Monday morning. It has rained all day, but Frank went out to John Todd's and got 290 ft of plank and drew them to Henry Cass to have them sawed into pieces five inches wide for rafters for my new barn. 11\03\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening I went over to Cheshire for a trolley ride. 11\04\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening Frank drew a stove and some other goods from Mrs. Candy's up to Robert Hotchkiss. 11\05\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory moving the iron goods out of the shed and over to the new place where we are going to keep it. 11\06\1907 (Wednesday) I worked moving a car load of grit in barrels into the north shed and repairing electric lights and putting a steam ejector into the pit of the new oil muffle. 11\07\{1907} (Thursday) I worked to day putting in a floor in the middle shed. 11\08\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory laying a plank floor in the store house on the south side of the yard. Money is getting very scarce and many of the factories are working short time, but we are working nights. We received our pay in gold this week. 11\09\1907 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day overseeing the digging of a ditch to drain the water from going into the new muffle room. We work only nine hours Saturdays, stop at five but I work half an hour at noon and get out half an hour early at night. To night after work we put the sills on top of the posts of the barn that we are building. 11\10\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening all our family except Frank and Raymond went to the Second {Congregational} Church and heard the choir sing the dramatic cantata "David". There were twenty eight singers of which number were Margaret and Irving. 11\11\{1907} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\12\1907 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\13\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Patrick Lyman died this morning, having been sick since last Saturday. We received our pay to day in gold. Some of the factories have paid off in checks and the banks will not take them and store keepers charge ten percent for cashing them. The Dimes Saving Bank, the West Side Saving Bank and the Waterbury Savings Bank have decided to enforce the ninety day law and require three months notice from depositors before they will pay. 11\14\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening we put into place some of the heavy timbers of our barn. 11\15\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 11\16\{1907} (Saturday) Worked at the factory filling in the ditch that we made to drain the water from the muffle room. This evening we shod the horse, repaired some chains and made some large spikes. 11\17\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Honmold{??} of Waterville Methodist church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening I went to Mr. James White's and saw him about making arrangements to use Hamilton Hall Thanksgiving Day. 11\18\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory putting new sills under the old iron shed and getting ready to move it. 11\19\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked repairing the old iron shed at the factory. About three o'clock a large balloon passed over here going southward. It contained two men and was going at a rapid rate of speed. By tonight's paper we learned that it started from Pittsfield, Mass. This evening Irving set the joyce for the upper floor of the new barn. 11\20\{1907} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day moving the old iron building. This evening Irving, Frank and I went up to the Hamilton Hall and measured the distance from the nearest water in the brook south west of the building to the hall and found it to be 405 feet. We then went over to the School House and looked at the steam heating apparatus. 11\21\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory. A car load of chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and cattle came onto the siding by Silver Street and was taken to Pierpont's new Slaughter at East Farms to be butchered. 11\22\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory. Twenty four years ago today I was married. 11\23\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. B. F. Howland called this evening. I gave him 2.00. 11\24\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It snowed this morning, then hailed and rained very hard all day from the north east. This is Mr. Davenport's birthday. He was born in 1840. 11\25\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Earl Munson, son of Theodore, had an operation performed on him by Dr. Anderson and Barber for appendicitis. The two Finlanders who work for me and Con went onto nine hours to day. 11\26\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day tearing away the old cake{??} shed. 11\27\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked to day clearing away the old cake house. Edward Payson Weston completed his 1,234 mile walk from Portland, Main to Chicago at 12.15 yesterday noon, making the distance in 24 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes and beating the time he made 40 years ago 1 day, 3 hours and 25 minutes. He is now 69 years of age. On his trip he passed through Waterbury each time. I have forgotten the road he came in on 40 years ago but he went out West Main St and over West Side Hill to Kent. This time he came from Bristol through Hancock Valley and Waterville, lunched at the Elton and left up the Valley Road to Thomaston, Torrington etc. 11\28\{1907} (Thursday) Thanksgiving and we all went to Hamilton Hall to the Somers Reunion, except Clyde who went to Easton. Will write the rest tomorrow. 11\29\{1907} (Friday) {Margin note: Mother Pierpont} I worked getting ready to move the old iron shed a little farther to the west as Mr. Rockwell wished it set different. Mother Pierpont came to live with us a while to day as Wilson is moving into the Laughton place on the Idylwood Avenue. This morning at twenty minutes to seven, a terrible accident happened at the West Main St crossing by a double header freight train running into a trolley car as it was crossing the tracks. There wee two young men and three young ladies killed and twenty four injured. They all worked at the Oakville Co and were on their way to work, only two escaped without injury, the motorman and a man that was standing in the front platform. This forenoon Roy Munson came into the yard on his bicycle and said that the chimney on the Holmes house was on fire and wanted Irving to go up with the engine. The hose was hung up drying having been used yesterday to fill the tank at Hamilton Hall and they had to wind it onto the jumper and then they started, Irving and Irving Hitchcock drawing the engine and Raymond and two Mulhern boys on the jumper. Roy Munson started down the road after Frank who had gone with his mother up to Fray's Store. He met them at the foot of the hill and Frank hurried and overtook Irving at Mrs. Frost's and he hitched the engine back of the wagon and Ray hitched the jumper back of Dan Squire's team and they got there quick and soon had a stream on the fire and put it out. At the business meeting of the Somers Family Association held yesterday, at 5.20 o'clock, called to order by Sect., minutes of last meeting read and accepted, as was also the Treasurer's report, and the report of the Entertainment Committee. A new Entertainment Committee was elected consisted of Miss Elizabeth, Josephine, Myra, May, Mrs. George and Mrs. David Somers. There were present Mr. and Mrs. Dwight L Somers (2), Mrs. Lillian Smith (3), Mr. and Mrs. E. Joseph Somers (5) and son Joseph Gray (6), Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Somers and son Gardon (9), Mr. and Mrs. Louise J. Somers (11), Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H Somers (13), Miss Elizabeth (14), Josephine (15), Myra (16) and May Somers (17), Mr. and Mrs. David Somers (19), Mr. and Mrs. George H. Somers (21), Mr. and Mrs. Herman Miller (23), Miss Cara Miller (24), Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Miller of Bristol (26), Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller (28), Irving C (29), Margaret (30), Ruth (31), Frank P. and Raymond Miller (33), Mr. and Mrs. Roland Jenner (35), Miss Louise and Ethel Jenner (37), Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Goldsmith (39), Mr. William Goldsmith (40), Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips (42), Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Chatfield (44), Road (45), Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gillette (47), Mansfield Gillette (48), Mrs. Gillette (49), Miss Amy Miller (50), Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Frisbie of Wolcott (52) and Miss Mary Thayer (53). Besides the bountiful Thanksgiving dinner, the entertainment consisted of music, reading, singing, dancing and etc. 11\30\1907 (Saturday) I worked at the factory moving and setting in place the scrap iron shed. 12\01\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought from the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 12\02\{1907} (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. Went to night to see James White about engaging Hamilton Hall for the school teachers to give an entertainment in next Monday evening. I did not see him as the show had made horse-shoers busy and at 8 o'clock he had 25 horses in the shop. 12\03\{1907} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. 12\04\1907 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 12\05\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory getting the hose house ready to move. 12\06\{1907} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual, moved the hose house. 12\07\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Simonsville and saw Miss Peck about the school entertainment to be given in Hamilton hall next Wednesday evening. 12\08\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This morning I saw the Chief of Police Beach and engaged an officer to come out to Hamilton Hall tomorrow night. I then went to the Second Congregational Church and heard Dr. Davenport preach. Came home on the trolley car with Margaret. To day is Mother Pierpont's birthday. She is seventy nine years old and Mary invited all of her brothers here to supper in honor of the event. There came Charlie, Austin, Elmer and Wilson with their wives and George Conner. Mother knew nothing about it and she went to the Chapel with me, and when service was over she rode to our house with Austin and was surprised to find her children there. The weather has been nice and warm to day. 12\09\1907 (Monday) I worked to day tearing down the strip house. This evening I attended the entertainment at Hamilton hall given by the school children. They did well and netted nearly $20.00. We hired a police man to preserve order. 12\10\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day putting in a partition in the iron house. 12\11\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory. The Ladies had a supper at the Chapel. 12\12\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory tearing down the old strip house. We began working eight hours to day. 12\13\{1907} (Friday) I worked tearing down the old strip house. Fred Williams started for Fort Slocum to join the regular army to day. 12\14\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory today. About nine inches of snow fell to day and after work I went up the Frost Road in the Meriden Road and down the Southmaid Road with the snow plough. 12\15\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. McNickol of Nangatuck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 12\16\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day eight hours. President Roosevelt went to Hampden Roads to see the Battleship fleet start on its sail of more than 14,000 miles into the Pacific. The fleet, which is the most powerful one that the world has ever seen, is commanded by Reas{???} Admiral Robby Evans and is composed of the following battleships: the Kansas, Vermont, Louisiana, Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Maine, Alabama, Illinois, Kearsarge and the Kentucky, in all 16 ships with a total tonnage of 223,836 tons and carry a total of 360 guns and 12,793 men. Mr. William Doolittle was killed by the trolley cars in Cheshire to day. 12\17\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day 4 hours. This afternoon I visited the Mill Plain School and then went to Waterville to find out what I could about Miss Russell as a school teacher. 12\18\{1907} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day 8 hours. Had orders to day to let all of my men go on account of dull times. This evening I saw Mr. Snow about incorporating the Mill Plain Chapel Society. 12\19\{1907} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Frank and Raymond and I went out to Wilson Pierpont's farm and sawed off one length 18" long of a log 3' 6" diameter as we have done for the last three nights and brought it home. 12\20\{1907} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day eight hours. The engine did not run at the factory to day. The shop has shut down for some time. 12\21\{1907} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day 8 hours. I went to Waterville this evening and saw Miss Carnes and Miss Chase about teaching. 12\22\1907 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Went this evening and saw Mr. Tinker about teachers and went to Waterville and saw Mr. Grant and family. 12\23\1907 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day 8 hours. Mrs. Elmer Hitchcock died yesterday afternoon of pneumonia. It has rained hard all day and taken nearly all of the snow. 12\24\1907 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. After work Frank, Raymond and I made two 3\4" turn buckles. 12\25\{1907} (Wednesday) Christmas this morning. I found my stocking hanging with the rest and a number of presents in it which included a warm winter cap, a shirt from Mary, the cap was from the boys, an envelope from Mother Pierpont containing ten dollars for "Charlie and Mary", a lead pencil from Raymond, a coin from Margaret, a handkerchief from Ruth and other presents. This afternoon we all went down to Father's and had dinner and in the evening we had a Christmas tree which had an abundance of presents on for all. All of Father's children and grandchildren were home except brother Fred who lives in Detroit. Will Gillette had electric lights put into Father's house yesterday. 12\26\1907 (Thursday) Irving, Frank, Raymond and I went out to Wilson Pierpont's pasture lot and sawed off 14 cuts of wood eighteen inches long from logs, the smallest of which was 20 inches in diameter and up to 3'6" in. Frank and I worked on cross-cut saw while Irving and Raymond worked the other. We brought home two loads of small wood. 12\27\{1907} (Friday) This morning Frank and I went M. J. Dayleys & Co place of business and Frank carried out two lengths of 1 1/4 pipe for George Monroe and I saw Mr. Dayley about the heating arrangement at the Mill Plain School. He said that he would come out right away so I took the trolley car and got there soon as possible and he came soon. We found several things out of order and we spent all the forenoon there. Theodore Munson was there cleaning windows. In the afternoon we worked on our barn. 12\28\1907 (Saturday) We worked on our new barn all day and raised the rafters. Henry Cass sawed his thumb so he had to have it taken off Christmas Day. 12\29\{1907} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Dinsmore preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This has been the mildest and most pleasant day I ever knew at this season of the year. 12\30\{1907} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening they had the Christmas exercises at the Chapel and although it was rainy, muddy and very dark, yet there was a large attendance. All the Sunday school was there and many others. 12\31\1907 (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory putting up some posts to support the cross trusses{??} of the Making Room. I received my pay for two days work last week 8 hr 4.40. Mr. Williams called to night and gave me his bill for janitor service at the school 4 weel {? ?} 24.00 from Dec. 1 to Dec. 28. Michael Tokis has bought the land on the south side of the Plank Road and is building a house there. He bought thirty two acres. 01\01\1908 (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory. This has been a nice day even weather, cool enough so it has not thawed much. No snow and fine skating. In this vicinity there have been hundreds out, on the old brass mill pond, pond in Hamilton Park, the Spectacles Pond, Frost's Pond and other places. 01\02\1908 (Thursday) I worked in the factory to day. 01\03\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day making repairs about the drop hammers shafts etc. Received a telephone message that the slate for my barn has come to the Depot and there is a demerrage{??} bill of over 3.00 on it. The freight bill is 20.46. 01\04\{1908} (Saturday) This morning Irving and I went to the new Consolidated Freight Depot and after interviewing a number of clerks and agents found that they had not notified me that the car of slate was there and there is no demerrage{??} to pay, and they will take it around to the International Silver Co's siding for 2.00 and give me four days to unload it. 01\05\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this P.M. Charlie and Elmer Pierpont came this afternoon to see Mother Pierpont about buying the old farm at East Farms, he having sold his farm of 72 acres a few days ago. 01\06\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day repairing 8 hours. After work i went to the Dublin Street station to see about the car load of slate which has not come yet. 01\07\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. The slate has not come and I went down to the Station to see about it. The Agent had the bill last night and the car No 46556 of the N.Y.C. S.H.R. Railroad was placed on the siding{??} at the International Silver Company on Silver Street. To night is one of the roughest I ever saw, the wind blew a gale, the rain fell in sheets, and it is almost impossible to walk as it is so slippery. 01\09\1908 (Thursday Morning) Yesterday I worked at the factory eight hours. After work I had Frank come after me with the big wagon and we brought up 214 pieces of slate 22 x 14. We then ate supper and Clyde and Irving went over to Mr. Mulhearn's and got his wagon and went down to the car with Frank and Raymond and got a load while Irving and I unloaded the load that was here. We kept drawing till all of it was up, 1200 pieces, weight 6 1/4 lbs each, 7500 lbs total. Mr. James Barnes who lives opposite the old school house died this morning. 01\09\1908 (Thursday Evening) I worked to day at Rogers & Brothers Factory eight hours. Sister Iva telephoned me this morning that Will had received a letter from Detroit stating that Brother Fred had undergone an operation for appendicitis and is in a critical condition. He also telephone Frank and Roll. I went up home and Frank was there this noon and we made arrangements for him to go out. I was to give him $25.00 which I sent down to Mother to night. I went to the Dublin Street station and paid the freight on the slate which was 20.46 and 2.00 for bringing the car around the the International switch. 01\10\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day eight hours. Frank left this morning on the 6.30 train for Detroit. 01\11\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory putting up a large counter shaft for the new Rolling Mill that is to stand in the old machine room. Will Gillette had a telegram from Frank this afternoon which saw that Fred was getting along nicely. 01\12\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Bukley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It has rained hard all day. I did not go to service. 01\13\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory eight hours. To night I attended an illustrated lecture in the Chapel given by Rev. Mr. Lewis on his travels through Europe. Frank returned to day from Detroit. Have not heard how Fred is. This morning I went to work at eight o'clock. There were about 50 men about the gate waiting to get in. They were sent away for another week. The Watch Factory laid off 100 {???} to night. 01\14\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory eight hours. There isn't a shop in town that is working full tine at present. 01\15\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Will and Iva called to night and Will gave me $5.00 and some cents that Frank had left after paying his expenses and giving Fred 15.00 out of the 25.00 I gave him as my share to pay his way to Detroit and back. 01\16\1908 (Thursday) Worked 8 hours at the factory. They laid off 40 hands at the watch shop yesterday. 01\17\1908 (Friday) Worked 8 hours at the factory. 01\18\{1908} (Saturday) Worked 8 hours at factory. Worked on the new barn after I came home from the shop. This evening I went to Hotchkiss & Templeton's and ordered a 24 ft ladder. There is not a factory in Waterbury that is running full time at present. 01\19\{1908} (Sunday) Attended service at the Second Church this morning, and then went and viewed the changes that are being made by the Consolidated Rail Road where they are raising the tracks and building the new passengers station. They have put in the concrete foundations for he new depot and have the tracks up to the new grade in some places. I walked down the new track that leads onto the Nangatuck Road below Holmes Booth to Hadens Factory, and on down to the new sewage disposal plant where I took the trolley and went to Nangatuck, then to Derby and New Haven, but as it was very cold, I took the Country Club cars and came to South Whitney where there were thousands skating and took the Waterbury trolley and came to Brooksvale where I visited Mr. Doolittle and found Mrs. Doolittle sick in bed with the grip. About nine o'clock I left and came home. 01\20\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory 8 hours. This morning Will Squares was nearly killed by a blast of dynamite exploding in a well the he was working in up at Highlawn. 01\21\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. Worked putting the covering boards on the north side of the barn. 01\22\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory 8 hours to day. 01\23\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory eight hours. The weather so far this winter has been very mild. The thermometer has reached zero only once, and we have had only one snow that made sleighing. 01\24\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day eight hours. We had a fierce snow storm this morning. I went round with the snow plow. 01\25\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. 01\26\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Godfrey Reid resigned as organist instructor. I wrote a letter to Mr. Langley of Houston, Texas. 01\27\{1908} (Monday) i worked at the factory to day 8 hours. To night Reut{??} Bender came and told us that he was going to get through at the Mattatuck Co and go to New York and enter the employ of the Otto Gas Engine Co. 01\28\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. 01\29\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked 8 hours in the factory. Machinists began working 9 hours to day. 01\30\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. Mr. Elmer Hitchcock died yesterday at the home of his son Edson on Buckingham St. 01\31\{1908} (Friday) i worked this day at the factory 8 hours. Kent Bender and his wife left the up stairs tenement in the James Porter house which was fitted up for them last fall and went to New York to live yesterday. Thermometer 14 below zero this morning. 02\01\{1908} (Saturday) The factory did not run to day but I and several others worked. I lined up a tab that is used for hot water, soap solutions and cold water, which leaked so that all mixed together. This morning it snowed about 6 inches deep and turned to rain before noon, and tonight it is growing colder and everything wet is turning to ice. Elven Hitchcock was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery this afternoon. 02\02\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Hard ice and slippery to day, cold and freezing. 02\03\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory 8 hours this day. Clara French is 27 years old to day. 02\04\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. I attended a meeting of the Good Roads Association last evening of which I was made a member at their last meeting. 02\05\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. Vernon Able and Hattie Wiskers were married to day and are going to housekeeping Charlie Lee's house. 02\06\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brothers eight hours. 02\07\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory eight hours. 02\08\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory 8 hours. 02\09\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Berkley preached at the Chapel. 02\10\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the fctory 8 hours. This morning was the coldest so far, 18 degrees below zero. 02\11\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory 8 1/2 hours. I ran the new oil muffle this afternoon. 02\12\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory all day on the oil muffle. 8 hours. 02\13\{1908} (Thursday) Worked 8 hours on the muffle. 02\14\{1908} (Friday) I worked this afternoon on my barn and visited the school this forenoon. 02\15\{1908} (Saturday) Worked on the barn for a time this morning till it began to rain at about nine o'clock when we went to work in the shop on a foot press, then in the cellar on a waterwheel till about 4 o'clock when we went to see the high water in the river. 02\16\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02\17\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the good Roads Association in the Business Mens Association rooms. I was appointed inspector of the fire gates, hydrants and valves at the factory by the Superintendent to day. 02\18\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked in the factory eight hours. 02\19\{1908} (Wednesday) This day has been very stormy, snowed till about three o'clock and then it rained hard. A supper was to have been given at the Chapel but it was put off on account of the storm. I worked eight hours in the factory and received my last week's pay $8.94. 02\20\{1908} (Thursday) i worked in the factory to day eight hours. To night we all went to the Chapel to a supper and entertainment given by the ladies. The attendance was large and they realized about $28.00. 02\21\{1908} (Friday) The factory did not run to day and Irving and I worked on our new barn. 02\22\{1908} (Saturday) Washington's birthday, all business is stopped to day, owing to the dull times. Benedicts & Burnham have let 32 machinists and 15 casters go this week and many other factories have let many of{??} help go. Irving and I worked on the barn while Frank drew from town a load of coal and a sled load of manure. Coal is selling for 7.75 a ton. This afternoon we took a load of plank up to Henry Cass to have it sawed up into dimension{??} stuff but he wasn't home, We went up after six and he sawed it up. 02\23\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel to day. Mr. Davenport is sick. To night the Pierpont family gathered at Wilsons and had supper in honor of his 53rd birthday which was last Sunday. He lives on Idylwood Ave. 02\24\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. Miss Amy Dugan died of pneumonia yesterday. Margaret is 19 years old to day. 02\25\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. 02\26\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. 02\27\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. 02\28\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory 4 hours this forenoon and this afternoon Irving and I worked on the new barn till four when Irving and Mary went out to East Farms to get some apples and Raymond helped me until we had to give it up on account of the cold. Then we went to sawing wood till it was dark. 02\29\{1908} (Saturday) To day Irving and I worked on our barn and covered the north end and painted it red. Frank took Henry Cook to the station to take the train to Georgetown where is to superintend the State Farm there. Allen Burgess and Agnes Able have moved into the Porter place to day. 03\01\1907 (Sunday) Reverend Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel to day. This afternoon after service I went out to Arthur Pierpont's to see about getting a piece of ground at Mother Pierpont's to plant potatoes on. He said that I could have it free of charge. 03\02\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. This evening the school gave an entertainment in Hamilton Hall to raise money to buy a book case with. Although the night was stormy, the attendance was large. 03\03\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory eight hours. 03\04\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. Allen Burgess has moved into the upstairs tenement of the Porter House opposite the Mattatuck factory. 03\05\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory eight hours to day. 03\06\{1908} (Friday) To day Irving and I worked on our new barn although it snowed fierce. Some of the time we had to work in the cellar getting out cornice pieces etc. This morning early Frank, Raymond and I took a load of manure out to Mother's place. We had to leave half of it at the foot of the hill and took the other half to the upper end of the west meadow, west of the spring that supplies Mother's place. 03\07\{1908} (Saturday) We worked all day on the barn putting on the roofboards, cornice etc. 03\08\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. The weather has been very warm and to night it rains. 03\09\1908 (Monday) This day I worked at the factory nine hours. Mr. Edward Taylor called this evening to have Clyde survey a two acre lot that he has bought of Henry Wedge on the north side of the trolley track this side of the arch. I attended a meeting of the Good Roads Association in the Business Mens Association Rooms and signed the articles of incorporation as a charter member. When I came out on the car, County Commissioner Jacob Walters of Cheshire called me to his seat and we had a fine visit. 03\10\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked 10 hours to day. 03\11\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked 10 hours to day in the factory. 03\12\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory then hours to day and this evening Frank, Raymond and I put the roof boards on the west side of the barn. 03\13\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory all day. This evening Clyde said that he had been working in the Meriden Road this afternoon surveying it so as to make a road sixty feet wide from East Main Street to a point north of the school house. The City expects to put 1000 men at work on it tomorrow. 03\14\{1908} (Saturday) I worked all day at the factory. This morning I put the first slates on the barn. 03\15\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This afternoon we had a severe thunder shower. 03\16\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory 10 hours to day. After work Frank and I put slate on the roof of the barn but it was very cold. 03\17\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory 10 hours. This is St. Patrick's Day and the Irish as a rule all wear green in the form of ribbons, ties or shamrocks. It snowed this afternoon. Sixteen men and three double dump carts began widening the Meriden Road. 03\18\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory ten hours to day. It has snowed, hailed and rained all day. This evening I got together and sealed 36.00 to pay Wallace Camp interest. 03\19\1908 (Thursday) I worked to day in the factory. 03\20\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Truman Kilbourn died at his home on the Wolcott Road last night after a long illness aged 76 years. 03\21\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. Mr. Kilbourn was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery this afternoon. 03\22\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. De Witt Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It has rained and been disagreeable weather all the afternoon and evening. 03\23\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I went to 136 Grand Street and saw Attorney Nathaniel R. Bronson about incorporating the Mill Plain Chapel Society, but he was called away by telephone and I made an appointment to meet him tomorrow night at six o'clock. I then went to the Waterbury Lumber and Coal Co. and paid a bill of 21.78 for a book case for the school house. I then went to Ralph Blakeslee's office and saw him about Cemetery and Chapel matters. I then ordered of Mr. Disley a galvanized iron ridge roll for my barn for which he is to charge 4.00. I then walked to exchange place and took a car home and then drove out to Jacob Garrigus to see Mrs. Fannie Manwarren but she was in town at Mrs. Carrie Upson's on Field Street and was coming out to the Grange this evening to attend a meeting of the officers. I then came home, but oh the mud was up to the hubs. Had supper and went down to the Southmaid Road and waited from seven to nearly eight to see Mrs. Manwarren when she came out but she came not. I then went to the Center and attended a meeting of the Good Roads Association which expected to be organized under the incorporation laws of Conn. but could not as there was only 36 members present and the law requires 49 which is two thirds of the Charter names, so the meeting adjourned till next Monday night. I then came home by trolley. 03\24\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day till five o'clock when I took the trolley car at Silver Street and went to #136 Grand Street and saw Nathaniel Bronson about incorporating the Mill Plain Chapel Society. He will take the matter in hand and is to see Mr. Snow and get the papers etc. I then came home, had supper and with Albert Moss, went out to Arthur Pierpont's to see Mr. Fannie Manwarren about continuing the mortgage she holds on Henry Cook's house. If Mr. Hayward buys it, she wants half of it at least {???} Cook sells. 03\25\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. After work I came home and worked on the barn. 03\26\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory 10 hours to day. After work I worked on the barn. Stanley Heaton and the Munson boys and Bob Calking called this evening to see the fire engine. 03\27\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory 10 hours. 03\28\{1908} (Saturday) I staid home and put the slate on the est side of the barn. 03\29\{1908} (Sunday) Mr. Gulick of the Third Congregational Church preached at the Chapel to day. 03\30\1908 (Monday) I worked to day in the factory. Phillip Frey moved to day to the house that Arthur Griswould built at East Farms. 03\31\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked all day at the factory. We put the ridge roll on the barn this morning and this completes the slate roof. Wilson Pierpont moved into his wife's place at Mill Plain to day. 04\01\1908 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The City have{??} a large gang of men and carts grading the Meriden Road from East Main St. to the Chapel at Mill Plain. This evening Raymond, Frank and I took a load of lining boards up to Henry Cass and had them ripped up into strips. 04\02\1908 (Thursday) I worked in the factory all day. 04\03\{1908} (Friday) I worked in the factory all day, although the shop is running 8 hours a day and four days a week. We had snow this morning. 04\04\{1908} (Saturday) Worked all day at the factory. Weather has been very cold and snowy. 04\05\1908 (Sunday) I did not go to the Chapel but this afternoon took Raymond and Roy Munson and drove out the Plank Road to Rag hollow and up the Hollow to where the City of New Haven are building a large reservoir. We then took the Betheny Road and a man told us that we were ten miles from Waterbury and five from Nangatuck. We then went through Straitsville and Nangatuck and home. Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 04\06\{1908} (Monday) I worked at factory to day. Laid floor in the barn this evening. 04\07\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory all day. 04\08\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I attended a supper at the Chapel this evening. 04\09\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. 04\10\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory all day. 04\11\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 04\12\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel. Called on Mr. Doolittle at Brookvale this evening. This is Father's birthday, 78 years old. 04\13\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 04\14\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I visited the school Wrote a letter to Mr. Cotting of Chicago this evening. 04\15\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory all day. This evening I went to B.F. Haggetts and got a copy of the vote to lay a tax of 4 mills on list of 1907 and a copy{??} of the last tax sheet. Mother is 74 years old to day. 04\16\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. School closed this noon for the Easter vacation. 04\17\{1908} (Friday) To day is Good Friday and Clyde, Irving, Frank and Raymond went out to Mother Pierpont's and made a wire fence around half of our acre in the north east corner of the west meadow and George Benham plowed it and we are going to plant potatoes there tomorrow. Clyde and Irving went home at noon. About ten o'clock, Mother Pierpont went out the back door and as she was coming in and about to step into the kitchen, she fell backwards down the steps and onto the ground. Ruth saw her fall and screamed Mama. We hastened out and found her unconscious and Clyde, Mary and I carried her in and laid her on the lounge and Margaret hastened up to Mr. Sweets and telephoned for Doctor Barber. After some minutes Mother revived and we could not find that any serious injury had happened. Doctor came and we got her up stairs and in bed and aside of a bruise on the hip she seemed all right. 04\18\1908 (Saturday) This morning Irving, Frank, Raymond and I went out to our lot at Mother Pierpont's place and we furrowed out the piece while Irving planted the seed potatoes and covered with earth, which took us till night. Mr. Roberts moved into Mother's house day before yesterday. 04\19\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold{??} of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After Chapel I went to Southington by trolley to see Mr. Martin Frisbie, had a very interesting visit. He told me many incidents connected with his war experience at Chambersville, Gettysburg, Chatanooga, Lookout Mountain, all of the battles to Atlanta and the march to the sea at Savannah, the march through South and North Carolina and Virginia. He belonged to the 20th Regt. 04\20\{1908} (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. 04\21\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. I engaged Wm. Aitchenson to be janitor for the Mill Plain School, @ 6.00 per week, to take Mr. Williams place. 04\22\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory all day. 04\23\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\24\{1908} (Friday) Worked as usual in the factory to day. 04\25\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. The factory only runs 8 hours a day and is closed Friday and Saturday. There is but only one of two shops in town running 6 days. Mr. Williams got through being janitor. 04\26\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. 04\27\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. William Aitchenson began caring for the school to day. 04\28\1908 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 04\29\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 04\30\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon went to the Registers of Waters office and got a list of the voters in Mill Plain District. 05\01\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\02\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\03\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. { } of the Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel to day. This morning Irving and Henry Little- John (Littlejohn) started at 5.10 to walk to Hartford. They went by way of Southington, Berlin and Hartford and New Haven Turnpike. They reached the City Hall in Hartford at 12.55, their pedometers recording 32 miles. They spent some time walking about the City and then boarded a train for Bristol and started from that boro{??} at 3.45 for home through Wolcott on foot, and reached home at 6.15, having walked 49 miles. 05\04\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Attorney Howard B. Snow's office and signed the incorporation papers making the Mill Plain Chapel Society an incorporated institution. They are to be sent to Hartford to the Secretary of State tomorrow. 05\05\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory all day. The incorporators of the Mill Plain Chapel Society are A.B. Pierpont, Henry M. Judd, Hiram J. Abel, Charles S. Miller and Miss Bessie White. 05\06\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\07\{1908} (Thursday) I worked to day in the factory. 05\08\{1908} (Friday) I worked all day at the factory although the shop runs only eight hours, four days a week. This is a dull time for Waterbury, nearly all of the shops are on short time and are running short handed. 05\09\1908 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked on my new barn. In the afternoon I went to Branford and saw Mrs. Eli Rogers about the Frisbie genealogy that her husband prepared, but she lent it and it has never been returned. But she told me that Mr. Henry Rogers of 211 Orchard Street, New Haven has one that he copied from his brother Eli. 05\10\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold{??} preached at the Chapel to day. Friday Frank plowed Thomas Mills' garden. Yesterday he plowed Fathers', Spenser Monroe's and James White's. 05\11\{1908} (Monday) I worked t the factory to day. This evening A.B. Pierpont, H.M. Judd, H.J. Abel, myself and Miss Bessie White met at Miss White's house and organized Mill Plain Chapel Society Incorporated with A.B. Pierpont, H.J. Abel, Henry M. Judd, C.S. Miller {------------------------ ----} trustees, with Miss Bessie White Secretary and Treasurer, A.B. Pierpont Chairman of the Board. 05\12\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\13\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory. 05\14\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank plowed Mr. Trover's garden this morning. 05\15\1908 (Friday) To day I worked at the factory ten hours. I received a letter from Wadham's Post G.A.R. engaging the Mattatuck Drum Band to play in the parade on Memorial Day. This morning Frank plowed Charles Sanford's garden. Tonight I took some window paps{??} up to Henry Cass and had them rabbetted{??} out. When I got home I found the house full of young people who had come to give Frank a surprise party, but when he realized what was on, he jumped out of the north window in my room and the boys could not find him again. 05\16\{1908} (Saturday) No work to day in the factory. This forenoon Frank plowed Charles Sandford's garden and drew manure from town and Raymond and I worked on the barn, covering it with corrugated iron. This after noon we went to New Haven by trolley, fare 5 cts to Cheshire line, 5 cts to Prospect line, 5 cts to Cheshire Center, 5 cts to Hamden line, 5 cts to Mt. Carmel, 5 cts to Whitneyville and 5 cts to New Haven, 35 cts. We called on Mr. Henry Rogers of 211 Orchard Street to get information concerning the Frisbie Genealogy of which he had a store. We then went to Foots Fish Market and bought two quarts of long clams, and then took the trolley to Mt. Carmel where we stopped and visited my sister Cara who keeps house for Mr. Elem{??} Dickerman. At about nine we came home. 05\17\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley of Trinity preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 05\18\{1908} (Monday) I worked to day ten hours in the factory. 05\19\1908 (Tuesday) I worked to day in the factory ten hours. 05\20\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked in the factory to day as usual. This evening after work, Frank, Raymond and I went out to Mother Pierpont's and ran the Breed weeder over the potatoes and planted the sweet corn. 05\21\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. It has rained at times all day. 05\22\{1908} (Friday) I worked to day as the shop all run{??} 8 hours. 05\23\{1908} (Saturday) Worked about home nearly all day except 2 1/2 hours that I took to do some errands about town before dinner. Gave tax book to Mr. Gallagher this afternoon. 05\24\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I with Mary, Ruth and Irlene Belden went for a ride up through Woodtick and past Ransom Hall Place and by Morris Park and home. I left the school tax sheet and book etc. with Mrs. Robinson to give to Mr. Haggett as we went up. 05\25\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\26\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. To night the Mattatuck Drum Band met at my house for practice. 05\27\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society Inc.; and the business of the old Mill Plain Chapel Society was closed up and it was voted to turn over all the property of the society to the Mill Plain Chapel Society Incorporated and the following trustees were elected for the coming year, A.B. Pierpont Episcopal H. J. Abel Methodist C. S. Miller Congregational H. A. Buckingham Baptist Bessie White Secretary Meeting then adjourned till two weeks at 8 o'clock. 05\28\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\29\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. This evening Robert Beckwith came and got his drum, and Henry Beckwith and Stewert Judd exchanged their pants for larger ones. We, that is the Mattatuck Drum Band are to report at the Grand Army Hall tomorrow to play for the Veterans of the Civil War. 05\30\1908 (Saturday) {Margin note: Who turned out - M.L.C. Fifers - Chas Cass, Henry Beckwith, Harry Buckingham, Clyde Miller Bass Drummers - Henry Buckingham, Stuart Judd Snare Drummers - Chas Miller, Rob Bookwith, James Alcott, Gardner Hall} This is Decoration Day. Got up early and went with the other members of the Mattatuck Drum Band to the Grand Army Hall on Bank Street and from there escorted Wadhams Post No 49 to the Soldier's Monument where the Veterans placed large bouquets of flowers at the foot of the monument, then marched back to the hall, where the Spanish War Veterans were assembling and then "fell in" and marched to State Street and took our position at the head of the War Veterans in the first division. Here we waited about half an hour while the other division were forming one on Central Ave. and on Prospect Street, one on Holmes Ave and perhaps others. At twenty minutes past nine, the line moved. First came police squad, then Ca's Grand A, C. W. G. Co. E Hiberman Rifles and Boys Brigade Co G was preceded by the American Band. Then came the Mattatuck Drum Band, the Veterans of the War of the Rebellion and Spanish War. Then the other divisions which included civic organizations and 2,500 school children, in all there were over 5000 in line. We marched in West Main Street past City Hall and out East Main Street to Hamilton Park where the following programme was carried out: 1. Overture by American Band 2. Singing "The Star Spangled Banner" by the school children, 3. Address of Welcome by Alderman Walker, 4. Singing by Concardia Singing Society, 5. Address, Rev. C. A. Dinsmore, 6. Singing "The Red White and Blue" by school children, 7. Address, Rev. M. J. Trainor, 8. Singing by Lyra Singing Society, 9. Music, American Band, 10. Address, Rev. John N. Lewis, 11. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by W. C. Kennan, 12. Singing America, all joining led by American Band, 13. Tattoo{??} Mattatuck Drum Corps, 14. "Taps" by the Buglars. After the exercises we marched back to the Grand Army Hall and were dismissed and in the afternoon it rained very hard. During the exercises at the park, there were several light showers. 05\31\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Bukley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. 06\01\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Saturday afternoon after the parade, Clyde and two other young men started for Bulls Bridge to see the power plant there. They walked to Washington in the rain and staid over night and the next morning went to Bulls Bridge where after looking about, they took the train to Bridgeport and then home. 06\02\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the Ladies gave a Strawberry festival at the Chapel which I attended. 06\03\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. The annual meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association was held in the Chapel this evening and Warren Hitchcock, Mark Warner, Theodore Munson, Hiram Abel, Charles Jessel, Ralph Blakeslee and Martin Pond were elected trustees for the coming year. 06\04\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\05\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day this forenoon. In the afternoon, I visited the school and saw Ralph Blakeslee who procured from Warren Hitchcock a copy of the deed and articles of incorporation of the Pine Grove Cemetery. 06\06\{1908} (Saturday) This morning Frank, Raymond and I hoed our potatoes out at Mother Pierpont's and this afternoon we worked on our barn. 06\07\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of Simonsville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. I met him at the trolley car at the Mattatuck Shop and carried him to the Chapel where while during the service, he read the articles of incorporation and by laws, when I carried him to his home on Piedmont Street, after which Mary and I went for a drive down the back road to the Union City Road then up towards Prospect and turning to the left came out at the head of the upper reservoir and then came home. 06\08\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory all day. 06\09\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. 06\10\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. This evening I posted a notice for a School Meeting to be held Friday evening June 19 at 8 o'clock to elect officers, lay a tax etc. I then attended the adjourned meeting of the Mill Plain Chapel Society Incorporated and after amending the bylaws so as to include all the members of the Mill Plain Chapel Society. They elected Dayton Wooding Treasurer, Arthur Pierpont Sunday School Superintendent and George Hanson Librarian. 06\11\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 06\12\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 06\13\1908 (Saturday) I worked about home this forenoon. Frank, Raymond and I hoed our potatoes out to Mother Pierpont's this afternoon and this evening Ruth and I went up to see Mr. Chas Baker in Wolcott to get Ellie to attend the bacaloric{??} sermon to be preached at the Chapel tomorrow. 06\14\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Bukley preached a bacaloric{??} sermon to the graduating class at the Chapel this afternoon. This afternoon I took a trolley ride to Cheshire. 06\15\{1908} (Monday) I worked this day at the factory. 06\16\{1908} (Tuesday) I attended the graduating exercises at the Chapel this evening. The program consisted of Song, Praise Ye Jehovah, Salutary, Frank Miller, Song "Believe Me', School Recitation "The Frenchman And The Flea Powder." - Elby Baker Class History - Frank Miller Class Prophecy - Ruth Lackhart Song "Graduation Song" - Olga Hanson Class Will - Lundel Heaton Song "How Can I Leave Thee" - School Presentation Speech - Olga Hanson Valedictory - Elba Baker Song "The Watch On The Rhine" - School The five named in the program constituted the class which was the first that ever graduated from the Mill Plain School. 06\17\{1908} (Wednesday) Barnams & Baileys Great Show was given on Porters Lot to day. All of the factories in town closed. This afternoon I attended the Class Day Exercises of the Graduating High School of which Margaret was one. There were 78 in class. 06\18\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory. This evening I attended the Graduation of the High School Class at Polis Theater. General O. O. Howard of the Civil War made the address and Mayor Thoms presented the diplomas. 06\19\1908 (Friday) I worked to day at the factory 10 hours. This evening I attended the school meeting and at the election of officers for Committee man I received 26 votes and Warren Hitchcock 29 so he was elected. B.F. Hoggett was elected Clerk, Mark L. Warner Treasurer and James White, Theodore Munson and Edward S. Pritchard Auditors. I was also voted to lay a tax of four mills on the dollar on list of 1908 to become due and payable June 1, 1908. 06\20\{1908} (Saturday) I went up to the schoolhouse with Frank and Raymond and took the seats that we had extra over to Hamilton Hall where they belonged. I then worked about home the rest of the day but it was very hot. 06\21\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 06\22\{1908} (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. 06\23\{1908} (Tuesday) June 23, 1908. I worked to day at the factory ten hours. 06\24\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked today in the factory. Frank began haying at Father's Monday morning and is working at it yet. 06\25\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank finished Father's haying to day. 06\26\{1908} (Friday) Worked at factory to day. 06\27\{1908} (Saturday) Frank, Raymond and I worked covering the barn with iron. 06\28\1908 (Sunday) This is Children's Day at the Chapel and the building was crowded. Dr. Davenport preached. After service I took a trolley ride to Cheshire and while riding down the mountain this side of Mixville Station, I saw a deer standing in the woods about four rods south of the tracks. This is the first wild deer that I ever saw, although nearly everybody else has seen them. 06\29\{1908} (Monday) This day I worked at the factory. Frank began haying at Mills place to day, mowed and got in the corner meadow. 06\30\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory ten hours. Frank mowed the home meadow at Mills to day. 07\01\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Mfg Co broke ground Monday morning to build a large additional factory 150 ft by 40, three stories high. Mrs. Ovaitt [Oviatt] left for Danbury where she is to stay a few days, and is the going home. 07\02\{1908} (Thursday) I worked in the factory all day. The shop closed for two weeks to night. 07\03\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 07\04\{1908} (Saturday) To day I worked about home this forenoon and this afternoon. We hitched the horse into the two seated wagon and Raymond, Frank, Mary and I went for a ride over through Mass Farms and out on to the Southington Road and past Dick Morgan's gardens and took the first road to the left and came over through Marion and up the mountain and home. Irving went last night to Milford Beach and staid with some Nangatuck friends. Clyde and the girls spent the day at Hitchcock's Ponds and then went to Milldale and took the trolley cars to Compounce to see the fire works but they did not have them so they came home by steam cars. 07\05\{1908} (Sunday) There was no minister at the Chapel to day but we had singing prayer by J.H. Garrigus, a story by Mrs. Garrigus. To night we went to see the soldiers Co.'s A and G start for Watertown, NY. They left in a special train of ten cars and were to take on Co. M at Torrington. From this neighborhood went Irving, Clarence Brown, George Hanson, Albert Leach and Roy Judd. 07\06\1908 (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. Last Friday the first regular trolley cars ran over the new road through Middlebury to Quassapang{??}, the fare is 15 cts. 07\07\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Frank finished haying at Mills lots to day. 07\08\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. this evening I took the Committee's book and keys up to Warren Hitchcock. 07\09\1908 (Thursday) I worked to day as usual lining up the shaft that runs the trimming room. Frank went to Hartford and bought a dash board of L.L. Ensworth & Son for 1.85. 07\10\{1908} (Friday) I worked all day at the factory with Patrick Slavin and John French lining up the main shaft that runs out to the trimming room. 07\11\{1908} (Saturday) Frank, Raymond and I went to Mansfield's Grove in East Haven after clams but others had been there in the creek and got them all before we arrived, so we got about 4 quarts and half a bushel of mussels. We also went sailing in a row boat, went down of first car and came home at 7.30. 07\12\1908 (Sunday) This dat has been very hot. Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 07\14\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. We had a heavy shower this after- noon which did much good as things are very dry. 07\15\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Irving arrived home this morning at about 12 o'clock from Pine Camp near Watertown N.Y. where he has been with his regiment, together with a Massachusetts, Penna, Maryland and regular army regts. since a week ago last Sunday. 07\16\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. The Mattatuck Manufacturing Company began building a big dam on the Mad River above their third dam and east of the late David Shannon place, started work yesterday. Frank worked to day and yester- day for the ice corporation hauling ice out of the house at the Brass Mill Pond. Ralph Blakeslee estimates that he has cut and stored on hundred and sixty tons of hay. 07\17\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day 10 hours. Paid Thomas Mills 6.00 towards hay. 07\18\{1908} (Saturday) No work in shop, worked about home when it did not rain. We had three hard showers after dinner with much thunder and lightening. 07\19\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Chapel to day. After service Irving and Ruth walked from the Chapel to Mr. Wailliam Mass's house at Mass Farms in Cheshire and Mary, Margaret and I drove. We had a fine time and left for home at about 8.30 but before we had come for it rained very hard and was dark, several times we met automobiles and some passed us and as it was very dangerous, we stopped at Harry Laughtons and borrowed a lantern after which we got along much better. 07\20\{1908} (Monday) Rogers & brothers whistle blew at 7 o'clock this morning for the first time since last October. Work full time to day. Frank and Raymond went out to Hitchcock's Pond to camp out with the other Mill Plain boys. They expect to be gone a week. 07\21\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\22\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. 07\23\{1908} (Thursday) I worked all day at the factory. They have the new factory at the Mattatuck shop up three stories. 07\24\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. 07\25\1908 (Saturday) No work at the shop to day. this forenoon it rained and I worked in my blacksmith shop. This afternoon Frank, Raymond and I worked putting corrugated iron covering on the south end of my barn. Frank and Raymond came home from the camp at Hitchcock's Pond this noon. Last night Clyde left for New York to take a Civil Service examination. This noon Irving left for Litchfield with Dr. Dewing to go canoeing and to camp on the shore of Bantam Lake to night and tomorrow night in a shelter tent they borrowed of Co A. 07\26\{1908} (Sunday) {Margin note: Aunt Fan died} Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This morning Iva and William Gillette came and told us that Aunt Fan Somers died last night very suddenly. He washed his two seated carriage and was going to bring Uncle Joe out to Pine Grove Cemetery to get a lot to bury her in. After service, I went to Cheshire and called on Mr. Doolittle. 08\27\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 08\28\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon and at 2.30 went to Uncle Joe's at 109 Chestnut Avenue. We went in a hack that came to Father's house after us, while another hack came after Father, Iva and Mother and still another called at the same time for Mr. Jerry Durand, Mrs. Scott and Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Frisbie. There were a large number of friends and relations in attendance at Aunt Fan's funeral, Rev. Dr. Buckley officiating. The honorary pall bearers were Elliott Somers, Ward B. Porter, Albert Chatfield and Edward Root, which the active bearers were Frank and Berkeley Frisbie, Benjamin Chatfield, William Gillette, Chas Phillips and Joseph Somers. They buried her in the Pine Grove Cemetery across the drive-way from the south east corner of the Chapel. 07\29\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours as usual. 07\30\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Someone is building a house west of the head of Elson Avenue in front of the old quarry and a cellar is being made on the east side of Elson Avenue near the Old Saw Mill patch. The boys took our fire engine up to the brook by Jones for exercise this evening. 07\31\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory ten hours. 08\01\{1908} (Saturday) I worked about home all day, except the time it took me to go over and see the new dam that contractor John Gaffeney is building for the Mattatuck Mfg Co. They are nearly ready to begin work on the arch, that is to carry the water under the dam. 08\02\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of Simonsville was at the Chapel to preach but as he was not well, Mr. Smith of the South Waterbury Church preached for him. After service Mary, George Byam and Bessie Parks went for a ride up to Wolcott and stopped at Evelyn Upson's. 08\03\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank began pedding{??} milk for Morton Pierpont last Saturday Aug 1st. 08\04\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. The first trolley car went over the new road to Thomaston yesterday forenoon, and was received with shouts of joy, the waving of handker- chiefs and blowing of factory whistles. Regular cars are expected to begin to run tomorrow, fare to be 15 cts and running time 45 minutes. 08\05\1908 (Wednesday) I worked a the factory to day ten hours. We had a severe thunder shower this afternoon. The first regular trolley car left the center this morning for Thomaston. The have built the new brick shop at the Mattatuck Companies up four stories and nearly all of the bricks laid. 08\06\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. We had a severe thunder shower this afternoon. The Consolidated Rail Road Co put up an electric signal to stop trolley cars in front of my house to day. 08\07\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. There was another severe storm this noon. 08\08\{1908} (Saturday) I had no work at the factory, worked on the barn. This evening the boys of the neighborhood came and took the fire engine up to the "Red Bridge" and played for exercise. Earl Munson was foreman, Stanley Heaton assistant. 08\09\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel to day. Mrs. John Hine began work on her new house Friday. Hon H Wales Lines, Ex Governor Chamberlain, Mr. John Coe and another man called to see me this forenoon. 08\10\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Will Gillette, Iva and Mansfield went to Madison this morning to stay a week. 08\11\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory ten hours to day. 08\12\{1908}| (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Margaret and Ruth went to East Morris to visit Cousin Lena Franklinton last Monday forenoon, expect to stay till Saturday. 08\13\{1908} (Thursday) I worked to day in the factory and it has been the hottest day that I ever knew in the shop. 08\14\{1908} (Friday) I worked to day in the factory. This evening the fire-boys had me sound the fire alarm by striking half second beats on the bass drum while they ran from Munson's Corner and took the engine from the house up to Blakeslee's barn, the whole time occupied in running from Munson's and up to the barn was nine minutes, and it took five minutes to run from Munson's to my house. 08\15\{1908} (Saturday) No work at the factory so I worked about home. Raymond and I drew gravel for concrete this forenoon and this afternoon we went to John Gaffeney's and bought four bags of Alpha Portland Cement. We then put in a concrete curb across the front of the shed of the new barn. 08\16\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold preached at the Chapel to day. After service, I went over to Rag Hollow and saw the new dam that is being built by the New Haven Water Co. I t is built on the site of the Old Capt Mix Pond which was formally built for a saw and grist mill and used later to manufacture spoons and also buttons. At one time they made flints there for flint lock muskets. I followed the pipe line over the mountain and through the Cornwell Avenue, stopping at Mr. Fred Doolittle's and saw Elmer Hotchkiss and Mrs. Doolittle who was formally Mrs. Susie Nichols of Wolcott with whom I went to school in the little stone school house in Woodtick in 1871. 08\17\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This afternoon I worked the oil muffle. 08\18\1908 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory all day running the oil muffle. This evening the boys took the little fir engine up to the little brook near Peter Lund's and they had a stream on his house in three and one half minutes, having run from Zena Bowen's, unlimbered the engine and laid three hundred feet of hose. 08\19\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. The Excelsear{??} Pomona Grange gave a picnic at Hamilton Park to day. There were about 700 present. 08\20\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 08\21\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 08\22\1908 (Saturday) I attended a picnic of the Mill Plain Sunday School at Compounce Pond. We went over on a special car engaged for $40.00 which carried 88 persons. Had a good time although it rained hard much of the time. I walked up to the Bristol Brass Companies Works and saw Frank and went over to Bristol and took dinner with him, after which he gave me a lock that was used on an old Canal Waterhouse in Granby and some hand forged nails that were made by prisoners in Old New Gate Prison. We then went to Compound by trolley and at quarter to six came home. 08\23\{1908} (Sunday) {Margin note: Mother Pierpont came to stay with us} Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this P.M. We went over to Elmer Pierpont's, it being his 51st birthday. 08\24\1908 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Margaret went to work at Plume & Atwoods office to day as stenographer. 08\25\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at factory to day. To night we mixed concrete and put on a floor in the barn. 08\26\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 08\27\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day setting up a washer. Mary, Mother Pierpont, Margaret, Ruth and Irving went to a lecture on the "telephone" at the Grange this evening. Ruth Todd came to day to visit Ruth. 08\28\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Mary and Mother Pierpont went to Savin Rock on the trolley to day. 08\29\{1908} (Saturday) No work at factory to day. We worked hard and put a concrete floor in the north half of the new barn. This evening the boys had a fire drill, went up to the brook by William Jones and ran from John French's house, unlimbered the engine and had a stream through the hose in one minute and three quarters. 08\30\{1908} (Sunday) Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Turkington of Morris called this noon. They drove down from Morris with a fine pair of bay horses. Rev. Mr. Ketchem of Wolcott preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service, Mary, Bessie White, Miss Schelz and myself went for a ride out to the Indian Cave near Summit. We then went over to Rag Hollow and saw the reservoir that the New Haven Water Co are building. Then went east down a steep mountain into Cheshire and up the road that runs north at the foot of the mountain and over the mountain and in the Plank Road home. 08\31\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 09\01\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\02\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Cara came home from Elam Dickerman's. 09\03\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory fitting up the wash room where the men worked that roughed out the work. Raymond worked yesterday and to day for Ralph Blakeslee "jumping hay". A new house is being built on the cellar of the house that burned which Wilson Pierpont lived in at East Farms. Mr. Sarah J. Hine is building a large double house and two houses are being built on Hamilton Park Plot, one for Mr. Porter and the other for some one else. 09\04\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Raymond stopped working for Ralph Blakeslee bailing hay to night. 09\05\{1908} (Saturday) To day Frank, Raymond and I worked hard and put in a concrete floor in the inside part of the barn. 09\06\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Phipps of Prospect preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I took a trolley ride to Cheshire and called on Mr. Alexander Doolittle at Brooksvale. 09\07\{1908} (Monday) This is "Labor Day". Raymond, Frank and I worked all day digging potatoes at East Farms. 09\08\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory. I stopped to night and saw Miss Bradley about early Chapel matters. 09\09\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory. This evening I went out to East Farms on the trolley car and helped Frank and Raymond dig potatoes. 09\10\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day fitting up the new washer etc. After work I went to East Farms and dug potatoes. 09\11\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Went to East Farms and dug potatoes to night. Charlie Tokio{??} has the cellar dug and walled up for his new brick block{??} which he is going to build at the corner of East Main and Silver Streets. Thomas Hays has his wood block up and covered that he is building opposite the fountain in Hamilton Park. 09\12\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory this forenoon but staid home this afternoon and out a partition in the barn as far at the lumber would go that we had on hand and then Frank and I went to Tracy's Lumber Yard and got over two hundred feet Caroline pine boards then inches wide for which I paid $4.14. It was dark by the time we got home. Miss Helen Drew, Gussie and Minnie Sehnukes of Ansonia came this evening. 09\13\1908 (Sunday) Clyde is twenty four years old to day. Clyde, Irving, Margaret, Helen Drew and the Sehnukes girls went to church this morning. This afternoon we all went to the Chapel and when we came home we found Will Gillette, Iva and Mansfield, Rolland Jenner, his wife and Louise and Effel, Wales and Miss Mc Kinley, Austin Pierpont, wife and Mother Pierpont, three young people from Nangatuck and soon Evelyn Upson and wife and Paul Manwaring from Wolcott came as did also my father and J. H. Garrigus, wife and daughter Minnie and Arthur Pierpont, wife and two daughters. Clyde and Irving were both surprised. Frank, Mack and Helen Haywood and her brother were here, in all 40 people. Miss Emery, Miss Rollinson and Mr. Carpenter were from Nanga- tuck. 09\14\1908 (Monday) I worked to day putting up a shaft through the south west part of the making room. 09\15\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory. Irving left this morning for New York where he expects to attend the Pratt Institute tow years. He boards at 272 Vandervilt Ave, Brooklyn, N.Y. 09\16\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. I received a letter from Cousin Elizabeth Somers this evening asking me to engage the Hamilton Hall for the Somers Family Reunion on Thanksgiving Day. I saw James White and he said that we could have the hall. 09\17\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\18\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. They have a great electric welding machine on East Main Street welding the trolley rails from Wolcott Street west to Cherry. Yesterday Orville Wright while taking a trial trip in his new aeroplane at Fort Meyer at Washington had the propeller give out and the machine shot to the ground injuring Mr. Wright and killing Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, a passenger. 09\19\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day, only the machinists and die sinkers worked, the rest of the factory being idle. The atmosphere for several days has been thick and smoky owing to the great forest fires that are raging in the towns of Canaan and Salsbury in this state and in the state of Main and in Canada. In Canada several villages have been burned out and many lives lost. At times to day the sun was entirely obscured by reason of the smoke and when we could see it, there only appeared a dim red spot. This day remained me of the dark day of 1881 when many people thought that the final judgement was at hand, although this has not been as dark as that day. 09\22\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold if Waterville preached at the Chapel to day. This day Frank and I went out on the old boundary road that formerly divided Waterbury from Wallingford and later from Cheshire and still divides Waterbury from Cheshire from the Meriden Road south to the Prospect town line but now continues in a strait southerly direction to Straitsville. We were in search of the Old Peter Gilkey Place cellar and after searching a long time were returning home when we met George Cass in the woods and he went back and showed me. It is in the town of Prospect on the west side of the old highway about a good quarter of a mile north of where the present traveled road turns east from it near the house owned by Wm Purdy. The next cellar place north of the Gilkey Place where stands a large pine tree known as the Baldwin Place and that north of this is the Porch Place and next north near a big rock is the Falmage Place, north of which is the rock where the towns of Prospect, Cheshire and Waterbury come together, north of this is the old road, crosses the Plank Road and in Car Swamp it crosses the Meriden Rail Road and the Cheshire trolley line and on north past the old Holt cellar and north of this it crosses the Cheshire Road and through the lots across the Todd Road where it is traveled past the old Hitchcock cellar on the west side and the old Hall cellar on the east side and past the present Byam place to the Wolcott line on the Meriden Road. After service Mary, Ruth, Helen Haywood and I went for a ride to Wolcott. 09\21\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. 09\22\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. This is Mary' s birthday, 48 years old. 09\23\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The factory began working eight hours, six days a week this morning. The loss by fire in the forests of New York State is over one million dollars a day. 09\24\{1908} (Thursday) I worked in the factory all day. This has been a dry, hot day. The sun has been blood red and cast hot red beams that were most stifling. 09\25\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\26\1908 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\27\{1908} (Sunday) My birthday, 50 years old. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 09\28\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory. We have had a little rain to day, the first that has fallen since the first Sunday in this month. This evening I saw Mr. George E. Terry about the Chapel and he informed me that it belongs to the Cemetery. 09\29\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. 09\30\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. William Gillette came to the shop this noon and engage the Mattatuck Drum Band to play for the Clark Commandry of Free Masons at the laying of the cornerstone of the new stone bridge at Hartford, Oct 8. 10\01\{1908} (Thursday) Worked to day at the factory. 10\02\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. The Mattatuck Drum Band met here this evening for practice. 10\03\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory. Nearly all of the shops in town are now running on full time. Frank, Raymond and I worked this morning and to night renailing the shingles on the house. 10\04\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of the South Waterbury Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 10\05\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory 11 hours to day. Ralph Blakeslee has put into his barn forty tons of rowen{rotten??} hay which was not properly dried and it has now all rotted so that they will have to throw it all out as manure. Arthur Pierpont had engaged to buy it for his cows. 10\06\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. The Mattatuck Drum Band met at my house this evening for practice and made everything ready to go to Hartford next Thursday with Clark Camandry{??} Night Templers to the dedication and laying of the last stone on the new stone bridge across the Connecticut River. 10\07\1908 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. There was a great industrial parade in Hartford of 10,000 men and many floats and 30 bands and drum corps to day in honor of the dedication of the new bridge. 10\08\{1908} (Thursday) Late last night Charlie Cass came over from his home in Southington and slept with Clyde. At quarter past four, Frank got up and drove out to Cheshire after Gardner Hall. Soon we all got up and got ready to take the 6.15 car. Soon Stewart Judd, Rob Beckwith and Henry came and we boarded the car and went to the Center where we met the other boys in front of the entrance to the Masonic Hall on Grand Street. They were Jojo's{???} - Emuel Parant, Fifers - Charles Cass, Harry Buckingham, Bass Drummers - Stewart Judd and Henry Buckingham, Snare Drummers - John Marrow, Gardner Hall, James Alcott, Robert Beckwith and Chas S. Miller. We headed the Clark Commandry and about two hundred other Free Masons and marched to the new temporary depot where we boarded the 7.10 train which took us to Hartford, where we marched and counter marched for some time not knowing where to go till finally we were sent to Anne Street where we waited until the parade started at 10.30. We then marched up to Main Street and to the south side of the Post Office, from thence to State Street to the New Stone Bridge across it to East Hartford. We met the front of the Parade returning at the east end of the bridge and then we went nearly to the Congregational Church and returning, met the rear end of the procession on State Street. We then marched to the Masonic Temple at No 53, Anne Street where we were dismissed with orders to assemble again at 5 o'clock. There were about 10,000 masons in the parade from all over the state and I should have stated that while we were over in East Hartford, the line halted while the High Masonic Officers laid the last stone in place on the bridge which was at the west end on the north side and was a corner stone that weighed five tons. In the after noon we witnessed a great military parade with over 6,00 in line including the entire brigade of the Conn National Guard, four companies of the Coast Artillery W.S.A. from New London, first company, Governor's Horse Guards, Putnam Phalanx, Ancient and Honorable Company of Boston, Providence Light Infancy, Old Guard of New York City. As this parade returned across the bridge, the Governor and Officers unveiled the tablet at the west end of the bridge near the corner stone and dedicated the bridge. It is said that there were more people in Hartford to day than there ever was at any time before. At five we assembled at the Masonic Temple and took the 5.30 train home where we arrived at about eight o'clock and escorted the masons to their hall and then went home. This evening there is to be set off $5,000 of fire work but we could not stay to see them. 10\09\{1908} (Friday) I worked at the factory all day. 10\10\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at Rogers & Brothers factory ten hours. 10\11\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Bukley preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. Roll and Mary called this afternoon. Frank and I went over to Cheshire on the trolley cars and called on Mr. Frederick Doolittle. 10\12\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\13\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\14\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory. They held the Agricultural Fair at Wolcott to day. 10\15\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 10\16\1908 (Friday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 10\17\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory. 10\18\{1908} (Sunday) Mr. Harnold preached at the Chapel. Clyde, Rolland Jenner and I went on the trolley car to Woodbury and looked at the rungs of the Rolling Mill at Pomperang which was burned about three years ago where Rolland Jenner worked eight years. We also went upon a high rocky ridge east of the Main Street and up a high iron tower where we had a fine view of the town of Woodbury and the Pomperang Valley. We then returned and went to Waterville where Clyde took some pictures of the road and work where he surveyed. We also called on Mr. Grant and looked at the new factory that Balke and Johnson are building. 10\19\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\20\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. At fifteen minutes past from this afternoon, there occurred a terrific explosion which shook the whole town. We soon learned that it was a powder house on Long Hill back of Fred Kilbourn's which was owned by Hotchkiss S. Templeton and contained half a ton of dynamite, several kegs of powder and a quantity of fire works. 10\21\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. The explosion yesterday broke many windows all over town and did much damage to houses on Long Hill. 10\22\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory all day. 10\23\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory all day. Mr. Lahey, a reporter for The American, called last night to get information concerning the Mattatuck Drum Band to be published in tomorrow's issue. Frank paid the interest, 36.00, to day. 10\24\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. We finished repairing the veranda roof late tonight. 10\25\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This forenoon Frank and I drove over and saw Charlie Cass. After service this afternoon I went on the trolley car to Brooksvale and saw Mr. Doolittle. 10\26\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. This noon the Rev. Father Slocom of the Church of the Immaculate Conception was buried in the new St. Joseph's Cemetery on Hamilton Avenue. It was the largest funeral I ever saw. There were over 150 priests present and not withstanding the rain that was falling at the time, there were over 4,000 people who walked and rode. Every hack in the City was in the procession and in order to have what was needed, some were brought from Meriden and Nangatuck. Companies A and G, C.N.G. and the Hiburnian Rifles were there, as were also all of the Catholic marching societies. All of the business about the center was suspended. Our factory closed from 9 to 11. 10\27\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory all day. This evening I attended a Republican rally at Hamilton. The speakers were the Hon George H Cowell, M.J. Byrne (candidate for Judge of Probate), Capt. A.J. Goodrich and Mr. Andrews. The attendance was small, about 50. 10\29\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a Republican rally at Polis Theater. Preceding the speaking there was a street parade of about 150 men (The Taft Marching Club) wearing linen dusters and hats and carrying torches. They had {???} Brass Band and Drum Corps and it rained hard. The speakers were Senator Butterworth of New Haven, Lieutenant Gov Lak and Ex Attorney General King. The theater was crowded. 10\30\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 10\31\1908 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\01\{1908} (Sunday) {Margin note: Mother Pierpont} Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Irving came home from Brooklyn where he is attending Pratts Institute and staid last night, but left tonight to return. We had for company to supper Miss Rollinson, Miss Emory and Mr. Carpenter from Nangatuck and Fritzie Hanson and Mother Pierpont who has been here since last { }. I wrote letters to Mrs. Oviatt, Torrington, Hon H. Wales Lines, Meriden, Mr. E. L. Cotting, Chicago and Mr. James Somers of Bridgeport. 11\02\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 11\03\1908 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory all day. This is Election Day and I voted at Union Square for William H. Taft for President, James S. Sherman for Vice President. William E. Sessions of Bristol Alton Farrel of Ansonia Charles H. Klincke of New London William E. Burnham of Bridgeport Eugene S. Bass of Windom{??} Henry H. Bridgeman of Norfolk Wilber A. Bolkwell of Chester For Presidential Electors. For Governor, George L. Lilley of Waterbury. Lieutenant Governor, Frank B. Weeks of Middletown. Secretary, Matthew H. Rogers of Bridge Port. State Treasurer, Freeman F. Patten of Stafford. Comptroller, Thomas D. Broadstreet of Thomaston. Representative at Large, John L. Tilson of New Haven. Representatives, Abner P. Hayes Capt. Goodridge. Judge of Probate, M.J. Byrne. 11\04\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. The election yesterday went Republican. The straight Republican ticket was carried in Waterbury except State Senator when John Hurley was elected in place of Charles C. Comeford. 11\05\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory filling the spaces between the bricks with mortar in the brick house. 11\06\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 11\07\1908 (Friday) I worked to day at the factory. 11\08\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Clyde commenced surveying in Prospect for the new City Reservoir that is projected to be built on the fulling mill brook. In taking the levels from East Mountain and Prospect Reservoirs, they found that the bass board of the David Hotchkiss house is 597 feet higher than the base of the Soldiers Monument in Waterbury. 11\09\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Mill Plain Chapel to day. This evening I carried Bessie White, Harry Buckingham and Ruth to Prospect to attend the Christian Endeavor Meeting which was held in the Grange Hall. The new stone church is nearly finished outside. 11\09\1908 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. In surveying for the reservoir in Prospect, Clyde found that the green in the Center by the Library is 596 feet above the base of the Soldier's Monument in Waterbury. 11\10\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 11\11\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The City is laying a 8" water main up the Meriden Road and up onto Hamilton Park Plot. 11\12\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 11\13\1908 (Friday) I worked the factory of Rogers & Bros ten hours to day. 11\14\{1908} (Saturday) Worked as usual at the factory to day. This is tag day, that is, the Anti- Tuberculosis League of this City have taken the means of employing hundreds of ladies, many of whom are school teachers, to stand on street corners, canvas the factories and make a house- to-house canvas, soliciting money of any amount of 5 cts or over for which they give a white tag about 2 inches square with the words "Tag Day" and "The Anti-Tuberculosis League of Waterbury". In the center of the card is a red cross with two bars. They all asked everybody whom they met and many men had tags hanging from every button. 11\15\1908 (Sunday) {Margin note: Mother Pierpont went home to live with Mrs. Downes} This morning the ground was covered with snow about 1 1/2 inches deep. Rev. Mr Harnold preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It is reported that they raised $5,905.27 by the tag method yesterday. After service Mary, Miss Peck the school teacher, Miss Calkins and myself went for a ride up to Charlie Tuttle's at Woodtick. 11\16\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Elmer Pierpont's third wife died last Saturday and is to be buried tomorrow afternoon in River Side Cemetery. 11\17\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory till noon to day. This afternoon Mary and I attended the funeral of Elmer Pierpont's wife. Austin and Wilson Pierpont, George Conner and I were the pall bearers. 11\18\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 11\19\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory all day. 11\20\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\21\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 11\22\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day as usual on the fourth Sunday in each week {month??}. This day is the twenty fifth anniversary of my weeding. This forenoon Mary, Ruth, Raymond and I went to Woodbury on the trolley car, fare .25 each. We left the car at the lower end of the street and walked up to the Carriage Shop and then up on the town rock and up the steel tower where we had a fine view of the whole town and that part of the Pomperang River. We left there at 12.30 and reached home at one thirty. I hitched the horse into the two seated wagon and went down to the Mattatuck Shop and met Dr. Davenport and carried him to the Chapel and after service took him back again. 12\23\{1908} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Clyde is till surveying in Prospect for a new City reservoir on the Union City Brook at a place known as Russell's Pond. 12\24\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\25\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Went to night and saw James White about the Forersters Hall which is to be used by the Somers Family Association tomorrow. We are to take our fire engine up and pump water into the tank from the brook south west of the hall. Many of the wells about Mill Plain are dry. 12\26\{1908} (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. This morning Frank, Raymond, Clyde and I took our fire engine and went to the brook that runs through the swamp back of the Forersters Hall and pumped the tank in the hall full of water. We then came home and I took up a load of provisions and helped clean out the hall. Then came home and got ready and went up to the dinner of the Somers Family Association. There were about 47 who sat down . After dinner we visited and about six we had ice cream and the young people danced. Irving came home this morning from N.Y. 11\27\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went up to James White's and paid him 5.00 for the use of Hamilton Hall yesterday for the Somers family. 12\28\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\29\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchem of Wolcott preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening we had company at supper. Friends of Irving from Nangatuck, Mr. Carpenter, Miss Rollinson, Miss Emory, beside Helen Hayward, George Byam and Fritzie Hanson, beside our own family. After supper Irving left for New York by trolley to New Haven and express for New York. 11\30\1908 (Monday) Worked at the factory. 12\01\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 12\02\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This evening we had a meeting of the Chapel officers at our home. There were present Chairman A. B. Pierpont, Harry Buckingham, Mr. Hiram Abel and myself, Trustees, Dayton Wooding Treasurer, Miss Bessie White Secretary, Arthur Pierpont Sunday School Superintendent and Mrs. Theodore Munson Secretary and Treasurer of Ladies Union. 12\03\{1908} (Thursday) I worked at the factory. 12\04\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. James Summers of Bridgeport called on me at the factory but I was very busy sunning the oil muffle and could not see him but a few minutes. 12\05\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory. Clyde has been measuring up the Payne Reservoir in Prospect to day to ascertain the number of gallons that it contains when full. It is now empty. 12\06\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel. 12\07\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory nine hours. It snowed early this morning and later turned to rain, in all two inches fell. 12\08\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\09\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\10\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory running the oil muffle. This evening the boys and John French, myself and James White went up to the Forersters Hall and pumped the tank full of water with our fire engine. 12\11\1908 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening all of the people of the neighborhood went to the Hamilton Hall to a fair given by the Mill Plain School. The entertainment consisted of a fine supper and music dialogues, speaking etc. and there were several booths where flowers, candy and fancy goods were sold. It snowed to the depth of two inches this forenoon but tonight it rains. 12\12\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. They netted about $60.00 at the School Fair last night. 12\13\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Bukley of Trinity Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 12\14\1908 (Monday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. Shut down the making department and oil muffle last Saturday. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mens League at the Lecture Room of the Second Congregational Church. State Road Coommissioner Mc Donald spoke very interestingly on the good roads question. 12\15\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening my wife, Bessie White and I drove to Prospect and attended the Dedication of the New Congregational Church. The ministers in attendance were the Revs. Dr. Anderson, Dr. Davenport, Mr. Hildreth of Prospect and Mr. Phipps, now of Waterbury but formerly of Prospect. Dr. Davenport preached the sermon. Mr. Hildreth read the dedication exercises and Dr. Anderson offered prayer. There were present a good number of people from Prospect, Cheshire, Nangatuck, Waterbury and other places. 12\16\{1908} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\17\{1908} (Thursday) Worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros to day. 12\18\{1908} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\19\{1908} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day taking the Peck lifter drop bed off from its foundation. The factory closed to night for Christmas vacation. 12\20\1908 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. After service I went for a trolley ride to Brooksvale and called on Mr. Alexander Doolittle. 12\21\{1908} (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. Irving came home from Brooklyn N.Y. late Saturday night for his Christmas vacation. 12\22\{1908} (Tuesday) Worked this day in the factory. Ruth is working every evening in the store during the holidays. 12\23\{1908} (Wednesday) Worked to day at the factory. Weather coldest so far this season. This evening the thermometer stands 1 above zero. 12\24\1908 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. 12\25\{1908} (Friday) Christmas Day. We all had our stockings full of presents this morning. This afternoon we all went down to Father's to celebrate Christmas as we have for over twenty five years. At 1.30 we had dinner and there were present Father and Mother, Mrs. Charles Gillette, brother Frank and his wife, myself, wife and Clyde, Irving, Margaret, Ruth, Frank and Raymond, Amy Miller, William Gillette and wife Iva and son Mansfield, Rolland Jenner and wife Mary and daughter Louise and Ethel and sister Cara. Mr. Radcliffe and wife came in their automobile in the afternoon and staid during the evening. then we had a Christmas tree and all received many presents. 12\26\{1908} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. 12\27\{1908} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport was at the Chapel and conducted the Christmas service by reading two stories and by talking to the Sunday school scholars. 12\28\{1908} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Mill Plain Sunday School gave an entertainment this evening in honor of Christmas. It consisted of music, reading and recitations etc. with a Christmas Tree and Santa Claus and cards and pop corn balls, oranges and many presents for all the scholars. 12\29\{1908} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. Marion Ovaitt [Oviatt] came on a visit this evening. 12\30\1908 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. A terrible earthquake occurred on the Island of Sicily and the lower part of Italy night before last and it is now stated that over 150,000 people lost their lives. An accident occurred on the Oakville trolley line before seven o'clock this morning in which several people were injured. The brakes on one car failed to work and the car ran into the car in front. 12\31\1908 (Thursday) I worked to day at the factory. M{Mrs.??} Katherine Munger died this month. 01\01\1909 (Friday) I worked at the factory all day to day. Weather has been mild and skating good. To night many of Irving's friends gave him a surprise party. 01\02\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day getting things ready to start up Monday morning. 01\03\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Hildreth of Prospect preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Margaret and I went by trolley to Mr. Martin Frisbie's in the north end of Southington and I gave him the geneology of his family back to Edward the Settler at Branford. I found Mr. Frisbie not very well and he said that his wife is sick in bed. His son was there and two sons' wives and daughter and grand daughter. 01\04\1909 (Monday) I worked to day at the factory. The factory started up this morning but few worked. 01\05\1909 (Tuesday) I worked to day piping up the sink in the trimming room. This has been a rainy day throughout and the first since last June. The water in the City reservoirs is very low but it is hoped that this rain will fill them up some and kill the bad taste. 01\06\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory. The weather has been uncomfortably warm but to night it is coming colder. I would note that Irving returned last Sunday afternoon to Brooklyn to attend the Pratt Institute the coming term. 01\07\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. James Tobin's wife was taken sick last night with pneumonia and to day is not expect to live. The money raised in Waterbury for the earthquake sufferers of Italy and Sicily to day amounts to almost 1,900.00. The Wigwam Reservoir has raised to within 10 ft of the spillway. It was down 30 ft below, now all danger of a water famine is past. George Frey sold his milk route to Mr. Bergin of Wolcott. 01\08\{1908} (Friday) Worked to day at the factory. I would here note that George L. Lilley was inaugurated Governor of Connecticut last Wednesday and has rented a house in Hartford in which to live. 01\09\1909 (Saturday) I worked to day at the factory. Margaret and Ruth went to night to South Britain to visit George Cass and family. I intended to go in the morning but cannot as I have got to work in the factory. 01\10\{1909} (Sunday) I worked boring holes in the muffle for a heat gauge this morning two hours. John French helped me. This afternoon I arrived Mr. Buck from the trolley car at the Mattatuck Shop to the Chapel where he preached. Daton Wooding brought him back and I brought Miss Pierce the organist and her two sisters. Margaret and Ruth have just returned from South Britain 9.45. 01\11\1909 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. James Tobin's wife is very sick with pneumonia, not expected to live. This evening Clyde and I attended a meeting of the Men's League at the second church. 01\12\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to night. Mr. Carnes spoke last night of city water supply, sewage disposal and the surge pland{??} now being built and street pavement. 01\13\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Went to the Chapel this evening to a supper and entertainment given by the Ladies Union. 01\14\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Mr. Tobin's wife died this morning. 01\15\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory. 01\16\{1909} (Saturday) This forenoon I attended the funeral of Mrs. Margaret, wife of James Tobin. Patrick Slavin, Frederick Snowman, Michael Whalen and I hired a hack which called at the factory at 8 o'clock for us. We went to Mr. Tobin's house and went from there to the Church of the Sacred Heart where solemn high mass was held and from there to the Old Saint Joseph's Cemetery where she was lowered into the grave. The casket in which she as buried opened on the top and side and showed the whole length. There were over fifty hacks and many other carriages. The weather was very cold. I worked at the factory this afternoon. 01\17\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. It snowed last night and this morning. I went round the Frost, Meriden, Southmaid and Cheshire Roads with the snow plough. 01\18\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Although but four inches of snow fell, the sleighing is good. 01\19\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This morning was the coldest so far this season. Our thermometer stood at thirteen degrees below zero at six o'clock this morning. 01\20\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory. This evening I attended a special school meeting at Mill Plain to take action in regard to the City of Waterbury amending its charter so that the Board of Education shall have the power to hire and discharge teachers and fix there salaries. A committee of five were appointed to work with the committees of other districts consisting of Warren B. Hitchcock, Charles S. Miller, James L. White, B.Y. Hoggett and Hiram J. Abel. 01\21\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended a meeting of the stockholders of the Waterbury Rolling Mills and the following directors were elected: A. H. Wells, m. E. Keeley, Abel Kenworthy, Corneilus Tracey, Frank Welton and Robert Somers and Mr. Beardsley. During the month of December last, the mill finished 180,000 pounds of metal. This is said to be the largest month's work ever turned out with three pairs of rolls in Waterbury. Rogers & Brothers factory went on short time to day. 01\22\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\23\{1909} (Saturday) I worked to day at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the committee's appointed by the School Districts of the town to act in regard to the bill amending the City charter so as to give the Board of Education power to hire and discharge and fix the salaries of teachers. It was voted that the Committee's appear before the Board of Aldermen next Monday night and ascertain if possible what the bills are that the City wishes to present to the Legislature. 01\24\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. 01\25\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the Committees appeared at the City Hall before the Board of Aldermen but no notice was taken of them. The bill was read requesting City Attorney Kellogg to draft a bill amending the Charter so that the Board of Education shall have power to hire, discharge and fix salaries of teachers in the outlying districts. The bill was tabled{??}. 01\26\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 01\27\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I called on Rev. Mr. Chion of the Third Congregational Church to get him to come to the Chapel but he could not come next Sunday as he is to preach at Thomaston. I then called on Chief Snagg of the W.F.D. regarding the appointment of a fire warden in this part of the City. 01\28\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 01\29\{1909} (Friday) Worked at factory to day as usual. 01\30\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Snowed about 5" to day. 01\31\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Phipps preached at the Chapel. Mary and I went out to J.H. Garrigus after Chapel{??}. 02\01\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory. John French brought his bobs tonight and we helped him put the shoes on. 02\02\1909 (Tuesday) I worked to day in the factory. John French finished putting the shoes on his bobs this evening. I bought a hand beader of D.B. Wilson tonight after work. The sleighing is good and the weather warmer. 02\03\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked to day at the factory. Mr. Marcus Fairchild died at the Soldiers Home at Norton yesterday. 02\05\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\06\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank finished cutting 29 fence posts out to Mr. Garrigus. Attended a meeting of the Committees of the School Districts at the business men's room. 02\07\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 02\08\{1909} (Monday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. All of the factory except the machinists wok 8 hours. 02\09\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Robert Somers called to night to see me about spoon blanking presses. 02\10\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Went to night to South Waterbury and saw Robert Somers and Abel Kenworthy about spoon blanking business. Mary went to the Chapel to a supper given by the Ladies Union. 02\11\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 02\12\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Frank and Raymond worked at Garrigus's chopping white birches. I went to night to see Mr. Kenworthy. This is Lincoln's birthday, the 100th. 02\13\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\14\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I went to Brooksvale after service. 02\15\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The Bible class met at our house this evening. 02\16\1909 (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory. We have had rain and mist all day and tonight it has frozen so now all of the trees and shrubs are covered with ice. 02\17\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory putting up a new shaper. Everything is covered with ice to day and many trees are broken, trolley and electric wires are down and everything is slippery. The cars did not run past here until eight o'clock. 02\18\{1909} (Thursday) Worked to day at the factory. The ice still stays on everything. 02\19\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening very stormy. Bessie Pierce came and we had singing. 02\20\1909 (Saturday) Worked at the factory. To night I worked on the new waterwheel. 02\21\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Harnold preached at the Chapel. George Cass came from South Britain and got Clyde's drum corps uniform. Yesterday Rev. Mr. Williams came and borrowed a drum corps uniform to use at an entertainment to be given in the Simonsville Methodist Church. 02\22\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This is Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday. Schools, banks, library etc. closed. I raised the flag over the office this morning. 02\23\1909 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. A rain storm which changed to snow set in at five o'clock and has continued ever since. I worked this evening on the water wheel. 02\24\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 02\25\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\26\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Invitations were sent out to day for the wedding of Miss Girtrude U. Bradley and Mr. George Walker, the City Superintendent of Parks. 02\27\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 02\28\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I and Mary with Mrs. Downs went out to Mother Pierpont's. We found there Frank Frisbie and wife and Augustus Cornelius's daughter. Wrote to State Forester Haws and Mrs. Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt] this evening. 03\01\{1909} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Mrs. Sarah J. Hine moved into her new house last Saturday. 03\02\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\03\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Frank brought home Wilson Pierpont's horse and wagon. We rep. wagon tonight. 03\04\1909 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. President William H. Taft was inaugurated at Washington to day. It has been a very stormy day with wind, snow and rain. 03\05\{1909} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. George Walker and Miss Girtrude U. Bradley were married this afternoon at the old David Porter homestead, by Dr. John G. Davenport, assisted by Rev. Mr. Dallas of St. John's Church. Yesterday Frank with Wilson Pierpont's horse and wagon and our horse drew a large black oak log from Morris Alcott's to Bauley's Steam Saw Mill on the Meriden Road at the old David Frost place where turning into the gate he broke the pole. 03\06\1909 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Early yesterday morning Frank, Raymond and I went up to the Frost Place and drew the wagon from under the log and brought it home and to night we went up and with tackle and block drew the log up to the mill. To day Frank and Raymond drew the rest of the logs except one 20 ft from Morris Alcott's, used the sled till noon when the snow got so thin that he took the wagon. 03\07\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. 03\08\1909 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. The large barns owned by Edward and John Pierpont burned to the ground to night. As I was walking home from the shop through Hamilton Park, I saw some boys running east and wondered what was the cause. Soon I saw the steamer drawn by three horses. I ran by the side of it till Will Gillette overtook me. He had Capt McEnvoy of Engine Co No 2 in the carriage with him. I got in and he ran his horse and we were soon there but could find no place where we could use the steamer so they sent it back. Both barns were in flames and the men of the automobile squad were putting water on Hattie Pierpont's house. I with others went to carrying out the furniture from the house occupied by Elihue Barber and fought the fire with pails, pans, coal hods{??} etc. for over an hour but the water gave out and the fire got the best of us, and the house burned. Then Will Gillette drove over and got my engine and we set it over to a large spring and soon had a stream on the other barn, and another stream on the house and so saved the barn on the east side of the driveway. My engine got there at five minutes to seven and we worked it till midnight when John and Ed hired eight men and they kept it going till six o'clock next morning. They estimated the loss at $10,000 which included 80 tons of hay, 10 cords of stove wood, many wagons, carts, sleighs, harness, two mowing machines, two hay rakes, hay tedders{??}, 40 hogs that had been butchered, a mow of stray{??} etc. 03\09{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory, The brass mill in Mixville burned between midnight and morning. Loss estimated at $18,000. The casting shop did not burn. This evening I attended a meeting of the District Committees with the Taxation Revision Committee in the police court room in the City Hall. I saw Chief Snagg and he signed the papers appointing Arthur J. Pierpont District Fire Warden. 03\10\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a supper and entertainment in the Chapel. 03\11\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Mr. James White and I called on Chief Snagg and he signed papers appointing Arthur J. Pierpont Fire Warden for the territory from the Prospect Road to the Wolcott Road. We then attended a meeting of the Committees of the School Districts in the City Hall. 03\12\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Spent this evening at home. 03\13\{1909} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day ten hours. This evening I went to Colby S. Sherwood's shoe store and bought a pair of shoes, paid $2.50. Came home and worked with Frank sowing up some large black oak logs with the cross cut saw. After supper I worked on the farm for the waterwheel pit. 03\14\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I went to Mixville by trolley and saw the ruins of the Brass Mill that burned last Monday morning. I then spent the evening with Mr. Harry Brooks. 03\15\1909 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Spent this evening working on the waterwheel pit. 03\16\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening Cousin William Goldsmith called and told us all about his sojourn on the Island of Cuba from which he has lately returned. He also told of many places he has visited in different parts of the world, including the Klondike, Pacific coast, Navigator Islands, Phillipines, Chine, Japan, India, Celon, Red Sea, Gibraltar, Europe, England and the West Indies. 03\17\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Went this evening after work to Sanderson's Store and bought a pair of pants 2.00. Went also to Hotchkiss & Templetons and bought a box of welding compound .25 and a whip .25. 03\18\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Agnes Able's birthday, 30 years old. 03\19\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the various school district committees of the town of Waterbury to take some action to oppose the consolidation of the Town and District schools. No action was taken. 03\20\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. After work Frank, Raymond and I ironed off 1.2 set of wagon wheel. The old ice house and wagon shed at the Wilson Pierpont place burned last evening. 03\21\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of Waterville preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. A. B. Pierpont was there having returned from Florida yesterday. After service I went to a fire in the woods at the old Wilson Pierpont place. There was a number of men there putting out the fire including Arthur J. Pierpont, the newly appointed Fire Warden. 03\22\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the District Committees and Board of Aldermen in the Police Court Room. 03\23\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended the adjourned{??} meeting of the Board of Aldermen where the bill was adopted to consolidate the school governments of the town and City, the bill to have a hearing before the Committee of Education in Hartford next Thursday. 03\24\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\25\{1909} (Thursday) To day I went to Hartford to the hearing before the Committee of Education regarding the consolidating of the City and District Schools. I also bought 1/2 set of wheels of L. L. Ensworth. 03\26\1909 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. 03\27\{1909} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. Milan Northrop of East Farms died of consumption yesterday. To day Frank and Raymond drove to Hartford, started at 6 o'clock and went through East Farms, Plantsville, Southington, Plainville and Farmington, reaching L. L. Ensworth, where they left their load of wagon axles and got in return one set of axles and a set of platform circles. They then went out and looked at the new stone bridge over the Connecticut River and then started home. Stopped between Plainville and Southington one hour and fed the horse. Reached home at about 8 o'clock, out{???} the way up they stopped six miles this side of Hartford and fed. 03\28\1909 (Sunday) Mr. Milan Northrop was buried from the Chapel this afternoon at three o'clock. No regular service was held. Dr. Davenport officiated at the funeral. The pallbearers were Milo Peck, Edwin Todd, A. B. Pierpont and John R. S. Todd. After service all of the brothers and sisters of Austin B. Pierpont met at his home at East Farms in honor of his 60 birthday which was Feb 11 when he was in Florida. 03\29\{1909} (Monday) I was sick this morning with a bad cold and did not go to work. Towards noon I helped Irving paint windows in the house. He came home from Brooklyn last Saturday. To night I sent letters with money from Edward A. Pierpont to the following: Earle Munson 1.00, Stanley Heaton 1.00, Robert Calkins 1.00, Roy Munson .40, Bennie Jones .40. 03\30\1909 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. Irving painted on the windows of or house. I helped him to night. 03\31\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. James Elliott is building two double houses on Elliott Street. This evening I went to the office of W.H. Camp and paid the interest from Mar 18 to April 2 and arranged to have Morton Pierpont pay Mr. Camp the $12.00 next Friday. 04\01\1909 (Thursday) I worked to day at Rogers & Brothers factory. This has been a warm nice day. Frank drew home our lumber from Banley's Saw Mill. 04\02\1909 (Friday) I worked to day at the factory. To day Morton Pierpont paid Waluce Camp Administrator on the estate of Joseph Munger, twelve hundred dollar, $1,200.00, the amount of the mortgage I owed the Munger estate. I am to have the note, deed etc. drawn in favor of Mr. Pierpont. 04\03\{1909} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the office of Howard B. Snow and engaged him to draw up a mortgage note and deed in favor of Morton E. Pierpont for $1200.00. They are to be ready to sign next Wednesday night. 04\04\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 04\05\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory till five o'clock when a telephone message came calling me to come home at once. I started and as no car came, I walked fast and when near Mrs. Hine's new house, saw a great fire raging in Calvary Cemetery and soon saw some boys coming with my fire engine which we used to pump the water from Tom Mill's well and put out the fire from the Cheshire Road to the next lot. We then took the engine to a small pond back of Joe Gilbert's and put out the fire along the west side of the cemetery. Then we moved it into the lot west of M. Butler's house and there put out the rest of the fire. Clyde put out the fire around Mr. Butler's house and saved it from burning. Soon there came a call that the barn at the Blodgett place was in danger so we took the engine there and pumped out of the old cistern and put out the fire and then dragged the hose over the top of the hill near the center of the Cemetery and put out the rest of the fire. We then saw a big fire in the woods south of East Farms and I came home and harnessed the horse and went round by the old pump station to the Blodgett place to get the engine but the boys had already gone out and up the Scott Road with it. Clyde said that he did not want to send the boys into the dark woods so we recalled them and we took the engine to East Farms and we went to putting out the fire with shovels, hoes etc. and at ten o'clock, we had it out, it having burned from the Plank Road at East Farms to the Scott Road near Nelson Todd's and all of the ground to Wedges Corner. 04\06\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Mary and I went to Attorney Howard B. Snow's office and signed a mortgage note and deed for 1,200.00 in favor of Morton E. Pierpont. 04\07\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 04\08\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\09\{1909} (Friday) This is Fast day. We put me{new??} forward wheels on Frank's team wagon and a new axle and bed on front end. 04\10\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Painted a grape arbor and house after work to night. 04\11\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. As I was getting ready for the Chapel, word came to come up to a forest fire with the engine soon as possible. The fire was on the hill north of the Meriden Road east of Munsons Corner and extended from Earnest Welton's to the little hill north of the watering trough on the Meriden Road. We went in a wood road but as there was no water within reach, we sent for rakes, shovels, hoes etc. and by backfiring, succeeded in getting the fire out when the different parties of men met. Chase who fought on the north line, those from the south line and those from the east, there must have been over one hundred and over a hundred acres burned over. This evening I called on Mr. Doolittle at Brooksvale. 04\12\1909 (Monday) Worked in the factory to day. Clyde staid home and he, Frank and Raymond painted on the house. 04\13\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. 04\14\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory running the muffle. It rained hard all day and the boys painted blinds in the new building. 04\15\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory running the muffle. The ladies had a supper at the Chapel this evening. 04\16\{1909} (Friday) I worked at the factory all day. Will Gillette called to night and said that he is trying to buy Mark Pond's place for $8,000. 04\17\1909 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day until five o'clock. Clyde and Frank left this morning at ten minutes to six for New York to visit Irving. 04\18\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Orsbourn preached at the chapel this afternoon. Clyde and Frank returned from New York this afternoon. 04\19\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Wrote William H. Ely of New Haven. 04\20\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Received answer from Mr. Ely appointing Friday afternoon as a time to see him. 04\21\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. A very rainy day. 04\22\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Governor George Leavens Lillie died at this temporary home in Hartford at 7.26 last night of heart disease. All flags were raised at half mast to day. 04\23\{1909} (Friday) I worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I took the trolley and went to New Haven when I met Austin B. Pierpont, we having been appointed a committee by the Mill Plain Chapel Society to ascertain the legal rights of the Chapel regarding the ground and horse sheds etc. He informed us that we are entitled to the buildings of the Chapel as we are complying with the conditions of the grantor (Mrs. Lydia Sackett) as she specified them in the deed and that the horse sheds are held by adverse possession. 04\24\1909 (Saturday) I worked at the factory this forenoon. All of the shops in town shut down and all business was suspended this afternoon on account of Governor Lille's funeral which was the largest ever seen in this City. The funeral was held in Hartford this forenoon and the remains were brought here and services held in St. John's Church of which he was a member, Rev. John Lewis officiating. The line then moved out West Main St. to River Side Cemetery and was composed of first a squad of police followed by Colonel Getty and staff officers{??} of the Second Regt Infantry succeeded{??} by Second Regt Band of New Haven then Troop A Cavalry of New Haven then Second Regt then Coast Artillery Band and Regt, next came the Naval Reserves, then First Separate Company of New Haven (colored) next Colts Band of Hartford leading the Governor's Horse Guards, dismounted, of Hartford then Second Co Governor's Foot Guards of New Haven and Second Co Foot guards, then First Co Governors Foot Guards Band of Hartford and First Company Foot Guards, next came Honorary Pall Bearers and Governors Staff and hearse drawn by four black horses, then came carriages containing mourners, members of the Legislature, City Officials and Court Officers from all over the state to the number of 75, then the Order of Elks, {?????} of the World and 25 more hacks. We heard 3 volleys and "taps" at the grave. The City was thronged with people and fifteen police were called from New Haven to do duty at the Cemetery. 04\25\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Bukley preached at the chapel this afternoon. 04\26\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Wm. Gillette called and told me that he had bargained for the Martain Pond place for 7,900.00, expects to get deed tomorrow. I told Mrs. Abel about the advice Mr. Ely gave us regarding the Chapel. 04\27\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. We finished painting the house this morning but the fence and other buildings are not finished. 04\28\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. William M. Gillette told me this evening that he signed the purchasing papers of the Martain Pond place yesterday noon. I took the Chapel books up to Bessie White to night. 04\29\{1909} (Thursday) I worked at the factory ten hours to day. Snow fell to the depth of two inches this afternoon. Austin B. Pierpont called to day and said that the new bell for the Chapel was at the depot and he will bring it out tomorrow. 04\30\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory all day. This evening I went to the Chapel and drew the new bell upon the first floor. John French, Frank and Raymond helped me. 05\01\1909 (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This evening we went to the Chapel and lifted the bell up into the belfry. 05\02\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel. 05\03\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\04\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 05\05\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 05\06\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 05\07\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. We finished painting the New Building or Carriage House this morning, it taking Clyde, Raymond and myself 1 1/2 hours. Last night we painted the engine house in half an hour and before that the wood house and before that the house. 05\08\{1909} (Saturday) Worked in the factory to day. 05\09\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This morning Clyde, Frank and I went by trolley to Waterville where we were joined by B.F. Howland and went to Reynolds Bridge where we walked to the old Josh Seymour place, from there up the mountain to the old Hotchkiss place, no houses, then out onto the traveled road that goes from Nova Scotia Hill to the Thomaston Road and went up that road to the old Worrell Place which house burned during the winter, then to an old marble quarry near the Saw Mill pond then to the Saw mill known as Bidwell's Saw Mill, the north and up the Thomaston Road to the Reservoir near the Branch Brook where we left the road and walking in a south easterly direction ascended the Eagle Rock where we had a fine view of the country to the north, east and south. We had a hard time getting down the south end of the rock and went south east to the cellar of the old Ebenezer Richards house, then over the hill east to Joseph Scott's grave, he was killed by the Indians in 1706 or 8 near where the grave is, then to the New Rock House Cave south east from the grave about half a mile. I would here state that we visited the old rock house where the first settlers of the region staid while they built their houses. It is situated a little south of west of the new trolley bridge. From the New Rock House we went down the mountain to the Seymour Cellar where the British horses were hidden during the Revolution and on across the plain and down the "Pipe Line" to the Deep River Brook which we went up to the Jerico Quarry which has not been worked for a number of years. There is a large cellar there where lived Ben Smith Welton. We then walked to Frost's Bridge where we took the trolley and came home. 05\10\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\11\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory. 05\12\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\13\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the Collectory all day. This evening Raymond and I went to the Chapel and tinned over part of the roof in the tower under the bell. 05\14\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This morning Ray and I went up to the Chapel and worked on the roof from four to six when we came home and I went to work. This evening after work in the factory, Clyde and Raymond with myself went to the Chapel and soldered the roof in the bell tower and put the bell frame together. 05\15\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory for ten hours. This morning Raymond, Frank and I went to the Chapel at five o'clock and got the bell frame ready to fasten down and to night after work, Roy Munson, Raymond and I placed the bell in position and I make it ring for the first time. 05\16\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This forenoon I went to the Second Baptist Church in South Waterbury to have the Sexton Mr. Mitchell show me how to ring the bell. I staid through the service. There were fifty persons present. This afternoon I went to the Chapel and I rang the bell first of all. Earle Munson also sounded it as did Mr. Mitchell who came from South Waterbury. This evening I visited George Benham. 05\17\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\18\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to East farms and helped plant potatoes. Frank plowed the ground yesterday and spread most of the manure and this afternoon went out and dropped the seed and Raymond dropped the plaster while Clyde and I covered it up. We done all but four rows. Charles Pierpont came this evening and Mary and I signed a paper which was drawn by the Probate Judge appointing him Conservator{??} over his mothers' affairs. 05\19\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Yesterday Rev. Dr. Lawson entered complaint against Sunday baseball and moving picture shows and the ticket sellers were warned to appear in court this morning. 05\20\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Wrote William H. Ely attorney, New Haven, this evening asking receipt for money paid or Mill Plain Union Chapel. 05\21\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Raymond and I went to the Chapel to finish putting the toller on the bell but could not get in as Frank Judd had the key. 05\22\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to the Chapel and fixed the place for the tolling hammer. Had to bring the hammer home and sharpen the lever. 05\23\{1909} (Sunday) This morning I put new shoes on the horse and after breakfast of stewed oysters, Frank and I went to the Chapel and put the toller on the bell which was used this afternoon for the first time. Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening I went to Cheshire and saw Mr. Brown and attended church. 05\24\{1909} (Monday) I worked at the factory. This evening we sowed grass seed on the East Garden on which we sowed oats this morning. 05\25\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory all day. 05\26\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Union Chapel was held and A.B. Pierpont was elected to represent the Episcopal denomination, Hiram J. Abel the Methodist, Chas S. Miller the Congregational and Harry Buckingham the Baptist, Miss Bessie White was elected Secretary, Dayton C. Wooding Treasurer, Arthur J. Pierpont Sunday School Superintendent, George Byam Assistant, Frank Welton Librarian. It was voted to let the Cemetery hold their meetings in the Chapel and A.B. Pierpont received a vote of thanks for the bell that he has donated to the Chapel. There were voted into the Society 20 new members. 05\27\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. To night Clyde, Raymond and I put a line of tile pipe under the garden. 05\28\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\29\1909 (Saturday) Worked at the factory nine hours. To night after work I welded the back tires for Frank's team wagon wheels. Austin B. Pierpont came this evening and we audited the books of the Pine Grove Cemetery. 05\30\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Chumm of the Third Congregational Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon on the sin of playing ball on Sunday. After service I went to Brooksvale and found Mr. Alexander Doolittle very sick. His son Judson was there and Mr. Jacob Walters called. 05\31\{1909} (Monday) This day is observed as Decoration Day, and the new Soldiers Monument in the Pine Grove Cemetery was dedicated by Wadhams Post No 49 G. N. R. There were 54 veterans of the Civil War and Co A and G of the 2nd Rgt, the "Red Men", the Woodmen, Odd Fellows and others. There were several speakers and songs by the Mill Plain School and Concordia Singing Society etc. I spent most of the day repairing Frank's wagon. 06\01\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\02\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day ten hours. This evening the Pine Grove Cemetery Association held its annual meeting in the Mill Plain Chapel and elected the old board of trustees over again. They are Mark L. Werner, Hiram J. Abel, Warren B. Hitchcock, Theodore Munson, Charles Jessel, Ralph N Blakeslee, and Martin L. Pond. Austin B. Pierpont and Charles S. Miller were elected auditors. On motion of A.B. Pierpont, seconded by C.S. miller, that the Cemetery Association quit{??} claim the land on which the Chapel stands to the Mill Plain Union Chapel Incorporated. It was voted on motion of William Atkinson Sr.{??} that the question be tabled for twenty years. 06\03\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening a fair which is to be held jointly by the Forersters and Grangers opened in the Halls owned by them. 06\04\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\05\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\06\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught of Simonsville Baptist Church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service the Chapel officers met and elected A.B. Pierpont Chairman of the Chapel Committee. We saw to day that the rail and posts (the property of the Chapel) that ran south from the back line of the horse sheds has been taken up and the posts and rails lies back of the sheds. 06\07\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 06\08\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 06\09\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren B. Hitchcock this morning. This evening Raymond and I went to the Chapel and measured up the bell and came home and made an iron to hold a roll for the bell rope to run on. 06\10\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I went before the Board of Assessments to have the sprinkling assessment abated from this vicinity. There were Mrs. Sara J. Hine, Miss Fannie Porter, Ervice E. Wright, George E. Judd and myself. They said that they would report it unfavorable. To night's American, Cheshire News stated that the funeral of Alexander Doolittle of Brooksvale was largely attended from his house Monday afternoon. 06\11\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 06\12\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the Committees from the outside districts at the business men's rooms which was held to settle up the bills, 50.00 for Attorney Byrne, 50.00 for circular letter to members of the Legislature, 12.00 for use of Hall and 6.00 for sundries. It was voted that the Secretary notify the Board of Finance that the outside districts are opposed to the Superintendent of Schools Mr. Tinker getting an increase of salary of 400.00 06\13\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. After service Mary, Estella Benham, Bessie White and I went for a ride up the West Wolcott Road across by the Woodtick School and Chapel and down the Todd Road to East Farms where we left Miss Benham and Bessie White took the trolley to town. We stopped at Mother Pierpont's and then came home and had supper, after which I went down home and staid till 10.30. 06\14\1909 (Monday) Worked to day at the factory. This evening we dug holes for posts for a new fence along the Frost Road. Ralph Blakeslee is drawing lumber for his new barn. 06\15\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Saturday, Sunday and yesterday they laid the eight inch main across Mad River for the Mattatuck Mfg Co. Saturday they built a coffer dam from the East side to the middle and put the pipe part way across and Sunday and yesterday they put it the rest of the way by building a coffer day{??} from the west side, taking away the one on the east side first and turning the water over the pipe. Irving arrived home from Brooklyn this evening to spend his summer vacation. 06\16\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. We dug post holes and set posts along the Frost Road this morning and evening. 06\17\{1909} (Thursday) Worked in the factory to day. This morning Clyde, Irving, Frank, Raymond and I with our scythes went to the lot that Thomas Mills house stands in and mowed the heavy grass there. They have put up the posts for Ralph Blakeslee's barn to day. 06\18\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\19\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening we got in a large load of hay from Thomas Mills lot. The boys hoed the potatoes to day. 06\20\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel this afternoon. This evening Earl Munson and I went to Cheshire to the Congregational Church to have Mr. Jacob Walters show us how to ring the bell, but we got there too late, their service begins at 7 while we thought that it was 7.30. 06\21\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\22\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Had graduating exercises in Chapel this evening. 06\23\{1909} (Wednesday) Ringling Brothers Circus was in town to day and the factories closed for the day. I worked with the boys at the fence and at nine o'clock went to town to see the parade but was too late in getting in so went to the grounds and looked about and over to where the new railroad station is being built. From there to South Main St. where I took a Nangatuck car and went there and boarded a New Haven car and went to New Haven where I called on Mr. Henry Rogers at 211 Orchard Street where I staid some time and then went to the center where I took the Cheshire car and got off at Sanford Road and went to Brooksvale where i called on Mr. Doolittle and learned that Mr. Doolittle died June 4. Mr. Dr. Horton or Mt. Park came from New Haven and looked the farm over with a view of buying. When we got back to the house we found an automobile there with several people and we went to Ives Corner and took the trolley home. 06\24\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This has been a very warm day. 06\25\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended the annual meeting of the voters of the Saw Mill Plain School District for the election of officers which resulted in Warren B. Hitchcock's receiving 19 votes and I 11 for Committee. B.F. Haggett was elected Treasurer and John F. Gallagher tax collector. 06\26\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. hoed in the garden till supper time. After supper went to town and handed in my list to the assessors, went to Miller & Pecks and bought two lap blankets. 06\27\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport was at the Chapel this afternoon as has been his custom for the past twenty six years. The building was full and the music, singing and recitations by the children interesting. There were nineteen Sunday School scholars who had not been absent or only absent once during the year to whom Dr. Davenport gave prizes in the form of a book to those who had been absent only once and a picture to those who had not been absent at all. There were babies baptized. After service, Margaret, Ruth, Mary and I went for a ride out to Arthur Pierpont's. He had there the heaviest grass I ever saw. 06\28\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory.' 06\29\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\30\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I took the base of the Peck drop out from the pit to day. It weighed nine tons. 07\01\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\02\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. Ralph Blakeslee has finished his big barn. 07\03\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\04\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Ruth, Miss Bessie White and I went for a ride up through Wolcott, stopped at Pritchard's Saw Mill and saw the natural well and then went over the Center Hill and down by Mark Tuttle's Corner and through Woodtick and home. The weather was so cold that it was uncomfortable. 07\05\1909 (Monday) July 5th but observed as the 4th. Many young people from this neighborhood have gone to the shore to spend the day. Frank and I worked all day setting fence posts in the rock fill along the Frost Road. 07\06\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 07\07\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 07\08\1907 (Thursday) Worked at the factory with William Chatfield's men putting in a new seven ton foundation stone for the 1200 lb drop. 07\09\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day on the drop foundations. Frank and William Gillette did the haying at Father's to day and drew the hay to Will's barn at the Martain Ponds place. 07\10\{1909} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day on the engine repairs. We are putting on a new cylinder, two new eccentrics{??}, new crank pin etc. Ralph Blakeslee got in twenty one loads of hay to day that weighed twenty tons. Mr. Barnes borrowed my jumper and hose. We had to go and get it to night. 07\11\1909 (Sunday) The new Waterbury Rail Road Station was opened to the public to day for the first time. This morning I left home after 11 o'clock and went to Hartford by trolley to see Dr. Henry Sweet about my knee. Found him at his home No 150, Blue Hills Ave. and he said that I had ruptured the berseraf{??} of the knee. Told me to use the white of an egg and salt every night and apply his joint linment{??} three times a day. After leaving him I went to the center and took the Middletown car and passed through Rocky Hill and Cromwell to that City where I took car and came to Meriden and then home. Irving, Margaret and Ruth left home this morning soon after six and walked to Wedges and up the Scott Road to Prospect then to Straitsville to Betheny Center to Woodbridge Center and to Ansonia which they reached at one o'clock having walked 20 miles. After spending some time at Mr. Schmack's they came home by trolley. 07\12\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. The shop started up this morning after a vacation of a week. The engine has a new cylinder etc. which have been put in since the shutdown. Frank and Wilson Pierpont mowed two lots west of Thomas Mills' house and we got in one load to night. 07\13\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\14\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\15\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Frank mowed the east part of the meadow corner of the Harpers Ferry Road and Plank Road to day and drew it up and we unloaded it to night which finished our haying. 07\16\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank began peddling milk with Morton Pierpont last night. 07\17\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. The boys had a fire drill this evening. They took the engine up to the brook by Mr. Jones. 07\18\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel this morning. 07\19\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\20\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Margaret and Ruth returned from East Morris where they have been visiting Cousin Leva Turkinton. 07\21\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Stanley Swift came last night to visit Raymond. 07\22\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\23\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 07\24\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Raymond and I went to Hotchkiss & Templetons and bought 16 rods and 2 ft of "American wire fence" 58" high and a roll of barbed wire and six pounds of staples for which I paid 9.83. We then came home and put up the fence along the Frost Road. 07\25\1909 (Sunday) I worked at the factory one hour with John French putting on a driving belt for a pair of rolls. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. After service Mary and I took a car and went to Cheshire 15 cts. where we changed and went to Milldale 5 cts. About one mile this side of Milldale we saw an automobile turned on its side by the track, where at about three o'clock Mr. C. G. Buckingham of West Haven in turning out for a mud puddle got onto the trolley track and the car hit the auto wrecking it and throwing Mr. Buckingham under it killing him. In the auto were two nieces and Mrs. Buckingham, all three were injured more or less. From Milldale we went Meriden 10 cts, then changed and at Pratt St. took the cars to Middletown, 15 cts, changed again at corner of Court and Main Sts for Hartford car and went to Cromwell 5 cts, where we went to the greenhouses of Mr. Pierson. They are of grand size, 60 ft wide and 300 ft long and there are a great many of them. 07\26\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory. Raymond went to camp with the Mill Plain boys at Hitchcock's Pond this afternoon. 07\27\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 07\28\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day covering the cylinder of the engine with asbestos covering. Mary left this afternoon for a visit to Elena Turkinton at East Morris and next Friday she expects to go to Cousin Marion Oviatt's at Goshen. 07\29\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 07\30\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 07\31\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I worked cutting the tops of the posts of the new fence on the Frost Road. 08\01\{1909} (Sunday) Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I took a trolley ride to Cheshire and walked to Brooksvale and called on Mrs. Doolittle. 08\02\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Mary returned from Goshen this afternoon. 08\03\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\04\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Burr Blakeslee's son and the Rev. Mr. Mitchell of Plymoth Hill were drowned at Fisher Island yesterday. 08\05\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. The Mill Plain Sunday School had their picnic at Quassapaug{??} yesterday afternoon. I finished building the wire fence along the Frost Road this evening so that it is ready for painting. 08\06\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\07\1909 (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This morning John French was run into by the 6.30 Cheshire trolley car near Silver Street which smashed his buggy, threw his horse down and threw him under the running board of the car. 08\08\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel. After service Mary, Leta Clark, and Emma Brown with myself went to Prospect for a ride. 08\09\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 08\10\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day covering the main steam pipe in the engine room. 08\11\1909 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brother to day in the engine room. To night I drove to Hamilton Park Plot and there are ten new houses built, eight of them are on Edson Avenue. 08\12\{1909} (Thursday) I worked in the factory to day. 08\13\{1909} (Friday) I staid home and with Raymond's and Frank's help finished painting the new fence on the Doolittle or Frost Road as it is now called. Ogie{??} Hanson died at the Waterbury Hospital last night at ten o'clock of pneumonia. He was 19 years old. 08\14\1909 (Saturday) Worked at home to day putting in foundation of wagon shed. 08\15\{1909} (Sunday) Ogie Hanson was buried from the Chapel at two o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Williams, assistant to Mr. Davenport of the Second Cong. Church, officiated. There were over 274 people in the Chapel. The pall bearers were Earl Munson, Frank Miller, Stanley Heaton, George Aitchenson, Harley Caulkins, Frederick Hespheldt. 08\16\{1909} (Monday) Rained. Moved the chicken coop to the east side of my lot. Frank and Raymond helped me, wet through all day. 08\17\{1909} (Tuesday) Rained hard. Put underpinning under chicken coop etc. 08\18\1909 (Wednesday) Worked building a chicken yard to day. 08\21\{1909} (Saturday) Last Thursday morning Frank, Raymond and I left on the first trolley and went to Huntington, Mass. by way of Cheshire, Plainville, Hartford, West Springfield, Westfield from Huntington to our destination in Worthington is 13 miles and as the automobile bus did not leave until four o'clock, we started at 1.30 and walked getting to John Hart's house about six o'clock where we found Margaret and Louise Jenner. We staid there over night and next morning he hitched up his pair of grey horses and took us up to the center and over the hills where we had a fine view of the surrounding country. Mr. Hart lives on Judge Cowell's farm of about 900 acres. We staid there Friday night and left for home this morning at 6.30, five of us. John carried us over to the corner where we took the auto for Huntington, paid 1.25 each and came home the remainder of the distance by trolley, reaching here at six o'clock. 08\22\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Williams preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Irving returned home from the army campaign where he has been for the past week, in the vicinity of Boston Fountain, New Bedford etc. with the Conn. Brigade. 08\23\{1909} (Monday) Helped William Gillette build a foundation for his office which we are going to move to his place now occupied by Martin Pond. 08\24\{1909} (Tuesday) Helped William Gillette move his cottage up to the Martin Pond place to day. 08\26\1909 (Thursday) Raymond and I worked on the under- pinning of the wagon shed that we are going to build this forenoon and Frank with the team helped Will Gillette move his books etc. up to the Pond place. This afternoon he helped us at the stone work. This evening I went to Cheshire on the trolley. 08\27\{1909} (Friday) We, Frank, Raymond and I, worked and finished the underpinning and got in the oats that we mowed yesterday. 08\28\{1909} (Saturday) Frank, Raymond and I put up the frame of our shed. This noon Margaret and Ruth went to Bantam Lake to stay over Sunday. 08\29\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Chumm preached at the Chapel. After service I drove out to the water supply reservoir in Rag Hollow and over Cornwell Ave. to Cheshire and then home. 08\30\{1909} (Monday) Went to work in the factory to day. 08\31\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank and Raymond staid up to Wm. Gillette's new place last night. Eleven boys came to steal apples, pears etc. but they drove them away. Mary has gone out to her mother's to stay to night, while Mrs. Flint, who takes care of Mother Pierpont, has gone to the shore. Mr. Sampson has bought of Mr. James Elliott his new double house on Elliott Avenue for $5,600. 09\01\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mary came home from her mother's to night. 09\02\{1909} (Thursday) Worked to day in Rogers Bros factory. Helped Will Gillette move this evening. We took up one load. Iva's birthday, 35 years old. 09\03\{1909} (Friday) I worked in the factory. 09\04\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 09\05\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught, Baptist minister of South Waterbury, preached at the Chapel. 09\06\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory (Labor Day). This evening Frank, Raymond, myself, Wm Gillette, Rowland Jenner and Benjamin Chatfield took Will Gillette's piano up to their new place. To night Will, Iva and Mansfield are going to stay up there for the first time. 09\07\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. We took a large load of furniture up to the new place for Father and the folks to night. 09\08\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked in the factory. Helped Will Gillette move this evening. 09\09\{1909} (Thursday) Worked in the factory. We helped Will Gillette move, took three loads up tonight. 09\10\{1909} (Friday) Worked in the factory to day. Helped move to night. Father, Mother and Cara went to the new place to day. 09\11\1909 (Saturday) Worked in the factory to day. Clyde, Frank, Raymond, Will Gillette and I with my team and Will's team finished moving this evening. I finished putting the slate on the shed roof to night by lamp light. 09\12\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Bukley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. I took a trolley ride to Cheshire. 09\13\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 09\14\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening I went to Allen Burgess's and Mrs. Chas Mashier's and got their signatures to the Chapel Constitution and by-laws. 09\15\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This evening, got Mrs. Frank Welton, Mr. Pardiss and Wm.Gillette to sign the Chapel Constitution. 09\16\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 09\17\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 09\18\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Margaret, Ruth, Frank, Raymond, Mary and I went up to Will Gillette's to a clam chowder supper. Rolland Jenner and wife and daughters Louise and Effel and Miles Payne and wife were there also. 09\19\{1909} (Sunday) No minister at Chapel to day. 09\20\1909 (Monday) Worked in the factory to day. 09\21\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked in the factory to day. 09\22\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Had supper at the Chapel this evening which was given by the Ladies Union. They also gave an entertainment of dialogues and music, altogether they realized 17.00, charged 10 cts admission. 09\23\{1909} (Thursday) Worked in the factory. The Grand Jury rendered a bill of murder in the first degree against Sophie Kritchman and { } Mitchel to day and they were taken to New Haven Jail. 09\24\1909 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I went to Brooksvale and saw Mrs. Doolittle about electric light fixtures. 09\25\{1909} (Saturday) Worked to day in the factory. Brother Fred D. Miller came from Detroit to day to be present to morrow at the 55th anniversary of Father and Mother's marriage, Sept 26, 1858. 09\26\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. There was a large number of callers at William M. Gillette's this afternoon, the occasion being the fifty fifth anniversary of my parents marriage. Among those present were Dr. Rev. Joseph Anderson D.D., Rev. Dr. John G. Davenport D.D., Rev. Mr. Phipps and wife, Uncle Goldsmith and wife, Uncle Dwight and wife, Uncle Joe, Brother Fred, Sisters Cara and Mary Jenner and husband and daughters Louise and Effel and many others. Clyde went to New York yesterday afternoon to witness the opening of the Fulton celebration. 09\27\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros to day. This evening I attended the Republican Convention to nominate candidates for the coming City election. I was a delegate from the fifth ward to nominate candidates for the Board of Education. We nominated Charles Chapman, Merrick Gallon, Miles McNiff and Mr. Phillip N. Bernstein. Raymond returned from Georgetown where he went Saturday and Sunday to take a cow for Arthur J. Pierpont. 09\28\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 09\29\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This afternoon a sheriff came to the shop and read a warrant to me calling me to act as juror in the District Court tomorrow. 09\30\{1909} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Court House on Levenworth Street and was paneled as juror on the case of Atwood against Ricker, it lasted all day. 10\01\1909 (Friday) Spent the day in Court. 10\02\{1909} (Saturday) Attended the Waterbury District Court and heard Carmody plead before Judge Peasley for the plaintiff and Ryan and Russell for the defense in the case of Atwood against Ricker. The arguments and Judge's charge took until four o'clock when the case was given to the Jury. The first ballot was for the plaintiff to recover 800 and some odd dollars of the defendant, money that he had received fraudently.{??} The jurors were: 1. Mark L. Warner, 2. Wallice H. Camp and 3. Charles S. Miller of Waterbury, 4. Charles J. Cook, Cheshire, 5. Almus S. Brown, Wolcott, 6. George E. Goodwin, Nangatuck, 7. Jarvis J. Thompson, Bethlehem, 8. William W. Morris, Prospect, 9. Milo Grey, Thomaston, 10. Henry S. Judd, Middlebury, 11. Oliver Gilbert, Southbury, 12. Gilbert A. Stone, Watertown. 10\03\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ketchum of Wolcott preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service we went over to Will Gillette's and we, Mary, Iva, Will and I out to Southington Mountain where they are cutting the Meriden Road through some twenty feet deep. 10\04\{1909} (Monday) I worked to day in the factory. This is election day and I went to Union Square and voted on the machine, the Republican ticket. To night it is reported that William Hotchkiss is elected Mayor of the City of Waterbury and all of the ticket has gone republican. 10\05\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the officers of the Chapel at the Chapel to make arrangements to raise money for the Chapel. There were present A.B. Pierpont, H.J. Abel, H. Buckingham and C.S. Miller, Committee, Bessie White Secretary, Dayton Wooding Treasurer, Arthur J. Pierpont Superintendent of Sunday School, George Byam Assistant, Mrs. Annie Munson and Mrs. C.S. Miller of the Ladies Union. 10\06\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. 10\07\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\08\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory ten hours as usual. This evening I attended a sociable given by the teachers of the Mill Plain School for the purpose of raising money to pay the debt of $40.00 on the school piano. 10\09\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. The boys, Frank and Raymond, picked up apples out to Mother Pierpont's place to day. 10\10\1909 (Sunday) I worked at the factory to day putting in a 800 lb Peck lifter drop. This evening I attended service at the Second Congregational Church. 10\11\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\12\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked putting in a 800 lb hammer drop at the factory. 10\13\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I called at Mr. James White's to Miss Bessie about writing a circular letter for the Chapel but she and her mother had gone to the theater. I then called on Father and Mother at Mr. Gillette's and found Father quite cheerful. White there after nine, Will and Iva and Mansfield came, having just returned from Lowell, Mass. where they have been at the wedding of Will's brother Edward. They came all the way, 153 miles, in an automobile since nine o'clock this morning. 10\14\{1909} (Thursday) Worked in the factory till 3.00 P.M. when Frank came after me as Father had died at 2.00 P.M. He was sitting in his chair in the kitchen when he gave a sigh and Mother and Iva hastened to him but he breathed his last in two minutes. Will passed by and Father spoke about the weather to him but before he reached the barn, Iva called him back and when he returned father was dead. Doctor said it was heart disease that caused his death. 10\15\1909 (Friday) I spent nearly all of the forenoon at William Gillette's and at non he and Iva and I went to town and over to Riverside Cemetery and made some arrangements for the funeral which is to take place tomorrow at two P.M. I bought an overcoat at Sanderson's for 18.00. Fred and his wife came last night from Bristol. 10\16\{1909} (Saturday) Father was buried to day in his lot in Riverside Cemetery. The funeral was from William Gillette's house at Mill Plain, at two o'clock, Rev. Mr. Dinsmore of the First Congregational Church officiating. The pall bearers were Frank and Will Gillette, Clyde and Irving, Rolland Jenner and myself. 10\17\1909 (Sunday) Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel. Irving went back to Brooklyn to night at six. Went by trolley to New Haven. After service I went to Brooksvale. Emma sick. 10\18\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\19\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\20\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a type- writters party out at George Benham's. There were Miss Bessie White, Fritzie Hanson, Bertha French, Margaret Miller, Estella and { } Benham, stenographers. They made 25 copies of a circular letter for the Chapel. There were also a number of friends and neighbors present and after they had tired of writing, had cake, pumpkin pie, doughnuts, sweet cider, coffee etc. 10\21\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. This evening I went to Colby & Sperwoods and bought a pair of shoes 2.50. I then went to Sandersons and bought a pair of overalls and jumper 6.00 and two pairs of gloves for 6.50. 10\22\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\23\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\24\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel to day. After service I drove out to Ed Chatfield's in Prospect and three of the Benham girls went with me. 10\25\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory. This evening we took our old cook stove up to Hamilton Hall. 10\26\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This evening we took the fire engine up to the brook, back of Hamilton Hall and pumped the tank full of water. 10\27\{1909} (Wednesday) I worked in Rogers & Brothers factory all day. The Chapel Fair opened in Hamilton Hall this evening. There was a good number present. 10\28\1909 (Thursday) Worked in the factory. To night I went to the Chapel Fair at Hamilton Hall. 10\29\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. The boys brought home a big load of apples from Mother Pierpont's to night. 10\30\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This afternoon a sheriff came and read a warrant for me to appear before the Court of Common Pleas at New Haven next Tuesday at 10 o'clock in the forenoon to serve as Juror. 10\31\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. George Alexander died this morning at 12.30 A.M., aged 60 years of consumption. He died at his home on the Meriden Road. After service at the Chapel, Mary, Miss Peck, the school teacher Mrs. Theodore Munson and I went for a ride, taking with us one hundred dollars to pay Frank Judd for painting the Chapel. We went out the Meriden Road to the top of the mountain where they are cutting the road through the rock, and saw that they had about four rods more to cut. We then came back through East Farms, stopping at Mother Pierpont's for Mary to make a call. We then came to Frank Judd's, he lives on a hill between the Turkey hill and Beaver Pond Brooks, south of the Plank Road. It was quite dark about 6.30. I went in and paid him one hundred dollars, eighty in bills and twenty in fifty and twenty-five cent pieces. He seemed quite please and gave me a receipted bill dated yesterday. 11\01\1909 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. I told Mr. Tobin the Superintendent that I had been summoned to Court and we saw Mr. Rockwell and he had a letter written to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven asking the I be excused. 11\02\{1909} (Tuesday) This morning I took the 7.30 trolley and went to New Haven. When I got off the car at the green, I met County Commissioner Jacob Walters and told him that I wished to be excused from jury duty. He said that he would help me and took me to the Commissioner's office in the Courthouse where he saw the Clerk of the {?} and the Judge. I was sent to the Jury room and when we were called into the court room, he stated my case to the Judge and he excused me. After a time, I was called into the clerk's office and paid 5.64, my fee for being called. I then went to Child's restaurant and got dinner of fried oysters, custard pie and coffee 35 cts. I then went about the City till after noon when I took the trolley and went to Sanford Ave. in Cheshire and walked to Mrs. Doolittle's and left my overcoat and went upon Mount Sanford where I saw some of the finest scenery I ever looked at. I did not get down till dusk and found Mrs. Doolittle worried through fear that I was lost. After a time the hired boy and Miss Emma returned, having been to Cheshire Center, and we had tea. I spent the evening with them and came home by trolley. 11\03\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. George Alexander was buried from the Chapel this afternoon. Mr. Davenport officiated. The pall bearers were Austin B. Pierpont, George Benham, Jacob Garrigus, John and Ed Todd and {???}. 11\04\1909 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day, Frank took a load of apples up to Mr. Mackcormick's cider mill and brought back a cask of cider. He also took up a load yesterday, 11\05\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\06\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 11\07\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel. Frank and Gussie visited at Wm. Gillette's to day. 11\08\{1909} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\09\1909 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 11\10\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked as usual to day. 11\11\{1909} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank and Raymond went out to Arthur Pierpont's and got some turnips and also three cedar trees which we set before the privy door tonight. Mary has gone to the Grange. 11\12\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank took about thirty bushels of cider apples up to Mackcormick's mill in Wolcott for Will Gillette. President Taft is in Middletown to day. 11\13\1909 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\14\{1909} (Sunday) This morning Frank, Raymond and I drove to Bristol and visited Brother Frank who lives on High Street. We staid there till after three o'clock when we started home. Came on over Fall Mountain and past the Cedar Swamp Pond on the west side and past Homer Atkin's and Evelyn Upson's to Pritchard's Saw Mills and home at 7.30. Rev. Mr Buckley preached at the Chapel to day. 11\15\{1909} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. Shelton F. Hitchcock died yesterday forenoon from old age and a shock, aged 86 years. 11\16\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. Shelton Hitchcock was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery this afternoon, Dr. Davenport and Mr. Ketchum of Wolcott officiating. 11\17\1909 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory. 11\18\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\19\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 11\20\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. After work Frank and I went to the swamp back of the Forersters Hall and cleaned out a deep place so that we could have a place to use the engine to pump water for the tank in the Hall Thanksgiving Day. 11\21\{1909} (Sunday) Mr. Orsbourn preached at the chapel this after noon. 11\22\1909 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. Max Gross has the frame up for his three family house on Elliott Avenue and Mr. James Bowe has the cellar dug for the three family house that he is about to erect on the south side of the street. 11\23\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. This noon I went to the District Court and met Will Gillette and we went to the Probate Court and I was appointed Administrator on my Father's estate. I then went to the sign post on the Green and posted a notice and had Will put one in the paper. 11\24\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank, Raymond and I worked on the team wagon putting on the body that we bought of Mr. Jones. 11\25\1909 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. This morning Clyde, Frank and Raymond and I took the fire engine to the brook back of the Forersters Hall and filled the tank in the attic of the Hall. This afternoon we attended the annual reunion of the Somers family in Hamilton Hall. A bountiful Thanksgiving dinner was served in the lower hall at two o'clock to which 50 sat down. After dinner an entertainment was in the upper hall which consisted of music, dancing, etc. There were present Mr. and Mrs. Dwight L. Somers, Mr. and Mrs. Robt D. Somers and son Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Somers and son, Mr. Joseph H. Somers, Mr. and Mrs. David Somers, Miss Elizabeth, Josephine, Myra and Mary Somers, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Somers, Mrs. Herman Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Miller of Bristol, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller, Clyde A., Irving C., Margaret, Ruth, Frank P. and Raymond H. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Jenner, Miss Louise and Ethel Jenner and Miss Cara Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gillette and son Mansfield, Miss Amy Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frisbie, Miss Marion Griswold, Miss Martha Schulke, Mr. Clifford Northrop, Merton Judd, George Hanson, Paul Downs, Mr. Charles Norton of Bracton, Mass., Lewis Nichols, Miss Rhoda Goldsmith of Los Angelos Cal. and Miss Fritzie Hanson. 11\26\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 11\27\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Cara left Will Gillette's to day and went to Richard Morgan's in Cheshire. 11\28\1909 (Sunday) All of my family went to Church this morning to the Second congregational church and heard Dr. Davenport preach. Irving and Mr. Norton left after dinner for Brooklyn, Margaret and Ruth going to Ansonia with them where they all visited the Schnukes. At evening the girls came home and the boys went on. Cara came back this afternoon accompanied by Mrs. Morgan. This evening I went to Brooks- vale. 11\29\{1909} (Monday) I worked at the factory. 11\30\{1909} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Frank too $11.00 to Thomas Mills this morning to pay for hay. 12\01\1909 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 12\02\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Last night the boiler in the Radcliffe's factory in Shelton blew up, killing the fireman and doing 200,000 dollars worth of damage, blowing out windows all about the town. 12\03\{1909} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\04\{1909} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. To night at about six o'clock Austin B. Pierpont had his leg broken while caring for his horse in the stable. 12\05\1909 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Dr. Goodenough attended Austin Pierpont last night. 12\06\1909 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I saw Clarance Judd about printing the list of Chapel members and worked on the team wagon. 12\07\{1909} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. Albert Robinson came to work with me to day. 12\08\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\09\{1909} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 12\10\1909 (Friday) I worked at the factory putting in Mr. Mooney's 900 lb drop lift. Albert Robinson came to work last Tuesday and we have worked on this drop ever since. 12\11\{1909} (Saturday) Worked on Mooney's drop with Albert. 12\12\{1909} (Sunday) Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel. 12\13\{1909} (Monday) Albert and Charlie Peterson, 1/2 day, helped me on Mooney's drop. It snowed to the depth of four inches to day. 12\14\{1909} (Tuesday) Albert and Charlie helped me on James Mooney's drop to day. This forenoon Irving Welton was killed while casting at the Waterbury Rolling Mills, a crack in the pot let some melted metal into the water in a skimming tank which cause the iron cover to fly and hit him with a force that lifted him ten feet into the air and broke his neck, arm and several ribs. This evening I attended a school meeting and it was voted to ley a six mills tax and Mr. Griggs, Vernon Abel and Frank Welton were a committee appointed to get estimates for painting the school house and report at a future meeting. The Committee was instructed to sink{?} the well deeper. It was also voted to pay the committee which went to Hartford (Warren Hitchcock and myself) in the interests of consolidating their expenses. Snow turned to rain and this morning it is all gone. 12\15\{1909} (Wednesday) Albert and I walked on Mooney's drop. 12\16\1909 (Thursday) Albert Robinson and I worked getting the timbers ready for the drop next to Mooney's. 12\17\{1909} (Friday) This forenoon I went to see Doctor Barber about my lame arm. He said that the ligaments were strained and that muscular rheumatism had set in. This afternoon Albert and Charlie Peterson helped me on drop next to Mr. Mooney's. 12\18\{1909} (Saturday) Worked with Albert to help on drop next to James Mooney's. My lame arm is much better. 12\19\{1909} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. I went out to East Farms to see Austin Pierpont who is confined to the house with a broken leg. 12\20\1909 (Monday) Albert and I worked on the drop next to James Mooney's. Michael Mimchochi{??} wife, mother-in-law and child have moved yesterday to the Pulford Place west of the center of Prospect on the Union City Road. 12\21\{1909} (Tuesday) Albert and I worked on the drops. This evening Mary, Frank and I went to the Chapel and tied greens for Christmas. Irving came home from Brooklyn this noon. 12\22\{1909} (Wednesday) Albert and I worked on the drops This evening Mary, Jennie Phillips, Irving, Frank, Raymond and I went to the Chapel and tied greens. Edward Pritchard drove into the yard to night and said that they had just finished filling Austin B. Pierpont's ice house with ice. 12\23\1909 (Thursday) Albert and I worked on the drops. 12\24\{1909} (Friday) Albert and I worked 1/2 day putting long bolts into the two drops. This afternoon I worked making a pattern for the small drop lace. Went up to the Chapel and helped George Byam and Stanley Clark finish trimming the Chapel for Christmas. 12\25\{1909} (Saturday) Christmas Day. All of our family went up to Will Gillette's to dinner this afternoon and had a tree this evening. There were present Mother 1, Frank and his wife 3, myself 4, Mary 5, Clyde 6, Irving 7, Margaret 8, Ruth 9, Frank 10 and Raymond 11, Rolland Jenner and Mary 13, Louise 14, Effel 15, Amy Miller 16, Cara Miller 17, Mother Gillette 18, William Gillette and Iva his wife 20, Mansfield Gillette 21, Edward Gillette and his new wife 23. A snow storm started at noon and it is still snowing. 12\26\{1909} (Sunday) Snowed hard all day. To night it is 15" on the level and still snowing. The roads are badly drifted and many impassable. This forenoon Clyde, Frank with shovels, and I with horse and snow plough, went up the Frost, over the Meriden and down the Southmaid Roads and dug and ploughed them out. The was Sunday School at the Chapel, 33 present, but no service. This afternoon Raymond, Irving, Ruth and I with the horse and sled went up to Will Gillette's and visited. Dr. Edward and wife were there. 12\27\{1909} (Monday) Worked making a pattern for a casting to extend the base of the small Peck drop. Frank left to day for Darien where he is going to work for Mother Pierpont cutting ice. 12\28\{1909} (Tuesday) Finished the pattern to night. Weather cold and traveling difficult on account of snow drifts. 12\29\{1909} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory moving the big blanking and press. This evening all of our family except Irving went up to William Gillette's. The Jenners were there also, the occasion being to bid farewell to Dr. Gillette and wife who start tomorrow for Phoenix, Arizona. 12\30\1909 (Thursday) Worked trying to start syphon etc and unloading three Peck lifters which came weight 3200 lbs each. Bessie White's birthday, 30 years. 12\31\{1909} (Friday) Worked at odd jobs about the factory. Shop closed to night for vacation. This evening the Sunday School had Christmas exercises at the Chapel. It was very interesting, everybody had presents and there was a large number present, although the weather was cold, 10 below zero at midnight. Raymond and Roy Munson rang the Chapel bell five minutes at twelve o'clock when the new year came in. 01\01\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory taking down three old hand lifts to replace with power lifts. 01\02\1910 (Sunday) Rev. dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Last Sunday being stormy, the Christmas service was held. Saw by the paper that J. B. Dill of New York had purchased the Alexander Doolittle place in Brooksvale. Irving returned to Brooklyn to resume his studies in the Pratt Institute. 01\03\{1910} (Monday) Worked changing the 10 horse power motor in the muffle room etc., factory closed. Clyde began engineering for the American Brass Co. Bertha French went to work as stenographer for the Travelers Insurance Co at New Haven. Lena Hurlbert began teaching at Summit District. Bill Hotchkiss and the other newly elected officers began their work of governing the City. 01\04\1910 (Tuesday) Charlie Peterson, John French and I put up a 600 lifter for Michael Summder's drop. 01\05\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory at odd jobs. 01\06\{1910} (Thursday) Charlie Peterson, John french and I worked on timbers of drops. 01\07\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory getting timbers ready and putting them in {? ?} three drop lifters. Charlie Peterson helped get them ready till three o'clock when five more men helped draw them up. 01\08\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory, lifted up two of the Peck lifts. 01\09\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. Mother Pierpont is worse, Mary went out to see her after service and then went to town and got some medicine. I went to Cheshire and right back. 01\10\{1910} (Monday) Put up another lift this morning and set one. Mr. Andrews and Hobert{??} helped me. 01\11\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked setting lifts. Mr. Andrews and James Byrnes helped. 01\12\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked putting up drop lifts. Mr. Andrews helped. Gus made bolts, Jamie Byrnes cut threads. Started up the power at 5 o'clock that P.M. 01\13\1910 (Thursday) Worked putting pinons and pulleys on lifts. Mr. Andrews helped. Started up the factory this morning on full time. 01\14\{1910} (Friday) Worked on drops. Mr. Andrews helped. Snowed this day. After work Raymond and I went round with the snow plough. 01\15\{1910} (Saturday) Worked with Westley Andrews putting the 900 pound hammers into the drops and at other odd jobs. A snow storm set in yesterday afternoon and continued till nine o'clock to day. I plowed out the roads last night and went over them again this morning. Street Superintendent Chatfield telephoned before six this morning and wanted me to open the roads in this district so I sent Raymond and had him plough out the Frost Roads to the Red Bridge and down the Woodtick and Meriden Road to Ashton's Corner. 01\16\1910 (Sunday) Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service I went on the trolley to Ives Corner and walked to Brooksvale, passing through snowdrifts that had been dug out over twelve feet deep. The Doolittles were moving, staid there till eight, then went to Cornwell Ave. where I staid till 10, came home by trolley. 01\17\{1910} (Monday) Worked trying to start the oil muffle till noon this afternoon. I helped fix Michael Saunder's drop, ready to work on act{??}. 01\18\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory rep. electric wires and starting up a drop. Rev. De Witt Williams, assistant to Dr. Davenport of the Second Congregational Church died of an operation for strangulated hernia this morning. Has rained all day, much of the snow has gone. 01\19\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory on different jobs. James Ward Beecher Porter died at his home on Cherry Street last night at 11.00 of {? ?} disease, aged 56 years. 01\20\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory about the new drops this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the Dimes Saving Bank and deposited Father's dividend check from the Ansonia Bank and drew fifty dollars. I then went to the Waterbury Rolling Mills Co and attended the Stockholder's Meeting, no dividend was declared, property worth $217,000.00 about. Then came to the Mattatuck Co. office and saw George Judd and had him take the clause off from the Insurance Policy of the Mill Plain Chapel that states it is mutually agreed that the land belongs to the Pine Grove Cemetery. 01\21\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory on drops 1.2 day and repairing pipes in the afternoon. Rained hard all day. 01\22\{1910} (Saturday) Worked about the factory at repairs getting ready to start Monday as the factory could not run on account of high water in the river which filled the wheel pit so they had to cut the main drawing belt off, and it also got into the pits where men stand who work the drops. The river was the highest that it has been in years. 01\23\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fisher of the Bunker Hill Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This evening Mary and I went to the Christian Endeavor Meeting at the Chapel after which we called at Will Gillette's but he was not at home. 01\24\1910 (Monday) Worked to day on the drops, Mr. Andrews helping me. This evening I went to Will Gillette's and gave him $50.00 of my money to pay to Filley S. Grove Co. I also gave him a money order from Fred for $38.00 for the same parties and gave him a pay check on the Comptroller of the City to draw my pay for plowing out the roads. 01\25\1910 (Tuesday) Worked this forenoon on drops. Mr. Andrews helped me. This afternoon I repaired belts etc. Rained and snowed all day. 01\26\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked about the drops at the factory. Mr. Tracy has a gang of men building up the old trimming room two stories high. Wm. Chatfield is doing the mason work. 01\27\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at factory at odd jobs. Mary went to Ansonia. I stripped two wheel on big wagon to night. Sophie Kritchman is being tried for murder in the Superior Court of this City. 01\28\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory at odd jobs. Cousin Elliott Somers died this morning at the house of Charles Chatfield on Windsor Street. Was found in his room with his throat cut with a razor. He was born in 1833. 01\29\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at factory at odd jobs. 01\30\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Chum preached at Chapel. I attended cousin Elliott Somer's funeral, was pall bearer with Ben Chatfield, Wm Gillette, David Somers, Joe Somers, Lewis Somers, Mr. Pole, Mr. Cheeney. Dr. Anderson officiated. He was buried in the west half of Riverside Cemetery. 01\31\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory, got in a new rolling mill. Elliott Somers will Mother and Cara $500.00 each. Hubert Wedge was married in New York last Saturday. 02\01\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at factory, got in one new rolling mill. 02\02\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at factory, got in another new rolling grading mill. 02\03\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory repairing the electric clocks and the steam pipe that runs underground to the oil tank. 02\04\{1910} (Friday) Worked at factory setting rolling mill in forenoon and belting up Mooney's drop in afternoon. 02\08\{1910} (Tuesday) Have been so busy and tired that I have failed to make entry. Saturday worked in factory, at night Frank and I went down and took hose pipe off from a car of fuel oil that I left running into the underground tank when I came home. Sunday the Rev. Mr. Vaught preached at the Chapel. I went to work at the factory at 8 and worked till 5. Several carpenters were there tearing out the old floor over the water wheel pit and I had to look after the pipes, wires etc. Monday and to day worked as usual. This morning Sophie Kritchman's trial was dismissed from the Superior Court by Judge Curtis and the Jurors discharged. Attorneys Kennedy and Cassady were dismissed from the case because of a letter published in the Waterbury Republican this morning which threatened Sophie with death and which Mr. Kennedy had published before the Court had seen it. It was directed to Sophie Kritchman, Court House. 02\09\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 02\10\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Frank and Raymond drew old lumber from the shop in the newly painted wagon to day. 02\11\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. As Stanley Clark was trimming out a tree at the old D.G. Porter place this afternoon, he fell and broke his leg twice, injuring his head and side. He was taken to St. Marie's Hospital. 02\12\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. About 8 inches of snow fell last night. Raymond plowed out the Southmaid, Meriden, Frost and Woodtick Roads. 02\13\1910 (Sunday) Worked at factory all day putting up bearing for waterwheel main shaft. Stanley Clark died at 5 this morning. 02\14\{1910} (Monday) Worked at factory. 02\15\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at factory. Stanley Clark was buried from his house at Beacon Falls, buried in cemetery at Pines Bridge. 02\16\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at factory. 02\17\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at factory to day. 02\18\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This P.M. I staid out and we put hay stack in. 02\19\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Uncle Joe Somers died this afternoon after a long sickness of influenza. 02\20\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Orsbourn preached at the Chapel. Brother Frank came down to Wm. Gillette's from Bristol last night and called this A.M. and paid me 38.00, his share to apply on Father's funeral expense. [[new book starts here]] {Feb. 21, 1910 to July, 24, 1914} {"1910" and "1914" are underlined} Charles S Miller. "Oak Corner" Waterbury Connecticut Cheshire Road. {The next page has xerox copies of enclosures. RAK note - General 1911 calendar slipped from some advert from FARM AND FIRESIDE magazine Arrow is drawn next to end of the following sentence from the xeroxed enclosure: Write your below and mail to FARM AND then weill be sure to receive the and the 1911 Beauty Calendar The following note is written below one of the enclosures: 2 sides of insert __{in?} front cover {Did C Miller write this note?} On the next page there is a xerox of perhaps the binding of a book. The following text is written below this xerox copy: turns and is to stand 12 feet away, take aim with ... extended, close eyes and walk forward until the ... the wall. If the bear is hit it counts 10. If within a ... as marked therein. The highest total score w. ... The following text is written sideways next to the text typed above: ____________________ ADV FOR L ____________________ SEWI REQUIRED The following text is written below the text that begins "turns and is to stand...": Cloth spine lining with reversed writing (wrong side revealed) {Did C Miller write this note?} 02\21\1910 (Monday) This day I worked at the factory of Rogers & Brother till noon, came home and ate dinner, and went to West's the optican{optician?} and had my old glasses repaired, which cost 70 cts, I also ordered a pair of new glasses to be ready at about 5.O' clock. Then started for uncle Joes funeral at 109 Chesnut ave, but as there was an abundance of time went out Grand Street and looked about the New Union Rail Road Station, till 2 o'clock when I walked up Meadow Willow and Johnson Sts to Chestnut Avenue. There were many at the funeral, Rev. Dr. Dinsmore of the First Congregational Church officiated the Pall Bearers were Benjamin Chatfield, Charles Phillips, Joseph Somers, Frank H Miller, Frank Frisbie and myself, after everything was ready the funeral was held back to give the people at the Cemetery time to get the grave ready as they had struck a large rock which had to be blasted, we reached the Cemetery about 4.30 and found a huge piece of rock hanging on a lifter over the grave, so tat it was necessary to place the coffin in the vault where it remained fill after the service was over and the mourners gone, when the grave was ready and the pall bearers carried it to the grave and lowered it to its last resting place. I then hurried home and got 5.00 and took the trolley car at madRiver Bridge and went to West's and gave him the 5.00 for a new set of glasses leaving my old ones to be repaired, I then went to Davis G Nye's{?} and bought this record book for .75 cts then went to the ___k{Pa_k? word difficult to read} Restaurant{Restaurent!} and got supper of _o_st{roast? word difficult to read} beef 35 cts, then took Cheshire rolley and went to Cheshire to attend an Old Folks{Foolks!} Concert given by the Mill Plain Choir, but was an hour in getting there as there was trouble{troubel!} with cars ahead on the line, went to Mrs. Doolittles new place and returned to the hall where I took tickets at the door, the concert was good, reached home after eleven. 02\22\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Improvement Society held in Hamilton Hall{?} the purpose of which was to organize and get new members. William M Gillette{?} offered to get the old flag pole from the Court House to put on the School H___s_{House? word difficult to read}. 02\23\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 1512} 02\24\{1910} (Thursday) I worked at the facory to day. Margaret is 21 years old to day, Iva had a party of young people at her place in honor of it. 02\25\1910 (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Mr. James Elliott is building a large house corner of Elliott{Eelliott!} ave on the Soughmayd{?} Road. 02\26\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory 02\27\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fisher preached at the Chapel to day. I will here state that the Ladies cleared at the supper given last Friday evening $35.50 After service Mary and I went out to see her mother, we found her in bed but some better than usual. 02\28\{1910} (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. It has been very warm and foggy and it has taken nearly all the ice and snow away. 03\01\1910 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros ten hours. Last night I wrote a letter to John Hart of Worthington Mass. askind him if my wife can go up there and see them make mapel{maple!} sugar, and perhaps get some. Mr. Northrop and wife called this evening, and Clifford called to see Margaret. Clyde and Fritzie Hansen to whom he is engaged to be married went to the theater{thaeter!}. 03\02\1910 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Mrs. Thomas Heaton died this morning of brakeal{bronchial?} asma{asthma?} aged 46, years. 03\03\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening mary went to the Grange {new paragraph?} I went to Cheshrie and saw Mrs. Dool_____ {I can't read the rest of the sentence} 03\04\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\05\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory this day. {new paragraph?} Mrs. Thomas Heatons funeral was held in the Chapel this afternoon. {new paragraph?} Frank and Raymond{?} worked at Mrs. Walkers to day cutting up the maple tree that Stanley Clark fell from when he was killed. 03\06\{1910} (Sunday) Rev Mr. Vought of the South Waterbury Baptist Church preached at the Chapel his afternoon. 03\07\{1910} (Monday) I worked in the factory this day. This evening I worked making over the old Business wagon. 03\08\1910 (tuesday) I worked this day at the factory of Rogers _{&?} Brothrs putting up a lathe in the leather room. P. Mr. Clyde is engaged to Fritzie Hansen Margaret is engaged to Clifford Northrop, and Irving is engaged to Dorothy _________{Heatersley? Name is smudged, difficult to read}. of Brooklyn N.Y. 03\09\1910 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Renewed subscription for FArm and Fireside Bought one doz orange spoons for Mrs. Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Goshen and sent them to Miss Girtrude Hepinstall{?}, 417 ___ch{?} Street West Haven, sent them yesterday afternoon. {Note in margin of text: 1650} {Is this 16.50} 03\10\{1910} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. The new part of which has been built on the machine room where the old wheel house, which was afterward used as a trimming room{roon!} is finished nearly. 03\11\1910 (Friday) I worked to day at the factory. A great trolley stike is on in Philadelphia 120.000 men are out. 03\12\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day{to doay!}. Clifton Heaton reached hom from Paris to day, he has been gone two years, and returned on receiving a cable gram{2 words?} that his sister was sick, and mother was dead, landed at New York this morning and reached home this afternoon. 03\13\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. D. Buckley preached at the Chapel his afternoon. The wood in Calvary Cemetery{Cemetary!} was burned over to day, and Long hill is burning to night. 03\14\1910 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This morning I was awakened at about four by the blowing of the whistle of the Mattatuck factory and calling the boys we hastened{haistened!} down to find the Japon{Japan?} shop on fire but by the use of the automatic fire extinguishers and a line of hose they soon had it out. Chieff Snagg came in his automobile and the chemical{cemicle!} and hose autos{.?} also came, the steamer and Hook-and- ladder came as far as niagara street. This evening as we were talking after supper about seven the whistle lew again and we hastened{haistened!} down to find the carpenters shop on fire. {new paragraph?} We put on two streams{'?} from a hydrant and soon had it out, some one had placed a bunch of waste{waist! waiste!} soaked in kerosene{karasene!} oil on the side of the building under the window and lit it, this morning a box filled with oily waste was lit __{in?} the Japan room. 03\15\1910 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. 03\16\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. {Note in the margin of text: 1650} 03\17\{1910} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. This is St. Patricks day and all of the irishmen are wearing green in form of ribbons{ribbens!} paper etc. Mary and I ware getting ready to go to Massachusetts in the morning. 03\21\1910 (Monday) Last Friday morning Mary and I took the 7 A.M. car and went by trolley to Plainvillee{?}, fare .30 Then by steam to Westfield{Westfield?} Mass fare .70 and by trolley to Huntington fare .20 where we arrived{arived!} at 12 M. went to take stage to Worthington but found an old single buckboard drawn by an old horse driven by an old sea captain named Porter who could not carry us, so I went to Mr. Fred P. Stanton who has a lumber mill and Livery Stable and engaged a double buckboard with a young man to drive, and we started, we saw great banks of ice along Westfield River where the flood had washed it up. At Norwich bridge tehre had been a great ice jam the greatest ever known and the lands above the bridge were covered with large cakes of ice, it was feared that the bridge would be swept{sweapt!} away, at Pitcher bridge no damage was done as the bridge was very high above the water, as we went North we found more and more snow, we passed through, Kniteville{?}, South Worthington and Ringville, above Ringville the driftsWorthington had been dug through which were more than five feet deep, turning at the second road{,?} to left above Ringville we encountered great drifts eight feet deep in which the wheels went is{in?} so deep and the hubs on one side stuck into the drift wall where it had been dug out so firm that the horse could not draw it out, we pulled and lifted and finally got it out, but farther on the traveling was so bad that we had to walk and when we came to a place where the team could turn about I paid the young man three dollars and he turned back and we walked the rest of the way to the house where we found{,?} Mrs. Hart her mother and their aunt Said. John was up to the sugar camp and I walked up there about a mile distant. Found him in the sugar house attending the fire over which was a pan about ten feet long four feet wide and eight or ten inches deep in which was eighteen barrells/barrels{?} of sap boiling, we staid there till dark when we filled the fire with wood and went home and ate supper of fried ham, after which we returned to camp and found that the sap in the pan had boiled away three inches since we had been gone and was still three inches deep, at ten it was only one and one quarter deep and we filled it full again and put in a large quantity of wood and went home and I to bed and slept sound till morning, John was up at three and went up to camp and started the fire, came home and we had breakfast, after which we went up to the camp, yesterday the hired men, Morris Smith{?} and Leon, gathered ten barrels of sap. John attended to the boiling and Morris, Leon and I gathered sap, nearly all of the tubs were full and before night we had gathered thirty barrels, had the three big tanks{tanks!} in the sugar house full as well as the boiling pan and a load on the ox sled, we staid in the camp till late when we came home and ate supper. John telephoned to Captain Porter the slage{stage?} driver and he said that he would leave his place at half past six and be at the corner at seven to carry us to Huntington in the morning. We were up at five and John hitched up the gray horses and we started with our baggage, but the snow was deep and we had to go slow, _ne{and?} reached the corner before seven but the old Captain was there before us, he had two old poor horses and a light two seated wagon, and one passenger{passinger!}, but two boxes of maple sugar and other freight, we got on the back seat and we starter{?} over the drifts and frozen ground at the steep hill above Kingville one of the horses fell down but was up in a minute and three of the _races{traces? braces?} were unfastened, they adjusted the traces and went sliding down the hill and the traces sliped off gain, this time we fastned themff on with little pieces of wood, and all went well till we reached South Worthington when at the store there was two cases of maple syrup that weighed over two hundred pounds which the Captain loaded on, I was afraid that the axles would break but the old driver said that they were tough axles and drove on, at the steep hill below the bridge the horse fell again and horse wagon and all slid down the hill, at two places the ice was so sidling that the hind wheel of the wagon rubbed against the rail beside the road had it given away we would have gone down sixty feet into the Westfield River. We reached Huntington at ten o'clock and boarded a trolley car and came home via Westfield, Springfild{Springfield?}, Hartford, New Britain, Plainville, Southington, and Cheshire, reaching home a little before six {new paragraph?} Fare .75 cts each on Stage and .98 cts{?} on trolley. 03\22\1910 (Tuesday) I worked to day at the factory. 03\23\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 11.00} 03\24\1910 (Thursday) I worked in teh factory to day as uysual. {new paragraph?} Irving and Miss Hattersley came from Brooklyn{Brookly!} to night. 03\25\{1910} (Friday) Good Friday, I worked at the factory this forenoon, but came home at noon as I had a lot of work to day Had dinner and after a while went out to work, soon we saw a smoke coming from the west and Frank and Raymond started up to Blakeslees' lot myself following to see where it was, we saw that it was the woods and the ice-houses and barn at the Lockhart place on the Meriden Road, we ran over and went to work putting out the fire in the lot between the burining barn and house and up through the swamp on Charlie Monroes property The City fire department came and placed a steamer on the dam and soon had two streams on the fire, I saw Wm Gillettes and he asked where my engine was I told him that it was not there, but he said it was womewhere for he telephoned for it, I started up the road and found it back of the Forersters Hall{?}, we took it to the brook and put out the fire back of the hall and then went through the swamp and onto{outo!} the road and up Gillettee7s{?} tone{?} and over onto Bauleys meadows{?} but a gan{gang?} of men were ahead of us and put he fire out with brooms, shovels, hoes, etc. we then went to the rear of the big burning ice house and put a stream on there but the City fire-men soon put another there, and soon{_oon?} had he fire out, we then realed up and went up to William Gillettee's where Iva gave us refreshments, there was another fire burning over at Long Hill, and still another up North East in Wolcott, soon Mrs. Bessie Mosher{?} telephoned that a fire was burining on the Southmaid{?} road and we started down{dow!} but it was only a bush and grass fire, so we came home, and it was after six when the{thhe!} engine was washed and hose hung up. 03\26\1910 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day, the big gear wheel on the lift next to Mansfilds{Mansfields?} drop broke and I took it down adn we sent it to New Haven to have it replaced. The Jury on the Kutchman - Mitchel murder brought in a verdict after being out is hours, it was as follows, ___eph{Joseph?} Mitchell guilty of murder in the second degree, Sophie Kritchman{?} guilty of manslaughter{1 word? hypenated?}, the penalty for Mitchel is imprisonment for life, and Sophie gets fifteen years in prison, She is 24 years old. The trail has lasted since the 25th of january, and has cost the sxtate over twenty thousand dollars. The crime for which they were sentenced was the murder of Br__aslaw{Braraslaw?} Kulvinskas{?}, of Union City they hired him to a lonely{lovely?} spot near the old New England Station and shot him on Friday afternoon Sept 17th last, and left him for dead, but he did not die and they returned next morning and shot him again and cut hi_{his?} throat, and still he lived and later some boys found him who notified the police{poliece!} and he was taken to the Waterbury hospital where he died later. 03\27\1910 (Sunday) Rev. J. _.{G.?} Davenport{,?} preached at the Chapel this afternoon, this is East Sunday and there was{wa!} a large attendance{attendence!}, and many flowers. Irving and Dorothy Hattersley returned to Brooklyn to night, went bry trolley to New Haven, and express to New York. Clyde returned from New York last Saturday morning, where he had been visiting the new waterworks dams now under construction in the Catskills mountains to supply{suply!} New York City with water. 03\28\1910 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. {new paragraph?} Sentence was passed by Judge Williams at new Haven this morning against Joe Mitchel and Sophie Kritchman.{.?} He to State prison for the remained of his life, and she from twelve to fifteen years. 03\29\{1910} (Tuesday) I worked ten hours at the factory. This evening Frank Raymond and I went up to Wm Gillette's and took out a length of pipe from his barn well that has been burst by the frast{frost?} 03\20\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in the margin of text: 12 37{note is difficult to read}} 03\31\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day This evening I saw Frank Judd about doing some work at the Chapel. I then took trolley at Wedges Corner and went to Cheshire where I staid till ten. 04\01\1910 (Friday) Workd at the factory to day 04\02\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual When Raymond ad i were coming home we saw a fire South of the Plank road above the Bladget{Blodget?} place which we put out with some shovels that we borrowed from Mrs. Joe Gilbert. 04\03\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vaught{?} preached at the Chapel. 04\04\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the shop. 04\05\1910 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory 04\06\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory {Note in margin of text: 16 50} 04\07\{1910} (Thursday) I worked at the factory as usual. 04\08\{1910} (Friday) Worked to day in the factory. Mr. Tobin raised my pay from _.75{2.75?} to 3.00 per day The men of the Chapel{Chape!} gave a supper this evening the proceeds of which was over 28.00{_8.00!} 04\09\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at factory. This eve attended the Mill Plain improvement meeting. 04\10\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley at Chapel this P.M. This P.M. went to Ives Corner by trolley and walked to top of Mt. Sanford. 04\11\{1910} (Monday) Worked at factory. 04\12\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Farrington{?} has cellars dug on Idylwood avenue{?} for three, three family houses. Mr. Elliott is finishing his new house on Elliott Avenue. Ruth returned from New York where she has been visiting Irving. 04\13\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day Clyde came home sick this noon. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} The Jail at new Haven burned this forenoon the prisoners were taken to police{poliece!} headquarters and the armory{armary!}, several firemen were burned to death. 04\14\1910 (Thursday) Worked at the factory Mary went to the grange. 04\15\{1910} (Friday) Worked at factory. Went to see Chief Snagg about my appointment as fire warden. 04\16\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day Had Fire drill to night also a drill 2 weeks ago. 04\17\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Osborn preached at the Chapel 04\18\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory 04\19\1910 (Tuesday) {Please note that year was written as 19010} I worked at the factory to day as usual. Received my appointment of Fire Warden from State Forest Fire Warden Samuel N Spring to day. 04\20\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00 Is this note with the entry for 04\20\1910?} 04\21\{1910} (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day putting the fixtures in the new pipe shed. To night Raymond and I piped the bath tub 04\22\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening we went out to Charlie Cass at the Barnes peach orchard to a dance in the large new barn, there were{wer_?} about 150 people there. 04\23\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\24\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Fisher preached at the Chapel Austin B. Pierpont and wife returned from Florida yesterday. 04\25\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 04\26\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Last evening I attended an Old Folks Concert given by the Mill Plain Choir in the Church at Wolcott for the benefit of the Wolcott Grange I went with my two seated wagon and took Mary, Mrs. Sidney Spender, Leda Clark{?} and Bessie White{?}, Will Gillettee{?} went with a pair of horses and his wagonette and carried Margaret, Ruth, Clifton Northrop, Fritzie Hansen, and Iva, and O how it rained. {new paragraph?} Will said that he never saw it rain harder, the Choir went in Arthur Pierponts vegetable{vegtable!} wagon. Mr. Emmons house burned yesterday, it stood on the Plank Road near East wood{2 words?}. 04\27\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory{.?} {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 04\28\{1910} (Thursday) I worked at the factory. 04\29\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory as usual to day. 04\30\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at factory. This evening the boys had a fire drill went with the engine up to the bridge by James Whites. 05\01\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service mary and I went over to Cheshire, and visited mrs. Doolittle. 05\02\1910 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. 05\03\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 05\04\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended the funeral of Mrs. Stephen Harrison aged 83, She was daughter of James Somers, She died at Albion Mich, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Mary Goodrich, she also leaves one sone George of new York State. REv. Mr. Dinsmore officated Pall Bearers were Julus Moltby{?}, Archie Smith and son, Mr. William Gillettee{?}, Mr. ____________________ and myself. {new paragraph?} Buried in the family lot at Riverside Cemetery. 05\05\1910 (Thursday) Worked at the factory. To day Clyde worked sounding the Brass mill Pond preparatory{preparitory!} of measuring the quantity of water it contains. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 05\06\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This noon Mary telephoned that the woods south of the plank road at Eastwood was on fire, started by Ed Holmes steam saw mill, it burned over a large tract and some card{cord?} wood and saw logs. Ed Holmes and three men worked from 10.30 till 5.30 putting it out, Mr. Lease and two men, and Frank and Raymond also put it out 05\07\1910 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Edward VII King of England died of Pneumonia last night aged 69 years Paid John Galligher my last years school tax 11.20 05\08\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this P.M. Has rained all day. {next line is difficult to read} Telephoned to Cheshire. 05\09\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day Saturday evening Frederick Chase's barn burned in Middlebury Coss{Conn?} 6.500'{?} We were looking at it from here in front of the house 05\10\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked to day in factory. 05\11\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. {Note in margin of text: 16 50{?}} 05\12\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. Mr. Farriton{?} is building three new houses on Idylwood avenue. 05\13\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. I heard the telephone ring this morning at three and could not find who rang it but central told me to look at the Comet, I looked to the North East and saw Halleys Comet, and then called the folks, so we all saw it, a very remarkable Comet, this makes four that I have seen, but this is not as large as the one in 1881 or 2. 05\14\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at factory {new paragraph?} Attended meeting of improvement Society {Is there any text at the very bottom of this page?} 05\15\1910 (Sunday) Mr. Osbourn preached at Chapel. Margaret, Ruth, and Mary went with me for a ride to the highest part of Brucks Hill{?}. 05\16\{1910} (Monday) Worked at factory. Got up at 4.30 and Raymond, Freask{Frank?} and I went up to the old tannery place and got a load of old lumber out of the old ice house which I bought of the Mattatuck Co for 2.00 {new paragraph?} We got the _irst{first?} load Saturday morning and the se__rd{second?} Saturday evening. 05\17\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. We got a load from the ice house this morning early this is the last. 05\18\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory Paid Property tax tonight 15.39{.?} {new paragraph?} Went to Cheshire __{by?} trolley{trolly!} {note in margin of text: 18 00} 05\19\{1910} (Thursday) {1907 is written as the year for this entry} Worked at the factory to day as usual. 05\20\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening I announced the programs at the entertainment at the strawberry supper{suppir?} at the Chapel. 05\21\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening Clyde, Frank, Raymond, and I went up to Will Gillette's and with his help with Conney{?} we set the two granite Columns that he got from the Court Hose at the corners of the street and his driveway. 05\22\{1910} (Sunday) I went to the factory and with Mr. Case{Cass?} and an other{2 words?} man from Bristol examined the waterwheels, found that the big one had worn and gone down two inches and the other about three quarters of an inch, was there from 9 to 1 o'clock. Mr. Davenport preached at the Chapel. To night at 8 o clock died John Pierpont at the home of his siter Hattie Pierpont at East Farms, of pneumonia and heart disease{desease!}. 05\23\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory this forenoon, this P.M. went to the District Court in Old Fellos Hall and with Will Gillettee went to Probate Court in Citizens Bank building and prepared to settle Fathers estate{istate?}. {new paragraph?} I then{thent!} went to City Clerks Office and asked for an abatement on my street sprinkling{sprinkleing!} assessment{assesment!}, and found that my tax bill{word difficult to read} which I paid last Wednesday as not receipted went to tax collector Ells and he found that he took in 15.39 more __{on?} Wednesday than he could account for so he receipted the bill. Placed a notice board at the enterence{entrance?} of Pine Grove Cemetery to night, to be used to post notice of Cem meeting on. 05\24\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at factory to day 05\25\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Last evening Agnes Abel and Allen Burgess were married by Dr. John G. Davenport at his house, she is 31. John Pierpont aged 61 years was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery this P.M. I attended the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Union Chapel this evening and the following officers were elected Episcopal Committee Austin B Pierpont, Baptist Harry Buckingham, Methodist H J. Able, Congregational Charles S Miller Secretary Bessie M White{?}, Treasurer{Theasurer!} Dayton C. Wooding{?}, Sunday School Superintendent Arthur J Pierpont{name is smudged}, Librarian{Lybrarian!} Frank Welton{?}. 05\26\1910 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. We have been out looking at the comet. 05\27\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I took the Sec and Treas book of the Pine Grove Cem out to A.B. Pierponts and audited them {"audited them" is smudged} 05\28\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. We find by the books that the repairs to pump and engine in the Pine Grove Cemetery cost 25.95 last year beside a set of batteries. Balance cash May 26th{?} 1910 $1.171.20 Permanent funds Lydia Sacket fund $3.094.98 Henry Hall .309.00 Elezebeth Sandor_{Sandord?} .100.00 Joseph Laurence 1.000.00 Had fire drill to night{.?} at our brook engine worked fine. 05\29\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Churin{?}. Preached at the Chapel. After service Mary, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Spender and son Donald went for a ride up the Scott road and we looked over where a fire had burned over about an acre, which Mr. Lease and mon{man?} put out, we then went to Prospect center then down the Straitsville road to Horatio Clarks and home by head{?} of Union City brook. 05\30\{1910} (Monday) Decoration day staid home, worked in garden and about the place. 05\31\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 06\01\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. {note in margin of text: 16.50} This{word is smudged. Is is crossed out?} evening attended meeting of Pine Grove Cem Association in Mill Plain Chapel, and the following officers were elected.{,?} Mark L Warner, H.I. Abel, Warren B. Hitchcock, Thoedore Munson, Charles Jessell, Ralph N. Blakeslee, and Martin A. Pond, Trustee's Austin B. Pierpont, and Charles S. Miller Auditors. 06\01\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. B. F. Haggetts{?} wife was buried this afternoon at one o'clock from the Chapel {new paragraph?} Dr. J. G. Davenport officiating, the Grange burial service was used. Lyndle Heaton was buried this afternoon at 2.30 from the Chapel. {new paragraph?} Dr. J. G. Davenport officiating. 06\03\{1910} (Friday) I worked at the factory to day. Mary and Mother went to Brooklyn N.Y. to visit Irving. 06\04\1910 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. {new paragraph?} This evening I took my pressure gauge{guage!} to Cheshire and took the pressure of the water found it to be 55 lbs at the house of Mrs. Alexander Doolittle on Cornwell ave.{?} 06\05\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought{Wought?} preached at the Chapel fter service the Committee electedat the Chapel myself chairman for the coming{comming!} year. We had a severe frost this morning which cut down corn and beans also tomatoes. 06\06\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory this day. {new paragraph?} Mary returned from New York to day. The Mill Plain Sunday School teachers had a sunset party at Maple Hill Farm this evening. 06\07\{1910} (Tuesday) Maurice Reed who was arrested{arested!} Sunday for selling liquor at the ball Grounds Sunday was {next line is difficult to read. This line is written in the margin} fined $7_.00{?} in court this Tuesday morning 06\07\1910 (Tuesday) {This is the second entry with the date 06\07\1910} Worked at the factory to day. 06\08\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked __{at?} the factory to day. {note in margin of text: 15 00} 06\09\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\10\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\11\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. After work I went to William Gillettes and Mary, Cara, Iva, myself, and Mother signed the settlement papers on Fathers estate. 06\12\{1910} (Sunday) Mr. Osborn{?} preached at Chapel {new paragraph?} After service Frank, Raymond, Nathan Pierpont and I went for a ride down to Laverne Clarks in Prospect. 06\13\1910 (Monday) I workd in the factory to day. Charles K. hamilton{?} broke the worlds record to day by flying from new York to Philadelphia and back again. 06\14\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 06\15\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory This evening I went to the Levenworth street{?} engine house to see Chief Snagg regarding Fire Warden work. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 06\16\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. {new paragraph?} Went this evening and handed in my list of ratable property to the assessors. Then went before the Board of abatements and applied{applyed!} to have my sprinkling tax abated. Called on Chief Snagg about Fire matters. 06\17\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain electors in the School House, W. B. Hitchcok{Hitchcock?} elected Committee B. F.{?} Hoggett clerk, Mark Warren Treas, W M Gillette C. S. Miller, and James White Auditors. 06\18\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain Improvment Society, at Hamilton Hall. 06\19\{1910} (Sunday) {Was the year erased from this entry?} Jon French and I worked at the factory shortening two blower belts in the trimming room. 06\20\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory. Wrote Cray{?} Brothers. 06\21\{1910} (Tuesday) Irving came home from Brooklyn N.Y. {new paragraph?} Frank lkeft this P.M. for Stamford where he is to work for A.J. Pierpont on a farm. 06\21\{1910} (Tuesday) {This is the second entry for this date} Worked at the factory to day {new paragraph?} Attended the graduating exercises of the Mill Plain School held in the Chapel 06\22\{1910} (Wednesday) {No entry is written below the date} 06\22\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day there were not many there as Barnum and Bailys circum was in town. {Note in margin of text: 2010} The crowd tat rode on the trolley cars was so great that they could only move at about six P.M. going up the hills. 06\23\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory, about 20.000 at circus yesterday. {new paragraph?} Paid Wm. Byrnes 10.00 06\24\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory. This evening attended meeting of Mill Plain Improvement Society. Paid Wm Byrned $5.00 06\25\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at factory. 06\26\{1910} (Sunday) Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel Childrends day Chapel croweded. After service{.?} Mary, Margaret, Louese Jenner{?} and I went for a fide over th Meriden road tooked{looked?} at the rock cut just finished through the top of the mountain, stoped at Charlie Cass, got strawberries they had pciked nine bushels this A.M. saw George Cass and his ne_{new?} Mc Farland automobile, went to Marion - and then South to Moses Farms and home 06\27\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory fo day Raymond went to work for Ralph Blakeslee last Saturday. 06\28\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. After work Clyde, Ray and I went out to East Farms and cultivated and hoed the potatoes. 06\29\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 06\30\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. J. G. Jones sent me a bill for the {12.00 is written above "bill for" in the previous line} renewal{renewel!} of my insurance on my house. 07\01\1910 (Friday) {07\01\1910 (Friday) is written above this entry} Worked at the factory to day finishing a{an?} annealing furnace. I went to Adams express office and got a package which came from Cleveland Ohio. 70 cts Irving and Dorothy came from Brooklyn to night. 07\02\{1910} (Saturday) This morning I got aboard of the trolley car and went to New Britain to see Charles K. Hamilton fly, this day being the first that ever anyone has made a successful flight-in new England, he went up from Walnut Hill Park at about ten but the engine failed to work good and after soaring high in the air he came down in a Swamp about a mile South of where he started. I ran to the spot and found that he had broken the rudder and one of the wings and some wire braces, the machine is of the air-plane{air-plain!} type with two sails one above the other about thirty feet long and fout{fourty?} feet wide with two small sails front and a sail and rudder back, it s{it?} drven{driven?} by an eight cylinder gasoline{gasolene!} engine which turns{turnes!} a two bladed propeller made of a single stick of wood. He worked about the engine and parts of the machine until about five P.M. when he went up again and sailed in a circle a mile in diameter three times when he came down again, they wheeled the machine onto the park grounds and he went up again and after circleing{circling?} about three times landed in the park, again he went up and circled about and soon disappeared{disapeared!} to the east and was gone about ten minutes when I saw him reutnring High up, the machine tooking{looking?} only about one foot long, again landed where he did before, again he started but had risen only about 15 feet when he stoped the power and the machine sailed along the ground and stoped which was the last. There were 5 {ink blot. Is "5" correct?} people present. 07\03\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel. Went up to Wm Gilletts this evening Frank and wife and Rolland Jenner and wife were there. 07\04\{1910} (Monday) Staid about home all day, mower the meadow (part west of brook) corner of Harpers Ferry and Plank road, North corner, about 12 M. one of the Mulhern{?} boys came and said that I was wanted at home right away{sway!}, that Raymond had shot himself while loading an anville that they had sent for Doctor. I went up and found Raymond with a hole in his jaw where the hammer o_{or? on?} punch hit him and face and hands blown full of powder and brick dust, he was tamping the charge when it went off. 07\05\1910 (Tuesday) Mowed the west half of the lost cor{?} of Harpers Ferry and Plank Rds with our horse nd new machine that Frank bought of the D. G. Porter estate, no one helped me but Mary helped load one load 07\06\{1910} (Wednesday) Irving helped me and we mowed the East part of the meadow cor Plank and H Ferry rds and the lot cor of Harpers Ferry and Cheshire Rds, and got them in. 07\07\{1910} (Thursday) We mowed the East half of Thomas Mills home lots to day and got in part of the hay. 07\08\{1910} (Friday) We mowed the remaining grass on our home lot and got in the last at Tom _ills{Mills?} 07\09\1910 (Saturday) We got in the last of our hay to day. 07\10\{1910} (Sunday) Mr. Buckley preached at Chapel. 07\11\{1910} (Monday) Worked at factory. Mr. Rierce{?} came to see me this evening {Note in margin of text: 15 00} 07\12\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\13\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day as usual 07\14\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day This evening I called on Chief Snagg of the W. F. D. and reported to him the fires we had put out this year since my appointment as fire warden, ____{?} over to Cheshire and returned{"to Cheshire and" is either crossed out or smudged}. 07\15\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory this day. This evening I attended a meeting at the School House where it was voted to lay a six mill tax, and to raise the salary{salery!} of the three lower teachers 50.00 and the Principal{Principle!} 75.00 07\16\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory 07\17\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Smith of St. Pauls methodist Church preached at the Chapel. After service mary and I went for a ride Carried the minister home{?} near Division Street and then went up N Main St. and over Chestnut Hill road to the West Wolcott Raoid and looked at the nw house that Abed{Abel?} Alcotts son is building, then came home stoping at Dayton Woodings. 07\18\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\19\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon Thios afternoon I met Wm Gillette at the Probace office{Probate?} in th Citizens Bank building and we finished settling{./} Fathers estate paid Judge Byrne $15.00 We then went to D. B. Wilsons store and looked up red shirts caps, and bells for the fire Co. I then went to Dr. Brewsters and had tooth filled. In the evening we had a laun{lawn?} party at our house, but as I was tired and teeth ached I went to ed. 07\20\1910 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. {Note in margin of text: 1800} Engaged Elsie Anderson to play the organ in the Chapel this is to fill the vacancy{vackency!} caused by Murtin Judd going Syracuse. 07\21\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. Irving, Raymond, Nate Pierpont and I put the flagpole on the barn this evening. 07\22\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory Nate Pierpont and RAymond went to Thomasten{Thomaston?} horseback after seven cows for A. B. Pierpont, but they did{di_d?} not get them ast the man that was to bring them from Farrington{?} did not get Mr. Pierponts letter. 07\23\1910 (Saturday) F{I?} Worked at the factory putting up a dust collector with Mr. Frnk{Frank?} for the Sterling Blower Co. of Hartford. Nate Pierpont and Raymond went to Farrington{?} and got cows except one. 07\24\{1910} (Sunday) Irving, Dorothy, Mary, and I{,?} took the trolley cars this morning and went to Woodbury where we met George Cass with his automobile and he took us through Southbury Main street and over across he{the?} Housatonic river to Sandyhook and then back to Southbritain, to his house where we got ready and went to church and hear Mr. Wallace nutting preach, we then returned to his house where we staid the rest of the day except we went over the hill{bill?} and saw a large Chestnut tree that was struck by lightning and shattered and killed we then went over to the mill pond and went sailing in Georges motor boat. We left about eight and he brought us to the trolley and then we came home. 07\25\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory. 07\26\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 07\27\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} Raymond went through Southmayd{?} Raod with the Subscription paper to raise money to buy uniforms{unifornes!} for the fire company. 07\28\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 07\29\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. The Epworp's League{?} of St. Pauls Methodist Church came to our place and had ice cream etc, came by trolley but walked back. 07\30\{1910} (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. {new paragraph?} Irving started for Pittsburgh Pa this morning to work for the Westinghouse Electric Company 07\31\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Churn, preached at the Chapel this afternoon Elsie Anderson played the organ Last Sunday and to day. {note in margin of text: Elsie Anderson} 08\01\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\02\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day {new paragraph?} Mary and Raymond went to Bantam Lkake to day. 08\03\{1910z} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Dorathy Hattersley{?} is keeping house she and I went to town this evening. Ruth went to work book keeping for the Mattatuck Co last monday 08\04\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory Mary and Raymond came home from Litchfield to day. Alexander Dallas received{recived!} the deed of the Kilbourn_{?} property yesterday, and he bought the Lackhart place a week ago. 08\05\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. {new paragraph?} Ruth had postal from Hiram Abel mailed in Lynchburgh Va. 08\06\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day with Frank Fleck{?} putting in a Sterling blower sistern. 08\07\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Gaffeney{?} of Prospect preached at the Chapel. Florence White played. {Note in margin of text: Flarence{Florence?} White} I went to work this morning at 7.30 and worked till 3.00 With M_{?} Fick{?} measuring up the waterwheel's which are 4 4" and 20" the large case is 8' diameter and 5' 2" high, the small case is diameter high the penstock{penstack?} 48 diameter, there is 22' fall. 08\08\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\09\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\10\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day {Note in margin of text: 2040{or 20 40?}} Dorothy Hattersley{?} left this morning for Barnstable, Cape Cod. Judge Cowell died this morning. 08\11\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory this forenoon This P.M. took 1.31 steam cars and went to Ansonia, and at the national Bank had the ten shares of bank stock which Father owned transfered{transferred?} to mother. Then went by trolley to New Haven and went to Lighthouse point, came back to the City bought 2 qts o_{of?} long clams at Foots on State St. and came hom{home?} via Cheshire. Workmen are tearing down the old log sloping dam at the Brass Mill pond which was built in 1845 {or 1865?} 08\12\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\13\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 08\14\{1910} (Sunday) ] Went to New Haven this P.M. and Saw Samuel Ovaitt [Oviatt] who is sick at the Elm City Hospital, when I came home I stoped at Brooksvale and found the Alexander Doolittle house torn down and the cellar enlarged for a new house. Hiram Abel and Allen Burgess returned from a southern trip last night. Margaret returned from a two weeks vacation a{at/} Bantam lake to day. Mrs. Munson played organ at the Chapel. 08\15\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory. 08\16{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. The sample rig for the fire Company came to day, I had James Mulhern put it on and we went up to Will Gillettes and we ordered three dozen more, Shirts, Caps, and belts. 08\17{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. Note in margin of text: 18 00} 08\18\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\19\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day {new paragraph?} They are raising a 60 ft drrick{?} at the old Brass Mill dam to day. 08\20\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 08\21\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Otto Rand preached at the Chapel. Frank called and we looked over things that belonged to Father. 08\22\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory. {new paragraph?} Philapino who worked the 1260 lb_{lbs?} drop had his thumb smashed off this morning this leaves only the little finger on the left hand as he has lost three fingers before. It is reported to day that James Tabin{?} the superintendent{supertendent!} is seriously sick. 08\23\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 08\24\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day hardening dies this P.M. {Note in margin of text: 18 90} 08\25\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 08\26\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Mrs. Lucy Frost died in Hartford to day. 08\27\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory 08\27\{1910} (Saturday) {The entry for 08\27\{1910} is written twice} Worked at the factory 08\28\{1910} (Sunday) Received{Recived!} telegram at 9.00 from Pittsburgh that Mr. Edgar L Cotting of Chicago was co_ing{coming?} to coming on the 12.15 train to see{seet!} me, he arrived{arived!} on said train and we got Will Gillettee{Gillettes!} to take us up to the Timothy Roat{?} place where his great-grand{?} father Orrin Jacksons family lived and to Chas Tuttles where his Grandfather Salmon Upson lived in 1840 and to the Cemetery where his ancesters are buried then over to the Upson Burying ground on Southington mountain and to the Thomas Upson place just over the mountain where Gen Lafaette{?} staid over night in 1778 then to the East Farms Burying ground where his great great Grand fathers{2 word?} Phineas Castle is buried, then home, we staid up till after midnight looking up historical matter and was up early next morning and when he left he took some of my papers to Ansonia{?} on the train so that he could copy more and left them with Clyde to bring back 08\29\1910 (Monday) Worked at factory. The uniforms for the Boys Fire Co arrived to day, from Chicago. 08\30\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at factory The Chapel Ladies gave a peach{?} supper at the Chapel cleared $29.30 this evening. 08\31\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 09\01\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I was at Will Gillettes nd we gave several boys of thelettes neighborhood{neighbarhood!} their uniforms for the Fire Co. 09\02\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. Raymond went to Sandyhook and got a back for the buggy that he took over two weeks ago. 09\03\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. After work we put the flag pole that Will Gillette got from the old Court House and gave to the school district on the school house. 09\04\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Wought{Vought?} preached at the Chapel this P.M. After service I went for a trolley ride to Cheshire visited the episcopal Cemetery{Cemetary!} and walked about and came home. 09\05\1910 (Monday) Labor day. This morning we marched up to Will Gillette's with the fire engine I drummed for the boys to march when we got there we had 23 riged{rigged?} out in uniform and at 9._0{9.30?} started and went up the Woodtick road to Dayton Woodings back to the bridge where they pumped and threw a stream of water into the air 70 ft.{,?} then went down the Frost rd to the brook south of Mr. frosts where they played for a few minutes, and then went back to Munsons Corner and in the Meriden Raod then down the Southmayd{?} Road to East main St. then back to the third dam where they placed the engine at the mouth of the ditch and run a line of hose up onto the road and threw 65 ft. Then went to Will Gilletts and broke ranks. This P.M. Frank, Ray, and I went to Naugatuck{Naygatuck!} to see the fire parad_{parade?}{punctuation?} but it was over before we got there, but we looked over the hose carriagss{carriages?} etc. saw one old engine that was made in 1810 at Bethel Conn. Clyde and Fritzie went to Wolcott Center to a clam bake there was a large number present. 09\06\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day 09\07\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\08\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at{et!} the factory to day This evening I saw Miss Doolittle about finishing some pictures. 09\09\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory Went to see Mr. tucker{?}. 09\10\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory this A.M. This afternoon the boys fire Co had a drill at Will Gillette's in uniform {new paragraph?} After the drill I went with Ralph Blakeslee and saw Mr. Combalac{?} about{abour!} hiring the Boys Club Band for the Fire Parade next Thursday. Then went to see Mr. Tinker{?} but he is not at home, then saw Chief Snagg, about his seeing hin{him?} Monday and to borrow three caps from him etc. 09\11\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. 09\12\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Will Gillette and Iva returned from Worthington{?} Mass last night, they went up Sat afternoon to see about Judge Cowells estate thery{?}. This evening I went to see Mr. Tinker{?} superintendent of schools in regard to excusing the fire boys and the boys club Band next Thursday A. M. but Chief Snagg had seen him to day and he brought the matter before the Board of Education this evening and they voted to excuse them. Saw Mr. Combalac{?} of the Boys Club and he wants me to be present at their meeting tomorrow eve and ask them to turn out, went to see Wm Gillettee but he and Iva had gont to see Roll and Mary down town. 09\13\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening the boys had a fire drill at the corner near the Schoolhouse Wm Gillette{Gillettes?} engaged the Boys Club Band to play in the Fire Parade for the Mill Plain Company on the 15th There{Ther!} was a party at our house to night of Clydes friends who brought many mechanical tools for him in anticipation of his coming marriage. 09\14\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in the margin of text: 13 50} As I was oiling the lifts of the drop hammers one of the heels of the cranks caught my arm and cut a bad gash in it to the bone, came home and dressed it and went back to work. 09\15\{1910} (Thursday) Some of the boys of the Fire Company assembled at my house at eight o clock and started with the fire engine for Phillips Corner where we found the rest and at Union Squre{Square?} were joined by the Band then went to Grand St where we halted in front of the Library and waited for the City department which formed at 9.30 then marched through Bank St. to Green where they were inspected then out{aut!} West Main to Willow counter-marched{1 word? hyphenated word?} past review at City Hall to Bank to Grand to S Maint{Main!} out{aut!} East main to Cherry counter marched {new paragraph?} Green out W Man{Main?} to Willow counter marched to Levenworth __ere{where?} the Parade was dismissed{dismised!} then to Grand to Cottage Place at Boys Club where the Band left us and after paying $25.00 for their services we came home reached here at 11.45 09\16\1910 (Friday) Worked at thefactory to day. 09\17\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory today. 09\18\{1910} (Sunday) {I can't read the 1st half of the next line} ____ ____ ________ __{of?} the first methodist church preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service Mary, Bessie Parks and I went for a ride up to Woodtick. 09\19\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 09\20\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory This evening the boys of the fire Company met at William Gilletts and turned in their uniforms. 09\21\1910 (Wednesday) I worked to day at the factory as usual William Curkee called this evening for two Fire Permits one for himself and one for Malcolm Reed. {Note in margin of text: 16 50} This afternoon Lillian Davenport and Anna Pierpont{?} came to our place and had a corn rost{roast?}. Fritzie hansen had supper here she and Glyde are getting their house on Edson Ave ready to occupy next month after their marriage. 09\22\1910 (THursday) I worked at Rogers & Bros factory to day as usual. My wife is fifty years old to day. {new paragraph?} This evening Mr. Perkinso_{Perkinson?} and Mr. Lilley called to see if I favored the nomination of William Gillettee and Mr. Lillie for Representatives{Representitives!} to the Legislator{Legislature?}, they were pleased with my opinion in their favor as I am a delegate to the twon convention. 09\23\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening my wife's brothers and their wifes i.e. Charles J. Pierpont, and wife Juliaette, Austin B. Pierpont, and wife Lucy, George Connor{?} and Mrs. Nellie Neal, Wilson L. Pierpont and wife Anna, and Elmer Pierpont took supper at our house in honor of Maries Birthday{Burthday!}. At the supper the announcement was make{made?} that Clyde and Fritzie Hansen, irving, and Dorothy Hattersley of Brooklyn N.Y. and Margaret and Clifton Northrop{?} are to be married this fall. 09\24\1910 (Saturday) I worked at the factory to day. Frank and Ray went to Bristol. 09\25\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This A.M. I went up to Woodtick and saw mr. Carnelus{?} about getting a crane fron{from/} a fireplace in the old Orren Jackson{?} house, saw Chas Tuttle and his mother and they gave me a foot stove and warming pan each over 150 years old to send to Edgar Cotting of Chicago. This evening I went to Cheshire saw Mrs. Doolittle{?} Emma{?} is in Boston{.?} Mass 09\26\{1910} (Mondy) Worked at factory. Mary and Fannie Porter are 54 years old. Worked on waterwheel pit tonight. 09\27\1910 (Tuesday) I worked ten hours at Rogers & Bro's On Sept 27 1858 I first saw the light of day I was born on Cherry Street Waterbury in a house that stood on the West side of the Street a little North of where Walnut Street turns off, on the site where the house stood the Second Advent Church now stands. 09\28\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory all day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 09\29\{1910} (THursday) Worked at the factory to day Went up to Woodtick this evening and procurred{procured!} from Mr. Cornelus{?} the crane and one And_ iron from the Timothy Root house. Wrote Edgar L Cotting of Chicago telling him the above. 09\30\1910 (Friday) Worekd at the factory. Frederick Kinsbury the most prominent citizen of Waterbury died to day aged 88. 10\01\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening I worked digging the trench or the foundation of our wash house. 10\02\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Lawson preached at the Chapel. 10\03\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 8 hours {new paragraph?} Bought a suit of clothes of Upson _{&?} Singleton for 19.00 to wear at Clydes wedding next Thursday. 10\04\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Went to Cosgroves barber shop and had my hair cut tonight after work. 10\05\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Dorothy Hattersley came this evening. 10\06\{1910} (Thursday) Clyde Austin Miller and Fritza hansen daughter of Fritz hansen who lives on the Woodtick road above the red bridges were married at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Mill Plain Chapel. The Rev. John G. Davenport D.D. performing{preforming!} the ceremony. The church decorations consisted of palms ferns flowers and autumn{autum!} leaves. The ushers were George M. Hansen a brother of the bride: Frank P. Miller a brother of the groom and Nathan Pierpont a cousin. {new paragraph?} Lyle Traver{?} was the best man and the maid of honor was Miles Florence M Upson{?}. {new paragraph?} The organist was Mill Louis M. Jenner {new paragraph?} The wedding march from "Lohengrin"{"Leohengrin"?} was played as the bridal party entered the Church and Mendelsshon's{Mendelson's?} march as they were leaving. The bride wore a gown of white messaline{muslin?} and a tulle, and carried ride roses. Her maid a {of?} honor wore embroidered cream colored batiste and carried a large bundh of pink carnations {new paragraph?} After the ceremony a reception and dinnr was given at the brides home. {new paragraph?} Mr. and Mrs. Miller left later in the afternoon for New York City whence they will sail for Bermuda. I worked this A.M. 10\07\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\08\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Had postal from Clyde, he and his wife have{__ve!} been staying at St. Dennis{.?} hotel but were to sail to day for Bermuda{Burmuda!}. 10\09\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck{?} preached at the Chapel this P.M. Dorothy Hattersley left to day for Brooklyn on the 4.35 trolley, I went to Mt. Carmel and came back to Cheshire where I visited Judson with Doolittle. 10\10\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day 10\11\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. Received our pay to day {Note in margin of text: 15 90} 10\12\1910 (Wednesday) Worked with Raymond putting in concrete forms for our wash house this A.M. and at two o'clock we went down town and saw the Italian parade came back and finished putting in forms. Frank went to Meriden and played football. 10\13\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 10\14\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 10\15\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Frank played football this P.M. on the High School team against the Bridgeport high team and the Waterbury beat. Frank, Ray, and I worked till 11 P.M. putting in concrete foundation for waterwheel{1 word?}. 10\16\1910 (Sunday) Rev. mr. Smith of the Methodist Church preached at the Chapel. After service I went to Middlebury and looked about the center for a time then went to Woodbury by trolley and saw Sireno Saxon who worked on the old stone factory when it was built at Rogers & Bros{?}, and also helped build the Brass Mill in 1845{?} he was born 1819. 10\17\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory. This evening Raymond and I put in nearly one side of the concrete foundation. 10\18\{1910} (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. {new paragraph?} This evening Pay Mr. Bates and I put in one batch of concrete in the forms for the foundation of the new wash house. 10\19\1910 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory {Note in margin of text: 15 00} Clyde and wife returned tonight{1 word?} from their trip to Bermuda on{an!} Steamer Trent{?}, Monday morning they witnessed the rescue of Walter Wellman{?} and his crew of five men from the air Ship America which had become{became!} disabled{disabeled!}, he talked with all of them and heart their story of adventure after leaving Atlantic City last Saturday morning for London. Ray and I worked till 11.-0{11.30?} putting in concrete foundation, finished it. 10\20\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 10\21\{1910} (Friday) Worked to dsay at factory. This evening I took supper at Clydes new home on Edson avenue. 10\22\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory {new paragraph?} Worked of{?} {blank space} 10\23\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Holmes preached at chapel. 10\24\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 10\25\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day Clyde and Fritzie came this evening and we made arrangements{arangements!} to go to Brooklyn next saturday and see irving and Dorothy married. 10\26\{1910} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day nine hours {note in margin of text 18 00} This noon I received a telephone message that the woods opposite the James Porter place was on fire, and I hastened there and with Frank and Ray who were there already we put it out. 10\27\1910 (Thursday) I worked ten hours at the factory of Rogers & Brothers on Silver Street to day. Mr. James Tobin is expected to die at any time. It has rained some to day which is much needed. They expected to finish the concrete work on the new Mattatuck Companies new dam back of the Pine Grove Cemetery{Cemetary!} to day. This evening Mary has gone to the Grange, Clyde is at his new home on Edson Avenue, Irving is at his boarding{bording!} place on De Kalb Avenue (I suppose) in Brooklyn N.Y. Margaret is in the sitting room{roon!} with her fellow Clifford Northrop.{./} Frank and Raymond are up stairs studying{stud_ing!} and Ruth is up stairs{spairs!}. 10\28\{1910} (Friday) {10\2_\{1910} (Friday) is written above entry} I worked at the factory to day. 10\29\1910 (Saturday) Got up this morning at four, got ready and after breakfast Margaret, Ruth, mary and I walked to the waiting station at the Mattatuck factory and took trolley to corner of West main and Meadow Streets where walked to the new Union Station, where we met sister Mary Jenner and her daughters Louese{?} and E__el{Ethel?}, and Clyde and wife Clifford Northrop Wilson Pierpont and wife, took 7.55 train for New York to attend Irvings Wedding. {note in margin of text: Irvings Wedding} Near th Stratford junction we were hindered by the draw bar of a car on a heavy freight train being broken, and we did not reach new York on time (40 minutes late) we rushed through the station and took subway train through the tunnel under East River to Brooklyn at Hoyt St,{,/} took De Kalb trolley to Stuben St and walked to Mr. Bevens{Bivens!} at 179. where the ladies got ready and we men went to a house on Willoughby Ave{?} where we got ready then went to St. Marys Episcopal Church near by on Willoughby Ave{?} where the ceremony took place after which we went to Mrs. Lords at 176 Emerson Place{?} where the reception was held, after which Mary and I Clifford Northrop Margarets{Margaret?} walked to Myrtle Ave took trolley to Norstrand Ave took Long Island{Iiland!} R R to Belmont Park where the great Aviation contest was held,{,?} we saw five machines in air at one time, and watched the Frnch machines till nearly dark, but what interested us as much was the great number of automobiles that we met leaving the park, I timed the number that passed us in half minute and{And!} Mary counted 29, but at other times fully 100 passed a minute, we then went to station had tt{to?} wait a long time before{befor!} we could board{bord!} a train on account of the crowd there being over 25000 people there at Park, got off at Nostrand Ave and walked a long distance before we could find a place where we got supper, it was at a restaurant{_estaurent!}, I had stewed oysters and Mary had soup beef vegtables ett{etc?} .50 cts thent{then?} took cars to Stuben St. went to Mr. Bevens who took us and Louese{?} and Ruth throught eh Pratt Institute where we saw places where all arts and trades are taught, Mary and and{written twice} I then went to th place where we were to stay over night but they were in bed and had given up expecting us as we did not call at eleven o'clock, (on account of being late,) so we went back to Mr. Benens and they fixxed{fxxed!} the couch for one and a Morris chair with a bos to lengthen it out for the other, we passed a comfortable{confortable!} night and in the morning we went out to get breakfast, after a long walk found a bake shop open where we got a good breakfast, Maryh had toast{tost!} with eggs and I a small steak{stake!} 45 cts.{.?} returned to mr. Bevens and soon he took us over to the Institute to see what we did not see before but there was so much that was interesting that Mary left and went to church and I staid till about two o'clock when we returned to the house and found that mary and the girls{girles!} had already gone to Irvings at 7_4{764?} De Kalb Ave and left word for me to follow.{.?} I found them there had a good visit and supper which Dorothy cooked and at 3.45 left for the Grand Central depot under the guidance{guidence!} of Mr. George Jameson who was visiting at Irvings and was his class mate{two words?} in Pratts{?}, I would here state that Mr. Bevens took us to the top of the Pratt Institute tower Saturday night and this A.M. he took me up where we could see over the City and East River and the harbor. We went on elevated road to the old bridge where we left cars and walked across, as we were going onto the bridge we saw three Adams Express wagons coming each had a mounted policeman{plieceman!} in advance, a policeman{polieceman!} and detective on the seat with the driveral several militia{militea?} men inside and a mounted police{poliece!} in rear to guard them against the strikers, when near the South tower we saw a French monoplain{?} high up over the City making for the Statue of liberty which it circled about and flew back over the Borought of Brooklyn, At North end of bridge we took subway to Grand Central Station and caught train and came to Bridgeport where got out and took train for Naugatuck valley reaching home before nine o'clock. 10\31\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 11\01\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Doctor said that James Tobin{?} might die at any time this P.M. and could not live longer than{that?} 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. 11\02\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. I has been expected several times to day that Mr. Tobin could not live. {Note in margin of text: 14 70} 11\03\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. It has rained hard all day. Mr. Tobin had a bad spell last night, he has willed $10.000 to each of his five children they had the leading medical expert from{fron!} Yale College examine him this P.M. 11\04\1910 (Friday) Worked as usual at the factory to day. Rained all last night and to day. The Yale expert says that Mr. Tobin has no cancer but the enlargement of the heart, and that there is a chance for him yet. Clyde has bought the building lot cornere{corner?} of Southmayd{?} and Elias{?} Sts for $700.00 paid $300.00 down and rest mortgaged{morgaged!} to Mr. Little of whom he bought it, no interest to be paid for 18 months. 11\05\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual Frank, Raymond, and I put up part of the frame of wash house to night. 11\06\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel to day. Mr. James Tobin died at five o'clock this morning. Aged 6_{62?}. 11\07\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory. Bought truss{?} or Roberts{.?} 11\08\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory 1/2 day. {new paragraph?} First snow of the season, about two inches fell{fill!} Mr. James Tobins funeral took place this A.M. The men of Rogers & Bros assembled at the shop at 7.30 to the number of 25_{250/} and marched in a body to the house where we viewed the remains then in advance of the funeral to church of Sacred Heart where service was held, after which we went to the Old St. Joseph{?} cemetery where the body was lowered into its grave. Election day voted at Union Square for governor{./} etc. 11\09\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at factory, went to S. Waterbury and saw Robt Somers. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 11\10\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 11\11\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. To day they are putting the pumpt into the new pump house that they have built in Silver Street at the corner of the plank road to pump the water from the low service into the high service pipe. 11\12\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. This evening Ray Frank and I put some roof boards on the wash house frame. 11\13\{1910] (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service saw where Will Gillettee{?} is putting in his new privet{?} and flower hedge, also saw the new hot houses that Mr. Dallas is building on the Lockhart place. 11\14\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory ten hours. Mr. Rockwell told me to day that he is going to give me charge of all the machinery in the shop. 11\15\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Had Mr. Robert repair my truss{?}{,?} this evening 11\16\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this afternoon. {Note in margin of text: 16.50} This forenoon at 10 o clock Margaret was married to Clifford Wesley Northrop at the Mill Plain Chapel by Rev. Dr. John G. Davenport The episcopal service was used, Mi__{Miss?} Louese Jenner played the wedding march they left in John Castles auto to depot where they boarded train for a trip to New York and Washington, on thers{their?} return they will reside on North Willow St. 11\17\1910 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 9 hours This evening I went to Cheshire and repaired the lock on the front door or Mrs. Doolittles house. Saw Mr. Roberts and had him make over my truss. 11\18\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory. 11\19\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. This evening we were putting the break on the team wagon. 11\20\{1910} (Sunday) Worked at the factory {-?} six hours putting {-?} pulley on waterwheel driving shaft. Rev. Mr. Holmes of first Methodist Church preached at the Chapel. {new paragraph?} Margaret and Clif{?} returned from their wedding trip to new York and Washington this evening,{,?} and mr. and Mrs. Northrop and John Castle{?} and wife came to supper. Margaret and Clif have gone to mr. Castles to stay over night. {new paragraph?} They began running through cars to Bridgeport{?} to day. 11\21\1910 (Monday) Worked at the factory to day 11\22\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked a the factory to day ten hours Nov 22 1883 I was married. 11\23\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day 11\24\{1910} (Thursday) Thanksgiving day The Somers family Association held their annual reunion at Hamilton Hall 46 sat down to dinner. 11\25\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory, put up the new exhaust fan over the dip tubs in the muffle room. This evening went to town and saw Dr. Roberts and had him fit my truss over{.?} as _{!?} have suffered much from my rupture to day. 11\26\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day 11\27\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Preached at the Chapel this afternoon I did not attend as I was sick 11\28\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory today We put in the concrete foundation for the pump. The Wolcott Agricultural Society has purchased{purchesed!} 38 acres of the south part of the Orren Hall farm for a Fair Ground{.?} 03\29\1910 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as usual. About two inches of snow lay onthe ground this morning that had fallen during the night. {new paragraph?} Clara French 29 and Edward Heaton 25 were married in the Mill Plain Chapel this evening at six o'clcok by the Rev. Dr. Buckley of Trinity Church. The Chapel was well-filled with people and prettily decorated. I paid James White $5.00 for the Somer_{Somers?} Family Association for the use of Hamilton hall Thanksgiving day. paid him at his barn about 6.30 11\30\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factoy to day. {Note in margin of text: 15 00} 12\01\{1910} (THursday) Worked at the factory Went to Levenworth St and saw Dr. Engley. Paid Morton Pierpont 16.00 12\02\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory 12\03\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 12\04\{1910} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 12\05\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. Mrs. Charles Gillette died last night and they have brought her body out to Brightwood from which place the funeral will be held. 12\06\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory, put in counter shaft{?} for the new three cylinder pump. 12\07\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon I attended mrs. Gillettes funeral at William Gillette's house, she was takin in hearse to the funeral trolley car at the Mattatuck factory and then conveyed to the Cemetery at Pines Bridge where she is buried. Mr. Dalie's three men were at the factory putting in the suction pipe 4" for the Blake-Knowles pump. {Note in margin of text: Pump} 12\08\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory Dayley had three men{mem!} at work on the pump. Engaged Mrs. Stuart Judd to play the organ at the Chapel. 12\09\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day Dayleys men got through working on pump this noon. 12\10\1910 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Engaged Frank Judd to make door at mother Pierponts{Piprponts!} house. 12\11\1910 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. After service I went to Brooks vale and saw that Mr. J. B. Dill has done nothing towards building up the old Doolittle house. 12\12\{1910} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day as usual 12\13\{1910} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day 12\14\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory Last evening Raymond and I {next line is indented} Attended a lecture in Buckingham Hall by Colonel Mosby{?} the confederate gorilla{garella!} leader of the rebellion he is now 77 years old, but very active. 12\15\1910 (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\16\{1910} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. This evening I walked to the center and when I came out kept on to Cheshire and called at the Doolittles 12\17\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 12\18\{1910} (Sunday) Mr. Northrop preached at the Chapel {new paragraph?} The gate of the Mattatuck shop pond in the rear of the Pine Grove Cemetery was closed last night and the water set back to the olkd tannery dam tonight. I carried two boxes of silver to Cheshire tonight. 12\19\1910 (Monday) I worked at the factory to Rogers & Bros to day. 12\20\{1910} (Tuesday) I worked at Rogers & Bros to day. 12\21\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. The factory closed this evening for two weeks. 12\22\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day{,/} had one gang of men putting pulley on main shaft in wheel pit, another putting pulley on main shaft in making room, another putting key in pulley at ladle rolls in making room on the main shaft and Mansfild{Mansfield?} and Mooney taking out Hibbards drop. Mary has gone to the Grange. 12\23\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day, we put new 16" belt to drive making room. Wrote letter to Irving _t{at?} Brooklyn N.Y. 12\24\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factorey to day. Margaret adn Cliff have come home to spent{spend?} Christmas as has Clyde and Fritzie. 12\25\{1910} (Sunday) Christmas. Rev. John G. Davenport preached, and read a story at the Chapel, the attendance{attendence!} was rather small. The Mattatuck Company closed the gate of their new dam yesterday morning and at eight o clock P.M. the water was running over the spilway. 12\26\1910 (Monday) This day is observed as a legal holiday, Christmass. Raymond, Frank and I worked this A.M. putting the cornice on the North end of our new shop. This afternoon we all went up to Wm Gillettes, to dinner and a Christmas tree, there were twenty three there which included Mother.1 Frank and wife 3 myself and wife 5 Clyde and wife 7 Clifford Northrop and Margaret 9 Ruth 10 Frank 11 and Raymond 12 sister Cara 13 William Gillette and wife and son mansfield 16 Rowland Jenner and wife 18 Louese and Ethel Jenner 20 Burnard{?} and Burness Carter 22 12\27\1910 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day, drew all he water out of the ditch so we could repair the waterwheel. 12\28\{1910} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. Chatfield sent a mason out to lay up the boiler fire walls. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} Frank and Raymond began working at ice for Arthur Pierpont. 12\29\{1910} (Thursday) Worked at the factor to day, rep wat wheel{?}. Last night about 11.30 Irving and Dorothy{Dorothys!} came from Brooklyn, the house was dark when they came but they got into a window and went up stair sand to bed about 8.30 this morning mary heard some one calling mama and she went out doors and looked all about, soon she heard it again, and after looking out in the streets, she concluded that it was up stairs, and she went up and found them. Mr. Dayly had two men. 12\30\1910 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. Two of Mr. Daylys{Dallys?} men who had been piping got through at 3 this P.M. James Byrnes and I cut the stone for Hibbards drop anvil to set{sel!} on. Mr. Dayly had two men ___{got?} 3.3_{3.30?} 12\31\{1910} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. Lined up the Main shaft from the waterwheel. 01\01\1911 (Sunday) Staid home all day. 01\02\1911 (Monday) Worked at the factory 9 1/2 hours. We put up clutch Wouth side of little engine room and shaft and pulley in engine room. 01\03\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. Mr. Dayly had two men 01\04\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory {Note in margin of text: 13.50} Mr. Dayley{Dayly?} had two men 01\05\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory Chatfild{Chatfield?} had man and helper {new paragraph?} Started the big engine to day. 01\06\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day. (Chatfield{Chalfield!} had 2 __{?} men{?} to noon. {The comment in parenthesis is written below the previous line. difficult to read.} Went to #30 Laurel St to see Bessie Pierce about playing organ at the Chapel, but she had gone to Woodbury. 01\07\1911 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\08\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buckley preached at the Chapel. Went out to mother Pierponts with Chas J. Pierpont to see about repairing the chimney. 01\09\{1911} (Monday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\10\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 01\11\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} Mr. Yarrington called to see about selling an organ to the Chapel. 01\12\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 01\13\1911 (Friday) Worked at the factory. Billy Cunningham began working for me last ___nesday{Wednesday?}. 01\14\1911 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. 01\15\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Smith preached at the Chapel, to day. 01\16\{1911} (Monday) Worked _t{at?} the factory to day 9 hours. Factory began working short time. 01\17\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory 8 hours. 01\18\1911 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory 8 hours {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 01\19\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory 8 hours. 01\20\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory 8 hours. 01\21\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day 8 hours After work{./} Frank and Raymond helped me build the shop. 01\22\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. John G. Davenport preached at the Chapel this afternoon. After service mary Raymond and I went to Margarets on North Willow street. Mary told me to day that Mrs. David Down_{Downs?} told her ____{that?} Charles j. Pierpont with Lawyer Howard B. Snow went to mother Pirpont with a writing and got her to sign it, making over some $5.000 worth or Property, and that she Mrs. Jennis Downs{?} and Miss Francis, Seymour were witnesses and signed as such. Brother Frank came from Bristol{./} and we marked a lot of specimens{specemins!} that he gave me. 01\23\1911 (Monday) Worked eight hours in the factory to day. Miss Seymour is sister to Mr. Smith's wife of Watertown, who lives at Smith's Pond. {Note in margin of text: Francis Seymour} 01\24\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory eight hours. The Ladies Union gave a supper and entertainment at the Chapel last evening, The men of Bunker Hill Chapel furnished the entertainment which was a minstrel show. 01\25\1911 (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day eight hours. Mary went out to East Farms to see her mother, she found her out of her head and wishing that she could go home. {Note in margin of text: 15 30} Frank took home to Mr. Dingwell's two jack-screws tat mr. Woodfall used in raising up the chimney at Mother Pierponts house. 01\26\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day{.?} eight hours. 01\27\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory eight hours. The children have the measles{measels!}. {new paragraph?} At East Farms there 38 registered{regerstered!}, and out of this number 27 are home sick, with measles{measels!}. At Mill Plain in the lower grade a short time ago there were 6 scholars{schollars!}, and only 7 attending. The Driggs school off{?} North Main St is closed the cause, so many scholars{schollars!} are sick with the scarlet fever. Many people have the grip. 01\28\1911 (Saturday) Worked at the factory eight hours. 01\29\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Cham__{Chamra?} of the Third Congregational Church preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. 01\30\{1911} (Monday) Worked at the factory eight hours. 01\31\1911 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory eight hours. 02\01\{1911} (Wednesday) {The entry is very light. I can't read it. e.s.} {Note in margin of text: 14 40} 02\02\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory eight hours 02\03\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory eight hours Saturday worked at the factory eight hours Feb 4 {"Feb 4" is written at the end of the previous line. Are the previous two lines the entry for 02\04\{1911} (Saturday)? Should the entry be "worked at the factory eight hours"? e.s.} 02\05\1911 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel {new paragraph?} After service I walked out the Meriden Road across{acrass!} the old Edmond Austin{Auslin!} roa_{road?} and out onto the Cheshire road then across the Holt land to the trolley track and walked to Summit station where I took the trolley to Cheshire{,/} but as it was very ____{?} I took the next car home. {The next entry is very light. Difficult to read} 02\08\{1911} (Monday) Work___ ____________________________ 02\07\1911 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory eight hours. The snow lies on the ground about six inches deep, this is the deepest snow we have had this winter to f__{?} {Is there additional text on the previous line? e.s.} 02\__\{1911} (Saturday) {Is the entry for 02\10\{1911} (Friday)? e.s.} Worked at the factory eight hours Frederrick Radcliff of Shelton{?} commited{committed!} su__ide{suicide?} last Wednesday by hanging himself with a trunk strap in the attic of his home A new house is being built on a lot that Mrs. Sarah Hine sold west of her house{hous!}, also three -3{?} family houses are being built on Idylwood Avenue south of the Old Joe Porter place, by Daniel Farrington{?}. Frank and Raymond went to Frank Bradleys in Southbury and got a new organ for the Chapel, they started at 4 this morning 02\12\1911 (Sunday) Rev. Dr. Buckley at chapel this P.M. 02\13\1911 (Monday) Worked at the factory eight hours. This evening I read a paper before the mens civic and social league at the Baptist Church in South Waterbury, on the history of the early brass industry of Waterbury. 02\14\1911 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 02\15\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory 8 hours {Note in margin of text: 14 40} 02\16\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory eight {-/} hours. 02\17\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory eight hours. 02\18\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory eight {-?} hours 02\19\{1911} (Sunday) Went to see Charlie Cass about being in the tableaux next wednesday evening at the first Methodist Church. 02\20\{1911} (Monday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 02\21\1911 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 02\22\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory ten hours. This evening Charles Cass, Norman Crowey and myself personated the painting "Spriti of 76" at the 1st Methodist Church. 02\24\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory ten hours. Mary and Wilson went to the Probate office and saw the report of Charles J. Pierpont as consevator{conservator!} of Mother Pierpont which amounted to between 5 and 6 thousand dollars for last year or from the time he was appointed Yesterday morning as Charles Cass was cutting a stake in the woods his ax blanced and cut his foot, he was brought to Waterbury and taken to Dr. Goodenough who with Dr. Crane{Crave?} dreesed it and he is to stay there 48 hours. {Is anything written at the top of page 120 of manuscript above the entry for 02\25\{1911} (Saturday)?} 02\25\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory 02\26\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Lentz preached at the Chapel. 02\27\{1911} (Monday) Worked at the factory. 02\28\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory. 03\01\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory. 03\02\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory. 03\03\1911 (Friday) Worked at the factory to day 03\04\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory. 03\05\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Vought preached at the Chapel this afternoo. 03\06\{1911} (Monday) Worked at the factory 03\07\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory 03\08\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00{_8 00!}} 03\09\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory ten hours. This evneing I went to Cheshire and called on Mrs. Alexander Doolittle 03\10\1911 (Friday) Worked at the factory ten hours to day. The factory is only running eight hours. Mrs. Alexander Doolittle was eighty two years old last monday the 6th. There{Ther!} are four new houses on _lliott{Elliott?} Avenue. 03\11\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 03\12\{1911} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Buck preached at the Chapel this afternoon. Mrs. Noble came this evening came after service and I gave her all the information that I had concerning Peter Gilkie{?} the man who counterfeited{counterfitted!} Spanish Milled dollars{dallars!} at his house in Prospect in 1783 and was sent to New Gate Prison. 03\13\{1911} (Monday) {03\13\1910 (Monday) is written above entry} Worked at the factory ten hours. 03\14\{1911} (Tuesday) Worked at the factory This evening I attended a meeting of the board of Public Works at the City Hall annex cor of Levenworth and West main Sts, and saw maps of the New Layout of the Cheshire Road from the City Line to Wedges Corner, the Street is to be 60 ft wide all the way. The new layout gives me about three felt{feet?} of land at the West end of my line and takes about one foot in the center, while the East end remains about the same. 03\15\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 18 75{?}} 03\16\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day. 03\17\1911 (Friday) This morning Mr. George Hayward{?} and I went to meriden to Factory H or the C Rogers Co{?}, to look as some polishing lathes that are like some that Mr. Rockwell wishes us to have made. We saw Mr. Ganes and he showed us the Lathes and all of the machinery in the shop and gave the price 19.04 each that 7{?} cost. We came back to Waterbury and I went to Blake & Johnsons and saw mr. Edwards about making 4 and he gave me the price as from 85 to _0{90/} dollars, but wished to figure finer and is to call me up tomorrow. 03\18\{1911} (Satruday) Worked at the factroy to day 03\19\{1911} (Sunday) Worked at the factory to day ten hours{rours!} Clyde and I went out to the Old Peter Gilkie place and took pictures of the old cellar. 03\20\1911 (Monday) Worked at the factory ten hours. 03\21\1911 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day{.?} 03\22\{1911} (Wednesday) Worked at the factory all day. {Note in margin of text: 18 00} 03\23\{1911} (Thursday) Worked at the factory to day as usual. 03\24\{1911} (Friday) Worked at the factory to day as usual {new paragraph?} This has been a very cold and windy day. 03\25\{1911} (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day This evening I called at the house of Edward Craft{?} 21 Farnham Ave and saw{saue!} James Croft{Craft?} with whom I went to school before I was ten years old when I lived on Clay Street and we went to school to Miss Margaret Bradley, He went to Windham, Fergus County >} {12\10\1911 (Sunday)} {<<...} On Sunday afternoon Rev. Mr. Todd preached at the Chapel. {...>>} {12\11\1911 (Monday)} {<<...} Monday night we connected the Electric motors with the several shafts in the Trimming Room. We are putting in Seven motors in this Department, of the six motors,{,?} t_at{that?} we started only Three {*two} are now running one 15 H.P. and one 10. two of the others were not powerful enough and one would not go. {12\13\1911 (Wednesday)} Wednesday Mr. Ryan began digging, to put City water in the Chape. Mr. White and Mr. Nodine are putting the water in their houses and the trench was open by the Chapel and by paying one third of the expense of laying from the junction of Woodtick and Meriden Roads to a point in front of the Chapel they would let us connect with their pipe, by Saturday night. Mr. Ryan had the pipe laid inside the Chapel gate. {12\17\1911 (Sunday)} Sunday Rev. Otto Brand of the Waterville Methodist Church preached at the Chapel. To day I have worked in the factory as usual. 12\26\{1911} (Tuesday) I have worked in the factory every day except Sundays and yesterday which was Christmas, Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel last Sunday, and yesterday all the Miller family assembled at Mothers who lives with William Gillette at Brightwood in Mill Plain. We have had no snow of any account this winter and at present the roads are very muddy. {no entries from 12\27\1911 - 01\07\1912, partial blank page} 01\08\1912 (Monday) I worked at the factory of Rogers & Bros nine hours. Have worked every day this year except Sunday the 1st{7st!} and have had plenty to do as the factory is shut down and we are making many repairs. The weather has been very mild this winter until last week when it came off cold and last Saturday morning was one of the coldest that I ever knew owing to the wind but the thermometer{themometer!} only registered{regerstered!} zero, this morning it was 5 be___{below?} 01\11\1912 (Thursday) Have worked nine hours Tuesday and ten Wednesday. Received my last weeks pay yesterday which amounted to 21.38. Sleighing is very good and weather cold. {new paragraph?} This morning 8 below zero at my house. Factory started up this morning run nine hours to day, tomorrow will run eight hours. Mr. Laneish/Laneisk{?} came from Meriden this P.M. to test out motors in Triming shop that would not run, but gave it up as his indicators would not work. 01\15\1912 {Monday} This evening Frank and I, assisted by Bernard Carter and nahan Pierpont turned on the City water into the Mill Plain Chapel. 01\17\1912 {Wednesday} I worked at the factory to day as usual. {Note in margin of text: 22 13} The weather is very cold, yesterday morning 8 below this morning it was the same, while Sunday morning it was 24 degrees below zero, the paper states that,{,?} last Sunday morning in Woodbury in several parts of the Town the thermometer{themometer!} registered{regerstered!} 30 below the coldest ever known in that town. 01\23\1912 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day as I have done every{eviry?} day since last writing To day I have bought a Maxwell Automobile of Mr. Williams of the Waterbury Automobile Co for 250.00 paid 50.00 down and am tomorrow to pay 225.00, 25 00 extra for wind shield. 01\31\{1912} (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as I have every day this year. Frank has been drawing logs{,?} up to Pritchards saw Mill in Wolcott for Wilson L Pierpont yesterday and to day. {Note in margin of text: 25 50} Last Saturday George Hitchcock{?}, broke his leg while drawing out wood, on the South side of the Meriden Road near mrs. Frosts Pond. 02\07\1912 (Wednesday) I have worked every day since the last writing. The weather has been very cold, no thaw last month, and good sleighing though only about three and one half inches of snow. {Note in margin of text: 24 18} Mr. George Rockwell started for Florida last Monday to be gone two weeks. 02\08\{1912} {Thursday} I worke_{worked?} this{.?} day in the factory to day. Last night Mary Wilson Pierpont and I took my old horse and went out the Meriden road to Edwin Todds to see him about the distribution of mother Pierpon__{Pierponts?} estate, they thought that the land could be divided into six parts and let the house go undivided When we were ready to come ho_e{home?} we found that the horse had broken the hitch strap so we had to walk Wilson went the meriden road and we came through East Farms, where{?} we got home we found the horse here all right 02\19\1912 (Monday) This morning I met Wilson Pierpont at the Colonial Trust Building and sar{saw?} Mr. Henry Ralond{Rolond?} about dividing and settling{settleing!} Mother Pierponts estate, which is now blocked by a dept Thaedore/Thaedare{?} Conner oves{?} Woodbury parties, He Mr.{?} Roland thinks it can be attanged{aranged!} so the settlement{?} can go on{,?} by Mr. Conner seeing seeing{written twice} the parties that have placed the leans{?} on, and have them release them until he gets his share and the_{then?} pay them. We then went to Judge Slaveris{?} office and saw him, and Saw Mr. Charles J. Pierpont about having Mr. Renols{?} survey the farm. This eve C J. Pierpont telephoned that Rends{?} would survey and map the farm for 40 ar{or?} $45.00 02\21\{1912} (Wednesday) Last night C J Pierpont telephoned that Renols would start surveying at 8 o'clock this morning. Called at W. L Pierponts house before 7 but did not see him. 03\04\1912 (Monday) I have worked at the factory every day since last writing (Sundays excepted) except last Saturday when I stayed home and Frank and I repaired my Auto. Yesterday Mr. Vought preached at the Mill Plain Chapel. George Hitchcock who broke his leg over a week ago is bad off as gang{?} Green has set in 03\14\1912 (Thursday) I went this noon to the Mill Plain Chapel and showed Mr. Pattens{?} men the bounds of the land that goes with the Chapel as they are to survey it and make a map. Last Tuesday I saw Mr. Patten about making the map at 9 A.M. at 1 P.M. went to Mr. Renols{?} Office and saw the map tha_{that?} he made of the property of Mother Pierponts Estate, and at 2 P.M. went to the Colonial{Coloni_l!} Trust Building with Wilson L. Pierpont and saw mr. Roland about sending a release of C. J. Pierponts Estate to the Judge of Probate, Met Charles, Elener{?} and Wilson Pierpont at Renolds Office{.?} 03\18\{1912} (Monday) Sar Mr. Patten about having the sewer and water pipes put on the Map of the Chapel property. 03\22\{1912} (Monday) Irving Went to Kingston N.Y. last Sunday night wi__{with?} __{Mr.?} Cander{?} to see about making machinery on his return last Wednesday night he was taken sick and has been in bed since, {new paragraph?} Doctor Deming{?} has not given out what the disease{desease!} is but thinks some pleurisy{pluersy!} and some Pneumonia Magaret had a Daughter born last Tuesday morning Mar 19. 03\28\1912 (Thursday) I worked at the the{written twice} factory this morning till 9 o'clock when I went to East Farms and there met C J. Pierpont William and Harry Conner{,?} and Wilson L. Pierpont, and Mary who were heirs to Mother Pierponts estate Elmer Pierpont and Thoedore Conner{,?} were not there, Attorney Joseph Reid, Mr. Renolds, and Edwin Todd, were the Distributers. To Austin B. Pierpont they gave all the land lying South of the Cheshire{.?} Road for his Sixth part{2 words?} To Wilson L. Pierpont the East half of the East Lot with the barn for his Sixth Part. To Mary A. Miller the West Meadow and including lot above the spring to{ato?} a point 140 ft North of the Chestnut tree thense West to Land of Edward Pierpont{?}, for her 6th part. To the Conner Boys the West Half of the East Lot and a strip 100 ft wide North of Maries North Line for their 6th part. To Charles J. Pierpont a strip containing over 7 acres North of the Conner Boys Land for his 6th part. To Elmer Pierpont 7 acres on the North bond of the farm for his 6th part, Wilson L. Pierpont has bought Elmer out for $800.00. 04\03\1912 (Wednesday) {Note in margin of text: 19 50} 04\22\1912 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. One week ago this morning at 2.30{?} A.M.{?} The British Steam Ship Titanic sunk off{of!} the banks of New Foundland, with a loss of 1632 lives She was the largest Ship ever built {.?}882 ft long. Cause of sinking she ran into an Iceberg{Ice Bergh!} at 10.30 Sunday Night. To night I went to town after work and saw the City Hall burn, all above the First floor{floar!}. 05\06\1912 (Monday) Last Friday{.?} DAyton C Wooding{?} Austin B. Pierpont{,?} and myself went to New Haven and saw Printice{Prentice?} W. Chase about the land around Mill Plain Chapel. Frank told me to day that Wilson L. Pierpont has bought the old Pierpont{.?} Homestead at East Farms, and also the land that Charlie J. Pierpont owned 05\14\1912 (Tuesday) To day Austin Pierpont, Daton Wooding, and myself went to New Haven and saw Printice{Prentice?} Chase regarding the Chapel property. He drew a deed for the Cemetery{Cemeteary!} to present to their officers and sign giving us the lot on condition that we give them a strip{stirip!} 55 ft wide oiff from the South end,{,?} and the use _f{of?} the drive way for foot and vehibles{veicles!}. At 11.15 to night I saw Mr. Warren Hitchcock and offered him the deed but he would not accept it, had no time to talk as he was getting aboard of the Trolley to go to work. 05\22\{1912} (Wednesday) This eve I attended the Annual meeting of the Mill Plain Union Chapel and the following Officers were elected. Episcopal Committee A B. Pierpont. Methodist H. J. Abel. Congregational C S. Miller. Baptist Henry Judd, Secretary Bessie Whie{.?} Treasurer Dayton Wooding,{,?} Sunday School Superintendent Arthur J Pierpont, Librarian Stanley Heaton{?}. 06\12\1912 {Wednesday} The Pine Grove Cemetery held their annual{.?} Meeting thie evening ___{and? Is word smudged or crossed out?} elected Officers for the ensuing year as follows. {new paragraph?} Trustees Warren B. Hitchcock, Arthur Bluett, Edson Hitchcock George Walker, Miss Fannie Porter, Thoedore Munson{?}, and Mark L. Warner. The trustees elected in turn Warren Hitchcock, President, Fannie Porter Secretary,{,?} and Edson Hitchcock Treasurer 06\29\1912 {Saturday} I worked at the factory this forenoon, but this afternoon I staid out and went to the funeral of Henry Wedge, who died Thursday night aged 80{?} years. {new paragraph?} After,{,?} I returned Clyde, Fritzie, Raymond and I went to the East End Garage{Girage!} and had the Auto Tank filled with gasoline{gasolene!}. After supper we went out to Arthur Pierponts _n{in?} the Auto, while we were gone Mr. Taylor came, and we came home soon and he drove the auto out there again very fast, and back again. 06\30\{1912} (Sunday) This morning I went to Russells corner on the Trolley car, and walked to French Hill where a monument was Dedicated by the Irish Historical Society of Connecticut, there were about 5000 present including Governer{Govoner!} Baldwin, a Representative{Representitive!} of The French Embassador{Enbassidar/Enbassidor!}, Judge Welch of New Britain{?} was the Orator{Orotor!} of the day.{.?} I will here state that this was Childrens Day at the Chapel and Dr. Davenport had charge of the ]service, Irving carried the Dr. for me from the Trolley{.?} to the Chapel. {new paragraph?} Irving, Dorothy Frank, and I left here at about 7 o'clock in my Auto and went through the Center to Watertown to Woodbury, and home via Middlebury where arrived{arived!} at a little after 9. 07\01\{1912} (Monday) The Factory closed down last Saturday night for the Summer Vacation. This afternoon I went to town to see about having some Clutches{?} welded to the Shaft. 08\11\1912 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Ingraham{/} preached at the Chapel this afternoon, he is a Methodisy minister from South Waterbury,{,?} Bernard Carter{.?} carried him from the Trolley car to the Chapel with William Gilletts{?} team. I got my auto ready this morning, and took Fritzy, Dorothy Ruth and Frank and went to Seymour to the Camp of the 1._t{ft?}, 2 nd, Con__{Const?} _nd{and?} a Maine Regiment they were encamped 3/4 of a mile up the Oxford Road, there{thers!} was also two Companies of Colored United States Calvary from Fort Eathen Allen Vt.{?} 08\29\1911 (Thursday) Last night when I got home from ___{the? Is word smudged or crossed out?} Factory Mary showed me a note written by Raymond{Roymond?}, which said that he had been a bad boy and could not stand it any longer so he is going West, and had taken his{.?} Bank Book, he also took{.?}$5.00 of Franks money, on his bank book was 48.40 which he got by an order on which was written the name of Mary A. Miller{,?} and Howard Mott{?} as witness Howard Mott says that he said that he was going to Detroit. 09\20\1912 (Friday) Arthur J. Pierpont died this morning at 2.30 o.clock from the effects of burns that he received last Monday while tightening up the flews{flues?} of his farm engine boiler, the threads of one of the flews gave away and the fl__{flew!} blew out scalding him terribly{terribley!}, but we thought that he would recover, and was surprised to learn this morning of his death{.? -?} he was aged 35 years. 09\22\{1912} (Sunday) The Funeral of Arthur Joseph Pierpont took place to day, with prayers at the house, where were gathered a large number of people many coming in Automobiles{Automobilis?} and many in Carriages, Rev. Dr. Buckley{?} officiating{officiateing!}. The procession proceeded{proceded!} to the Mill Plain Chapel the hearse and Carriages by the Meriden turnpike and the Autos by the Cheshire Road, at the Chapel were gathered between 5 and 600 people from the neighboring{meighboring!} towns as well as Waterbury. Two Auto loads coming from the Connecticut College{Colleage!} and Some from Winsted Stamford and Wallingford. There were more Flowers than I ever saw at any funeral in the Pine Grove Cemetery{Cemetary/Cemetory!} The scholars{schollars!} of his Sunday school each dropped{droped!} a bouquet in the grave as did all the relatives. There were many teams about the Chapel and fifteen Automobiles. 10\22\1912 {Tuesday} This day I have worked at the factory of The International Silver Co where I hold the position of Master Mechanic. Last evening{.?} Dayton Wooding and Wife, William Gillette, my Wife and I went in my Auto via Watertown to Woodbury where we attended an Oyster supper and entertainment in the basement of the Methodist Church, we came home the same way that we wen_{wnet?} reached{,?} out house at about 10.30 This Forenoon at 10. o'clcok Miss Amy Miller was married in the First Church by Rev. Mr. Dinsmore to Mr. Russell of Bridgeport. To day they are putting hot water heat in our house{.?} 11\24\{1912} (Sunday) I attended meeting at the Chapel, Dr. Davenport read a Thanksgiving story. {new paragraph?} I carried him and his friend from the trolley in my auto. After service Mr. Rocksburgh funeral was held in the Chapel as it rained very hard out side The service was by the Masonic order. Mr. Henry Hall who died on the trolley Car Nov 16th left to the Chapel by will $100.00 11\26\1912 (Tuesday) I worked in Rogers & Brothers Factory to day. This evening Frank got home from{f_on!} the Connecticut College{Colleage!} to spend Thanksgiving. 11\28\1912 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day I attended the annual reunion of the Somers family which was held at William M Gillette_{Gillettes?} house, there were 54 members present. Louis and George Somers and I. went out the Meriden Road and saw where they were building the new Trolley road They have it partly built from Alexander Avenue to a point beyond the Todd road. {Is text written above this line for insertion?} 12\01\{1912} (Sunday) I attended service at the Chapel this afternoon Rev. Mr. Buckley preached, after service I took the younger Anderson girls and Miss Brown with Frnk to run the machine and went up over the new state road to its end to Pritchards saw mill, and then up over Wolcott Center and down to Tuttles four corners and down through Woodtick and home, after which we took Ruth and Marion Griswold{?} and went out the Meriden Road to Maple Hill Farm. Frank Judd{?} worked yesterday putting up a porch over the Kitchen door. 12\04\1912 (Wednesday) I worked at the Factory to day. {new paragraph?} Sherbern Rockwell{?} got through and went to New York. {new paragraph?} On Dec 2{?} I received a Postal from Miss Fannie Porter notifying me of a joint meeting of the Cemetery{Cmetery!} and Chapel Officers to be held in the Chapel on Jan 3 1913. {Note in margin of text: Chapel} {new paragraph?} {the beginning of the next two lines are difficult to read} Saw George Walker and Arthur Blewitt{?}, about Chapel. 12\11\1912 {Wednesday} This evening I took my auto and Mary Mr. and Mrs. Abel and Thoedore Munson went first down to the Center where I bought two cans of carbide then we came to Charles Monroe's where we spent the evening it being his 60th birthday. We started for home after 10, and after leaving Mr. Munson and the Abels{Abe'ls!} I overtook Warren Hitchcock and brought him down to my corner where he told me that he had up to his house an Insurance Policy for the Mill Plain Chapel which he said he received on the 7th, he said it was a renewal{rebewek!} plicy and would expire in 1915. 12\12\{1912} {Thursday} I worked at the factory to day as usual This evening I went to Warren Hitchcocks and got the Chapel Insurance Policy and then went to Will Gillettes where we looked it over and found the following clause, "It is mutually understood and agreed that the above described buildings stand on land owned by the Pine Grove Cemetery" This coming at this time made me feel discouraged, but Will drew up a paper addressed to Messers Judd and Puffer requesting them to sent a corrected Policy{Poticy!} to Miss Bessie White Sec, {new paragraph?} I am to gen{?} the four members of the Chapel Committee to sign it Have Mr. Judds{?} already. 12\14\1912 {Saturday} Yesterday morning I got Hiram Abel to sign the paper that Mr. Judd and I signed last night, Mary and I spent last evening with Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards at 60 Cook{?} St. {note in margin of text: Chapel} I received{re__ived!} a letter to day from Judd and Peffer{Puffer?} stating that they had drawn another Insurance Policy as instructed by the Chapel committee and had mailed the same to Miss Bessie White I paid Mr. Gilson{?} the balance I owed on the new Machine book which was 15.00 Paid 7.50 last month. 12\15\{1912} {Sunday} Rev. Mr. Bartow{?} preached at the Chapel{Chapl!} this P.M. {new paragraph?} After service I with mary, Dorothy, Ruth{?} and Irving went down to The Factory where the joiners are at work. Julieete, wife of Charles J. Pierpont died this evening at 6.20 of Pneumonia. 12\16\{1912} {Monday} Worked at the factory to day taking down shafting. This{Ths!} evening I attended a Special School Meeting of which I was Chairman at Mill Plain, they voted to let the basement to Mr. Bradley for the boy scouts, also to install a telephone, and accepted the tax collectors report. 12\17\{1912} {Tuesday} Worked at the FActory this A M. This P.M. I attended Mrs. C. J. Pierponts funeral at which I was a Pall Bearer with Elmer Pierpont, Georg Benhan{?}, J. K. Smith, {new paragraph?} Rev. Mr. Buckely and Dr. Davenport officiated, She was burried on top of the Hill in Pine Grove Cemetery. I had a long talk with Mark Warner/Warnes{?} this P.M. about Chapel Matters {note in margin of text: Chapel} 12\18\{1912} {Wednesday} This noon Wm Gillette{Gillettee?} called at the shop and took me to James Whites and Mr. White and I apprised the personal property of the estate of Henry H_ll{Hall?} which amounted to $8637.73 12\20\{1912} {Friday} To Day Wm Gillette and Lawyer{Lawyier!} Divine{?} called at the Factory and had me apprise the REal Estate of the Late Henry Hall. 12\22\1912 {Sunday} Rev. Dr. Davenport preached at the Chapel{Chapll!} this P.M. This forenoon Irving called with a Mr. Parker and they got a Christmas tree and then we took the auto and went up near Perkins Pond on Bucks Hill and saw them working putting the cut through for the new trolley road from Waterville to Chase's Rolling Mills. I should judge tat the cut was 75 ft deep and they first drilled holes with 2 Will __{?} drilling machines to the bottom first through earth and the rest through solid ledge{legge!}, in which dynamite{dinamite!} is exploded which loosens up the rock and earth which is taken up and loaded onto cars with a large Steam Shovel, and two Steam Derricks, there are at work also, compressed air drills and Steam Drills, and three Sadel Locomotives{Lacomotives!}. 12\25\{1912} {Wednesday} Christmas. The descendants{descendents!} of Mother to the number of Twenty two met at William Gillettes{Gillittes!} this P.M. This A.M. I saw Warren Hitchcock about Chapel Matters. He said that he Recognized{Recagnized!} Mc Authority in the matter other than the Cemetery{Cemetary!}, that they held the deed, and the land held the building, and that they owned it. This noon Frank and I went to Bucks Hill with Mr. Holihan of Edson Avenue and brought his Grandmother aged 9_{96?} his Father and sister down to his house. 12\28\1912 (Saturday) This evening Wm Gillettee{Gillittee!} and I went to New Haven and Sar P. _{H?} Chase. 12\29\{1912} {Sunday} Dr. Dinsmore preached at the Chapel. After service I took my Auto and with Ruth Mary and Mable Griggs Carried Dr. Dinsmore down to the First Church we then went to Waterville and saw the ruins of the Sprague Schoon{School?} that burned a few nights ago we then went to Bucks Hill and visited Mables{?} Parents Mr. and Mrs. William Faber 01\03\1913 (Friday) To day I worked at the Factory of The International Silver Co, putting up machinery and altering shafting as they are raising the roof of the making room. This evening I attended a joint{jount!} meeting of the Trustees of the Pine Grove Cemetery, and the Chapel officers held in the Mill Plain Union Chapel. {new paragraph?} Its purpose was to bring about a reconciliation{reconcilation!} regarding the trouble that has existed between the Cemetery and the Chapel{Chape!} regarding the ow_ership{ownership?} of Chapel and grounds which both parties claim{clain!}. The Chapel offered to give the Cem _0{50/60?} ft off from the South end of the lot if the Cemetery{,?} would give them a deed of the remainder and thus settle it. The Cemetery offered to lease{leas!} the ground and buildings for a long term of years __y{say?} 50 and give the Chapel $500.00 and pay 40 or 50. dollars per year for the use of it{.?} to hold funerals __d{and?} meetings in. Neither offer was accepted. {new paragraph?} The Mill Plain Union Chapel Society has used Chapel Sheds and Grounds for nearly 30 years. 01\05\1913 (Sunday) Rev. mr. Vought{Voughl?} preached at the Chapel, this afternoon{.?} 01\14\{1913} (Tuesday) Telephoned Warren Hitchcock about the adjourned meeting to be held in the Chapel. He said that he had not got the papers yet, and when he had them he would let us know abou_{about?} the meeting 01\17\1913 (Friday) Last Monday morning we started up the Factory after a shutdown to three weeks, During that time we have raised the roof of the making room an{and?} put in two saw{sow!} tooth sky lights, and rearranged{rearrainged!} much of the machinery. This evening Will Gillette and I went to the Chapel and put in a length of pipe where the old one was burst by freezing. 01\27\1913 (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Owen preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. This evening we attended the Second Congregational Church in the City, and heard Rev. Mr. Brown the Concardia{Concordia?} singing society rendered fine selections but they were in the German Language and we could not understand the words. 01\31\1913 (Friday) Attended a joing{Joing?} meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Officers and Chapel officers, at which a Lease was offered with nearly every kind of a condition in it 02\07\1913 (Friday) This day I worked at the factory of the International Silver Co, on Silver Street We are taking out the old National waterwheels one 44 inch and one 20 in which was put in in 1873 and am now ready to install one 22,,{"?} Mc Cormick{Mc. Cormick?} wheel. A daughter was born to day to Mr. and Mrs. William Gillettes{Gillettee?} named Louis. Last Wednesday I received my weeks pay $30.00 02\15\1913 (Saturday) To day I worked at the factory, we are putting in a new Mc Cormick{Mc Cormic!} Waterwheel, to day we set the bed Frame{Frome!} in place. This evening I called at Wm Gillette's and found Mother very low with bronchitis{brontites!}, Uncle William Somers was there and we walked down to the Trolley car to gether{to gather!}. The Mill Plain Sunday School went for a sleight ride this evening, and had an oyster supper in the Grange Hall on their return. 02\16\1913 {Sunday} Sister mary called me by telephone last night at Midnight and told me that Mother passed away at 11.20 the end was very quiet wi__{with?} but little suffering {new paragraph?} She was born in Middlebury{Middle bury!} April 15, 1834. 02\17\1913 {Monday} Worked at the factory to day. Wm Gillette told me to day that Brother _red{Fred?} and Raymond are coming from, Detroit and will reach here tomorrow noon to attend mothers funeral{funerol!}. This evening I hired Jessie Fowler{?} to come to work at the factory next Monday morning, at 3.00 per day. 02\19\1913 (Wednesday) To day at 2.30 o,clock the funeral of my dear Mother was held from the home of William Gillette{?} at Brightwood Mill Plain, Waterbury, Rev. Dr. Dinsmore{?} officiating Mr. John Bradley{Brodley?}, Arthur Hayward, Louis Jenner and Effel Jenner sang several selections, {new paragraph?} Brother Frank, myself, Fred, Rowland Jenner, Wm Gillettee, and Clyde were the Pall Bearers. She was buried in the family lot where Grandma and Grandfather Somers are buried in Riverside Cemetery. 03\06\1913 (Thursday) This day I worked at the factory in the forenoon. In the afternoon Fred Snowman{?} and I went to the Farrell Foundry and saw many things, among which was an electric chuck for holding work on a surface grinder. News came tonight{1 word?} that Mrs. George Rockwell died suddenly at Atlantic City this morning. 03\11\1913 (Tuesday) I worked in the Factory to day This noon Ruth went to the Conn. Agricultural College{Colleage!} to serve as stenographer{stinggragher!} for President Beach. 03\24\{1913} {Monday} Mr. Louis Blanchard commenced Repairing our house, put up part of fram of stairs and shingled some on North side of east _nd{end?}, {new paragraph?} Have got to get a building permit. 03\25\1913 {Tuesday} I worked at the factory to day. This morning I went to the Building Inspectors office and gave him a map of my house and lot but he would not give me a building permit as I did not have an elevation of the west side o my house and the outside stairs. {Note in margin of text: Tin 4 00 50 lbs Lead 4.00 3 galls Oil 192 Mr. Blanchard and two men worked till two o clock, shingling. 03\26\{1913} {Wednesday} This has been a very stormy day but Mr. Blanchard has been to the building Inspector{Inspecter!} Chatfield and got a building permit 03\27\{1913} {Thursday} Stormy Day, Mr. Blanchard and one man worked on{an!} my house, cut through two inside doors and put up a pair of stairs on the outside 03\28\{1913} {Friday} Sherbourn Rockwell Fred Snowman and I went to Bridgeport to Holmes & Edwards Factory, this A.M. 03\29\{1913} {Saturday} Mr. Blanchard and two men worked on the house to day. 03\30\{1913} {Sunday} Attended the Chapel to day {new paragraph?} Mr. and Mrs. Foster and Son came and looked the House over to day. 03\31\{1913} (Monday) Mr. Blanchard and 2 men worked on house. 04\01\{1913} (Tuesday) Mr. Blanchard and 2 men worked on house. 04\02\{1913} (Wednesday) Mr. Blanchard and 2 men worked on house 04\03\1913 (Thursday) I worked at the factory. Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Cramer worked putting on Plaster Board to day. 04\05\{1913} (Saturday) Paid Mr. Blanchard 55.00 dollars this P.M. Went to town this evening and bought 100. lbs Carter Lead 7.50, 4 galls Raw oil _{@?} 55 220 25 lbs #B.C. Green @ .18 450 1 Gal Turps 60 1 pt Jopan{Japan?} 20 _____ 15.00 {The following notes are written in the margin of the text: The following note is written next to the line beginning with "Paid Mr. Blanchard...:" 22.00 The following not is written next to the line with "15.00:" 15.00} From Hotchkiss & Templeton, lock/lack{?} 30 {Note in margin of text: 30} 04\12\{1913} (Saturday) Mr. Blanchard worked to day. This evening I paid him 40.00 {Note in margin of text: $40.00} 04\19\{1913} (Saturday) I worked at the Factory to day, getting ready to put in the new penstock for the New Waterwheel. Mr. Lenskey is making a fifty foot Roadway of the Frost Road. {new paragraph?} Duringn the week he has{shas!} set the fence on my lot back about Four and one half ft at the North end, and it and it {written twice} runs to nothing at the end near the big gate. This evening I paid Joe the Italian who laid up the wall in the cellar Seven]and one half dollars {Note in margin of text: 7.50} 04\24\1913 (Thursday) Mr. Lenskey has many teams{.?} at work on the road above the Old Doolittle House. To night{2 words?} Irving and I took the Auto out for the first time this year. 05\06\1913 (Tuesday) I attended to the connecting of the waterwheel penstock, and various other duties at the factory to day. {Note in margin of text: 10.00} {new paragraph?} This evening I paid Louis Blanchard 10.00 on account. {Does note in margin go here?} 05\08\1913 (Thursday) Mr. and Mrs. Foster and their son Donald moved into the upstairs of our house, to day. 05\14\{1913} (Wednesday) They, Mr. N. E. Reed{?} is painting my house to day This evening I bought of Zigtatzki{?} and Marks Co 50 lbs White Lead{Leaad!} and three Galls oil at 5.75 I also{atso!} bought of Hotchkiss & Templeton a roll of Chicken Nalling{Netting/} 2.90 {Note in margin of text: 5.75} 05\23\1913 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day putting in the Head Gate for the penstock. This evening I took my Auto and with Mary and Mrs. Munson went to town and paid S J Bear{?} a bill for hardware 7.16 {Note in margin of text: 7._6{7.16?}} Last saturday Mary, Irving, Dorothy{Dorathy!}, Margaret, and I went in my auto to Storrs{St_rrs!} and saw Frank who is there at College, and Ruth who is keeping books for President Beach. 05\24{[?or 25?]23!}\1913 {Thursday??} Finished Concreting{Concreating!} in headgate of waterwheel penstock to day. To night Mary paid N E Reed 40.00 and I paid him $5.00 for painting house. {Notes in margin of text: 5.00 5.00} 05\26\{1913} (Monday) To night I paid Lewis Blanchard 40.00 on account This makes 145.00 paid him to Date. __{Am? Are?} to pay him 160.00 {Note in margin of text: 40.00} 05\06\1913 (Friday) To day I worked at the factory as{-?} usual spent nearly all the day figuring the amount of money that would be saved should we generate our own electric current to run our Trimming Rooms instead of buying it, the amount saved would be about $3,000 dollars. This evening Mary and I went up to Wm Gillettees in my auto but he was not at home so we took Mrs. Streeter and started for her home met her husband near the Forersters{?} hall and then took them for a ride down East Main Street to Cherry to Grove to Willow to West Main to East main to Albion{?} where we left them and came home, Mr. {new paragraph?} Mr. Linskey{?} has put a curb of cement on both sides of the Frost road and is building a little waiting Station at my corner of white bricks. 06\10\1913 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day{.?} Yesterday after work I went to M J Dalys{?} and paid him $3.00 for a pump pipe I put in my house {Note in margin of text: 3.00} To day I handed in my tax list and then went to Chatfield and Chatfield and paid them 3.00{?} for Cement Li_e{Lime?} etc{ets!}. {Note in margin of text: 3.00} 06\14\{1913} (Saturday) {plus 06\11\1913 (Wednesday)} I worked at the factory this forenoon 1/2 holiday this afterday{1 word?}. Last Wednesday evening the Pine Grove Cemetery held their annual meeting in the Mill Plain Chapel, and elected Warren B. Hitchcock, George Walker, Fannie Porter, Edson Hitchcock, Arthur Blewitt, Thoedore{Thaedore?} Munson, and Mark L Warner{?}, Trustees for the coming year. {new paragraph?} They voted that they own the Chapel and Voted that the matter of digging up the Boundry Stone be left with the Trustees. Voted{Woted!} that the matter of procuring the keys and changing the locks be left with the Trustees. Voted that the insuring of the Chapel be done by the Cemetery. Frank Came{-?} home from the Connecticut College{Colleage!} for his summer vacation T____day{Thursday?} evening. 06\15\{1913} (Sunday) Mr. Blanchard called this morning and wanted all the money due him 17.00 which I paid. {Note in margin of text: 17.00} I attended sevice at the Chapel this afternoon Rev. Mr. Bronson officiated, {new paragraph?} After Chapel I took Clyde and his wife and two children and Mr. and wife and two children and we went for a ride to union City over the Whittnnore{Whittenore?} road to middle bury and out to Quassapang{?} then back to Middlebury and through Guntown{?}, and Millville{Mill ville?} to Naugatuck and south through Straitsville{?} to where they are building a large reservoir for the Burough of Naugatuck, and then home. 06\11\1913 {Wednesday; out of order, repetitious} Pine Grove Cemetery meeting was held in the Chapel this evening Mr. Warr__{Warren?} B. Hitchcock, George Walker Mark Warner, Thoedore Munson, Fannie Porter, Edson Hitchcok and Arthur Blewitt, were elected trustees for the ensuing year. The following votes were taken That we own the Chapel and that the Chapel be instructed that they use the same as they have until such time as the four denomination{?} cease to use it, when it shall revert to the Cemetery for a burial Chapel. {Note in margin of text: Chapel{Chape!}} Motion made by Livi{Levi?} Tillotson{?}. Voted To dig up the Boundry stone Voted To insure the Chapel to the Cemetery. Voted. That they have a key and that they use the Chapel at any and all times, and change the locks{lacks!} if they see fit. 06\26\1913 (Thursday) I telephoned Mr. Ludwig of Tolland{?} to night concerning his horses that ran away 07\02\{1913} (Wednesday) Paid Hotchkiss _{&?} Templeton 19.70 for Hard wars{Hard ware? Hardware?} for my house 08\18\1913 (Monday) Mary left for Cleveland this noon{noom!} at 1.20 for New York where {,?} she is to Join{Jain!}, her Cousin Libbie Harris, and then they will travel together{togather!}. 09\11\1913 (Thursday) Mary Returned this noon from a trip to Niagra, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo{Buffalow!}. 09\21\{1913} (Sunday) I have not worked the past week but spent Monday and Tuesday at various kinds of business, Wednesday Mary and I went in my auto to Sam Ovaitts [Oviatt's] in Goshen, Tuesday Sam Marion his wife Lillian Gillette, Marions mother, and Mary and I went to Falls Village{Villeage!} and saw the new dam canal and power plant that the United Electric Light{Leight?} and Water Co are building, on the site of and old canal that was built in 1851 by F. W. Goldsminth{?}. after having our dinner in the Auto by the side of the road near the East end of the Bridge we went to Amesville, then{,?} to the twin lakes, Thence East to the Housatonic River which we crossed on an iron toll bridge located over a dam at an Electric power plant at North Canaan, from there we went through he towns of North Canaan and Norfolk to the Hallmeadow Road which we followed to West Tarrington{?} and then west to Goshen. We remained in Goshen till Sunday afternoon {the next 1 or 2 words difficult to read} the __{?} weather being wet and foggy all the time. 09\29\{1913} (Monday) Last Saturday morning Clyde Fritzie, Irving Dorothy and I took my auto and went to Falls village{villeag!} and saw the new Power plant which is being built at that point, the Dam is completed more than{tham!} half across the river from the East side nd the canal is nearly finished,ide all of the water wheel cases are set and the Bulkhead is finished but the penstocks{penstacks!} are not put together{togather!}. From the village{villeage!} we went to Lime Rock{?} where we saw the Iron works, and saw them run off a lot of Pig iron. We then returned to Falls village{Fallsvilleage! 1 word?} and had our auto filled with Gasoline{Gasolene!} and oil and at 5.45 started for Goshen which we reached at 7. P.M. 10\08\1913 (Wednesday) This morning I telephoned Mr. Phelps of Rockville and asked if I could retain him on the Ludwig Case but he is too{to!} busy, and recommended{recomened!} John E. Fisk, whom I retained This evening I wrote up all the details of the case and sent them together{togather with a letter which Mr. Noon sent me and the complaint which Sheriff Foster left me. 10\09\1913 (Thursday) This evening Attorney{Attourney!} Howard B. Snow Called me up and said{raid!} that Mr. Fisk{?} of Rockville has told him that Mr. Ludwig{Leidwig?} would settle if we would pay the Sheriff 6.00 the Justice 1.00 and Mr. Noon 5.00 Mr. Ludwig wants 15.00. I talked over the wire with Mort and we thought that we had better not Pay Mr. Ludwig anything and I told Mr. Shaw{?} so, H{?} asked me to call up Mr. Fisk{"Noon" is crossed out} and tell him which I did, after a time he called me and said that they would settle for{far!} the 12.00. {Semicircle is drawn in margin of text} 10\10\{1913} (Friday) I worked{woiked!} at the factory to day Saw M. E. Pierpont at Mr. Munsons silver wedding this evening and he said that he would pay 1/2 of the 12.00 11\19\1913 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day as Master Mechanic of Factory J International Silver Co. I received my weeks pay 30.00 To day they started running the new Green cars on the Milldate{Mill date?} trolley hin{line?} at noon, tonight at 9 o'clock{o'clack!} they had carried 282 passengers. 11\24\1913 (Monday) Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards, mary and I went by train to Danbury where walked about the place for over an hour and saw the principal{principle!} buildings etc till it was time to take the train for New Milford where we went after my Auto which I left there with a broken axle a week ago last wednesday, we found it all ready for us ar{as?} the Arcade Machine works,. and after having a good dinner at Youngs Hotel, we paid our bill for repairs $9.50 and nearly/nearby{?} $2.00 for Gasoline{Gasolene!} and oil and started for Marble Dale where we stoped at a cousins of Mr. Edwards by the name of Lyons, where we visited a while, with Mrs. Lyons{Leyons?} two sons and a daughter, we then went to New Preston{?} where we stoped at Mr. Miron Cables where we staid 1/2{?} hour visiting with M_{Mr.?} Cables{?}, and Miss Cables{/} his sister and Mother Cables 93 years old we then journeyed through Woodville and across{acass? acoss?} the Shepang River and up over the hills by the side of mt. Tom pond through Gooseborough and Bantam to Litchfild{Litchfield?} where we went up North Street aways, and turned round and came hgome through East Morris and Estertown, stoppin ar{at? on?} Mr. Edwards on Cook St. and had supper, Reached about 8 o'clock. 11\27\1913 (Thursday) The Somers family met at Ben Chatfiwlsa on Hewlett Street{?} and had dinner there were 48 present{,?} and all had a nice time. 12\19\{1913} {Friday} Frank Came home this evening to spend Christmas. He brought a letter From Ruth at Storrs which she had received from Raymond _ho{who?} is in Detroit which stated that he is not coming home for Christmas The old Blacksmith shop opposite Edson Avenue that I built in 1887 got on fire last night and was damaged to the extent of $500.00 The new electric lights were used in my house Dec 12 for the first time. 01\01\1914 {Thursday} {Note in margin of text: 1914 Jan 1} Jan 1 The Chapel fences is gone from under the sheads{sheds?} 01\21\1914 (Wednesday) Mrs. Rasoline Scott{?} Widow of the late Edward Scott died Monday Jan 19th 1914 of Cancer of the stomach aged 84 years 02\18\1914 (Wednesday) Have had some very Cold weather, 14 below zero this morning 8 below yesterday, 8 below the morning before. Last Friday and Saturday snow fell to the depth of 15 inches on the level, but drifted in some places. {new paragraph?} Monday about 3 inches more fell. Fritzie Clydes wife{wiff!} had a son born this afternoon. 02\22\{1914} (Sunday) Rev. Mr. Owen preached at the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon. The attendance{attendence!} was small owen{owing/} to the large amount of snow and bad traveling there is about 2 ft of snow on the ground. The thermometer{themometer!} registered{regerstered!} 12{degree symbol} below zero. 02\26\{1914} (Thursday) This is the most severe winter that I have seen for many years, the snow lies two feet deep on the ground, more than since the great storm of 1888 when the snow was three and one half ft deep, for seven days in succession the paths{pathes!} had to be dug out as the snow either fell and filled them or it blew in for many mornings the thermometer{themometer!} has been below zero, to day 13 below yesterday{westerday!} 11 below{,?} and many times 8 and 10 below. 03\08\1914 (Sunday) This afternoon Margaret gave birth to a daughter at the Waterbury hospital{haspital!} at 5.30 P.M. 03\18\{1914} (Wednesday) Louis B. Hitchcock was almost instantly killed at 10 AM. to day, while working on a switchboard in the cellar of the Office of the American Brass Co. his arm came in contact with a live wire of 440 volts and the current{curr_nt! currant!} passed through his heart and out the other arm to ground. 03\19\1914 {Thursday} I worked this day at the factory. Putting in washing Machine in George Haywards{?} Polishing Room, and taking out pickle tub in Annealing Room __{to?} be Recovered. 03\20\{1914} {Friday} I worked at the factory this forenoon. This afternoon attended Louis Hitchcocks funeral{funereal!} at the house of Jacob H. Garrigus in South Part of Wolcott{Wolcatt!} Mary and I drove out, a_{?} bitter cold time{atime!}, Rev. Mr. Owen{?} of the second{secong!} Congregational Church of Waterbury officiated the Pall Bearers were his brothers-in-law Mr. Morton Pierpont{-?} Mr. James Hubbell, Mr. Burton Russell, and Willia_{William?},{,?} Harry and Walter Garrigus there were a large number present including a trolley car load of Electricians{Electricions!} {new paragraph?} Burial was in Woodtick Burying Ground [[07\24\1914 (Friday) {alone on back unlined page}]] [[{included below at appropriate place}]] {Notes at end of text: Read by R{uth} M B{rundage} - May 1946 " " F{rank}.P.{?}M{iller}. Dec. 1946 R{ay}.H.M{iller}. 8 - 47 Read by Marian Northrop Kraft Nov. '88} {@@RAK-- This note is written in the 1st page: These loose pages were included at the start of the 1914-28 Journal when xeroxed by Robert Kraft on 30 June 1992. The words "March 27, 1914" are in the hand of CSM "to May 3, 1914" are probably Marian Kraft or possibly Margaret Miller Northrop Hall. } Charles S. Miller. Oak Corner. Waterbury Conn. March 27, 1914. to May 3, 1914. 1914\03\27 {@@Thursday?} Yesterday John Todd told me that Edward Holmes who lives in the old Capt Nathaniel Lewis place on the East side of Hitchcocks Lake is dead. To day I went to the Factory at eight as usual and then went to the Farrell Foundry and Machine @@Cos with Sherbourn Rockwell, Frank Tobin and Mr. Mansfield and tried striking up some Sharon table spoon handles in a new 400 ton Toggle Jointed Press, it worked very good, and done the work better than the drops do it. 1914\03\30 (Sunday) Rev Dr. Dinsmore preached at the Chapel this afternoon the attendance {@@attendence?} was not large Mr. Edward Holmes was buried from the Chapel this afternoon at ___ ______{@@One Gelack?}. Clyde moved yesterday into Gardner Halls house on _____{@@Edian?} Avenue next North of the house he has been living in. {@@RAK-- Please note that the previous 2 paragraphs are difficult to read. es} 1914\03\31 (Tuesday) I worked to day 9 hours in the factory after 5 o clock I took my Auto down to my old shop to have Mr Tellman{@@?} paint it. 1914\04\26 (Sunday) We have received a letter from Raymond which stated that he was married in New York last Monday to Margarete Hardy of Meriden. 1914\05\02 (Saturday) To day I met a surrogate Judge from New Jersey and signed an affidavit {@@affadavit} regarding my signing Nathan T. Porters{@@?} will in 1896. 1914\05\03 (Sunday) Attended service in the Second Cong Church this forenoon. This afternnon Clyde, D. H. Tierney Mr. Charles Cummerford and I went in my auto to middlebury and Woodbury over the road traversed by Rochambeans army in 1781, at Woodbury we ate supper at the Curtis House and then came home via Middlebury Center. {end of loose pages} ===== {entry found alone on back unlined page of previous journal} {see above after 03\20\1914} 07\24\1914 (Friday) Last Wednesday Clyde Moved to Farrengton{?} where he is engaged{ingaged!} it the construction of a large casting shop at the Coe Brass works. ===== {start of new journal} {"Dec. 13 1914 to July 29, 1928" added at start, probably by Marian N. Kraft or Margaret M. Hall} 1914\12\13 (Sunday) About the 25th of last month as I was passing through the cellar in the dark I walked against a carpenter horse on which was a heavy piece of 6" Steam pipe and knocked a small piece of skin off my leg above the ankle point, a short time after the coting {@@coating?} got knocked off again, and then again until it developed in a large red sore. One week ago to day I saw Young Dr. Barber and he said that the red sore was caused by bad blood circulation and if it were tightly bandaged it would heal, he bound it very tight and it began to swell and pain. Worked Monday and suffered much and Tuesday saw Dr. Henry Sweet. Office 150 Blue Hills Av {@@Ave?} Hartford. He gave me two washes to apply one day, the other at night staid home Wednesday, went to Hartford and saw him again Thursday, said that he had got the best of the erysipilas{@@?} in it and to continue the treatment. Worked Friday and Saturday putting in foundation for Mortas{@@?} 10 H.P. and shaft in Polishing Room on South side near center. (Factory has large order for tea spoons.) To day the spot on my leg that is open is larger than {@@that} a silver dollar and red about 10" up and down and more than half way around, but is not badly swollen. 1914\12\14 (Monday) I worked at the factory this forenoon, and this afternoon at 2 went to Dr. Browns {@@Browns or Brown?} office in Citizens Bank Building and he dressed my leg. Weather very cold. 1914\12\16 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory till three this {@@thus?} afternoon when I went to Dr. Browns office and had my leg dressed. {1914}\12\17 (Thursday) Worked at the factory till three this afternoon when I went to Dr. Browns office and had my leg dressed, went to Hills in exchange place and had my hair cut, and shaved. To day the State Commissioners went over the New part{@@Part?} of the Milldale Trolley line i.e. from Hitchcocks lake to Milldale and they expect to open the road for public use next Saturday. {1914}\12\20 (Sunday) I attended Chapel this afternoon {@@-?} Rev Mr. Thompson the the first Methodist Church preached, after service a party of young {@@-?} people of which Frank was one went to Milldale on the New Trolley line which was opened to the public yesterday. Frank came home from Storrs College {@@Colleage} Friday evening to spend Christmas yesterday he drew in two loads of Cornstalks from East Farms. 1914\12\21 (Monday) This morning it snowed about three inches deep, later turned to rain. I went to work at 8. This afternoon I went to Dr. Brown and he dressed my leg, after which I went to Hotchkiss and Templetons and ordered about $900.00 worth of Atkins Tool Steel, for making dies, after which I ordered about the same amount of Jessup Tool Steel of Charles A Templeton. Frank has worked about home to day. {1914}\12\22 (Tuesday) Cold Day. Worked at factory, except time that I went to Dr. Browns and had leg dressed. Frank painted on Barn to day. This evening we attended Christmas exercises at the Chapel, about 130, Sunday School Scholars{@@Schollars}, and building filled to overflowing with parets {@@parents?} and friends, good entertainment and lots of presents. {1915}\12\23 {Wednesday} Dr. Brown dressed my leg this afternoon, after which I returned to the factory and put in Lathe sinks in "French Gray" Room. Frank painted on barn. 1914\12\25 Christmas {Friday} Frank and I raised new smoke stack on garage {@@girarge} this forenoon. Had Christmas dinner at three o'clock There were present, Mary\1/ and I.\2/ Clyde\3/ Fritzie\4/ Ruth\5/, Dick\@@6/, and Willard\7/ Irving\8/ Dorothy\9/ and Enid\10/, Margarite\11/, and @@Clif Northrop\12/, and children Marion\13/, and @@Bethe\14/. Ruth\15/ and John Brundgage{@@Brundage?}\16/. @@Frank, P Miller\17/, Raymond and Marguerite his wife are in Detroit. In the evening we had a Christmas tree which was much enjoyed by all. There{@@Ther} were also present Mr. Morton Pierpont{@@Pierepont} and Wife and two children Ralph and Paul. Mrs. Bessie Pierpont with her three children Hellen, Hazel and Marion and Mrs. Minnie Hitchcock. 1914\12\28 (Saturday) I worked at the factory till three when I went to Dr. Brown and had him dress my leg. Frank painted barn Water Closet Hen House etc. 1914\12\27 (Sunday) Cold day 17 below zero this morning. Attended service at Chapel this afternoon Dr. Davenport officiated. 1914\12\28 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day from 8 to 5.30 Frank and Charlie Welton Drew Wood Charlie Welton came at noon {@@,?} went home at 4. {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: 4 .60} {1914}\12\29 (Tuesday) Worked at the factory to day. It has stormed and Frank could not work, Charlie Welton came to tell us that he could not come because his mother had to go to town and have a tooth drawn. {1914}\12\30 (Wednesday) Frank and Charlie Welton worked __{@@in? at?} the wood Charlie worked 5 hrs {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: 5 .75} Commenced Running Making Room from 6.30 P.M. to 6.30 A.M. stopping 1.2 hr at @@Midnight 1914\12\31 {Thursday} I worked at the factory to day. Frank and Charlie Welton worked at cutting wood. [[end of 1914 entries, page 8 of journal]] [[start of 1915 entries, page 8 of journal]] 1915\01\01 {Friday} I worked at the factory to day We keep the large Corless{@@Carless?} Engine and power running night and day. My leg has broken out in another place and to night I went to see Dr. Brown at 6.15 by appointment waited one hour but he failed to come. Frank and Charlie Welton worked at wood. {Note in margin of text: 18 hours .15 __________ 90 18 ________ 2.70 } 1915\01\02 (Saturday) I worked at the factory from 7.30 to 3. when I went to Dr. Brown and{@@an} he did up my leg. I then came home as it pained me very much. Frank worked about the place. 1915\01\03 (Sunday) I stayed at home all day. This evening @@Russell Smithe hitched his horse in my wood sled and took His Wife and her sister and Mary and Frank for a @@straw {@@strow?} ride out the Cheshire up the Pierpont, and in the Meriden Roads. {1915}\01\04 (Monday) Frank left this noon for College at Storrs. I worked at the factory. This afternoon I went to Dr. Brown and had my leg dressed. {1915}\01\05 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory. Went and had leg dressed this P.M. {1915}\01\06 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory to day. Went to Dr. Brown and had leg dressed, for which I paid him @@1.00 Got watch from @@Jewelers _.__{@@1.00?} 1915\01\07 (Thursday) Very mild day snow and Ice nearly all gone Factory running 22 1/2 hours. Went to Dr. Brown and had him dress my leg{@@legs?} 1915\01\08 (Friday) I worked at the Factory to day 10 hours. Went to Dr. Browns this afternoon. {1915}\01\09 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day Had Dr. Brown do up my leg. {1915}\01\10 (Sunday) John French, Russell Hayward, @@Harry Wlitborn{@@?} Thomas Bequal, Jessie Fowler, Charlie Peterson, Dick Cosgrove and myself, with Fred Snowman this A.M. Worked at the factory putting in lathe_{@@lathes?} and rep machinery. 1915\01\11 (Monday) I had Dr. Brown dress my leg to day. The factory ceased running after nine o clock at night this day {1915}\01\12 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. Dr. Brown Dressed my leg. Received my weeks pay 30.00 {1915}\01\13 (Wednesday) Worked at the Factory 11 hours to day. Got my supper at the Chapel to night for _25{@@.25?} {1915}\01\16 (Saturday) Worked at the Factory to day as I have done every day since last Tuesday. This evening Mary and I went to see the moving {@@movering?} pictures at Princess Theater on Center Street. {1915}\01\17 (Sunday) Attended service at the Chapel Rev. Mr. Thompson of First M.E. Church Preached. 1915\01\18 (Monday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening I called at Mr. William Gillettes. {1915}\01\19 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day This evening Mary and I took supper at Irvings. {1915}\01\20 (Wednesday) This evening Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Northrop and their {@@Their} two daughters took supper at our house. {1915}\12\21 (Thursday) I worked at the factory to day. Went to Cheshire 1915\01\22 {Friday} I worked at the factory to day This afternoon Clyde and Fritzie brought little Ruth to the Waterbury Hospital{@@Haspital} from Farrington where they live, and it was discovered that she has a cancer in her stomach{@@stomack?}. {1915}\01\23 (Saturday) Worked at the factory to day. Clyde, Wife and Ruth returned to Farrington {@@RAK-- Should the previous line be indented? es} to day. {1915}\01\24 (Sunday) Worked at the factory till 10 o'clock putting new seat and Flopper Valve in 8" back pressure valve on heating system{@@sistem}. Attended Chapel this Afternoon. Mr. Hansen and Wife returned from Farrington this forenoon having gone up there Saturday with Clyde and Fritzie At the Hospital{@@Hostital} yesterday the doctors found a Sarcoma in Ruth for which they claim there is no cure. 1915\01\29 {Friday} Yesterday Mary went to Farrington and saw Clyde, Fritzie and little Ruth. Found Ruth cheerful but far from well. To day I worked at the Factory putting in 4 new Buffing lathes. 1915\01\31 (Sunday) Snowed nearly all day but only about two inches fell. Mary and little Dick staid home from the Chapel but I went. Rev. Dr. Dinsmore preac hed but few people there. 1915\03\07 (Sunday) Clydes daughter @@Ruth Florance died Friday evening at their home on Albert Street in Farrington, and was buried from there yesterday afternoon at 1. o'clock Rev. @@{@@blank space} officiating. I was the only one from Waterbury that was there@@, a quartet {@@quartette} from the Congregational Church sang, "Tell me the Old Old Story@@", and "Bright Gems for his Crown@@", there were many people there, and many Flower pieces. We took the little casket in a hack{@@?} to the train that left then at @@2.08 and came to Waterbury where @@Mr. Hanson was waiting with an Express wagon and two hacks, which we rode {@@wrode} in to Pine Grove Cemetery where the Burial service was performed {@@preformed} by Dr. Davenport. Ruth was Three years and @@{@@blank space} months old. Had been sick about two months with a Sarcoma which had attained the size of a mans{@@man's} head. 1915\06\14 {Sunday} At a meeting of the members of the Mill Plain Chapel Society at which there were about 16 present, it was voted that the agreement offered by the Pine Grove Cemetery be accepted 11 voting in @@favor of it. 1915\06\24 {@@Wednesday} Ruth and @@Agustus {@@Augustus?} of Brundage were married in the Mill Plain Chapel this afternoon at 4 o'clock by the @@Rev. Mr. Deitz of New Haven. 1916\01\31 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is January 31, 1916? es} Raymond went to work in the Overland Derby, Garage this morning. Frank worked chopping in the pasway{@@passway?} at East Farm and drew over two loads of wood. 1916\02\03 {@@Thursday} Yesterday Frank went to work out to J. Henry Garrigus cutting wood and trimming apple trees, but it came on to snow and he came home at night{@@,?} while he was there they killed Mr. Garrigus old horse. To day Frank has been drawing in logs {@@lags?} from East Farms. 1916\02\09 {@@Wednesday} The Boy Scouts came tonight {@@2 words?} and received instructions in making chain links etc. {1916}\02\10 {@@Thursday} Frank Worked at J. H. Garrigus trimming fruit trees. @@{@@blank space?} @@Estella Inson wife of Frank has bought a new house back of my old paint shop of Fred Little. 1916\02\12 {@@Saturday} Frank worked at H. H. Garrigus trimming Apple trees to day. This {@@Thid?} afternoon I was out of the factory{@@,?} as they stoped working Saturday afternoons at the beginning of this year, and I worked on a draw bar for my auto. I had Mr. Andrews draw three logs to the @@Mc Cormic saw Mill in Wolcott. it snowed this afternoon 1916\02\13 (Sunday) Snowed all day lies{@@?} about 14 inches deep Frank left for Storrs to begin his studies tomorrow, having been home about two week {@@weeks} on {@@an?} account of an outbrake {@@outbroke?} of scarlet fever at the College. Raymond came home from Derby last night. Went back this afternoon, I took the horse and @@Snow plow and went through {@@RAK-- Is "Snow" capitalized? es} the Streets on Fairlawn Manor to the Meriden Road, @@just before @@dark. 1916\02\14 (Monday) The weather to day has been cold 6 below zero this morning and now 9 P.M. 17\o/ {@@degree symbol} below. 1916\02\18 (Friday) Wednesday while cleaning out a sewer pipe at the factory I ran a rusty dirty wire into my and {@@hand?} at the lower joint of my third finger, which poisoned {@@pois_ned? poisened?} it and it swelled had{@@?} Dr. Brown do it up, but it got worse {@@wores?} and that with a grip cold forced me to stay at home yesterday, but I went to work to day{@@, punctuation?} and got along very well. 1916\02\20 (Sunday) Yesterday was cold and snowed I worked in the forenoon at the factory, in the afternoon I sent Mr. Andrews up to the saw mill in Wolcott with a big chesnut log to be sawed into 2 x 6-14' pieces, while I worked on some whiffletrees. Over 5000 left the American Brass works in Ansonia on strike Friday. To day it snowed the greater part of the time I attended service in the Chapel this afternoon Rev. Mr. Thompson preached. 1916\02\22 (Tuesday) Washingtons Birthday. I raised the flag on the pole over the Office of Rogers & Brother this morning. Raymond @@Came from Derby and got ready and left for Detroit this noon where he expects to remain three weeks and then go to Russia in the employ of the Federal Auto Truck Co who have sent many trucks to the Russian Government since the war began. 1916\02\24 (Thursday) Mary said that Dorothy telephoned to day that Irving had bought the Carlson place. 1916\02\27 (Sunday) This day has been cold and a little snow fell.{@@.?} Bettie went home to day after a stay of over one month. Mary and I went to the Chapel this afternoon. 1916\02\29 (Tuesday) Mrs. Charles Frost died last Monday morning at 4 o'clock from old age, aged 85 years. 1916\03\01 (Wednesday) I worked at the factory till noon, this afternoon, at 2. I attended Mrs. Frosts {@@Frasts} funeral. Rev. Dr. Buckley officated, services were held in the Chapel,{@@,?} the Pall Bearers were George Walker, Mark Warner, John French, Hiram J. Abel, John Gallgher, and Myself. she was buried in the family lot in Pine Grove Cemetery. 1916\03\12 (Sunday) This day I attended service at the Chapel Rev. Dr. Buckley of Trinity Church preached, there were 26 people present. The day has been cold with about 15 inches of snow on the ground. We have had 37 snow storms thus far this winter and a combined depth of seven feet and four inches @@has fallen. {@@RAK-- Please verify that "has" is correct. Not "have." Thank you. es} Last evening Mary and I went to Cheshire to an entertainment given in the Town Hall there by the Ladies Society of the Congregational{@@?} Church of Cheshire, and the Camp fire girls {@@gireles?} of Mill Plain. The entertainment was good and there was {@@were?} a number of people present from Mill Plain. 1916\03\17 (Friday) This {@@Ths?} is St. Patricks day and the coldest that I ever say, the thermometer {@@temometer?} was 9 below zero this morning at 6 o'clock and now 9 o'clock is 9 above, it has no_ {@@not?} thawed during the day, and the cold snow lies on the ground about 19 inches thick, w_e {@@we?} have @@had snow nearly every day this week which @@has made the number 43 snows this winter with a combined fall of 7 ft and @@7" inches Building operations, {@@RAK-- Both """ and "inches" are written. es} and outside business is at a standstill so far this week. The great factory of Scovills Mfg Co. is greally {@@greatly? really?} delayed, in building, as is all of their outside work. 1916\03\22 (Wednesday) It has snowed all day and tonight I plowed out the streets on Fairlawn Manor. The snow is now about three feet on the level and it has snowed nearly every day for the past week. snow that fell last November is still {@@,?} on the ground and it has been good sleighing and sliding since last November. Last night a trolley car was stalled in the snow at Hitchcosks' {@@Hitchcock's?} lake on {@@an?} the Milldate Line and had to stay there till this morning. Last Monday night a car was stalled on the New Haven line in the south part of Cheshire and the people {@@peopl} were obliged to remain in the car all night. 1916\03\26 {Sunday} Yesterday as I did not work in the factory in the afternoon I sent Mr. Andrews up to @@Mc Cormicks saw Mill with a load of logs, and after he got back at 6 o'clock we went over to Irvings with the horse and sled @@used helped him move into the Carlson place which _he {@@he?} has bought we took over six loads which took till ten o'clock. The sun shown out very bright and the now lowered about seven inches but it is hard getting about on account of the great body of snow. To day I attended service at the Chapel there were about twenty nine present, at evening I attended service at the Second Congregational {@@Cangregational?} Church. 1916\06\16 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} Mr. Russell Smith who has rented the upper floor of our house for the last three years, has notified us that he is to move out, {@@,?} on July 1st and last night we rented it to Mr. George Bacon for 12.00 per month. On June 14 Louis Jenner and Will Service were married. 1916\06\20 {@@RAK-- WHat day of the week is this? es} Raymond telegraphed from yesterday morning that he was about to leave for the front or Mexican Border with the M.N.G All of the @@C.N.G. are being held in readiness {@@rediness} at their armories. 1916\06\23 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} I left the factory to day at 11 o'clock and went to the center and saw Companies A. H. and G leave for the war there were about 4_0 {@@460?} men that got onto the train that left the station for @@Niantic via Hartford. There were about 12,000 people at the station to see them off. 1916\07\04 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} I attended the dedication of the Soldiers Monument at Wolcott 1916\07\11 {@@Tuesday?} The German submarine Dutchland arrive at Baltimore {@@Baltamore} this morning Some say that it arrived Sunday {@@RAK-- Is there a new paragraph here? es} July 9. This is the first submarine to cross the Atlantic ocean, and she brought a cargo of @@die stuffs{@@?}, of which there has {@@have?} been a great scarcity {@@scarciity} since the war began. 1916\07\16 (Sunday) This morning I took Robert Streeter and wife, and Mrs. Bessie Hart and went to Grove Street where Mrs. Streeters sister joined us and we started for Bantam Lake going through Watertown. Bethlehem, And Morris, from there {@@thers?} we went to the village {@@villege} of @@Bantam thence to @@Mt. Tom Lake to where the Boy Scouts are encamped and got Robert Streeter Jr. and we then went to the house where they are to spend their vacation on the east side of the lake, then Mrs. Hart and I went through Litchfield to Farrington and stoped at Clydes where _e {@@we?} found Mary who had came up on the cars. and we, and Clyde {@@Clyd?} Fritzie Dick, and Will got into my auto and went to Goshen where we stopped at Marion Oviatt's and Allen Vaills. We then returned to Farrington and Mary. Mrs. Hart and I came home. 1916\08\20 (Sunday) On Aug 18th Uncle Andrew Welton Goldsmith died at his home on Clay Street aged 75 years and 1 month. Last Monday @@Aug. 15, 1916 Raymond left Detroit {@@RAK-- Please note that it looks like "Aug. 15, 1916" was either inserted or used as a heading. I think it is an insertion. es} for the Mexican border there to enter the Government service, _o {@@to? so?} have charge of 8 Federal Auto trucks and drivers He and Drivers trucks {@@.?} etc @@ars {are?} sent by the Federal Auto Truck Co of Detroit Mich 1916\12\09 (Saturday) This morning Mary and I went to New York to see Raymond take Ship for Russia. We reached the Pier at @@foot of 30th St Brooklyn at @@12.30 Raymond came in an automobile about @@1.30 and we visited until @@2. o'clock when he went aboard {@@.?} but soon Returned as the time of sailing had been extended till 2.30 at which time he again {@@a_ain?} went aboard the Norwegan {@@Norweagen} Steamer @@Bergensjford, on which about 860 Passengers {@@Passingers?} sailed nearly all Norweagans {@@Norweagens? Norweagins?} and Swedes {Sweeds?}. We went outside the warehouse and waited in the rain till 3._0 {@@3.30?} when the Bergensjford forced out by two tugs started down the bay, but as it was very stormy we could not seet {@@see?} it very far. We then took the subway train over to New York and had Dinner at Childe Restaurant {@@Rest_raunt? Restaraunt?} 42nd St. and at six started for home, reached Waterbury at 9.30 and home 10.30. 1916\12\21 (Thursday) This mornings Republican Reported that the {@@.?} Bergensfjord on which Raymond sailed had arrived at Kirkwell Dec 18, 1917\01\04 (Thursday) Last Saturday Irving laft working at the Farrell Foundry & Machine Co.{@@,?} Where he has had charge of a drafting room for several years, {@@blank space} and to day he went to work at the Scoville Mfg Co where between 12 and 13,000 others work. 1917\01\21 (Sunday) To day I went by trolley to Stratford and attended Cousin Melville Curtis's {@@?} funeral. He was buried with Masonic honors {@@honars?} from the Methodist Church. Came home with Wm Gillette with Iva, Mary and Rollin {@@Rolling?} Jenner in Wills Auto. 1917\02\01 (Thursday) {@@RAK-- Please verify date. It is hard to read. es} A son David Pierpont was born to Irving and Dorothy {@@Darathy?} at the Waterbury hospital {@@haspital?} this morning {@@RAK-- Please verify the previous 2 lines. Text is difficult to read. es} 1917\02\02 (Friday) Sherbourn Rockwell, Fred Snowman, and I went to Jersey City to day to see a @@Oxey {@@Oxery?} @@Aceteline machine for cutting press Dies. 1917\03\24 (Saturday) We attended the funeral of Aunt Lizzie Somers from the house of Mr. William Gillette the burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery. She died at Monmouth Maine, aged 59{@@?} and was the wife of Benjamin Somers, now living in Prospect. {1917}\03\27 (Tuesday) We received a letter dated Jan 30, from Raymond who is in Petrograd Russia Mrs. Alexander Doolittle of Cheshire was buried in St. Peters Cemetery to day. 1917\03\28 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please verify "28." Text is difficult to read. es} To day an order came from President {@@Presdent} Woodrow Wilson calling out the Second Conn{@@?} Infantry{@@Infrantry?} Governor {@@Govoner} Holcome immediately reissued the order and at 2.45 the Fire gong sounded the Military call. {1917}\04\03 (Tuesday) This morning Cos A. G. and H. left town on a special train, their destination {@@detination?} being kept secret. To day President {@@Presdent} Wilson declaired War against Germany, but the Senate blocked {@@blacked?} it and then adjourned. {1917}\04\06 (Friday) Good Friday. {@@blank space} President Wilson signed at midnight last night the Declaration of War with Germany. 1917\05\05 (Tuesday) This is draft Registration {@@Registeration} Day and every yound man from 21 to 30 has to register {@@regerster} for the Draft that is to follow. all of the whistles {@@whisstles} in town blew this morning at seven, again at 12.30 and at 7 P.M. This noon I went to City Hall and there was a row of men that reached out of the east end of the building and along {@@afong?} Field Street and down @@Grand Street to the Bronson Library {@@Lybrary}, waiting their turn, and like crowds were at the headquarters in the other four wards. {1917}\06\10 {@@RAK-- For your information "1913" is written in the original} Mary went to Storrs {@@Stoars?} to day with Mort Pierpont, in his Automobile together {@@togather} with Bessie, and Jessie Pierpont. 1917\07\02 (Monday) Jack Brundage and Ruth with their little son Rger {@@Roger?} came this evening from Storrs to stay over night. In the morning they expedct to resume their journey to Danbury. {@@,?} by auto. {1917}\07\03 (Tuesday) T__ {@@Two? Four? Text is difficult to read} Companies of the first Regiment from Hartford encamped on the West side of the Frost Road about half way between the Meriden Road and the Red bridge over the Mad River. 1917\07\08 (Sunday) Companies {@@Copanies} A. B. C. and D of the 1st Regt ar {@@are?} encamped in the Blakeslee Lot North of my home lot on the Frost Road. The two companies above mentioned have moved down to this Camp. New Recruits are arriving {@@ariving} daily, and the Bristol Co is nearing war strength 150 men. 1917\07\20 Draft Day. Today 10.000.000 young men between the ages of 21 and 31 years of age {@@arg} are drafted to make up a great army of 650.000 men. I went down town this noon and a list of about _00 {@@700?} number were {@@was?} posted in the window of the "Evening Democrat" and there were many young men looking it over @@and some found their own number that indicated that they were drafted, they kept posting {@@pasting?} the numbers as they received them from Washington. 1917\07\21 (Saturday) Among those who are drafted in this neighborhood are Arthur Baker, of Davis St. Leroy Judd or @@Bosevelt St. @@Wm Aitchensons son of the Woodtick Road, and several others. 1917\07\22 (Sunday) To day Mary went to short Beac_ {@@Beach?} with Irvings folks. I went to Wolcott with my auto and took Mr. Fredrick Nichols the oldest living native {@@note above text: aged 84 {@@84?}} of Wolcott, Mr. Elmar Hotchkiss. Mrs. Frederick Doolittle, and Joseph Doolittle {@@Dolittle} her son all {@@oll?} of Cheshire. 1917\07\23 (Monday) The soldiers at Camp Blakesless, broke camp at 6.30 this morning and marched to the Depot and took the train for New Haven, to join the rest of the Regt. at the Yale bow_ {@@bowl?}. Those encamped at Fairlawn were Co A of Hartford. B. of Hartford C. of Middletown, and D of Bristol. The two Conn Regiments are to leave soon for Charlotte N.C. 1917{@@?}\07\24 (Tuesday) {@@RAK-- Is "1917" or "1912" written next to entry. es} Brother Fred arrived in town this noon Wm Gillette and I met him at the train He left Detroit yesterday afternoon. {@@RAK-- Is there any punctuation in the previous line? es} I wrote a letter to my son Raymond who is in Petrograd Russia. to day. 1917\07\25 (Wednesday) Received a telegram from Raymond this morning stating that he had crossed {@@crassed?} Siberia and Japan and is at San Francisco {@@Sanfrancisco?} and wished {@@wiched} me to sent @@him $250.00. Which I did by Postal {@@Pastal} telegraph {@@telegrapp?}. 1917\07\26 (Thursday) Received a telegram from Raymond to day which stated, {@@blank space?} Thanks Daddy leave for home sweet home to day. 1917\07\27{@@?} (Friday) {@@RAK-- Please verify "27." Text is difficult to read. es} This morning I took Al Whiteman, James Doran and Morris Henry and went to @@Watertown and cut and hued {@@hoed?} 2 16 ft gate poste {@@singular?}. 1917\08\10 (Friday) Raymond reached home this afternoon after stoping for several days in New York. 1917\08\13{@@?} (Monday) {@@RAK-- Please verify "13." Text is difficult to read. es} Saturday afternoon Brother Fred who came from Detroit, some time ago, @@Raymond, Mary and I went in my car to Storrs by way of Wolcott, Bristol, Plainville, Farmington, Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester Green, Bolton Notch, @@Quarryville, Coventry, Mansfield Depot, and Mansfield 4 corners, @@stayed over night, and visited Frank, and Ruth. Came home yesterday over the same route that we went up, to Plainville then Southington and Plantsville. 1917\09\03 (Monday) Last Saturday, {@@,?} at 1 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. James White, Bessie {@@.?} and Marion in their auto, and Mary, Raymond, @@Florance White and I in our auto left Mr. Whites house for Worthington, we went by way of Southington, Plainville Farmington, Avon Simsbury, @@Granby Southwick {@@Southwich?} to Westfield where we went out the Southhampton road to the solders camp, where it is said that @@25 000 men are encamped. {@@RAK--I think there is a space in "25 000." Please verify. Thank you. es} We stayed about the camp till after five o'clock when we passed through Russell, Huntington, @@Ringville, South Worthington to {@@.?} @@Mr. John Harts, where we staid over night having traveled 78 miles. In the morning after breakfast we went through the towns of Chesterfield, and @@Crummington to the old home of the poet William Cullen Bryant, then through Charlemont and @@Zohar to the East @@Portal of the @@Hoasack Tunnel {@@Tunnell?}. From there back seven miles to the Mohawk Trail and over the Hoasack mountain to North Adams, thence through Adams to Savoy, and on through @@Windsor, @@West Cummington and @@Cummington to John Harts, where we staid over night. This morning we left at 9.30 and came through @@Pery, Hindsdale, Dalton to @@Pittsfield where we had dinner. We then came through @@Lenos, Stockbridge, Sheffield, Ashley Falls, Canaan, Norfolk, Farrington, @@Harwington, @@Thomaston, to Waterbury reaching home at 5.30 having traveled @@294 and used 20 galls {@@golls?} of Gasoline. 1917\09\05 (Wednesday) This morning twelve drafted men left for Camp Devan at Ayer Mass, they are the first of 1200 drafted men to leave for the war. 12 more are to follow tomorrow The City Officials, The City Guards, Home Guards, Machine Gun Plattoon with several @@bands and a large concourse of people went to the station to see them off. {1917}\09\20 (Thursday) @@508 Drafted men left Waterbury to day for the War. They went on the @@1.15 Special train to Camp Devens at Ayer, Mass. 1917\09\24 (Monday) This morning Mrs. Frank Welton, Miss Charlotte Welton Raymond H. Miller, Mary and I started on an automobile trip which proved in @@myo 4 Cylinder 35 H.P. to be over 1300 miles __ {@@in?} Overland distance touring Car. We left Waterbury at @@7 A.M. and passed through the {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? Is "A.M." in caps? es} following places, Middlebury, Woodbury, {@@blank space} Southbury, Sandy Hook, Newtown, Danbury, where we stoped for 35 minutes, through Mill Plain, across State line, Brewster, N.Y. @@Tily Foster where we looked at the old iron mine. Middle Branch, Carmel, West Branch, Boyd Corner, @@Kents Cliff, Meads Corner Stopped for lunch at 11.3_ {@@11.35?} for 1 hour, by side of road. Then through Nelsonville, Cold Spring, {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} on-the-Hudson, @@Viewed West Point Storm King, Beacon, and ferried to Newburgh .63 cts Visited Washingtons @@Headquarters etc. and on through @@Coldenham. Montgomery, Crossed the @@Wallkil River, Bloomingburgh, High View, @@Manakating, @@Top of Shawangunk Mts. {@@,?} @@Watsbaro {@@Watsbaro?}, Rock Hill 4.50 Bridgeville, Crossed @@Neveraink River Monticello, Harris, Ferndale, Liberty, {@@.?} 5.50 where we stiad over night at Yendes Jim {@@Iim?}. Evening, saw them make sweaters. Went to moving pictures. Room #15 @@Welton #12, Ray @@Roon {@@Room?} #8. {@@RAK-- Please note that the dates are indicated in a slightly different format. The year is not always written in. The day of the week is not always written. Also, the date is not alway separated from the entry. This format is from page 41, entry for 09/25/1917, to page 49, entry for 10/06/1917. I used the same format throughout this section. es} {1917}\09\25 {Tuesday} Paid Hotel $9.00 11 galls gasoline {@@gasolene?} 3.08 Car Storage .50 Left 7.45 and {@@.?} on through Parksville, Livingston Manor, Roscoe, Crossed Beaver Kill {@@Hill?} {@@,?} Cooks Falls, @@Horton, East Branch, on Delaware River, Fisk's Eddy, Cadosia, where we looked at the R.R. Coal Storage {@@.?} yards, Hancock, Hales Eddy, @@Deposit @@Left the @@Delaware {@@,?} @@Mc Clures Settlement, Lunch 11.40-12.20 Damascus, on the Susquehanna River, Windsor, Binghampton, 1.40 to 2.30 Johnson City, Endicott, @@Vestal had blowout of tire, 3-3.20 @@Apalachin {@@Appalachian?}, @@Owego, Tioga, Smithbaro, Barton, Waverly, @@Near Penn Line, {@@RAK-- Did I insert "Near Penn Line" in the correct place? es} @@Chemring, Follwed Newton River, Lowman, (Sullivans Battlefield monument@@,) Elmira, Horseheads, Big Flats. {@@RAK-- Should the "," go after the ")?" es} 6 30 {@@6.30?} where we staid over night with a farmer Mr. R. W. @@Farr. R.D. #_ {@@1?} Elmira. {1917}\09\27 (Wednesday) Mrs. Farre $6.00 10 galls gas and all 306. {@@blank space} Left 7.20 on through Corning, which was all decorated, soldiers leaving for the war. {@@., ,, or blank space?} Painted Post {@@Past?}, Indian Monument, @@Cohocton River{@@?}, {@@RAK-- Did I insert "Cohocton River" in the correct place? es} Coopers Plains, @@Campbell, @@Savona. Bath 9.20 Left tires to be repaired, {@@,?} then through Cold Spring, Hermitage, @@State Fish Hatcheries, Pleasant {@@Plesant Valley?}, {@@RAK-- Did I insert "State Fish Hatcheries" in the correct place? es} @@Rhe_ms {@@Rheims?} to @@Graper Hammonsport, where we stopped at the home of William Bacher, whom Ray met in Petrograd, where we had dinner, he lives on the east short, of @@Kenke Lake. Mr. Bacher, Raymond and I {@@,?} spent the afternoon at the Curtiss @@Areoplane Works and we staid that night at the Loomis House. @@Went to moving picture {@@RAK-- Did I insert the previous line in the correct place? es} {1917}\09\27 (Thursday) Paid Hotel 5.00 Car 1.00 @@Left 6.40 Returned to Bath where we had breakfast .25 each. Paid 5.00 tire repairs. Gas and oil 1.25 {@@blank space?} then through @@Keona, @@Avoca {@@Avaca?}, Wallace, @@Cohacton (where we had tire blowout@@,) Wayland {@@RAK-- Should "," go after the ")?" es} Dansville, Cumminsillve, {@@blank space?} @@West Sparta Mount Morris, @@In the Genesee Valley, (boutht _ruit {@@Fruit?} etc.) {@@RAK-- Did I insert "In the Genesee Valley" in the correct place? es} Genes_o {@@Genesco?}, @@Gen Wadsworths Estate, Avon, @@Crossed Genesee River {@@,?} had lunch side road. Caledonia, {@@RAK-- Did I insert "Crossed Genesee River" in the correct place? es} Leroy, @@Mr. G. Tughell's{@@?} farm, here we saw a large thresher working {@@RAK-- Did I insert "Mr. G. Tughell's farm" in the correct place? There is not a marker as to where to insert this phrase. es} that blew the straw out through a pipe ont_ {@@onto?} the stack. {@@blank space?} Stafford, {@@blank space} Batavia, @@Celery East Pembroke, @@Beaks {@@,?} Pembroke, {@@blank space} @@Clarence, Williamsville, @@Oik Well Towers {@@,?} Snyder, Egertsville, @@Curti_s {@@Curtiss?} Aerodrome, here we saw 10 planes {.?} go up and all kinds of stunts done in the air, 3 loops in succession and Right and left bank spirals etc. then on to Tonawanda where we staid at the Hotel Lincoln, having traveled 120 miles this day. {1917}\09\28 (Friday) Hotel 10.00 Gas oil etc 3.00 Left Tonawanda 8.15 through La Salle, to @@Niagara {@@Niagra} Falls, where we drove out on @@Goat Island, and then crossed the bridge into Canda .75 toll, went to the Factory of Wm. {@@.?} Rogers Co. {@@,?} and saw Mr. Hess. had lunch on the cliff above the whirlpool, then returned to the American side, and saw many of the sights and went under the @@Brdolvale Falls, then back to the Factory at 3.00 and Mr. Hess took his auto and we went through Victora {@@Victoria?} Park, and up on Falls View, where we had a grand view of all of the falls, {@@,?} {@@RAK-- Is "," correct? Text is difficult to read. es} then to @@Lundys Lane Battlefield, @@Monument to the Heaven {@@Heavin?} of Ontario, and to Queenstown Heights {@@Hights} battlefield, saw old Forts @@Bracks Monument etc. then through St. Davids to @@Stamford where we stiad over nighgt {@@.?} with Mr. Wm Hess {@@.?} at his farm, had fine peach orchard, peaches nice and ripe. {1917}\09\29 (Saturday) Left Mr. Hess house 8.20 and went through St. Davids, Homer, and came to the new Weland Canal now being constructed, passed over the old Canal and saw a large Yacht lowered through a lock{@@?}. through St. Catharines, Jordan {@@Jardan?}, Vineland, Beamsville {@@,?} Grimsby {@@Grimsly?}, Manufacture Ch____ {@@Cheese?} {@@,?} Winona, Fruitland, Stony Creek battlefield, large monuments,) Bartonville, {@@RAK-- Should the "," go after the ")?" es} Hamilton, 11.45 where I went to our factory @@whice {@@which?} is the "Meriden @@Bratania Co. of Canada, where Mr. David Laidlaw showed me about. Left Hamilton Ontario 1.30 and had lunch on the shore of Lake Ontario, then through Aldershot, Burlington, Port Nelson, Bronte {@@Bronts?}, Oakville, Port Credit, Toronto, to Scarboro where we staid at West Hill Hotel. They at this hotel had given lunches before we got there to 360 wounded soldiers each of which had lost {@@last?} and arm or leg in battle in France. They were brought from a hospital {@@haspital?} in Toronto where there were 1200 wounded, {@@,?} by a masonic lodge in 75 autos. We have traveled to date 609.3 miles. {1917}\09\30 (Sunday) Paid Hotel 11.25 Gas and oil 2.10 Left West Hill 9.35 through Scarboro Dunbarton, Liverpool, to Pickering where we attended service in a Presbyterian Church at 10.30 Rev. Mr. Marsh. {@@blank space?} then through Whitby, Oshawa, Bowmanville, Newcastle {@@1 word?}, Newtonville, to Welcome, {@@.?} where we staid over night with Mr. Arthur E. Lewis. address R # Port Hope Ontario {@@Ontaria?}. @@Census 1 man to 100 acres, {@@RAK-- Did I insert "Census 1 man to 100 acres," in the correct place? es} Paid Mr. Lewis 8.00 {1917}\10\01 (Monday) Left Welcome 8.10 Port Hope, Colburg, Brookside P.O. {@@blank space} @@Grafton, Colborne, Brighton, Smithfield, Tranton, Bellville. Lunch by side River @@Trent, {@@.?} Shannonville, @@Mariesville, Napanee, Gas and oil 2.30, Gasoline {@@Gasolene} 40 cts per gal. Odessa, @@Cataragris@@. {@@RAK-- Should "." be ",?" es} Kingston. Here we saw many soldiers, and there was a large camp east of the City, then on to @@Gananogue. - @@Ontario, having traveled 117.4 miles this day. Here we engaged {@@engagid?} lodging in the International Hotel. @@Gan_nogue {@@Gananogue?} is on the @@St. Laurence River opposide {@@apposite?} Clayton N.Y. at a point where the river is seven miles wide, and is dotted with the 1000 islands the view from the dock is grand, and the scenery most interesting. {1917}\10\02 (Tuesday) Paid Hotel $11.00 Left @@Gananogue{@@?} at 8.15 and passed through @@Lyn. {@@,?} beyond we had to pay 10 cts toll, then to @@Brockville {@@Brackville?} where we crossed the @@St. Laurence River into New {@@.?} York on account of poor roads. The Canada road had not been worked this year on account of the scarcity {@@scacity?} of men. River two miles {@@,?} wide Ferry @@Boat "John Webster" 2.25, came to Morristown, thence {@@RAK-- Is "Boat 'John Webster' inserted in the correct place? es} to Ogdensburg, stopped for lunch at @@12.25 at 1.25 started and passed through Waddington, where we had to make a long detour {@@deture} over very poor {@@poar?} roads, come on to the state road again and came to Messena where we saw the second largest water power plant in the world, (next to Niagra) @@The water from the @@St. Laurence {@@St. Laurince?} is taken {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} across {@@acrass?} the country in a large Canal and after pasing through the wheels is discharged into the @@Grasse River at @@Messena and emptied into the @@St. Laurence {@@St. Lawrence?} below the rapids. We then passed through Roquette River, Hogansburg {@@Hagansburg?}, Bombay, Fort Covington Center, Westville Center, Constable, to Trout River, on the boundary {@@boundry} line between Canada and the U. S. which we reached at 5.35 as no one was in the U.S. @@Custom {@@Custom} House we stoped at the tavern of Mr. Dolan, the line passing through the house. This night we had traveled 894.8 miles {@@.?} with 115. miles which we had came to day added made 1009.8 miles. {@@RAK note: paperclipped to p. 45 (3 Sept 1917) {I typed this material here after the entry for 10\02\1917 that begins on page 45. es} Hamilton is a large City of over 100.000. Robert Land was the first white man to settle there. At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War he he [@@sic] with his wife and two sons lived on the bank of the Delaware {@@Deleware} River. Being a firm @@Loyalist he, at @@a @@war meeting declared in favor of the King. On his return home, he found his house in ashes and his family gone. He then made his way to @@Niagra, and setting out with gun and ax reached the {@@RAK-- Ok to change "Niagra" to "Niagara?" Should "sic" be written next to "Niagra?" es} west end of Lake Ontario, where at Burlington Bay in 1778 he took up 500 acres of land, now covered by the City of Hamilton. The next season he planted 1 @@qt of wheat which he procured by walking _0 {@@50?} miles to _t {@@Ft.?} Niagra. He lived alone at Burlington B_y {@@Bay? Boy?} for several years having never seen a white {@@while?} woman in that locality, when one day a woman with her two sons, {@@,?} in an exhausted condition called at his door. They were his wife and sons who he had long given up for dead. At the time their home on the Delaware was destroyed she had been driven away on her return seeing blood she supposed {@@supposid?} he husband had been killed, {@@,?} she made her way to Nova Scotia with her two boys, where after suffering untold hardships, {@@,?} they wandered Westward hoping to find a home, at Niagra she learned that a Mr. Land was living at the west end of the lake, weary as they were they hastened on, with the result that the long lost {@@last?} were again united. {@@RAK-- I think that the following text is a second entry. es} To perpetuate the name and _ame {@@fame?} of @@Laura Secard who walked alone nearly twenty miles _y {@@by?} a circuitous {@@curcuitous?} {@@,?} difficult, and perilous route {@@,?} through woods and swamp {@@,?} and over mud roads to warn a British Outpost at @@De Chews Falls of an intended attack, and thereby enabling Gen Fitzgibbons of the 24th of Jun 1814 with less than 50 men, {@@,?} of her Majesty's 49th Regiment, with 15 Militia men, and a small force of 6 nations indians under Capt Wm Johnson to surprize {@@surprise} the American troops and capture Gen @@__________ of the United States army and {@@RAK-- Blank line drawn in text. es} his entire force of 547 men with 2 field {@@,?} p__ces {@@pieces? prices?}. The story is told, that in order to pass the U. S. guards, she took her pail, and told them that she must go to a spring in the woods to get the pure water for her sick husband. The picket @@detained her, while one of their number {@@mumber? mimber?} went to the house to ascertain if the man was rearly {@@really?} cisk, finding her statement true she was allowed to pass. The next day, on her return {@@,?} after a weary march of over 40 miles, she found the pail, and true to her word, filled it with spring water and took it to her sick husband. } {1917}\10\03 (Wednesday) Left Trout River at 8.05 after the @@Custom House officer had made out our pass papers on both sides of the line, and passed through Kensington, Elgin, Huntington, we saw many log houses in this country. @@De Witteville {@@1 word?}, @@Chateangay River, @@Ormestown, Bryson, here road became very bad, clay, chains on all four wheels mud to the @@running board, {@@RAK-- Please verify that "running board" is 2 words. Thank you. es} for miles. (Fenian Battle Monument on left.) Howick, English River, {@@blank space} @@St. Martine, St. Philomene, St. Isidore, (saw golden images on posts {@@pasts?} by the roadside that devout Catholic {@@Cathalic?} people kneel before. @@St. Constant, hwere we traveled by the side of the broad St. Laurence {@@,?} to @@La Prarie. St. Lambert, across Victoria Bridge 1.3 miles long .75 toll. {@@,?} patrolled {@@patroled} by armed guards {@@gards} who examined our auto, into Montreal, to Victoria Square, {@@blank space} where we staid from 2.30 to 3.15 when we recrossed {@@recrassed?} the Victoria Bridge, and passing through St. Lambert (where we got gas and oil 2.25 gas 38 cts Took King Edwards highway through La Prarie {@@blank space} Douglas Corners, @@Napierville, @@Lacolle @@P. I. {@@P. Q.?} where they took our Canadian Pass papers at the Custom House, {@@blank space?} at the Line we had a @@tire puncture, then to Rouses Point N.Y. where we staid at @@Hotel Mountgomery {@@Montgomery?}. {1917}\10\04 (Thursday) Paid Hotel $10.00 Car .50 Gas and oil 1.82 Gas 27 ctx. Left Rouses Point 8.20 wet and foggy. Came through Coopersillve, to @@Chazy {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} Landing where we took ferry across {@@acrass?} Lake Champlain 2.00 Isl La Matte, thence through Alburg, La Grange, {@@blank space?} Ladds Poi_t {@@Point?}, Grand Isl @@Keelers Bay, {@@blank space?} South Hero, aross {@@across, arass!} Sand Bar Road and Bridge, into Vermont main land, had blow out, along shore of Champlain and @@Malletts Bay to Burlington, where we had Lunch at a Restaurant {@@Restaurent}, had 4 tubes and 2 shoes repaired 5.00 stopped from 2 to 3.40 then through Shelbourn, Charlotte, North Ferrisburg, @@Furrisburg, @@Verginnes {@@Virginnes?}, New Haven @@June, to Middlebury, where we staid at the Addison Hourse. Went to Moving Pictures in evening. {1917}\10\05 (Friday) Paid Hotel 13.75 Car 1.00 Gas and oil 2.47 Left Middlebury 8.10 and came through {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} @@Salsbury, Brandon, Pittsford here we went down into a marble quarry. Rutland, Clarendon, Wallingford, South Wallingford, Danby, North Dorset, stopped {@@or stoped? difficult to read} at Marble Saw Mill East Corset, (had Lunch@@.) Manchester {@@RAK-- Should the "." go after the ")?" es} Center, Manchester, @@Sunderland, Arlington, Shaftsburg Sta. {@@,?} Shaftsbury Center, Bennington, Pownal Center, Vt. White Oak, Mass, {@@.?} Williamstown 5.15 Rained all day. here we stopped at {@@.?} the {@@RAK-- Should the previous line be a new paragraph? es} Pilgrim Inn. 1917\10\06 (Saturday) Left Williamstown 8.30 and came through Sweet Corners, South Williamstown, New Ashford, Lanesboro Pittsfield, @@Lenox Stockbridge, here we went up to the Indian Monument, and read the following The Ancient @@Byrial Place of the {@@,?} {@@RAK-- Should "Byrial" be "Burial." I think that it is copied exactly from the original so I typed it as written in the journal. es} Stockbridge Indians, 1734 {@@blank line?} The Friends of our Forefathers 1877. {@@blank line?} Then on through Houstonic, @@Van Drisinville, Great Barrington, Ashley Falls, Mass. {@@,?} Canaan, Conn, Norfolk, South Norfolk, @@Farrington, East Litchfield, Campville, Thomaston, Waterville, and Waterbury, 2.45 @@Having traveled 1.309.2 miles {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} Used 89 galls Gasoline {@@Gasolene}. Nearly 16 miles to gal. Spent 117._0 {@@117.80?} {@@RAK-- Blank page} 1917\11\08 (Thursday) Raymond H. Miller {@@Blank space?} Enlisted into the Government Service last Tuesday and was examined at the recruiting {@@recriting} station in this City. This morning he left for Fort Slocum New York there to take the final examiantion and is then to report at Wahington to serve in the Quartermasters Department. 1917\11\13 (Tuesday) We had a letter from Raymond. He still is at Fort Slocum, has had the final examination and expects his uniform yesterday the letter was written last Sunday. {1917}\11\14 (Wednesday) Received a card from Raymond, dated yesterday, and they have had orders to leave Fort Solcum {@@Slacum?} at 4 o clock to day, destination unknown. Saw Robert Beckwith in town, this noon. He told me that @@Roy Munson, Walter Mills, Fred Jones, and himself, were going to leave tomorrow morning for the war. He to enter the Navy, Fred Jones and Roy Munson the Aviation {@@Avation} Corps at Fort Sam Houston Texas and Walter Mills the Infantry at Camp Devens {@@.?} Mass. Fred Jones who has lately returned from Montreal to enlist Called this evening to bid us good bye as he is to start in the morning. 1917\11\19 (Monday) Yesterday morning mary and I went to Frank Weltons and took him and his wife and we started for Goshen. We stopped at Oakville at 10.30 and went to Church and then went to East Morris where Mary saw Lena {@@Lina?} Turkington, then on through Litchfield to Sam Ovaitts [Oviatt's] in Goshen where we had a most excellent {@@excelent} dinner, {@@,?} and we cut up half of a hog Sam bought for me of Mr. Wright of West Goshen it weighed 122 lbs at .25 per lb. {@@,?} 30.50 We then returned home by way of Farrington {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} stopping at Clydes. We received a letter from Raymond to day dated last Friday at Camp @@Meggs Washington @@D.C. He has received his uniform etc. 1917\11\@@26 (Monday) {@@RAK-- Please verify "26." Text is difficult to read. Thank you. es.} We received a letter from Raymond to day he is still at Camp Meggs Washington, {@@,?} D. C. To day at 4 P.M. I went to Lawyer {@@Lawyier} Walkers office and there met Mildred and Merritt Pierpont. {1917}\11\27 (Tuesday) Went this morning to the Probate Court Rooms in City Hall and sa_ {@@saw?} Judge Slavin. 1917\12\@@25 (Tuesday) {@@RAK-- Please verify "25." Text is difficult to read. es} @@Christma's {@@Christmas} {@@blank space} Last evening Frank came from Storrs, and staid here over night. This morning Mary and I got up about 6.30 and as I was taking care of the hares{@@?} at the barn {@@blank space?} Raymond came in clad in his uniform {@@uniforn} of olive drab, he had traveled all night from Camp Meggs Washington D. C. where for 48 hours previous he had been doing guard duty, did not know that he could come home till six last evening, we were all glad to him and much surprized {@@surprised}, {@@,?} after breakfast Ray and I got the bob sleigh out of the woodhouse while Frank shod the horse, and Frank and I took the horse and sleigh and went to East Farms and got a christmas tree, when we got back Fritzie with Dick and Willard had came {@@come?}, from her Fathers in Cheshire, and Clyde was c__ing {@@coming?} from their home in Farrington later, at 11.30 Frank took "Old John" and the two seated sleigh and went over to Irvings and got Ruth and her baby Roger, and Dorothy {@@Dorathy?} with her Children Enid and David, Jack and Irving walked over. @@Jack Brundage {@@,?} and Ruth with their son Roger came from Storrs last night and staid at Margarets over night. Soon Margaret and Cliff with their children Marion, Betty, and {@@ang?} Gene {@@,?} came, and we sat down to dinner twenty in all, it was @@in deed a good happy family. At five o'clock we had the Christmas tree all loaded {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} with present for all. Raymond took them from the tree until he had to leave at 5.45 for Camp as he must be there at @@Reville at six in the morning, it was sat to part with him as they have received sailing orders to cross to France soon. after Ray had gone Frank took his place at the tree, and passed out the remaining presents, after which the party broke up, Clyde and family started for Farrington. {@@,?} I took the old Horse and sleigh and carried Irving and his family to their home, then came back and got Margaret, Ruth, with the children Marion, @@Bettie, @@Jene, and Roger and took them to Margarets home on Beecher Av. came home and put the horse out, etc. Clyde and Family {@@.?} returned as they missed {@@mised?} their train. Thus ended this merry Christmas. 1918\01\20 {@@RAK-- I think the day of the week is Saturday for this entry. } We had a postal card from Raymond last Wednesday written Monday which stated that he was leaving Camp Meggs Washington D. C. at 9 P.M. for Hoboken he thought, to take ship for france. Last Thursday Jan 17 an order came from Washington that all of the Factories using {@@useing?} coal east of the Mississippi {@@Missippi} River should close {@@clase?} from Friday morning till next Wednesday morning, five days, to save coal. 100 ships loaded with war {@@was?} supplies are ready to sail from New York but have no coal. 1918\01\10 (Sunday) No news fromn Raymond since Jan 10th, we suppose {@@.?} that he has crossed over to France. The War is making conditions hard here all of the factories except those making war good are obliged to close {@@clase?} each Monday, and no factory can run any more hours then they did when the order first came Jan 17. The coal {@@.?} situation is getting worse, on account of the severe weather. The first snow that fell last November is still on the ground and there has been but one day that it has thawed since Christmas, and then it rained. While many mornings the thermometer {@@themometer} stood 10-12-15 and one morning 25 below zero. Many families are without coal, as there is scarcely any to be had. We were fortunate {@@fortunat} in obtaining 300 lbs yesterday. The Carroll coal Co obtained a supply and Mary engaged @@200 lbs at .55 cts per @@hd, price set by Government, and I went after it with the horse and sleigh, had to get tickets at the coal Office and then go over the River to the Car where {@@wher?} there {@@ther?} was a rush of autos, Wagons, Sleighs and men and children with hand sleds. I got my 200 lbs and by coaxing and paying the coal man procured {@@pracured?} 100 lbs more. Wood is selling from 8 to 12.00 per cord. Sugar {@@.?} can only be procured {@@pracured?} in one or two pound lots Butter 50 cts per poun_ {@@pound?} Eggs .80 and 1.00 per Dz. Flour $8.50 per 100 lbs and but little to be {@@he} had. Salt Pork .45 per lb. etc 1918\02\26 This morning 150 young men between 21 and 31 years old left for the war, they are to go to camp Davens at Ayer Mass, this makes about 3000 men who are in the service from Waterbury. 1918\03\31 (Sunday) Easter Sunday. {@@Blank space.} This morning at two o'clock according {@@accarding?} to a govenment order all clocks {@@clacks?} were to be turned one hour ahead, the purpose is to save daylight. A great battle is raging {@@rayging} in @@France, {@@RAK-- Should "France" be in lower case? Text is difficult to read. es} the Germans started an attacking drive last thursday wa week ago, and have been forcing back the British and French and on the river @@som me {@@some?} have reached a point near @@Ameans{@@?} fifty miles west of their old line of battle. 1918\04\02 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory to day. This evening {@@.?} after work I took three loads of manure out to East Farms, in a wagon that I hitch back of my auto. 1918\04\20 (Saturday) @@To boom the third Liberty Lone this @@afternoon there was the larges parade ever seen in Waterbury. The Home Guards, the City Guards, 100 Men from Camp Devens, Mass, {@@.?} 100 men of the Yale Naval {@@Navil?} Unit, the G. @@_. {@@A.?} R. The Spanish War Veterans, the Boy Scouts, the others composed the First Division. The Second Division was composed of the mothers of men in the United States Service who rode in about 150 automobiles, then came numberous Factory Floats and Factory employees, and many other Organizations I turned out with the Old Mattatuck Drum {@@RAK-- 1. Is the previous line a new paragraph? 2. There is a check mark in the margin next to the previous line. es} Band that headed the Second or Mothers Division The men present were Fifers, Charles Cass of North Farms Wallingford, Clyde A. Miller, of Farrington, Harry Buckingham, and George E. Edwards of Whigville. Bass Drummers, Henry Buckingham, and @@Irving C. Miller. {@@Blank space?} Snare Drummers, C. S. Miller, George Cass, of Wallingford, Gardener Hall of Cheshire, and Fred D. Miller, 10 men in all {@@,?} in continental {@@contentinental? contintinental} uniforms. 1918\05\03 (Friday) Came Mildren Pierpont this dy to live with us Judge Slavin of the Probate Court {@@Cort} appointed @@Mary her Guardian {@@Gardian}, and I went to Dr. Charles Beers on Bunker Hill and got her. We then went to her home on Montgomery street {@@Street?} and got her trunk and goods, and in_ended {@@intended?} to get her brother Merritt but he was out, so we returned to Dr. Beers, his wife is Mildred's half sister {@@punctuation?} after a time Merritt came and he and I, went over to Montgomery street a_d {@@and?} got his things after which we returned to the Doctors and Mildred and I came home in my automobile. 1918\05\10 (Friday) We took down the shed at Wm Gillettes that joins on the west side of the barn I had @@Albert Witeman, Ed De Mars James Doran, Hayt Simons, John French, George Goodwin and Westly Andrews to help me. We had a hard shower that delayed the work. 1918\06\01 (Saturday) Mary, Mildred Pierpont and I went to Storrs this afternoon in my auto. We went by way of Southington Plainville Farmington West Hartford Hartford, East Hartford, South manchester, @@Manchester Gran, @@Bolton Notch, @@_uarryville {@@Quarryville?}, ?Coventry, and Mansfield. Stayed over night at Ruth's and got two {@@RAK-- Should the previous line be a new paragraph? es} little pigs of Frank which he would not take any pay for and came home Sunday afternoon without a stop except one at a spring in Coventry {@@,?} where we got a drink. 1918\06\08 (Saturday) Wrote a letter to Raymond who is serving in the Machine Repair Shop #303 Quartermaster Corps, National Army, American Expeditionary Forces {@@Farces?}. His address is Army Post Office 708. 1918\06\14 (Friday) This morning Mary, I, and Mr. and Mrs. @@Gardener Hall went to Burlington to attend the @@Flagday {@@1 word?} and Graduating {@@Gradiating?} Exercises {@@.?} We went by way of Southington Plainville {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is a new paragraph. Thank you. es} Polkville to Whigville where we were @@entertained @@a{@@?} George Edwards House, {@@,?} and Where Irving soon joined us with his Auto bringing Harry Buckingham {@@Brickingham?} his Wife and Mrs. Jones. We then all went to Burlington Center and were soon joined by Charles and George Cass who came from Wallingford in their Auto. We then Played several pieces and a procession was formed composed {@@compased?} of all of the school children in the town headed by the mattatuck Drum Band We then marched around the Green @@three {@@RAK-- Is there text written in the margin next to the previous line? es} times, then went in @@to{@@?} the Church where School exercises were held and Graduation Diplomas {@@Diplamas?} were given. The members of the Mattatuck Drum Band present were George Edwards, Charles Cass, and Harry Buckingham. Fifers, {@@Blank space? } Irving Miller Bass Drummer, Gardener @@Hall, George Cass, and myself. Snare Drummers. {@@RAK-- Please note that there is a large check mark written in the margin of the previous paragraph. es} 1918\09\02 (Monday) Last Saturday Mary, Margaret, with _er {@@her?} two children Marion and Betty, and _ {@@I?} Went to Williamantic {@@Williamantis?} and saw Frank in the hospital {@@haspital?} where he is sick with the tyhpoid fever, we found him some better, we then went to _uth's {@@Ruth's?} at Storrs where we staid over night, and Sunday we went again to the hospital {@@haspital?} and saw Frank he looked better than the day before but is very thin and weak, we then went to the depot and met @@Ja__ {@@Jack?} Brundage who had came {@@come?} on the train from Hartford @@an {@@and?} he got in the auto and we went back to Ruths. After supper we visited Mr. Harry Garrigus and went toi church. Monday we left Storrs and came home, stopping at Willimantic {@@Williamantic?} to see Frank at St. Joseph's hospital {@@haspital?}. We then came to Hartford where we stopped at the State Fair for three hours and then came through Newington @@New Britan {@@New Britain?} Shuttle Meadow, Southington and home. I would here state that last Sunday was {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} the first Sunday that the Government requested that no Pleasure autos be used except in cases of necessity {@@necesesety?} __ {@@or?} m_rcy {@@mercy}. 1918\10\02 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} Wolcott Fair. @@_ {@@A?} exhibit of Curos etc. in our case Books Papers etc in another, and Minerals in the third{@@.?} 1918\10\03 (Thursday) Mildren Pierpont went to war in the Chemical Department at Benedict & Burnhams. 1918\10\04 (Sunday) No meeting at the Chapel to day as there were not enough people there. 1918\10\20 (Sunday) Meetings at the Mill Plain Chapel are {@@ar?} postponed {@@posponed? pasponed?} until further {@@farther} notice on account of the influenza {@@inflenza}. {@@RAK-- Please note that I changed "farther" to "further." es} No meetings were held in any of the Churches in Waterbury to day. Irving called last night, having just came {@@come?} from Calkvary Cemetery where about thirty of the Scovills {@@Scoville?} Mfg Co's men are employed with ab___ {@@about?} 20 other men in digging graves for the dead, he said that at dark there were still nine adults and two infants yet unburied, most of them they were laying {@@lying?} side by side in a huge trench, there are so many to be buried that auto herses are running at top speed carrying the dead to the Cemetery, and returning for more, without any service at the grave, while there are many funerals. Mildred {@@Mildered} Pierpont has been sick in bed since last wednesday. {@@. or ,?} Irvings wife and daughter are sick. Margaret, and her three children have the influenza {@@influerza?} but all are better now. 1918\10\27 (Sunday) No service in any protestant {@@prodisent?} Church in Waterbury to day on account of the @@influenza. O_er {@@Over?} 500 pe____ {@@people?} have died with it thus far this month, last monday the U. S. Employment bureau sent out a c_ll {@@call?} to the factories for 100 men to dig graves in the Calvary Cemetery, our (the International Silver Co) @@qu_ta {@@quota?} was 5 strong men, {@@,?} which we sent, these {@@these?} men @@an {@@and? on?} a pair of horses and scoop scrapes dug two trenches the @@wid__ {@@width?} @@_hat {@@that?} a coffin is long and places the bodies in side by side. Tuesday they wanted the men again. Yesterday James Doran and I killed "Old John" my old horse which I have had since 1901, {@@.?} and which was 38 years old, we dug a grave in the corn lot and led him by the side of it with the halter, blindfolded {@@1 word?} him and struck him on the forehead with the head on the ax, he fell over back down into the grave and we covered him over. This morning we turned our clocks back one hour, after having had them run one hour ahead of sun time since last March, the idea was to gain dayligh during the War, and save coal {@@Coal?} etc I liked the hour ahead best. 1918\11\11 (Monday) This morning we were awakened a little before three {@@thres?} O'clock by the blowing of whistles {whislles?}, which were sounding the @@lidings {@@tidings} of the signing of the Armistice {@@Armistace} and the cessation of hostilities and all knew that the war is at an end. I got up dressed and took my drum and marched along over @@Farlawn Manor, shouting as I passed the houses, "Turn out and meet at the school house" {@@.?} After reaching the school as no One was there I went down the Meriden Road and got Henry and Harry Buckingham, Henry with his Bass Drum and Harry with Fife and we started back to the school, soon we met about 100 men, women, boys and girls, headed by s_me {@@some?} boy scouts with two large flags and Irving drumming. We faced about and started for the center, at the corner of the Meriden Road and East Main Street a green Trolley car took us aboard and carried us to the Crosby Hight School {@@Sschool} where we got out and marched down E Main St. amid the din of whistles, blowing of horns {@@hornes}, shouting of people, clapping of tin pans, while Autos ra_ed {@@raced?} up and down the street_ {@@streets?} drawing strings of iron street {@@.?} c____ {@@cans?}, old stoves {@@stones?} and the like, and everything was in use that could make a noise, while great fires were burining in the streets, and old wagon, (and some new ones) {@@RAK-- Should "wagon" be "wagons?" es} were piled hight with lengths of pi__et {@@pikket? piket?} fence, boards, tar barrells, wood etc and drawn through the streets all ablaze {@@ablze} As we were the first parade in the center soon there were thousand_ {@@thousands?} following us, we went from the Center up Levenworth St to Grand out grand to Band, marching through cols @@of fire 1 1/2" deep that burned my shoes, the fire was scattered from a large burning truck loaded with wood and dro__ {@@droun? drawn?} by an auto, on Bank St I saw a large Gargabe can break loose from a string that was being drawn by an auto, a man seized it and thre_ {@@threw?} it up among o__ {@@our?} Auto truck load of men who were shouting and pounding @@buzsaws etc, on the corner of Center Street a half drunk orator was making a curb speech as the truck was passing, the garbage can came down over his head shoulders {@@shouldiers} and all and @@bre{@@?} him to the side walk {@@2 words?} {@@,?} we then went out East Main St to the Mill Plain School where the parade broke up and I came home ate breakfast, and went out to Cheshire in my auto with Henry and Harry Buckingham, and got Gardener Hall, and we put on our uniforms and with irving went to the corner of Prospect on {@@an?} West Main Sts where we were to drum for the division of the @@Scovills {@@Scoville?} Mfg Co. {@@,?} but they had gone before we got there, we then went over Church St. _oping {@@hoping?} to head them off on Grand, but they had passed so we fell with the Waterbury Farrell Foundry {@@,?} and Machine Cos {@@Car?} Division, as the parade was marching very fast we went down bank St (where I bust my drum,) Down South {@@RAK-- Should the "," go after the ")?" es} Main, across {@@acras?} Liberty to Baldwin in hopes to head off Scovills but they had passed, the Parade went over Liberty St to Bank, to Washington to Baldwin. At Baldwin St we fell in with the Waterbury @@_lack {@@black?} Car Division and played for them up Baldwin and out Mill to East main where there was a counte_ {@@counter?} march and we met Scovills men coming in at Hamilton ave, and glad they were to see us for they were weary with the long march and the music cheered them @@u_ {@@up?}, {@@,?} we then went u_ {@@up?} Cherry @@out Grove. In @@Willow and West Main to the Green and dismissed I suffered quite a little as I have had 7 boils and an abscess {@@abcess?} on the back of __{@@my?} ________ ____ 1958 __{@@my?} ________ ____ {@@RAK-- I can't read the text written above this line. I think that this text is to be added at the end of the line. es} 1918\11\22 (Friday) Frank came home from Storrs having been sent away with many others who were Drafted and Enlisted in the service as they are not needed on account of the war ending. We had a family gathering this evening it being the 35 anniversary of our marriage. 1918\11\25 (Monday) Frank went to work at Scovills to day driving team. {1918}\12\01 (Sunday) Frank left this noon for Wisconsin to bring back a car load of cattle for Mr. Harry Garrigus of Storrs. {1918}\12\03 (Tuesday) First Snow {1918}\12\04 (Wednesday) President Wilson ca___d {@@called?} for France. {1918}\12\06 (Friday) Second Snow {1918}\12\07 (Saturday) Went to Storrs this afternoon Mary, @@Mildre_ {@@Mildred?} Miss Jenkins and I, {@@,?} went by way of Mansfiel_ {@@Mansfield?} Station 53 miles. 1918\12\08 (Sunday) Stayed over night with Ruth, went to Church this A.M. and came home this afternoon by way of Williamantic @@63 miles{@@.?} 1918\12\11 (Wednesday) Snowed 1" {@@RAK-- Is there a comment written in the margin of the previous entry? es} 1918\12\14 (Saturday) Mr. Miner Blackman and I butchered my two red pigs to day, they were born May 1, and one weighed 155 and the other @@16_ {@@164? 169?} lbs. 1919\02\16 (Sunday) We attended the funeral of @@J. Henry Garrigus this afternoon at three in the Mill Plain Chapel. @@Rev. Mortemor {@@Mortimer?} Owen, of the Second Congregational Church officiating. I carried Hiram Abel and Warren Hitchcock out to the house, as We were to serve as pall bearers, the other three bearers were @@H. V. Warner and Samuel Wilson of Wolcott and Edwin Todd of Wolcott. Frank, Howard Garrigus, Paul Manwaring, and @@Mr. Pomroy came from Storrs this morning. Coming in @@Mr. Pomroy_{@@Pomroys?} auto from Willimantic in two hours and a quarter. Mr. Garrigus served in the Eighth Conn{@@.?} Regt for four years in the Civil War and the @@G.A.R. conducted the services at the Grave. 1919\03\30 (Sunday) This morning we set our Clocks and Watches ahead one hour to conform to the daylight saving law. We the members of the Mattatuck Drum Band are making arrangments {@@arangments} to go {@@,?} to Boaton the last of this week @@# {@@?} with the Mayor and City delegates of WSaterbury to welcome home the 102 Regt from @@France {@@.?} We expect to take about 26 men, 15 from {@@RAK-- Is the previous line a new paragraph? es} here and 11 from @@Moodus and East Hampton. We had a letter from Raymond yesterday, he is still in Sampeigne, France. 1919\04\08 (Tuesday) Last Friday at 4.40 I received a {"at"} telephone message from James White secretary to the mayor of Waterbury that the train would leave for Boston Saturday at One o'clock to welcome the 102 Regiment home. I immediately telephoned Clyde in Farrington, George Edwards in Whigville, Charles and George Cass in Wallingford and Irving telephoned Dr. Cook in Moodus {?}, and we made arrangements{arangements}, to start, two Autos for Moodus at six the next morning. Saturday morning one of the police {poliece} and one Fire department auto left for Moodus at the appointed {appainted?} time, {.} and at eleven {@@eleveven} we assembled on the varanda of Scovills club house and drummed several pieces. This was the first time that some of us had ever seen each other and played together {@@tagather}. We then marched to City Hall and after having our pictures taken marched to the Depot and took a special train for Boston. We had twenty men they were {Fifers is written in the right margin for this group} Charles Cass of Wallingford, Clyde A. Miller of Farrington, Harry Buckingham, George A. Edwards of Burlington, George J. White East Hampton Ralph Sellens " " James Phalen {all the above marked as "Fifers" in the right margin} {"Bass Drummers" is written in the right margin for this group} Henry Buckingham, John Morrow, Herman G. Gessert Will Cahill East Hampton {all the above marked as "Bass Drummers" in the right margin} {"Snare Drummers" is written in the right margin for this group} Charles S. Miller Elmer E. Ventres Moodus Frank S. Lecrenier. {@@.?} Fred G. Hefflon East Haddam, Irving Miller Joseph F. Emerson East Hampton, Howard Neal, Gardener Hall, George Cass Wallingford, {all the above marked as "Snare Drummers" in the right margin} We reached Boston about 5.30 and marched through crowded streets to the Liberty Hall on the Common, where we played several pieces, after which we were {@@wers} assigned to the Somerset Hotel on Commonwealth Ave, where we went and stayed till Monday morning as the ship was not to dock till Monday at 4 P.M. we spent Sunday, in looking about the City, went to Cambridge, through the @@museum {@@musiun} at Harvard College, over to Bunker Hill, Charlestown. The Old North Church and many other places of interest. Monday we were ordered for duty at one o'clock on the Commons and headed the Waterbury Delegation {@@Dilegation} marched to the dock, as our band had been much advertised in the Boston papers, and our loud playing attracted large crowds we had some difficulty in getting through and had to break ranks several times, we also had to stop playing several times because the {@@he} large truck horses were much frightened and some did much damage in backing into automobiles, and through plate glass windows etc and @@thrown, {@@,?} themselves down, etc At the wharf we boarded the Ferry boat John L Sullivan and sailed down the harbor to where the transport @@Agamanon lay at anchor, {@@,?} we sailed round her twice every available {@@avalable} inch of deck space was covered with men and what cheering and band playing, soon she lifted anchor and sailed up the harbor, all the other boats keeping near her, and every steam whistle blowing making a din and noise never to be forgotten. The transport landed at Commonwealth pier, and we landed at our dock after which we marched to the Commons, the crowds clapping their hands and {@@an} cheering as we passed. Our train left South Station {?} at 11 and we reached Waterbury at 4 in the morning but I did not get things all {?} fixed and the boys started for Moodus etc till after six o clock, tuesday morning. [[end of page 79. [[there are no entries for the period until April 8, 1921(!) [[which begins at the top of page 80.]] [[there are no entries between April 8, 1919 and the following]] [[there is no indication of any break in the sequence, [[from page 79 to 80 in the Journal]] 1921\04\08 To day I went to New Haven in my auto To the Governors {@@Governors} Foot Guards armory on Whiting street where I obtained eight pairs of pants and eight vests of Mr. William E. Shart {@@Short?}, paid him 10.__ {@@10.00?} Went vie Cheshire and Hamden saw much plowing done. Plum {@@Plun?} trees in blossom {@@blosson?} and the gardeners have many seeds in the Ground, Came home via Derby Ansonia and Naugatuck, saw men planting {@@,?} @@potatoes at Beacon Falls. 1921\04\14 (Thursday) I worked to day at the factory of Rogers & Bros 9 hours. Went this forenoon to City Hall and saw Town Clerk Palmer in regard to putting the East Farms Cemetery in better shape, also saw the City Engineer in regard to putting in a watering trough at East Farms{@@.?} He sent me to see Mr. Sherwood the Chairman of public Works {@@.?} who wishes me to send in a written __tter {@@letter?} describing location etc. This afternoon I notified the men who work for me that their wages were to be cut, some @@.05 cts per hr, some .10 and some more. Irving telephoned to night that he is laid off at Scovills. 1921\09\26 (Monday) To day Daniel Squares worked for me at East Farms 9 hours, {@@blank space} and @@Sam Samulson 8 hours, @@Dan and I drew stones with my ox and cart and Sam laid them for the foundation for a barn. 1921\09\27 (Tuesday) My Birthday 63 years old. @@Daniel Squares {@@Squres} worked on the foundation of my barn, drawing stones 9 hrs at .35 per hr {@@-?} 3.15 Sam Samuelson worked 8 hrs laying stones, Paid Chatfield & Chatfield for 1/2 yd Sand 1.75 Small Truck 4 Bags cement 4.00 1 @@Bbl Lime 4.75 _____ 10.50 {@@RAK-- Please note that a bracket is drawn connecting "cement" and "Lime" and pointing to "Small Truck." es} Large Truck, 2 1/2 yds Sand @3.25 8.12 _____ 18.62 1921\09\28 (Wednesday) Daniel Squares worked to day tending mason 9 hours. {@@blank space?} Sam Samuelson laid stone 8 hours. I drew stone with Jasper (the ox) {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is a new paragraph. Thank you. es} 1921\09\29 (Thursday) Dan Squires {@@Squired?} worked on foundation of BArn 9 hours. {@@blank space} Sam Samuelson Worked 8 hours. 1921\09\30 (Friday) Dan Squires worked 8 hours on foundation of barn. {@@blank space?} Paid him $15.00 to day. Due him to date, to @@_____ {@@__glet? night} 15.40 owe him .40 {@@RAK-- Did I insert the previous line in the correct place? es} Sam Samuelson worked 7 hours, am to @@pay him .50 cts per hr. 1921\10\01 (Saturday) Dan Squires worked till noon 5 hours Sam worked till noon 4 hours. Ernest Sleveland worked in the afternoon 5 hours we put up the west end, and one section of the South side of the building. 1921\10\02 (Sunday) 12 members of the Mattatuck {@@Mattacuck} Drum Band went to Watertown and played for the combined Sunday Schools of the place, which had a parade. 1921\10\03 (Monday) Sam Samuelson Worked to day 5 hours we raised one section of the barn and stoned up the spring, it rained all the afternoon. Charlie Fitgerald {@@Fitzjereld} worked 10 hours @ .35 Paid him 3.50 Paid the Hotchkiss Co for 25 lbs 4" and 25 lbs 5" spikes 2.50 Paid Chatfield & Chatfield for 2 Bags cement 2.00 1/2 @@lb_ {@@lbs? lbl} Lime 2.50 Total 4.50 {1921}\10\04 (Tuesday) Sam worked 8 hours Fitzgerald worked 9 hr {1921}\10\05 (Wednesday) Sam worked 4 hours, got through at noon. Paid 31.00 in full to date {@@dat.?} Charles Fitzgerald {@@Fitzjerald?} worked 9 hr Paid 6.30 in full, to date @@(Over) Dan Squires worked 9 hours, this P.MN. he husked 10 bushels of corn in 4 hours and cut the stalks and bount them in bundles. 1921\10\06 (Thursday) Dan Squires worked 9 hours digging potatoes. Raymond worked 10 hours. Went to work at the factory after 2 weeks vacation. @@Sherbourn Rockwell told me of Raymonds trouble and that the Company was going to oppose Compensation etc, through attorney Bronson. 1921\10\07 (Friday) Dan Squires Worked 5 hours digging potatoes. Sherbourn Rockwell, @@Mr. Walker, Raymond, and I had a conference with Attorney Nathaniel Bronson in his office to settle Raymonds {@@Raymons?} trouble, {@@blank space} it all failed. 1921\10\08 (Saturday) Albert Ascott asnd I Blasted out rocks in the upper meadow at East farms this forenoon. this P.M. We with James Doran made @@Conorote Fence posts. Paid Albert 3.00 James 1.50 {1921}\10\09 (Sunday) Went to the Mill Plain Church this A.M. Heard @@Rev. Mr. Dry preach. This P.M. I went to Wolcott and paid Homer Atkins, Carl Moulthrop, and @@H. A. Norton for drumming at the Wolcott Fair. 3.16 each. 1921\10\10 (Monday) Worked 8 hours at Factory J International Silver Co. equiping the new plating @@room. Had the Left rear spring of my auto repaired by @@Mr. Perriault paid 4.75 Paid Irving @@2.00 for making plans for my barn. Bought of Ziglatzki-Marks Co. 5 gals linseed oil 5.00 @@1-3" Wall Brush .75 50 lbs Atlantic Lead 6.25 1/2 gal @@turps @@.40 1 @@pt Brown Japan 50 ______ 13.10 ___{@@?} 21 ______ @@12.89 {1921}\10\11 (Tuesday) I worked at the factory equiping the plating room. The Mattatuck Drum Band had its regular weekly {@@weekley} meeting this evening. The Sunday School teachers met this evening at Irvings hourse and gave Mildred a shower. {1921}\10\12 (Wednesday) I Bought 5 gals of Morto oil of @@Maltby Bros for 4.00 also 1 gal of {@@.?} Kerosene for @@.20 Paid Raymond 4.00 for work last week. Paid Mildren @@.50 for ticket to supper at church Friday evening. 1921\10\13 (Thursday) Raymond worked 10 hours out to East Farms Painting the Farm Gates and the Cemetery {@@Cemetary} fence. I paid the @@Malbty Garage {@@Girage} 7.13 for repairing my auto. Paid William Pritchard 10.00 for wood. 1921\10\14 (Friday) I worked at the factory 8 hours. Bought of Ziglatzki & Marks Co 1-3 1/2" flat Paint Brush 1.90 less 10%=1.71 and 50 lbs of Atlantic Lead @@6.25 = 7.95 @@_{@@%?} = 7.80 Raymond worked @@9 hours painting the Cemetery {@@Cemetary} fence at East Farms. {1921}\10\15 (Saturday) I worked this A.M. at the Factory{@@.?} James Doran worked Painting fence at East Farms 10 hr paid him 3.00 This afternoon @@Albert A_cott {@@Ascott?} helped me blast, {@@,?} at East Farms and helped me fix my auto this evening paid him 2.00 Ray painted at East Farms 10 hr. 1921\10\16 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church this forenoon. After dinner mary and I went to Charlie Tuttles at Woodtick I paid him 3.16 for drumming at the Wolcott Fair. Then went to Arthur Harrisons and paid him 6.96 for drumming at the Wolcott Fair Sept 16th and for drumming at Manchester Sept 17, then went to @@Newell Moulthrop_{@@?} on S Elm St in Bristol and paid him 3.16 for drumming at the Wolcott Fair, then to Whigville and paid him 3.80 for drumming at Manchester, then came home {@@hom?} via Wolcott. {1921}\10\@@17 (Monday) James Doran worked painting the Fence at East Farms 8 hours. Raymond attended the hearing before the compensation Commissioner to day. {1921}\10\18 (Tuesday) Raymond painted the cemetery fence @@9 1/2 hours to day. James Doran painted the fence posts @@9 1/2 @@hr{@@hrs.?} at East Farms. Bought 5 gals oil @@5.00 1921\10\19 (Wednesday) I worked 10 hours in factory Raymond worked 10 hours @@at Painting Cemetery Fence. East Farms. {@@RAK-- Did I type the previous line correctly? Should it be: "Painting Cemetery Fence at East Farms." Please advise. es} James Doran worked 9 1/2 hr at @@" " {@@RAK-- I think that the " " " " symbols indicate "East Farms." es} Paid Ziglatzki & Marks 50 lgs Lead 6.25 " Charles Penniman, Rep Battery etc 2.50 " Warren B. Hitchcock for wood 6.00 @@{1921}\10\20 (Thursday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1920" is written as the year for this entry. es} It rained all day @@J__ {@@Jun? Jim?} or Ray did not work. {@@.?} 1921\10\21 (Friday) Jim worked 8 hours Ray " 9 " on Cemetery {@@Cemetary} Fence Paid M E Pierpont $75.00 for lumber. 1921\10\22 (Saturday) James Doran worked painting the fence 8 hr Paid him $12.00 tonight in full to date @@______ _______ _______ _______ {@@RAK-- I indicated the text that was underlined in the previous line. Is "Paid" underlined? es} Raymond worked @@4 hours blasting rocks etc Paid Ray 10.00 on account _________________________ {@@RAK-- Please note that the previous line is underlined. es} Albert Ascott worked {@@workedd?} this P.M. Blasting out rocks due him 2.00 {1921}\10\23 (Sunday) This afternoon I went to Woodtick got Charlie Tuttle and went up @@_o {@@to?} Brother Franks at west {@@West?} {@@RAK-- Please note that I can't read the letter before "o" on the previous line. "to" is a guess. es} Simsbury. got home about 8 P.M. {1921}\10\24 (Monday) James Doran worked painting the fence at east Farms 7 hours Ray worked 8 hours {1921}\10\25 (Tuesday) James Worked 8 hours Ray worked @@_ ___ {@@9 1/2} " Paid Raymond 19.60 in full to date. {@@RAK-- Please note that something is written above the previous line, but I can't read it. All I can read is: "Santr_a." es} {1921}\10\26 (Wednesday) James Worked 7 hours Ray Worked {@@Werked?} 9 hours {1921}\10\27 (Thursday) James Worked 9 hours Ray 9 1/2 hours. {1921}\10\28 (Friday) James Doran worked painting Raymond worked painting at the farm. 8 1/2 hr They finished all the painting to day. 1921\10\29 (Saturday) I worked at the factory 9 hours on the equipment for the plating room. 1921\10\30 (Sunday) Paid James Doran 12.00 in full for last weeks work. Attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel. Went for a ride with, {@@,?} Mary, Marion Pierpont Mrs. Garrigus, and Bessie Pierpont{@@.?} over to Marion, then to Cowpounce lake, then to Bristol stopping at @@Mr. Edward Allen's, {@@,?} then through Wolcott home stopping at Homer Atkins, and Arthur Harrisons. {@@RAK-- Is there text written at the bottom of this page? es} {1921}\11\02 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1920" is written as the year for this entry. es.} Paid Raymond 13.35 Pay in full to last Saturday night. 1921\11\07 (Monday) Raymond worked {1921}\11\08 (Tuesday) Raymond worked painting arbor etc {1921}\11\09 (Wednesday) Raymond worked. @@Rainy day. {@@RAK-- Should the text "Rainy day" go on a different line? es} Bought 5 gals of Raw Oil of Ziglatski-Marks Co @@$5.00 Started plating in the new circular _ubs {@@tubs?} this P.M. {1921}\11\10 (Thursday) Raymond worked Paid Ray on account 1_.00 {@@10.00?} {@@RAK-- Please verify previous line. Text is difficult to read? es} 1921\11\11 (Friday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "Nov" is written twice in the previous line. es} Armistice {@@Armistis} DAy. The Mattatuck DRum Band turned out in the big paragde in Waterbury Holiday {1921}\11\12 (Saturday) Ray worked 1921\11\13 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church. @@Rev. Mr. Dry. {1921}\11\14 (Monday) Ray worked __ {@@10? 16?} @@hours {1921}\11\15 (Tuesday) Ray worked Painting wagon 10 hours. 1921\11\@@16 (Wednesday) @@Raymond worked 10 hr at East Farms on barn Arthur Baker worked 8 hr " " " @@70 cts @@" {@@RAK-- Please note that I inserted a few extra spaces in the line beginning with "Raymond" in order to line up the quotation marks of the previous 2 lines. Please advise if this is ok. es} {1921}\11\17 (Thursday) @@5 @@Arthur Baker worked @@4 hours Ray Worked 10 hours. 1921\11\18 (Friday) ARthur Baker worked on the barn 8 hours Ray worked 10 hours. 1921\11\19 (Saturday) Ray worked 10 hours. Paid him 18.00 in full {@@fill} to night {@@to to night}. Arthur Baker worked _{@@4?} hours. 1921\11\21 (Monday) {@@RAK-- I think that "1921" is written twice as the year for this entry. es} Ray worked 10 hours Arthur Baker worked 8 1/2 hours {1921}\11\22 (Tuesday) Ray worked 10 hours Arthur Baker worked 8 hours. {1921}\11\23 (Wednesday) Ray worked __ {@@10? 16?} hours Arthur Baker worked __ {@@_0? 10?}} hours {@@RAK-- Is there text written in the margin next to the previous entry? es} 1921\11\24 (THursday) Thanksgiving Day The Somers Family met at all Souls Church on Hewlett Street for the Thanksgiving dinner there were 66 present. {1921}\11\25 (Friday) Raymond worked on the barn @@_ {@@0?} hours Arthur Baker worked @@_ {@@0? 6?} hours {1921}\11\26 (Saturday) Raymond worked 6 @@? hours {@@RAK-- "?" is written above "6." es} Arthur Baker worked 5 @@? hours {@@RAK-- "?" is written above "5." es} I was out to the farm this P.M. Rained very hard. At 6 P.M. Mildred Pierpont and Arthur Bird were married in the Mill Plain Church {@@Churcch} by the Rev. Laurence Dry. The Church was full. {1921}\11\27 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Went out to Bessie Pierpont in the afternoon, and saw Frank, Ruth Hazel, and @@Florenc_ {@@Florence?} Bailey start for Storrs. 1921\11\28 (Monday) Rained hard all day. {1921}\11\29 (Tuesday) @@Pay {@@Ray?} worked this afternoon, @@5 hours. Arthur Baker worked this afternoon @@4 hours {1921}\11\30 (Wednesday) Arthur Barker worked 8 hours. Ray worked 10 hours. Paid Arthur Baker @@_0.00 {@@50.00} on account. 1921\12\01 (Thursday) Arthur Baker worked on my barn 8 hours. Ray worked 10 hours. Paid Ray 10.50 for last weeks work. {1921}\12\02 (Friday) Ray Worked 10 hours Arthur Baker worked 8 hours {@@RAK-- Copy of Receipt for Payment included in journal. Receipt is dated Nov. 30, 1921. It indicates that Charles S. Miller paid Arthgur Baker, Jr. $50.00 "On account for work on barn." es} 1921\12\03 (Saturday) Ray worked 6 1/2 hours Arthur Baker worked 8 hours. {1921}\12\05 (Monday) Raymond worked 9 hours painting the barn at East Farms {1921}\12\06 (Tuesday) Raymond worked 9 hours painting the barn 1921\12\07 (Wednesday) Raymond worked 9 hours @@painted the @@horse rake etc. {1921}\12\08 (Thursday) 9 hours on @@barn {1921}\12\09 (Friday) Ray worked 9 hours paint___ {@@Painting?} on @@barn Paid Dan Squires 10.30 in full to date 1921\12\10 (Saturday) Raymond worked 5 hours painting on my house and 4 hours at farm work at East Farms. Paid him 16.20 in full to Date. Paid Ziglotzki and Marks. For 1 qt Dryers 75 75 1 glass 14 x 26 52 6 " 6 x 8 36 ___ 10% 88 8 80 ___________________ 155 1921\12\11 (Sunday) Attended Service {@@service?} at the Mill Plain Church Communion, 2 new members were admitted. {1921}\12\12 (Monday) {@@RAK-- Date is written in the journal. There is no entry. es} {1921}\12\13 (Tuesday) {@@RAK-- Date is written in the journal. There is no entry. es} {1921}\12\14 Raymond worked painting the veranda {@@varanda?} roofs, and did some work at the farm. @@8 hours {@@RAK-- Did I insert "8 hours" in the correct place? es} This evening Albert and I repaired my car. 1921\12\15 (Thursday) Went to George Benhams and got the amount of the Back taxes on the Conner lot, also visited Iva this evening. {1921}\12\16 (Friday) Ray worked 2 1/2 hours, about home. {1921}\12\17 (Saturday) Ray worked 7 hours about the house in the a.m. and he, and Albert Ascott and I sawed a big pile of wood in the afternoon. Paid Ray 5.25 for this weeks work. {1921}\12\19 (Monday) Raymond worked 9 hours {1921}\12\20 (Tuesday) Ray worked putting wood in the wood house etc 10 hour {@@hours?} {1921}\12\21 (Wednesday) Ray worked putting wood in wood house 10 hou__ {@@hours? house?} I bought the Conner lot to day @@a_{@@an? af?} Ene__ {@@Enell?} Robert of Hartford, for 400. Judge Bradstreet did the business. Paid Judge Bradstreet 6.00 for his services {1921}\12\22 (Thursday) Ray did not work to day. {1921}\12\23 (Friday) Ray Worked this afternoon. Paid Arthur Baker 23.50 if full to date. {1921}\12\24 (Saturday) {@@RAK-- The date is written in the journal, but there is no entry. es} 1922\03\11 (Saturday) I paid Albert Ascott 2.00 for grinding in the valves on my Auto etc this afternoon. Paid Charles Pennimam 29.63 for putting a new Hartford Storage Battery in my auto. Paid 1.20 for a pair of Rubbers. 1922\03\12 (Sunday) I attended service this forenoon at Mill Plain {@@.?} Union Church. Heard Rev. Mr. Dry. {@@.?} preach. This afternoon, I took Mr. and Mrs. George Benham of East Farms and went up above Waterville and saw where Frosts Bridge was washed away last week, we then went up above @@Renolds Bridge and over the new concrete road to Watertown and then {@@them?} home. Paid 1.35 for 5 galls of gasoline. " 2.00 " church. 1922\03\13 (Monday) Worked 10 hours in factory. Paid 1.00 for Blacksmith and Wheelwright. 1922\03\14 (Tuesday) Paid the Hotchkiss Company 6.84 for iron Paid The Southern New England Telephone Co 3.55 For telephone for February. Paid the Hotchkiss Co 6.20 for 5 gals of raw oil and 1 qt dryer. 1922\03\15 (Wednesday) Paid Mary 9.00 Paid Tracy Bros 2.00 for sawing and plaining drum Stock{@@stock?}. Paid 2.80 to irving for Freight on concrete @@Past {@@Post?} machine. 1922\03\17 (Friday) Paid Ziglotzki-Marks Co 3.00 for @@50 lbs of @@ventian Ped. {@@ventian Red. ?} Paid Chatfield & Chatfield 6.00 for 6 bags of Atlas @@Cement. @@___ _ ___ ________ _.60-590 {@@RAK-- I can't read the previous line. es} Paid @@Dora Egan Town Clerk 1.50 for recording {@@RAK-- Please verify previous line. Text is difficult to read. es} 2 deeds, Paid 4 car ____ _ ___ {@@.32} ___{@@cts?} {@@RAK-- I can't read the previous line. es} 1922\03\18 (Saturday) Paid Irving 20.00 for Painting the house Paid Albert Ascott 2.00 for helping to make 6 concrete Field Fence Posts {@@Pasts?}, and painting small chicken coops. Weather has been very cold. 1922\03\@@19 (Sunday) Paid 2.00 to Church. Paid @@135 {@@1.35} for Gasoline. {@@RAK-- I think that he wrote the date as March 20, 1922 and he also indicates the day is Sunday. So I labelled this entry as for March 19, 1922. 1922\03\20 (Monday) Paid 9.95 to Chandler & @@Farquhar Company of Boston for small Lathe. Paid .08 for P.O. Oorder {@@Oorder}. Paid @@.32 {@@.?} for Trolley Car Fare. 1922\03\21 (Tuesday) Paid .16 Car Fare 1922\03\22 (Wednesday) Paid .10 for 2 set screws {@@Screws?}. Paid .05 for paper of 3 oz tacks Paid .32 Car Fare. 1922\03\23 (THursday) Paid for Trolley Fare 16 cts. Irving painted the house roof to day nearly finishing it. He also repaired the pump and drain pipes. 1922\03\24 (Friday) paid .16 Trolley fare. Paid John Italian 1.50 for 3 hours work trimming grape vines. Paid Albert Ascott 2 00 {@@2.00?} for making Concrete posts {@@pasts?} 1922\03\25 (Saturday) Paid Albert Ascott 2.00 {@@or 2 00?} for helping me at the Farm draw Manure on the hill lot. Paid 16 cts Car fare. 1922\03\26 (Sunday) Paid 2.00 to Church " 1.87 for 5 galls of Gas to @@Mr. Montambeau Went to Farringford and saw Clyde, brought Dick home with us. 1922\03\27 (Monday) Irving went to work on the new @@Twon Plot School house. Paid .16 Trolley Fare. 1922\03\28 (Tuesday) Paid .16 cts Trolley care fare. {@@RAK-- ".?" es} Four boys came to learn to drum this evening. 1922\03\29 (Wednesday) Paid 32 cts for 4 Trolley car fares. Paid .50 to the Hamilton Hardware Corporation for packing my auto pump. Dick and Albert helped me tonight to draw manure (7 loads) out to the farm. Received My Pay from factory 49.50 1922\03\30 (Thursday) Paid Walter Garrigus, for the City Lumber & Coal Co @@18.00 for 2250 {@@22.50?} shingles. Paid 16 cts car fare. Ice and rain tonight 1922\03\31 (Friday) Paid @@32 Car fare {@@blank space} Took my Drum Corps Coat to Upson and Singleton to have it sent to New York to get prices of New Coats, that cost {@@cast?} 36.00 1922\04\01 (Saturday) Paid .16 cts {@@.?} car fare. Paid Mort Pierpont 2.00 for 80 ft of Chestnut boards Paid Albert Ascott 2.00 for helping cut down a large branch of the Maple trees on the Frost Rd that was broken off by the ice. 1922\04\02 (Sunday) Paid Church 2.00 " for 5 gals of gasoline at the foot of Southington Mountain 1.25 1922\04\03 (Monday) Paid Trolley 2 @@fairs 16 cts 1922\04\04 (Tuesday) Paid 2 trolley Fairs 16 cts. This evening @@Francis Kachinka {@@Rachinka?} {@@blank space} @@Firtwengler. Thoedore {@@Thoedare?} Montanbeau, {@@,?} and Arthur Bird, came to learn how to drum. {@@RAK-- Your notes are on the left hand side. There are other notes written on the right hand side. es} interleafed at p. 106 (1914-28 Journal) @@C. S. Miller Diaries MNK writing (?) 1899-1914 Who What is "MPC" M. D. C. or "MDC" 1881-1919 information @@RAK-- RAK note written along margin on right hand side of page: Blue Ruler - J. H. Miller Co Inc. Springfield MA } 1922\04\05 (Wednesday) Paid Car Fare .16 Received Rent @@1.2 00 " Pay 4_.50 {@@48.50?} = 61.50 {@@6?} Paid for Cherry Stain 27. hair Cut & Shave .50 {1922}\04\06 (Thuesday) Paid Car fare {@@far?} .32 Paid Mary 1_.00 {@@15.00} Paid Mary 15.00 {1922}\04\07 (Friday) Paid Trolley Care Fare .16 cts {1922}\04\08 (Saturday) Paid Trolley @@fare .08 Paid Albert Ascott 2.00 for helping cut up the big apple tree that grew near the North West corner of the barn at East Farms, that was broken down by the great ice storm a week ago. Paid @@Mr. Phanauf tax on Connor {@@Corner?} lot .91 cts Paid Paid George Benham " " " " 2.08 " " {1922}\04\09 (Sunday) Paid 2.00 to Church " 1.25 for gasoline over at the foot of the Southington mountain. 1922\04\10 (Monday) Paid Old Tramp {@@blank space} .50 Staid home from Factory on account of health. Dan Squires worked 1/2 day cutting brush wood.{@@.?} here, and 1/2 day cleaning up the yard. 10 hours 1922\04\11 (Tuesday) Dan Squires worked cleaning up the yard, and the rest of the day at the farm, plowed for peas, and drew Manure. 10 hours {1922}\04\12 (Wednesday) Dan Squires worked 10 hours to day. 1922\04\13 (Thursday) Dan Squires did not work to day. I trimmed the small appletrees etc. at the Farm. Received my pay 49.50 {1922}\04\14 (Friday) Good Friday. Paid the "Mc Coy Music Co. 16.00 for 4 drum heads 2 snare strainers 2 sets of snares. Worked at the farm this P.M. {@@RAK-- Is anything written next to the previous line? es} 1922\04\16 (Saturday) Daniel Squires worked to day at the farm Plainting Peas, plowing etc. Raymond helped me at the farm. Paid @@Mr. Keringdy 2.10 for 21 00 lbs of 1/2" crushed stone. Paid Mc Coy music house .25 cts for difference between a 19" and 20" drum head. 1922\04\16 (Sunday) Paid Church 2.00 {@@blank space?} 246 present at Easter service. Paid @@1 48 for 5 gals Gasoline. Mary, Raymond, Ruth, his wife and I went up to John Wakelees {@@Wakelee's?} in Wolcott. @@1922\04\17 (Monday) Dan Squires worked 6 1/2 hours Paid Dan Squires 10.00 for last weeks work 4 days. This evening I turned out with the Mattatuck Drum Band, for the @@YD men. 1922\04\18 (Tuesday) Daniel Squires worked 10 hours. 1922\04\19 (Wednesday) Daniel Squires worked 10 hours. 1922\04\20 (Thursday) Paid 1.35 for Gasoline Dan Squires worked 10. {@@.?} hours {1922}\04\21 (Friday) Dan Squires worked 10 hour_ {@@hours?}{@@.?} Paid 20 cts for cream and cake at Mill Plain Church Entertainment. Paid Charles A. Templeton 4.83 for 1/4 and 1/2 Round Iron. {1922}\04\22 (Saturday) Paid Dan Squires 13.00.{@@.?} for this weeks work. Dan Squires worked 5 hours This {@@Tis?} P.M. I worked at Irvings ploughing his gardens. 1922\04\23 (Sunday) Paid Church 2.00 Jack Brundage called this afternoon, came in his new Earl car. 1922\04\24 (Monday) Paid Fire Marshall {@@Marshall} Holland 25 cts for permit to use Explosives Paid the Hotchkiss Co 8.00 for dynamite {@@dyamite?} Exploders and 2 Dry Batteries. Paid @@John W. Gafney 4.75 for 5 bags of cement. Mildren Paid me 2.25 for one gal maple syrup. 1921\04\25 (Tuesday) Dan Squires worked 10 hours Paid .20 cts Trolley 2 fares from East Farms. {1921}\04\26 (Wednesday) Daniel Squires worked 10 hours {1921}\04\26 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please note that this second entry has the same day and date as the previous entry. es} Received Pay 49.50 @@Dan Squires {@@Sqired} worked 10 hours Paid Mary 9.00 {1921}\04\27 (Thursday) I worked alone Paid @@Stephen Kachinka 1.00 for 5 hours work this P.M. {@@RAK-- FYI-- There are a lot of marks written in the previous sentence. es} 1922\04\28 (Friday) Paid Stephen Kachinka 1.00 _ {@@5?} hrs 1922\04\29 (Saturday) Paid Stephen Kachinka _ 00 {@@2 00?} 10 hours. {1922}\04\30 (Sunday) Paid Church 2.00 Paid Irving 17.00 to Balance accounts to date. Paid 1.35 for gasoline at Notch in the Rocks. Paid .20 to Mrs. Atkins for milk. 1922\05\01 (Monday) Paid 1.45 for gas at Goshen where we went and attended the funeral of Rose Hubbard. {1922}\05\02 (Tuesday) Paid Dan Squires 10.00 in full to date. " " worked 10 hours. @@Paid {@@-?} @@Stephen Kachinka 1.00 1922\05\03 (Wednesday) Paid Stephen Kachinka _.00 {@@1.00?} Paid 1.45 for drugs. {1922}\05\04 (Thursday) Paid Stephen Kachinka {@@Kachitka} - 1.00 {1922}\05\05 (Friday) Paid S Kachinka {@@Katchitka}. .50 I Planted Potatoes in the rain this forenoon. 1922\05\06 (Saturday) Paid Andy Kachinka {@@Katchika} 1.60 " Steve " 1.00 {1922}\05\07 (Sunday) Paid Church 2.00 " for Oil and Gas 4.65 Went with my auto with a party {@@partie} of Mill Plain people to New Haven to look over the "{@@'} Church of our Redeemer@@", on Cold Spring St. {@@RAK-- Should ""," be ","?" es} {1922}\05\08 (Monday) Went to work in the Factory after being out one month. 1922\05\09 (Tuesday) Paid Mary 9.00 Paid Trolley .25 Went up to Browns in Wolcott with the boys to drum. {1922}\05\13 (Saturday) Paid Stephen Katchitka .86 } and one fife 136 " Andrew " 1.35 } {@@RAK-- Please note that the brackets on the previous 2 lines are just 1 bracket connecting the two lines. es} @@For helping me Friday evening and @@at the farm Saturday. {@@RAK-- Please verify that the "For helping ..." is indented. Thank you. es} {1922}\05\14 (Sunday) Paid the Mill Plain Church 2.00 " for 5 galls of Gasoline 1.45 1923\03\13 (Tuesday) Frank P. Miller{@@,?} stoped {@@staped} here over night and @@today {@@1 word?} went to Kent where he is to take charge of the farm connected with the Kent School. 1924\09\26 {@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} Last Tuesday after working 33 hours on the new Mill Plain Church I finished {@@finshed} putting up the 3 ton steel I Beams that support the second floor of the Sunday school building. Wm Garrigus, Ernest Cleveland, and Leland Garrigus helped me. We used a 10" x 10" yellow pine pole 36' long and [[guys etc that we borrowed @@from the Scoville Mfg Co. {@@,?} and set a @@5 ton Yale @@blocks {@@blacks?} etc borrowed from the Waterbury Brass Co. {1924}\09\24 (Wednesday) I put in concrete posts {@@pasts'} and graded in front of my house, and next day, finished grading etc. Thursday I worked at the farm cleaning the @@brush out of the Connor {@@Corner?} lot, and digging for an addition to my barn. {1924}\09\@@26 (Friday) {@@RAK-- I think that the date is the 26th, but it also looks like the 25th. Please verify that the 26th is correct. es} I sp_nt {@@spent?} at the farm digging for the barn addition. {1924}\09\27 (Saturday) Worked at the farm digging and drawing the dirt away. 1924\09\28 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev. Mr. Dry preached. after service the people went and looked over the new stone Church. The foundations are in for the Church (on North side only) and the tower, the Sunday school addition is up one story {@@stary}, and the girders are on for the second floor. This afternoon I took Rowland Jenner and Mr. Carpenter in my @@Hupmobile to Simsbury to see brother Frank. found him a little better, and able to walk about the house a little. 1924\09\29 (Monday) At midnight last night marked the beginning of standard time, and to day the factories cars and business in general started one hour later than yesterday, I was working _ut {@@out?} to the farm and it got dark so quick that I could not see in the barn to put up the tools at six o'clock. 1924\09\30 (Tuesday) This day it has rained hard all day. I have worked in the Wheel-house{@@,?} flooring over the old water-wheel pit and putting up a foundation for the Gasoline Engine. Went to town this noon and {@@ang} got paint, spi___ {@@spikes?} etc. 1924\10\01 (Wednesday) The weather to day {@@1 word? hyphenated?} has been clear and cool. this forenoon I Cleaned out the wheel house and placed the engine on its foundation and belted it to the main shaft, and belted up the drill press. In the afternoon I went out to the farm and dug 1/2 bu potatoes ans gathered a lot of corn. Mr. Morton Pierpont delivered two loads of sand, one at my house, the other @@out to the farm. {1924}\10\02 (THursday) This forenoon {@@fornnoon} I seeded the front lawn that portion of __ {it?} where I am building the new fence, then I went to the Waterbury @@Casting Co and left a pattern of a fence casting to have 10 iron one made,{@@.?} I then went to M. J. Daly & Sons and had a thread cut on one end of an 1 1/4" pipe, IU then went to the Dimes Savings Bank and drew $500.00 This afternoon I cut and stacked my field corn. This evening I carried mary to the Grange meeting, then went to Mr. James Whites house and paid Bessie 500.00 one half of the amount I pledged to build the Mill Plain Church, {@@blank space?} then went to Irvings and had him make plans for an addition to my East Farms Barn. 1924\10\03 (Friday) Went to my farm in my automobile and got the ox and cart and @@stone drag and brought them over home, and with the ox and cart wne to the stone elevator and got one ton of crushed stone. (over) then drew away the large heap of stones in the front yard, then took the ox out to the farm, {@@,?} and spent the rest of the day about the school grounds helping Irving and George Benham run the lines where the new fence is to be built. 1924\10\04 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked on the foundation stone, for the addition to my barn at East Farms. In the afternoon I picked up apples. {1924}\10\05 (Sunday) This forenoon I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, after which I looked at the new Church building. They have the Sunday School building up one story {@@storie} and are placing the floor joice on, the cellar is dug and the footinghs are in for the main Church. Mary and I took dinner with mr. James White and Bessie and marion, after which we went in my car up to the Branch Dam in the town of Morris and Bessie took a picture of the East end of the tunnel thas {@@that?} is to bring the water from the Shepang River, to the @@Br_nch {@@Branch?} @@Reservoirs, they have been {@@RAK-- Is "Reservoirs" plural? es} working there about one month {@@,?} and are in about 150 feet. From there we went to the Bantam river and took pictures of the tunnels there, they have penetrated the hills both {@@bothe?} to the East and West of the river about {@@abot} 16 or 1800 feet, they are progressing at these two entrances {@@entrences}, and at the East{@@.?} end about 15 ft every 24 hours {@@punctuation} work is going on night and day, with three shifts of men who work 8 hours each. From there we went to Woodville to the West entrance {@@enterence} Where they have entered the hill about two miles, the whole length of the tunnel is to be about seven miles. 1924\10\06 (Monday) This morning I stored away a ton of crushed stone in the wagon shed, and repaired the floor in the wheel house before breakfast, {@@,?} after which I went to the farm and cultivated about some fruit trees, then picked up apples and so 2 bushels of butter nuts. 1924\10\07 (Tuesday) Picked up apples and cut and stacked Corn to day {1924}\10\08 (Wednesday) Mary and I went to West Simsbury and saw Brother Frank, we found him a little better. {1924}\10\09 (Thursday) _ut {@@Put? Dut?} and put in the cellar 7 even bushels of good potatoes. This evening I paid Bessie White $500.00 to held build the new church at Mill Plain. {1924}\10\14 (Tuesday) Last Friday Mary, Irving,{@@,?} and wife and three children, Enid, David and John, went in my @@hupmobile to Mr. John Shermans at South Kingston R.I. near Point Judith where we staid till yesterday noon. Friday afternoon{@@.?} we went to Wakefield and did some trading. Saturday we helped Mr. Sherman draw a large seine and caught half a bushel of fish. Sunday morning Irving and I went to the @@cove at the upper end of the pond and got a bushel of oysters we then all went to the Baptist Church at Wakefield after which we went to @@Narrigansette Pier and on down to Point {@@Paint?} Judith where we looked at the Light House, Break=water {@@=?} and Life saving station etc. after which we returned to Wakefield and went to Tower Hill where we visited Mr.where we visited mr. and Mrs. Morelock, after which we returned to Salt Pond, where we had supper of Black and Flat fish, and in the evening we attended a harvest festival service in the Church at Perryville. Monday morning Irving David Enid and I got up early and rowed to the South end of Salt Pond and walked over the sand bar to the ocean front, with Black Island @@in @@front of us distant 10 miles, we walked along the beach eastward and viewed many wrecks that had been thrown {@@throwne} up by the sea{@@.?} after which we @@returned to Mr. Shermans place where Mary and Dot had breakfast for us, we then, after a time started home at noon, coming through Wakefield, @@Wickford, @@Apponang, Coventry, @@Central Villeage, @@Brooklyn, Williamantic and Hartford 134 miles. @@1925\02\16 (Monday) {@@RAK-- Is "1925" correct? Text is difficult to read. es} To day I Chopped wood on the land east of the wheel house. {1925}\02\17 (Tuesday) Went to Bristol this forenoon to the Sessions foundry Co and got 30 small castings for the fence. George Benham went with me, we went up by way of Southington and came home through @@Plymoth. This afternoon worked in my blacksmith shop and chopped fire wood. The boys met to night and practiced their drumming lesson, for the third time in as many weeks. They are John Garrigus, @@Charles Mongahan, Ralph {@@Rolph?} Pierpont, and Stephen and Andrew Kitchenka. {1925}\02\18 (Wednesday) I Choped {@@Chopped?} down trees near the Wheel house about 7 hours, went out to the farm this morning and evening and took care of my ax {@@ax?} out there, and repaired the auto steering gear. 1925\02\19 (Thursday) This morning went out to the farm and turned Jasper out and fed him {@@hin?}. Came hom na d chopped down trees the remaineder of the day. This evening I carried Mary to the Grange and I went to @@Robert Wakelees in Wolcott _nd {@@and} left $2.00 for @@Robert Jr. to pay him for fiofing in the parade Nov 11. {1925}\02\20 (Friday) Worked Chopping till 4 P.M. when I went __ {@@to?} town. {1925}\02\21 (Saturday) Helped George Benham @@saw a large chestnut tree into five @@foots lengths with my @@cross-cut {@@hyphenated?} saw {@@.?} this forenoon This afternoon I chopped down trees by the wheel house till four o'clock when I went to Wolcott and Paid @@Bement Wakelee, Robert Browne, Franklin Browne, Arthur Harrison and Chgarles @@Tutt__ {@@Tuttle?} each 2.00 for Fifing and drumming in the Armistice day parade the 11th of last Novemeber. This evening mary and I went to the moving pictures at Mill Plain Church{@@.?} 1925\02\22 (Sunday) Attended Service at Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon. This afternoon I went up an {@@and?} vosited my brother Frank at West Simsbury Mary, Howard Neal, Enid Miller, and Bessie Northrop went with us. We found Franks health improved. We went vie Southington, Plainville, Farmington, Avon, and Simsbury. 33 miles. Returned by same route. {1925}\02\23 (Monday) I finished chopping down trees by the wheel house, and cut some wood into stove length this afternoon. This evening Irving, Harry Buckingham {@@.?} and I. Represented @@Wellards {@@Willards?} painting "The Spirit of 76" at the Concarda {@@Concorda?} Singing Societies Grand Ball in The Buckingham Hall. We Led the grand March and drummed. Yankee Doodle, and Greens March. There were over 2 000 {@@2000?} people present and it is said to be the largest masquerade ever held in the City. 1925\02\24 (Tuesday) I carried out wood and piled and cut it up. Four of @@O'Conners German @@Police {@@Poliece} dogs killed and injured another of @@Mr. Hapennies chickens this morning. {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: DOGS} This evening I attended a Church Supper {@@supper?} at Grange Hall. {1925}\02\25 (Wednesday) I got out wood a_d {@@and?} cut up the small wood The boys came this evening and drummed. {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: DOGS. } A dog came into the yard and chased {@@chaised} our chickens. I with George Benham went to Hartford and called at the office of the Commissioner on Domestic Animals {@@Animats?} at 257 Capitol {@@or Capital} Ave, we saw Depute @@Dr. George E. Carvin {@@Carrvin? Carwin?}. On Feb 20, a Commissioner - with the local Dog Warden (@@Mr. Dexerix called at my house. 1925\02\26 (Thursday) It rained hard all night and until 2 P.M. to day, when it snowed for an hour and then came off very windy and colder. I went out to the farm and did the chores there at 8 o'clock as I do every morning, then came home and groundout the throtes of the big wood saw teeth, after which I went down town and did some Bank business, and trading, came home had dinner, piled wood in the wood house, and wheeled out wood the rest of the day. {1925}\02\27 (Friday) To day after chores I got out wood and put it over the fence{@@,?} and cut up quite a ___e {@@pile?} George Benhams Chimney caught @@___ _his {@@this?} _______ {@@morning?}. {1925}\02\28 (Saturday) {@@RAK-- Please verify the date for this entry. The text is difficult to read. es} @@_____ __ the last of the wood and piled it up ready to saw, _ten {@@then?} chopp_ {@@chopps?} most o_ {@@of?} _________________________________________ {@@RAK-- I can't read this line. es} is about 10 cords. We went to moving pictures a_ {at?} ________________________________ {@@RAK-- I can't read most of the previous line. es} {@@RAK-- I had some difficulty reading the text for the previous entry. es} 1925\03\01 (Sunday) I with Mary attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel this forenoon. It has stormed all the afternoon and to nigh_{@@night?} when I w___ed {@@walked?} out to the farm to put Jasper (ox) in for the night {@@,?} it rained the hardest and the wind blew the strongest that I ever knew it to {@@.?} it blew me off the concrete road several times and wet my clothes through. @@through {@@RAK-- "through" is written twice. es} I had on good hip rubber boots, and Cape Cod Fishermans rubber coat and hat. {1925}\03\02 (Monday) Chopped small wood this forenoon from 9 before that time I went out to the farm and brought the cart down from the shed {@@shead?} on the hill and put it in the barn. This afternoon I got my wood saw frame down and mounted my engine on a truck that I had made. The weather is very cold tonight. 1925\03\03 (Tuesday) This morning was raw and cold, I went {@@wen} out to @@__{@@?} farm and took care of Jasper, after which I rigged up my engine and saw and sawed wood till four o'clock when I went @@____ ____ {@@my guess: down town. es. } and bought 2 lbs of Resin and 1 lb of bees wax {@@2 words?} to make some grafting wa_ {@@was? was?} @@o_ {@@of?} This evening Andrew and Stephen Kitchenka, Ralph Pierpont, John Garrigus, and Charles Mongahan came to learn to drum. {1925}\03\04 {Wednesday} President Coolerida {@@Coolidge} was inaugurated {@@inaugerated} president of the United States to day. Many people listened to his address on thei radio {@@rodio?} sets for the first time. I sawed up my pile of wood. James Doran came after dinnr and helped me, about eleven cords in all. {1925}\03\05 (Thursday) I put up my @@sas {@@saw?} and fixtures and got ready to split wood. I also mounted my concrete mixer on the truck with the engine{@@.?} 1925\03\06 (Friday) I made two trace chains out of 1/4" iron, and two tools for grafting, sharpened picks, crow bar, @@made {@@nade?} one large S hook and two small ones, put sleigh up in the barn and did other Jobs Yesterday Lyman Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Goshen called with his new wife, they were married last Saturday at her home in Farrington, her name was @@Marie Nield. David,{@@,?} Irvings boy helped me to day. {1925}\03\07 (Saturday) I put the iron shield on the engine and concrete @@mi_er {@@mixer?} this forenoon,{@@.?} David helped This afternoon @@_{@@I?} split wood etc. {1925}\03\08 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Rev. Laurence Dry. This afternoon Irving, Dot, David, Mary and myself went to Farrington and saw @@the temporary ___________ they were @@building @@yesterday{@@,?} the @@___f of which ____ ___ ___ _______ __ _____ @@_eriouslys {@@seriously?} and @@13 that were taken to the hospital {@@RAK-- I had a lot of difficulty reading the @previous paragraph. es} 1925\03\09 (Monday) I split wood to day, this afternoon I went out to Maple @@Hill Farm and got some Baldwin apple graft @@cions. 1925\03\10 (Tuesday) I split wood all day. This evening five Boys came and took their drumming lesson. {1925}\03\@@11 (Wednesday) This morning after chores at the farm I visited George Banham, then took Mary up to Mill Plain to the Grange Hall while I got ten gallons of Gasoline for 2.50 then down to mr. George's store on East Main St.{@@,?} then Home and {@@amd?} I finished splitting wood, and I wheeled eight loads into the wood house and piled it up, after which I went down town. This evening attended a @@me_ting {@@meeting?} of the mens club at the Mill Plain Church. 1925\03\12 (Thursday) Mary and I went up to West Simsbury and staid with brother Frank while his wife went to Hartford on business, she returned at about four, and we came home, this evening mary went to the Grange. {1925}\03\13 (Friday) I wheeled wood into the woodhouse {@@RAK-- 1 word?} and piled it nearly all day. {1925}\03\14 (Saturday) This morning I went to Mort Pierponts but he was at No 2 house on the Cheshire road in front of the East Farms Burying {@@-?} ground @@_{@@:?} getting ready to put a concrete floor in the cellar, but was one man short,{@@,?} So I halped him, there were four of us, Mort and his son {@@sor?} Ralph, @@Arthur Baxter @@___{?} I, we starte_ {@@started?} at 10 A.M. stoped a_ {@@ar. an?} hour at noon and finished at 3 P.M. Ralph ran the mixer. he gave me @@Cr 2.00 Mort and I then went out to his lumber yard and got some @@plank for me to mnake a stable {@@RAK-- Should "plank?" be "planks? es} floor for which he charged {@@.?} $5.00 This evening Mary, I, and Mrs. Benham with @@with little @@George Inson went to moving {@@RAK-- Please note that "with" is written twice. es} pictures at the Mill Plain Church. {1925}\03\15 (Sunday) I attended Service at the Mill Plain Church. This afternoon I took a walk through the lots north of the land that I own at East Farms. This evening I did not attend service as I could not start my car. The Stone masons started work on the new Mill plain Church last monday as the weather now permits them to lay stone. @@1925\03\16 (Monday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1924" is written as the year for this entry. es} I put a plank floor in the stable where I keep Jasper at East Farms, did not quite finish it, after work I went down town and bought some spikes. Mary and I got Irvings talking machine this @@evening {@@RAK-- Did I type "evening" in the correct place? es} {1925}\03\17 (Tuesday) Finished the stable at East Farms, and riddled ashes all the afternoon. The boys came and drummed this evening Rained all t__ {@@the?} afternoon. 1925\03\18 (Wednesday) Drew three loads of manure up on the hill this forenoon, and painted the new stable at the farm. Ordered paint to cover my house of A B Bantley of The Stanely Chemical{@@Cemical} Co, East Berlin Conn. {1925}\03\19 (Thursday) It rained all of the forenoon I worked oiling and greasing my auto, and making fixtures for my new front fence. {1925}\03\20 (Friday) Painted all day till five o'clock on the barn at the farm. AFter 5 o'clock I went to the Hotchkiss Co on South Main St and bought 5 galls. @@Linseed oil for 7.00 {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} Mr. William Hazelhurst has bought the middle house of Morton Pierpont and moved in Wednesday @@last. {1925}\03\21 {Saturday} I painted three sides of my barn at East Farms. This evening saw pictures at Church. 1925\03\22 (Sunday) Attended service this forenoon at the mill Plain Church. This afternoon Raymond, Ruth, his wife Mary and I went to Litchfield {@@Litchfild} via Farrington, and visited with Mr. William Marsh whom I @@_ad {@@had?} not seen since 1874. This evening we attended service at the Mill Plain Church, which was well filled at the @@sining was in charge of the mens club. {1925}\03\23 (Monday) Painted on my barn all day. Mr. A. B. Benton of Westfield came this noon at the farm and brought paint to paint my house, for which I paid him 34.36 Paint made by The Stanley Chemical Co. East Berlin Conn. {1925}\03\24 (Tuesday) Walked out o the farm and fed Jasper, then came home by trolley, took my broken auto spring to Mr. Perriault on South Main St and left it to be repaired, then went to Wheeler & Norris hardware store on Center St and ordered numbers for my house 2271, then paid telephone bill @@2.95 then to Citizens Bank and got check cashed, and home and out to the farm anbd painted till 4.30 P.M. @@when I took the trolley and went and got {@@RAK-- "when" or "then. es. } the repaired spring. This evening 7 boys came to practice drumming. {1925}\03\25 (Wednesday) Put spring on my auto {@@.?} then went out to the farm. It came on and rained so I @@brough_ {@@brought?} home a load of kindling wood in the trailer and worked about home the rest of the day. 1925\03\26 (Thursday) Painted three sides of my barn the second coat. This evening I carried Mary to the grange. I then went up and saw Charlie Tuttle in Woodtick, came back at 10. and brought Mary @@___ {@@hom? home?} {1925}\03\27 (Friday) Went out to the farm this morning but as it looked like rain, I dug fence post {@@past?} holes and set fence posts{@@pasts?}, for a fence to connect the lane with the barn. {1925}\03\28 (Saturday) It has rained the greated part of the day. I worked on the front fence that we are building. This evening Mary and I went to the Mill Plain Church and saw moving pictures. {1925}\03\29 (Sunday) After {@@Alter?} breakfast I went to the farm at East Farms and took care of Jasper, and cleaned {@@claned?} the Stable as I do every day. When I came in I brought Carrie and Alice Benham, Margery Chapin, Edward Wilson and two other children and carried up to Sunday School. When I returned home I saw by th_ {@@the?} @@Sunday Republican that a Mrs. Pierce of Meriden was killed out beyond the Arch at Reedville this A.M. between 12 and 1 o'clock she and her husband were coming from @@Merid__ {@@Meriden?} and the head lights of another car they met blinded Mr. Pierce, and he ran his car into a rock and telegraph pole which caused his car to turn turtle which injured his wife so she died before they reached @@St. Maries hospital. They were followed by a Mr. Miller of Meriden who carried Mr. and Mrs. Pierce to the hospital. This evening Mary and I attended service @@at the Mill Plain Union Church. {1925}\03\30 (Monday) It has rained all day. I worked on my {@@ny?} front fence. {1925}\03\31 (Tuesday) This morning Mary and I left home at 8 o'clock and went to Simsbury to stay with my brother Frank while his wife went to Hartford to attend to some business We stoped at the farm where I did the chores, and again in Southington where I bought 10 gals of gas for 2.50 and one quart of oil for .25 cts, reached Franks at West Simsbury {@@,?} at 10. Frank and I went up in @@William Flemig's {@@Fleming's?} woods and got a long fish pole, and after dinner we went to Simsbury where I had my hair cut, paid .50 saw @@Mr. Hall about the Mattatuck Drum Band playing in Simsbury this season, went to the Atlantic @@& Pacific Tea Store where Frank bought a bag of flower and some chees, returend home and soon Gussie and Mrs. Walcourt returned from hartford, and after 4 o'clcok we left for home, which we reached at 6, we stopped at East farms and did the chores. {@@RAK-- Should "farms" be Farms? es} After supper, Ralph Pierpont, FRank, Andrew, and STeve Kitchenka, Charles Monhahan, and John Garrigus came and took a drumming lesson. 1925\04\01 (Wednesday) I wetnt out to the farm this morning and worked there all day. Cleaned out the spring, repaired the Watering trough, and built a fence. 1925\04\02 (Thursday) Worked out to the farm all day finishing up the barn. {1925}\04\03 (Friday) Finished painting the barn at the farm. This evening I went to the Better Home's Exhibit {@@Exibit} at the Armory on Field Street. {1925}\04\04 (Saturday) Got stone off the corn lot to day, have three more large ones to blast. {1925}\04\05 (Sunday) Went to the farm this morning and fed and cleaned Jasper, brought Alice and Carrie Banham in to Sunday School. Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain Church, at noon we were looking at Mort Pierponts {@@Pierpont's} bran {@@brand?} new Catillac {@@Catalac} Auto when three pieces of fire apparatus and the Hook and Ladder went up the Woodtick road We followed in my car and found the house of @@Joseph Grenier in flames, @@__{@@?} {@@RAK-- Is something written at the end of the previous line? It seems that something maybe "it" is or should be written there. es} stood on Highlawn, soon however th_ {@@the?} firemen had two streams from a hydrant @@nere {@@near?} by playing on the fire and had it under control. We then went out the Meriden Road and down Pierpont road and left the Benhams at their home, came home had dinner, after which we took Enid and started for Prospect, at the top of the mountain we over took @@David Pechard {@@Pichard?} and he went with us, near the upper Reservoir we stopped and viewed the scenery, but when we tried to go the car would not start. I tried for a time to start it but to no avail I went to a house near by and found a man who had a Hup and he started it for me we then went to Prospect Center where we saw Long island Sound, and visited the burying ground, then came to Mill Plain where @@Mr. Pechard {@@Pichard?} left us and we went out the Meriden Road and down to East Farms and put the ox in for the night, and came home had supper, and went to evening service at Mill Plain Church, it was well filled, then home. 1925\04\06 (Monday) I drilled holes in rocks and got them ready to blast where I ___ {@@___?} to palant oats, at the farm Came home at four put up two lengths of rail on the front fence, then went to the central fire station and got a License to use explosives.{@@.?} there{@@There?} has been several bush and forest fires to day. {1925}\04\07 (Tuesday) I blasted and got out rocks at the farm to day. {1925}\04\08 (Wednesday) I worked all day drawing rocks off the land. There were many forest fires to day {@@.?} I saw four burning at one time. {1925}\04\09 (Thursday) This morning @@Mr. Warren B Hitchcock @@M. {@@Mr.?} Morton E Pierpont and I went _o {@@to?} Hartford to see the State Fire Warden Austin F. Hawes, at 255 Capitol Ave. We went in mr. Pierponts new @@Catillac {@@Catalac} Car left his house at 9 and were in Hartford at 10. We tried to get Mr. Hawes to establish a fire patrol for the week end, but instead{@@.?} he wished to appoint one of us Fire Warden.{@@.?} especially myself and had the papers made out. However I would not sign them until I had seen Chief Henry Heitman of the Waterbury Fire Dept. We came home at noon and saw Mr. Heitman and as @@a__ {@@all?} was agreeable.{@@.?} I have signed the paper and returned to Hartford. Soon after noon a large fire burned the west portion of Calvary Cemetery over. Two fire companies {@@campanies?} were called to put it out. After the fire was out and the firemen gone, another fire was started across {@@acrass?} the street west of my house, and I with help put the most of it out, but soon a company {@@campany?} of firemen arrived and helped. 1925\04\10 {Friday} Good Friday This morning I repaired a hand fire pump for Morton Piertpon. Then went to East Farms to do my work at the barn. Saw a fire burning down in the South east woods. I took Mr. Pierpont's fire pump and one of mine {@@myne} and got Frank, Andrew, and Steve Kitchenka and went to work putting ou_ {@@out?} the mile long line {@@tine?} of fire. Charles Welton came and helped. We started at quarter to twelve and it took 3 hours.{@@.?} Welton atarted 1 hr later. {1925}\04\11 (Saturday) Today{@@1 word?} I filled holes where I got the stones out of the oat lot. Mary and I went to see the moving pictures at Mill Plain Church. {1925}\04\12 (Sunday) Easter This has been a fine clear day. We attended service at the Mill Plain Church, whic_ {@@which?} @@___{@@?} filled to capacity {@@capasity}, every seat taken and many standing. This afternoon I went to Wolcott to _ee{@@see?} Fire Warden Henry Norton {@@punctuation, ,?} but he had gone to Bristol. When I came home a fire was burning {@@,?} on East {@@Eest?} Mountain. @@Raymond and Warren Hitchcock had already {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} telephoned and were coming to help, I got pumps and brooms ready and we went up the old road to the @@__re {@@fire?}, a company of City Firemen were there ahead of us but we put out @@_ome {@@some?} of it after it had burned over about three acres. An other @@fi_e {@@fire?} was burning by the side of the Plank Road at the junction {@@lower case?} of Turkey Hill and BEaver Brook which we put out, this burned over about 1/2 @@acr_ {@@acre? acres?}. In the evening we attended service at the Mill Plain Chruch, at this morning service we took in 22 new members which brings the total to over 400. {1925}\04\13 (Monday) I drew manure and put it on the lot where I am to plant oats and started plowing. this evening Lew and Joe Somers came to see me about making a polishing machine. {1925}\04\14 (Tuesday) Plowed all the forenoon, this afternoon I went to the Somers Co to arrange about starting a machine for polishing thin brass strips from 1 to 2000 ft long. I then went to East Mountain and saw Mrs. Rudolph about forest fires. {@@,?} came home and went to East Farms where I did some grafting. @@1925\04\15 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1225" is written as the year for this entry. es} This morning Lewis Somers Called at eight o'clock and we went to @@Danelson {@@Danielson?} via Hartford and Willimantic to sere about some Buff wheels for polishing long brass strips. We went to the Williamsville Buff Mfg Co and brought two wheels home with us a 14" and 10" got home at about 6 P.M. having traveled 170 miles This morning I took my car to Malthys garage to be repaired, @@ths {@@this?} evening I called for it and paid 10.13 1925\04\@@17 (Thursday) {@@RAK-- Is "17" or "7" written as the date for this entry? The previous entry is for the 15th so I think that the date should be around the 17th. Also, should the entry be for Friday? es} I went to the farm this morning and worked on a fence next to Irvings land, a little after two this afternoon we saw smoke coming over the hill near the upper end of the Scott Road. I got Ralph Pierpont and Joseph Mehan and I had two boys and we went fast me in my auto and Ralph with his auto truck, up the Scott Road and found a large fire that burned over sixty acres. We went back to work and at 5.30 we saw more smoke and hastened back to where the fire was before and found a great fire raging it took till 7 o'clock to put it out. {1925}\04\18 (Saturday) I finished the fence to day. This afternoon we saw a fire at oak Rock {@@.?} to which we Frank Kitchenka, Andrew Kitchenka and I hastened, it burned over about one acre. {1925}\04\19 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church, @@Rev. Laurence Dry preached. Rained hard all the afternoon. {1925}\04\20 (Monday) Went to the farm this morning with @@Johnny {@@Johnry?} Carey tried to plow with Jasper for potatoes {@@RAK-- Is the name Johnny Carew? es} up on the hill in the @@Connor lot, but the turf was hard and we did not make out very well. We then dug away from in front of the barn doors till four o'clcok when the hard snow that was falling caused us to stop. We then went down to Cass store and bought some seed oats and grass, then to town and got some linen @@thread {@@threadl?} and came home and repaired a trace. Warren Hitchcock came and showed me a fire extinguisher that he had bought for {@@far?} 16.00 1925\04\21 (Tuesday) Wrote @@Austin F Hawes to day for @@Mrs. Rulolph {@@Rudolph?} I made a form and bent the ox bow so as to make it wider. This evening the boys came to practice drumming as they do every @@_uesday {@@Tuesday?} evening Irving and Howard Neal @@came and we went out to the @@garage {@@gariage?} and drummed till ten o'clock. 1925\04\22 (Wednesday) I cleaned up the front yard and hedge, put down some linoleum in the kitchen and spaded a portion of the garden to day. {1925}\04\23 (Thursday) Went to Irvings this morning and looked over some drawings of a polishing machine that we are designing for the Somers Co and took them down to their factory in South Waterbury, {@@.?} and looked over some of the patterns that they had made. Then went to police {@@poliece} headquarters and saw @@Chief Beach {@@Black?} about Fire Warden Business {@@bussiness?}, then to Prosecuting {@@Prasicuting} attorney James Larkin, {@@.?} and reached home at 11. had dinner and went to the farm and planted a @@_iece {@@piece?} of oats and grass seed. {1925}\04\24 (Friday) I dug away the bank North of the big barn door at the farm, to day, and dug around some of the fruit trees. 1925\04\25 (Saturday) Johnnie Carew helped me draw stones away at the farm this forenoon, Raymond came out and helped me plow turf in the Conner lot {1925}\04\26 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. After service we went over and looked the new church over, the masons have the walls up ready for the third floor. {1925}\04\27 {Monday} This forenoon I plowed turf in teh Connor {@@Conner?} lot and @@until {@@util?} 3 this P.M. when I came home got ready and went down to the spoon shop and showed Mr. Warner where the property bounds are next to Hamilton park. @@I then went down town. {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} {1925}\04\28 {Tuesday} Ploughed in the Connor lot till 11.00 o'clock when I went to the City and did some bank business, and bought 4 3/4 rope thimbles and paid telephone bill. Came home had dinner and Irving came and we @@a lot of hooks for his new fence, then to the farm {@@RAK-- Please verify the previous 2 lines. Was a word written in the margin? es} and plowed till six. This evening Ralph Pierpont, John Garrigus, Frank and Stephen Kitchenka came and practiced drumming. @@Chas Mongahan came also. 1925\04\29 (Wednesday) This morning I finished plowing turf in the Connor lot. and harrowed it, at about 3 o'clock M E. Pierpont Came and wished me to sharpen over forty machine drills and points that they were using in getting out the stone for the new Mill Plain Church. I stopped and came home bringing the ox and cart @@plow's {@@plowe's} harrow etc, and sharpened 1 doz drills and three points. This evening I attended a meeting of the mens club at the Mill Plain Church. {1925}\04\30 (Thursday) Rained all day {@@deg?} slowly. took Jasper cart etc and went to Irvings and plowed and harrowed his garden, had dinner there and loaded a barrel {@@barrell} of paint etc. Came {@@came?} home repaired the harrow, sharpened some drills went out to the farm with Jasper had supper. Went to mr. Rudolphs on East Moutain with some letters regarding setting Pine trees, etc. took Mary up to grange, went after her at 10 @@home and now to bed, wet, cold, and weary. 1925\05\01 (Friday) This forenoon I helped Irving build a new front fence at his place on the Southmaid road. This afternoon I sharpened 18 drills for Mort Pierpont then went to the farm and did the chores. This evening @@Carrie and Alice Benham called and left the old Chapel record book. {1925}\05\04 (Monday) Saturday morning Mary and I left at about 10 o'clock and went to Kent we went in my Hupmobile by way of Middlebury Woodbury {@@,?} @@Roxbury, Bridgewater, New {@@RAK-- Is there a "," in the original? Is it ok to insert a ",?" es} Milford, Gaylordsillve, and Kent, which we reached about @@1 o clock Standard time. found the family well, Frank was at work getting stones of a piece that they were plowing for potatoes. I went over to Kent Center and got two tires repaired that blew out on the trip over, but one did not hold and we went over again ater supper, and left it to have them put a new tube in. We also called at a variety store which had a very interesting assortment of goods. {1925}\05\03 (Sunday) This morning was attended Church at the Congregational edifice, after which we went down the west side of the river to see where the ice and high water had been, then home and had dinner, after which we went for a ride up to the @@Spectick ponds where @@we saw several summer camps and then went east to Warren center then north to Swifts bridge, stopping and saw Mrs. Marvin and Mr. Patterson, then down the new concrete road and home, where Frank and two men milked over 20 cows and cared for them and 7 horses, and did all the chores, after supper we went to South Kent, where he has 25 head of young cattle which he salted, in the School there, there are 40 boys, while in the School at Kent there are 260 boys. This school started in 1906 with 11 boys. {1925}\05\04 (Monday) Started for home at about 10 came the @@s_me {@@same? some?} {@@RAK-- I think the word should be "same," but it looks like "some." es} route that we went reached home at 1. P.M. 47 miles. this afternoon {@@_? @@I?} sharpened 36 stone {@@RAK-- I think that "I" is crossed out in the previous line. Please verify. es} drills for Morton E Pierpont. 1925\05\05 (Tuesday) This forenoon I mowed the lawn in front of the house and then went to East Farms and harrowed the piece where I am to plant potatoes. This afternoon I helped Irving build a fence south and west of his lot. This evening the boys came to learn to drum. 1925\05\06 (Wednesday) Took the Spring off from my Auto and took it to mr. Parriault's on South main st to have it repaired. Then went to Daily Bros and got two 1 1/2" Pipe @@Caps. Then home and sharpend 18 drills for M E. Pierpont. Then planted peas lettuce {@@lettice} and radish {@@RAK-- radishes?} in garden. After supper went out to the farms and got wormes {@@wormer?} nests off the apple trees. {1925}\05\07 (Thursday) This morning I worked about the front yard, then sharpened @@9 Compressed air stone drills and 19. {@@.?} small drills. Then went to the farm and plowed a few furrows in the garden there. {1925}\05\08 (Friday) This morning I went to he farm and plowed the garden, and got off stones. This evening, Clyde Irving, Raymond and I went to Bronsons Studio at Mill Plain and had our pictures taken. @@W {@@We?} were in full @@Continent__ {@@Continental?} uniforms with our drums and Clyde had his fife. Irving gave me the deed to his lot at east farms He is preparing {@@prepairing} to start for @@Milwaukee {@@Milwakey} next sunday noon. 1925\05\09 (Saturday) This morning I made a bin on the West side of my Blacksmith {@@Blacksmitti?} shop to hold 1/4 ton of coal. James Egan helped me all day. I then took a barrel {@@barrell} of ashes and a barrel {@@barrell} of hen manure out to the farm, came home and went to Irvings and took his trunk and family down to the depot, and started the trunk to Milwaukee {@@Milwaukie?}, so as to have it there when Irving gets there Tuesday. Came home and loaded my 18 ft ladder on the trailer and took it home, had dinner then loaded four concrete fence posts on the trailer and took them out to the farm, got Jasper hitched him to the drag and drew the stones off the lower garden, and harrowed it. {@@.?} then we got worms nest's out of the apple trees the rest of the afternoon. 1925\10\10 (Sunday) Attended service {@@servics} at Mill Plain Church. Took dinner with Irving and his family, Said good bye to Irving and he left at 1 P.M. for Milwaukee. I came home and got ready and Morton E Pierpont called for me at two {@@tuo?}, and we went and got Mr. Dry and then started out the Meriden Road and took in William Garrigus and we all started for Granville Vt and @@N.Y. in Mr. Pierponts new Catillac {@@Catalc?} Car. We went by way of Hartford, Springfield, Holyoke {@@Halyoke?} and Greenfield, where we stopped pver and had supper, 55 cts. Then on to Bernardstown where we had to detour {@@detur} to Northfield and up the East side of the Connecticut River to Brattleborough and on the Putney Vt where we stoped at 9 o'clock one night at the Putney Inn {@@Iinn}, having traveled 135 miles {1925}\05\11 {Monday} We left Putney at 5.40 this morning and drove in the rain to @@Bellows Falls where we ate breakfast at the @@Stas Restaurant {@@Restaurent}. They had a large fire in the City the night before. The Post Office building and many offices and stores {@@storis?} were burned, the ruins were still smoking We then went on through Chester, to Ludlow where we stopped for gas. While the jolly old fellow was pumping the gas into the car I tucked a ten dollar bill into his pocket to pay for it, and as soon as he leg go the pipe Mr. Garrigus put a bill into his hand, while Mr. Dry tried to put another into his other hand, and Mort had his hand full of bills to pay, but the man said "dont pay any more, my pockets are full of money already" We then traveled north through the most beautiful mountainous country I ever saw to Plymouth, the boyhood home of {@@af} President Collidge {@@Cooledge?}. Passing on the way Tyson Lake, Plymouth Pond and the vilalge of {@@af?} Tyson on through Plymouth Union to the old town Burying Ground where we visited the grave of the Presidents son Calvin who died in Washington some nine months ago. We then went up past the Church{@@.?} and the old home where his parent live oppostite {@@apposite?}, having travele_ {@@traveled?} 190 miles. Then returning passed on up the deep wooded valley to Bridgewater Corner's, where we turned west and drove over the Green Mountains to Rutland, where we stopped a short time. Then headed for Poultney. 15 miles distant passing through West Rutland, Castletown, and Fair Haven reaching Poultney at @@10.00 Having traveled 246 miles, here we found Mr. H. A. Mallot{@@.?} of the New York Consolidated State Co. He took us to their quarry south of the town where we saw large quantities of slate of all sizes and colors {@@colars?}. He also took us to another mine near Hampton. Returning we had dinner at a restaurant {@@restaurent} near the depot. We then went to the office of the @@F C. Sheldon Slate Co at Granville N.Y. and then to their large mine near @@Rupert Vt where we saw a fine lot of slate ready to ship. We then started for home passing through Salem, Cambridge, and @@Haosick Fally N.H. @@Pawnal Vt Williamstown Mass to Pittsfield where we took supper at the Wendell Hotel. Left there at 8.30 and reached home at 11.10 P.M. having traveled a total {@@?} 434 miles. {@@RAK-- Please verify the previous line. Text is difficult to read. Is there a word between "total" and "434?" Thank you. es} 1925\05\12 (Tuesday) I spent nearly all day plowing at the farm. {1925}\05\13 (Wednesday) This morning I repaired the hen coop {@@coorp?}, and sharpened a lot of {@@af?} drills and points for the Church, then went to the farm and plowed and harrowed etc, came home got ready and went to town and did several errands. This evening the boys that are learning to drum received their drums, and we went to Mr. George Browns in Wolcott all in Mr. Pierponts {@@Perponts?} truck, @@We were there joined by F. Brown, Band {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} @@R Wakelee fifers and all marched to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick, {@@.?} he drummed several pieces for us, and we then marched back, and came home. {1925}\05\14 (Thursday) I finished plowing the gardens at East Farms and dressed them with @@the weeder drew stones {@@RAK-- Is something written above "the" or is it just the "h?" es} off the @@potatoe piece @@__{@@?} {@@RAK-- I can't read the word at the end of the previous line. es} 1925\05\15 (Friday) I planted in the garden this forenoon and planted garden seeds etc. Came home at 4 and went down town and ordered a plow point of @@Plumb Bros, and bought @@some seeds. {1925}\05\16 (Saturday) John Carew and James Egan came to help me this morning. We went to the farm and planted some seeds We then went and put a sign over the entrance {@@enterance} to Maple Hill Farms. Came back and found Ray planting. Soon Mr. Dry came and wished Mary and i to go to Meriden and look at some slate roofs {@@roof's}, to leave at 12.30 which we did, got back about two, I painted the iron rail on the front fence this afternoon, and did odd jobs. 1925\05\17 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. @@Laurence {@@Lawrence?} Dry. This day was the every member @@canvass {@@canvass}, and after service I took my wife and @@Miss Aetchenson to call on several members, including Mr. Bergen in Woodtick and Miss Pickett in Middlebury. {1925}\05\18 (Monday) Johnny Carew came this morning and helped me take down the wire fence North of the barn and we loaded the posts {@@posts'?} and wire into the trailer and took them out to the farm. Soon after we arrived {@@arived} there Mr. Edson Stocking of Simsbury, Deputy State Fire Warden, Called to loo_ {@@look? @@lood?} over the 300 tract that had burned over in the South east corner of the town, he gave me 18 Fire posters 3 wire Brooms and 1 single fire pump. This afternoon we prepared {@@prepaired} the potatoe ground for planting. 1925\05\19 (Tuesday) This afternoon as I was digging potatoe holes on the Conner lot, at the time I finished at 5 P.M. Mr. Mortimer Pierpont called and wished me @@__{@@to?} go to Manchester and look at some slate roofs {@@roof's?} on a new Methodist church adn on some new large schools, he would call at 6. I hastened home and put things to rights in my garage for the Drum Band meeting this evening {@@punctuation?} and was just sitting down to supper when he called. He had his new cadillac {@@cadalac} five passenger {@@passinger} car, and his wife Jessie was with him, we went to Rev. Mr. Dry's on the Southmaid road and Mrs. Dry joined us, @@a_ {@@as?} did Mr. William {@@Willian} Garrigus on the Meriden road. We then drove to Meriden where we looked over several new roofs of @@differen_ {@@different?} patterns and colors {@@color's} of slate, then @@on to Manchester, where we saw some of the best roofs that were ever put on in Connecticut, then home which we reached at 9.30 The Mattatuck Drum Band had held their meeting and elected the following officers for the coming year Charles S. Miller, Leader, Raymond H. Miller, Assistant leader, Howard Neal Secretary and leland Garrigus Treasurer. {1925}\05\@@20 (Wednesday) I dug potatoe holes all day. This evening I attended a meeting of the following members of the Building committee at the Mill Plain Chapel to consider the @@__nd {@@kind?} of slate bo but for the Church roof Rev. Laurence Dry, M E Pierpont Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Miller, {@@,?} and Mr. W. L. Garrigus. We decided to write for more information. {1925}\05\@@21 (Thursday) I finished digging holes in the tough old potatoe lot before noon, Jame Eagan came to help me. This afternoon a man was sent from the Church to help me sharpen the air drills, at about two a telephone call was received that a fire was burning at the head of Cedar Street I took the man and James Eagan and our equipment and hastened to the place, @@the wind was blowing hard and the fire was fierce. We put it out time and again, {@@,?} but the wind started it many times, {@@,?} several houses were in danger, one company of firemen were ther. The fire was not all out safe to leave @@__{@@td?} ten o'clock at night. This evening I attended a lecture at Grange Hall given by Mr. Hawes State Fire Warden. 1925\05\22 (Friday) I sharpened drills till two o'clock when I went to town and did several errands then went to Woodtick to see Chas {@@Cha's?} Tuttle he was not @@home This evening the @@new {@@neu?} drummers came and practiced and received their uniforms, so that they could turn out with the drum Corps in Cheshire next sunday. 1925\05\23 (Saturday) I planted all of my potatoes to day, had James Eagan, and John Carew, help me. also planted in the garden at the farm and set out @@36 {@@3.6?} tomatoe plants, and hoed in my home garden. This evening we had a hard thunder shower. {1925}\05\24 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church this forenoon. This afternoon I attended the Memorial exercises at the graves of deceased soldiers at Cheshire, with the Mattatuck Drum Band. We left my place at one P.M. daylight saving time, in our own cars. The parade started at two, after placing flowers on the graves in Hillside, St. Bridgets, and St. Peters Cemeteries we marched to the Town Hall where we heard speaking singing etc, after which we went to Odd {@@Old?} Fellows hall where we had dinner. Those of the Drum Band who were present were @@(over) Major Peter Shea, Fifers, James Phalen, Franklin Browne. @@Bement Wakelee, Robert Wakelee, Andrew Kitchenka, John Sexton and harry Buckingham Bass Drummers, Ray Miller, Jerald Turtwengler, and Frank Kitchenka. Snare Drummers Charles S Miller, Stephen Kitenka, Ralph Pierpont, Charles S Tuttle, Arthur Harrison, Leland Garrigus, Charles @@Monghan, Gardner Hall, and Howard Neal. 1925\05\25 (Monday) This morning I clipped the grass in my front yard, spaded the garden. after dinner went to the farm and saw George Benhams Cow that the dogs had bitten, {@@blank space?} then dug some post holes. {1925}\05\26 (Tuesday) Last night at 10.30 as I was about to retire Mary told me that the chimney was afire. She called the firemen and we had a hard time putting it out which took till about one o'clock. This morning I went on he roof and took down the chimney that was injured by the firemen and cleaned some of the bricks. after which I put on my uniform and went to he armory at 11.30 and at twelve with James Phalen who played the fife while I drummed we marched with seven veterans of the Civil War to the Hotel Elton where the Rotary Club furnished a fine dinner and entertainment for the G.A.R. men. I then came home and worked about home. This evening we had a drum Band Meeting. 1925\05\27 (Wednesday) I worked repairing the Chimeny and sharpening stone drills to day. {1925}\05\28 (Thursday) Finished Repairing Chimney, and worked @@_____{@@about?} home {@@RAK-- Is "about" crossed out or is it smudged? es} 1925\05\29 (Friday) This forenoon I had charge of the Memorial exercises at Reedville School, and we marched to Calvary Cemetery where we placed flags and flowers on the graves of Peter mc Kenna Arthur Honner, John @@Irving/Irwing{@@?}, John E. Shoemaker, Laurence {@@Lawrence?} Leonard, James Sweeney, Thomas Walsh, and @@Patric Cushing, Veterans of the Civil War who are buried in the soldiers plot, also, James Sullivan, J.J. Carroll, George @@Lachance, Thomas Pryor, Thomas Eagen and @@Patric Hayes, who are buried elsewhere {@@elswhere?}. And the following Spanish War Soldiers, John Cunningham, @@Michel Miller, Thomas Crean @@Joseph {@@Jaseph?} Packett, Geroge Picket, and F. J. Walsh. We then marched back to the School {@@RAK- Is the previous line indented? es} house where we disbanded. In the afternoon I spoke at the East Farms School where they had very pleasing exercises, @@Recitations {@@Resitations?}, singing, etc similar {@@simular?} to those held at Reedville in the fore noon, after which we marched to the East Farms Cemetery and laid flowers and placed flags on fourteen soldiers graves, while it rained quite hard, as we left the school to go to the Cemetery the procession was @@led {@@lead?} by three Mill Plain Girl Scouts, the middle one Carrying a flag, then came four Mattatuck drummers in full uniform and one fifer. They were Ralph Pierpont, Charles Mangahan, and myself drummers and John Sexton fifer, then about forth scholars {@@schollars} bearing flags and flowers, at the Cemetery a flag was placed in the marker on the grave and flowers placed beside it after {@@aftere} which taps were sounded at each grave, and after all of the graves had been decorated @@Miss Gessert of the scouts played taps on her bugle, we then went back to the @@school house{@@2 words?}. 1925\05\30 (Saturday) Decoration day. This forenoon I helped Mr. Wm Loomis and other "Sons of Veterans" place potted plants on the soldiers graves in Calvary and East Farms Cemeteries, after which I with other members of the Mattatuck Drum Band assembled {@@assmbled} at John Price printing office on Bank St. and marched to the State Armory on Field Street where the parade formed, and we marched to the Soldiers Monument, where we played a @@durge, while they placed flowers at its base, we then marched to the new West Main St. bridge @@where {@@wher?} flowers were @@ca__ {@@cast?} on the waters, in honor of the sailors that @@lost{@@last?} their lives in the late war. We then returned to meadow St. and went to the Honor Roll, where suitable {@@suitible] exercies were held, after which {@@whitch?} we went to @@Library{@@Lybrary} Park where there was speaking, and we were dismissed. There were present Major Peter Shea. Fifers, James Phalen. Harry Buckingham. Frank Browne, @@Bement and Robert Wakelee, John Sexton and Andrew Kitchenka. Bass Drummers, Raymond Miller, John Garrigus, @@Gerald Turtwengler, and Frank Kitchenka. Snare Drummers. Charles S. Miller, Ralph Pierpont, ARthur Harrison, Leland Garrigus, Charles @@Monihan, Charles S. Tuttle, and Howard Neal. 1925\@@05\31 (Sunday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "June" is written as the month for this entry. I think that it should be "May" and typed "05" for May. es} The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Wolcott this day. We left my house in Ralph Pierponts Truck which carried the drums and in Frank @@Kitchenka's {@@Kitchenkas?}, Leland Garrigus, and My Car. At Wolcott we attended service in the Church, which was well filled, Rev. Mr. @@Toleman preached, {@@blank space?} after which we played a @@durge to the Soldiers monument, which the Sons of Veterans decorated, then to the Cemetery where service was held and flowers placed on the soldiers graves. We then marched to the Parish House where dinner was served, to all, after which the Drum Band went to the Cemetery and decorated the grave of Homer Atkins {@@blank space?} Mr. Tollman offering {@@affering?} prayer and Mr. Young making an address, after which the benediction and @@taps. Those present were {@@blank space?} Major {@@Majar?} Peter Shea. Fifers, {@@blank space?} Robert Wakelee, Frank Browne, @@Bement Wakelee, Andrew Kitchenka and John SExton Bass Drummers, {@@blank space?} Frank Kitchenka{@@,?} John Garrigus and Leland Garrigus. Snare Drum_ers {@@Drummers?} Ralph Pierpont, @@Charles Miller, ARthur {@@RAK-- Is " S" included? es} Harrison, Charles Tuttle. @@F.C. Moulthrop, and Charles Monihan. 1925\06\01 (Monday) Planted corn on the hill, finished plowing and harrowed it and furrowed it out put in hen manure and covered it {1925}\06\02 (Tuesday) Finished planting the corn and put ashes about the young apple trees and dug around them. {1925}\06\03 (Wednesday) Worked about home in the morning and went to he farm this afternoon, and strengthened the barbed wire fence east of the garden, as I was driving a staple into the fence post {@@past?} a flash of lightening {@@lighting} came and shocked me. Came home and it rained and hailed very hard, accompanied by great thunder and lightening. Attended the meeting of the annual business and eclection of officers of the Mill plain Union Chapel, this evening and I was elected a deacon to fill out the unexpired term of my son Irving who has gone to Milwaukee. @@1925\06\04 (Thursday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1924" is written as the year for this entry. es} I took my car to pieces to paint the rusty spots. At 10. Mr. Dry came and we went to M.E. Pierponts, and we Bessie Pierpont and we all a committee went to Hubbard Park and selected a suitable {@@sutible} place to hold a service, Sunday June 14th We then went to he Meriden City Hall and then to Webster st and got p@ermission from the superintendent of Parks. Reached home at @@12.30 had dinnr, went down town bought Paint etc. and to bank. Worked the rest of day on my car. 1925\06\05 (Friday) This morning Mr. Smith came and we sharpened a lot of Compressed air drills, and did other work which took till two O'clock then I worked on my car the rest of the day. {1925}\06\06 (Saturday) I worked on my car this forenoon, and this afternoon, John Sexton, Franklin Browne, Ralph Pierpont, Steve Kitchenka, and I, met about 200 Girl Scouts on the Green and we drummed and escorted them to Fulton Park. We went up Prospect Street to Grove, out Grove to Cook and up Cook to the Park, where the Girls {@@Girles} held exercises all the afternoon. {1925}\06\07 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Weather very hot 96\o/ {@@degree symbol} in shade as it has been for the last four days. After service Enis, Kenneth, David and I walked out to @@the farm. Ray and Ruth were there, and they brought us home in their Ford. 1925\06\08 (Monday) Finished repairing my car. This afternoon I went down town and bought 6 dozen flags for the Church to use next sunday {1925}\06\09 (Tuesday) Went to the Somers Co to day and worked on the polishing machine. {1925}\06\10 (Wednesday) To day Mary Kenneth Brundage and I went to Simsbury and saw my brother Frank. We found him @@much improved in health. {1925}\06\11 (Thursday) I worked at the Somers Co on the polishing machine. {1925}\06\12 (Friday) Worked at the Soemrs Co. After five I went to the farm and planted @@a lot of evergreen corn, and pop corn. 1925\06\13 (Saturday) I worked at the Somers Co on he buff machine till eleven, Came home and got ready and went to Bristol with the Mattatuck Drum Band and played in the parade of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. There were present of the Drum Band@@. Peter Shea Major. Fifers, @@Robt {@@RAbt} Wakelee, Bement Wakelee, Garry Buckingham, Frank Browne, Andrew Kitchenka, and John Sexton. Bass Drummers, Frank Kitchenka, John Garrigus, Gerald Turtwengler, and Leland Garrigus. Snare Drummers, Chas Miller, Ralph Pierpont, Stephen @@Kitchenka Arthur Harrison, Charles Tuttle Howard Neal, and Charles Monahan. {1925}\06\14 (Sunday) To day the Mill Plain Union Church, went to Hubbard Park in Meriden in 50 Automobiles and held service on the east shore {@@shard?} of the long lake at the north end, there were about 250 present. 1925\006\15 (Monday) Worked at the Soemrs Co to day. Ralph Pierpont was operated on at the Waterbury Hospital {@@Haspital?} to day for rupture. {1925}\06\16 (Tuesday) This morning Lewis Somers and I went to Southington to look for @@_ {@@a?} rouge manufacturer and also to New Britain but we found none. We had a Drum Band Meeting this evening. {1925}\06\17 (Wednesday) I worked at the Somers So six hours to day. Went to the farm this evening. {1925}\06\18 (Thursday) Worked at the Somers Co to day. {1925}\06\19 (Friday) Worked at the Somers Co@@, Mr. Sampson went with {@@withe?} me at @@two o'clock. This evening I took my trailer {@@trailor?} and carried a load of old lumber to Sandy Hook for Ray 1925\06\20 (Saturday) I went to the this morning and cultivated and hoed {@@howed} my corn. {1925}\06\21 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev. Mr. Dry. After service Arthur Blewett his two sons, Mary, I, and Kenneth {@@Kennith?} Brundage, went in my auto to the Avon College {@@Colleage}, and up to Mr. Eddies @@Toe{@@?} Path Lodge and saw his wonderful sunken gardens, and @@museum {@@musium}. etc. We then went on to Avon, and @@Conton and back home, via Unionville, Bristol and Wolcott {1925}\06\22 (Monday) I went to the Somers Co to day. {@@RAK-- Is there another line of text? es} {1925}\06\23 (Tuesday) Worked at the @@______ __ {@@Somers Co} @@__ ___ {@@to day} {@@RAK-- I took a guess as to the text in the previous line. Please verify the previous line. Thank you. es} Irving came home from Milwaukee to day @@1925\06\24 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "1924" is written as the year for this entry. es. } I went to the Somers Co to day. {1925}\06\25 (Thursday) I worked at the Somers Co {1925}\06\26 (Friday) Dick and I went to the farm this @@forenoon and got things ready to go to haying. This afternoon we went up the Scott road after dinner and left {@@lift?} some money at Mr. Haggertys to pay him for putting out forest fires. We then put up four fire notices on the Scott road and one on the plank road. Then we worked at the farm the rest of the afternoon, and Dick went home to @@Tarrington this evening to return tomorrow {@@tomarrow?} afternoon {1025\@@06\27 (Saturday) {@@RAK-- Please note that "May" is written as the month for this entry. es. } I worked at the Somers Co{@@.?} this forenoon putting a 25 H.P. Motor on the new polishing machine. This P.M. I spent at the farm. @@__{@@?} {@@RAk-- I think that something is written at the end of the previous line. I can't read what it is. es} Pierpont family reunion was held in the Mill Plain Union Chapel this evening There were about 91 people present. 1925\06\28 (Sunday) This day the first service was held in the new Mill Plain Union Church. It was held on the second floor, the walls of the third are not all up and roof is not on. The service was a childrens day service, and there were many baptisms. After which the audience went out and the Corner Stone was laid by Rev. Mr. Dry. {1925}\06\29 (Monday) I worked to day at the Somers Co five hours. This evening @@____ ______{@@?} of Irving {@@RAK-- I can't read two words in the middle of the previous line. es} met at the Chapel and had supper with his family, and bid him good bye, had speeches by Rev. Mr. Dry, @@Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Ogdon, Mr. Blewett Mr. Jones and others, and presented him with a fine leather @@travelli_ {@@travellers? travelling?} bag. {1925}\06\30 (Tuesday) This forenoon Mr. Smith came and we @@sharpened a lot of compressed {@@comprissed?} drills, and I sharpened many, small drills. In the afternoon I went to Irvings at 175 Southmaid Road and got two @@loads @@of {@@RAK-- Please verify "loads of." Text is difficult to read. Thank you. es} sundry things that he had left {@@lft?}, after disposing of all that he could. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band held a rehearsal {@@rehearsll} and voted to give Irving a fountain pen. He and Dot and John spent the night at my house. {1925}\07\01 (Wednesday) This morning Irving Dot and John left at 7.50 to go to their house and later took the train, having been joined at the station by Enid, David and @@Barbara {@@Barbira?} who staid at Maple Hill last night. After they had gone Dick and I went to the farm and mowed the middle lot, then {@@thin?} cultivated the potatoes, and @@paris{@@?} greened{@@?} {@@.?} @@then and then got the hay in the barn. {@@RAK-- Should "then" be them?" es} 1925\07\26 (Sunday) On the Fourth of July the Mattatuck Drum Band turned out for the Cottage park association had a short march about the boulevard and other streets in that section of the City and the parade ended in Foulton Park, at noon. After {@@Afer?} dinner Mary and I went to Mr. Shermans at South Kingston @@R. I. {@@R. J.?} we went by way of Middletown Marlborough, Colchester, Norwich, and Westerly. We staid there till Monday and came home, {@@.?} Raymond @@Ruth and Dick were there and they staid till Sunday. {@@RAK-- There are a couple of blank lines with smudges. Should this be text? Are the next three lines of text a new entry? What is the date for this entry? es} To day I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev. Mr. Dry preached. It has rained off and on during the day. 1925\07\27 (Monday) It has rained at times all day. I mowed a little in the lower end of my lot this morning, and cleaned out the barn, after which I went out to East Farms and unloaded a load of hay, repaired the roof on the barn, and cut some hay in the upper lot. Came home and cleaned barn, and at six o'clock went to the Somers Co, and met Mr. Muse of Southington and we tried out the big polishing machine, he recommends {@@recomends} a harder wheel. {@@1925}\@@08\@@__{@@9?} (Sunday) {@@RAK-- Is the date the 9th of August? Please verify that the year for this entry is "1925." There is an ink blot over the "5." es} Mary and I went to day over to Rays camp at @@Zoar Lake, on the west side a little south of the site of the old @@Bennetts bridge {1925}\08\30 (Sunday) Last Friday evening M. E. Pierponet, Wm Garrigus, Bessie pierpont mary Miller, and myself went to Southington and listened to a set of Chimes in the Congregational Chur__ {@@Church?} {@@RAK-- Note in margin, next to first line: Church} {@@RAK-- What is punctuation after "Congregational Church?" ".?" es} Saturday after the building {@@buildding} committee {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} met at the new church and decided to leave out the north petition in the lage east room on the first floor, and install @@cooling {@@_ooling?} doors @@in the place of the @@folding {@@foulding?} doors at the south end, also not to order the Chimes until later, as it will take a long time to build the tower. 1925\09\05 (Saturday) To day I got in two loads oif hay from Mr. Hazlehearsts, and @@Mr __________ lots {@@RAK-- Line is drawn in text. es} near the Cemetery at East Farms. @@Tony Mapoli helped me I gave 1.50 {1925}\09\06 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel. Rev. mrs. Coe of Wolcott preached small congregation. He announced {@@.?} that there was cleared at the Lawn {@@Laun?} @@Fate{@@Fete?} given at Bessier Pierponts last wednesday evening $160.00. 1925\09\07 (Monday) This is @@Labor {@@Labour} Day, and I inteneded to go to Goshen Fair, but it has rained all day I worked about home, and sharpened a lot of stone drills, and points for the new church {@@chirch?}. {1925}\09\08 (Tuesday) This morning I finished a pattern for castings for my front fence, and then went to town, Down between the Meriden road and Idylwood avenue they are putting down new trolley rails and paving the streets, (one way traffic {@@trafic} I left my car on Grand St. and went to the Law Office of @@Meyer Hincks & Traurig and did some business with mr. Meyer, paid him 1.00. Then went to the Waterbury Savings bank and got my @@sal_ry {@@salgry? salary?} check cashed. @@71.50 Then to Upson and Singleton's, and bought a suit of clothes 35.00. then home, had dinner and went out to the farm, and finished mowing Charles Wilkenbach lot, and brought home a load of @@vegetables {@@vegtables?} {@@RAK-- I think I typed correctly the spelling for "vegetables." Please verify that I typed this word correctly. Text is difficult to read. Thank you. es} 1925\09\09 (Wednesday) This morning I went out to the farm at 8 o'clock and I @@ba_ed {@@bored?} an 1 1/2" hole in each corner of the hay rigging on the cart and put stakes in the holes that stood up two feet and two inches down nailed a board six inches wide from {@@fron?} one to the other on the sides of the rigging so the hay will not fall off. I then spread the hay I mowed yesterday and when dry raked it up and finished heaping at noon. 43 heaps. I then got the ox and fed him, ate my dinner and yoked him into the cart, and loaded on the hay, the rigging worked good holding the slippery swamp hay in place, I got onto the loade and @@stamped {@@stomped?} it down and placed on twenty eight @@heaps took it up to the barn and put it on the @@stack, and then drew up the remainder, and stacked it, then cleaned up the floor of the barn and came home @@at @@_____{@@five?}. {@@RAK-- Is "five" correct? Text is difficult to read. es} Mary, Margaret, and I intend to go to the state fair at hartford tomorrow {@@tomarrow?}.{@@.?} so I drove up and saw Charlie Tuttle at Woodtick but he could not go, came home by the Todd and Meriden @@roads, Frank Cripping was cutting @@ensilage corn in her Bessie Pierponts lot corner of Todd and Meriden roads with a new two horse cutter, the corn was fourteen feet high and very heavy, and the big team had all it could do to draw the cutter. Came home had supper, and mary has arranged {@@arrained} to have @@Mrs. Patchen go to Hartford with us tomorrow. {1925}\09\13 (Sunday) Last Thursday Mary, Mrs. Patchen Margaret, and I went in my auto to Charter oak Fair at Hartford. It was the best Fair I ever saw in this state. In the evening mary and I went to a supper at Grange Hall. Friday I worked mowing the swamp east of the Cemetery {@@Cemetary} at east FArms. It was the hottest day of the year. Saturday I mowed nearly all day in the swamp, very @@hot @@1925\09\13 (Sunday) {@@RAK-- 1. Please note that "1924" is written as the year for this entry. 2. Please note that this is the second entry for this date. es. } Attended service at Mill Plain CHurch Mrs. Coe of Wolcott preached. Staid home all of the afternoon and read. {1925}\09\14 (Monday) This morning it looked {@@tooked?} like rain, about nine it cleared some and I went to the farm and finished mowing, and this afternoon raked the hay all into @@winrows{@@?}. {1925}\09\17 (Thursday) Tuesday I got five loads of hay and put it on the stack. The Chimney on the Church is finished {@@finshed} {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church} and looks fine, it is four feet square and fourteen feet high above the roof base and lined with a round @@tile {@@ti_e?}, the outside is of stone. Wednesday, I s___pened {@@RAK-- Text is hard to read. My guess is sharpened} a lot of small drills this morning, then went to the @@f___ {@@farm?} and drew concrete posts {@@pasts?} up to the shed {@@sked?} lot. This evening ten members of the Mattatuck Drum Band played to advertise the big fair of St. Paul and St. Peters church. To day I sharpened a lot of small drills and went to the farm and worked @@_n {@@on?} a new fence, at the shed lot. 1925\09\20 (Sunday) Last Friday I went to the Wolcott Fair with the Mattatuck Drum Band, and we played more or less all day. The fair was the best I ever saw in Wolcott but the attendance {@@attendence} was less than sometimes. Saturday at Wolcott fair with {@@withe?} the Drum Band the attendance {@@attendence?} was very large. The American @@Legon {@@Legion?} Band played each afternoon. This afternoon at 1.30 a young man named @@Frank Innacent {@@Innocent?} was working for Raymond on the roof of the casting shop at the West Mill of the American Brass Co. when he seized an electric wire charged with 2300 volts, it killed him {@@hin} instantly. They were standing on he ridge of a metal sky light at the time Ray @@grasp on the wire and he fell through {@@RAK-- Should "grasp" be "grasped?" es} the sky light pulling Ray after him, bur Ray caught hold of the sash and held the man by one leg over 70 ft above the concrete floor {@@floar?} till help came and they pulled him up through the broken glass onto the roof. The man was 20 years old and his home was at Reynolds {@@Reynalds?} Bridge. To day I attended service at the Mill Plain Church, @@Rev. Laurence Dry. He has returned from a three @@weeks trip to Nebraska. {@@RAK-- Should "weeks" be "week?" es} This afternoon Mary and I went to the home of Mrs. Homer Atkins in Wolcott and got a drum and violin that Homer wished me to have when he died. {1925}\09\21 (Monday) I went to the farm this morning and @@built @@fence all day {1925}\09\22 (Tuesday) Marys Birthday Born Sept 22, 1860 @@I @@picked grapes all the forenoon, sharpened drills and points this afternoon, then delivered some grapes that were engaged, by Mrs. @@D.C. Wooding, @@Mrs. Clarence Wooding and @@Mrs. Cruse, then went to the center and bought six, six quart fruit baskets. {1925}\09\23 (Wednesday) @@To day I cut corn at the farm, after I ate {@@RAK-- Is "To day" 2 words? Text is difficult to read. es} my dinner I washed my auto which took two hours. When I came home I came by the new Mill Plain Church, they have put the slate opn the east side of the {@@RAK-- Not in margin of text: Church} roof, began last monday morning. {1925}\09\24 (Thursday) @@Clif, Margaret, Mary and I went to the Springfield fair. We left at eight and it took us two and one half hours, {@@,?} to get there @@57 {@@?} miles. It was a grand fair could not describe it. We left there at 5.30 reached home before 8. 1925\09\25 (Friday) This morning I went up to the Mill Plain Church and saw the slters putting on the slate with copper nails. They {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church} have the @@lkath {@@lathe?} all on on the first floor and the @@stone work on the south end is finished, and they are laying up the chimney top. I then went to the farm and cut corn, and set {@@sit?} fence @@posts {@@pasts?} the rest of the day {@@RAK-- Is there a note in the margin of the text next to the previous line? es} This evening I went to @@Mr. Earl Hartleys the tax collector for East Farms School District and paid my school tax, I also paid Irvings and Mary's. {1925}\09\26 (Saturday) I sharpened stone tools this morning @@after which I went to town and paid @@m_ {@@my} telephone bill, and then drove to Plymouth {@@Plymoth} Fair, they had a large nice country @@fair. 1925\09\27 (Sunday) My birth day born 1858. Attended service at the Mill Plain Chapel. @@Rev. Laurence Dry This afternoon mary and I went to Plymouth {@@Plymoth?} Fair ground where we helped Morton Pierpont take down the tents and load them into his truck. This evning we went with others over to Marion where Mr. Dry held service in the brick Chapel, it was well filled. {1925}\09\28 (Monday) I went to the farm and dug potatoes to day. {1925}\09\29 (Tuesday) I dug potatoes to day. {1925}\09\30 (Wednesday) Finished digging potatoes to day. Went to town @@____ {@@this?} @@__ternoon {@@afternoon?} to have a new furnace {@@furnice} pipe made{@@.?} 1925\10\02 (Friday) To day I finished cutting corn, at the farm {@@RAK-- Is "To day" 2 words? es} and picked beans, and made barn repairs the rest of the day. 1925\10\16 (Friday) Last saturday Mary, Raymond, Ruth, and I started at 8 o'clock in my @@Hupmobile and went on ehumdred miles to mr. John Shermans at Potters Pond near point Judith in Rhose Island. We reached there before @@one {@@ane?}, {@@,?} o'clock. The weather was cold and he wind blew a gale. Ray and I went to the flats and got a mess of long clams, which we had for supper. Sunday we went to church at Perryville, {@@,?} after which we drove to Narragansett Pier then to Saunderstown where we took the ferry @@1.35 to Jamestown and went across @@Conavient Island and took ferry 1.35 to Newport, where we saw the @@Old stone windmill tower and other sight and then on the Portsmouth and Britts hill where we viewed an old Revolutionary Fort etc. Then returned hom by the same route that we went. The speedometer reading @@60 miles. 1925\10\19 {Monday} 9 P.M. Gray Somers telephoned a short time ago that Uncle Dwight L. Somers had just died. @@93 years of age. 1925\11\15 @@{@@RAK-- What day of the week is this? es} I attended the last regular service that is to be held by the Mill Plain Union {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church} Church in the old Chapel that was built in 1883. REv. Mr. Dry officiating. This afternoon a drive to raise money for the new Church was started, Mr. W. Percy Ogden had it in charge. 1925\11\22 (Sunday) This morning at ten o'clock the first sunday school convened in the new Mill Plain Union Church, there were about 275 present, at eleven the Preaching service met Rev. Laurence {@@Laurence} Dry officiating {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church {@@?}} @@Text. "Press onward toward the goal," There were about 300 present. Thjis evening the Christian Endeavor {@@Endevor} Society gave a play and service, there were about 325 present. The meetings were held in the gymnasium {@@gymmasium} which is not yet complete. This day is our 43rd wedding anniversary {@@annaversary}. @@We {@@we?} were married in the Chapel at Mill Plain before it was six months old. Our's was the first wedding. 1925\11\26 (Thursday) Thanksgiving. The Somrs family met at All @@Soles {@@Soules} Church and hled a reunion and had dinner. There were 50 present. Robert Somers was elected President {@@Preident} to succeed {@@su_ceed? susceed?} his father. @@W. M. Gillette was elected Vice President.{@@.?} Mary and I, and Ruth Brundage were all of our branch that were present. {1925}\11\28 (Saturday) I worked at Wm Gillettes to day taking down the small portible house that stood back of his dwelling. He is to send it to his brother Dr. Gillette of New Hampshire, town Londonderry. 1925\11\29 (Sunday) Attended service in the new stone Mill Plain Union Church, @@Rev. Laurence Dry officiating. The service was held in the {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church} @@gymnasium {@@gymmasium?}, there was no heat only what two wood burning stoves gave and it was very cold. They get the steam heat on tomorrow it is @@expected {@@erpected?} 1925\11\30 (Monday) This morning Mrs. Benham of East Farms telephoned that Mr. Benham was sick and wished me to do the chores, {@@,?} I milked his four cows and cleaned the stables, carried the milk to Edward Bronsons, etc. The I went over to my place and took a load of manure up on the hill and, blasted out a big rock and drew a lot of corn stalks from @@Harold {@@Harald?} Pierponts to my Barn, and then did Mr. Benhams chores. 1925\12\01 (Tuesday) @@To day I did the chores at Mr. Benhams {@@RAK-- Is "To day" 2 words? es} Went {@@Wen} to town this noon and paid my telephone bill, and tzx bill at City Hall This evening I attended at @@meeting of the official board of the {@@RAK-- Should "meeting" be "the meeting?" es} {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: @@Church{@@?} es} Mill Plain Union Church. The heating plant was started this afternoon. 19825\12\02 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please note that both "Nov" and "Dec" are written as the month for this entry. es} This evening I attended a meeting of @@of the members of the Mill Plain Union {@@RAK-- Please note that "of" is written twice. es} {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Fair es} Church, and also everybody else that wished to come. It being the first night of the first, @@night of the first {@@RAK-- Is the phrase "night of the first" duplicated? es} Fair held in the new church. About 340 sat at a fine turkey supper, and @@altogather there were about 600 present. {@@RAK-- Should "altogather" be "altogether" or "all together?" es} 1925\12\03 (Thursday) This morning I went to East Farms and did the chores, and then to @@G. W. Benhams, but he had improved {@@RAK-- Please note that the previous line looks like it is indented in the original. es} in health and he his morning work all done. Came home and repaired two auto tires. Went to Wm Gillette's and got a load of ladders, tools, @@plank, {@@RAK-- Should "plank" be "planks?" es} etc. This evening I attended the second night of the Church fair at Mill Plain there were about 400 people there. The weather being very wet. 1925\12\07 (Monday) Last Friday at 5 P.M. Mary, Miss May Bronson of Waterville @@and {@@an?} myself in @@Hazle {@@Hayle?} Pierponts {@@Pierpont's} Dodge Car went to Storrs @@College {@@Colledge?},{@@,?} which we reached at eight o'clock. After supper we went to the Howley Armory where they had a grand dance. Saturday was spent about the @@College {@@Coleage?} Hazle and I went to Willimantic and had her car repaired, on the way home she drove round by Hanks Hill and left me at the house of @@O. G. Hanks where I visited with mr. Hanks till dark, I thenk @@walked{@@waked?} to Ruth's house where we had supper, and then we all went to the Armory to an entertainment. Sunday morning we all went to Church in the old Congregational Church and heard Rev. Mr. Allen preach, after which we went home to Ruth's and had tinner. In the afternoon Jack and I went to the power plant, and up to the hen houses, then back home and had sipper. About six we left for home stopping at Hartford for Miss Bronson, we came via Farmington, Bristol, Plymouth {@@Plymoth}, and Waterville where we left Miss Bronson we reached home at eleven. This noon I went to town and got the Somers Co check cashed at the Merchants Trust Co, and then went to Bristol and got ten castings at the Sessions Foundry Co.{@@.?} came home, and cut wood. 1925\12\08 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Mill Plain Church and staid till noon. This afternoon I sharpened a lot of stone cutters tools, and {@@an?} then worked about the house. {1925}\12\09 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the Mill Plain Church and Mr. Garrigus set me to laying the maple floor {@@floar?} on the East side room of the stage. {1925}\12\10 (Thursday) Worked at the Church to day 8 hours. {1925}\12\11 (Friday) Worked at the Church 8 1/2 hours {1925}\12\12 (Saturday) @@Worked {@@Wolked?} this forenoon sharpening drills. This afternoon worked at the church.{@@.?} 3 1/2 hr Robt Somers came and took me to the Waterbury Rolling @@Milton{@@?} to see the fly wheel. 1925\12\13 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. This evening Mary and I went out the Cheshire Road to see the New work being done {1925}\12\14 (Monday) Worked to day at the Church. {1925}\12\15 (Tuesday) Worked at the Church th8is day 7 hrs Robt and Gordon Somrs came and took me up to the Waterbury Rolling Mills to see the fly Wheel that is loose on the shaft. {1925}\12\20 (Sunday) I have worked at the Church all of this week @@principally{@@?} laying the maple floor in the gallery. (over) @@The service this morning was well {@@RAK-- I indented the previous line. Is this ok? es} attended, the gymnasium where it was held was very prettily decorated with {@@RAK-- Note written in margin of text: Church es} ground pine laurel etc. At 4.30 this afternoon a Vesper service was held the gymnasium was lighted with many candles, and colored lights. There were about 26 people in the Choir and 170 in the congregation. Program, Processional "O came all Ye Faithful" {@@Faithfal?} "The first Noel". {@@."?} Choir Invocation. "Angles {@@Angels?} from the Realms of Glory" O Little town of Bethlehem. Quartette Responsive Reading. Floria "Draw Nigh Emmanuel" Choir "We Three Kings of Orient are" Choir Scripture Lesson Isa 9:1-7 Offeratory "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" Daxology Prayer "Holy Night, Peaceful Night". Choir "Joy to the World" Benediction {@@Beneiction?} Response {@@Responce?} by Choir Postlude. 1925\12\21 (Monday) Shortest day of the year. Was at East Farms before six this morning and drew a load of manure up on the hill. Finished laying the floor in the gallerys of the gymnasium and started laying in the South West Room. Will and Leland Garrigus worked on the hand rail on the gallery. {1925}\12\22 (Tuesday) Worked all day laying the floor in @@in the {@@RAK-- Please note that "in" is written twice in the original. es} south west room. {1925}\12\23 (Wednesday) {@@RAK-- Please verify the date. All I could read was "Wednesday." Thank you. es} Worked laying the floor in the south (over) west room and did quite a little trimming @@the{@@?} hall. This evening they had the christmas exercises in the gymnasium which was {@@RAK-- Note in margin of text: Church} well filled @@435{@@?} being present. {1925}\12\24 (Thursday) Worked at the Church all day i. e. from eight to five, finished the floor {@@floar?} in the south west room and started laying in the south east room. Will and Leland Garrigus worked at Warren Hitchcocks house @@on {@@an?} a new bath room. {1925}\12\25 (Friday) Christmas.{@@,?} All of my children came home except Irving and his family who are in Milwaukee and Clydes wife who is sick. There were 23 here. 1925\12\26 (Saturday) I worked with Leland Garrigus laying the maple floor in the South East upper room {@@froom?} of {@@af?} the Gymnasium. {1925}\12\27 (Sunday) Attended service in the Mill Plain Church. {1925}\12\28 (Monday) Began laying the main floor in the gymnasium Leland Garrigus was out with a sore {@@sar?} finger {1925}\12\29 (Tuesday) Laid floor all day, John Garrigus helped this afternoon. {1925}\12\30 (Wednesday) Laid floor {@@floar?}, John Garrigus helped all day and Leland this afternoon. {@@RAK-- The dates for the entries from Sunday, Dec. 27, 1925 to Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1925 were all corrected. Please advise if I typed in the correct dates. es} {1925}\12\31 (THursday) Laid main floor John Leland and I. {@@RAK-- Should there be two spaces between "floor" and "John Leland?" es} 1926\01\01 (FRiday) 1926 was ushered in by the blowing of factory whistles and the ringing of chimes in St. Johns church. Mary and I went to Elton Edwards to hear the ringing of the old Independence {@@Indipendence} bell in Philadelphia, on his radio, but at midnight there whistles and gongs that we could hear nothing else. To day I made the woodwork for the auto business body for the Ford car 1926\01\3 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mil Plain Church 138 in attendance {@@attendence}. {1926}\01\08 (Friday) Began @@faying{@@?} the red oak floor in the Sunday school rooms over the gymnasium in the Mill Plain Church, started at the north end. 1926\01\10 (Sunday) Attended Church as usual to day 110 people present 1926\01\11 (Monday) I worked at the Mill Plain CHurch to day @@8 1/2{@@?} hours making over the room for the moving picture machine. Wm Garrigus, Leland Garrigus and I on the joiner work and @@Mr. Iman and his son laying up the gypsum blocks. This morning was the coldest yet this season 2 below zero. Last saturday it snowed to the depth of four inches. {1926}\01\12 (Thursday) Worked at Mill Plain Church, in the fore noon @@o_{@@on?} the moving picture room, and we i.e. Wm Garrigus and Leland together {@@togather} with myself put the roof on the tower, all but the @@f_lt{@@felt?}. 1926\01\13 (Friday) Coldest morning as yet six degrees below zero. I went to East Farms and took care of Jasper, and then went to Maple hill and got @@Hazel Pierpont and then back home. At nine Mary, Hazle and I started for Kent we went through Middlebury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater, New Milford, and Bulls Bridge, reached there before noon. In the {@@the} afternoon Hazel, Elsie, Frank, and {@@RAK-- "The" is written twice in the original. es} their daughter {@@dayghter} Mary Ann, went up through Macedonia to West Farm owned by @@Miss Myra Hapson, and saw a fine heard of @@Gurnsey cows, and two large black pair of horses, and many colts that she is raising to sell. The buildings were all in good order with {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. Thank you. es} planty of feed and hay for th stock. When we left there we were over @@Shiff mountain and down a long steep hill and across an iron bridge to North Kent and home to Franks where @@_e? {@@we? use?} staid over night. This morning (thursday) {@@()?} after breakfast and chores, Frank took us, mary Hazel and I in his Buick {@@Buic} car to the Kent Schools which we went thorugh, we met Father Sill, and several other of his assistants, visited the Main Building Dining Hall, Entertainment hall, Post Office, Infirmary {@@Infermary?} etc. from there we went to South Kent where they were cutting ice and saw a new {@@mew?} Ice saw work, after which we went to Macedonia where Frank did some buisness and then on over the line into New York through @@South Amenia to Wassaic where Frank saw about buying a lot of grain, then back home and had dinner after which we left for home, came through Cornwall Bridge, Cornwall Plains, up Bunker HIll, through West Goshen,{@@.?} Goshen where we stoped and saw the Ovaitts [Oviatts], then to Farmington where we saw Clydes wife, and down the valley of the Naugatuck and home, the distance from Kent home being @@46 miles. 1926\01\15 (Friday) I worked to day laying a red oak floor in the north east room on the first story of the Mill Plain Union Church. 1926\01\17 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev. laurence Dry preached, there were 17 in the Choir and 135 in the congregation 152 in all. This afternoon Howard Neal called and read me an article he had written for the sunday Republican about the Mattatuck Drum Band. We, Mary, Howard, and I, went to Cheshire to see Gardner Hall but he was not at @@home. 1926\01\16 (Saturday) {@@RAK-- Please note that the entry for January 17, 1926 is written before the entry for January 16, 1926. es} This fore noon I worked at the Mill Plain Church laying floor in the N. E. room on the first floor. This afternoon I turned out with the Mattatuck DRum Band to observe Banjamin Franklins birthday. We assembled in the City Hall. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the D.A.R. a number of printers, and the Mayor and several City officials at 2.30 we marched to the Franklin statue in libary park, playing as we went. At the statue we listened to an address by the mayor, and @@Mr. Haddoni, and the printers placed a wreath on the statue, after which we marched back to City Hall where disbanded. There were present, Frank Brown,e Bemit Wakelee, John Sexton, and Andrew Kitchenka, Fifers. {@@blank space} Frank Kitchenka Bass drummer, C. S. Miller.{@@.?} and Ralph Pierpont, Snare drummers. 1926\01\31 (Sunday) Raind all day. {@@blank space} I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon and Mary and I went to West Simsbury this afternoon to visit my brother Frank. 1926\03\01 (Monday) Mrs. Ineson came to live in our front room. 1926\03\11 (THursday) I attended a meeting of the Fire Wardens of New Haven County, at the Yale Forestry {@@Forerstry} buidling on propsect St New Haven, to day. 1926\03\@@26 (Friday) This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band went to Hartford to broadcast @@broodcast} at the Travelers {@@Should this be Travellers?} Insurance station,{@@.?} The tunes that were broadcasted were 1 Brigade Quickstep. 2 Old Army March. 3 General Greens march, 4 White @@Cackade. Those who played were, Major Peter Shea, who broadcasted an address. Fifers. {@@blank space} Charlie Cass, Bement Wakelee, Robert Wakelee, James Phalen, @@Thedare {@@Theodore?} Kents, Andrew Kitchenka John Sexton and Franklin Browne. Bass Drummers. {@@blank space} Raymond Miller, George Cass, @@Girlad {@@or Gerald?} Turtwengler, Frank Kitchenka, and the snar drummers were Charles S. Miller, Ralp;ph Pierpont, Stephen Kitchenka, Robert Prabst, Gardner Hall, Charles S Tuttle, Arthur Harrison, and Howard Neal. 1926\06\12 (Saturday) The Rev. Laurence Dry pastor of the Mill Plain Union Church for the past six years, who resigned two weeks ago, left this morning in his Buick {@@Buic} Sedan for @@Estes Bark, Colorado. The Mattatuck Drum Band leaves tomorrow for the grand military parade at the @@Susqui Centennial at Philadelphia we are going in a large Auto Bus owned by the Bunker Hill Transportion {@@Transportation?} Company which leaves my house at 7 A.M. and the Armory at 8. Those who are going are Peter Shea, Drum Major, Charles S. Miller Leader, Fifers Charles Cass, @@Bement Wakelee, Robert Wakelee, James Phalen, Theodore Kurtz, Andrew Kitchenka John Sexton Frank Browne, and Mr. Greenwood. Bass Drummers. Raymond H. Miller, George Cass, John Garrigusx, and Frank Kitchenka. Snare Drummers. Chas S. Miller, Stephen Kitchenka, Ralph Pierpont, @@Robt Prabst, Gerald Turtwengler, Chas Monahan, Chas S. Tutle, and Howard Neal. @@1926\06\20 (Sunday) {@@RAK-- Is "1926" correct? es} Last Sunday morning the Large auto Bus owned by the Bunker Hill Transpotation {@@Tranportion} Co. drove to my place at Oak Corner and a large part of the Mattatuck Drum Band got aboard after securing our @@drum's on top {@@RAK-- Should "drum's" be "drums?" es} and left at 7 o'clock, and went to the Armory on Field St. where we met the {@@-?} Sedgwick Guard and they loaded into three more large @@busses{@@?} and all started @@Philadelphia at 8.50 {@@RAK-- Should "started Philadelphia" be "started to Philadelphia?" es} The other Busses soon left us and we went via Derby, Nichols, Bridgeport and Stamford to New York. Crossed the Hudson at Dikeman St. Ferry{@@,?} at 1 PM.{@@.?} and @@ascended {@@assended} the @@palisades{@@palsades?} where we stoped at a refreshment stand for some timnes. Then on through Newark, Newbrunswick, @@Prenston/Prinston {@@Princeton?}, and Trenton where we crossed the Delaware at {@@at} 5.45 (day light saving {@@RAK-- "at" is written twice. es} time) and on to Philadelphia via the Roosevelt {@@Rosevelt} boulevard and arrived at the hotel "Robert Morris" at Arch and 17th Sts. at 7.45 P.M. Monday at 9 o'clock we formed and marched up Parkway about one mile and formed with the rest, of the Conn troops, and after some delay the whole line moved down Park Way to Broiad St and around City Hall, then out South Broad St. to the @@Seaqui Centennial grounds where we passed in review in the huge Stadium where there were seated over 80,000 people who applauded us heavily, as did the crowd along the whole line of march when we played. {@@blank space} @@_n{@@On?} the Reviewing stand were Gen Pershing, and staff, @@Gov{@@?} Charles Dean of Rhode Island, Gov Robinson of Delaware, Gov John H. Trumbull of Conn, Gov Byrd of Virginia Gov Mc Cloud of South Carolina {@@South Carolinia?}, @@___{@@Gov? looks like You? } of Penn, and @@Lieut Gov Allen of Mass. The parade was the grandest i ever saw. The line of march about 10 miles long, and weather very hot. Tuesday we left the hotel at 9 A.M. marched to the Penn station on Market St. and boarded the train which took us to Valley Forge where we played at @@Washingtons{@@Washington's?} Head Quarters {@@Head Qurters} and went through the house, after which we took Busses and went to the Waterman Monument, and played @@dow_ {@@down?} the hill to where dinner was served. @@After all of the troops of the original {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. Thank you. es} thirteen States passed in review. the grandest @@sight I ever saw. after which we took busses, and train back to Philadelphia. Wednesday we left the hotel at 9.50 for home, came back by the same route we went except that we crossed the Hudson at 23rd St. {@@.?} Ferry and reached home at 10 P.M. 1927\05\19 (Thursday) This afternoon William Gillette and his son Mansfield @@_nd {@@and?} I drove my Hupmobile to @@Old Saybrook where I bought a used Packard Touring Car of @@A L Dudley for 850.00 and left my old Hup for him to sell. 1927\05\22 (Sunday) This morning Mary and I left home at @@8.20 and drove to Raymonds cottage{@@,?} on the West side of Lake Zoar in my Packard Car, after which we all went to the Congregational Church at New Town and attended service{@@.?} 1928\04\07 (Saturday) The last service that I attended at the Mill Plain Union Church was Sunday Feb 12, @@On monday Feb 13th I and Leland Garrigus {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented? es} worked for Morton E. Pierpont, putting up beaded ceiling in the "horse part" of his new barn at East Farms. The day was wet with snow and ice on the ground. I came home at noon in @@_y {@@my?} little Ford truck, and not feeling well lay down on the bed, having a bad @@cold {@@cald?} and coughing my @@hernia's causing {@@RAK-- Should "hernias" be "hernia's?" es} much pain mary telephoned dr. Barber. He came next morning, prescribed {@@priscribed?} medicine @@etc.{@@itc.?}{@@,?} said that he was afraid of pneumonia,{@@,?} and that I must stay in bed. There I remained until Friday, having never before been in bed 24 hours since @@1875. Friday and Saturday I went down town and did some business, and Saturday night was taken sick again and have been down ever since, soon after I had a talk with the Doctor and he gave me full information regarding operations for rupture, and it was decided that I should go to the Waterbury Hospital {@@Haspital?} and that he should operate as soon as I was in the proper condition. I having a bronchial {@@bronkill} cough that must be cured before I went. This took till Mar 8th When Will Gillettee came with his nice Packard car and carried mary and I to the Hospital {@@Haspital?}. @@I was accepted at the office and after {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} answering many questions {@@qustions},{@@,?} age, name, residence, occupation, etc @@etc. was taken up on the {@@RAK-- "etc" is written twice in the original. es} elevator to the third floor, and given a bed in a large room with seven others. A night shirt was given me, and a screen placed between me and the door, which was at the head of my bed and I was told to undress, at 2 P.M. Soon a nurse {@@nerse?} came and she took an inventory {@@invantory} of my clothes and everything that was in my pockets and all and took them away. The afternoon was long as I lay there with nothing to do till supper @@wa {@@was?} brought at 5 o'clock. I ate little, and the night soon passed, as there was much to attract my attention. The nurses were very busy attending to the wants of others, at 5.30 they brought to each of us a wash basin of water, @@soap{@@?}, cloth, and towel, and those that were able{@@abel} washed themselves and the nurses washed the others, this day was friday, soon a nurse came and rubbed my back with alcohol, another took my temperature {@@temperture}, another my pulse.{@@.?} then breakfast was brought at 7. Druring the forenoon Dr. Barber called and said that I didnt {@@didn't?} belong there, called the head nurse. Soon an intern {@@inturne} came and said that he was going to take me to a private room. He took me to No 321 where there @@wasd two empty beds,{@@,?} I took the one nearest {@@neares} the windown and there I remained without moving two feet for nearly a month except the two times that I was operated on. That evening I had several callers including Ray and Mary, all visitors were cleared out at eight o'clock. Soon after a man came in and @@inquired {@@iquired} if I was Miller. I told him that I was, he soon returned with a tray of shaving tools and proceeded to shave me clean from my @@breast {@@brest} to my knees, soon after he returned and asked if I @@had had a good bath in the tub {@@RAK-- Please note that "had" is written twice in the original. es} since I came in, told him no, said I had better have, and soon took me to the bath room and such a scrubbing as @@Lary gave I had never had before, it was now past @@midnight, and I had about rested from the {@@RAK-- Please verify that "midnight" is not hyphenated. es} scrubbing when in came a nurse and bored out my belly button and filled it with something that looked like soft wax.{@@.?} then another nurse came and painted {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} my middle @@all all over red, (having washed {@@RAK-- "all" is written twice in the original. es} and thoroughly wiped it before){@@.?} Then after a little came Carl, and gave me a great in_ections {@@injection? inpection?} which cleaned me all out by this time it was daylght, I had passed an interesting night, soon a little nurse came and wound a broad bandage about my stomach {@@stumach} very tight and pinnted it then painted my lower part again so I was red as an Indian and it is there yet, soon another nurse brought a pair of large cotton stockings which reached up to the top of my legs and tied them there with a pucker string. Then a tall fellow came @@with wtih a rubber @@tired{@@?} 4 wheel truck{@@.?} {@@RAK-- Please note that "with" is written twice in the original. es} which he placed beside my cot, it was about 18" wide{@@,?} he told me to get onto it then {@@them?} put a wheet over me and wheeled me down the corridor {@@carridar?} and onto an elevator then up and down the corridor {@@carridor?} and out a wing into a small operating room. By the clock it was 10 minutes to 8, here he put me @@o_ {om?} another wagon that had small iron wheels and covered my feet and limbs with a black blanket, then wheeled me out into the corridor {@@carridor} and down to end and in door to left, and under a large reflector ith a light in the center, by the clock it as 8 A.M. The nurses were all hooded and heads wrapped in white nothing but their eytes showing, with brown rubber gloves on their hands. One of them had a tray with liquid in it which she rubbed on, with what looked like a piece of white felt, held in a little pair of tongs, she rubbed for about 10 minutes, he rubbing gave a smarting sensation, in the meantime,{@@,?} the man had got done up in white, and raised my knees and placed a small ard pillow under them and placed a large {@@laige?} tray on top of them which {@@whiceh?} he secured so I could not raise my knees, then put an iron yoke across my chest, and secured it, then placed towels across {@@acrass?} my stomach {@@stumach?} and across {@@acass?} my legs, then towels up and down on each side, and over a white rubber spread with a square hole in it where they worked {@@warked}. Then Dr. Barber came ll done up in white like the rest, and he cut a slit about 6" long up and down, @@blow{@@?} @@thers{@@?} was a big hole in the lower skin caused {@@caus} by the big truss I had worn and torn by coughing, and then the flesh and cards were grown onto the intestines on the middle side. These had to be cut clear. This was done by lifting everything up and the doctor cutting the flesh off with a pair of scissors, @@whe_{@@when? Text is difficult to read. es} all was clear they replaced the intestines cards etc @@but the skin would not cover the opening on account of the years that the rupture, and truss had held it @@____ {@@apum?} (since 1883) He then made another cut cross wise {@@crass wise} above the first and forced my right testicle up through this cut and cut it out of the white sack that enclosed it, and let me tell you I felt it when they cut the connecting cord,{@@,?} @@_r{@@or?} cords, @@three times they then {@@RAK-- I think that "three times" is underlined. Please verify. es} drew the white sack over the opening and stictched the two sides and top wtih many stitches then closed {@@clased?} the outer skin and stitched it. @@Doing the other side was put off as {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} all @@had had enough, it was now 10 A.M. {@@RAK-- Please note that "had" is written twice in the original. es} and they bandaged me up and wheeled me down to my cot, @@where I lay going {@@RAK-- There is a carat symbol before "where" but I don't see any text to be inserted here. es} through the regular @@routine{@@rotene?} until Wednesday March 21st when I went through the second operation the preparations {@@preperations} were similar {@@simular} to the first. We did not think that this was to be more than an ordinary operation but when they opened it there @@to{@@too} th organs and flesh had grafted together {@@togather} owing to the pressure of the truss{@@truse?}, separating {@@seperating} these was more painful thatn the first operation, they took a silk ribbon 1/4" wide then pulled the outer opening above where intestines were grown to the flesh {@@fest?} and put the ribbon under the gut and lifted all up and turned it over and used ribbon for a @@gauge {@@guage?} to cut the flesh away, at one time I counted 16 clamps and tools that they were using, as they cut a nurse would keep it wiped clean, and when the blood spurted {@@spirted} they would put on a clamp that would hold it, as they leaned the intestines they would lay them out some one side and some the other, I could feel them pulling round to my back, when they were freeing the testicle cord it hurt clear up to my neck. When they had all laid out I was afreaid that they would never be able to get them all back again, but they put them all back very carefully and sewed it up, then stitched up the outside, 2 hours work for four people @@Doctor, Intern, and two nurses, I might {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented? es} mention here,{@@,?} That when they were @@cutting my nut out 6 or 8 young nurses came and watched them. They seemed very much interested, they would look at that, and then look at me to see what kind of a looking old chap I was. I could see all that they were doing @@by{@@ly?} looking up into the reflector {@@refecter?}. The second time I wore my glasses {@@glassss} and I could see better than the first. Soon they wheeled me down and put me to bed, where I spent most of the time reading. They took the outside stitches out about 8 days after operations. {@@RAK-- Should text read "after the operations?" es} @@I suffered hardly any pain only during {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} the operations, {@@,?} and had every care and attention that one would need. A special nurse 4 nights after the first operation, and 2 nights after the second. Came home Wednesday April 4th Raymond and Mary came over after me with my Packard, and I paid them my bill of 138.00 having previously paid 36.00 for night nurses.{@@.?} 174.00 total. Have got to pay Dr. Barber{@@Dr. Barper} 150.00 making a total of 324.00 1928\05\25 (Friday) This afternoon I went with Mr. Rockwell to Hartford and saw Dr. Sweet about @@Mr. Rockwells hand. {1928}\05\27 (Sunday) Went to Cheshrie with the Mattatuck Drum Band, 19 men. {1928}\05\28 (Monday) I worked this forenoon on @@my Ford Truck and this afternoon Jean and I went out to the farm and planted peas, Beans. 1928\05\29 (Tuesday) Mary got up and with Genes helpd got our breakfast, @@Mrs. Leppenwell came and did the washing. I went out to the farm and @@harrowed{@@?} the upper garden, came home before noon and found the sink {@@sinc} tile clogged, it took till after three to get it opened, after which Gene and I Carried Ralph Pierponts uniform home, and we drove to Rob Wakeles and got his rig for Robt Probst to wear tomorrow. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. {1928}\05\30 (Wednesday) Memorial day. I turned out with 18 @@others {@@RAK-- Is there an "*" or a comment written in the right margin? es} of the Mattatuck Drum Band for to @@Wadb___ {@@Wadborn Wadbourne?} ms @@post No 49 of this City, there @@ar {@@are?} only 13 veterans left, out of 432 that belonged when the Post was in its prime. At 7.30 I was at Arthur Harrisons after him to play, we then went to @@De Wit Coles {@@De Witt Coles?} in Woodtick and got Chas S. Tuttle. 1928\05\31 (Thursday) Mary is better to day, so that she is up some of the time. I worked on the little Ford truck this forenoon, and after school @@Gene and I went to the farm and planted potatoes. 1928\06\01 (Friday) I worked on my auto truck this forenoon, and planted potatoes at the farm this afternoon. {1928}\06\02 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked on my Ford truck and went down town. This afternoon, Miss Pickett called to see mary and I carried her home to Mrs. Abbotts in Middlebury, and we got some flowers to put on the graves of deceased drummers in Wolcott tomorrow. {@@RAK-- Please verify that "tomorrow" is 1 word. Thank you. es} 1928\06\03 (Sunday) I went to Wolcott to day with the Mattatuck Drum Band to thed decoration of the soldiers graves. The sons of Veterans of the Civil War of Southington and Cheshire had charge. The services began at eleven in the Church Rev. Mr. Carlson in charge There were five veterans of the Civil War present, Charles Russell of Mill Dale, @@James Younge and Homer Northrop of Waterbury, Newell Moulthrop,{@@,?} of Bristol, and one from Bridgeport. After the Church service the line formed out in front, and marched round the Soldiers Monument, halted and placed flowers about it, then went to the cemetery {@@cemetary} where the G.A.R. had their service. After which the Drum Band placed flowers on the graves of their dead members {@@memebers} The graves decorated were those of @@Erastus Atkins, Stiles Atkins, and Levi Atkins all snare drummers, Prosper Hull and Sidney Alcott, fifers @@Elihu Moulthrop{@@?}, Bass Drummer, and a member of the 20 Regt during the Civil War.{@@.?} Sherman Moulthrop snare drummer, he also drummer in the 9th Regt during the Civil War. @@Thoedore Moulthrop Bass drummer, @@Homer L. Atkins fifer and drummer, he was the last Leader of the Wolcott Drum Band {@@,?} and Samuel Benham, a drummer in the Revolutionary army. Those of the Band that were present were Peter Shea Major, Charles Cass, Franklin Browne, Andrew Kitchenka, and Morris Tyler, Fifers Howard Neal, and John Garrigus, Bass Drummers, Charles S. Miller, @@Luverne Fox, Edgar Upson, Louis Greenwood, Charles,{@@,?} S. Tuttle, Herman Gessert, Arthur Harrison, and Carl Moulthrop. Snare Drummers, {@@blank space} Charles Tuttle and Carl Moulthrop, carried the stretcher loaded with flowers, Arthur Harrison lead the way to the graves beating time on muffled drum and I placed the flowers on the graves, the whole band sounded taps after placing flowers on each grave. {1928}\06\04 (Monday) I worked about home this forenoon, and worked on the Ford truck this afternoon, and went down town and bought some paint. 1928\06\05 (Tuesday) Rained all day, I worked on my little Ford truck, and painted most of it. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this {@@RAK-- Is it ok to indent the previous line? es} evening. {1928}\06\06 (Wednesday) Rained this forenoon, finished painting and work on Ford. This eve went to @@farm{@@?} and did some planting. Sold the old Ford running gear to John Garrigus for @@$10.00 {1928}\06\07 (Thursday) This morning I mowed the clothes yard and west of the garden, I then went to @@Saxe and @@Flotnes and bought 4 doz tomatoe plants 1.00 this afternoon went to the farm and set them out, repaired my Packard car. Mrs. Leffenwell came and washed 1.50 @@1928\06\08 (Friday) Went to town and got a transfer license for my Ford car in the name of Charles S. Miller and Raymond H. Miller. This afternoon planted garden at East Farms. {1928}\06\09 (Saturday) This forenoon I got the Ford car ready to run, in the @@afternoon Gene, Dotty and I went to the farm, and planted in the garden. {@@,?} Cleaned out the spring etc. 1928\06\10 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon @@Rev. J. C.{@@?} Todd. This @@afternoon Cliff, Margaret, Mary, and I went for a ride up to Wolcott, center then down the old county road to marion and up to @@Compounce pond, and back up Southington Mountain, where they are building a new road,{@@,?} and home. 1928\06\11 (Monday) This morning I mowed, weeded {@@weded} garden, and after dinner repaired auto. This evening Ray came and @@planted @@his garden. I sharpened 10 drills for Lee Garrigus. @@1.00{@@?} {1928}\06\12 (Tuesday) Mowed this morning and went to the farm. This afternoon I went to Rag Hollow and saw the work on the new road that they are guilding from West Cheshire to Prospect. {1928}\06\13 (Wednesday) Worked about home and at the farm to day This evening{@@.?} Mary, Gene, Mrs. Ineson and I went to the Mill Plain Church to a strawberry supper. We then drove to Woodtick and saw Charles Tuttle, then to maple Hill and saw Bessie Pierpont. 1928\06\14 (Thursday) Worked about home all day sharpened 6 drills for Lee Garrigus. {1928}\06\15 (Friday) Visited Raymonds new bakery this morning they expect to have it ready to use next month.{@@.?} Went out to the farm AM and to town this afternoon,{@@,?} sharpened 6 drills for Lee Garrigus @@.80{@@?} Paid Telephone bill. {1938}\06\16 (Saturday) Went to Bridgeport to Champs Farm to the Foremans outing of the International Silver Co There were about 350 foremen {@@foreman?} and 50 others there we had an elaborate {@@elaberate} dinner and a good entertainment about 33 went from Waterbury {@@Watererbury} Branch (Robers and Brother) I roade {@@wrode} down with Watson Furgushon{@@?}, and Robert Carter. The Company paid for all. {1928}\06\17 (Sunday) Attended childrens day exercises at Mill Plain this afternoon went to meeting at Woodtick Chapel, then Mary Cgarles Tuttle and I came {@@RAK-- Is it ok to insert a comma after "Mary?" Is there a comma there in the original? es} to Margarets on Beecher ave and got Margaret, Gene, Bettie and the baby and we went to East Morris to Gerris Turkingtons, but he was not at home, then we came to Laverne Fox in s not Watertown and made a call, we then carried Charles Tuttle home, and came home ourselves. 1928\06\18 (Monday) Worked about home all day {@@RAK-- Is there text written in the margin of the text? es} 1928\06\19 (Tuesday) Worked about home his forenoon Went to town and put in my list at the assessors {@@assescors} office. Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. {1928}\06\20 (Wednesday) Mary and I visited sister Iva at the Waterbury hospital {@@hospitial? haspitial?} and also @@Mr. Shaepick, this afternoon Then we went for a ride to Prospect center and down the new state road that they are building to Cheshire. {1928}\06\21 (Thursday) Longest day of the year. Mowed the Lawn and worked about home and out to the farm. Ray came and hoed his garden, this evening. {1928}\06\24 (Sunday) Attended Church as usual. This afternoon Margaret, Cliff and @@two {@@tow?} girls, Mary and I drove to Birchmere camp at Bantam lake. Gave 5.00 towards Lewis B. Holes Fund, and 10.00 towards Pierpont Window 1928\06\25 (Monday) @@Louis B. Holmes of the Southmayer Road was buried his afternoon in the new Pine Grove Cemetery {@@Cemetary}. Funeral services were held in the Mill Plain Church which was well filled. {@@RAK-- Is there any text written to the right of the previous line? es} {1928}\06\28 (Thursday) I worked about home and out to the farm to day. This evening @@Ray called and took me up to @@Capitol avenue to see his new house that is being built. 1928\07\16 (Monday) To day I got in three loads of hay at East Farms, Richard Miller of Tarrington and James Egan helped.{@@.?} me. {1928}\07\26 (Thursday) Finished haying to night. Dick Miller, James Egan and I mowed the swamp south of the Cheshire road back of the properties of Mr. Hazleherst, Mr. Wilkenbach, and Harold {@@Harald} Pierpont, and got in the last three loads to day. {1928}\07\27 (Friday) This morning Margaret, and her daughters Bettie and Gene, Northrop, and Mary and I with Dick Miller. Went in my Packard Car to West Haven where we had a @@shore{@@share?} dinner at Wilcos Pier Restaurant {@@Restaurent}, after which Margaret the Girls and Dick went bathing. We came by the @@shore {@@share?} road through Milford and across the stratford @@bridget {@@bridge?} to Shelton @@Darby {@@Derby?}, West Ansonia @@Senmour{@@?} and Naugatuck. 1928\07\29 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon. This afternoon {@@-?} Mary, myself with Cliff and his daughters Gene and Betty went to Farrington and carried Dick home. We went through Watertown, and stoped at Ferris Turkingtons in East Morris, and at Camp Birchmere at Bantam Lake and saw Marion Northrop. When we came home we went through @@Nepang, to @@Collinsville then to Unionville, Bristol and through Wolcott home. [[end of Journal; [[Read by Ruth Brundage - July '47 [[ " " Frank P. Miller - Dec. 1947 [[ " " Marian Northrop Kraft - Dec 1988 [[ " " " " " May 1992]] [[there is no break between entries on p. 220 of the Journal; [[May 22 1927 is followed directly by April 7 1928]] 1928\04\07 (Saturday) The last service that I attended at the Mill Plain Union Church was Sunday Feb 12, @@On monday Feb 13th I and Leland Garrigus {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented? es} worked for Morton E. Pierpont, putting up beaded ceiling in the "horse part" of his new barn at East Farms. The day was wet with snow and ice on the ground. I came home at noon in @@_y {@@my?} little Ford truck, and not feeling well lay down on the bed, having a bad @@cold {@@cald?} and coughing my @@hernia's causing {@@RAK-- Should "hernias" be "hernia's?" es} much pain mary telephoned dr. Barber. He came next morning, prescribed {@@priscribed?} medicine @@etc.{@@itc.?}{@@,?} said that he was afraid of pneumonia,{@@,?} and that I must stay in bed. There I remained until Friday, having never before been in bed 24 hours since @@1875. Friday and Saturday I went down town and did some business, and Saturday night was taken sick again and have been down ever since, soon after I had a talk with the Doctor and he gave me full information regarding operations for rupture, and it was decided that I should go to the Waterbury Hospital {@@Haspital?} and that he should operate as soon as I was in the proper condition. I having a bronchial {@@bronkill} cough that must be cured before I went. This took till Mar 8th When Will Gillettee came with his nice Packard car and carried mary and I to the Hospital {@@Haspital?}. @@I was accepted at the office and after {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} answering many questions {@@qustions},{@@,?} age, name, residence, occupation, etc @@etc. was taken up on the {@@RAK-- "etc" is written twice in the original. es} elevator to the third floor, and given a bed in a large room with seven others. A night shirt was given me, and a screen placed between me and the door, which was at the head of my bed and I was told to undress, at 2 P.M. Soon a nurse {@@nerse?} came and she took an inventory {@@invantory} of my clothes and everything that was in my pockets and all and took them away. The afternoon was long as I lay there with nothing to do till supper @@wa {@@was?} brought at 5 o'clock. I ate little, and the night soon passed, as there was much to attract my attention. The nurses were very busy attending to the wants of others, at 5.30 they brought to each of us a wash basin of water, @@soap{@@?}, cloth, and towel, and those that were able{@@abel} washed themselves and the nurses washed the others, this day was friday, soon a nurse came and rubbed my back with alcohol, another took my temperature {@@temperture}, another my pulse.{@@.?} then breakfast was brought at 7. Druring the forenoon Dr. Barber called and said that I didnt {@@didn't?} belong there, called the head nurse. Soon an intern {@@inturne} came and said that he was going to take me to a private room. He took me to No 321 where there @@wasd two empty beds,{@@,?} I took the one nearest {@@neares} the windown and there I remained without moving two feet for nearly a month except the two times that I was operated on. That evening I had several callers including Ray and Mary, all visitors were cleared out at eight o'clock. Soon after a man came in and @@inquired {@@iquired} if I was Miller. I told him that I was, he soon returned with a tray of shaving tools and proceeded to shave me clean from my @@breast {@@brest} to my knees, soon after he returned and asked if I @@had had a good bath in the tub {@@RAK-- Please note that "had" is written twice in the original. es} since I came in, told him no, said I had better have, and soon took me to the bath room and such a scrubbing as @@Lary gave I had never had before, it was now past @@midnight, and I had about rested from the {@@RAK-- Please verify that "midnight" is not hyphenated. es} scrubbing when in came a nurse and bored out my belly button and filled it with something that looked like soft wax.{@@.?} then another nurse came and painted {@@RAK-- Is the previous line indented? es} my middle @@all all over red, (having washed {@@RAK-- "all" is written twice in the original. es} and thoroughly wiped it before){@@.?} Then after a little came Carl, and gave me a great in_ections {@@injection? inpection?} which cleaned me all out by this time it was daylght, I had passed an interesting night, soon a little nurse came and wound a broad bandage about my stomach {@@stumach} very tight and pinnted it then painted my lower part again so I was red as an Indian and it is there yet, soon another nurse brought a pair of large cotton stockings which reached up to the top of my legs and tied them there with a pucker string. Then a tall fellow came @@with wtih a rubber @@tired{@@?} 4 wheel truck{@@.?} {@@RAK-- Please note that "with" is written twice in the original. es} which he placed beside my cot, it was about 18" wide{@@,?} he told me to get onto it then {@@them?} put a wheet over me and wheeled me down the corridor {@@carridar?} and onto an elevator then up and down the corridor {@@carridor?} and out a wing into a small operating room. By the clock it was 10 minutes to 8, here he put me @@o_ {om?} another wagon that had small iron wheels and covered my feet and limbs with a black blanket, then wheeled me out into the corridor {@@carridor} and down to end and in door to left, and under a large reflector ith a light in the center, by the clock it as 8 A.M. The nurses were all hooded and heads wrapped in white nothing but their eytes showing, with brown rubber gloves on their hands. One of them had a tray with liquid in it which she rubbed on, with what looked like a piece of white felt, held in a little pair of tongs, she rubbed for about 10 minutes, he rubbing gave a smarting sensation, in the meantime,{@@,?} the man had got done up in white, and raised my knees and placed a small ard pillow under them and placed a large {@@laige?} tray on top of them which {@@whiceh?} he secured so I could not raise my knees, then put an iron yoke across my chest, and secured it, then placed towels across {@@acrass?} my stomach {@@stumach?} and across {@@acass?} my legs, then towels up and down on each side, and over a white rubber spread with a square hole in it where they worked {@@warked}. Then Dr. Barber came ll done up in white like the rest, and he cut a slit about 6" long up and down, @@blow{@@?} @@thers{@@?} was a big hole in the lower skin caused {@@caus} by the big truss I had worn and torn by coughing, and then the flesh and cards were grown onto the intestines on the middle side. These had to be cut clear. This was done by lifting everything up and the doctor cutting the flesh off with a pair of scissors, @@whe_{@@when? Text is difficult to read. es} all was clear they replaced the intestines cards etc @@but the skin would not cover the opening on account of the years that the rupture, and truss had held it @@____ {@@apum?} (since 1883) He then made another cut cross wise {@@crass wise} above the first and forced my right testicle up through this cut and cut it out of the white sack that enclosed it, and let me tell you I felt it when they cut the connecting cord,{@@,?} @@_r{@@or?} cords, @@three times they then {@@RAK-- I think that "three times" is underlined. Please verify. es} drew the white sack over the opening and stictched the two sides and top wtih many stitches then closed {@@clased?} the outer skin and stitched it. @@Doing the other side was put off as {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} all @@had had enough, it was now 10 A.M. {@@RAK-- Please note that "had" is written twice in the original. es} and they bandaged me up and wheeled me down to my cot, @@where I lay going {@@RAK-- There is a carat symbol before "where" but I don't see any text to be inserted here. es} through the regular @@routine{@@rotene?} until Wednesday March 21st when I went through the second operation the preparations {@@preperations} were similar {@@simular} to the first. We did not think that this was to be more than an ordinary operation but when they opened it there @@to{@@too} th organs and flesh had grafted together {@@togather} owing to the pressure of the truss{@@truse?}, separating {@@seperating} these was more painful thatn the first operation, they took a silk ribbon 1/4" wide then pulled the outer opening above where intestines were grown to the flesh {@@fest?} and put the ribbon under the gut and lifted all up and turned it over and used ribbon for a @@gauge {@@guage?} to cut the flesh away, at one time I counted 16 clamps and tools that they were using, as they cut a nurse would keep it wiped clean, and when the blood spurted {@@spirted} they would put on a clamp that would hold it, as they leaned the intestines they would lay them out some one side and some the other, I could feel them pulling round to my back, when they were freeing the testicle cord it hurt clear up to my neck. When they had all laid out I was afreaid that they would never be able to get them all back again, but they put them all back very carefully and sewed it up, then stitched up the outside, 2 hours work for four people @@Doctor, Intern, and two nurses, I might {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented? es} mention here,{@@,?} That when they were @@cutting my nut out 6 or 8 young nurses came and watched them. They seemed very much interested, they would look at that, and then look at me to see what kind of a looking old chap I was. I could see all that they were doing @@by{@@ly?} looking up into the reflector {@@refecter?}. The second time I wore my glasses {@@glassss} and I could see better than the first. Soon they wheeled me down and put me to bed, where I spent most of the time reading. They took the outside stitches out about 8 days after operations. {@@RAK-- Should text read "after the operations?" es} @@I suffered hardly any pain only during {@@RAK-- Please verify that the previous line is indented. es} the operations, {@@,?} and had every care and attention that one would need. A special nurse 4 nights after the first operation, and 2 nights after the second. Came home Wednesday April 4th Raymond and Mary came over after me with my Packard, and I paid them my bill of 138.00 having previously paid 36.00 for night nurses.{@@.?} 174.00 total. Have got to pay Dr. Barber{@@Dr. Barper} 150.00 making a total of 324.00 1928\05\25 (Friday) This afternoon I went with Mr. Rockwell to Hartford and saw Dr. Sweet about @@Mr. Rockwells hand. {1928}\05\27 (Sunday) Went to Cheshrie with the Mattatuck Drum Band, 19 men. {1928}\05\28 (Monday) I worked this forenoon on @@my Ford Truck and this afternoon Jean and I went out to the farm and planted peas, Beans. 1928\05\29 (Tuesday) Mary got up and with Genes helpd got our breakfast, @@Mrs. Leppenwell came and did the washing. I went out to the farm and @@harrowed{@@?} the upper garden, came home before noon and found the sink {@@sinc} tile clogged, it took till after three to get it opened, after which Gene and I Carried Ralph Pierponts uniform home, and we drove to Rob Wakeles and got his rig for Robt Probst to wear tomorrow. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. {1928}\05\30 (Wednesday) Memorial day. I turned out with 18 @@others {@@RAK-- Is there an "*" or a comment written in the right margin? es} of the Mattatuck Drum Band for to @@Wadb___ {@@Wadborn Wadbourne?} ms @@post No 49 of this City, there @@ar {@@are?} only 13 veterans left, out of 432 that belonged when the Post was in its prime. At 7.30 I was at Arthur Harrisons after him to play, we then went to @@De Wit Coles {@@De Witt Coles?} in Woodtick and got Chas S. Tuttle. 1928\05\31 (Thursday) Mary is better to day, so that she is up some of the time. I worked on the little Ford truck this forenoon, and after school @@Gene and I went to the farm and planted potatoes. 1928\06\01 (Friday) I worked on my auto truck this forenoon, and planted potatoes at the farm this afternoon. {1928}\06\02 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked on my Ford truck and went down town. This afternoon, Miss Pickett called to see mary and I carried her home to Mrs. Abbotts in Middlebury, and we got some flowers to put on the graves of deceased drummers in Wolcott tomorrow. {@@RAK-- Please verify that "tomorrow" is 1 word. Thank you. es} 1928\06\03 (Sunday) I went to Wolcott to day with the Mattatuck Drum Band to thed decoration of the soldiers graves. The sons of Veterans of the Civil War of Southington and Cheshire had charge. The services began at eleven in the Church Rev. Mr. Carlson in charge There were five veterans of the Civil War present, Charles Russell of Mill Dale, @@James Younge and Homer Northrop of Waterbury, Newell Moulthrop,{@@,?} of Bristol, and one from Bridgeport. After the Church service the line formed out in front, and marched round the Soldiers Monument, halted and placed flowers about it, then went to the cemetery {@@cemetary} where the G.A.R. had their service. After which the Drum Band placed flowers on the graves of their dead members {@@memebers} The graves decorated were those of @@Erastus Atkins, Stiles Atkins, and Levi Atkins all snare drummers, Prosper Hull and Sidney Alcott, fifers @@Elihu Moulthrop{@@?}, Bass Drummer, and a member of the 20 Regt during the Civil War.{@@.?} Sherman Moulthrop snare drummer, he also drummer in the 9th Regt during the Civil War. @@Thoedore Moulthrop Bass drummer, @@Homer L. Atkins fifer and drummer, he was the last Leader of the Wolcott Drum Band {@@,?} and Samuel Benham, a drummer in the Revolutionary army. Those of the Band that were present were Peter Shea Major, Charles Cass, Franklin Browne, Andrew Kitchenka, and Morris Tyler, Fifers Howard Neal, and John Garrigus, Bass Drummers, Charles S. Miller, @@Luverne Fox, Edgar Upson, Louis Greenwood, Charles,{@@,?} S. Tuttle, Herman Gessert, Arthur Harrison, and Carl Moulthrop. Snare Drummers, {@@blank space} Charles Tuttle and Carl Moulthrop, carried the stretcher loaded with flowers, Arthur Harrison lead the way to the graves beating time on muffled drum and I placed the flowers on the graves, the whole band sounded taps after placing flowers on each grave. {1928}\06\04 (Monday) I worked about home this forenoon, and worked on the Ford truck this afternoon, and went down town and bought some paint. 1928\06\05 (Tuesday) Rained all day, I worked on my little Ford truck, and painted most of it. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this {@@RAK-- Is it ok to indent the previous line? es} evening. {1928}\06\06 (Wednesday) Rained this forenoon, finished painting and work on Ford. This eve went to @@farm{@@?} and did some planting. Sold the old Ford running gear to John Garrigus for @@$10.00 {1928}\06\07 (Thursday) This morning I mowed the clothes yard and west of the garden, I then went to @@Saxe and @@Flotnes and bought 4 doz tomatoe plants 1.00 this afternoon went to the farm and set them out, repaired my Packard car. Mrs. Leffenwell came and washed 1.50 @@1928\06\08 (Friday) Went to town and got a transfer license for my Ford car in the name of Charles S. Miller and Raymond H. Miller. This afternoon planted garden at East Farms. {1928}\06\09 (Saturday) This forenoon I got the Ford car ready to run, in the @@afternoon Gene, Dotty and I went to the farm, and planted in the garden. {@@,?} Cleaned out the spring etc. 1928\06\10 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon @@Rev. J. C.{@@?} Todd. This @@afternoon Cliff, Margaret, Mary, and I went for a ride up to Wolcott, center then down the old county road to marion and up to @@Compounce pond, and back up Southington Mountain, where they are building a new road,{@@,?} and home. 1928\06\11 (Monday) This morning I mowed, weeded {@@weded} garden, and after dinner repaired auto. This evening Ray came and @@planted @@his garden. I sharpened 10 drills for Lee Garrigus. @@1.00{@@?} {1928}\06\12 (Tuesday) Mowed this morning and went to the farm. This afternoon I went to Rag Hollow and saw the work on the new road that they are guilding from West Cheshire to Prospect. {1928}\06\13 (Wednesday) Worked about home and at the farm to day This evening{@@.?} Mary, Gene, Mrs. Ineson and I went to the Mill Plain Church to a strawberry supper. We then drove to Woodtick and saw Charles Tuttle, then to maple Hill and saw Bessie Pierpont. 1928\06\14 (Thursday) Worked about home all day sharpened 6 drills for Lee Garrigus. {1928}\06\15 (Friday) Visited Raymonds new bakery this morning they expect to have it ready to use next month.{@@.?} Went out to the farm AM and to town this afternoon,{@@,?} sharpened 6 drills for Lee Garrigus @@.80{@@?} Paid Telephone bill. {1938}\06\16 (Saturday) Went to Bridgeport to Champs Farm to the Foremans outing of the International Silver Co There were about 350 foremen {@@foreman?} and 50 others there we had an elaborate {@@elaberate} dinner and a good entertainment about 33 went from Waterbury {@@Watererbury} Branch (Robers and Brother) I roade {@@wrode} down with Watson Furgushon{@@?}, and Robert Carter. The Company paid for all. {1928}\06\17 (Sunday) Attended childrens day exercises at Mill Plain this afternoon went to meeting at Woodtick Chapel, then Mary Cgarles Tuttle and I came {@@RAK-- Is it ok to insert a comma after "Mary?" Is there a comma there in the original? es} to Margarets on Beecher ave and got Margaret, Gene, Bettie and the baby and we went to East Morris to Gerris Turkingtons, but he was not at home, then we came to Laverne Fox in s not Watertown and made a call, we then carried Charles Tuttle home, and came home ourselves. 1928\06\18 (Monday) Worked about home all day {@@RAK-- Is there text written in the margin of the text? es} 1928\06\19 (Tuesday) Worked about home his forenoon Went to town and put in my list at the assessors {@@assescors} office. Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. {1928}\06\20 (Wednesday) Mary and I visited sister Iva at the Waterbury hospital {@@hospitial? haspitial?} and also @@Mr. Shaepick, this afternoon Then we went for a ride to Prospect center and down the new state road that they are building to Cheshire. {1928}\06\21 (Thursday) Longest day of the year. Mowed the Lawn and worked about home and out to the farm. Ray came and hoed his garden, this evening. {1928}\06\24 (Sunday) Attended Church as usual. This afternoon Margaret, Cliff and @@two {@@tow?} girls, Mary and I drove to Birchmere camp at Bantam lake. Gave 5.00 towards Lewis B. Holes Fund, and 10.00 towards Pierpont Window 1928\06\25 (Monday) @@Louis B. Holmes of the Southmayer Road was buried his afternoon in the new Pine Grove Cemetery {@@Cemetary}. Funeral services were held in the Mill Plain Church which was well filled. {@@RAK-- Is there any text written to the right of the previous line? es} {1928}\06\28 (Thursday) I worked about home and out to the farm to day. This evening @@Ray called and took me up to @@Capitol avenue to see his new house that is being built. 1928\07\16 (Monday) To day I got in three loads of hay at East Farms, Richard Miller of Tarrington and James Egan helped.{@@.?} me. {1928}\07\26 (Thursday) Finished haying to night. Dick Miller, James Egan and I mowed the swamp south of the Cheshire road back of the properties of Mr. Hazleherst, Mr. Wilkenbach, and Harold {@@Harald} Pierpont, and got in the last three loads to day. {1928}\07\27 (Friday) This morning Margaret, and her daughters Bettie and Gene, Northrop, and Mary and I with Dick Miller. Went in my Packard Car to West Haven where we had a @@shore{@@share?} dinner at Wilcos Pier Restaurant {@@Restaurent}, after which Margaret the Girls and Dick went bathing. We came by the @@shore {@@share?} road through Milford and across the stratford @@bridget {@@bridge?} to Shelton @@Darby {@@Derby?}, West Ansonia @@Senmour{@@?} and Naugatuck. 1928\07\29 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon. This afternoon {@@-?} Mary, myself with Cliff and his daughters Gene and Betty went to Farrington and carried Dick home. We went through Watertown, and stoped at Ferris Turkingtons in East Morris, and at Camp Birchmere at Bantam Lake and saw Marion Northrop. When we came home we went through @@Nepang, to @@Collinsville then to Unionville, Bristol and through Wolcott home. [[end of Journal; [[Read by Ruth Brundage - July '47 [[ " " Frank P. Miller - Dec. 1947 [[ " " Marian Northrop Kraft - Dec 1988 [[ " " " " " May 1992]] [[start of new Journal]] 08\02\1928 (Thursday) Raymond and Ruth moved from the parsonage corner of the Southmayd {??} road, and Homestead one, to their new house on Capitol Avenue. I worked about home this forenoon, and drew wood from the rear of the school lot at East Farms for Harold Pierpont this afternoon, but about three we gave it up as it was very hot. I felt the heat more than at any other time this year. {08\03\1928 missing?} {08\04\1928 missing?} {08\05\1928 missing?} 08\06\1928 (Monday) This morning my wife and I with Jean and Bettie Northrop left home for Ithaca N.Y. at 9:12. We passed through Middlebury at 9:45. Reached Ben Sherman Hill in Woodbury at 10:07. Roxbury 10:25 Bridgewater10:40 New Milford 10:50 Kent 11:32 where we ate our dinner at my son_s house. Left Frank_s at 1:26 and crossed the line into N.Y. at 1.40 reached Millbrook 2:47 Washington Hollow 2:55 Pleasant Valley 3:10 and Poughkeepsie 3:25 at Poughkeepsie we got fruit maps {?? can_t quite read it} etc. Then I took the ferry to Highland. Ferry 85 cts, left High- land at 4:24, Esapus 4:47, Kingston 5:15 Ulster 5:38. 3 quarts oil 75 cts. Ashokan Dam Spillway and Airating {aerating} 7:15. Stayed{sic!} at Watson Hollow Inn, at West Shokan, \120 miles from home./ {supralinear addition} 08\07\1928 (Tuesday) {entry on same line as above}. Left the Inn at 8:20. Reached Boyceville 8:45, Phoenicia, 9:10 where we had breakfast 3.00, left 10:15 reached Shandaken 10:28, then over the mountain to Westkill 11:45 Lexington 12:10 Prattsville 12:30 Stanford 1:27 Harpersfield 1:35 West Harpersfield 2:30 where we stoped at the house of Mr. Edward N. Gaylord, a decendant of Capt. Levi Gaylord who emigrated from Farmingbury [now Walcotts] {inserted} to Harpersfield in 1785. In the afternoon Mr. Gaylord, Mary and the girls took my car and we went to Oneanta twenty miles west, and then back again and stayed{sic!} over night. That evening we visited Mr. Harper Gaylord, at his home, in West Har- persfield. Next morning Aug 8, we left Mr. Gaylord_s and went through North Harpersfield at 9:50, through Jefferson 10:10 and reached William Henry Decker_s at Shew Hollow at 10:51. We remained here till 5 P.M. Having a good time and Mr. Decker and I drummed on Mr. Decker_s drums. He is a large man 82 years old, very smart and strong, and has a large farm 560 acres. We traveled to Grand Gorge, which we reached at 6:00 and passed through Prattsville 6:15 reaching Ashland at 7:00 where we stayed{sic!} over night. We left there next morning and passed through Windham, East Windham, Cairo, Leeds and reached Catskill at 11:07 Where we ferried across the Hudson river to Greendale, price 55cts and on through Hollowville, Martindale, Croryville {??}, and ac{r}oss state line into Mass. at 2:03 P.M. through South Egermont, Great Barrington Sheffield, Ashley Falls, Canaan, Norfolk, Farrington, and reached home at 5:37. {08\08\1928 through 11\09\1928 are missing (two blank pages)} {he probably put them in another book, but where is it?} {note correct spelling of "stayed" in above piece; edited?} 11\10\1928 (Saturday) The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out this day with the veterans of the World's War to celebrate Armistice Day. The line of March was out West Main St to Meadow, to Grand past City Hall in review to Bank, to East Main, to Cherry, to Grove to Wilbie High School, where exercises and pictures were given Those of the Band present were Major Peter Shea Fifers- Charles Cass, James Phalen, Robert Wakelee, Bemerst {??} Wakelee, Franklin Browne, Andrew Kitchenka Ralph Adams, Morris Tyler, and William Greenwood. Bass Drummers- Frank Kitchenka, George Cass, Rob_t {??} Probst, and John Garrigno. Snare Drummers- Charles S. Miller, Ralph Pierpont, Lauverne Fox Jr, Lauverne Fox Sr, Kerman Gessert, Arthur Harrison, Howard Neal and Edgar Upson. 11\11\1928 The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out for the Veterans of the World's War, formed in the Armory on Field st, and marched to the Honor Roll in Lybrary {??} Park, where services were held. Those present were Major Peter Shea. Fifers: Chas Cass, James Phalen, Wm Greenwood, Ralph Adams, Andrew Kitchenka, and Morris Tyler. Bass Drummers: Frank Kitchenka, John Garrigno, and Robert Probst. Snare Drummers: Ralph Pierpont, Lauverne Fox Sr, Lauverne Fox Jr, Charles S. Miller, Herman Gessart, Edgar Upton, Arthur Harrison, and Howard Neal. 11\12\1928 This forenoon I took the speedometer shaft of my Packard car down town to have it reparied. This afternoon I went out to the farm and dug around and pruned apple trees. We had the first snow of the season and I got quite wet, about 1 inch fell. 11\13\1928 This morning I took some hard wood boards to Robert Tyler_s Ladder Shop on the Meriden road and had it dressed to make picture frames. This afternoon pruned young apple trees and dug around them at the farm and went to town after my speedometer shaft. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice in my barn this evening. 11\14\1928 Worked at the farm this forenoon at the young apple trees. This afternoon I filed a single crosscut saw for Ed Bronson, went to town and repaired my Packard car. This evening attended a scotch {??} entertainment at the Mill Plain Church. 11\15\1928 This morning, Mary, Margaret with her baby and I went to Kent to visit our son Frank, we went by way of Middlebury, Southbury, Toxbury, Bridgewater, and New Milford. While there, Frank took Margaret and I up on Skipp Mountain, and through Macidonia {??} into New York state. We left there for home at 4:30 came by way of Cornwall, Goshen, Leitchfield. East Maris, and Watertown, reached home 6:30. Distance 47 miles going, 42 coming. 11\16\1928 Today I trimmed young apple trees and cultivated them on the hill. This evening Mary and I went to the moving pictures at the Church. 11\17\1928 Very warm. Thermometer 60 at 8 P.M. Trimmed apple trees about the barn lot. 11\18\1928 Attended Church this A.M. Went to service in Woodtick Chapel this P.M. and at Evening service at M.P. Church, had dinner at Clifford Northrop_s. 11\19\1928 Worked about home all day. About 6 P.M. began to rain very hard. 11\20\1928 Worked about home part of the forenoon. Went to the Mill Plain Church with a furnice {?? furnace} punch bar. Rev Mr. Todd wants me to be purchasing agent for the church. this P.M. worked at apple trees at the farm. this evening the Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice, also had a raffle drawing. Ticket #251 drew the Thanksgiving dinner, it was held by Billy Hesphelt of Pierpont Hights {Heights}, there was $145.00 worth of tickets sold. 11\21\1928 Went out to the farm this morning and trimmed apple trees and pulled out some rocks, at noon went to the Church with Mary and helped them trim their booth. Finished the trees at the farm this afternoon. This evening attended the fair at the Mill Plain Church. The ladies served 325 suppers, bought one gallon of transmission oil of Howard Caley. 11\22\1928 Forty five years ago today Mary and I were married in the new Mill Plain Chapel, by Rev Joseph Micae {??} pastor of Trinity. (we were the first ever married in the Chapel.) Today I repaired a large plow iron for the Calvary Cemetary, and worked on a large tripod for heavy lifting. This evening we attended the second night of the fair at the Mill Plain Church. 11\23\1928 Helped Mr. Albert the janitor of Mill Plain Church to put up a basket ball ring in the gymnasiums this forenoon, and brought home a load, remains of the fair. Worked about home this P.M. 11\24\1928 Made iron steps for Raymond_s Iron Clother pole {??} this A.M. This afternoon went out to the farm and worked about home. 11\25\1928 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church and spent the rest of day at home, went to evening at M.P. Chruch. 11\26\1928 I made picture frames in the wheel house this forenoon. This P.M. I went and saw M.E. Pierpont_s new milk house and ice cream plant. This evening I made a pair of drum sticks. A man had his car go down a 14 ft bank by Beebies gas station, he borrowed a chain of me and brought it back with a broken hook. 11\27\1928 Wether {weather} cold. Henry Beckwith repaired my Packard and tigtened the clutch on my Ford. [Paid 1.50] {added underneath} 11\28\1928 Did blacksmith work this forenoon till Arthur Winchell came to install the radio set that Ruth Brundage gave us, this P.M. I went to Cheshire and got two sticks 2x4- 20ft long [1.65] {inserted}, and made them into a mast for the radio wire. Mrs. Girtrude Bradley Walker died this morning aged 79. 11\29\1928 Thanksgiving day. The somers family held their reunion and had dinner at the Woodstock Chapel there were about 47 present. They made a donation to the Chapel of $30.00 We afterwards went to the house of Berkeley Frisbie and visited a spell. 11\30\1928 Snowed this morning, turned to rain at night. I have made 9 picture frames today for Drum band pictures. 12\01\1928 Alfred Winchel installed the radio today. I dug out the ditch west of the drinking trough at East Farm and put a hasp on the big door of the barn. A dog cme into the yard and went into the chicken yard and nearly killed a hen. I caught the dog and called the dog warden and he took the dog. 12\02\1928 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning. Went to Cheshire and saw Dea Brown this afternoon, and at Church this Evening. 12\03\1928 Worked about home all day. Bessie Pierpont took away two loads of hay from my home barn, Rained this evening 12\04\1928 Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice today. Charles Tuttle took dinner with us, and I carried him home. Goul {??} Clark drew the last of the hay away from my barn, showed Mrs. Fogg where the first Baptist Church stood. 12\05\1928 Daniel Farrington and I apprised {appraised} the Mrs. Thomas Mills Estate this forenoon, $11957.27. Cleaned and oiled My Packard Car this afternoon, and cleaned out the barn. This eve attended a meeting of the Official Board of Mill Plain Union Church. {12\06\1928 (Thursday) is missing} 12\07\1928 Yesterday morning Raymond Ruth, Mrs. Clarance Brown, and myself left at 7:30 for New York in my Packard. We reached Roxey_s garage, Car 149 and St {?? State} Street at 10:30. Just 90 miles. We took the elevated cars and went to {nothing written} street and from there we went to St. Regas restaurent and had dinner, after which we went to the Seventh National Exposition, Power and Mechanical Engineering Grand Central Palace at Lexington Avenue, 46 to 47 sts, where we spent the afternoon, that is Ray and I, while the women went shopping. We saw all kinds of Machinery, principally Electric, at six the women came and we all met Mr. Leonard and went to 50th st where we had supper, and at 7:10 we took the elevated cars to 145 st where {we} got our auto and started down the concorse {concourse}, the street lights were grand but farther on, red, white and blue lights were hung on each side of the street for more than a mile, they were hung in line with the lamps about one foot apart, we got lost, but found a man in an auto who piloted us up to the Boston Post Road, and we reached home at 10:30. Today I have worked about home. Took my big car over to Henry Beckwith_s to have him take the carbon out, and I sharpened 10 picks for the Calvery Cemetary. 12\08\1928 Worked about home today. Snowed this evening, there was many auto accidents. 12\09\1928 Attended Service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning and evening. Attendance 126 morn _ 185 eve 12\10\1928 Ground covered with snow. Wrote this forenoon for the Community news. Cleaned out the upper part of the barn this P.M. 12\11\1928 Worked about home most of the time today, went out to the farm this noon, and down to Margaret_s, and to the Cobler_s this forenoon. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 12\12\1928 Made a center rest for my small Lathe to turn drum sticks, this P.M. I went to the farm and took care of jasper, and drilled and split a large stone. 12\13\1928 This A.M. I went to Margaret_s and got a type{-}written article and took it up to the Church to Mr. Todd. He showed me a letter that he had written to the Pastor of the cummunity church at Hartford in regard to the plans that Irving drew for our church and which they wish to use. They are to pay $1000.00 for them. 12\14\1928 Worked about home most of the day. This evening Rev and Mrs. Joseph Todd called, they had just returned from Hartford where they had been to see the minister of the Hartford Community Church about an article and picture of their proposed Church that was published in the Hartford Times last Sunday under the name of a Hartford architect, and not giving Irving C. Miller any credit for the for the plans {not a typo} etc. He learned that it was a mistake and they are doing all in their power to correct it. 12\15\1928 This forenoon I worked on the new iron clothes posts for Marie_s drying wires. This afternoon worked on Leland Garrigno_s new house on the Meriden Road near his father_s. 12\16\1928 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, morning and evening. Attendance Morning 134, evening 72. 12\17\1928 At 11 A.M. I began work on a Cornish Tractor that belongs to the Calvary Cemery putting a snow plow on it. This afternoon has been very rainy. 12\18\1928 worked putting snow plow attachment on Tractor, finished at 2 P.M. Mr. Garthwait gave me 10.00 for what I did. I repaired the sidewalk on the Frost Road. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 12\19\1928 Put up tools, bolts, iron, etc. and went out to the farm and took can of Jasper and got in a lot of bedding from the stack, came home at noon, and Mary and I got ready and went to Mrs. George Hitchcock_s funeral, she was aged 82 years. Rev Joseph Todd officiated. 12\20\1928 Cleaned the yard etc and went out to the farm and cared for Jasper (the ax) then went to Bessie Pierpont_s lot on the Todd Road and chopped on a big dead chestnut tree till noon. This afternoon I finished cutting down the tree, it measured 3 1/2 ft across the stump. This eve went to the Sunday School Christmas excercises at the Church, 450 present in the gymnasim. {last 2 lines squeezed in at bottom of page} 12\21\1928 This morning at 9 o_clock I was at Dr. Brewster_s dentist and he filled one of my teeth, it took hime one hour and he charged $5.00. This afternoon went to Todd road and cout out and brought in 1 load of wood. 12\22\1928 Cold this morning, themometer {thermometer} stood at zero. After breakfast I killed three hens, and we picked and dressed them for Christmas. I then went to the farm and took care of Jasper, then went up to the Todd Road, and cut out a load of wood and brought it home. After dinner Rev Mr. Todd came and told us, that a committee of the Hartford Community Church will be at our church and have a check of $1000.00 for Irving to pay for the plans. I made a big iron pipe frame {??} for a 5 ft cross cut saw. this evening, Mary and I went to Charles Tuttle_s and he gave her $5.00 for the curch dept. Mr. Todd told us that they had raised over $6000.00 which completed the $75000.00 dept and Completion fund, and $1000.00 besides. 12\23\1928 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning. The church was very pritily {prettily} decorated for Christmas. A building committee from the Church in Hartford was there to observe acostic {acoustic} properties, and they brought a check of $1000.00 to be sent to Irving to pay for the plans, and a letter confirming the adoption of the same. This afternoon I attended Christmas service at the Woodtick Chapel, and this evening at- tended vesper service at Mill Plain Church. When we reached home this noon we found Frank and his family here from Kent, they were on their way to Starr_s. 12\24\1928 Put togather {together} a doll Carriage, a scooter, and express wagon for Rev Mr. Todd. This afternoon went out to farm and took care of Jasper and got a Christmas tree, repaired the Covering on the hot water pipes in the cellar, and went to the dentist at 5 o_clock. 12\25\1928 Merry Christmas. We had our Christmas dinner as we have been in the habit of doing every year. Clyde was here from Farrington, with his wife Fritzie and sons Dick, Willard and Bobbie, and daughter Nancy. Irve is in Milwaukee with his family, we called him on the long distance telephone, and were told that Barbara was better and the rest were quite well. Ruth was here from Starr_s with Jack and their sons Roger, Kenneth, Pierce and Daughter Peggy. Margaret came with Clifford, and their daughters Marian, Bettie Jean, and Wanita. Frank came from Kent with Elsie and two daughters and son Dwight, and Ray and Ruth completed list 27 in all. Later we had a Christmas Tree, and all had more or less presents. {??} The day has been the pleasentest Christmas day that I remember. 12\26\1928 This forenoon I filed a cross cut saw and made a frame in the afternoon went to the Todd road and cut up a big chestnut log. 12\27\1928 This morning I put my ax, cross, cut saws, wedges etc in my Ford truck, and went to the farm and took care of Jasper. At 8:20 I got into the truck intending to {go} to the Todd road and cut up the big chestnut log. My car was on the north side of the road headed East on our own land, I wished to continue east, and aftyer waiting for cars to pass, I noticed the nearest car [was one] {inserted} going west about 400 ft away. I crossed diagonally to a point within about three feet of the south side of the roadway, when I was struck by a 1/2 ton truck driven by Eben A. Hale of Cheshire, who was coming at a terrific rate, he struck my left Front wheel and Mr. Forrest Chapen who was near-| by said that my car went in the air and was thrown about thirty feet, I saw the car coming and put on power to cross ahead of him, the nest I rember {remember} I was head down and a stream of blood was running in a pool in the top of my hat. I was over Mr. Hazelhurst_s front walk. My car was turned over, and I was in with top steering wheel, cushion etc. Mr. Chapen and Mr. Wilkensback pulled me out. The other car continued on past the hous{e} and down towards the cemetary and was brought {to} a stop on the level driveway past Mr. Gretter_s garage. The telephoned for the police and Mr. H.V. Hayes and Carl Hesphelt came. Mr. Hayes said that we wer both to blame, soon Mr. Wilkensback brought me home in in his car and we called Dr. Barber who came and after looking me over, took two stitches in the cut on my head. Mr. Montambeau towed my car in and left it in my yard. 12\28\1928 Have been in the house nearly all day, my leg pains me much. Eben Hale and his sister called and asked for a settlement, I suggested that they pay me $50.00. 12\29\1928 Rather sore all over especially the bruse {bruise} on my leg and side. This afternoon Mr. Eben Hale and an insurance adjuster Mr. Sanbourn from Keen New Hampshire called and began quissing {quizzing}. I told them that as the car was owned jointly by Ray and myself they would have to talk to both of us. We called Ray at the factory and made an appointment for 7 this evening. When the time arrived they all called and after some discussion it was agreed to settle for $45.00 and Mr. Sanbourn drew a check for that amount and We signed a release. Howard Neal called this afternoon 12\30\1928 Not feeling very well. I attended service at the Mill Plain church. Mr. William Jones called for Mary and me and took us up in their Car. Today Ray bought a second hand 1925 touring car of R.W. Henion for $25.00 and brought it here. This evening I am not feeling as well, the wound on my head pains, and my leg hurts. 12\31\1928 (Monday) Staied in house all day. Doctor came and dressed the wound on my head and it is now better. [[end of 1928 entries]] 01/01/1929 Very stormy all day, snow, rain and freeze. Have been in house all the day. This afternoon Wm. Gillettee {??}, Iva, and Louis called. 01/02/1929 Ground covered with ice. In house all day. Daoctor came before noon, my head is better tonight. This is night for monthly meeting of Mattatuck Drum Band. No on came. 01/03/1929 Cut stove wood this forenoon. At noon Margaret came and looked over some papers that I had written for the Community News. After dinner Mr. Haig came with another lady reporter for the Republican and looked over my Noah Webster book for an article for the paper. Thy took my picture also. The rest of the day I spent sawing wood. Ed Bronson brough two saws to be filed. 01/04/1929 Repaired shoes and filed Ed Bronson's saws this forenoon. Worked on the 1925 Ford car this afternoon, Mr. Hale of Cheshire called this forenoon. 01/05/1929 Worked on autos. Dr came before noon and dressed my head. Mr. Wilkinsback called this noon. Howard Neal called after dinner. Weather has been cool. 01/06/1929 Rained hard all night and a greater part of the day but tonight it is turning cold. We did not go to church as my head hurt and Mary did not feel well. This eve Ray and Ruth called. 01/07/1929 The doctor called today, paid him $10.00, 8 more due. Took the big car and went out to the farm. Worked on the Ford cars the rest of the day. 01/08/1929 Went to the farm this afternoon. Worked on automobiles the rest of day. Mattatuck Drum Band met this evening, were paid for Armistice day. Mr. Coley left 5 gals of engine oil. Paid him $3.25 01/09/1929 Worked on Ford car this forenoon. After dinner went to farm, then to town to Doctor. To bank and had 98.26 transfered {transferred} from my book to the Mattatuck book. 01/10/1929 Took up my written article for the Community News to Rev Mr. Todd this noon, "The Early Churches of Mill Plain." The rest of day worked on Ford 01/11/1929 Repaired the truck for Calvary Cemetary, and worked on the Ford what time I had. Went to Mr. Montambeau's tire shop and got two felt washers, and paid him $3.00 for towing my truck home Dec 27, 1928 01/12/1929 This afternoon I went to the doctor's office and he dressed my head. Spent the rest of the day working on the Ford. 01/13/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Clyde and Family [except Dick] {inserted} called. Snowed this evening Mrs. Bessie Pierpont is 50 years old today. 01/14/1929 Very cold this morning. 18 below zero. Did odd jobs about home all day. 01/15/1929 Snowed hard this morning. I cleaned out all of the walks, and made an electric heater. This afternoon I went to North Main St and saw Dr. Barber, he did up my head. I paid hime what I owed hime $14.00. Had a ton of soft coal come today. Howard Neal called this evening. 01/16/1929 15 below zero this morning. Went to farm this noon. Worked about home rest of day. Mad three hooks for chains. 01/17/1929 Cold, icy, and wet today. Worked on Ford car. 01/18/1929 Warm and thawed today, snow nearly all gone. Got my old wrecked Ford into the shed and started taking it apart. W.L. Garrigno got hurt out at M.E. Pierpont's new barn yesterday where a staging gone wrong. {??} 01/19/1929 Worked all day taking the delivery body off one Ford and putting it on another. Weather warm and thawing. Lewis Somers and wife called last evening. 01/20/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church. This afternoon went to Woodtick to service. Howard Neal and Marian Northrop went also. 01/21/1929 Worked about home most of the day. Repaired three chains made punches and bold chisels, worked on Ford body. Went to Mill Plain Church and got bill board. Weather cold. 01/22/1929 Weather nice and clear, not very cold. Worked about home 01/23/1929 Weather this morning about 2 inches of snow on the ground, fell during the night. This forenoon I sharpened 14 hand drills for Calvary Cemetery, swept the paths and worked the rest of day on car. Mary and I went up to Rays and had supper, and spent the evening. 01/24/1929 It has been cold today. I attended the the stock- holders meeting of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc, this afternoon. Went to Mr. J.K. Smith's house on first ave and got him and carried him up. 01/25/1929 Snow. Hail, and Rain all day, got Ford into the big garage and fixed the stove so it is warm. 01/26/1929 Mr. Newell Moulthrop of Bristol died this morning at 2:30, he was the last surviving member of the Wolcott Drum Band that went to the Civil War, had his Bass Drum captured from him at Irish Bend La, 1863. Hew was a member of the 23 Regt C.V. {??} was over 90 years of age. I have marched many miles with him. A fleet of eight air plains {planes} passed over this morning headed South West at about 9:30 01/27/1929 Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. 01/28/1929 Cold day. Reparied washing machine this forenoon worked on auto this P.M. Ray called this evening and showed me about dash light. 01/29/1929 Very cold all day, and windy I worked on top of car. 01/30/1929 Nice cool day. Worked on the Ford Car. We received a letter from Irving today that says the A.O. Smith Co. is now makng 365 auto frames per hour since they improved the machine, before they could only make 312 per hour. They hope to make farther improve- ments so that they can turn out 425 finished and painted frames per hour. Mary and I went to Margaret's to supper this evening, it being Jean's 13 birthday. 01/31/1929 Ordered a top cover from Sears and Roebuck of boston and one 29x 4.40 Baloon tire. Got in a lot of bedding for the ox out to the farm and worked on the Ford auto the rest of the time. 02/01/1929 This fornoon I sharpened seven picks and three large bull points for the Calvary Cemetary. The weather cold, the themometer {thermometer} has not been above freezing for a week. 02/02/1929 Mr. Bell died yesterday, he was Mrs. Haypenny's father. Weather today has been cool. 02/03/1929 Attended Mill plain Union Church this morning. There 16 in the Choir, and 140 total attendance. Rev Joseph O. Todd preached. Weather has been cold. 02/04/1929 Mr. Bell was buried this afternoon, I was one of the pall bearers, from house to Christs Chapel, then to Pine Grove Cemetary. Weather Cold, zero this morning. 02/05/1929 5 below zero this morning, thawed a little at noon. Had a letter from Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancover {Vancouver} Washington yesterday telling of the death of his wife. The Mattatuck Drum Band held its monthly meeting to- night. Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Edgar Upson, John Garrigno Frank Kitchenka, Howard Neal, Lauverne Fox Sr., myself and Lauverne Fox Jr were present. 02/06/1929 Snowed at times all day turned to rain this even- ing. We attended the men's club fair at the Mill Plain Union Church this evening. I finished making the top for the Ford truck. Bought a Ton of coal (soft) {$}9.35 of Goldsmith Chatfield Co. 02/07/1929 Heavy rain all night and this morning, much damage done by roads washing etc. The bridge on the Mattatuck Ca's {??} dam washed away tonight. Mary and I attended the men's Fair at the Mill Plain Union Church. 02/08/1929 Weather today fair and warm. Worked about house all day. 02/09/1929 The Gas Company are sinking a gas regulator in the ground under the sidewalk on the Frost road close to my fence. I worked all day on the little Ford truck. 02/10/1929 We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon at 11 o'clock. No one is allowed to cross the footbridge on the dam at Homestead avenue. Ferris Turkenton and his wife of Morris called this afternoon. Roy called this evening and waited for Ruth to come. She had been visiting in New Haven. 02/11/1929 This morning I went to the center and bought paint to paint the Ford with. Got my drivers license for 1929 (paid 3.00) bought tape for Ford dash, went to the bank made a deposit, and got a check cashed, came home and worked on the Ford car some, this afternoon. 02/12/1929 Worked painting the Ford truck. 02/13/1929 Cold all day themometer (termometer), zero this morning, 30 above at noon. 02/14/1929 Worked on Ford truck most of the day. 02/15/1929 I repaired and put up an adertising board in the front yard this morning. This afternoon went and to the farm, care of Jasper came back and went to the Mill Plain Church and got a nice hat that I drew at the men's fair, came home and cut down a large wild cherry tree, then went down town and bought some paint and varnish. 02/16/1929 Worked about home all day, except the time it took to go out to the farm and take care of Jasper. A real estate man offered me 12,000.00 dollars for this place today. Mr. David Pichard offered 15,000.00 some time ago. The weather today has been warmer than it has been before in some time. 02/17/1929 Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Church this forenoon. This afternoon we went to the Woodtick Chapel. Rev Joseph Todd officiated. We took Mrs. George Brown home and made a call on Mr. Browne. 02/18/1929 I varnished the Ford Truck today. Weather has been fine. Men began digging a cellar on the lot north of mine today for a two story, two family house, for Mr. Brennan. 02/19/1929 Nice day spent most of the time sewing new celoid {??} windows in my car. This evening I wrote Drum Band Music on the curtains in the Band Room. 02/20/1929 Very cold. I stitched lights in my car, and chopped wood. 02/21/1929 Snowed today to a depth of about 10 inches. I made fine picture frames, and towards night dug out the paths. 02/22/1929 Washington's birthday, weather has been warmer. I went to Woodtick and saw Mrs. Badger and gave her an account of Theodore Boynton who lived in the house where she now resides. 02/23/1929 Margaret's Birthday, 40 years old. Her daughters ---- {?? can't read} birthday 1 year old. 02/24/1929 We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon. Mary and I took dinner at Howard Neal's at 41 {or is it 141?} street. This evening Roy and Ruth called. 02/25/1929 This morning I went down town and had my license transfered {transferred} to my new truck. 02/26/1929 Stormed all day, rain and ice. I wrote and worked about home all day except after dinner I went to the farm and cared for Jasper as I do every day. 02/27/1929 I sorted bolts the most of the forenoon, and put pictures in frames. This afternoon James Egan and I went out to the farm and dug a trench to turn the water away from the barn. 02/28/1929 Rain and snow all day. Went to town this noon then went out to the farm and cared for Jasper and worked about the barn this afternoon. 03/01/1929 This has been a fine day. I went to town and bought a wiper for my Packard and a motor gasket for my Ford. Theodore Munson called this evening and told of the death of Miss Adella M. Shannon at Medina N.Y. last Tuesday. 03/02/1929 Rained this forenoon turned to snow and still snowing. Mr. Henry Cooley was brought home from the hospital this afternoon. An agent brought a large radio yesterday and set it up, but we did not care for it and they took it away today. 03/03/1929 Mary and I attended service, morning and evening at the Mill Plain Union Church. Traveling bay snow and wet, thawed much. 03/04/1929 President Hoover was inaugrated {inaugurated} today. Weather fair till about four o'clock when it rained. I started up my made over Ford truck today. 03/05/1929 Worked on car this morning, and on the barn this P.M. Rained all day. 03/06/1929 Weather fair but very muddy. Went to town this afternoon and gt some wigs for the drummers to wear next friday evening. This eve attended a meeting of the official board. 03/07/1929 Growing colder all day, tonight freezing. Had a letter from Milwaukee written by Irving, he had his operation last friday. Edgar Upson and Morris Tyler came this evening and practiced for the event tomorrow night. 03/08/1929 Chopped down trees on the Calvary Cemetary lot. Morris Tyler, Edgar Upson and I represented "the spirit of 76" at Temple Hall this evening. 03/09/1929 All kinds of weather today. Warm, sun, rain, snow. Wind and very cold tonight. I cut wood on the Cemetary lot. 03/10/1929 Mary and I attended worship at the Mill Plain Union Church this morning and evening. 03/11/1929 Have been making a drag for the Calvary Cemetary to dress their roads with. Weather has been nice today. Mr. Brennan has two large cellers {cellars} dug ready to wall up north of my lot. Had a ton of soft coal come today, $9.35. 03/12/1929 The Gas Company filled the hole in my side- walk this afternoon. The weather today has been fair. 03/13/1929 The Republican reported this morning that there was 10 brush fires yesterday. The weather today has been warm and fine. Miss Harriet Pierpnt died this evening at 6:30 aged 76, last September. 03/14/1929 Rained all day. I put 16 wheel barrow loads of hen manure on the front lawn. Went to Montambeau's and got my recharged battery. Repaired the sidewalk for a distance. 03/15/1929 Rained more or less all day. I wheeled ashes into the drive way this forenoon. This afternoon took a old auto body out to the farm, and later got anouther body ready to load. 03/16/1929 This afternoon at 2:30 we attended the funeral of Miss Harriet Pierpont. Rev John Lewis of St. John' Church officiated, she was buried in East Farms Burying Ground. She died of cancer. 03/17/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Morning and evening. 03/18/1929 I choped {chopped} down a big white oak tree this morning, this afternoon I picked 6 stone boat loads of stones off the garden out to the farm. 03/19/1929 Chopped wood this morning, this afternoon got out manure at the farm. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 03/20/1929 The paper states that there has been 12 [[eight]] brush fires in town that the firemen put out. Mary, Margaret, Hiram Able and I drove to West Haven this morning to the Armstrong Rubber Co. and I bought a tire and tube for the Ford truck for $6.98 and a tire and tube for my Packard 33 x 4 1/2 for $15.45 {??}. We then went to the West Haven shore and ate our dinner by the side of the water. We then went to Charlie Cass'es at North Farms in Wallingford and got some apple tree grafts, and then came home by way of Meriden. 03/21/1929 Today I choped {chopped} down a large maple tree two feet in diameter. 03/22/1929 Chopped wood all day, except the time I went out to the farm to care for Jasper. 03/23/1929 This morning I chopped wood, and this afternoon dug a ditch through the swamp east of the hen house. Rained hard at noon, but warm. 03/24/1929 Attended service this morning and evening at The Mill Plain Union Church. A small meeting was held at the East Farms Cemetary of those interested, and they elected the following officers, President Charles S. Miller, Vice President Morton E. Pierpont. Secretary Howard Neal. Treasurer Morton E. Pierpont. 03/25/1929 Chopped up a tree, went out to the farm, came back, choped {chopped} some more till driven to cover by the rain. This evening it thundered and lightened. 03/26/1929 I harrowed the garden at East Farms this afternoon, and sawed the large branches of the maple tree that I cut down. It has rained quite a little. 03/27/1929 Nice weather today, finished cutting cord wod and commenced cutting stove wood. Mary and I went to Raymon{d}'s to supper and spent the evening. 03/28/1929 Carried my writing down to Margaret to be typewrittin this noon. Tomorow at Teeds gap in Wallingford the Wallingford Trap Rock Quarry Co are to explode 38 tons of dynamite. 03/29/1929 Good Friday or Fast Day. This morning Mr. and Mrs. Hapenny and their daughter, Mary and I in my Packard car left home about nine o'clock and went to Kent, we went by way of Middlebury, Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater, New Milford, Gaylords Bridge, and Bullsdridge, the whole being 47 miles. We visited the Farm barns and buildings and after dinner Frank took his Buic {Buick ??} Car and took us up the new road through Macidonia over the New York state line. We then returned to the Kent school, where he showed us through the store, the cooler, the boiler room, the kitchen, Dining hall, and Main Building, after which we returned to the barn, and saw the milking machines set to work, and the milking and feeding progress, after which, we started for home about 4 o'clock we came by way of Kent Falls, Swifts bridge Cornwell bridge, Bunker hill, West Goshen, Goshen, Farrington, and Thomaston. 03/30/1929 Damp and rain. I repaired the fence about the East Farms Cemetary some. This forenoon Mary told me that Frank Kitchenka had been here and left word for me to call Peter Shea. I called him and he informed me that a man from Hartford was here yesterday to see if the Mattatuck Drum Band would go to Richmond Va with the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford next month. The paper stated that there was 24 fires yesterday. 03/31/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning and evening. Clyde called this afternoon with his family. 04/01/1929 The paper stated that there were eight fires yesterday mostly bush fires. Major Peter Shea, Frank Kitchenka and I went to Hartford this evening in Frank's new Chevolay {Chevrolet} Car to meet members of the Putnam Phalanx and made arangements {arrangements}, which are to be confirmed to go to Richmond with the whole Mattatuck Drum Band on May 9th 10-11-12 and 13. 04/03/1929 {date wrong for the rest of the week, corrected on 04/08/1929} This day I worked about home taking the engine out of the old Ford. The Mattatuck Drum Band [[went]] held a meeting and voted to go to Richmond Va. next month, May 9-10-11-12 and 13. 04/04/1929 Fine weather, went up to Woodtick after dinner to see Chas Tuttle, but he was not at home. Attended the meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Church. 04/05/1929 This forenoon saw Chas De Bissop about seeding the Church lawn, went with him to the New Haven Reservoir in Prospect, where he made a bargain with the New Haven Water Co. to clean the bottom of the new pond which is formed by making the new road, with his steam shovel for $60.00 per day. This afternoon choped {chopped} wood till four o'clock when it began to rain, then I went up to Woodtick to see Charles S. Tuttle about drumming at Richmond Va. next mont. 04/06/1929 This forenoon I took Margaret, Miss Pickett, Mary, and myself and we went to the Cemetery at East Morris and looked over the graves of Miss Pickett's family, then from there we went to the East Cemetery in Litchfield and Margaret and I looked through that yard, saw the graves of my grandfater and grandmother. 04/07/1929 Chopped fire wood all day. 04/07/1929 {date now correct} Attended service morning and evening at Mill Plain Church. This afternoon Howard Neal, Miss Pickett and Mary and I went to Mr. Lewis in Marion, and to Arthur Harrison's and Chas Tuttle's in Wolcott. 04/08/1929 Sawed. Choped {chopped} fire wood and got it into the wood house and piled up all day. Weather very hot, 98ø at noon. Mr. Frank E. Soule 750 Main St Hartford In charge of M.D.B. for Richmond trip. Headquarters in Putnam Phalanx 314 Washington St. 04/09/1929 Cut stove wood all day and piled it in the woodhouse. Weather hot but not as bad as yesterday. The Mattatuck Drum band met for practice this evening. The present members of the Band are Peter Shea Drum Major Fifers Charles Cass William Greenwood. James Phelan Morris Tyler. Andrew Kitchenka Ralph Adams Franklin Browne John Sexton Bement {??} Wakelie Robert Wakelie Bass Drummers Frank Kitchenka George Cass John Garrigus {??} Ray Miller Robert Probst Paul Miller Snare Drummers Charles Miller Lewis Greenwood Charles Tuttle Charles Monahan Arthur Harrison Edgar Upson Lauverne Fox Ralph Pierpont Herman Gessert Howard Neal 04/10/1929 Rained hard all day, some snow. Went to Mill Plain Church and gave my writing to Mr. Todd. Went to town this P.M., made a pair of drum sticks. The following are the newly elected officers of the Putnom Phalanx April, 1929 as announced by Major Clifford D. Perkins. Major E.C. Bigelow, adjutant Captain Frank E. Soule, chief of staff; the Rev Sherrold Soule, chaplain; Lieutenant O.L. Lord, quartermaster; Lieutenant Charles F. Coates, inspector, Lieutenant John B. Byrne, judge advocate; Lieutenant Thomas H Dackrell, paymaster; Captain Joseph E. Root, M.D. surgeon; Lieutenant George A. Long, engineer; Lieutenant George Zunnee, commissary; Lieutenant H. B. Babcock, assistant inspector; Lieutenant D. K. Goodwin, assistant quartermaster Lieutenant N.W. Schwab, assistant commissary; Lieutenant D.McMilan, assistant engineer; Lieutenant Thomas E. Duncan, assistnat paymaster; Lieutenant John A. Gleson, ade {aide?}; Honary {honorary} staff, Robert Karl F. Brown, Captain Robert Parteous {??}. 04/11/1929 Finished chopping stove wood today. Saw Charles De Bissop about grading about the church. 04/12/1929 Rained hard all day, I made tow pairs of drum sticks, and four drum slings. Went to town this noon. 04/13/1929 Lowery day with snow. Went to the tailor in Cheshire and took over John Garrigus {??} Drum Coat and Mr. Fox pants to be repaired. Finished cuting stove wood and got it all into the woodhouse. 04/14/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church morning and evening. 04/15/1929 This morning I took a load of old Auto parts out to the farm and brought back a load of wood. This afternoon I worked repairing a large iron gate that belongs to St. Joseph's Cemetary. We recived {received} a confirming letter from Hartford stating that the Mattatuck Drum Band have been chosen by the Putnam Phalanx to accom- pany them to Richmond next month. 04/16/1929 Rained hard all day. I worked reparing the big iron gate to St. Joseph's Cemetary. The Mattatuck Drum Band had a rehersel {rehearsal} and meeting tonight. 04/17/1929 Wen{t} to town to town this morning and left a copy of the history of the Mattatuk Drum Band with Peter Shea to have printed by the John Price Printing Co. 04/18/1929 Went to John Pricis {Price's} printing office and got Peter Shea's measure for Drum Band Pants. 04/19/1929 I painted boottops this morning, then went to Mr. Atkinson's in Wolcott and got the measure of Robert Wakelie's Vest and pants. After dinner I took them to Cheshire to Mr. S. Garson the tailor and also the measure of Pete Shea's, and James Phelan's and at Coat of [[John]] Robert Wakelie to have the sleeves made 1" longer. When I got home Mr. Hapenney had left 12 drills to be sharpened, which I daid {did}. Then went to St. Joseph's Cemetary and looked at a fence that is to be repaired. Then went to John Sexton's home and made arangements {arrangements} to use his uniform for Bob Probst to wear to Richmond. 04/20/1929 Went up East Mountain and saw Charles De Bissop about and Iron Fence and grass seeding about the Mill Plain Church. I set out five apple trees at the farm this morning. Halled {hauled} a white oak log and a maple log up from the edge of the swamp with Nicholas Hapennie's Tractor. Weather damp and rain this afternoon. 04/21/1929 This A.M. at 11 o'clock we attended service at Mill Plain Church, at 3 we went to Woodtick Chapel. Mr. Todd officiated. We brought Chas Tuttle home with us, had supper and at 7:30 went to Mill Plain Church. 04/22/1929 Worked about home today. This evening Howard Neal, Frank Kitchenka and I went to Hartford to the Putnam Phalanx Headquarters at 314 Washington St to see about going to Richmond but there was no one there but the janitor. The company had gone to New Haven to atted the powder house ball. We left John Sexton's uniform with Robert Probst. 04/23/1929 Worked at flower beds and at East Farms Cemetery. The Mattatuck Drum Band held a practice and business meeting tonight. 04/24/1929 This morning I took the measure of William Greenwood's Vest to Cheshire. I then went to Morris Cemetery with Mary and Miss Picket and plubed up the stones and fixed up the lots of her mother and brother. 04/25/1929 This morning it rained a little and I went to East Farms and worked pulling brush stumps and roots with my ox from under the fenel. This afternoon it rained hard, and I lettered 2 bass drums, whitened belts, and colored boot tops etc. 04/26/1929 This morning I went to the farm and spred {spread} manure on the big garden and plowed aroun it a few times. This afternoon I went to town and paid my back auto tax, and paid the telephone bill, then I walked up the Naugatuck river to where they are putting the new trunk line sewer in opposite the junction of the Bunkerhill road and looked that over, the sewer is a large concrete pipe about 60 inches in diameter, and in lengths about 6 ft long, after I got home I painted the iron clothes posts in the back yard green. 04/27/1929 I spaded in the garden this morning then went to Hattie Pierpont's place, and Mary got a lot of dishes that cousin Mary Pierpont gaver her. I repaired the Cemetery gate at East Farms. Went this afternoon with Mary and got a load of dishes at Hattie's place, then went to town etc. 04/28/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church Weather fair till about 5 P.M. when it began to rain, is now raining very hard at 9. 04/29/1929 Worked all the forenoon lettering signs etc, this afternoon at farm and garden etc. This evening went to Hartford with Herman Gessert and made the final arangements {arrangements} with the Officers of the Putnam Phalanx to go to [[Boston]] Richmond, Washington, Yorktown etc. Got home at midnight. 04/30/1929 Plowed my garden at East Farms and worked about home. The Mattatuck Drum Band held the usual Tuesday evening meeting tonight, and made arangements {arrangements} to go to Richmond next week. 05/01/1929 Plowed Mr. William Garrigus garden at East Farms this forenoon, spaded the last part of my home garden this P.M. Attended the Official Board Meeting at the Mill Plain Church, this evening. 05/02/1929 This morning I went to the shoe shop on Grand Street and saw about the boottops that are there being made, but they could not get the spring. I went to the Hotchkiss Co. and got some spring steel and took it to the Waterbury Metal Co. on Jefferson st to have the springs made. Then I went to Cheshire and saw about the Pants and vests that Mr. Garson the tailor is making, and he agreed to have them ready by Saturday night. This afternoon I went to the Mill Plain Church and carted soil on the lawn and soon had Mr. Albert and his three boys helping and soon had the lawn covered and I sowed the grass seed and we had it raked off by six o'clock 05/03/1929 Worked at the Mill Plain Church today putting in a tile drain from the west side of the sunday school building to carry away the roof rain water. This evening I set out a Maple tree east of the barn. 05/04/1929 This morning I worked up to the Mill Plain Church digging a large hole to be stoned up for the drain roof water to run into, it is located about 4' north of the Homestead ave curb stone and about 4' east of the tower walk. This noon Capt Frank D. Soule of Hartford telephoned and wanted me to send him the names of the members of the Mattatuck Drum Band that expect to go to Richmond next week. I had Margaret typewrite a letter and took it to the Post office and mailed it after 2 P.M. The names are to be sent to the hotel in Richmond where we are to stay, for reservations. I then went to the Leader Shoe Shop on Grand street and got a new pair of boottops and my own. Then drove to Mr. Garson's tailor shop in Cheshire after 4 new pairs of drum band pants etc which were to be ready, but they were not done, will be ready at 5 P.M. monday. 05/05/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Church this morning and at 5 P.M. vesper service. Went to Wolcott and saw Arthur Harrison and Charles S. Tuttle abut going to Richmond. 05/06/1929 Sharpened picks for Calvary Cemetery this morning, and worked at Mill Plain Church. Went to Cheshire this P.M. and 4 pants, 2 vests etc. 05/07/1929 I was elected Leader of the Mattatuck Drum Band this evening. I have served as leader for the past 48 years. 05/08/1929 Worked about home today, went down town twice about Morris Tyler's boottops, and made arange- ments {arrangements} to have Mrs. Sidney Bronson take a picture of the drum Band before it leaves tomorow. 05/09/1929 The weather today was nice and warm At 5:30 this afternoon a Waterbury and Hartford Bus came to my place, where the Mattatuck Drum Band was ready for Hartford. We lined up by the side of the Bus and had our picture taken after which we got aboard and started, picking up Charles Cass at the Mill Dole {or is it Dale?} Fire house. We reached the Putnam Phalanx Headquarters No. 314 Washington Street at 7:15 and after having our baggage marked Richmond Va, Hotel Jefferson and after all things were ready, we played a couple of pieces in the yard, after which we started for the rail road station which we reached in due time and loaded our drums into the baggage car, and we boarde the last car on the train, which was a sleeper and the corps had it to themselves. The train started at 10 P.M. soon a porter let down the births {berths} and some tried to sleep. We reached Washing- {word unfinished} soon after 7 next morning where we had breakfast in the Rail Road station, and after a stop of an hour, were on our way to Richmond which we reached a little after 10 A.M. We formed at the train and marched up through the depot to the street, playing "Ole Zip Coon" and recived {received} great applause. WE were then loaded into taxies and taken to Hotel Jefferson, where we were assigned rooms. Edgar Upson, Chas Cass, Arthur Harrison, Lauverne Fox and myself having No 629 with three beds. About 2 P.M. we were taken in taxicab to Monument square where the parade was formed and we marched to Byrde Parke{.} {T}he Mattatuck Drum Band received great applause all along the line of march at the Park the{y} had a grand review, after which we had our picture taken, and were then conveyed to the Hotel, and had our supper. About 7 P.M. we fell in and played about one mile to the armory where we took part in a concert, after which they had a grand military ball, but most of us were tired we went to the hotel and to bed. 05/11/1929 After breakfast some of us went by buss {bus} and others by train to Williamsburgh where we viewed the William and Mary Colleges and saw the work that is being done to restore the town back as it was in Revolutionary days which is to cost $10,000,000 the money being furnished by John Rock{e}feller Jr. We then took busses and went to Jamestown where we saw the old Church tower erected of bricks brought from Ingland in 1609, and all of the other sights, and many relics, after which we went back to Williamsburgh and had dinner in the Collegge {college} dining hall. Then we took busses for Yorktown 16 miles distant where we saw the battle monument and other sights after which we took busses back to Williamsburgh, and after a tune took the train home to Richmond. We then went to the armory and had our supper arfer which we returned to the Jefferson and to bed. 05/12/1929 After breakfast we got ready and marched a long distance tothe State House and the tropps went to Church, but there was not room for the bands. I was taken sick on the march and was not able to return with the band but after a time a man brought me in his auto to the hotel, where we had dinner and then another dinner at the Connellwell Club, which was the grandest dinner I ever saw, after which we returned to the hotel, and prepared to go to the train, which we did and left Richmond a{t} four P.M. ariving {arriving} in Washington about 7 and had supper and then entrained for home. We reached Hartford at 6 A.M. next morning, there was a buss waiting at the station which we boarded and we reached Waterbury before nine o'clock. 05/13/1929 After reaching home this forenoon I lay down and slept till 4 o'clock, after which I worked about home. 05/14/1929 I worked out to the farm most of the day getting the potatoe ground ready. Had Drum Band meeting this evening. 05/15/1929 This forenoon I plowed Mr. Wilkensback and Harold Pierpont's garden This afternoon Mary and I went over to Kent to see Frank and get some potatoe seed. We stayed over night. 05/16/1929 Yesterday afernoon the man that was driving the potatoe planting machine broke the pole, and I fitted a new one, which we put in this morning and we had the maching working. It planted a bushel of cut seed every ten minutes, as fast fast as Frank and I could cut them, by noon they had nearly all of the seventy bushell {bushels?} of seed planted. After dinner we started for home. Frank and his family came with us to Maback {??} tower which we went up and as it was a clear day we could see a great distance. We left them near Tyler Pond and came home via Goshen, Litchfield, East Morris and Watertown. 05/18/1929 Today I finished plowing the gardens of Mr. Wilkensback and Harold Pierpont which took till near non then drew Manure up on the hill, and Harrowed the garden south of the barn at East Farms. The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out this afternoon to a convention in town that was given by the Oakville Corps. 05/19/1929 Attended worship at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rained hard this afternoon. 05/20/1929 Worked all day at the farm getting the ground ready to plant potatoes, and the large garden ready to plant. Three Albert boys helped me after 3:30. I went to their home and got thme on the corner of Woodtick Road and Mansfield Ave, paid .60. 05/21/1929 Rained hard this forenoon. Went down town and paid all of my sprinkling tax, all of my Packard auto tax, all of my Ford truck tax, and half 75.37 of my property tax. 05/22/1929 Worked all day plowing the lot on the hill for potatoes and corn, had three Albert boys helping me after 4 P.M., .50. 05/23/1929 Worked all day at the potatoe lot plowing and gettin out stones. Had 3 Albert boys helping me. 1.00 05/24/1929 Finished plowing the loton the hill and harrowed it. Three Albert boys helped me after 3:30. .50. 05/25/1929 Planted potatoes today on the hill. Three Albert boys helped, 1.00. 05/26/1929 This A.M. attended service at Mill Plain. This afternoon the Matttatuck Drum Band turned out 21 men at Cheshire. Major Peter Shea. Fifers Chas Cass, James Phelan, Robert Wakelie, Frank Brown, Bement Wakelie, John Sexton, Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Andrew Kitchenka and William Greenwood. Bass, Frank Kitchenka and John Garrigus {??}, and Paul Mill. Snare Lauvaine {??} Fox, Edgar Upson, Louis Greenwood Herman Gessert, Chas Tuttle, Arthur Harrison, and Howard Neal. At 5 P.M. Mr. Todd preached to the veterans at Mill Plain. 05/27/1929 This forenoon I nailed on the copper ridge on the Mill Plain Church that the wind had loosened. Then I repaired the sink pipe, and went to East Farms and plowed the upper garden some. 05/28/1929 Plowed the remainder of the upper garden and harowed both gardens. Had the Albert boys help me repair the fence at the north east corner of my home lot, and Rainy mowed the front lawn. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 05/29/1929 Very hot, planted the home garden and some at East Farms. 05/30/1929 Decoration Day. The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out for Wadhams Post No. 49 G.V.R {??} There are only nine Civil War Veterans now living in Waterbury. This afternoon I went to the Mill Plain Church and with Mr. Albert made a work bench. 05/31/1929 Clyde called this afternoon and said arrangements are completed so that he leaves Farringtton next Monday for Toronto, Canada. I planted the lot on the hill to corn this forenoon. This evening I went to Charles DeBissops {??} and got some tomatoe plants. 06/01/1929 Planted garden at East Farms etc. 2 Albert boys helped 1.00. 06/02/1929 Attended service at Wolcott Rev Mr. Cabbage officiated. There were present at the service of decorating the soldiers monument and graves in the Cemetery but two veterans of the Civil War Charles Russell of Southington and James Young of Waterville. Ten years ago there was 31 present. The Mattatuck Drum Band placed flowers on the graves. Levi Atkins, Erastas Atkins, Prosper Hull, Sidney Alcott, Theodore Moulthrop, Sherman Moulthrop, Elihu Moulthrop, Samuel Benkaman, and Homer Atkins. 06/03/1929 Went to town this forenoon. This afternoon with the Albert boys we cultivated a number of apple trees in the lower lot. 06/04/1929 Mary was taken sick unable to speak, had Dr. Barber come after Dinner, she is much better to- night. This afternoon two Albert Boys helped me dig about apple trees at the farm [on the hill. 50 [[100]] {{50› instead of a $1.00 perhaps?] 06/05/1929 Mowed some in the yard at home, took a load of hay to the farm. Mary and I attended a supper and the Annual meeting at the Mill Plain Union Church. 2 Albert boys .50. 06/06/1929 Cut some grass in the yard near the brook and got a load out to the farm. Bought a hay rake for .75 two Albert boys, 50. 06/07/1929 Planted and made picture frames, it rained a little. 06/08/1929 Mowed some out to the farm, planted beans and peas in the upper garden, got in a few heaps of hay and mowed two tiers in the East Farms Cemetery. Rane {??} Albert went to the Hospitial {Hospital} with an appendicitis. 06/09/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon Margaret Clif{Clip?}, Marion, Bettie, Gene and Anita Northrop, and Mary and I went to Morris to a Girl Scout Camp at the South End of Bantam Lake where Marion is going the last of this month. 06/10/1929 Mary was not very well today, I helped some about the washing, and mowed about the yard, in the afternoon I cleaned some of the East Farms Cemetery. 06/11/1929 I repaired my Ford truck yesterday afternoon and it works much better today. Dr. Barber came this noon and prescribed for Mary. I worked about three hours in the East Farms Cemetery. 06/12/1929 Worked all day in East Farms Cemetery, clearing it up. 2 Albert boys helped me this A.M. 50. Raymond and Ruth called tonight. 06/13/1929 Very Hot. Worked all day in the Cemetery finished cleaning it up except a big pile of rubbish that I have got to cart away. 06/14/1929 Very hot 90ø. Repaired a broken bramble scythe this morning, and mowed the passment {??} from the street to East Farms Cemetery. This afternoon trimmed the trees, and raked up the litter. This evening Edgar Upson came and we put a tire rack on his Ford Truck. 06/15/1929 Went to Mill Plain Church and got four iron barrels, and then, went to East Farms Cemetery and with Ray and Rob Albert we carted away several loads of rubbish wood etc. We then howed {hoed?} and cleaned the gardens of weed stones etc. 1.00 06/16/1929 Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Mr. Arthur Purinton officiated, as Mr Todd is sick in the Hartford Hospitial {Hospital}. The attendance was 93. When we came out Frank was there, having just came from Kent, with him was his family Elsie, and children Mary, Sann, {??} Bertha, and Dwight. We then all went to Margarets on Beecher Avenue where after a time, Clydes family came from Farrington, Fritzie, Dick Willard, Rob and Nancy. Clyde is in Toronto engineering for the American Brass Co, they are building large factories at West Toronto. At two P.M. we sat down to dinner which Margaret had planned, as at the last of this month Clyde is coming and his whole family are going to Canada. At three o'clock I was at the Woodtick Chapel and gave a talk on the old liberty bell at Philadelphia, which I have seen several times. A very hot day. 06/17/1929 A very hot day 120ø in sun. I fixed the spring in the east lot this forenoon so that the water could be used, and howed {hoed?} corn the rest of the day. 06/18/1929 Very hot 113ø in sun, howed {hoed?} corn nearly all day. Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 06/19/1929 Finished hoeing corn tonight. Attended strawberry dfestival at Mill Plain Church this evening. 06/20/1929 This forenoon I sharpened 30 hand drills and 9 picks for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon I went to the Colonial Trust and got the interest on my Mill Plain Church Bonds 42.00 6 months, paid telephone bill, took bill to the Ever Ready shoe Co, bought hat, and Cabbage seed, came home and repaired wheel barrow, and put tire on my Ford car. Ground scythe for Mr. Albert, and took paint to Mill Plain Church. 06/21/1929 I cultivated corn and potatoes all day, very hot and dry. 06/22/1929 Raymond and Rob Albet helped me today. This forenoon I repaired a half ton Cyclone hoist that belonged to the Pine Grove Cemetery, but was borrowed and broken by the Calvary Cemetery. This P.M. We worked hoeing potatoes and getting stones off the lot. 06/23/1929 A week ago today Caroline Benham appeared with a new Pontiac 5 passenger closed car. Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Mr. Perdieu officiated. Mr. Todd is still in the Hartford Hospitial {Hospital} with bad eyes. Weather still dry and hot. 06/24/1929 Very hot day. No rain for nearly five weeks, everything drying up. Worked hoeing my potatoes, and cleaning the stones off the piece. Ray and Rob Albert helped me. My sister Mary Jenner, received a telegram from Kenosha Wis last friday that cousin Theodore Boyngton {?? g inserted} died Tuesday the 19th at the age of 90 years. I think that he is the last survivor or nearly the last of Co C of the the 14 Regt that left Waterbury in 1862 for the Civil War with 100 men. 06/25/1929 Mary, Margaret and I attended the Mill Plain Church Sunday school Picnic at Light House Point. There was about 400 present. We went with my Packard car and carried Mr. Albert down. We left there about 6:30 to come home reaching here before 8:00 but the Trolley cars did not arrive till nearly one hour later. Just before they came we had a down pore {downpour} of rain, many people got drenched. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for paractice this evening. 06/26/1929 This forenoon I made a pair of shafts for my cart, cut out a big tree limb that broke off the corner oak, and mowed some grass. This afternoon I went to City Hall and handed in my tax list. Then to the Town Clearks {Clerk's} office and copied the Charter of the East Farms Cemetery. 06/27/1929 Worked all day with the Albert boys to helk {??} a yard for the small chickens. Mrs. Emma Drew of Ansonia spent the day with Mary. Weather very fine. 06/28/1929 Finished building chicken yard. This morning I took to Mr. Garson (Tailor) in Cheshire six buttons for a pair of Drum Band pants that he is making for George Cass, of Wallingford. After I got back I bought one gal of drab paint and we painted the chicken yard till it began to rain then the Albert boys and I changed the oil in my big car. Clyde, Fritzie, Nancie and the youngest boy called. Clyde and Fritzie have arranged to leave next Sunday for Toronto. 06/29/1929 This forenoon I went to Torrington to Clyde's and got their cook stove which they gave us, set it up this afternoon. Ray Albert helped me. This evening we attended the Pierpont family reunion in gymnasiums of the Mill Plain Union Church, there was about 60 members present. 06/30/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon. Rev. Mrs. {??} Coe officiated {sentence inserted above} Attended the birthday gathering at Maple Hill Farm this afternoon, the accasion {occasion} being the 87 birthday of grandmother Garrigus {??} about 46 present. This evening Mary and I went to Woodtick and saw Mr. and Mrs. Badger. 07/01/1929 Rainy and Ray Albert helped me. Ray mowed the lawn and Rainy and I set up the old cok stove in the Wheel house, and finished painting the chicken coop. This P.M. We worked at the farm. 07/02/1929 Dick and Williard came from Torrington this forenoon in their Chevolet {Chevrolet} car. Yesterday Clydes goods were taken by truck to Toronto. Margaret, Mary, Dick, Willard, Jene, and Anita, went to Savin Rock in with me in my Packard, and got a mess of mussels. Dick and I went to the farm and hoed in the garden towards night. 07/03/1929 Dick and I worked out to the farm till Dick left for Torrington at 3 P.M. I staid {stayed} till 5 o'clock. Ruth Brundage and family called at 7 o'clock they were on their way to Danbury to spend the forth {Fourth}. 07/04/1929 They Mattatuck Drum Band turned out 17 men at Cottage Park this forenoon. I went in my uniform but did not drum. 07/05/1929 Dick came from Torrington this morning and helped me get in some hay this afternoon, and went to Cheshire at 6:45 this evening and expects to start from Hanson's at 6 A.M. tomorrow with Willard and Alga Hanson for Toronto. 07/06/1929 This morning at 7:45 Dick Williard, and Olga Hanson passed by here enroute for Torono, in the rain, but it soon cleared, and became very hot. I worked all day sharpening monument lettering tools for Mr. Baldwin of Cottage place. 07/07/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J.O. Todd officiating. This afternoon I took Cliff Northrop Margaret, Gene, Mary and others up to Camp Birchmere at the South end of Bantam Lake. Mr. James White was buried from the church at 4 P.M. I was {entry ends} 07/08/1929 Ray Albert helped me at the farm getting the mowing machine ready for use etc. Hot, Dry, Day. 07/09/1929 Worked at haying today. Ray Albert helped me. Rob in P.M. Mary went to short beach, witht he society of berry pickers. 07/10/1929 Mowed the south part of the barn lot this forenoon got in one load this afternoon, when it rained hard. I then went to town and bought some arsnate {??} of lead and a pair of pants. This evening I and Mary went up to Woodtick and saw Charles Tuttle. 07/11/1929 Mowed in the barn meadow, east side, got in west and south, put wire fense {fence} about upper garden. 07/12/1929 Haying today weather very hot, went to town this noon. 07/13/1929 Plough out my corn and potatoes on the hill and hoed them. Them after noon I got in two loads of hay. Today Charles S. Tuttle of Woodtick started for St. Louis with his son Cyrus and his wife to be gone two weeks. 07/14/1929 Attended service at MIll Plain Union Church this forenoon. WEnt to Camp Birchmere at Bantam Lake this afternoon. Took Cliff, Margaret Gene and the baby Northrop's and Mary. 07/15/1929 This forenoon repaired the up stairs pump. Mowed hay, and in afternoon took a load out to the farm, put poison on the potatoes and set out cabbage plants. 07/16/1929 Rane helped me mow the Meadow west of the upper shed and we raked it up, we finished mowing the barn lot. Mattatuck Drum Band held a meeting to practice. 07/17/1929 Rane and Raymond Albert helped me today, we got in one load, and mowed most of the young orchard on the hill. .90 07/18/1929 Got in nearly all the hay in the young orchard on the hill. Rane and Raymond helped 1.00 07/19/1929 My sister Mrs. Rowland Jenner, My daughter Mrs. Margaret Northrop, her two daughters Gene {??} and Anita, with my wife Mary and myself, went to West Simsbury to visit my brother Frank. Went via southington Plainville, Farmington, Wheatougue {??} to W. Simsbury. Returned via Canton, Unionville, Bristol, Wolcott, and home. They are building a new concrete bridge across the Farmington river at Avon. 07/20/1929 I set out Cabbage plants in the upper barn lot garden most of the time today. 07/21/1929 Attended service at the MIll Plain Union Church, this forenoon, Rev. Joseph Todd officiated. 100 present. This afternoon attended at the Woodtick Chapel. Rev. Joseph Todd, only about a dozen present. After service I took a picture frame to Arthur Harrison's and after a visit we came home. 07/22/1929 Mowed the north lot on the hill and got it in. Rane & May {Ray?} helped 1.00. 07/23/1929 Worked haying in Mr. Hazelhurst's lot. Mowed it with the machine except the North West corner. Weather very dry. 07/24/1929 Worked haying in the swamp, got in the Hazelhurst lot and mowed part of Mr. Wilkinsbach lot. Very hot. Rane helped after 9:40 .50. 07/25/1929 Rained last night, today sprinkled, and damp. Mowed in the swamp, Mr. Wilkinsbach and Harold Peirpont's lots, have over 1/2 acre to cut. 07/26/1929 Got in two loads of good hay, Clarence Pierpont, and Ned Wilson helped. 10. .15 07/27/1929 Got in two loads of bog hay. Clarence and Ned helped. 07/28/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church, Rev Mr. Todd officiated. This P.M. Charles Tuttle came in having just returned from a visit to his son's Cyrus at St. Lewis. After dinner I carried him to his home in Woodtick. Called on my cousin Burt Friskie {??}. 07/29/1929 Worked at haying in the swamp by the Cemetery at East Farms, got in two loads this forenoon, rained some before dinner. This afternoon I went downtown on the trolley car. Paid a back tax to Collector Guilfoil, went to bank, and called at the factory of Rogers & Brother. 07/30/1929 Got in one load of hay and mowed some. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 07/31/1929 Got in last load from Harald {Harold} Pierpont's lot, and mowed some in Mr. Greeter's lot. Official board of Mill Plain Union Church met at Rev. Mr. Todd's house this evening and transacted business. 08/01/1929 Mowed all day in Mr. Greeters lot except when it rained a little this afternoon. 08/02/1929 Finished mowing Mr. Greeter's lot, and raked up some 08/03/1929 Got three loads of bedding from Mr. Greeter's lot and put it on the stack. Then mowed two hours in the Cemetery. Gave Howard Neal 1.00 to buy a record book with. 08/04/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church 104 present. This afternoon Mary and I called on John Todd, he told me much of the Todd's that are buried in East Farms Cemetery. 08/05/1929 Today I set up Mr. William Todd's Grave stone in East Farms Cemetery, and straitened {straightened} up the stone of Mrs. Ives Lewis, and Mowed some, in all 8 hours. 08/06/1929 Mowed all day in East Farms Cemetery. 8 hrs {inserted} (and pulled up vines) Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting this evening. 08/07/1929 Worked all day 8 hrs in East Farms Cemetery cleaning it up and pulling out stumps. 08/08/1929 Pulled stumps and repared the fence at East Farms Cemetery 6 hours. Took Charles Tuttle's uniform home, and offered to take him to Torringtong next Saturday to the Drummer and Fifers convention. He did not want to go. 08/09/1929 Cut grass about home and did other work all day. 08/10/1929 Attended the 44 annual State Drummers and Fifers Convention at Torrington there were about 55 drum corps that partisipated {participated} in the parade, some coming from New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I went with the Mattatuck Drum Band, but did not drum nor wear my uniform. 08/11/1929 Attended service at MIll Plain Union Church, the service was conducted by a Yale student named Mr. Van Wagner. Had a heavy thunder rain all night that was much needed. 08/12/1929 This morning I took a box containing the head of a moveing {moving} picture machine to the express office for the Mill Plain Union Church, Then took my Packard car to the Packard Girage {Garage} to have the carburetor repaired, and left it to have new piston rings put in and other repairs made. I then came home and dried out a lot of hay and took two loads out to the farm, Clarence Pierpont and Ned Wilson helped. 08/13/1929 Mowed the remaining grass on my home lot this morning and then went to the farm, and with the help of Clarance and Ned mowed away a load of hay, came home and did a job of blacksmith work for Ed Scott, and after dinner went to the Packard Girage {Garage} and look my car over and told them not to spend over 60.00 on it, bought a gal of white paint of Sears & Roebuck for 2.10 came home and repaired a harrow for Ed Scott. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice, and made arrangements to go East Hartford nex {no t} Saturday to drum for the Southington Fire Department. 08/14/1929 Howed {hoed?} in the garden, spread hay, took a load out to the farm, and sharpened stone drills. Raymond is home sick since last Monday. 08/15/1929 Sharpened picks and bars this morning for Calvary Cemetery, Mowed the swamp, and painted the fence at East Farms Cemetery. 1 hr. 08/16/1929 Painted one hour on Cemetery fence. Then with Ned Wilson went to Wolcott and saw Charles Tuttle about going to East Hartford Tomorrow. Then came home and loaded on a small load of swamp grass, with Raymond's help, and Ned and I started for the farm, as we were going down the hill this side of the Horse Brook a small dog ran in front of car and was crushed under the wheels. The dog was [a police {dog}] {inserted} owned by Armondo Paslino was two months old. 08/17/1929 The Mattatuck Drum Band went to East Hartford to the State Fireman's Muster {??}. There were 44 Fire Compa- nies in line with 22 Bands and Drum Corps. I rode up with Herman Gessert in his Buic {Buick} Car, he also carried Charles Tuttle. It was a fine parade, I did not wear my uniform or drum. When I came home at 7:45 took the trolley to Plainville, where William Greenwood and Neal and Wheeler overtook me, and I came the rest of the way in Greenwood's car. 08/18/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Girtrude Coe officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went up to Old Mrs. Garrigus and gave her the Chur {??} flowers and then went to Charles Tuttle's, and back home. 08/19/1929 Rained nearly all night, I sewed in two celeoid lights in the back right Curtain of my big car. This afternoon I dug a ditch to drain the swamp, went out to the farm this evening. 08/20/1929 This morning I mowed the front lawn, and then went to the Packard garage and got my car which they had repaired $63.75 worth. This afternoon I painted the Cemetery fence. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 08/22/1929 Yesterday morning Margaret, Betty, Anetia, my wife and I started for Storrs. We reached Hartford at 11 AM, and I went immediately to the State Library, where I met Mr. George S. Goddard, State Librarian, with whom I left a copy of the History of the Mattatuck Drum Band, and at Original Revolutionary Journal written by Juday Frisbie my great great grandfather. Also an account book kept by Judith Frisbie 1775-1793. He wishes to have them copied and placed on file in the State Library. I was with him till after 1 P.M. when I met the others at my car, and we went to an Alylum {??} St restaurant where we had dinner. After which we visited the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the J. Pierpont Morgan exhibit. We then took my car and drove on through East Hartford, Burnside, Manchester, Bolton Natch Coventry, and Mansfield Depot to Storrs, where we stayed with Ruth over night. We spent the forenoon at Storrs and at 2 P.M. started for home coming by way of Eagleville and down the state road that runs east of the Willimantic river, till we met the Hartford road west of Willimantic center, and we followed it to the Columbia road, which we took and son came to Columbia Center, and on to Hebron, and through Martboro, Pactopaug, East Hampton, Portland across the Connecticut River to Middletown wehre we stoped {stopped} for refreshments, and on through Middlefield, Meriden, Cheshire, Southington, Wolcott, and home. the whole distance up and back being 117 miles and 57 miles going up. 08/23/1929 This forenoon I dug out a spring in the swamp east of the engine house, and cleaned off the hay and put it in the chicken yard. Then painted the East farms Cemetery fence, 6 hours. 08/24/1929 Painted the Cemetery fence 7 hours. 08/25/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Mrs. Girtrude Coe of Wolcott officiated, reported that Rev Mr. Todd returned from his vacation last Wednesday night, but he did not attend church. Wrote letter to George S. Godard State Librarian and to Allan Forbes Boston, also to Fred D. Miller Tarrytown N.Y. 08/26/1929 This morning I went to town and bought at Sears & Roebuck one gallon of white paint for which I paid 2.90. There was a large cicus parade about the center in which there were three chariots carrying brass bands, many cages of wild animals eight camels, 9 elephants, and many horse-back riders etc. It was Christe Bros. Circus. 08/27/1929 This morning I trimmed the front walk and then painted the East Farms Cemetery fence. 08/28/1929 Went to Robert Tyler's and he sawed out some strips and plained them for picture frames, I then painted on the Cemetery Fence the rest of the day. This evening the ladies of Mill Plain Church gave a lawn fete and supper, which was fairly well attended. 08/29/1929 Worked painting East Farms Cemetery fence. Received a letter from Lewis L. Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancouver Wash. Miss Pickett came today. 08/30/1929 This morning I went [to] SEars and Roebuck's new store on Grand street and bought one gal of white paint for 2.90 then went to East Farms and finished putting on the white paint. 08/31/1929 Howard Neal and wife Mary and I left this morning for Kent in my big car, where arived {arrived} at Frank's home at 11:00 A.M. Howard and I went to see his potatoes and corn and on returning dinner was ready Frank had returned from New Milford where he had been to have the milking machine repaired. After dinner we went to the great field in front of the new public school where there is being held a great carnival to raise money to buy a new fire engine. This afternoon there was held a fire parade, and hose laying and squirting contest. There were Fire Companies there from Canaan, Danbury, Poughkeepsie, and Dover, N.Y. and Watertown. The Watertown Co had the Oakville drum fife and bugle Corps, there were also tow new engines on exibition. {exhibition} 09/01/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd officiated. This afternoon I went to Cedar Swamp pond in Wolcott to see T. Carl Moulthrop. 09/02/1929 Painted the sollder {soldiers?} markers and fence post black in the East Farms Cemetery, etc (Labor Day) 09/03/1929 Painted posts on Cemetery Fence, put up mowing machine and other tools and picked beans. 09/04/1929 Went to Sears and Roebuck's and bought 2-33x4 1/2 tires came home and put them on my car and dressed top etc. 09/05/1929 Worked on my car nearly all day. Went to Cheshire this P.M. and left a suit to be pressed. Very hot 112ø in sun. 09/06/1929 Polished and oiled my car, and worked at the farm. 09/07/1929 Picked beans, and went to Cheshire and got my {word missing} at Mr. Garson's, Had fine shower this evening. (Note: 9/9/29 through 10/16/29 completed previously) 09/09/1929 Making preperations {preparations} to leave in the morning for Toronto and Milwaukee. Mary and I expect to start in my Packard auto. Rev. Joseph Todd called with his family this afternoon. This evening Ray called. 09/10/1929 This morning at 10:10 Mary and I started for Toronto and Milwaukee. We went up the Naugatuck valley to Torrington, then up Hall Meadow to Norfolk and through Canaan to Ashley Falls where we ate dinner by the road-side. Then on through Egermont to New-| York State to Hillsdale where we turned North through Austerlitz, Spensertown, Chatam, Valatia, East Greenbush through Albany. Staid at night six miles beyond on the Schenectady Road, at Mr. Frank H. Roots. 116 miles. Paid $4.50 for lodging, supper and breakfast. 09/11/1929 We left Mr. Roots at 9:15. Passed through Schenectady, Amsterdam, Fonda, Little Falls, where we saw the highest canal lock said to be the highest in the world 60ft. Then Herkimer, Utica, Wampa- ville. Chittinango where I got shaved and hair cut for 75 cts. Then through Fayetteville to Syracuse, where we staid at the Knapp Farm at No. 2800 East Genessee St. Traveled 139 miles. 09/12/1929 Left the Knapp Farm this morning and passed through Syracuse, Camillus, Elbridge, Sennett, to Auburn where we saw the large stone State Prison, then through Seneca Falls where we stoped {stopped} for a time and and saw many interesting sights, then through Waterloo and Mt. Junus {??} to Phelps, where we bought some fine melons at a farm and ate dinner by the side of the road. Heere {here} we saw a large gravel plant that washed over 1000 tons per day to be used on the roads, in place of broken stone. Then on through Clifton, Manchester Victor, Mendon, Pittsford to Rochester which we were a long time getting through on account of the thousands of autos that jammed the streets. We finally got out Loyall ave and on through Spensersport to Brockport, where we were stoped {stopped} on the main street by a great bridge that rose up in the air 25 ft in front of us. The bridge was 75 ft long and 50 ft wide, and over the Erie Canal and went up to let a tug a two large barges and a long rope and two more barges through after which the bridge lowered to the street level and we drove on to Holley where we staid over night at Mr. Ray Handy's. Mr. Handy told me that the Canal is level for 80 miles through that section. Traveled this day 126 miles. 09/13/1929 This morning we left Mr. Ray Handy, at 9:30. He had many acres of fine small grapes ready to pick. We passed through Fancher, Albion, Medina, Gasport, to -ackport {can't decipher first letter}, where we stoped {stopped} and I looked the canal locks over. There is a drop of seventy feet between the leavels {levels}, which is cared for by three locks on the new canal, the gates of which are operated by electric motors. The locks are made of solid concrete in the most substantial manner, and the gates of structural steel. It began raining before we reached the town, so I bought a pair of rubbers. The rain was much needed, as they had no rain since june and everything was very dry. We passed on through Cambria, and Sanbourn to Niagra Falls {Niagara}. We crossed the river on the center arch bridge, and went to the Costom House {?? Custom} where I filled out the necessary papers and traveled through Brock Park by the side of Niagra River {Niagara} at St. David's, stoping {stopping} in the meantime to view the Falls, Whirlpool, New Powerplant, Rapids and later saw where the river into Lake Ontario. At St. Davids, we got into a restaurant out of the rain and had dinner, after which we continued on through {h left off originally} St. Catharine's, acras {accross} the New and old Welland canal on through Jordan, Vineland, Beamsville, Grimsby, Winoug, hear {here} the rain ceased, and the road across the Bay was dry, though the traffic was very heavy we spead {sped} on through Burlington, Bronte, Oakville, Port Credit, to Mimico, where we reached Clyde's House on Belvedere Bvd at six P.M. having traveled 142 miles. The total distance from home being 523 miles and the roads concrete pavement nearly all the way. 09/14/1929 This forenoon I walked out to the plant of the American Brass Co. where Clyde took me to the place where the new factories are being built. It will be a large Brass Mill when all is completed which they think will take three years. This afternoon I cleaned my car, and in the evening Clyde took Fritzie, Mary and I, a long ride about the large City of Toronto 803,00 population, and a well built place, no wood buildings within the City limits. We rode about 30 miles 09/15/1929 Clyde took Fritzie, Nancy, Mary and I up North into York and Simcoe Counties. We passed through the towns Aurora, Bradford, Churchill, near Lance Simcoe through Barrie and Brentwood to Woodland beach, on the West side of Georgian Bay. 113 miles. The Country there is fine farming land, and now the fences for the mostpart {most part} are made of pine stumps and near every barn is a great pile of wheat stray left by the thrashing {?? threshing} machine, while in the fields are droves of hogs, sheep and cattle, and many horses. We traveled along the beach a long distance, meeting some people that Clyde knew. Clyde and I went to the North in the woods till we could go no farther with auto and then walked about four miles and came to an Indian camp, but no one was at home that we saw, but we thought that some were about watching us, as we saw bushes moving several times. We made our way back to the shore where the folks were, and started for home, via Elmvale, to Barrie and over the same route we come up on, reaching Mimico at 8:30 having traveled 213 miles. 09/16/1929 This morning I repaired our suit case. This afternoon I walked to Mimico Rail Road station and to a factory where they made tile pipe. This evening Clyde and I rode over to the south side and took a ferry and went to Ceuter Island where we remained till after dark, and then came home 10 miles. 09/17/1929 This forenoon took Nancy and went up to the Lenndas road and out to Cooksville and back. This afternoon took Nancy Fritzie and Mary and rode about Mimico. 27 miles. 09/18/1929 This forenoon I took the trolley cars and went to the Royal Ontario Musium {museum} in Toronto on Broorer st. What I saw there was far ahead of anything I had ever seen before. This evening Clyde took Mr. and Mrs. Risley, Mary and I and drove to Rivervale Park. Where we saw a wonderful collection of caged annimals {animals} and many other things. He then took us about the City and throught the grounds of the famous Toronto Fair. They are more extensive and better buildings than the susqui {sesqui} Centennial at Philadelphia in 1926 were, among other things that we saw was a stick of fur wood from British Columbia for a flagpole 183 feet long 10" at tip, and 30 at butt. It was so long that no cars could bring it, so they brought it on a ship down the Pacific ocean through the Panama Canal up the Atlantic and up the St Laurence river and through Lake Ontario. Traveled about 30 miles. 09/19/1929 We left Clydes at Mimico this morning at 9:25 and we went up on the Dundas road and through Cooksville, Erindale, Trafalgar, Pamero, Nelson to Cloppisons Corners, where we turned square south to Dudas then west through Sucaster, Alberton, Cainsville, and Brautford beyond the town we stoped {stopped} beside the road and ate our dinner, at 12:30. We stoped {stopped} back at Dixy and ran out the old engine oil and filled it with fresh. Also filled our gas tank. The weather was cold at 1:30. We started on through Paris, Princeton East- wood, Beachville, Jamesford, London, Lobo Poplarhill {??} Adelade, and Warwick to the Homestead of W.J. Cochrane on London Road, Wyoming P.O. Lamburton County. Ontario where we spent the night. This day we traveled162 miles through a fine Country nearly level. A great wheat land the farmers are thrashing it out. They pay .05 cts per bushel and every farm where the thrashes has been large piles of straw are to be seen. 09/20/1929 This morning was cold and everything was coated heavy with frost. We left Mr. Cochrane's at 9:00 and traveled 18 miles. Sarnia, where we crossed the St. Blair river on a ferry (Paid .70 cts) to port Huron where the Custom officers took our papers and after looking the car over told us to go on. Here we filled with gas and oil, then on through Goodells, Emmet, Capoe, Amlay {??} City to Attica where we stoped {stopped} by the roadside and ate our dinner at a place where a gravel hill had been dug away and used in road making. We had traveled all the forenoon through a contry that was nearly leve. This afternoon we passed through Lea Peer, to the large City of Flint, where many au- tomobiles are made. We met and passed many long auto trucks carrying four and five finished autos. After leaving Flint we passed through Kirby, Owoeso, Shepperdsville, St. Jons, and after a long detor we reached Lyons, Where we staid overnight at the house of a fine german family Mr. John Kalb. Having traveled 163 miles. 09/21/1929 We left Lyons at 8:30 passed through Iona, Sarnac, Lowell, Ado {??} to Grand Rapids, concrete road and quite hilly. From Grand Rapids we passed through Marne, Coopersville and to Grand Haven over a narrow and hilly road most of the way. We reached Grand Haven at 12:15 by watch which gave Conn. daylight saving time, but 10 AM by their Western time, and the boat didn't leave till 11.30 at night. So we had a long wait. We walked down the river to the Lake where there was a fine beach that extended south a great distance. We had traveled 75 miles in coming from Lyons. At about six we went to a restaurant and had supper, after which we went to the dock and saw tow large ships come in one of which was the Milwaukee which was owned by the Grand Frusik {??} Rail Road and used to carry cars across from Milwaukee, and which was sunk during a great storm, about Oct {19}20? with all on board about 50 persons and 17 cars. I procured our passage as follows. Auto $10.00, two tickets $8.00, State Room $4.25 = $22.25. At 9 P.M. our boat the Missouri arrived and we immediately went aboard and procured state room No. 103. The steamer left at 11:30 and soon passed out of the Grand Rapids River into Lake Michigan and sailed with a quiet easy roll, caused by a slight swell as on the ocean, this roll continued till we passed within the breakwater at milwaukee, at 5:30. We docked at Broadway and Erie St at 6 A.M. having sailed 90 miles Irving, Dot, John and Barbara soon came, and Irving Mary and Barbara in their Dodge Car, and Dot John and I in mine following drove across the city of Milwaukee to Irvings home, 6823 Cedar Street, Wauwatosa, 6 miles. 09/22/1929 After breakfast Irving and his children John and Barbara with myself in Irvings car went to a large grand church on the East side of the City about five miles away, near the Lake front where we attended sunday school service, after which we visited several fine parks along the Lake front, and others on our way back home. After dinner Irving took the children Dot, Mary and I and drove by many interesting places and through several parks, one of which contained the most beautiful flower garden I ever saw, besides of fine conservatory filled with raire {rare} plants and flowers and tropical fruits growing. Altogather {altogether} we drove 50 mile, on reaching home we had a lunch and retired. We were weary and tired after a day of wonderful sightseeing. 09/23/1929 Wrote several letters this forenoon. This afternoon I read and was about the house till five o'clock when Irving came and took us all in his car to Washington Park. 09/24/1929 This forenoon cleaned my car. This afternoon Irving came at three and took me to Floks Foundry and machine workds. The casting done here is all of steel and most of it very heavy. The machine work is heavy steel. They make many heavy nicely cut herring bone gears for fast speed. We saw the parts of a huge pipe welding machine that Irving has charge of making, that is over 40 feet long and will weigh over one million pounds. 09/25/1929 Cleaned my car this forenoon. This afternoon I walked down Wisconsin Ave and examined a long high viaduct made of concrete, it is said that this was the first of the many large concret bridges that have been built in Milwaukee. It is standing the weather very well. I continued my walk till I was well down in the City. I took the trolley cars back. Irving came home at five and he took us out to a town on a hill by the name of Prospect. The land there abouts was fine for cattle raising and the view from the town was grand, there were several small lakes near by {nearby} and several apple orchards. We passed on through Waukesha, this county is noted the world over for its fine guernseye {guernsey} cattle. We saw many large cattle farms, and a prosperous looking county, reached home after dark having traveled about 40 miles. 09/26/1929 This forenoon Mary, Dot and I went to Bristol 12 miles west of Kenosha. We went by way of Durham and Union Grove. At Bristol we met Mrs. Willis Upson, and Mr. Frank Upson. He is a grandson of Salmon Upson who emegrated {emigrated} from Wolcott in 1840. We had dinner at Shotnell's hotel in Bristol, came home via Racine. Traveled 95 miles. 09/27/1929 Seventy one years ago today I was born on Cherry Street, Waterbury Conn. The house in which I was born stood on the West side of the street above Maple where the Universalist Church now stands. Dot took me in Irvings car to the works of the A.O. Smith Corporation, where Irving is employed and he showed me a most wonderful machine over 500 feet long that was making more than 400 Buic {Buick} Auto frames per hour complete, and when they left the machine they were nicely painted. Beside the Buic{k} they make 8 other kinds of frames, i.e. , Oakland, Chevrolet, La Salle Pontiac, and the other makes used by the General Motors Corporation. They also make immense heavy oil cracking stills, and steel gas pipe in lengths 40' long, and from 6" to 24" diameter at a rate of over 20 miles a day. 09/28/1929 This morning Dot, Irving, Mary and I left Irving's at 7:30 for Pine Lake in the north of Wisconsin. We passed through Germantown, Jackson, West Bend, Barton, Kewaskum, Wausousta, Eden, Fond-du-Lac, Van Dyne, Oshkash {Oshkosh}, Neena, Menasha, Appleton, Mackville, Twelve Corners, Black Creek, Briarton, Bonduel, Cecil, Pulcifer, Gillette, Suring, Breed, Mountain, Lakewood, Townsend, Carter, Soperton, Wabeno, at this place we saw numerous saw mills and a spot one half mile square covered with high piles of lumber, and trains of cars piled high with logs, to be sawed, Under a neat little shed near the Rail Road Station was a Pine Log, 14 ft long and 5'2" in diameter. This and 5 sixteen ft logs were in one tree, which Totaled 900 ft of lumber. Laona, Crandon, Argonne, and Pine Lake. 237 miles at 5.15 o'clock. We went to a cottage owned by Herbert Dixon who is a trapper, and guide, etc. Pine Lake is a fine sheet of water 8 miles long and one and one half wide, surrounded by woods. 09/29/1929 Spent the morning strolling through the woods. This afternoon Irve, Mary and I took a boat and rowed out to the middle of the Lake. Dot and Herby Dixon went fishing and Dot caught a pikeral twenty six inches long. As it was growing dark we went in and had supper. The women do not go out after dark without protection on account of bear. Two or three nights ago a woman saw one looking in at the window. They are seen quite often about, and deer is pleanty {plenty}. 09/30/1929 This forenoon, Irving took Mary, Mrs. _____ {no name}and I to Laona 26 miles where we saw the Lumber Mill of The Connor Lumber and Land Co. Which is the largest Hard Wood Saw Mill in the Country. 250,000 ft every ten hours. This mill contains three sets of large band saw mills. Three sets of band resaws, one of which is horizontal. Three sets of double edging saws, and Leath {?? lathe?} and Shingle Mills, etc. During the afternoon Mrs. _____, Irving and I went Southeast about four miles, and then walked through the woods a long distance to and iron Fire Lookout tower on a hill which was not very high but higher than any other for miles about. The tower was about 75 ft high and the top was reached by a straight single narrow ladder. We climbed up and had a fine view of the county. 10/01/1929 This morning we left Pine Lake, and stoped {stopped} at Jay Dixon's where Irving bought three bushels of potatoes @ 140 per bu. We then went on through Argonne, Crandon, Mole {??} Lake, Pickeral Lake, Lify, Hollister, Longlade, Markton. Here we entered the Menominee Indian Reservation, and rode forty miles on their territory. The Indians live for the most part in log cabins of which we saw many. From time to time we came to large pine trees standin{g} in the center of the road, many of them were named, as "Lone Pine", "Big Pine", "Bent Pine" etc etc. The road ran near the wolf River and we stoped {stopped} at Big Eddy Falls, wher{e} the river rushed over a rocky ledge and fell in to a large eddy below. Here on the level rock near the falls has been held many Indian celebrations. Three miles below the Falls we came to "Spirit Rock." On this rock the Menominee Indians have for many years placed their offerings to the Great Spirit. The rock which was a round boulder is now about five feet high and is fast- crumbling away, and the Indians beleave {believe} as the rock crumbles, so their tribe deminishes {dim...} and in time they and the rock will disappear forever togather {together}. Four miles farther on we came to Keshena where ther is two large Indian Schools. One of which is maintained by the Government, and the other by the Catholic denomination. We soon passed out of the Indian Land and came to Shawano where we stoped {stopped} and had dinner at a restaurant, having came 82 miles. We left at 1.30 and wnt on through Embarrass to where John Dixon lives, on the old Dixon homestead. John is a brother of Herbert and Jay Dixon of Pine Lake region. Here Irving bought some eggs. We then went on through Clintonville, Shugar Bush, New London, Hortonvill, Greenville, Oshkash {Oshkosh}, Rosendale, Ladoga, Waupun, Burnett, Minnesota, Juneau, Oak Grove, Watertown, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee, and Wauwatosa, which we reached at 6.45 having come 251 miles. 10/02/1929 This forenoon I walked to Wauwatosa Center and tried to buy a pair of pants, but could not find any sutible {suitable}. Wauwatosa was formerly a town to the West of Milwaukee. Now the Center of the town is there with its stores, Churches etc. and it keeps its name, but the City of Milwaukee has extended its Avenues and Streets to it, and far beyond to the North and South so as quit encompass it. This afternoon Mary and I took the Wells street trolley cars to 10th street, and went to the Milwaukee Musium {Museum} where we spent the afternoon. There was so much t see and the time was limited, so I walked hurriedly through the whole building, as I did through the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 thus obtaining a general idea of the whole, and if I go again I will know where the interesting points are. 10/03/1929 This morning I went with Irving to the extensive Works of the Allis-Chalmers Co. Here I saw them making many Steam Turbine Engines some of which were of great power. Several large Gas Engines were being constructed one of which was 10,000 Horse Power. Many large elctric Generators, and Motors were being made, and there was being manufactured several steel Double Turbine Waterwheels that was ever made some over 18 feet in diameter. {??} They were forging and immence {immense} steel ring on a Hot Forging Press that had a ram pressure of 25,000 tons. They have the largest Boring Mill in the World, with a plate 40 feet in Diameter, but it will swing 50ft, and will take wrk 16 ft high. It cost $250,000. These are only a few of the wonderful things that I saw. This evening Irving took Dorothy, Barbara, Mary and I in his Dodge Car, and we went to Bristol, and visited Cousin Frank Upson at his fine large farm on the Kenasha Road {Kenosha?}. He had invited in several relatives, and provided a nice supper to which the following sat down. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Upson, and son and daughter Donald and Dorothy. Mr. Willis Upson, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Stanley and sons Chester and Roger. Mrs Nellie Jashlin, Irving and wife Dorothy and Mary and I. Distance to Bristol and back 81 miles, and I had traveled about the City 20 miles. Total 101 miles. This day we took my car to 2501 Wisconsin Avenue to have carbon removed and valves ground. We went to 3rd St and bought a pair of pants, $6.50. 10/04/1929 This morning I rode down Wisconsin Avenue to 31st St with Irving, and looked about, after which I took th etrolley and rode to Wauwatosa center and went to the Cemetery and looked it over, then walked home, had dinner, and then cleaned the yard, which took nearly all of the aftenoon. Cousin Lillie Graham came at four and staid all night. She lives in Kenosha. Traveled about 10 miles. 10/05/1929 This forenoon I went with Irving about 1 1/2 miles when he went to work and walked back, stoping {stopping} to see a large power shovel that was cutting down a hill about seventy feet high, on the North side of State street. Irving and I brought my Packard home from 3501 Wisconsin Ave where it had been repaired, cost 23.65 which Irving paid. He then took cousin Lillie Dot Mary and I downtown to the Milwaukee Journal Office where we looked up a route for me to follow when we go home. After which we went to Lincoln Park where we saw many wild animals etc. About 15 miles. 10/06/1929 This morning all of us attended the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church on the East side of the City. After dinner we went out to Delifield, to Cushing Park, where there was supposed to have been set out a tree dedicated to Sergeant Thaedore Boynton of the Civil War, but we failed to find it. In Delifield there in the park is a high Memorial Monument to Lieutenant William Cushing who preformed {performed} the braves act of the Civil War in destroying the rebel iron clad Abermarl, of the seventeen men he was the only one the escaped. The monument is also in memory of two of his brothers. There native home was near- by. We also visited a large Military training school and a fish hatchery. In the evening we took Lillian to the electric R.R. station and she returned to Kenosha. Traveled 70 miles. 10/07/1929 This morning I went with Irving about two miles and walked back. Saw a deep stone quarry where they in former years got ut building stone but now they crus nearly all of it. Very interesting to see athe cars drawn up an incline loaded with stone which is dumped into a crusher then run through two other breakers, and is soon delivered into trucks or in a great pile in the yard. This afternoon got my car out and filled with oil and gas. Tires inflated to 45 lbs and made ready to start for home tomorrow. 10/08/1929 We Irving {??}, Dot, Mary and I left Irving's place at Wauwatosa at 8:45 and went to Wheaton Ill. via Durham, Waterford, Geneva Lake, Richmond, Elgen to Geneva Ill., wher we turned East and went to Whetons, where we saw Enid at the College. We took dinner at the College dining hall, and then went East through Chicago to the Lake shore drive, which we followed South through Whiting and Gary, where the smoke was so thick from the extensive steel mills as to obscure objects in the distance as a fog. We passed on to the Indiana Sand Dunes Park, near which we obtained lodgings witha Mr. Nelson. Here Irving and Dorothy left us and they took the trolley express to Milwaukee. We had very good accomodations. Traveled 195 miles. Gas and Oil at Chicago $4.85. We saw the Great American Tin Plate Mills at Gary. 10/09/1929 We left Mr. Nelson's House eleven miles West of Michigan City at 8:10. Mr. Nelson's House is located on the main road {[in the town of Chesterton Ind.] inserted above line} leading from Detroit and all other places East and North in Michigan. Back of the house ran a trolley fast (75 miles per hr) express road, between that and Lake Michigan ran the Express and Freight Rail Road. There was constant travel on all three roads. We passed through Michigan City Rolling Prairie, as this name implies, the fine farming land was of a rolling nature. Through South Bend {[Count. seat] added}, Oscola, Elkhart, on fine Brick pavement through the fine City of Lagrange, through the village of Flint, and the largertown of Angola, and soon crossed the line at Columbia into Ohio. Here we had to turn South on a long detour, and East through Montpetier, West Unity, Hammer, and into Fulton County at Fayette. Beautiful traveling, fine concrete road winding among many lakes, of which this County contains about 100, those that we passed were rather small. The land was green and fertile and well cultivated. Corn and wheat the pricipal crops, with many acres of sugar beets. We turned down a side road near the Village of Oak Shade and ate our dinner, after which we went Charager, {??} and twenty miles farther on we turned due south and came to Manmee. For miles we have passed through a level country. Here we engaged lodgings for the night with Mrs. Carney 215 E Dudley St. Traveled 206 miles. 10/10/1929 We left Mrs. Carney at 8:40. Gas and Oil $4.13. Crossed the Manmee River to Perrysburg and started out on a brick pavement which continued with scarcely a break for two hundred miles till entered Pennsylvania. After leaving Perrysburg the road was strait {straight} and level save a little rise at stony ridge for thirty miles to Fremont, and the land in all directions was sea level as far as the eye could reach. To the North of the road was great lime works. At Lime City was a sign that said "This is the Lime Center of the World." The land was richly cultivated principally to corn and wheat, the wheat was just coming up and the great level fields were quite green. After passing through Lemoyne, Woodville, Hessville, and Fremont, on through Green Creek and up a long grade into Clyde, which was a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, and the principle business was growing nursery stock. There was plantations of young trees of many kinds, in all directions. We then passed through Bellevue, Monroeville, Norwalk, East Townsend Wakeman, Kipton to {inserted} Oberlin. This town is noted for its fine College which was started before the town was organized, bu t now has many fine brick buildings. Nin{e} miles farther on we crossed Black River and {inserted} came to the Manufacturing City of Elyria. There are falls here 40' high which give great water power {inserted} then over many miles of road to Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, where we found Cousin Elizabeth Harris at 1362 Andrews Avenue, and they persuaded us to stay all night. Traveled 157 miles. 10/11/1929 We left Cousin Libbie's at 10, and came throught he City of Cleveland. When we passed out of the thickly settled part on the East we had traveled 21 miles. On the East side we passed the extensive Automanufactory of the Hupmobile Co. The total population is about 1,000,000 people, and it reminded me of what I had read back East of Colonel Moses Cleveland. He had been an officer in the Revolutionary War. His home was in Canterbury Conn. About 1796 He lead a number veterans who received soldiers rights of land from the State of Conn in the Western Reserve as payment for their services in the War. They settled at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where the magnificent City Cleveland now is. Named in honor of the Colonel. Soon after he returned to his native home, and in describing the site said "that he hoped some day that the place would be as large as Old Windam" Conn. We got our first sight of Lake Erie as we passed through a fine Park bordering the water before reacing the Center of the City. W continued Eastwardly through Euclid, Willoughby, Mentor to Painsville. The country through which we passed was in a high state of cultivation, there were many signs out. Honey for sale by the pound or ton, and one read Honey for sale, by the Pound, Ton or Carload. There were great vineyards of grapes, with signs Grapes for sale by the ton. Many of the grapes were not picked, as there is not much call for them this season. All along this shore road were great Fruit and vegtable {vegetable} farms, beside much wheat and Corn. We passed through several towns with good old Conn. names, Madison, North Madison, Saybrooke, Fairfield etc. At North Madison we stoped {stopped} at a station for dinner. It was a farming village of four corners. Post Office on one, school diagonally across on another, and Restaurants on the other two. Here the large through Busses stop to refresh and refewell {refuel}. While we were there, one from {inserted} N.Y. to Santa Fae {Santa Fe}, and one from {inserted} N.Y. tto Chicago, also one bound for New York stoped {stopped}, which made business lively. A young man about 26 with his bride had dinner with us. He had a new Buic{k} car with Kansas markers. I remarked that they were a long way from home. He answered yes, 1400 miles. I live in Oklahoma, but bought the car in Kansas. She was a young College bred Indian girl dressed in the hight {height} of style and puffed her sigerette {cigarette} rather naturally. She said He owns a large ranch in Washita, where we married, we have been to Niagra {Niagara} and are now returning home. I wish we had our horses though. He said that he did not like driving a car, that they would have come the whole distance horse back, had it not been for the paved roads. He saw that I was from Conn and they asked if I had ever seen the salt Atlantic Ocean. They were greatly interested in the tides etc. of which they had never before heard. I started for the Post Office, They waived me good bye and drove west. We jouneyed on through Astabula, Amboy Conneaut where there was many fields of yellow pumpkins, here we crossed the line into Penn, and here we left behind the brick pavement and had to proceed with care, for they were putting down a new, three way concrete pavement for several miles. In Penn, we soon passed through Springfield, Girard, Fairview, and on over the most dangerous looking and steep road I ever {saw} into the large city of Erie, where while going down a steep paved hill, we turned square to the right and started on a crooked hilly road for Waterford 14 miles distan, no more straight and level Ohio roads. Passing through Union City, we stoped {stopped} for the night at a grand old farm house of H. N. Harris. Having traveled 140 miles. 10/12/1929 We left this morning at 8:30, passed through Carry stoping {stopping} at Columbus for Gas and Oil $2.75. Then on through Pittsfield, a rather hilly but fine farming country, through Irvington, and Warren where we crossed the Allegheny River on a long iron bridge. Then up hill through Carendon, on up through Fiona {??}, where there was oil wells every- where which was operated by wire cables hung on low iron tripods about 6 ft high. These were in rows extending in smoe cases a mile or more, at the end of each cable would be a bell crank that was connected to the pump rod. Oil pipes ran in every direction to receiving tanks. We at dinner by the side of the road where there was a frame and pipe arangement for loading 6 oil cars at one time. Numerous signs about "No Fire or Smoking allowed. Danger." After dinner we passed through Sheffield, and Ludlow, many oil wells, to Kane, Elevation 2200 ft above sea with large oil derricks in every direction, some of these wells are said to be 7000 ft deep and many of them yield thousands of barrells of oil every 24 hours. The main street of Kane is on the top of a ridge, with stores on each side. We were told that the wind blows hard and cold, snow comes in November and stays late in the spring, and were it not for the oil business people would not endure the hard winters. After passing through Kane we came to a farm where they raise many{inserted} wolves for their fir {fur}, many people vist the place, we then over Mt. Jewett which is 40' higher than Kane, and down a steep and crooked road through Hazel Hurst, and up through Smithport, and on through Caryville down and up through Prt Allegany {?? Allegheny}, Roulett, Cloudersport and to the summit of Denton Heights 2424 ft elevation, highest point of the Allegheny mountains that we crossed, here is the dividing line between the Atlantic Mississippi dranage {drainage} sistems {systems}. A little North of this point there is a large spring on the top of the mountain ridge with three outlets, the east lets the water down into Pine creek and the Susquehanna, to the Atlantic. The west to the Alleganey, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. The North to the Genesee River and into Lake Ontario. It is said that the wind sometimes turns all of the water into one outlet, and sometimes into another. This spring is considered one of the wonders of the Country. After passing Denton hights {?? heights}, a sign read "Long Dangerous Hill". We went down down much of the way steeper than Southington Mountain for Four miles when we crossed Pine Creek and over a slight rise then down hill and grade for five miles more, to West Pike where there was an extensive tannery. Three miles farther we came to Galeton, a one street Villeage {village} on the steep side of the mountain, the buildings on the left side of the street were many of them high above the street level, while those on the right were built up as supported on posts, the river running back of them. Two and one half miles farther on we found lodgings at the house of Mrs. Emma E. Tate at Galeton {inserted}. At this house she had water and gas piped in from her own farm. We traveled this day 157 miles. 10/13/1929 We left Mr. Tate's at 9:45 expecting to attend church at the first Village which was Ganes, but there was no Church there, a little farther on we came to the noted Hunting Valley Inn. There is a great Canopy roof extending the whole length of the building and reaching out about 30 feet hung by rods, under which the great New York Busses stop. We were told that some days they serve 1200 meals. About church time we reached Ansonia, named after Anson G. Phelps of N.Y. and Conn, who at one time did a great lumber business here, and whom Ansonia Conn. was named after, but the church was not used. We then sped on and reached Wellsboro after driving 22 miles and attended service at the Prebyterian Church. I think this I think that this {repeated} distance was the greatest I ever traveled to attend worship. The church was a beautiful one and the service grand, and well attended. Wellsborough is a neat built place, 3 Churches 8 or 10 stores. In earlier times it was a center for a great lumber trade, but that is now gone and the place is rather dull. ther is a glass plant where many electric light bulbs are made, and a large mild factory. There is a large fire clay mine up onthe steep side of the mountain where they send the clay down to the cars in a steep shoot {chute}, this was first made of wood, but the bottom planks wore away fast, so now they have lined it with thick glass, which stands well. There are many rattlesnakes about on the mountains. I me{t} Mr. W.H. Whiting who showed me about the place which took all the afternoon, so this day we traveled 22 miles. There are many people in this town wh accomodate tourists. We staid at the Evens House on Main Street. 10/14/1929 We left WEllsboro at 8:45 and came through Mansfield, Mainsburg, Troy, Towanda, which is the County seat for Bradford County, here we crossed on a long iron bridge over the Susquehannah River. We then ascended on a road cut into the side of the mountain to a hight {height} of over 400 ft above the river which was nearly strait {straight} beneath us. We turned sharp to the left and passed through the deepset rock cut I ever saw then down across a heavy concret bridg{e} and and {repeated} up and to the right and through another cut like the first, we soon came out on Indian Lookout Rock, where we were 505 feet above the river, some of the boys threw stones down into it. Here the Indians kept a lookout that watched Sullivan's army when it went up the valley to conquer the six nations in1779. We saw several monuments that marked his camps. In 1793 during the French Revolution a Colony of French fled from their Country and ascending the river and {repeated} built a settlement onthe opposite side and a little above Lookout rock, one log house was the largest ever built had 16 frieplaces, they also built a house for the King but he never came, and after peace was restored many went back to France, a few remanined and their descendents are now living in the vacinity. We soon entered Wyalnsing {??}, and found Mr. Allen Bugess, whose wife was Miss Agness Abel. They pursuaded us to stay at their house over night. During the afteronn, they took us across the River and up the Sugar Run Valley to the Villages of Forkston and Mehoopany. We saw many intersting sights among the mountains and crossed two old wood covered bridges that wer build over 100 years ago. On our return we went up the Susquehanna to Terrytown, where stands a two story log house built over 100 years ago, the logs of which are pine and very large and hewn, they are in a good state of preservation, and the owner Mr. Charles Cowles, is repairing it up in its original Sahpe and is to live in it. After leaving this place we haistened {hastened} to Mr. Burgess's place so he could do his milking. We traveled 103 miles. 10/15/1929 Left Allen Bugess at 8:30 at Skinners Eddy we filled with gas and oil, then on through Meshoppen, Trankhammack, Mill City, Schultzville and into Scranton, where there was coal mines on all sides, and great piles of colum {??} and coal for miles towards Carbondale, which we passed through. Then on through Wymart, Prompton over hills and moutains, through Seeleyville and Honesdale, Wayne County to Indian Orchard, where we stoped {stopped} and had dinner by a Cemetary. This forenoon we have had hard traveling through the Lacawanna mountains. We were soon through Hawley and traveling up the the Lackawaxen {??} Valley where there were large silk mills and Power plants, soon I noticed a large pipe running along the side of the Valley opposite, after a time we crossed the River and pipe, and there I learned that the pipe was 14 feet in diameter 3 1/2 miles long, made of wood and banded with 1" round iron every 4 1/2 inches, that it furnished water for a power plant at Kimballs and the water wheels were 500 feet below the level of teh water in the pond. The dam is of concrete 60 ft high located at Wilsonville. The pond is 14 miles long, 3 1/2 to 4 miles wide and 45 miles around it, and furnishes electricity for Pike and Wayne Counties. We then had a 17 mile drive through a lonely and dreary country to Milford on the Delaware River and through a beautiful farming land six miles to Matamoras where we crossed the River on a largenew bridge to Port Jervis where we clim{b}ed a high mountain where we had a most wonderful view of the Valley of the Neversink {??} and many villages, passing through Slate Hill we came to Cannon Inn, kept by E.M. Deckers, New Hampton N.Y. Having traveled 144 miles. 10/16/1929 We left Mr. Deckers at 8:45 and came through Goshen, Monroe, Highland Mills, Highland Falls on the Hudson, Ft. Montgomery, crossed the river on Bear Mountain Bridge. We stoped {stopped} on the Highway east of the bridge which is blasted out of the side of the mountain, to view the scenery, which was grand, then on to Peekskill where we stoped {stopped}, while Mary bought some refreshments, and we came through Mohegan, Mahopac, Corotn Falls, Carmel. Had our dinner by side of road. Then through Brewster, and crossed the line into Conn, through Mill Plain, Danbur, New Town, Sandy Hook, Southbury, Middlbury and home which we reached at 4:20 having traveled 111 miles. The Total Cost of the trip was $167.15 Total miles traveld about 3600 Distance from our house to Clyde's in Mimico 523 miles " " Clyde's house to Irvings house in Wauwatosa 496 miles Distance from my house to Irving's via Niagara Falls, Port Huron, Grand Haven, across Lake Michigan, 952 miles. Distance from Irving's house to mine via Chicago Michigan City, Ohio and Penn, and Bear Mountain Bridge, 1245. 10/19/1929 Dug potatoes. 10/20/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Had dinner at Margarets and we spent the afternoon there. 10/21/1929 Dug potatoes. Mr. Morris Alcott, who lived on the Wolcott Road, died, today at St Mary's Haspitial {hospital} where he had been taken for an operation of the kidneys. He worked for Rogers & Brother over 54 years. 10/22/1929 Husk out Pop corn, and gathered sweet corn. 10/23/1929 This forenoon got in Carrots, beets etc from the farm. This afternoon I went to Mr. Morris Alcott's funeral he was buried on the top of the hill in the Original Pine Grove Cemetery. 10/24/1929 Sharpened a lot of picks, for St Joseph Cemetery this morning. This afternoon at the farm, Cut corn, picked up butternuts, Apples etc. 10/25/1929 Hust corn and got in the stalks, as they were very dry. 10/26/1929 Husk corn and got in corn. 10/27/1929 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Joseph Todd preached. 10/28/1929 Finished getting in corn. 10/29/1929 Sharpened drills this morning, then went out to the Farm and got in cabbage. 10/30/1929 This forenoon I went to town and did a lot of business. This afternoon worked at the farm. 10/31/1929 Worked about home this morning, then out to the farm, and plowed in the upper lot on the hill, and husked corn. 11/01/1929 Worked about home this forenoon, at the farm this afternoon. 11/02/1929 Gathered leaves, and repaired car this forenoon. Plowed at the farm this afternoon till it rained then husked corn. 11/03/1929 Attended Church at Mill Plain. Rev J. O. Todd. 11/04/1929 Finished plowing turf on the hill at the farm. 11/05/1929 Began painting the long wire fence on the north side on the hill. The Mattatuck Drum band held a meeting this evening. 11/06/1929 Painted fence. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of Mill Plain Union Church. 11/07/1929 Put reflector on Edward Upsons Truck, and painted fence at the farm. Miss Pickett came here to live. 11/08/1929 Painted Fence. 11/09/1929 Painted fence. 11/10/1929 I attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Hartford and played for the Putnam Phalanx at Armistice excercises. I did not go. 11/11/1929 Armistice Day. Many Factories closed for the first time. I turned out with the Mattatuck Drum Band in the parad{e} this evening. 11/12/1929 Painted fence. Attended Drum Band meeting this evening. 11/13/1929 Painted fence all day. This evening I attended a supper, given by the mens league at Mill Plain Church. Mr. Arthur Bleavett {??} told of his recent trip to Calafornia {California}. 11/14/1929 Rained. Worked about home. 11/15/1929 Rained. Made four picture frames. Repaired ladder, and worked at the farm. 11/16/1929 Painted fence. 11/17/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church. 11/18/1929 Painted fence. 11/19/1929 Painted fence. 11/20/1929 Painted fence. 11/21/1929 First snow, one inch deep on ground this morning when I got up. Went down town and paid my taxes, bought a pair of overalls 1.69 and a set of woolen underware {-wear}, 5.10 at Sears & Roebucks. This afternoon did blacksmith work. 11/22/1929 Painted fence. 11/23/1929 Repaired auto this morning. Painted fence in the afternoon. 11/24/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd preached. 11/25/1929 Worked all day repairing big scraper for Calvary Cemetery. 11/26/1929 worked on scraper till four o'clock, then went to the farm. 11/27/1929 worked about home this morning, and painted Fence till three, when it rained. 11/28/1929 Thanksgiving Day. The descendents of Almira Frisbie Somers gathered for the 62 time on Thanksgiving day. this year at the Woodtick Chapel. there were thirty five present. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Chatfield were host and hostess. The women of the Chapel served a full corse {course} turkey dinner at one o'clock. 1.50 per plate. After dinner a social time was enjoyed followed later by a business meeting at which robert Somers president presided. Those present included Mr and Mrs Benjamin Chat field, Miss Roda Chat- field, Miss Elizabeth Chatfield. Mrs. Jane Phillips Miss Elizabeth Somers, Miss Josephine Somers Miss Myra Somers, Miss May Somers, George Somers, Mr and Mrs Charles S. Miler, Mr and Mrs Raymond Miller, Mr and Mrs Rowland Jenner, Mr and Mrs Philip Reutter, Miss Ruth Reutter, Mr and Mrs William gillette, Miss Louis Gillette {Louise?} Mansfield Gillette, Miss Cara Miller, Berkeley L Frisbie, Mr and Mrs Robert Somers, Gordon Somers, Mr and Mrs Louis Somers, Ellsworth Somers and two guests Miss Betty Keeler and John McCourt. Mrs Gustave Cornelis had charge of preparing the dinner. 11/29/1929 Painted the wire fence North side of the farm till three o'clock when I used all of the paint. 11/30/1929 Very cold 6 above zero this morning and cold all day. I went to town this forenoon, bought window cord clothes line, and got white paint. 12/01/1929 Attended Church at Mill plain. Rev J.O. Todd preached. There was 159 in attendance 22 in the Choir. Jack and Ruth Brundage and family were there Jack, Ruth and sons Roger and Pierce stayed at Bessie Pierponts last night. Peggey stayed at Will Gillettes and Kenneth stayed with Margaret. This after- noon they went to their home at Storrs. 12/02/1929 It has snowed nearly all day, about 5 inches deep. I have repaired windows, put in new cord and made them slide easily. there has been several auto accidents near here on account of cars skid- ing {skidding}, as many drive without chains. 12/03/1929 This forenoon I repaired windows. This afternoon went to the farm, and then to edgar Upsons and shod his horse. Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 12/04/1929 Repaired windows, and worked about home. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of Mill Plain Church. 12/05/1929 Repaired tires on the truck. Repaired the window in me Desk room. This P.M. worked at the farm. 12/06/1929 Repaired windows this morning. This afternoon took my Packard Car to the Packard Station on Field Street and had the ignition tested, and a new condenser put in. Then went out to the farm and gave Jasper his feed, came back and took half a bushel of potatoes down to Margaret. It has thawed slightly today. 12/07/1929 Cleaned out the large girage {garage}, and polished the car. Mr. Ed Scott of Cheshire brought a two horse sled pole, and I put the brace irons on it for him. After dinner I went to the farm and painted fence. This morning it was very foggy, and it has thawed some all day. 12/08/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning. Miss Pickett and Mrs. Coley rode up with us. Attended evening service. There was a male colored quartette present that sung several selections. 12/09/1929 Worked nearly all day repairing my stone boat. Mr. Hay penney Called this evening and we had a good visit. 12/10/1929 Spent 4 hours making over a big snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery. Harry Buckingham died this morning. Samuel of Goshen {??} died this morning. Snow fell about two inches deep during the night. 12/11/1929 Worked on the big iron snow plow 8 hours today. Mr Hapennie sent a man to help me. This evening Mary and I attended a supper and address at Mill Plain Union Church the supper was one dollar each. Dean Brown of Yale Universaty {University} gave the address. 12/12/1929 Worked four hours on snow plow, with man to help. this after noon we attended harry Buck- inghams funereal {funeral}. I then went to town and saw Dr Barber about my bronchial trouble. Then went to the farm. It began snowing about five. I received a fine all wool sweater from Clyde and Fritsa {??} they sent it from Eatons store Toronto. 12/13/1929 Finished the snow plow after two hours work. It has rained all day but not very hark {??} 12/14/1929 Worked about home, and to the farm all day. 12/15/1929 Warm and thawing snow nearly all gone. We attended worship at Mill Plain Union Church. There was an attendence {attendance} at the morning service of 134. At evening there was a sunday school entertainment "Christ is born" with an attendance of 330. 12/16/1929 Repaired the brake on the Cemetery Tractor. This evening I went to Meriden with Mr Arthur Grass and Fred Pretat to a Foremens meeting of the International Silver Company, there were about 300 Foremen present. 12/17/1929 Did odd jobs about home, and repaired steel wedges for Ed Scott. Gave instructions to members of the Mattatuck Drum Band this evening. 12/18/1929 Rained all day. Did a lot of blacksmith work for Ed Scott of Cheshire this forenoon. Then went to town on the trolley car and got my interest at the Colonial Trust Co. on my Church bonds. Did several errands and came home and put new crass {??} chains where needed in my car chains. 12/19/1929 Rained all day. Miss Pickett went to Middlebury to stay at Mr Fenn's house for the rest of the winter. 12/20/1929 Mary and I went to Simsbury and visited brother Frank 69 miles up and back. 12/21/1929 This day has been very cold. I have worked about home and repaired the screen in the Bowling Alley at the Church. This afternoon I took 5.00 that Andrew Kitchenka left over to Henry Buckingham, a gift of the Drum Band. 12/22/1929 Shortest day of the year. Mary was taken with a sever attack yesterday afternoon, and we had Dr. Barber came out last evening. Last night she could not speak a loud word but today she is much better. She could not go to church. I got ready but my car was frozen and it took a long time to thaw it out, and I did not go, this afternoon I went to Woodtick and saw Charles S. Tuttle. 12/23/1929 We received a ton of soft coal today. I went to the state regerstration {registration} station on Benedict St and got Licence for the Ford truck $15.00. This day has been very cold, and tonight it is snowing. 12/24/1929 Got my big car ready to go to storrs tomorrow, and did odd jobs about home, and took care of Jasper at the farm, as I do every day. Miss Pickett came back tonight. 12/25/1929 {and, it seems, 12/26/1929} This morning I took my big car and went down to Margaret's on Beecher ave, and got Cliff, Margaret, Gene and Anita, and brought them here, where we finished loading the car, and took Mary aboard, and we started for Storrs at 10 A.M. went out through East Farms where I took care of my ax and did the chores. We went through Southington, Plainville, Farmington, West Hartford, Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester, Bolton, Coventry, Mansfield, 4 Corners and Storrs 54 miles, which we reached at 12:15. Had dinner at Ruth Brundage's house. I and my wife, Frank Elsie, and children Roger, Kenneth Pierce and Peggy, Clifford Northrop and Margaret children Marion, Betty, Gene and Anita, all sat down to dinner. In the afternoon they enjoyed a Christmas Tree and presents were distributed, after which Ray, Cliff Northrop Marion Betty and Ruth (Ray's wife) left for waterbury. All of the rest of us staid {stayed} over till today, we at Ruth Brundage house, while Frank and his family staid {stayed} at his wife's fathers house Mr. Harry Garrigus, Frank and family left after dinner for their home in Kent 80 miles, while I, Mary, Margaret, Gene and Anita came to Waterbury, reaching here at 4:30. 12/27/1929 Spent this day the greater part riviting and tightening up a large gravel scraper. 12/28/1929 Rained all day. cleaned out the wagon shed, and put things to rights on the upper floor of the barn. 12/29/1929 Attended service at Mill Plain Church, Rev J O Todd officiated. This afternoon went up to Berkley Frisbie's in Woodtick. 12/30/1929 Worked about home. Cleaned water closet, went to town. 12/31/1929 Last day of the year. Quite warm for this time of year. Painted fence at East Farms. Put my new markers on the Cars 1799 on the Packard have had this number since 1916, and 23982 on the Ford Truck. 01/01/1930 I painted several lengths of the North boundry {boundary} fence at the farm. The weather has been very warm, and it began to rain about three o'clock. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church I, Arthur Blewett, and Leslie Coolie were appointed a committee to provide for the extending of the sewer up the Southmayd {??} Road and connecting with the church. 01/02/1930 Worked all day putting a rear axle in the Ford truck. The weather has been very warm. Mary went and saw Dr. Barber about her cough. 01/03/1930 Rained hard this morning. Worked on my auto truck most of the day. 01/04/1930 I worked sharpening picks and drills for Calvary Cemetery this forenoon. Made Lathe tools this afternoon. Snowed this forenoon. Cold tonight. 01/05/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd preached. 01/06/1930 Today I went to Mort Pierpont's new barn and got his sig- niture an{d} {??} Wm Le Roy Garrigus to a petition for the ex- tension of the sewer on the Southmayd Road to the Mill Plain Union Church. I then took it to the City Hall and lodged it with the City Cleark {Clerk} to be acted on. Mayor Frank Hays was sworn in today at City Hall. 01/07/1930 Worked repairing two grave lowering devises for Calvary Cemeter. Mattatuck Drum Band held the Regular Monthly Meeting this evening. 01/08/1930 Went with Nicholas Hapenny up to the Caronium {??} Plating works on Brown's Meadows this forenoon and cleaned the parts of lowering machines. 01/09/1930 Repaired a push scraper for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon went out to Edgar Upsons and set a shoe on his horse. Yesterday and today have been remarkably warm, Thermometer 60 degrees at noon today. 01/10/1930 This morning I went to the Chromium Corporation of America Inc., and left eight hand screws to be plated. then came home and brightened the eight corner pieces and then repaired my big lathe. 01/11/1930 Cold day. I worked about home all day. This evening I telephoned James Phelen about extending the sewer on the Southmayd Road. 01/12/1930 Attended worship at Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon there were 112 people present. It has snowed and rained all day. 01/13/1930 Rained all day. I went to town this morning. Worked in wheel house making a countershaft for the big lathe. 01/14/1930 Worked in the wheel house. Rained nearly all day. This evening Arthur Blewitt and I appeared before the Board of Public Works and tried to get the sewer on Southmayd road extended so to connect with the Church. 01/15/1930 Worked on the grave machines this afternoon. This forenoon I went to the Office of the Street, Water, and Sewer Inspector and got a Waver form for the sewer extension on Southmayd road. 01/16/1930 Put together two grave lowering machines. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Edward Craft called. 01/17/1930 Finished the grave machines. Today has been very cold. 01/18/1930 Snowed hard this forenoon but turned into rain and froze, everything is now coated with ice. Lots of excitement in the Piersall locality yesterday. Two youn{g} fellows named Brophey and Schrager, went to New Britain Thursday evening and were there joined by two more, and all armed stole a automobile and drove to Cheshire where they had the car filed with gas, and then robbed the station of $75.00 then drove to Bristol to rob another station, but there happened to be a poliece-{police} man there, who questioned them, and one on the back seat shot him in the back dead, they then returned to New Britain where two remain- ed and Brophey and Schrager came to Water- bury where they abandened {abandoned} the Franklin car on Camp St. and immediately word was sent through- out the state. Police started a surch {search} and about 9 o'clock Brophey was located near Mr. Block's barn at Piersallville. Four poliece {police} went there and as they were getting out of their car Brophey opened fire on them, sending a bullett through the coat of one, he then ran the poliece {police} shooting but failed to hit him. Poliece {police} came from New Britain, Bristol and officers from Wolctt, Prospect, and armed citizens joined in the hunt through the woods to the number of over 1000, but the{y} did not get him till eight o'clock at evening, then he was caught by three officers on Cook St. after he had emptied his revolver shooting two of them in the wrist. Schrager had been captured in front of the Hotel Elton as he was about to enter a bus for New Britain. The others had been captured during the day at New Britain. 01/19/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr. Todd preached. A very cold day. 01/20/1930 Cold worked in wheel house all day. 01/21/1930 Worked in the wheel house all day. Howard Neal, Ralph Adams, Franklin Browne, Edgar Upson Mr. Wheeler, and another man of the Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening. 01/22/1930 Worked in wheel house all day. 01/23/1930 Worked in Wheel House this forenoon. This afternoon I attended a meeting of the stockholders of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. When I went up I called for J.K. Smith on First AVe. and took him up and brought him back. 01/24/1930 Worked in the Wheel house today making bass drum sticks, Edgar Upson called for his snare drum sticks that I made over. They work much better. 01/25/1930 This day has been rather cold. I worked most of the time in the wheel house, repairing the machinery, and made one pair of bass drum sticks. 01/26/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph Todd officiated. I then went to East Farms and took care of my ox there then came home and remained in the house the rest of the day as it was very cold, at this time it is 6 below zero. 9 P.M. 01/27/1930 this forenoon I went to town. The rest of the day worked about home. This evening wrote a letter to Lewis L. Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancover [Vancouver] Wash. This evening 6ø below. 01/28/1930 Worked about home anc cleaned the barn a{t} East Farms. 01/29/1930 Got iron work ready to repair the Bowling alleys at the Mill Plain Church. This afternoon I drew manure to the hill lot at the farm This evening attended an entertainment given by the mens {men's} club at the church. 01/30/1930 Cold today snowed this afternoon. This evening, Mr. Charles G. Frisbie of 1366 Prarie Avenue Des Plaines Illinois, Called. He is now located at Hotel Garde New Haven. He gave me the address of Miss May Frisbie Bristol Wisconsin. 01/31/1930 Worked repairing the stove in the wheel house. Cold today. This evening Mary and I attended a party given at Mrs. George Browne's for Marion Northrop. 02/01/1930 Put new transmition {transmission} bands in the Ford truck And worked at the farm barn etc. 02/02/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Church Rev Joseph Todd. We went to Margarets to dinner, in honor of Marion who is to leave next Thursday for New York to enter St. Lukes hospital to study for a nurse. There were 147 in attendance at Church. 02/03/1930 This forenoon I took the spring off my Packard car the Left back, which was broken. This evening Frank Kitchenka, Lovaine {??} Fox myself and James Phelan, in his Pontiac Car went to Hartford and attended a meeting of the Putnam Phalanx, at their headquarters 314 Washington St. and accepted their invitation for the Mattatuck Drum Band to affiliate with them, in parades, etc. 02/04/1930 This forenoon I took the broken spring to Perryault's shop on South Main St. and had it repaired. This P.M. I took two old music book{s} to Mr. Hazelhurst to have them rebound, and went to Mr. M.E. Pierpont's new barn and had him sign a waver for the extensionof a sewer on the Southmayd Rd. I then went to Wm Garrigus shop on the Meriden Rd. and he signed it, they are trustees of the Mill Plain Union Church. This eve the Mattatuck Drum Band held a regular meeting and, voted to affiliate with the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford. 02/05/1930 Put spring on car, and did odd jobs about home and at the farm. Mary and I attended meeting of official board of Mill Plain Church. 02/06/1930 Zero this morning. Mary and I went to Margaret's this morning and brought little Anita up to stay here all day while Margaret Cliff Bettie and Mr. Way went to New York with Marion whi is to enter St. Luke's hospital. They went in Mr. Way's Car. I cut down an old apple tree in the yard. 02/07/1930 Chopped wood at home, and set a shoe on Edgar Upson's horse. 02/08/1930 Chopped wood, and this afternoon made music books, and practiced drumming. 02/09/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. This afternoon went to Wolcott and saw George Browne. 02/10/1930 Went out to Bessie Pierpont's lot on the Todd road and cut out a load of wood, snowed hard this afternoon. 02/11/1930 This forenoon I went down town and did business and got my drivers licence for 19.30 and got Attorney Meyer's to sign a waver for a sewer on the Southmayd road. P.M. Went out to the Todd Road and got a load of wood. 02/12/1930 Linc{o}ln's Birthday. I put up the flag. This morning I cut down an old apple tree, and did blacksmith work the rest of the day. 02/13/1930 Rained all day. Did odd Jobs about home. 02/14/1930 Sewed in two celeoid {??} windows in my big car, and set a shoe on Edgar Upson's Horse. Worked at the farm. 02/15/1930 Brought in two truck loads of wood from the Todd road lot, began snowing this evening. 02/16/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Church, attendance rather small as it was very cold and windy. This afternoon Mr. Charles Frisbie of Del Plains Wis who is now in New Haven on business called and we went up to Wolcott and saw the place where his great grandfather Sheldon Frisbie lived before he went west, years ago. We also called on Berkley Frisbie in Woodtick. 02/17/1930 Twenty degrees below zero at six thirty this morning. I sawed wood all the forenoon witht he buck saw. This afternoon I repaired Edgar Upson's wagon shafts 02/18/1930 Uncle Benjamin L. Somers {??} died yesterday morning at the house of Mrs. Homer Atkins in Wolcott at the age of 83 years. He has been living at Mrs. Atkins for the past five years, and his relitives {relatives} have been paying his living bills for many years. I cut up and drew two loads of wood today. They are building a new gasoline station at the Tom Mills place at the foot of the hill, south side, West of here. 02/19/1930 This forenoon I brought in a load of wood. This afternoon We attended Uncle Benjamin's funeral at the Clark Undertaking Rooms No 20 State St. Rev. Mr. Geasner of All Soles {Souls} Epscapal {Episcopal} Church officiated. He Benjamin was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery by the side of his wife, in the south east corner between the roadway and river. This evening Mary and I attended a supper and entertainment given by the Men's Club of Mill Plain Church 02/20/1930 Tis forenoon I repaired a grave lowering devise for St. Joseph Cemetery and took the tubes over to the office. This P.M. I got Miles Upson and we cut down a tree and cut it up, on the Todd road lot. 02/21/1930 This morning Margaret, Mary and I with Veta {??} Went to Hartford to the state Lybrary {Library} where I saw Mr. Goddard and got some photo copies of pages of the Juda Frisbie Jounal, pretaining {pertaining} to Reuben Frisbie. 02/22/1930 Washington's Birthday I raised the flag. I drew in two loads of wood from the Todd road. Dirt roads are almost impassable on account of the mud. 02/23/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Church Rev. Raymond Bates officiated. 02/24/1930 Drew in crushed stone and covered the front walk, and back yard. 02/25/1930 Worked at the farm pruning apple trees and drew manure to the Connor lot on the hill. 02/26/1930 Pruned apple trees and painted fence at farm rained and snowed this evening. 02/27/1930 Snow about two inches deep this morning. I made a case for my French meterinome {metronome}. This afternoon painted fence at the farm. 02/28/1930 Worked about home this forenoon. Finished painting the North boundary fence at the farm, and painted some on the middle lot fence. 03/01/1930 Jed Wilson and Clarance Pierpont and I went to the Todd Road and cut down a large Chestnut tree and brought home a load of wood, this afternoon. I put up the metrinome {metronome} in the drum room. 03/02/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. 03/03/1930 Weather. Snow fell during the night to the depth of about one inch. Today has been raw, cold and windy. This forenoon I went to the lot on the Todd road and got a load of wood, this afternoon I set a shoe on Edgar Upson's horse at the Maple Wood Farm, in Wolcott then Miles and I went to the wood lot and sawed the large tree that we had cut down into srine {??} lengths. Had a letter from Clyde in Toronto today, he says that this is the best winter he has ever seen. The themometer {thermometer} hasent {hasn't} reached zero there this winter. 03/04/1930 Weather cold, I drew in two loads of wood from the Todd road. Edgar Upson broke his arm today while cranking his car. The Mattatuck Drum Band held its regular monthly meeting tonight. 03/05/1930 Cold today{.} I drew in two loads of wood from Bessie Pier- pont's lot on the Todd road, and cut up wood at home. This evening, We attended a meeting of the official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 03/06/1930 There has been great excitement in the City today on account of the Russian communists who were going to form in front of City Hall and have a big parade. {A}t ten o'clock there was a great crowd out, and at the apointed {appointed} time a few formed and began shouting "Fight the poliece {police}" The poliece grabbed them and rushed them into the prison and the rest dispersed, and all was quiet the rest of the day. 03/07/1930 Pruned grape vines this forenoon. Went to Hamilton Park and did some engineering this afternoon, and pruned an apple tree a{t} Margaret's. 03/08/1930 Rained all day, repaired tires on my car, and worked on a grave lowering device. {device} 03/09/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Joseph Todd {officiated}. Had dinner at Margaret's on Beecher Av. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle called to borrow some old clothes. Also Bessie {and} Jessie Pierpont. 03/10/1930 Worked for St Joseph's Cemetery repairing a grave lowering devise {device}. Berkeley Le Frisbie {??} called to see me about the new road they are to build by his house. 03/11/1930 Trimmed apple trees out to the farm. Went to Wolcott to see Charles Tuttle but he wasn't at home. Traveling bad. Members of the Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice. 03/12/1930 Spent 1/2 day at Hamilton Park connecting a motor to run a grindstone. Trimmed apple trees at the farm. Forty two years ago today snow began falling that resulted in the great blizzard of 1888. On March 12th at about four in the afternoon Sunday snow began falling slowly during the night, all day Monday and Monday night and the greater part of Tuesday by which time it was piled in many places 15 ft deep. Had it lain level it would have been 3 1/2 ft deep. All traffic was entirely blocked. It was a week before many of the roads were dug out. 03/13/1930 Very pleasant day. {C}ut out the wood from the branches, pruned off the trees etc. Eight members of the Mattatuck Drum Band went to New Haven to visit the Lancroft {?? Leancroft} Drum Corps. They were John Garrigus, Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Howard Neal, Frank Kitchenka, Henry Wheeler, Andrew Kitchenka and Mr. Sutton. 03/14/1930 This day was mostly spent at the farm, drilling rocks for blasting. The weather came off towards night very cold. 03/15/1930 I repaired a walk roller for the Calvary Cemetery. This noon Frank with his children Mary, Bertha and Dwight came from Kent. He {"e" inserted in text} also brought his wife and a friend Miss Chase, but left them in the center as they wished to attend a meeting. After dinner Frank, Dwight and I started to go out to the farm, we went via the Meriden road as there was a fire burning there. {W}hen we reached Alexander Ave the fire was burning near several houses, and there were two companies of firemen there with streams of water putting it out. Farther on we saw the fire close to a house on Alexander Ave and several other buildings. Frank drove up there just in time to see the fire coming down from the North close to a girage {garage}. Two girls were fighting it with brooms, but the wind was blowing a gale and the weeds were high and the fire was driving them. I got there just in time and a woman brought a dish of water. I wet my broom and managed to keep it from burning the build- ing. Then we went up the hill and the fire was burning to the north in a line over a mile long. There was a big man there who said "this must be put out," he took off his big coat, and starting a the end began beating it out. {A}nother man found an old garment and fastened it on a stick and did good work, while Frank and I cut bunches of green brush and all to- gather {together} we made good headway, although at times the wind blew so hard that the fire would jump beyound {beyond} us, but we managed to put it out to the end, which was a wet swamp. Then we came back and reached the hill we could see it burning up in Wolcott. Hundreds of acres were burned over. We then went out the Meriden Rd, and down the Pierpont Rd to East farms, where we looked the farm over, and then home. They left for Kent at 6 P.M. 03/16/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. J.O. Todd preached. In the afternoon we had dinner at Bessie Pierpont's, Maple Hill Farm, Where we met Mr. Warren Upson. 03/17/1930 This morning I took a lot of silver Knives, Forks and spoons down to the factory of Rogers Bros to have them done over. They belong to Kent Grange, and Frank brought them over last Sat. I then went to City Hall Fire station and got a permit to use explosives and then bought at the Hotchkiss Co 6 sticks of dynamite. This afternoon I repaired Chains, pulley blocks, etc. 03/19/1930 At the farm I got out rocks, with Jasper all day. 03/20/1930 Sharpened tools all day. 03/21/1930 At the farm getting out rocks etc. 03/22/1930 Worked all day repairing the back fenders of a heavy truck for St Joseph Cemetary. 03/23/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Re{v} J.O. Todd officiating. This afternoon Mary and I went up to Woodtick and saw Berkeley Frisbie. Ther are building a state road by his house. We then called on Charles Tuttle. then came to Ray's on Capitol Ave and had supper, and visited during the evening. 03/24/1930 Repaired Fenders for truck for St. Joseph's Cemetery. This afternoon went to the farm and prepaired {prepared} to blast rocks. This evening Mary and I went to Henry Buck- inghams's on the Meriden road. The occasion being the 50th anniversary of their marriage, there were about 80 persons present. This day has been very dry and many bush and grass fires, the fire men were called out 25 times. 03/25/1930 Rained hard all day. Went to town this forenoon. This afternoon Mr Hapenny came to see about having a large dirt conveyor made. Mr. Charles S. Tuttle came later, and spent the night. We had a drum practice. 03/26/1930 Tore down the chicken yards today. 03/27/1930 This forenoon wrote a letter to Mae Belle Frisbie, Bristol Wis. This afternoon cleaned up the yard. Cold with fluries {flurries} of snow. 03/28/1930 Ben {Been} busy making a new chicken yard. The bank in Watertown was robbed of about 16000 dollars this morning, by four men, they escaped to Waterbury in a stolen car. 03/29/1930 This forenoon I repaired a heavy chain, fixed an inch wire cable ready for use, and built a heavy stone boat for Calvary cemetery. This Afternoon I sold Mr. Gray 6 concrete fence posts, and got 1 doz eggs for setting, took a basket of potatoes to Margaret's and got typewritten copies of a letter I wrote Miss May {?? Mae} Belle Frisbie, Bristol Wis. 03/30/1930 Nice day, attended at Mill Plain Church this morning and again this evening. 03/31/1930 This morning I repaired the woodhouse window and plumbed up the posts for the chicken yard. In the afternoon went out to Edgar Upson's and took the shoes off his horse, and got one doz eggs, then came tot he farm and drew 6 five gallon cans of water up on the hill, to have in case of fire. Took 3 concrete posts to Mr. Gray. 04/01/1930 {March crossed out} Worked putting chicken netting up, and blasting out rocks at the farm. this evening I attended a meeting of the Board of Public Works, to see about putting a sewer on the Southmayd road. 04/02/1930 Blasted out rocks at the farm all day. Attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 04/03/1930 Worked at the farm all day hawling {hauling} out rocks. 04/04/1930 Worked today getting out rocks. This forenoon we saw a smoke over East and we unhitched the ox and put him in the barn, and got the pump when Will Garrigus came, and we started, it porved to be Mr. Albert's yard and Mr. Clarence Chapin's yard. Mrs. Chapin had been burning some papers and the wind blew one that was burning and it set the grass and weeds on fire. {W}e went to putting it out and soon the fire Company came and we put it all out. We went back and I started eating my dinner when Will Garrigus came again and said that {the} chicken house was on fire. We hurried over at about 12.10 but before we reached there it had broken out and was burning fierce. However we forced the fire back for a while, but the wind blew just then and the fire drove us out, by this time a fire company arived {arrived} and they soon had a large stream of water on but the builtion was about 125 ft long and was a total loss. Mr Albers said that it cost 2500 dollars. 04/05/1930 Worked at blacksmith work, and at the Chicken yard this forenoon. Out to the farm and helped put out fire on Warren Hitchcock's land, opposite Bessie Pierpont's house, and got a load of bark from the Todd road. 04/06/1930 Attended service morning and evening at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J.O. Todd preached in the morning and Dr. A.R. Atwood the Cowboy preacher in the evening. 04/07/1930 Worked on new chicken yard most of the time today. Rained very hard this afternoon. This evening a young lady came and took the names etc. for the 1930 U.S. census. I guess there is 112,000 people in Waterbury. 04/08/1930 Very cold. This forenoon I worked on chicken yard. This afternoon went to the spoon shop and got a lot of silver that they refinished for Frank, that belongs to the Kent Grange. 04/10/1930 Yesterday morning Mary and I went to Kent via Middlebury, Woodbury, Washington, New Preston, New Milford then to Kent. We stayed at Franks over night. They are building 70 ft on the North side of his barn. {C}ame home this afternoon via Cornwell Bridge, {w}here I stoped {stopped} and looked over the great new concrete bridge that they are building over the Housatonic {??} river Rail Road etc. Then we came through Cornwell, up Bunker Hill through Goshen, Litchfield, Bantam, Morris, Bethlehem, Watertown and home. It was 54 miles going over and 53 coming home. 04/11/1930 Rained hard this morning. I took my big car and went to Hartford to the K.B. Noble Co. and bought some tools for sharpening hollow air drills, paid 7.70 then went to the State Library and gave Mr. Goddard a drum that was made in 1882, to be placed on exibition {exhibition} with other relics. I also got the Judah Frisbie books that I had loaned him. I then drove out Albany Ave and turned right and went to simsbury and saw my brother Frank, then came home and found that it had rained here all day, while up there they had had no rain. 04/12/1930 Worked at the farm plowing for pop corn, but a the {??} stones, the ground is covered thick and it will be a job to get them off. 04/13/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church both morning and evening. in the evening the young people gave a pagent {pageant} in which 40 took part. 04/14/1930 Worked about home all day. Forest Chapin of East Farms was married to Mrs. Grace Stutevant of Greenfield Mass last Saturday morning. 04/15/1930 Worked at the farm plowing for pop corn all day. this evening brother Fred D. Miller of Tarrytown N.Y. came to the Drum Band meeting and Charles Tuttle was there also, and they did some fine drumming. 04/16/1930 {2-3 words seem to be whited out here} Worked making gates for the chicken yard. Plowed at the farm. 04/17/1930 Rained all day. Worked about home. 04/18/1930 Good Friday. Worked on chicken yard. Rained this afternoon. Mr. Herbert Gad came to see me about the new History of New Haven County. Ray came and cleaned out the chicken coop. 04/19/1930 Built chicken wire fence in the lower yard today. {B}rother Fred who is staying with Wm Gillettee {?? double "e"?} called this afternoon and left some drum music that he had written. Fritsa, Clyde's wife called this afternoon. She came from Toronto Friday. 04/20/1930 Easter Sunday Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning. At Woodtick chapel this afternoon and again at Mill Plain this evening. Called on B. Frisbie and Arthur Harrison. {this line squeezed in at bottom of page} 04/21/1930 Worked all day hauling manure up on the hill and plowing for oats. Weather cold. 04/22/1930 Went to the Spencer grain Cp. this forenoon and bought 3 pks of seed oats, a bag of fertilizer and 12 little chicks, (Plymouth Rocks) made a gate, and this afternoon went to the farm and got out manure. The Mattatuck Drum Band met for practice this evening, we practiced with the metrinone {metronome}. 04/23/1930 Very cold and snowed this afternoon. I mad{e} hinges for two gates and sharpened some stone drills, then went to the farm and plowed a piece above the barn and planted it to oats and grass, and sowed oats and grass on the hill. 04/24/1930 Made hinges for two gates, and made gates etc. Went out to the farm, and took care of the ox. A young man buy {by} the name of Smith who works for the Warden Milk Co. was coming in the Cheshire Road on a motorcicle {-cycle}, when he was thrown off and badly injured near the water trough, the machine kept of and ran into the ditch on the North side of the road, and stoped {stopped} agains the sluice bridge to my driveway. The weather has been very cold. 04/25/1930 Repaired stone wall north of the clothes yard, and made fence on the east side of our lot near the chicken. Then went downtown, paid telephone bill, bought one gal paint of Sears & Roebuck, went to the bank and then came home. Went out to the farm and took care of the ox. Then took the front spring off an old Ford car, and put it on my car. 04/26/1930 Worked all day at the farm getting rocks off the piece where I am to plant potatoes. Hauled up a load of manure and harrowed it and sever other loads that I had previously drawn up. 04/27/1930 Turned all clocks one hour ahead this morning to Day Light Saving time. Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Rev J.O. Todd preached. This afternoon took most of Margaret's family and went to Prospect to see Edgar Wallace but we did not find him at home. We then went to see Mr. Brown in Cheshire, but he died this morning aged 92 years. 04/28/1930 This forenoon I went to the Hotchkiss co and bought a lot of garden seeds. Went to the City engineer's office and showed Mr. Root the church plans and he is to have the sewer on the Southmayd Road made 24 in. lower than the sewer where it comes out of the Church. 04/29/1930 Worked all day at the farm plowing and harrowing for potatoes. 04/30/1930 Spend all day getting out rocks on the lot on the hill where I am going to plant corn. 05/01/1930 Plowed for corn and got rocks, and harrowed all day. 05/03/1930 Yesterday I furrowed out for potatoes till noon. Then I got ready and went to Kent in the afternoon taking Mary my wife, and Marion, Gene, and Anita Northrop, {W}e went via Middlebury, Wood- bury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater, and Newmilford {New Milford}, 47 miles. We found that they have built a new addition 70 ft long and 39 ft wide to the main barn. We stayed overnight, and got a bushel of seed Green Mountain potatoes, and left for home at 10 this morning, coming by way of East Kent, Lake Waramang, New Preston, Washington, Woodbury and middlebury, 41 miles, reached here at 1 P.M. This afternoon I worked about home. 05/04/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Re{v} J.O. Todd preached. Dedicated the new babtismal {baptismal} fount given by Mrs. Ralph Blakeslee., and babtised {baptised} 25 children and 2 persons {2 inserted in text}, and received 22 new members. There were 220 people present. 05/05/1930 Furrowed out for corn and potatoes all day. 05/016/1930 Planted potatoes all day. 05/07/1930 Finished planting potatoes on the hill. {V}ery hot 98 in shade, 112 in sun. Attended Official Board meeting this eve. Heavy {squeezed in at bottom of page} 05/08/1930 Worked about home. Repaired some harrow irons for Edward Scott of Cheshire. sharpened some stone drills, and repaired a lot of wedges for Almas Browne and spent the rest of the day repairing a heavy iron gate for St. Joseph's Cemetery. Rained this evening. 05/09/1930 Worked on Cemetery gate till 4 P.M. when I finished it, then went to the farm, and brought back some fertilizer and worked in the garden. 05/10/1930 Worked in the garden, and at the farm. 05/11/1930 This is Mother's day. We attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Joseph O. Todd officiated. John Brundage and family from Storrs drove into the yard about 10 o'clock, they were on their way to Danbury, but had left Ruth at the Mill Plain Sunday School. After service we with Ruth drove up to John Wakelee's and over to Charles Tuttle's, and home through East Farms, stoping {stopping} at Bessie Pierpont's a few Minutes. We had a picnic dinner in the East Yard, and soon Frank and family came from Kent, and we had a very enjoyable time. 05/12/1930 Worked in the garden at the farm plowing and getting off stones. This evening Will Gillette and Iva called and and {repetition in text} Mary and I went up to Charlie Tuttle's in Woodtick, to see about him storeing {storing} Father's old buggy. 05/13/1930 Took the old buggy from Will Gilette's old barn on Radcliff Ave. to Cha's Tuttle's this morning and then went down the Todd Road to East Farms where I worked the rest of the day getting the garden ready to plant. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band went to John Wakelee's place in Wolcott to practice. 05/14/1930 Worked most of this day at the garden in East Frams. Planted peas & beans. This evening went to a supper at Mill Plain Church. Took two baskets of potatoes to Margaret. 05/15/1930 Rained nearly all day. I sharpened a lot of tools for Almas Browne, and some for brother Frank who lives in West Simsbury, repaired a garden rake, made six latches for gates. This evening The Lancraf {??} Drum Band was entertained at the Eeast {East} Farms School House by the Mattatuck Drum Band. {T}here were 27 New Haven men, and 25 Mattatuck men. 05/16/1930 This forenoon I went to City Hall and paid my taxes $214.69. Came home and mowed part of front lawn. This afternoon I took the battery of my small car to Montambeau's to have it recharged, then went to the farm and drew stones off the patch where I am to plant {p}op corn. 05/17/1930 Mr. Manual came over this morning (at the farm) and we planted 6 rows of mangles, he furnished the seed and I prepared the ground. {W}e are each to have half of the beets. This afternoon I drew the stones off the pop corn piece. 05/18/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Every member canvass {-ed?} for money this afternoon. 05/19/1930 Worked at the farm. 05/20/1930 This forenoon I sharpened a lot of compressor drills for Calvary Cemetery, drew manure up to the corn lot on the hill this afternoon. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band went to John Wakelee's to practice, after which many of us went to Charles' Tuttle's and got him up and he gave an exebition {exhibition} of drumming. 05/21/1930 Planted corn on the hill all day. 05/22/1930 Went to town this morning, and came home, and put hooks on Edgar Upson's Ford Truck. Planted in the garden this afternoon. 05/23/1930 Very hot 95 in shade, but I caught a bad cold. Planted garden and painted chicken yard gates. 05/24/1930 Planted garden at home and at the farm. 05/25/1930 Attended service at Mill pLain Union Church, Rev J.O. Todd {officiated}. The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Cheshire. 05/26/1930 Spaded the south half of the home garden, put 24 wheel barrow loads of manure on it. 05/27/1930 Planted in the garden a tthe farm, and some at home. 05/28/1930 Mowed and cleaned off the west front lawn, and plowed some. Rained all the afternoon. 05/29/1930 cleared off stones and planted potatoes on west side of the barn lot at East Farms. This morning I repaired a plow wheel for Edward Scott. Rained this afternoon. 05/30/1930 Memorial Day. I turned out with the Mattatuck Drum Band at the Parade in Waterbury. The members present were, Major Peter Shea. Fifers, Bement Wakelee, Franklin Browne, Robert Wakelee, Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Andrew Kitchenka, William Greenwood. Bass Drummers, George Cass, John Garrigus, Marven Wheeler, and Frank Kitchenka. Snare Drummers, Charles S. Miller, Louverne Fox, Ralph Pierpont, Lewis Greenwood, Edgar Upson, Robert Probst, Herman Gessert, Charles Tuttle, Arthur Harrison, and Howard Neal. Late in the afternoon I planted potatoes at the farm. 05/31/1930 This morning I went to Charles De Bissop's and got 1 1/2 doz tomato plants. Then came home and mowed the lawn, and worked in the garden. 06/01/1930 This morning the Mttatuck Drum Band went to Wolcott to observe the memorial exercises at the Center. A delegation of Grand Army men (only one Mr. Charles Russell) Women's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, and World's War Veterans from Southington were there, and three Civil War Veterans went up with us. they were Zenas bowen, Mr. Homer Northrop, and Mr. James Young. All served under General Grant, in the Army of the Potomac. Charles Russell was with Sherman in his march to the sea. At 11 o'clock all went into the church where Rev. Mr Cabbage conducted service, and after service all organizations wen{t} to the the Cemetery where the graves of the dead soldiers were decorated, after which we returned to the Parish House and had an excelent dinner which the ladies of the town had prepared. After dinner many of the members of the Drum Band (while others were at the second table) tok their flowers and marched to the cemetery, which we entered to the tune of a dirge and placed them on the graves of the gollowing former members, Levi and Garry Atkins, drummers, Sidney Alcott and Prosper Hull fifers, Sherman Moulthrop, who drummed in the Civil War, Thoedore {Theodore} Moulthrop a Bass drummer, Elihu {perhaps written over Sidney} Moulthrop, a former drum major, and who served in Gen Sherman's Army, and Samuel Benham who drummed int he Revolutionary army. those of the drum Band that were present were Peter Shea Drum Major. Fifers Robert Wakelee, Franklin Browne, Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Charles Cass, James Phelan, Andrew Kitchenka, and William Greenwood. Bass Drummers, George Cass, John Garrigus. Marven Wheeler, and Frank Kitchenka. Snare Drummers, Charles S. Miller, Louverne Fox, Ralph Pierpont, Lewis Greenwood, Edgar Upson, Robert Probst, Herman Gessert, Charles Tuttle, Arthur Harrison, and Howard Neal. 06/02/1930 The mattatuck Drum Band went to Boston today. The occasion was the tercentary {tercentenary} of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Annual Drum Head Election of officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artilery Co of Boston. A large New England Bus started from the Elton Hotel this morning at 4:30 with the boys thatlive near the center aboard, and came to my place where the drums were loaded on, and and {word repeated} the boys here got aboard, and started at 5 A.M. Ralph Adams was picked uyp at the enterance {entrance} of the new Pine Grove Cemetery. At Will Garrigus's house, John Garrigus, Ralph Pierpont, Rob and Bement Wakelee got aboard. At Mr. Tyler's, Morris, and Edgar Upson got on, and Charlie and George Cass were picked up at Mildale. We reached 314 Washington St. Phalanx Headquarters at 6 o'clock. We left there at 6:30 and marched ahead of the Phalanx to the Railroad Station where a special train was boarded which carried the First Co. of Govanor's {?? Governor's?} foot Guards with band, and Putnam Phalanx, and us. We reached Boston a little after 10 and marched to Fannel Hall. Where after a time a fine dinner was served to hundreds of troops. After dinner we formed on the street, and after much marching and counter-| marching were finally placed in the line, and moved. The line of march was said to be eight miles long and ended in the commons, where a grand review was held, after which we were given checks for supper at the Westminster Hotel. We met many of different commands that we had seen before at Valley Forge, Washington, Richmond and Bennington. We went to Westminster in Buses and had a fine supper, after which we walked to the South Station where we boarded a train which left at 8 for Hartford, which we reach- ed at 11. We then boarded a bus for Waterbury and reached home soon after midnight. Those wh went were, Peter Shea Drum Major Fifers, Chas Cass, Rob and Bement Wakelee, James Phelan, Andrew Kitchenka, Ralph Adams, Morris Tyler, Wm Greenwood, Franklin Brown. Bass Drummers, George Cass, Frank Kitchenka John Garrigus, and Marvin Wheeler. Snare Drummers Charles S. Miller, Louverne Fox, Ralph Pierpont, Rob Probst, Arthur Harrison, Charles Tuttle, Herman Gessert, Edgar Upson, Louis Greenwood, and Howard Neal. 06/03/1930 Went downtown this morning and planted at the farm in the afternoon. 06/04/1930 Very Hot. Worked at the farm all day. Mowed side of road and planted. Attended Mill Plain Union Church Annual meeting this evening. 06/05/1930 Ground Tools this morning and worked at the farm the rest of the day. 06/06/1930 Mowed Mr. Raymond C. Even's door yard this morning, and sharpened a batch of air drills for Calvary Cemetery. Planted corn and potatoes at the farm this P.M. 06/07/1930 Went to Sears and Roebuck store and bought paint for the Kitchen, worked at the farm this afternoon. Rained this P.M. 06/08/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Rev J.O. Todd {officiated}. Children's Day. Church full to overflowing. 06/09/1930 Rained more or less all day. I painted the ceiling of the kitchen, and cut wood, repaired my big car. 06/10/1930 Mowed the front Lawns this forenoon, and put a handle in a big plow for the Calvary Cemetery this afternoon. 06/11/1930 Sharpened a lot of air drills for the Cemetery and worked about the house today. This evening Ray, Ruth, Mary and I went in Ray's new car to the Waterbury Hospital to see Margaret {written vertically in margin at bottom of page} 06/12/1930 Painted the Kitchen floor and sink drains, and cultivated my potatoes and corn. Bought a new couch of Albert furniture Co for 25.00 06/13/1930 Repaired table and chair, and went to town this forenoon. Howed {hoed} garden and potatoes and corn at the farm this afternoon. 06/14/1930 This forenoon I sharpened 16 large air drills for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon I howed {hoed} potatoes and corn. Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Decker came on a visit from Gilboa {??} New York. He is 84 years old and drove all the way in his own car. Irving left Milwaukee at 10 A.M to come to Waterbury. 06/15/1930 In my car when we went to Church was Miss Pickett, {text in brackets <> is inserted in original text with carot} Mr. and Mrs. William Decker, Mary and I. Rev. Mr. Owen of Bunker Hill Church preached. Afternoon we went to Wolcott then to Cha's Tuttle's, and to Bessie Pierpont's where we had lunch, and much music. 06/16/1930 This morning Mr. Decker and I went to Watertown and saw Mr. Fox. We then came to Bunker Hill where we visited sister Iva and she called Wm Gillette her husband and we had a great time. This afternoon we went to West Haven where we had a shore dinner at Wilcox pier restaurent {restaurant}. 06/17/1930 Went to Hartford witht he Mattatuck Drum Band and played for the Putnam Phalanx, in their Bunker Hill excercise. Those who went were Frank Kitchenka Drum Majo. The fifers were Morris Tyler, Ralph Adams, Andrew Kitchenka, James, Phelan, and Wm Sutton. Bass Drummers, George Cass, Marvin Wheeler, and John Garrigus, Snare Drummer Cha's S. Miller Louverne Fox, Arthur Harrison, Edgar Upson, Herman Gessert and Ralph Pierpont. We went in our own cars. Distance 44 miles. 06/18/1930 Mowed the front yard this morning, and went to town. This afternoon we went to Mort Pierpont's new barn and saw them milking and making ice cream cakes. This evening, Mr. and Mrs Decker, Mary and I went to a supper at the Mill Plain Church. Irving and Dot were there having arived {arrived} a short time before from Milwaukee Wis. They came by boat across lake Michigan then drove to Detroit, then by boat to Buffolow {Buffalo} and by auto the rest of the way. 06/19/1930 This fornoon Mr. and Mrs. Decker, Mary and I went to Charles De Bissops on East Mountain, and saw his fine flowers fruit etc. We then went to Edgar Wallace in East Prospect, and then through Mass Farms and up to Marion and up the Southington Mountain, stoped {stopped} at Maple Hill and saw Irving and Dot. This evening We went to Bunker Hill and visited with Will and Iva Gillette. Cha's Tuttle, Mansfield and Louis were there also. 06/20/1930 Mr. and Mrs. William C Decker Decker started for their home at Gilboa N.Y. at seven this morning. I went to East Farms and spent the day hoeing and cutivating {cultivating}. 06/21/1930 Put arsnate {??} of lead on my potatoes and hoed in the garden's at East Farms. This evening We attended a picnic supper at Bessie Pierpont's. There were present Irving and Dorothy Miller, William, Iva, Mansfield, and Lois Gillettee {Gillette}, John Bradley, wife and boy, Mary and I, and Jessie and Bessie Pier- pont. 06/22/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd officiated. Irving and Dorothy sat with us. 06/23/1930 Howed {hoed} potatoes and garden at the farm, Clarence helped, paid .30 06/24/1930 Worked a{t} farm in forenoon. Went to town and handed in my tax list, and did several errands in afternoon. Irving came from Short Beach where he has stayed since Sunday. Mattatuck Drum Band held meeting this evening. 06/25/1930 Irving, Dot, Mary and I went to Kent and saw front {??} left picture of old Serub Oak School house with Rex Brasher to be collared {?? colored} 06/26/1930 Hoed potatoes. Irving howed {hoed} till noon, and went to Short Beach in the afternoon. I finished plowing them out in the afternoon. 06/27/1930 Friday rained some in the morning, but very hard in the afternoon. I mowed some about home. Pierpont family reunion at Fulton Park this evening. 06/28/1930 Irving Mowed the front yard this morning and I cliped {clipped} about the corners and fence. This afternoon I finished hoeing the potatoes 06/29/1930 At 11 o'clolc we attended worship at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J.O. Todd officiated. Mary Jenner came out and sat with us. Others in our seat were Jessie Pierpont. Irving Miller and Dorothy his wife, they Irving and Dot expect to start for Milwaukee in the morning. 06/30/1930 This morning at 7.30 D.L.S. time Irvinag and Dot left in their Dodge car for Milwaukee. They are to take Cormeila {??} Walker with them. I worked at the farm planting turnips and hoeing. 07/01/1930 Took a load of hay to East Farms. Hoed Potatoes. Clarence helped, this forenoon. Hoed garden at home and at the farm and plowed out potatoes and corn. Rained this P.M. Mattatuck Drum Band had meeting. 07/02/1930 Finished hoeing corn and potatoes this forenoon. Went to Dr. Barber's place in Wolcott and saw Charles Tuttle and Arthur Harrison about turning out July 4th. Attended the Officiual Board meeting of the Mill Plain Union Church this evening. I was elected Purchasing Agent. Clarence helped: .50 07/03/1930 Put up windlass a{t} farm barn, and lifted up harrow plows, cultivator, etc. Clarance helped: .70 07/04/1930 This morning The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out for a celebration at Bunker Hill. One of the finest forth {Fourth} of Julay parades I ever saw. The Band turned out 18 men. This afternoon Mary I and Cliff, Betty and Nita Northrop went to Lake Zoar {??} and called at Raymond's cottage, and he showed us about. {W}e got a lunch at the restarent {restaurant}, and then came home via Sandyhook, Newtown, Brookfield, Southville, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Woodbury, Middlebury. This evening Mary and I went up in Calvary Cemetery where we saw more firework than I ever saw before. 07/05/1930 Worked out at Farm. Clarance helped: .50 07/06/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church at 9 A.M. Rained this afternoon. 07/07/1930 Mowed in the Barn lot at East Farms. Clarance helped: .50 07/08/1930 Worked at hay at the farm. Mattatuck Drum Band practiced at Wolcott Fair Ground this evening. 07/09/1930 Got in three loads of hay. Clarance helped: .50 Held East Farms Cemetery Meeting, at East Farms School. 07/10/1930 Circus in town today. I went to town and did some business this forenoon, and paid Frank's check to Frank Tobin at Rogers & Bros factory. They are tearing down the old Plating, Buffing, Burnishing, and Gray rooms. this afternoon worked at the farm. 07/11/1930 Started to mow at East Farms this morning, but the mowing machine broke and we were all the rest of the day repairing it {squeezed in at bottom of page}. 07/12/1930 The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Dedication of a Bronze Tablet at the Hopeville School. The tablet has the names of all who went to the World's War from that District. 07/13/1930 Attended Worship at the Mill Plain Union Church at 9 o'clock, after which we went to Wolcott to Church. This afternoon we went to Wolcott and I saw Rev Mr. Cabbage about a map he is making of the town of Wolcott. We then called on Charles Tuttle and saw his son Cyrus and his wife who is on for a visit from St. Louis. 07/14/1930 Rained, mowed front lawn, and worked about home did blacksmith work for Almus Browne. Clarance .50 07/15/1930 Mowed out to the farm, got in 3 loads of hay. Frank came this evening, took gun. C .50 07/16/1930 Worked at hay at the farm today. Clarance helped: .50 07/17/1930 Got in two loads of hay at the farm, Ned helped: .25 07/18/1930 Repaired scoop scraper, and mowed. Ned helped: .50 07/19/1930 This as been the hottest day 98 in shade. Repaired heavy hinge for scraper this morning, then mowed and got in large load of hay. 07/20/1930 Attended service at 9 o'clock at Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph O. Todd {officiated}. Then went to Prospect to Church, after which we drove south to Straits- ville and up through Naugatuck back road home. 07/21/1930 Hottest day this year 101ø in shade. Worked about home most of the day. Cleaned spark plugs on the big car. 07/22/1930 Went to the Waterbury Foundry and got a grate for the Mill Plain Church. Made over push scraper for Calvary Cemetery. Mattatuck Drum Band Had meeting this evening. 07/23/1930 Worked haying at farm all day. Ed helped: .50 07/24/1930 At the farm got in 2 loads hay. {P}lanted turnips, rained at 4 o'clock. Ed helped: .30 07/25/1930 Hot day 98 in shade 122ø in sun where we were working. Mowed a{t} home today. Ed helped: .50 07/26/1930 Finished mowing my home lot, got one load out to the farm. Clarance helped: .50 07/27/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J.O. Todd {officiated} 07/28/1930 This forenoon I went to the farm and got a cradle that I have to repair, Brought Clarance back and we took out three loads of hay that finished my haying job here. We then took my Packard car to Beebe's pit where I greased and oiled it all up. .50 07/31/1930 Last tuesday morning at 9 o'clock Gene Marion and their Father Clifford Northrop and Mary and I left for Lake Kanawakee N.Y. We went in my Packard Car, via Danbury and Bear Mountain Bridge. The lake is about twelve miles South West from the bridge and 88 miles from here. After leaving Marion who is to stay a month and have charge of some girl scouts at a large camp, {w} e returned to the bridge, and then went North to West Point where we entered the grounds and passed through and out of the North gate, but the guard told us that we could not pass on the Storm King highway to Newburgh as there was large truck overturned that blocked all traffic and we would be obliged to go to Central valley 14 miles S.W. and then to Newburgh which we did, after traveling about 30 miles. We {f}erried across the River to Beacon, and then went East through Fishkill to Pawling, where we turned North and went to Windale where {we} turned East into Connecticut to Gaylordsville, then up to Kent, having traveled 180 miles. We stayed at his house overnight, and the next forenoon. At 3 P.M. {w}e left for home via Swift's Bridge, Warren, New Preston, Washington, North Woodbury and Watertown. 08/01/1930 The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out this forenoon for the Standard Oil Co, in a parade that represen- ted the progress that has been made in the mode of travel. They had all kinds of sleds, drags, wagons, Coaches, stages, Carriages. The earliest Autos, and down to the latest, auto trucks, tanks and Busses. The procession was over two miles in length, and included three bands and the drum corps. This afternoon I cradled a piece of oats. {??} 08/02/1930 This forenoon I cradled a piece of oats on the hill. This afternoon made a tripod for lifting heavy rocks, for Almus Browne. As purchasing agent for the Mill Plain Union Church ordered of Burns Bros, 50 tons of soft coal for the church at 7.25 per ton net ton. {repeated in text} 08/03/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church at 9 o'clock, then at Prospect at 11:45 {overwritten 10:45}. This evening drove up to Woodtick and saw Burt Frisbie Margaret, Marion, Bettie, Anita. Mary and I. 08/04/1930 Worked sharpening drills. Went out to the farm and bound oats, then got new battery and put it in the small truck. 08/05/1930 Did Blacksmith work for Almus Brone. Then Mary and I went out to the farm and she picked black berries while I bound oats, and then she loaded them while I pitched on. Ned Wilson helped unload them. .35 08/06/1930 Mowed in the East Farms Cemetery most of the day. 08/07/1930 Mowed the rest of the Cemetery. Recived {received} word that Clydes daughter Nancy died in Mimico near Toronto Canada. 08/08/1930 Raked up the hay and cleaned the East Farms Cemetery today. Rained last evening, but today is very warm. 08/09/1930 This day has been very warm. This morning Mary and I went to the Rail Road station at 10.30 and met Clyde who left Toronto at 5.30 last night with Nancy's body. Mr Alderson took the body to his rooms on Central Ave, and we brought Clyde home, stoping {stopping} at Brook St and getting some round clams of which he is very fond. Many friends and relations called during the afternoon and evening to offer their sympathy. 08/10/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Clyde, Mary and I. Rev Mr. Emri {?? Emory?} Sites officiated. About 11 o'clock Clyde received a telephone call from Canaan, Conn stating that his family was arrived there and would be here in about two hours. They left Mimico Sat morning at 3 o'clock and drove 453 miles to Claverick N.Y. where they stayed overninght and then on to here where they arrived at about 2 o'clock the whole distance being 553 miles. They Fritsa, Dick, Willard and Robert came in a light Chevrolet Car. After reaching here they had many callers. Thirty came from Farrington during the afternoon. 08/11/1930 I worked mowing the grass about home this forenoon. The funeral for Nancy was held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery, she was buried in Clyde's lot, beside her older sister. Rev Mr. Coombs of the second church officiated. After the funeral many of the friends came to our house and lunch was served, after which William Gillette took members of Clyde's and his wifes families to Thomaston to the Park Hotel and gave us a fine supper. There were thirteen that sat down to supper, after which we returned to the Gillette home where we enjoyed a plesant {pleasant} evening. 08/12/1930 Clyde, Bobbie, Willard and I drove down to Lighthouse point, and looked about, then over to Mormorguin {??} where we had dinner, and the boys went in bathing, we then returned to Mr. Hanson's in Cheshire, where we left Bob and willard, and Clyde and I returned home. 08/13/1930 This morning Clyde went down to the American Brass Co's office, and Fritsa, Willard and Bob came from Cheshire. At 10.30 {w}e left for Brother Frank's at Sinsbury. Clydy, Fritsa, Mary, Margaret, and Nita in his car, Bettie, Gene, Willard, Bobbie and I in my car. We reached there at noon, had dinner under the trees back of the house. At Clyde and his family left for Farrington where they expect to stay till Friday when they will start for Toronto. Son {soon} after {w}e left for home coming via Canton Unionville, Bristol, and Wolcott. 08/14/1930 Worked at blacksmith work this morning. Then trimmed up the Frast {??} road walk, which took till noon, then went to Sears & Roebuck store and bought 2 sets of Auto wrenches, and back fender drops, and one pint of black paint. Took the back bumper off my Packard. Mr. Farren called this morning and informed me that they were putting a car load of coal in the Church. 08/15/1930 I worked all day sharpening picks and grubs. Clyde and family left Torrington at eight this morning for their home in Toronto, Ontario {this line squeezed in before next entry} 08/16/1930 Worked all day at blacksmith work, sharpening tools and repairing chains. Seven of the Mattatuck boys returned from Gilboa N.Y. this morning. They went out last Wednesday to play for the annual homecoming picknic {picnic} at West Conesville. Those who went were Bement Wakelee Rob't Wakelee, Albert Atkinson, and Andrew Kitchenka, Fifers. Frank Kitchenka, Bass, Ralph Pierpont, and Edgar Upson, Snare Drummers. 08/17/1930 Attended service at 9 A.M. at Mill Plain Union Church Rev Girtrude Coe officiating. After service Mary and I drove 26 miles to Ray's cottage at Lake Zoar, where we had a fine dinner and then had a fine sail up the Panperaug {??} River in his motor boat, then down and about the lake. We got home at 8. 08/18/1930 This morning I went to Mr. Wolcott's girage over on Bunker Hill to see about grinding cylinders and putting in new rings. He asked $100.00 dollars fo the job including new wires. This afternoon I mowed round the upper lot at the farm and worked in the garden. Recived {received} a bill from Burns Bros #43 Grand St. for 101,620 lbs Soft coal @ 7.50 per ton 381.05. A discount of 25 cents per ton will be allowed for cash on or before _______ {date missing} total discount $12.50. This coal is for the Mill Plain Union Church. {This line underlined} 08/19/1930 Mowed and got in one large load of hay from the young orchard lot on the hill. Ned Wilson, <.30> and Clarence helped. This evening went to the MIll Plain Church to see about ordering Paint and grass seed. Then attended meeting of Mattatuck Drum Band. 08/20/1930 Got in load of hay and moved another, Ned <.30> and Clarance <.75> helped, rained this evening. 08/21/1930 Finished mowing the young orchard on the hill and got in one load. Ed and Clarance helped. Attended a special meeting of the official board this evening. We let the job of putting the sewer connection {?? Where's the rest of the sentence?} 08/22/1930 Mowed the upper lot on the hill yesterday afternoon and got in all the hay today. 08/23/1930 Rained nearly all day. I went and got Clarance and we went to town, got iron and cement, for myself and Paint and cement for the Church. This afternoon we made a cement fence post and repaired the cement floor in the Drum Room. 08/24/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Rev Mr. Thomas Cochard {??} of Prospect preached. This afternoon Mary and I went to Edwin Todd's house on the Meriden Rd. in Cheshire to honor Roxanna Tuttle's 90 birthday. 08/25/1930 Mowed Mr. Hazelherst's lot today. Clarance helped. 08/26/1930 We got in the hay on Mr. Hazelhurst's lot today, two loads. Clarance. 08/27/1930 Mowed and got in hay on Mr. Charles Wilkinbach's lot. 2 loads. Harald Pierpont pitched on, Clarence helped. They began putting in the sewer connection from the Mill Plain Church to the Southmayd Rd. 08/28/1930 Mowed and got in two loads of hay from Mr. Wilkens- bach lot. Clarance helped. .50 08/29/1930 Mowed and got in two loads of hay from Harold Pierpont's lot. Clarance helped. 08/30/1930 Rained last night. Worked about home. Made concrete fence post. Repaired two autos. Mowed the swamp east of the chicken coop, took load of manure to the farm, and mowed away a load of hay, Clarance helped. .50 08/31/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. John Howell of South Waterbury preached. After service we drove over to Lake Zoar to Raymond's cottage where we had dinner. Mary, Margaret, Betty, Marion, Nita and a young man, went with me. 09/01/1930 It rained hard this morning. By noon it had cleared. It took Margaret, Gene, Marion and little Anita and we went to Goshen Fair but on account of the rain, the Fair was put over till tomorrow. This afternoon many people came, and had many attractions. 09/02/1930 Rained this morning. I mowed in the swamp. East of the Cemetery at East Farms. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band had a meeting. Mr. Raymond called this morning to engage the band 10 or 12 of them to play for the Baking Company next Sat afternoon. 09/03/1930 Got in two loads of hay this afternoon. Bettie and Gene helped. .75 This evening Mr. Raymond called and engaged the Band to play next Sat two hours, 12 men for 50.00. 09/04/1930 Finished mowing swamp east of the Cemetery and got up two loads. 09/05/1930 Mowed part of Mr. Gretter's lot at East farms West of the Cemetery, and got in one load of hay from Harold Pierpont's lot. 09/06/1930 This forenoon I mowed in Mr. Greeter's lot. This afternoon, I turned out as Leader of the Mattatuck Drum Band in a parade given by the Raymond Baking Co. We had twelve men, and rode in a truck, that was finely decorated and preceeded by two Mr. Raymonds in a car, and headed by a poliece {police} escort in a poliece {police} car, there followed us twenty one delivery trucks. We traveled about 18 miles about the City starting at 4 and ending about 6 P.M. for which each man received 4.00 and there was two dollars left for the treasury. Those who were present were Andrew Kitchenka, Robert Wakelee, Arthur Atkinson, William Greenwood and William Sutton Fifers. Frank Kitchenka, and John Garrigus Bass Drummers, Charles S. Miller, Louvaine {??} Fox Lewis Greenwood, Howard Neal, and Edgar Upson snare Drummers. 09/07/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O Todd {officiated} This afternoon Mary and I went up to John Todd's and to Berkley L Frisbie's in Woodtick. 09/08/1930 Finished mowing Langdon Greetter's lot and raked up the hay and weeds, 45 large heaps. Picked a basket and one half of beans in the garden at the farm. 09/09/1930 Worked at the farm. This afternoon clarance and I got up three loads of hay and put it on the stack. Mattatuck Drum Band had a rehearsal this evening. 09/10/1930 Picked grapes and worked about home this forenoon. This afternoon worked at the farm. Saw many airplanes go over yesterday and today, there has hardly been a time that they could {not} be heard. Last year we only saw one now and then. 09/11/1930 Worked on a seed roller for the Calvary Cemetery. 09/12/1930 Worked on the seed roller most of the day. The City has a gasoline shovel at work opposite my place taking off the high bank preparetory to grading. 09/13/1930 Finished the seed roller. 09/14/1930 Attended service at the mill Plain Union Church Rev J.O. Todd {officiated}. This afternoon Mary and I called at Bessie Pierpont's and John Todd's. {Squeezed in at bottom of page.} 09/15/1930 This forenonn did several jobs around home, then went out to the farm and picked up twelve bushels of cider apples, ten bushels Mr. Garrigus gave me. 09/16/1930 Picked up 4 bushels of apples at the farm this A.M. Went downtown this P.M. and did some business, then got ready to go to Paint {Point} Judith R.I. tomorrow. Irv {crossed out} Roy came this evening and repaired and partly connected up the electric stove. Rained hard this evening with much thunder and lightening. {lightning} all of the electric lights went out for some time. 09/17/1930 Mary and I with Margaret Marion and Nita Northrop started at 10.15 for Rhode Island, went via Meriden, Middle- town, Colchester, Norwich, Old Mystic Westerly, Chartistown {??} to Mr. John Potter Sherman's, at Salt Pond, within two miles of Point Judith. We stoped {stopped} at Old Mystic and saw Mr. William H Jackson a full blood Pequot Indian, who could not inform us where the old Pequot Fort of 1635 stood. Marion took pictures of Mr. Jackson and family. We reached Mr. Sherman's at 4 P.M. after having traveled 105 miles. 09/18/1930 Marion and I went to the mud flats where we got a pail full of large mussels. After which Mary, Margaret Marion and Nita, with myself took the boat and rowed to the North Cove where we got some oysters. We had a fine dinner. In the afternoon we went to Wakefild {Wakefield}, Narragansett Pier and returned by way of Piecedale. 09/19/1930 Marion and I went to the flats and dug some large long clams this morning. In the after- noon I hired Mr. robinson to take Mary, Marion and myself for a sail in his Motor boat. We went up Point Judith Pond {??} to the South End at Wakefield and back about six miles. On the way back we climed {climbed} to the top of Jumping Hill from which we had a fine view f the surrounding country and water. Earlier in the day we rowed in Mr. Sherman's boat to the south end of Salt Pond and walked over the bar to the ocean. Marion and I walked out on the great breakwater over 6000 feet to the Light Tower. 09/20/1930 While we were at breakfast at 9 Ray and Ruth drove in having left Waterbury at 6.20. We, Marion and I went with him, to the West Cove and got a lot of small round clams, after which we went down by the Race and caught small crabs for bait, and went fishing in the deep Sout Cove for black fish but we did not catch any. We returned home and had a good supper of Clam Chowder. 09/21/1930 Ray and Marion went out in the pond and got about ten quarts of littleneck clams before. Mary Margaret and Iwent to service at the Perryville Baptist Church. The attendance was rather small, 37. I met Mr. Christopher Browning and had an interesting visit. We came home by way of Tuckertown, and after dinner, I went out with Roay and Marion, and we all got round clams so Ray had a bushel. We returned and had supper and Ray and Ruth left for home in their new Ford Runabout at Five o'clock. 09/22/1930 Mary's birthday 72 years old. This morning Marion and I went to the South flats for mussels, but the tide was high, we only got a few oysters. We came home and took the Packard, and all went to Wakefield where we did some trading. Then we went down the old road to Point Judith Light House, where we looked about at the Life Saving Station, etc. The sea was very smooth. We had dinner and then came back to Narragansett Pier. Then on through Piecedale to Kingston, and drove about the State Collage Grounds. Then on through West Kingston to the Great Swamp. Where the Narragansett Fort stood and where the great battle of Dec 19, 1675 was fought which resulted in the total defeat of the Indians. Five granite Monuments, and two tablets now mark the place. We returned through West Kingston, there took a crossroad through Tuckertown, and home. I should have noted that in the forenoon while on the road to Wakefield we visited the birthplace of Comodore {Commodore} Hazard Perry. There is a very interesting museum there now. This evening we had supper of rost {roast} oysters. 09/23/1930 This morning Marion and I started to visit an ancient Indian Burial Ground, North of Charliston. But before reaching it we came to an Air Port. Where we made a five minute flight for 1.50 each. The first time we ever went up. The view we had was grand. Could see forests, cleared-land, roads, railroads, ocean, Lakes, Fields, Rivers, Buildings, and all at the same time, so interested did I become at the sights that for a time I forgot that I was sailing through the air. After we landed we came home and had breakfast, and then all returned to the Glying field, and Margaret and Marion went up. We then went to the Old Indian Burying Ground, Then to an Old Indian Fort South West of Charlestown which we found in a good state of preservation considering that it is over three hundred years old. We then visited Mr. Christopher Browning at his home near Green Hill, after which we came home and Marion and I went to the flats where we gathered a pail of mussels. We then went to wakefield where I bought a clam dipper for 1.90 to replace Mr. Haywood's which was I used {not a typo} and was stolen. After we returned Margaret and Marion went bathing in Salt Pond, and I gathered a pail of oysters. This evening we had supper of mussels, clams, and oysters. We retired at nine. 09/24/1930 This morning Marion and I repaired Mr. Sherman's boat. We then went across the pond and gathered a lot of oysters. Marion went back to the house and brought back Margaret, Nita and Mary, and all gathered oysters till after noon, when we returned to the West shore, but found that we had so many oysters that we had to make a second trip back to the boat. On the second trip I met Mr. Joseph E. Champlin, who lives in a house South East of Mr. Sherman's and had an interesting talk, after which I went to dinner. Then Marion and I took the boat and went towards the Race, and got half a basket of little neck clams. We then put up the boat and walked to the South flats and got a pail of large mussels. Then home, and I drove to the store and Margaret got groceries, came home and had supper. {bottom half of this line off page, but it's still legible} 09/25/1930 This morning we got ready to return to Waterbury and left Mr. Sherman's at 10.15, stoped {stopped} at Browning's girage {garage} in Perry ville and got gas and oil etc. Then on through Charleston, Westerly, Norwitch {Norwich}, Yantic {??}, Fitchville. {A}bout five miles beyond we ate dinner by the side of the road, then on through Colchester, where we took the Hartford road, but left it three miles out and went through North Westchester to Westchester, then turned West to Cornstock's Bridge wehre we rested and had ice cream, then on West and came on the Middletown state road two miles West of East Hampton. Then on through Middletown and Meriden and reached home at four. 09/26/1930 This morning I made a pole hook for Ed Scott, and mowed the front yard. Went to the farm and cut corn and picked up apples, etc, took Mr. Scott's hook to him and brought back the pole. 09/27/1930 Seventy two years ago today I first saw the light of day on Cherry St. Waterbury. This forenoon I finished up Mr. Scott's pole for his horse cart. This afternoon I went to East Farms and got Clarance Pierpont and we repaired the fence on the Frast {?? Frost?}Road where it was smashed by an auto some time ago. This evening Margaret brought a birthday cake with 7 small candles in a row representing seventy and 2 more at one side, making seventy two. 09/28/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J.O. Todd {officiated}. Had dinner at Margaret's. Went to the farm this afternoon. Then to Mort Pierpont's Dary {Dairy} Barn, where {I} saw his fine cows, and had ice cream. 09/29/1930 This forenoon I repaired the sidewalk on the Frost {??} road and did some business for the Mill Plain Union church. This afternoon I went to the farm and repaired the fence on the hill that runs East and West. A Mr. Scott has rented the Hattie Pierpont place. Mr. William Garrigus is building a girage {garage}. Mr. Charles Wilkinsbach is doing the work. 09/30/1930 This forenoon I went to the Mill Plain Church to see about cleaning the boilers. This afternoon, I finished repairing the fence on the hill, and picked up apples. The Mattatuck Drum Band held a meeting this evening, at which I with drew from practiceing {practicing} on account of my age. 10/01/1930 This forenoon I went to the farm and picked up apples till four, when I came home and went to the spoon shop {??} and got Michael cunningham and took him to the church to see the boilers. Attended a meeting of the official board. 10/02/1930 Cleaned and raked the sidewalk on the Frost road this morning, then finished picking up the apples at the farm and cut 8 rows of corn. Had a frost last night. 10/03/1930 This morning I went to the Church and pumped 16 qts of soda ash into one steam heating boiler. This afternoon I went to the farm and cut corn. 10/04/1930 Finished getting apples at home, then went to the farm and finished cutting corn, and dug some potatoes. This afternoon Mary and I went to the Wolcott Fair and took all of the Northrop's except Cliff. The Mattatuck Drum Band played there but I did not drum. 10/05/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Sunday School Rally Day 415 present. Program by Chinese Children of Hartford, Address by J. Quinter {??} Miller of Hartford Rev J.O. Todd officiated. 10/06/1930 Worked all day sorting apples and getting cider casks ready. Burt Gessert was arested {arrested} yesterday. 10/07/1930 Hooped and cleaned barrels, and took a load of apples to MacCormic's cider mill in Wolcott. 10/08/1930 Took a load of apples to the cider mill, and a load of casks, and brought back 51 gals of cyder, left a 7 gal keg at Roy's. Worked on the iron fence of St. Joseph's fence, and went to the farm, broke my engine when I tryed {tried} to start. Wm. Garrigus towed me home. Attended a meeting of the men's club at the church this evening. 10/09/1930 Did many odd jobs this morning and worked on the iron Cemetery fence. Beckwith repaired the bendix on my Ford car, charged 3.00. I went to the farm and dug a basket of potatoes, and took them and a basket of carrots down to Margaret's. I ground an ax for Beeby. 10/10/1930 I finished the iron fence today. Howard Neal called this morning and talked about Drum Band matters. Went to the East End Hardware store and bought one quart of green paint for 1.10 to paint the fence I repaired. Henry beckwith came and got my large car and repaired the ignition <1.50> This afternoon I made a steel lope {??} for the tractor that belongs to the Calvary Cemetery. 10/11/1930 Worked on Cemetery tractor this forenoon. Then went to the farm and dug potatoes, late this afternoon whitewashed the North side of the blacksmith shop. The Harub Memorial was dedicated this afternoon. 10/12/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J.O. Todd {officiated} This afternoon Margaret, Cliff, Gene and Nita with Mary and myself, went to the North East part of Wolcott and visited Winfield Norton, and we went to the place Elijah Royce lived in Revolutionary times, and also to the place where Capt Amos Beecher lived. 10/13/1930 Carried in a lot of wood, and sharpened a lot of picks for St. Joseph's Cemetery. This afternoon dug potatoes at the farm. 10/14/1930 Packed a box of apples and got it ready to send to John P Sherman at Wakefield R.I. Then went to town. This afternoon took Ed scott's truck wheel home; then dug potatoes. 10/15/1930 Worked at blacksmith work most of the day, as it rained towards night went to the farm and dug potatoes. 10/16/1930 Dug 5bu of potatoes today. Went downtown and bought a pair of shoes, late this afternoon. Mary and I went up to Roy's and had supper there. 10/17/1930 I dug eight bushels of potatoes today, brought them home and put them in the bin. It is thundering now 9.45, we need the rain. 10/18/1930 Dug 6 bu of potatoes today. 10/19/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J.O. officiated. Started the fire in the furnace today. 10/20/1930 Dug five bushels of potatoes, took 4 bu to Charles Wilkinsbach and 5 bu to Wm Garrigus. 10/21/1930 Finished digging potatoes this noon, pelled {peeled} carrots etc. this afternoon. Mattatuck Drum Band met for practise {practice} this evening, I did not attend. Heavy frost last night. 10/22/1930 Painted the gate into the pasture this forenoon, husked pop corn this afternoon. Heavy frost last night. 10/23/1930 Went to town this A.M. did odd jobs about home and went to the farm. 10/24/1930 Repaired my Ford truck and did odd jobs all day. Sharpened 5 stone drills for Charles Tyrell of Wolcott this morning. rained mos tof the day. 10/25/1930 Worked about home most of the day. Rained more or less all day, before noon a few flakes of snow fell the first of the season. 10/26/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Rev. J.O. Todd {officiated}. This afternoon Mary and I visited Char Charles Tuttle {no typo} and George Browne in Wolcott. Wrote letter to May Belle Frisbie, {of} Bristol Wis. this evening. 10/27/1930 Harrowed in Mr. Gretter's back lot, and husked corn. 10/28/1930 This morning worked on Mr. Gretter's lot and jusked corn the rest of the day. 10/29/1930 Rained hard nearly all day. I went out to the farm this morning and got out five loads of manure from the stable and put it at the apple trees in the barn lot. Came home and after dinner made a double hook of wood to hold the connetting {connecting} wires of Mary's electric stove. Then to four bushels of potatoes to Rev. J.O. Todd. This evening Ray and Ruth Called and Ray finished connecting the electric stove. 10/30/1930 Plowed around the apple trees in the barn lot today. Weather has been nice. 10/31/1930 Rained nearly all day. I made a guage {gauge} for measuring Auto wheels. Went up to William McCormick's and took a lot of Overshoot Waterwheel Catalogues etc. 11/01/1930 Cut up a lot of stove wood this forenoon. Went to East Farms and harrowed Mr. Greeter's lot and with Clarance Pierpont, put up the mowing machine, and husked corn. 11/02/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J.O. Todd {officiated} this afternoon went to B. L. Frisbie's and saw Carl D. Jackson. 11/03/1930 Husked corn on the hill all day. Weather nice and warm. Ice froze 1/2" thick last night. 11/04/1930 This morning I went out to Edward Scott's. Then came back to the farm and husked corn till four when it began to rain. This morning Mary and I went to 1775 East Main and voted for Governor etc. 11/05/1930 Rained all day. Wilber F Crass {??} of New Haven was elected Governor yesterday, he is a democrat but nearly all of the other State officers elected were republicans. I cut wood, and repaired the steering gear on my big car. Put binding hooks on Edgar Upson's new Ford delivery car. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church.. 11/06/1930 Worked repairing the steering gear of my Packard car. This afternoon went to the farm and pulled turnips but the wind blew so hard and cold that I gave it up and took the ox and harrowed Mr. Greeter's swamp. 11/07/1930 Very cold; froze all day. Went to town this forenoon and did some business. Sawed wood a spell. This afternoon put alcohol in the radiators of my cars and went to the afarm and husked corn and drew down a load of stalks from the hill. 11/08/1930 Took my Ford car to Henry Beckwith to have him repair the electric switch. Went to the farm with my big car, and with Clarance Pierpont and Sonny Wilkinsbach I went to the corn lot on top of the hill in the ox cart and finished husking corn, and brought down all the corn and stalks and put them in the barn. Then pulled the mangles and turnips which took till night. 11/09/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Joseph O. Todd officiated. There were 419 present at the church service and over 300 at Sunday School. After service we went to raymond's to dinner and then he with Ruth, Mary and I went up to West Simsbury to Brother Frank's. We found Frank and Gussy quite well considering their age, he is 75 years. 11/10/1930 Went to Mill Plain Union Church and put soda ash in the boilers this forenoon. This afternoon was at the East Farms Cemetery, and set up Amos Atwater's and Thomas Culver's grave <2 1/2> stones. 11/11/1930 Armistice Day. Banks and Schools closed. The Mattatuck Drum band turned out for exercises at the Honor Roll this forenoon, and again for the big parade this evening. I worked about home this forenoon. This afternoon I set up grave stones in East Farms Cemetery, 3hr, Arthur Baxter helped 2hr. 11/12/1930 Arthur Baxter and I worked in East Farms Cemetery setting up headstones. We reset ten stones in 7 hours. 11/13/1930 This morning, Margaret, Nita, Mary and I went in my Packard to Kent, to Frank's. WE went by way of Middlebury, Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater and New Milford. At New Milford we went down the Haustonic {??} River to "Lover's Leap" a romantic spot at Still River. In old times, bfore the high dams were built below, the people caught great num- bers of shad at this place as they could not get above the falls. The distance was 54 miles to Frank's place at Kent School Farm. Good State Road all the way. 11/14/1930 Frank has the care of about 85 head of cattle, is producing over 600 quarts of milk per day all of which is used in the school. Margaret, Frank, Nita and I went up to Mr. William Tobiu's {??} farm on Skiff Mountain, a very interesting place. When we came down we followed a road that brought us through Macedonia State Park. While we were gone the men cut up two big loads of corn and put it in the silo. This afternoon, Margaret, Frank Mary and I went to South Kent and picked up about 1 bu of walnuts. 11/15/1930 This morning I called on Mr. Pratt who lives up the Macedonia Road and he told that they stoped {stopped} running the Iron Furnace on Macedonia Brook about 75 years ago. The last man who ran it was a Mr. Edwards who lived in a large house and had a store built on to it which did a large business. He brought some of the iron ore from Armenia {??} N.Y. but the most of it came from South Kent. A man that lived near used to start at three in the morning, go to the mine in South Kent, load up, and get back at night with one load; he barely made a living but followed it for years. There was also a hammer there that drew some of the iron into bars. The product of the furnac{e} was drawn to Poughkeepsie. The reason why Mr. Edwards went out of the iron business was that he woned a small mine in Armenia where he struck a pocket of rich ore, which he caused to be piled {on} top of the ground, about 75 tons, and some New York men saw the pile, supposed the mine a rich one {and} bought it for $17,000.00. This made Mr. Edward well enough off so he stoped {stopped} business. There was a grist mill on the brook near the Iron works at the same time, the owner of which beside making ground feed made oak baskets on a large scale. After leaving Mr. Pratt's I helped Frank clean out the ensiledge {??} cutting traps from the barn yard, and then had dinner and started for home. Mary and I, we came by way of Swift's Bridge over the new road to Warren, then Woodville, Bantam, Morris, Bethlehem, Watertown and Home, 46 miles, rained all the way. 11/16/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. J.O. Todd {officiated}. 289 people present. Rained all day. 11/17/1930 Wet all day. Cleaned leaves off from fron yard, went out to farm, did chores, took nine quarts of walnuts down to Margaret's house, left them with Betty and Jean. 11/18/1930 Reset grave stones in East Farms Cemetery. 7 hours. Arthur Baxter helped, 6 1/2 hrs. 11/19/1930 Was at East Farms Cemetery setting grave stones, 8 hr. Arthur Baxter helped 8 hr. 11/20/1930 Set grave stones in East Farms Cemetery that had fallen down or leaned badly. The weather today has been fine. Arthur Baxter helped, 8 hr. 11/21/1930 Set grave stones. Arthur Baxter helped 8 hr. 11/22/1930 Set grave stones this forenoon, Art Baxter helped, 4 hr. This afternoon worked about home. 11/23/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This was men's day and there were present 350 people. 11/24/1930 Set up grave stones in East Farms Cemetery. 11/25/1930 Rained. Arthur Baxter and I repaired broken Grave stones in the Wheel House. My son Frank and his wife Elsie had a daughter born last Friday Nov. 21 at the New Milford hospital, they have named it Jessie Garrigus Miller. 11/26/1930 Repaired the grave stone of Joseph Holt who died in 1824, the stone was broken in 4 pieces. {I}t has been rather cool today. 11/27/1930 Mary and I went up to the Woodtick Chapel to the Somers family reunion, there was 37 members that sat at the table. 11/28/1930 Very cold, froze all day. {S}et Elisha Munsun's grave stone and his foot stone. 11/29/1930 This forenoon made nexts for the chicken yard. This afternoon Baxter and I worked on a fence at the farm between us and W. Garrigus. Paid Baxter 1.00. 11/30/1930 Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J.O. Todd officiated. November has been Loyalty month and today was Ladies Sunday. The women marched in the Church in a body. The attendance was 327. 12/01/1930 Worked in East Farms Cemeterry {Cemetery} resetting grave stones. Arthur Baxter helped. 12/02/1930 Very cold. I and Arthur Baxter repaired grave stones in wheel house. 12/03/1930 Worked about home all day. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 12/04/1930 Arthur Baxter and I set fence posts in the old stone wall between our land and Wm Garrigus. This morning I took my small cross cut saw to the Mill Plain Union Church for the unemployed men who are grading there to use. Paid A. Baxter 1.60. 12/05/1930 Set iron posts in the stone wall between Wm Garrigus and our land. A. Baxter helped, paid him 1.60. 12/06/1930 This forenoon Arthur Baxter and I set grave stones in East Farms Cemetery. This afternoon I worked about home. 12/07/1930 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Joseph Todd officiated. This afternoon Mary and I called on John R. S. Todd of Wolcott, a Charles S. Tuttle. 12/08/1930 A. Baxter and I worked setting iron posts in the stone wall at the farm. Paid him $2.00. Poped {popped} more than a bushel of corn this evening for the Mill Plain Church Fair. 12/09/1930 A. Baxter and I worked on fence. Paid him 1.50. 12/10/1930 Painted posts to the fence, and gate at the farm. Art Baxter sawed wood this afternoon. Paid him 1.60. Attended the Ladies Fair ath Mill Plain Union Church this evening. Mary sold pop corn. 12/11/1930 Arthur Baxter and I drew stones at the farm till three when I came home and carried Mary and her pop corn fixings up the the {to the} fair. Paid Baxter 1.40. 12/13/1930 Yesterday Mary and I went to Kent in my large car. We went by way of Watertown, Bethlehem, Morris West Morris, Romjord, Woodville, Warren and over the new state road to Swift's Bridge, then to Kent. 45 miles, rained all of the way. This afternoon we started for home at 2 P.M. came through Swift's Bridge, Warrin {Warren}, Woodville, Bantam, Morris, Bethlehem, Watertown, and home. 45 miles, 1hr 50 min. 12/14/1930 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, 216 present. Weather cold and windy. 12/15/1930 Very cold day this morning. I filed three saws, one cross cut, and two buck saws, then Art Baxter and I got down my strightening {straightening} plate and fixed it ready for use, it weighs 4500 lbs. This afternoon we went to the farm and drew six loads of manure up on the hill and put it around the young apple trees. Paid him 2.00 12/16/1930 Very cold day, 4 below zero this morning. Worked in wheel house all day repairing a large chair for Bessie Pierpont and did other odd jobs. 12/17/1930 Cold all day. A. Baxter and I worked about home, repairing tools for the Cemetery and getting the big tiries off from Ed Scott's wheels. Paid him 1.60. 12/18/1930 A. Baxter and I worked about the blacksmith shop all day, paid him 1.20. 12/19/1930 A. Baxter and I set two heavy Cart tires for Ed Scott of Cheshire. Paid 1.60 12/20/1930 Nice day. A. Baxter and I worked about home and painted fence posts at the farm this forenoon. Mr. Chester Kimball of Port Deposit {??} Md. came this afternoon. 12/21/1930 This morning I took Mr. Kimball to the depot and he took the 8.20 train for his home in Maryland. Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J.O. Todd officiated, there were 257 present. This afternoon they had Vesper service at which there was 167 present. 12/22/1930 This forenoon I went to the Parsonage at the Mill Plain Church which is being repaired and painted, and is to be occupied {on} the first of the year by Sam Squires. I ordered glass putty, Paint and Paper etc. from Ziglatski Marks Co. Then went to Benedict Street and got the License for my Ford car, paid $15.00. This afternoon A. Baxter and I went out to the farm and painted the posts for the fence we are building and after they were finished we drew stones on the Fort Dunlap. Paid Baxter 1.60. Mary and I went to the Christmas entertainment at the Church this evening. 12/23/1930 This morning it was snowing hard when I got up, but stoped {stopped} at noon, about 8 inches fell. I went out to the farm and dug the tools, chains, drog {??} etc out of the snow and put them away in the barn. Came home and did odd jobs, etc. 12/24/1930 Repaired and trimmed Bessie Pierpont's chair, and did odd jobs about home, about 9 inches of snow has fallen yesterday and today. Henry Buckingham was buried this afternoon. 12/25/1930 Christmas. Many Presents. Christmas cards came by the dozens, and presents by the c.w.t. One fine hand-made card came from Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancouver Wash, and a large basket of fruit nuts etc. from the Mattatuck Drum Band, and many presents from my children and grandchildren. This afternoon we went to Christmas dinner at Margaret's on Beacher Avenue. There was Clifford and Margaret Northrop and their daughters Marion, Bettie, Gene and Nita. Jack and Ruth Brundage and Children Kenneth, Pierce, Roger and Peggy, Raymond and Ruth Miler, and Mary and I. Frank and his family in Kent could not come, neither could Clyde and his family in Toronto come nor Irving and his family in Milwaukee come. Had all came there would have been 33 present. In the evening we had a christmass tree, which was much enjoyed by the children, and there were presents for all. 12/26/1930 Repaired my little engine in the wheel house. Louis Somers and three state highway engineers called to see about widening the Meriden Road to 4 rods {??}. After dinner went out to the farm and did the chares {chairs}, then took Bessie Pierponts great chair home, then went to Mill Plain Church and ordered plaster board and paper for the Minister's house, came home and turned out to legs for chairs for Charles S. Tuttle of Wolcott. 12/27/1930 Stormed all day, snow. I worked about home all day, except the time of going to the farm to do the chores. 12/28/1930 Mary and I atended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, stayed home all day. 12/29/1930 Worked in the wheel house all day making a pulley. A. Baxter sawed wood this P.M. Paid 1.00. 12/30/1930 Commenced making over my concrete mixer. This afternoon went to the farm and Baxter and I put the wire on the division fence. 12/31/1930 Last day of this year. The weather has been fine for this season. I made two shaft bearings for my concrete mixer this forenoon. This afternoon I took some paint up to the Mill Plain Church to be used in the parsonage but they did not need it. There are about 20 men working about the grounds who are knon at {as?} unimployed, they are paid 2.97 per 8 hours from a fund that is raised by taxing the employed in the City one percent of their pay. This afternoon Baxter and I worked on my fence at the farm. Paid him 1.60. {Bottom half of this page is blank} 01\01\1931 Nice cool day. A. Baxter and I worked abut home this forenoon, and went to the farm and worked on the fence, but the snow was deep and cold, and our fingers got num {numb} and we had to give up at 3.30 and came home. Paid 1.45. 01\02\1931 Cold all day, 4 above {zero} this morning. Arthur Baxter and I worked at blacksmith work till noon, split wood this afternoon went to the farm and drilled a hole in a rock for blasting. 1.60 01\03\1930 Mr. Albert called this morning and we went to the farm in an auto owned by one of the unemployed and I lent him a hand hammer, three hand drills and six sets of half rounds and wedges. I worked on the concrete mixer the rest of the day. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 01\04\1931 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. J.O. Todd [officiated} After dinner Mary and I drove up and visited Chas Tuttle at Woodtick. 01\05\1931 This morning Arthur Baxter and I went to Bessi Pierpont's lot on the Todd Road and cut down a large chestnut tree that was dead and cut most of it up, brought home a load, began to rain before we started home. Paid Baxter 1.60. 01\06\1931 Rained this forenoon. Worked about home. This afternoon, Art Baxter came and we ground axes and split wood. 01\07\1931 Art Baxter and I cut down and split up a large hickory tree and cut down a large dead chestnut in Bessie Pierpont's lot on the Todd road. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board at Mr. Todd's new home on Radcliff ave. 01\08\1931 Sharpened tools, and sorted apple, and did odd jobs about home. Found that someone stole the extra tire off my Ford car last night, while I was attending the Board meeting. Paid Baxter 1.20. 01\09\1931 Went to the Mill Plain Union Church to see about repairs that are to be made, and ordered Paint, Varnish Glass etc. Came home and ground six axes and bush hooks for Calvary Cemetery. Bought a tire rim up at Mill Plain and Art Baxter and I fitted it to my truck, and fitted up an old tire and tube so as to have an extra to take the place of the one that was stolen. I also fixed up a pump. We then went out to the Todd road and sawed several lengths off the big tree that we had cut down and brought home load. Paid Baxter 1.60. 01\10\1931 {labeled in text 01\09\1931} This forenoon Baxter and I went to the lot on the Todd road and sawed off 3 cuts of logs and brought home one load. Paid 1.00. This afternoon I repaired and sharpened my big crosscut saw. 01\11\1931 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. 167 present Rev J.O. Todd {officiated} Nice warm day. This afternoon Mary and I went up to Wolcott and visited George Browne. 01\12\1931 Snowed nearly all day about four inches. Went up to the Church and measured a stained broken glass for the door. Then went downtown on the trolley and ordered disinfectent {disinfectant} and pipe fitting, valves and glass for Church, and did other business. Went out to the farm, and then dug paths etc. 01\13\1931 A. Baxter and I worked all day cross cut sawing and splitting up alarge Chestnut tree at Bessi Pierpont's lot on the Todd Road. Paid 1.60. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 01\14\1931 A. Baxter and I chopped down a large dead Chestnut tree 4'6" in diameter, and cut some of it up at Bessie Pierpont's lot. Paid Baxter 1.60. Had Henry Beckwith tighten the clutch on my Ford truck. 01\15\1931 Cold day, just zero this morning, and below freezing all day. I worked in the Wheel House all day, doing odd jobs, and filed two cross-cut saws for St. Jospeph Cemetery. Edward Bradley, Super{in}tendant of streets who diead at St. mary's Hospital was buried in Clavary Cemetery this noon. 01\16\1931 Very cold, zero this morning, a little warmer this after- noon. Went to town and to the Barber's, out to the farm and worked about home the rest of the time. 01\17\1931 A. Baxter and I sawed up the big chestnut tree that we cut down last Wednesday, it was 4'6" in diameter. Paid Baxter 1.60. 01\18\1931 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This P.M Mary and I called on Birt Frisbie of Woodtick. 01\19\1931 Snow, Rain and Ice. Worked in the Wheel House all day. 01\20\1931 We went to the lot on the Todd {road} and split up some of the big tree. Had to blast the logs as they were so large and used up all of our powder, so we broughthome a load, and I went downtown and bought 5 lbs of powder and 25 ft fuse. Arthur Baxter helped. Paid him 1.60. This morning all of the trees were coated with ice, but much heavier out there than here. 01\21\1931 Very cold day, no thaw. Worked in wheel house sorting bolts this forenoon. Attended a meeting of the stock- holders of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. this afternoon. Went up on the trolley car, and rode back to the center with Judge Harry Beardsley. 01\22\1931 Very cold, no thaw all day. Worked in the wheel house. Mary and I had supper at Raymond's. 01\23\1931 Very cold, below freezing all day. Worked in the wheel houses and sharpened tools. 01\24\1931 Very cold, no thaw any part of the day, zero or lower every morning, did a job for Ed Scott, and worked in the wheel house. 01\25\1931 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. William Sutton called this afternoon and copied some fife music. Then we went up to Geare {??} Brown's in Wolcott. Very cold, and roads very icey. 01\26\1931 This day has been warmer, thawed quite a little. I went to town and got some brake shoes for my Ford and put them on. Worked most of the day in the wheel house. 01\27\1931 Warm day, ice thawed much. Mary and I took supper at Mr. Hapennies. Worked all day in the wheel house repairing benches etc. 01\28\1931 Worked in the Wheel house this morning. Went to the Mill Plain Church and with Mr. Albert took a piece of scenery up to Wolcott town hall. Came home and had dinner, then went to the East End Hardware store and bought 38 ft. of window cord and took it up to the Church. Then went to the lot on the Todd road and got a load of wood, came to East Farms and took care of the old ox, then home and unloaded the wood and then got another load. Today I renewed my subscription for Successful Farming for one year, 25 cts. On Jan 22 I renewed Subscription for Geographic Magazine for one year 3.00. Jan 22 Renewed Subscription for Literary Digest for one year 4.00. We received a telephone message from Mr. Charles Tyrrell that the School House on Wolcott Hill has burned to the ground this evening. 01\29\1931 Snowed all this forenoon. Chopped wood and did odd jobs. This evening Mary and I and Mr. and Mrs Service and daughter Margery went to South Waterbury to Aunt Emogene Somers along with many others to observe her ninetieth birthday. I was at her wedding in 1862. They were married at Father's house on Cherry street, and uncle Dwight left a few days after for the war, he went in Co. C, 14th Regt. They hastened to Washington where they received their guns, and marched directly to the Antetam battle where nearly half of the company were killed. He was in many battles during the three years he was out. 01\30\1931 cold day. I drew in four loads of wood from the Todd road this makes 8 loads from that big chestnut tree. It began snowing at about 3.30. 01\31\1931 Snow lay on the ground 5 inches deep this morning, made paths, and worked in the wheel house. Chopped wood the rest of the time. 02\01\1931 Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. A very cold day, zero this morning and 20ø abouve the highest during the day. 02\02\1931 Worked on big car all forenoon. This afternoon brought one load of wood. Ray and Ruth had Packard to go to Mr. Robert's funeral in Cheshire. 02\03\1931 Cold this morning, 14ø below zero. I sawed wood, and repaired Ed Bronson's buck saw frame and filed the saw this forenoon. This afternoon Carried Mary up to the Ladies Aid Society. Got my iron wheelbarrow from Henry Beckwith's, he welded the broken handle. Then went out to the farm, and Found the oldest Wilson boy and George Monahan and another boy in my lot sliding on a tobaggan. Came home and sawed wood till dark. 02\04\1931 Sharpened picks and tools for Calvary Cemetery all the forenoon. Did chores at the farm and sawed wood this afternoon. Mary and I attended the Official board meeting of the Mill Plain Union Church. 02\05\1931 Zero this morning put new brake linings in my Ford car. Repaired chains for large car, and cut wood. 02\06\1931 Drew wood from the lot on the Todd road all day. Went to Woodtick and saw Charles S. Tuttle. He has cut a lot of nice white oak wood and is cutting it up. 02\07\1931 Nice weather till night when it snowed. I drew in 2 truck loads of wood, and cut up a lot of branch wood. 02\08\1931 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Made all the snow pathes {paths} this morning, it has rained slitely {slightly} all day, and is quite icy tonight. 02\09\1931 Rained and turned to snow this evening. Took a check of 32.50 cts and deposited it at the Waterbury savings Bank, but the clerk failed to set it down on my Bank book. 02\10\1931 Shoveled snow pathes all forenoon. Repaired large snow plow for Calvary Cemetery this afternoon. 02\11\1931 Took 2 bu pop corn to the church and went up to Chas Tuttle's, cut up wood the rest of the day. Repaired Mr. Bagnel's truck. This evening we went to the Circus at Mill Plain Church. 02\12\1931 Sawed wood the greater part of the day. This evening Mrs {Mr.} and Mary Hapenney, Mary and I went to a circus given by the men's club, in the gymnasium of the Mill Plain Church, there were about 700 people present. 02\13\1931 Worked at the farm drawing manure to the lot on the hill. It thawed considerable {considerably} today. 02\14\1931 Repaired snow plow for Calvary Cemetery and worked at the farm. 02\15\1931 Attended service at The Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd {officiated} 02\16\1931 Put celoid {?? celluloid} windo in my big car. Dunn Bros. took a bag of feed out to the farm. 02\17\1931 This morning Mrs. Dawe of Wildemere Ave., Mrs. Crandall of the Frost Road, and Mary and I went to Hartford in my Packard, to attend a hearing held in the Senate chamber on bills to repeal the Probition {Prohibition} act or to change it. The house was crowded, The great majority of the people favoring probition as it now is. 02\18\1931 Rained and thawed all day. I cleaned the chicken house this forenoon and put the litter on the front yard. Did the chores at the farm and sawed wood, and repaired aunt Gene's chair. 02\19\1931 Snowed and rained all day. I took my big car to Henry Beckwith's and had the valves ground, and a general repairing. This afternoon I dug the paths out, etc. 02\20\1931 Snowed. Dug the paths out and took some potatoes down to Margaret's and dug her paths out, went out to the farm and did the chores. This afternoon went to Charles S. Tuttle's in Woodtick, got stuck in a snow drift, and walked to the house. Came home and worked on my car. 02\21\1931 Worked on my big car most of the day. 02\22\1931 Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Ths afternoon Margaret, Nita, Mary and I went to George Browne's in Wolcott. Weather very fine. 02\23\1931 Today I drew out five loads of wood with my ox and sled from Ed Bronson's woods down a cross road to the Pierpont road, and from there to Arthur Baxter's home on my small truck. ===== Charles S. Miller 2271 East Main St. Waterbury, Conn. //start of new Journal 1931-33// ----- 02\24\1931 (Tuesday) I drew four loads of wood from Bessie Pierponts lot on the Todd Road to day. 02\25\1931 (Wednesday) Went to Templetons store on Benedict Street this morning and got my auto license paid, 3.00. This afternoon drew wood. 02\26\1931 (Thursday) Drew in four loads of wood. Gene{Jean} and little Nita Northrop went out twice. The water started running in the trough at East Farms to day, having been frozen all winter. 02\27\{1931} (Friday) Drew three loads of wood, and this finishes the job. Colder to day. 02\28\1931 (Saturday) Weather nice and warm. Sawed wood and repaired fence at the farm. 03\01\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph O. Todd preached. 03\02\{1931} (Monday) Repaired Almma{?} Brown's truck and did odd jobs. 03\03\1931 (Tuesday) Went to town this morning. To the Waterbury Savings Bank and deposited two checks of 27.50 and drew out cash on check of 71.50. Then went to Sears and Roebuck's Store on Grand St. and tried to get a suit of work clothes but they didn't have what I wanted, but will try and get them. I came home and sharpened some drills for the Mill Plain Church. Had dinner, then took some wedges to Ed Scott in Cheshire. Came back to the farm and took care of Joseph, then came home and cut a little wood. Then took some pipe{??} up to George Brown's in Wolcott. Then went over to Char Tuttle's and got some iron wood to make some pullies of and got home at dark. 03\04\{1931} (Wednesday) Snowed all day. I sawed wood under the shed. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Church. Mr. Albert was discharged as janitor last Saturday. He was arrested Sunday and tried Monday morning. The charge was indecent exposure with boys. He is out on probation for six months. 03\05\{1931} (Thursday) Snowed all night. Dug paths all the morning and sawed wood the rest of the time. 03\06\1931 (Friday) Weather fine and cool. This forenoon I went to Sears and Roebuck's store on Grand Street and ordered a suit of moleskin work clothes for 7.50. I also bought a 1/4 H.P. motor for 8.35. Came home and sawed wood the rest of the day. This evening we made out an order for suds. Lewis Greenwood called and brought home my drum, but I told him to use it till July as the heads were bran {brand} new. 03\07\{1931} (Saturday) Sawed wood all day. Weather fine. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 03\08\1931 (Sunday) Weather, snow, wind and rain with hail and ice, worst storm of the winter. Attended service at Mill Plain Church, Rev. J.O. Todd. 03\09\1931 (Monday) I sawed wood all day. Have a large pile. Weather has been warm and spring like. 03\10\1930 {1931} (Tuesday) Stormed all day. Snow, Rain and sleet. I went to Wolcott to look up the Public Records concerning Sheldon Freskie of 1834. 03\11\1931 (Wednesday) Cold to day, some snow. This morning Ray called for my rifle which he wanted to kill a skunk with up on Capitol Avenue. I went to the Town Clerk's office and copied records most of the day. Ray and Ruth called this morning. 03\12\{1931} (Thursday) I sawed wood all day with a buck saw. I have a power saw, but it would be a lot of work to get it together as I lent the saw and frame to Nicholas Haypenny. The weather has been cold. Cliff Northrop and Margaret called this evening and we read letters from Rev. G. K. Curtiss and Emma L. Jackson, both of Calafornia {California}. Cliff took my Drum Band uniform to send to Irving at Wauwatosa, Wis. 03\13\{1931} (Friday) Sawed wood all day. Have a bad cold, do not feel well. Henry Beckwith brazed a steel jaw on my heavy blacksmith vice. 03\14\1931 (Saturday) Sawed wood all day. Finished to night, about seven cards. 03\15\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church to day. Rev. John K. Benton. 03\16\1931 (Monday) Worked at the farm all day with Arthur Barter. We trimmed apple trees, amde an iron grape arbour, drew out five loads of manure, trimmed up the brush and brought it home etc. 03\17\{1931} (Tuesday) Cold and windy, went to see Dr. Barber this afternoon. 03\18\1931 (Wednesday) Arthur Baxter and I cleaned out the chicken house this morning. Then went out to the farm and cleaned out Jasper's stable, and cut down the hay stack and filled it up with fresh hay and drew off rocks from the west side of the barn lot. The City voted last night to build a nine room School House on Woodland Street Fairlawn. 03\19\{1931} (Thursday) Drew stones from along the west wall to the top of Fort Dunlap in the barn lot at East Farms to day. Artur Baxter helped. Went up to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick late the afternoon. He gave me a fine drink of sweet cider that he drew from the center of a barrel that was frozen. It was very rich. 03\20\{1931} (Friday) This morning I took Aunt Gene's chair home. There were about 200 of the unemployed at work on the road, this side of Pritchard's Pond. I then went up to Wolcott and saw George Browne. This afternoon I sharpened 4 picks for the Mill Plain Church, then took out my blower. 03\21\1931 (Saturday) First day of spring. Warm nice weather, snow nearly all gone. Went to The Hotchkiss Hardware Co. and bought a new sprocket chain for my blower, and had a new pipe made at the Waterbury Sheet Metal Works. Came home and worked the rest of the day repairing and installing the blower. 03\22\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. This afternoon, Cliff Northrop, his wife Margaret, and daughters Gene and Nita, with Mary and I went up to Wolcott Center and I saw Rev. Mr. Cabbage, after which we drove to Charles Tuttles and then home. This evening Ray and Ruth called and took Mary and I to their home on Capitol Avenue. There we had a fine supper. 03\23\{1931} (Monday) Did some blacksmith work this forenoon, then went to the farm and got rocks and put them on Fort Dunlop. 03\24\1931 (Tuesday) I with Arthur Baxter, worked at the drawing rocks, etc. {03\25 and 03\26 lacking} 03\27\{1931} (Friday) Last Wednesday forenoon, Margaret and little Nita, Mary and I went to Storrs College to visit Ruth. We left about eleven o'clock, stoped {stopped} at East Farms and took care of Old Jasper, and then traveled over Southington Mountain on the new road to Milldale where we turned North through Plantsville, Southington, Plainville, to Farmington, then through West Hartford, Hartford, across the stone arch bridge to East Hartford to Burnside, Mansfield Depot. To Mansfield Four Corners then south four miles to Storrs where we stoped {stopped} at Ruth's house, having traveled 55 miles in two and one half hours in a heavy rain most of the way. I put my car in a girage {garage} and stayed in the house the rest of the day. Thursday morning when we awoke, there was a blanket of snow on the ground about three inches deep and still snowing hard. I did some odd repair jobs, made a wooden thum {thumb} screw for the boys gauge stick, oiled and repaired the clock, repaired and cleaned the engine to my car. In the after noon I went over to the new building and visited Jack in his office, No. 155, where I stayed till six when we came home and Jack started away to address a meeting in some asjoining town. We had supper. and visited and read and heard the radio, went to bed early. This morning after nine o'clock, Margaret, Nita, Marey, I and Ruth in Jack's Dodge car went to Gurley Mills to see an old stone grist and saw mill on the Fenton River. It was once owned by Governor Cross' father and the Govenor {Governor} was born in the house that stands near by. The present owner, Mr. D{? ?} started up the saw mill and sawed some black oak logs. Margaret bought an old chair that was in the Grist Mill that formerly belonged to the Cross family and is said to be over 150 yars {years} old. We then went to the sheep barn and saw many sheep and lambs. The shepheard {shepherd} Joe Pritchard took his trained shepheard {shepherd} dog and a dozen sheep out into a large field and showed us how the dog could handle a drove of sheep. Some of the time, when dog and sheep were quarter of a mile away, Pritchard could by signs with his staff and by whistling cause the dog to bring up the whole drove or only one if he wished and drive it into the barn, and then go back and brig in any number that he wished. What the dog could do was truly wonderful. We left there and went to Ruth Brundage's home where we had a fine dinner and after the children, Roger, Kenneth, Pierce and Peggy had gone to school, we got ready and started for home. We left at two and came by way of Mansfield Four Corners, Coventry, Bolton Notch to Manchester where we turned South to Silver Lane. Then through Glastonbury, South Glastenbury to Portland where we crossed over the river to Middletown then on through Meriden to Waterbury having traveled 65 miles in two and one half hours. The weather has been perfect. I would here state that when we left the Cros Mills in Gurleyville, we visited the Indian Well which is situated about an eigth {eighth} of a mile upon a ledge way up East of the mill. It is formed in a solid rock about three and one half in diameter and about the same depth. 03\28\1931 (Saturday) This morning I sharpened five picks and repaired a crow bar for the Mill Plain Union Church. Then went to the farm and plowed a piece of the garden south of the barn and planted six rows of pease {peas??}. Ray and Ruth called this evening and brought half a bushel of potatoes. Ray borrowed my hip rubber boots and clam rake. He expects to go to Niantic tomorrow and dig some clams. 03\29\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. There were 189 present including 21 in the Choir. This afternoon Margaret, Cliff and little Nita with Mary and I went to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick and took the old Governor Cross Chair that Margaret bought in Gurleyville to have Mr. Tuttle fix it up. 03\30\1931 (Monday) This morning I saw Nick Hapenny, Superintendent of Calvary Cemetery about some tools that needed sharpening and he sent down a truck load that kept me busy all day. Miss Picket came this morning to stay a few days. 03\31\{1931} (Tuesday) Sharpened picks and grubs till three this afternoon. Then went out to the farm and fed Jasper, then went to Mrs. Arthur Harrisson's in Wolcott to see some old Church Records but she didn't have them. A man from Prospect brought 8 saws for me to file and Charles Turrell brought a lot of chains to be repaired. 04\01\1931 (Wednesday) Rained all day. I filed saws most of the day in the wheel house. 04\02\{1931} (Thursday) Drew five loads of manure upon the hill and three loads onto the lower garden. 04\03\1931 (Friday) Drew off stones from the place where I am to sow oats and spread six loads of manure and plowed a spell. Forrest and Carlton Chopin were burning over their lot this forenoon. The fire got away from them and burned to the East. The firemen came and put it out. This evening Ruth and Ray called. 04\04\{1931} (Saturday) I cleaned up the flower bed in the front yard and did odd jobs. Wen {Went} up to the barber's had my hair cut. This afternoon went out to the farm and plowed. 04\05\1931 (Sunday) Easter Sunday. Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. 31 persons joined the Church. 495 in attendence {attendance}. Miss Pickett went back to Waterville. 04\06\1931 (Monday) A gang of the unemployed began grading the East Farms School grounds to day. I plowed upon the hill and got tools ready for planting oats. I repaired a new chair for Nick Hapenny this evening. 04\07\{1931} (Tuesday) This morning I drove to town in the rain and did some business at the bank, paid the telephone bill and paid the Hotchkiss Co. what I owed them. Then went to the Spenser Grain Co. and bought 20 qts of seed oats, 5 lbs. red clover seed and 8 qts. of red top for which I paid 6.98. This afternoon I took Mary up to the Ladies Aid at the Church, then went to Henry Beckwith's and had him braze a steel tip on the point of my Southberry Plow. This evening the Mattatuck Drum Band held a meeting and are to meet next week at Ralph Pierponts. 50 years ago next Nov. 1 was elected Leader and have held that office nearly all of the time ever since and have furnished a place to meet and practice. 04\08\1931 (Wednesday) Sowed my oats and grass to day and plowed for potatoes. Ray and Ruth called this morning. 04\09\{1931} (Thursday) Plowed turf all day. The weather has been cold and windy and I caught a bad cold. Mary telephoned Doctor Barber and he told her to get a prescription put up at Kunkels Drug Store, which she did and I hope to be better. 04\10\1931 (Friday) I rigged up my hand cement mixer to run by electricity this morning and did other odd jobs. Then went out to the farm and harrowed the piece that I plowed for potatoes, and plowed by the sides of the young fruit trees, but I gave it up as the coulter{??} got dull and didn't cut the thick turf good. I then went to Wolcott and saw Charles Tuttle's pile of wood. He thinks that he has cut more than I have. I have about nine cords and he went to work a second time and cut up about three cords more so I guess he has more than I have. The wind has blown fierce all day from the south. Received a letter from Emma Jackson of Redlands, Calif. wanting information of her great great grandfather and grandmother, Ruben Frisbie and wife. They lived up towards Woodtick where Peter Lund now 1931{??} lives. 04\11\{1931} (Saturday) Plowed by the sides of the appletrees on the hill and started plowing the buckwheat ground. 04\12\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Morton{?} Owen of the Bunker Hill Congregational Church officiated. This afternoon we went up to the Cemetery at Wolcott Center. Mr. Ferris Furkenton{?} and wife called this evening. 04\13\{1931} (Monday) This morning I sent a box to Miles Mac Bells Frisbie, Bristol, Wis. containing Leaks{??}, Lillies{??} and blue myrtle{??} from the Charles Frisbie Place in Wolcott. Went to the farm and plowed till night. 04\14\1931 (Tuesday) This morning I took my big car and Margaret, Marion and Nita and went to Kreigers store and left Marion, and I bought a young appletree for 59 cts. We then went out to get in the car and found a flat tire. We drove to a tire repair shop on North Main St. and had it repaired. Then we went up over Bucks Hill and Spindle Hill to the Cemetery at Wolcott Center where Margaret took pictures of the grave stones of Amos Seward, Dea{??} Isaac Bronson and Thankful, his wife. We then came home. I had a good dinner of mussels that Ray gave us that he got off the rocks at Niantic Sunday. I then went out to the farm and set out the delicious appletree in the young orchard on the hill. It is at the West end of the South row. I then plowed the rest of the day. 04\15\{1931} (Wednesday) Finished plowing for buckwheat and harrowed the ground over. After I got down to the barn, I saw that the lots on the hill was all on fire. I got two pails of water and the pump and started up. Two of Mr. Nodine's men were putting it out with brooms. It burned over the west wood lot and some of the oat lot and orchard lot. 04\16\1931 (Thursday) Worked about home and chainged {changed} the oil in my Packard this forenoon. At noon, Mary and I started and went to Capitol Ave. and got Ruth and then went via Meriden to Charles Cass' place at North Farms in Wallingford. There we got into his Buic car with him and Tracy and we all went to Reed's Gap where the Blakeslee Company of New Haven were about to explode twenty seven tons of dynamite and blow the side of the mountain out. The explosion toook place at 2.30 P.M. and it took out and loosened up a piece of trap{?} rock 220 ft. high, 170 ft. long and 75 ft. back. It made but little noise but shook the earth. They tunneled straight into the rock sixty feet, then at right angles south 35 ft. and north 135 ft. and forty feet above this they put another tunnel, same as the lower one. In these two long paralel {parallel} tunnels which were 4 ft. high, they placed the dynamite which they fired with a battery. It was a grand sight to see the whole front of that mountain come out and then fall down, sending up a cloud of smoke and dust. 04\17\{1931} (Friday) Wrote a letter to Mr. Austin L. Hawes, State Forest Fire Warden at Hartford about forest, bush and grass fires. Then went to the farm and plowed the garden, which took till night. John Garrigus called this evening to see about Fred's drums. 04\18\{1931} (Saturday) Spaded in the garden and planted lettice {lettuce} and radishes. Then went out to the farm and planted lettice {lettuce} and radish, and hoed the peas. The worked on the fence. Came home and Frank and Anderey{?} Kitchenka with John Garrigus called and got one bass and one snare drum that belongs to brother Fred. 04\19\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. After service we went to Rays and had dinner after which we went to brother Franks in West Simsbury. When we came home, we came through Canton, Collinsville, Nepang, Torrington and Thomaston. 04\20\1931 (Monday) Went to the Chronimum {Chromium} Plating Works near the Poor House this morning and left some work to be done. Then went to Express Office and got two peach trees. Then bought some varnish and iron. Came home, had dinner and went out to the farm and set out the two Elbertha peach trees, and cultivated about a lot of apple trees. 04\21\{1931} (Tuesday) Worked at blacksmith work till the middle of the afternoon then went to the farm and planted two rows of onions. Got a letter ready to send to Mac Bells Frisbie, Bristol, Wis. Received my tax bill 180.08. 04\22\{1931} (Wednesday) Did blacksmith work. Then went to the farm and drew stones all day. There was a bad fire south of Bever {Beaver} Pond Brook about the ice house. 04\23\{1931} (Thursday) Rained hard all the forenoon. I went to town and did some business, and to the Town Clerk's ofice where I copied records for a time. I then went to the Chromium Plating Corporation and got my bumper parts and came home on the trolley. 04\24\1931 (Friday) Spaded in the garden, drew stones at the farm. This afternoon, repaired the fence in front of Bessie Pierpont's land on the Todd Road. Then went to Charles Tuttle's but he was not at home. Came back to Mr. Kunkles cottage and took the measure for a brace for his chimney. Came home and made the brace. Mr. Peters put a lot of furniture in the upstairs of my barn to day. 04\25\{1931} (Saturday) Drew off stones at the farm all day. 04\26\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. Rained all day. Daylight Saving Time started this morning. 04\27\{1931} (Monday) Worked all day cleaning my big car and taking it apart. 04\28\{1931} (Tuesday) Worked all day on my bug car. 04\29\{1931} (Wednesday) Cold, some rain, some snow. Worked on my car part of the day. Went up to Charles Tuttles this afternoon. had Ruth type a letter and got it ready to send to Miss Emma Jackson, Redlands, Cal. 04\30\{1931} (Thursday) This forenoon I made a steel bumper part for Mr. Bunell. Varnished my car this afternoon. 05\01\1931 (Friday) Worked at the farm drawing off stone, and about home this afternoon repairing my cars. 05\02\{1931} (Saturday) I cultivated about the appletrees on the hill till the rain drove me away at about three o'clock. 05\03\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon Mary and I went in my Ford truck to Cheshire to Fritz Hansens to see Fritsa, Clyde's wife who came from Toronto. 05\04\{1931} (Monday) Went to town this morning. This afternoon worked at the apple trees on the hill. 05\05\{1931} (Tuesday) Worked at the apple trees on the hill all day. 05\06\1931 (Wednesday) I harrowed and seeded and finished up Mr. Gruters back lot to day. Fritsa came this afternoon. Clif, Margaret, Bettie and Nita Northrop called this evening. Ray and Ruth came later. Olga Hanson came and all bade Fritsa good bye, and the two left for Cheshire. Fritsa expects to sart for home in Mimico, Canada next Saturday. Lewis Greenwood sent 12.00 to pay for a drum that I sold him. I made the drum in 1881. Ray brought the money. 05\07\{1931} (Thursday) Put my big car togather {together} this forenoon. This afternoon, drew stones off the corn lot. Ray came this evening and got some clashing powder and fuse. Ruth brought a new table spread and shelf cover for Mother's day presents. 05\08\{1931} (Friday) Mowed a part of the front yard this morning. Went to the farm and spread manure, when it began to rain and rained very hard the rest of the day. I finished up my big car. 05\09\{1931} (Saturday) Plowed upon the hill for corn. Cam {Came} home about three o'clock and did odd jobs, spaded the garden. 05\10\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. There were 216 prsent, including 21 in the Choir. This is Mothers Day. Early this morning, Jack and Ruth called, having driven from Storrs. They had Louis Gillitte with them. She has been visiting at their home. They had stopped at the Mill Plain Church and left Roger, Kenneth, Pierce and Peggy at the Sunday School. After a time we all went to Church and joined them and we had a seat full. Rev. Mr. Todd officiated and a fine service. After we came home, Olga, Mrs. Hanson and Fritsa came from Cheshire and we had a fine visit. Fritsa is to stay over night as she is to leave early in the morning to Toronto. Frank had previously called with his family from Kent. He brought a bushel of seed potatoes and a bag of fertilizer. After his starting for home, it began to rain. Ray called later. We also had a telegram from Irving and family from Milwaukee. 05\11\{1931} (Monday) This morning Fritsa started for Mimico at 6.40 from the corner of Grand and Bank streets. We got up early, had breakfast and I took my Packard and Fritsa and I drove to the corner of Bank and Grand which we reached at 6.35. Soon Mr. Yates came. He had driven from Stratford in 40 minutes and with him were several people. Fritsa got in his car and they left at the above mentioned time. After I got home, I went to the farm and drew out four loads of manure and finished plowing on the hill for corn. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle called. He borrowed some old clothes for a Church entertainment. 05\12\{1931} (Tuesday) I harrowed the ground for corn and potatoes on the hill. Rained this evening. 05\13\{1931} (Wednesday) I made furrows with the plow for potatoes till about four o'clock when it became so wet and cold that I came home. John and Lee Garigus were painting on William Garrigus' house. This evening Mary and I attended a supper and entertainment given by the men's club at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Giles of the Dutch Reform Church of East Orringe, New Jersey gave a very fine lecture. He is 71 years old and came in his own car 100 miles. They also had and {an} exibition {exhibition} of ladies attired in old time dresses, etc. which included the dress that Mary wore when we were married in 1883. We were the first married in the Mill Plain Chapel, the year that it was build {built}. They also showed the graduation dress that Mary wore at the graduation of Clyde at Lafayette College in 1907. 05\14\1931 {1931} (Thursday) Worked at blacksmith work all day making chain hooks etc. for Charles Tyrell of Woodtick and a strap bolt for Edward Scott of Cheshire. At supper time, John Garrigus called and left a set of stensels {stencils} that he borrowed. Mr. Fox called this afternoon. Joe Mulcum came this evening and brought back Mary's dresses, etc. We had a postal from Fritsa saying that they reached home at Mimico at 8.15, Monday evening, having traveled 540 miles since 6.40 in the morning. 05\15\1931 (Friday) The weather to day has been clear and warm. This morning I did some blacksmith work, then took Edward Scott's strap{??} bolt out to him, and worked at the farm the rest of the day plowing out for potatoes and corn and harrowed the buckwheat ground. The City road men commenced repairing the tile pipes under the Frost Road. {05\16 - 05\18 no entries} 05\19\1931 (Tuesday) Last Sat. morning I went to the freight depot and got some steel corrogated {corrugated} roofing for the chicken coop and the engine house. Then Mary and I got ready and I put a new set of spark plugs in the Packard car and we started for Kent to visit Frank. All went well till we reached the corner of Woodruff Ave. and Scott Street when we were run into by a Ford car driven by a young man named Gordon Renslow. It swung my car around to the right and damaged the front lift mud gard {guard}, bent the front bumper and bent the steering {stearing} rod. His car ran across the street and landed on a culvert stone cover and was inpired {impaired??} some what. Soon the officers were there and we tried to settle, but Mr. Renslow would not so the constible {constable} notified us to appear before Judge Hungerford next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bates took my car into his girage {garage} near by and tested out the steering {steairng} gear and saind that it seemed good enough so that we could continue our journey. This we did and traveled through Bethlehem, Morris, Bantam to Woodville, where they are building a new road across the Shepang River and up the mountain. We here went up the river to the new dam that the City of Waterbury are building. They are getting the concrete foundations in, and have done much work, but it is only a few feet above the river level We soon were on the road again and proceeded to Warren, then over the new state road to Swifts Bridge and South to Kent, where we found Elsie and the children at home, but Frank was in the thirteen acre lot South of the school planting potatoes. Mary, Bertha and I went down there and found the hired man, Dwight and Frank riding on the planter. as it was getting late and the planter needed repairs. They stoped {stopped} work and we started for home, where after milking, we sat down to a fine supper, and in due time retired. Sunday morning we got up and soon the new chime of ten bells began to ring. They did not play a tune but just a wild clanging. At the proper time, Mary, Elsie and I went to the New School Church. The service was of the Church of England type and very formal. After this service was over, we went to Frank's Congregational Church. After service we went home, had dinner and after a time, Frank, Elsie and their children, Mary, Bertha, Dwight and Jessie all went for a ride in my car. Frank's is being repaired at New Milford. We went down the river on the west side to the Fuller place which has been partly destroyed by fire. There we saw some of the Kent school crews rowing on the river. We then came to the field where Frank is planting potatoes. He has several acres of oats which are up and looking good. From there we went up the river to the upper cleared lot, then in the lot below where they are building a new barn out of an old tobacco shed. Then we drove up through Masodonia over the line into New York where the road is not so good, came home and had supper, and in due time all retired. monday morning, up at 6.30. Frank had finished milking and was ready for breakfast. Soon after breakfast, Mary and I got ready and left for home at 8 o'clock, came through New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury where we stoped {stopped} and got ten gallons of gas for 1.60 then through Southbury, Woodbury, Middlebury. The new concrete road up Ben Sherman Hill is not quite completed. We reached Waterbury at ten. I went and saw Lawyer Phelan and had him make out a state report of Saturday's auto accident and I retained him for the tryal {trial} in Watertown in the evening. He wished to go to Watertown and see the place where the accident happened and see Mr. Shields. This we did, and returned at noon. In the afternoon, I went to his office and signed the report. During the afternoon, we made arangements {arrangements} with Ray and Ruth to go to Watertown with us in the evening. They came at 6.30 and we drove to Mr. Phelan's house on Lexingotn Ave. and then via Thomaston to Watertown to the Town Hall. Soon Mr. Renslow came and he wanted to settle. The grand jury had charged him with obstructing traffic. When the case was called, he pled {pleaded??} guilty and Judge Hungerford find {fined} him five dollars and costs. Tuesday, this morning I went to Bates Girage {Garage} in Watertown and he put my front bumper on my car. Paid him 2.50, then came to Jake's Auto Body Repair Shop on Meadow St. and left my car to have the fender repaired. Came home on the trolley car. Had dinner, then took the Ford truck and went to the farm and got two concrete fence posts and brought them to be used where the City men are repairing the culvert at the lower end of my home lot. Then mowed the front yard, and worked in the garden, till Mr. Ed Scott came and brought some plow irons to be repaired whitch [which} I fixed. 05\20\1931 (Wednesday) This morning Ed Scott came and brought a steel plow beam that was bent. We straitened it, and then after I had breakfast at 9, I went to the farm and planted potatoes till three when I came home and went to Jake's shop and got my car which I brought home and smoothed the repaired parts and painted them. 05\21\{1931} (Thursday) Rained most of the day. The City men finished laying up the wall in our home lot where the Ansebass{??} Brook crosses the Frost Road. I worked in the cellar sprouting potatoes and carrying out old vetables {vegetables} till noon. Then went to the farm and got some fencing and took Ruth Miller some pie-|plant and then repaired the fence where the City men repaired the wall over the brook on the Frost Road. 05\22\1931 (Friday) Planted potatoes all day. Have planted altogather {all together} 28 rows and 50 hills to the row, 1400 hills. There has scarcely been a time to day that I have not seen or heard an air plane passing overhead. 05\23\{1931} (Saturday) Rained hard all the forenoon. I repaired my big car, cleaned out the blacksmith shop etc. This afternoon, cleaned out the chicken house and went to the farm, howed the peas, lettice{lettuce}, and harrowed{?} the garden. 05\24\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. There were 106 present in the congregation and 21 in the choir, total 127. This afternoon Mary, Miss Picket and I went and called on George Browne and Charles Tuttle in Wolcott. To day many air planes have flown over Waterbury, one 100{?} in the vacinity {vicinity}. From New York City to Hartford in war manovers {maneuvers}. Weather has been fair and cold. 05\25\1931 (Monday) I went to the City Hall this morning and paid my tax, $182.43. Bought some radish{??} seed at the Hotchkiss Co. Then saw Lawyer Phelan and gave him the bills for repairing my car, 8.50. This afternoon, went to the farm and planted in the garden and got the ground ready to plant pop corn. 05\26\1931 (Tuesday) Planted field corn on the hill. Many air planes went over on their return from Boston going to New York and Washington. 05\27\{1931} (Wednesday) Worked in East Farms Cemetery setting Mrs. Benjamin Hitchcock's grave stone and {??????}. Arthur Baxter helped. 05\28\{1931} (Thursday) Mowed East Farms Cemetery and set grave stones. Arthur Baxter helped. 05\29\{1931} (Friday) Art Baxter and I worked at East Farms Cemetery all day. The weather has been very hot. {05\30 - 05\31 no entries} 06\01\1931 (Monday) Last Saturday morning Mary and I drove over to Lake Zoar where we found Ray and Ruth at their cottage. After we had dinner, we took their motor boat and sailed up the lake to where the river comes in. When we came down, we stoped {stopped} on the West side and up the steep bank we found a large spring gushing from beneath a large tree of the nicest and coldest water I ever drank. We then came down and turned and went up the Pomperang River to the rapids. Then returned home, having sailed about 12 miles by estimation. Sunday morning we all went to church in New Town. The service was held in the basement as the church is being redecorated. When we came home, we went round by Birkshire. After dinner we took the boat and went down the lake to the dam at Stevenson, a long sail. After we returned home, Ray and Ruth got ready and started for home, but Mary and I stayed over night and came home this morning when there was not so much traffic. It rained soon after Ray and Ruth left and continued all night. After we got home, I mowed clothes yard and went out to the farm and did some planting. 06\02\{1931} (Tuesday) Worked at blacksmith work all the forenoon and planted in the garden and went to Charles De Bissops and to the farm and did some hoeing. 06\03\1931 (Wednesday) Worked plowing for pop corn at the farm. This evening Mary and I attended the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Union Church and the election of officers. 06\04\1931 (Thursday) Finished planting the home garden and finished plowing the pop corn piece and harrowed it some. 06\05\{1931} (Friday) Mowed the ground in front of our lot at East Farms and got the stones off the pop corn piece and got the hay that grew on the clothes yard in. A Mr. Hall of West Field stoped {stopped} and I bought a pair of heavy steel yards, a spade, a spading fork, a hack saw and shaving knife for 1.00. Weather has been very hot. 06\06\1931 (Saturday) Planted pop corn at the farm. The wind and rain did considerable damage down in Prospect last evening and the lightening struck the Blackman house causing much damage. It only rained a few drops here, but it pored {poured} up in Woodtick. The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Terryville to a convention to day and won first prize. 06\07\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. It has rained narly all day. This afternoon I visited George Browne and Charles Tuttle in Wolcott. 06\08\{1931} (Monday) This morning it rained. I took my16, 12, and 9 ft. ladders and other tools out to the farm to fix the barn roof. I then came home and went to town and did several errands. Received a check from Lawyer Phelan for 5.00 from Mr. Ranslow for damage to my automobile on May 16. I then got lumber ready to take to the Mill to make Frank's wagon body. 06\09\1931 (Tuesday) Very wet and rainy most of the day. This forenoon I took a load{??} of hard wood boards and plank to the T.G. Smith Co. at 18 Orange St. and had it sowed and plained for a large wagon body, and bought lumber for the bottom and sides, the whole costing 7.50. After dinner, I went to the farm and planted some potatoes, and built a shelf in the barn, and when I started for home, it began to rain hard and pored {poured} for nearly an hour. 06\10\1931 (Wednesday) Rained nearly all day. Wrote several letters this forenoon and filed a number of my saws. This afternoon, worked on Frank's wagon body. 06\11\1931 (Thursday) Clarence Pierpont and I repaired the roof on my barn at East Farms, and we got the paint ready to paint it. 06\12\1931 (Friday) Painted on the roof of the barn. To day very warm. Mary went out to Bessie Pierpont's this afternoon and Elizabeth Harris was there from Cleveland and some other friends. Miss Pickett came yesterday to stay with us. 06\13\{1931} (Saturday) Finished repairing and painting the East Farms barn roof and then finished planting the garden at the farm. Clarence Pierpont helped, .50. 06\14\{1931} (Sunday) Mary and I attended church, Childrens Day, the building was crowded. This afternoon we went to Uncle Will Somers on Baldwin Ave., South Waterbury. 06\15\{1931} (Monday) Took half a bu. of potatoes to Charles Wilkensbach and cultivated young apple trees all day. 06\16\1931 (Tuesday) Finished cultivating the young apple trees on the hill and cultivated corn and potatoes. Mowed the front door yard this evening in the rain. 06\17\{1931} (Wednesday) Took one bu. of potatoes to Charles Wilkensbach this morning, then worked in the barn and cultivated corn and potatoes the rest of the day. This evening Mary and I attended a strawberry supper at the Mill Plain Church. This morning I repaired two crow bars and ground two bush hooks for the M. P. Church. The Great dirgible Las Angeles {Los Angeles??} crcled {circled} over Waterbury this evening and sailed off to the West. The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Brooklyn and Windham to day with the Putnam Phalanx. 06\18\{1931} (Thursday) Howed potatoes and corn all day. 06\19\{1931} (Friday) Finished hoeing this noon. This afternoon, took my ox and went to Harold Pieponts and we cultivated his blackberries. The weather has been hot, 92 in shade this noon. 06\21{20}\{1931} (Saturday) Went to town this morning and bought six sticks of dynamite and two sledge hammer handles of the Hotchkiss Company. Went to Hills on Willow Street and bought a History of Norwich and Woodbury for 10.00 and at the Colonial Trust Co., got the interest on my church bonds, 42.00. After dinner, went to town and saw the Eagles parade. Weather, 96 in shade, 104 in sun. 06\22{21}\{1931} (Sunday) Mary and I attended servise {service} at the Mill Plain Union Church. This evening we visited sister Mary at Phillip Royters where they are now living. 06\23{22}\{1931} (Monday) Got{?} concrete fence posts on{??} the hill. Clarence helped, .45. 06\24{23}\{1931} (Tuesday) Rained all day. Worked on Frank's wagon body, Clarence .70. Went to Mr. Hills on Willow St. and bought a History of Wolcott for Emma Jackson of Redlands, Calif. 06\24\1931 (Wednesday) Clarence Pierpont and I set concrete posts on the hill and repaired the middle fence, .70. 06\25\{1931} (Thursday) Planted buckwheat at the East end of the long lot on the hill. Clarence painted three lengths of fence, and we leveled and plowed a terrace below the middle fence, .60. 06\26\{1931} (Friday) Worked nearly all day on Frank' s wagon body. Rained this morning, but pleasant most of the day. Clarence helped, .70. 06\27\{1931} (Saturday) Mowed and carried out to the farm a load of hay. Clarence and I got down the mowing machine. Scovills{??} foreman had an outing all day at the Luther Bradley place at Reedville. 06\28\1931 (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon, attended the Pierpont Family Reunion. It was held at Bessie Pierpont's farm at Maple Hill. There were about 50 present. 06\29\{1931} (Monday) Went to City Hall this morning and handed in my tax list. Did some bank business, and ordered a lot of iron from the Hotchkiss Co. This afternoon, worked at the farm making level dikes up on the side hill, and howed the garden. Clarence helped, .35. 06\30\{1931} (Tuesday) Weather hot at noon, 96 in shade and 108ø in sun. Worked all day making a terris ditch on the hill. Mr. and Mrs. Rumpe{?} of Bunker Hill called this evening to borrow the spirit of 76 uniforms. 07\01\1931 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools this forenoon and finished the concrete mixer this afternoon. Weather hot, at noon 90ø in shade, 100ø in sun. Coley's cat in the chicken yard this morning, I{??} shot at it. 07\02\1931 (Thursday) This morning Clarence Pierpont and I made twelve swing chains for the Mill Plain Church play grounds. We then worked on Frank's wagon body and took a load of hay to East Farms. We had a card from Fritsa that stated she and Clyde left left Mimico Tuesday morning to visit Irving at Milwaukee. They hoped to make Detroit that day. 07\03\{1931} (Friday) Mowed at the farm. Coley's cat was in the chicken yard. I{?} shot at it. 07\04\1931 (Saturday) This is the first Fourth of July that I ever knew that was not ushered in with the boom of cannon and the sound of firecrackers and other noise. On account of so many accidents arising from high power crackers etc., the City of Waterbury passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale and discharge of fireworks and to day has been as quiet as any other holiday. This evening we heard fireworks set off at Bunker Hill, Washington Park and Southington. This morning Mary and I went ot Bunker Hill and saw the parade there. Then we came home and I went to the farm and pulled weeds from the parsnips, carrots, beets etc. While pulling the weeds it was very hot and it thundered but not a drop of rain fell, but coming home I saw puddles of waer in the road before reaching the arch and this side they increased in size and number till reaching home and here it had rained very hard for some time. 07\05\{1931} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. This afternoon we went out to East Farms Cemetery. Then we went to Woodtick to Charles Tuttles and Barkley Fribies but no one was at home. Robert Probst of Hartford called in the evening. 07\06\{1931} (Monday) Rained. Clarence Pierpont and I made irons for swings for Mill Plain Church playground. Bought some bushes for the Church. 07\07\1931 (Tuesday) I mowed and cleaned up the East Farms Cemetery to day. Margaret got home this afternoon from a trip she and her family took in their chevalex car out to York State. 07\08\1931 (Wednesday) Made some irons for the new May Pole for the Mill Plain play ground. This afternoon put arsnite of lead on my potatoes to kill the bugs and plowed out several rows. This evening we attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Corporation. I was elected President for the coming year, Howard Neal, Secretary, M. E. Pierpont Treasurer, and Mr. Hoadley, Vice President. 07\09\1930 {1931} (Thursday) This morning the heavy truck from Calvary Cemetery drove into the yard loaded with picks, grubs and plak{??} to be worked over. The picks and grubs sharpened bolts placed in the ends of the planks. This has kept me and Clarence busy all this hot day. 07\10\1931 (Friday) Worked on planks this forenoon and plowed out corn and potatoes this afternoon. 07\11\{1931} (Saturday) Hoed popcorn this forenoon. This afternoon I turned out with the Mattatuck Drum Band for the opening of the Mill Plain Union Church. The parade consisted of the Mattatuck Drum Band, the Mill Plain Boy and Girl Scouts, the St. Francis Drum Corps and a long line of autos. It went down the Meriden Road to East Main St., up East Main to Frost Road, to Woodland Ave, to Meriden Road, to Southmaid Rd. to the Church playground where they had sports and games. This evening they had band concerts and speeches by Mr. Todd, Mr. Harrison and the Mayor, and drilling by degree teams and etc. Mr. Bernard Allen of Cheshire told me that Cara was sick at Mrs. Bassetts in Whitneyville. 07\12\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This evening we went up to George Browne's where we had supper. Mrs. Allen left a note stating that something must be done about Cara. Wrote a letter to Frank and Fred about Cara in Cheshire. 07\13\1931 (Monday) This morning Mrs. Bernard Allen of Cheshire called to tell us of Cara who is sick in Cheshire. Roll and mary, Iva and my wife and I were present. We considered many things and gave her 7.00 to use for Cara. This afternoon Clarence Pierpont and I howed {hoed} pop corn and potatoes at the farm. 07\14\{1931} (Tuesday) Rained during the night and morning. Mary and I went to the farm and picked peas. Clarence came and we came home and worked on Frank's wagon body. 07\15\{1931} (Wednesday) Howed {Hoed} corn and potatoes and sprayed the potatoes and blasted a rock by the wall west of the barn. 07\16\{1931} (Thursday) Howed {Hoed} the lot north of the barn. 07\17\1931 (Friday) Got in two loads of hay and mowed a piece of clover North of the barn. This evening Mary telephoned Mrs. Bernard Allen in Cheshire, who told us that Cara sat up a little yesterday. She (Mary) telephoned Dr. Hayes and he said that Cara is recovering from liver trouble. 07\18\{1931} (Saturday) Cloudy and rain all day. Clarence and I worked on the wagon body. Late Frank came from Kent and called. He was on his way to Storrs to get his family who have been there two weeks. 07\19\1930 {1931} (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. Mary and I called at Wm. Service place and got Rolland and Mary Jenner and took them to church. This day the Southern New England Telephone Co. began using the dial sistem {system} of calling. 07\20\1931 (Monday) Mowed the lot in front of the barn, and got in the clover. 07\21\{1931} (Tuesday) Got in the hay mowed yesterday, and this afternoon went to Fred Pierpont's funeral, which was held at Alderson's undertaking rooms on Central Ave. He was buried in the New Pine Grove Cemetery. I later went to town and did some errands. 07\22\{1931} (Wednesday) This morning at 9 o'clock, Roland and Mary Jenner, with Mary and I left for West Simsbury to visit brother Frank. We went by way of East Farms, Marion, Plantsville, Southington, Plainville, Farmington, Avon, Simsbury to West Simsbury, 35 miles. We found Frank quite well but Gussie sick in bed with the lumbags. We carried our dinner and stayed till fine d.s.t.{??} then came home through Canton, Cherry Park, Unionville, Copper Mine, Bristol and Wolcott, reaching home about 6.30. 07\23\{1931} (Thursday) Worked in the garden at the farm, unloaded a load of hay and got ready to cut east of the farm. 07\24\{1931} (Friday) Mowed around Fort Dunlop and South and West of it and got it in. Did hand mowing in the North East part of the lot. 07\25\{1931} (Saturday) This morning I went out to the farm and Clarence Pierpont and I planted some soft turnips, "as the old saying is," "Sow your turnips the twenty-|fifth of July, wet or dry." We then mowed all that we could in the lower lot with the machine. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 07\26\{1931} (Sunday) Mary and I atended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. I saw by the paper to day that they are to discontinue the New Haven trolley cars next fall and run busses. 07\27\{1931} (Monday) Nearly finished haying in the barn lot to day. Weather very hot. Recived {Received} 20.00 from Frank to pay on account for wagon body. 07\28\{1931} (Tuesday) One of the hottest days I ever knew. Thermometer 100ø in shade, 120ø in sun, after noon. Was mowind {mowing} on the hill at East Farms and stoped {stopped} as I though that the ox would stop on account of the heat. 07\29\{1931} (Wednesday) Cradled my oats and mowed the clover on the hill to day and got the clover in. Weather very hot, not so bad as yesterday 98 in shade, 106 in sun, but there was a breeze. In the evening we had a shower that cooled the weather some. Early this morning dogs got into the chicken yard and killed two hens and three chickens. Mary went to Quassapang with Margaret and others. 07\30\{1931} (Thursday) This forenoon Clarence and I made a lot of links and {?????} for the Playground at Mill Plain. Then we mowed the lawns and beside the walk on the Frost Road. I went to town and deposited money in the DIme Savings Bank. They told me that there was only six accounts there older than mine. My first deposit was in 1871. 07\31\{1931} (Friday) To day we raked, bound and got the ots {oats} in and mowed the west end of the young orchard on the hill. 08\01\1931 (Saturday) Hot day. Clarence and I mowed the young orchard on the hill, and got in all ofthe hay. 08\02\{1931} (Sunday) Mary and I with sister Mary Jenner attended service at Mill Plain Church. This afternoon we called on Char Tuttle and John Todd's folks. 08\03\1931 (Monday) Clarence and I mowed and raked the back yard this morning and then made a large Kings bolt{??} for De Wit Cole of Wolcott. Then worked on four heavy horses for Calvary Cemetery. This day has been very hot, 94ø in the shade. This evening we had a heavy thunder shower with much lightening. Last night when we returned from John R. S. Todd's, we found a four quart measure filled with round clams, oysters and mussels. On enquirey {enquiry} we found from Jessie Pierpont that Frank and family of Kent went down to Short Beach Saturday and stayed over night and started for home about 4.30 and stoped {stopped} here and left the food. When we found them, I made a hot fire and we cooked mussels and had a nice supper. 08\04\1931 (Tuesday) Finished making four horses for the Cemetery. Ray called this evening and told me about Ford cars. 08\05\1931 (Wednesday) Finished my haying at East Farms to day. This evening I went to see Mr. Fraser about buying 50 tons of soft coal for the Mill Plain Church, and went to the Church and saw Mr. Gold about some supplies he wished me to purches {purchase}. 08\06\{1931} (Thursday) This morning I ordered a lot of goods of Charles Templeton for Mill Plain Union Church. Clarence an {and} I worked on Frank's wagon body. This forenoon I put the back bumper on my Packard car. 08\07\{1931} (Friday) Hottest day, 118ø in sun, 100ø in shade. Clarence and I worked on Franks wagon body. Ray took my Packard to see what they would allow for a new{?} car. 08\08\{1931} (Saturday) Worked on Frank's wagon body. 08\09\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mrs. Coe officiated. Mary and I went up to Charles Tuttles. He wasn't at home. Saw Mr. and Mrs. Seymour there. 08\10\1931 (Monday) Worked on wagon body. This morning I went to the farm. Clarence and I unloaded a load of hay, howed {hoed} turnips and picled one half bushel of cucumbers, .75. Ray telephoned this noon that he had sold my Packard. I ordered of the Burns Coal Co. 50 tons of soft coal for 7.25 per ton for the Mill Plain Union Church. Morris Henry called this morning, having just returned from Detroit. Hand't seen him before in eleven years. 08\11\{1931} (Tuesday) Rained all day. Clarence and I worked on Wagon Body. 08\12\{1931} (Wednesday) Rained all day. Clarence and I worked on the wagon body. This evening Ruth, Ray, Mary and I went to the Ford Auto Station and looked at cars. After which, we went through the new telephone building, corner of Grand and State Sts. 08\13\{1931} (Thursday) Worked on the wagon body. Weather hot. Hazel Pierpont Jaoby came to Maple Hill from her home in Cuba last Tuesday. 08\14\{1931} (Friday) Worked on wagon body and finished it. Ready for painitng. 08\15\{1931} (Saturday) Painted wagon body. Then went to the farm and brought back a bushel of cucumbers, corn and tomatoes. Weather very warm. 08\16\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Edgar Bell of New Haven officiated. Called on Charles Tuttle and Bert Frisbie. Wrote Miss Jackson. 08\17\{1931} (Monday) Cleaned out the stable and {????} four loads to the orchard on the hill. Annie Pierpont, Mary and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson called on me at the farm and talked about the springs that furnishes the Eanos{??} Pierpont house with water. 08\18\{1931} (Tuesday) Finished painting Frank's wagon body. Went to the farm and picked beans and moved the old haystack. Wrote Frank that the wagon body is ready. 08\19\{1931} (Wednesday) Mary and I went to Bristol this forenoon. We went firs {first} to the Bristol Nerseries {Nuseries} and saw Mildred Byrd and while Mary visited there, I went to the Ford service station and looked over Ford cars and bargained to turn in my Packard for 100.00 and pay 491.00 and get a Ford Runabout{?} Am{?} to go tomorow and pay the money and get the car. 08\20\1931 {Thursday} This morning I went to the Dimes Saving Bank and drew two hundred and forty dollars and then went to the Waterbury Savings Bank and drew 250.00. Came home and with Mary in our Packard car went to Redferns girage {garage} in Bristol where we left the Packard for 100.00 and paid 491.50 and got a De Lux {Delux} Ford Roadster. We had the necessary transfer papers drawn and then drove the car to Mildred's at the Bristol Nuseries and then came home. I went to the State Office at Benedict St. and had the transfer regestered {registered} This afternoon I went to East Farms and mowed in Mr. Gretter's lot. 08\21\{1931} (Friday) Clarence and I mowed Mr. Hazelhurst's lot with the machine. We made a hay rigging. Went to Cheshire and bought 4 sticks of 2" x 3", 6' long. Wm. Gillette, Iva and Louis called this eve to see the new car. 08\22\1931 (Saturday) Clarence Pierpont and I got in the hay on Mr. Hazelhurst's lot. I mowed some by hand. Ray and Ruth came this evening to see the new car. 08\23\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Paul Grobill preached. This afternoon Mary and I took our new Ford Runabout and went to Charles Tuttle's corner and there turned and went over Wolcott Hill and home. 08\24\{1931} (Monday) Mowed the remainder of Mr. Gretter's swamp at East Farms. Clarence helped. Did blacksmith work for Ed Scott. 08\25\{1931} (Tuesday) Mowed and raked hay at East Farms. Clarence helped, .75. Frank came for the wagon body. The price I gave him was 47.88. He already gave me 20.00 and says that there is 25.00 more due me. But he brought and gave me 2 good iron barrels, 1 side hill plow, 3 porcelin {porcelain} lined iron pots, 2 yellow pine sticks 3" x 4" - 4' long, a lot of white oak boards 14' long, 2 oak sticks 6 x 8 - 12" and 18' long, a lot of 2" x 8" x 10" white oak plank, a bag of sheep manure, a tub of salt, 2 chairs, parts of a reaper, etc., etc. I loaned him an anville {anvil} on which I cut in C.S. Miller. 1885, the year I got it of Dennis Peck out on the Plank Road. 08\26\1931 (Wednesday) Clarence and I got in 3 loads of hay. We then came home and piled the lumber that Frank brought yesterday under the shed and put the other goods away. This evening Ray came and put the battery in my new car and all is working well. 08\27\{1931} (Thursday) This day has been damp and rainy. I mowed in Charles Wilkensbach's lot and in Harold Pierpont's lot. A family is moving into the Schewster house at East Farms. 08\28\{1931} (Friday) Clarence and I got in three loads of hay, put two on the stack. 08\29\1931 (Saturday) Mowed in the swamp. Rained at noon. Went to town this afternoon. Ray called this evening. 08\30\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Edgar Bell officiating. This afternoon Mary and I went in my new Ford car to Woodbury and visited Miss Anna Pierpont. 08\31\{1931} (Monday) Got in three loads of hay and mowed some. Mr. Leslie W. Case of Tarrytown on the Hudson called at the farm looking for information concerning Justus {Justice} Pick of Wolcott. 09\01\{1931} (Tuesday) Mowed and got in one load of hay. The called from the Waterbury Republican and took pictures of the ox cart and hay with Clarence and Sonny{??}. Wanted information of the Cemetery. 09\02\1931 (Wednesday) Finished getting hay in the swamp East of the Cemetery. This finishes my haying. Frank and Mr. Patterson called at the farm this afternoon. Rained hard this evening. 09\03\{1931} (Thursday) Clarence and I painted my Ford truck. Weather has been damp and rained some. 09\04\{1931} (Friday) This morning Mary and I left at about 9.30 for Kent in my Ford Runabout. Went through Middlebury, Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater and New Milford, reached Kent at noon. The people of Kent were having a fair, and this afternoon was Firemen's Day. There were Companies present from Patterson, Doverplains, and Steelworks N.Y. and from Terryville, Watertown, Plainville, New Milford and Kent. They had a fine parade, hoselaying, races, etc. In the evening they had games of push ball and exibition {exhibition} of throwing water, etc. 09\05\1931 (Saturday) This morning I went with Frank and a man and at the Fair Ground we were joined by two firemen and they rolled up the hose that was left the night before and gathered the large hose onto the reel and took it to the Fire house and hung it up to dry. They then cleaned the trucks and engine, coats, boats etc. We then had dinner and then atended a Democratic Rally at the Fair Grounds where there were man speakers, including Govoner {Governor} Cross of Conn. and Governor Rosevelt {Roosevelt} of New York. They expected a great crowd of people from over the state but less that {than} two thousand attended which was a great disapointment {disappointment} to the Fair people as they had a great amount of food left. I had an oppertunity {opportunity} to shake hands with Gov. Rosevelt {Roosevelt}. 09\06\1931 (Sunday) The weather these days has been perfect. We attended service at the Kent Congregational Church. This was Comunion {Communion} Sunday. Frank is a deacon. The congregation was rather small. After dinner, Frank took us all in his buic {Buick?} car, 4 people and 4 children and we went 35 miles to Proughkeepsee {??} where we crossed the Hudson on the new suspension bridge over 3000 ft. long which cast over 6,000,000 dollars. We then went to Highland and crossed back again of {on} the ferry. The cost for our party was .75 cts on the ferry and 1.40 on the bridge. We reached home before dark. 09\07\{1931} (Monday) Labor day. The Brundage family planed {planned} to hold a picnic at Kent Falls, but Frank told them that there would be a crowd there, and a place in Macedonia Park would be much better. So they had it there. There were about 18 people prsent and all had a good time eating rost {roast} corn, rost {roast} meat, onion and other things that were nice. We then came to the Kent school and looked over the buildings and climbed up the bell tower. Then we went to the Fair grounds and saw a jirow {gyro} plain {plane} take off. 09\08\{1931} (Tuesday) We left Frank's house at about 9 this morning and came to Cornwall Bridge then to Goshen where we stoped {stopped} and saw Lyman Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] folks a time then on through Litchfield to East Morris down through the Branch to Reynolds Bridge to Waterville, and over by Lakewood{??}, home, reaching here at noon. This afternoon we attended Daniel Squire's funeral at the Mill Plain Church. He was 80 years old. 09\09\{1931} (Wednesday) Did blacksmith work and varnished my delivery truck this forenoon and did odd jobs about home. Mary sent a letter to Irving telling him of Charles Logon of Tauntion{??}, Mass. This evening we called on Charles Tuttle. He did not go to New London last Sunday with the Mattatuck Drum Band, but he starts for St. Lewis tomorrow to visit his son Cyrus. 09\10\1931 (Thursday) Put the truck togather {together} and went out to the farm and picked beans, etc. 09\11\{1931} (Friday) Very hot day, 96ø in shade, 116ø in sun. Gathered garden vegetables at the farm and dug about apple trees. Clarence, Ted and Sonny helped. 09\12\1931 (Saturday) A little cooler. Was at East Farms this forenoon careing {caring} for the young apple trees on the hill. Clarence helped. This afternoon took the little truck to Mr. Garthwaits on Lillie Brook Hill in Wolcott an {and} had the cororator {???} adjusted. Ray and Ruth called this evening. They have a new little dog, three months old. 09\13\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This P.M. called on Edgar Upson and John Todd and went to the North East Cemetery in Wolcott. 09\14\1931 (Monday) To day I pulled weeds and cultivated about the young appletrees on the hill. Just finished when a shower came. I got to the barn and after the shower cultivated the row of appletrees North East of the barn. I then picked half a basket of ripe tomatoes and a doz. ears of evergreen corn and three mush melons. Then drove up the Pierpont Road and in the Meriden Road to Raymond's and gave them the vegetables except 2 melons and 6 ears of corn. They gave me a bottle of fine root beer that Ruth had made which tasted good as I was very warm. My clothing was all swat {sweat} through. 09\15\1931 (Tuesday) Worked about home all day. Weather was very hot. This afternoon Clarence Pierpont and I put a roof of new corrigated {corrugated} iron on the chicken house and got ready to put one on the Fire Engine house. 09\16\1931 (Wednesday) Clarence and I finished putting the iron roofs on and then painted them. 09\17\{1931} (Thursday) Worked about home and went to town to day. Went to the farm and looked after things there, and finished picking beans, etc. Had the barn at the farm insured for $900.00 through angency of Judd & Puffer. 09\18\1931 (Friday) Wrote a letter to Mr. Leslie V. Case, Tarrytown on the Hudson. Finished making two picture frames and repaired my auto and did other odd jobs about home. 09\19\{1931} (Saturday) Nailed the shingles on the roof of my house on account of the old nails rusting away so that the shingles are blowing off. Drove nearly six pounds of nails and only done a small part of the roof. 09\20\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. Called on Winfield Norton this P.M. Ray and Ruth left a lot of oysters that they got at Milford. 09\21\{1931} (Monday) Did several jobs this morning and nailed on the roof. Ordered 15 gals. of roof paint and bought 12 lbs. of shingle nails. Wrote a letter to Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt], Vancouver, Wash. 09\22\{1931} (Tuesday) Nailed shingles and repaired the roof. This is Mary's birthday born Sept. 22, 1860. Received letters and cards and presents from Clyde, Irving, Ruth Brundage and others. This has been the hottest Sept 22nd known for many years. 09\23\{1931} (Wednesday) Finished repairing the roof. Ray called this evening and we picked six baskets of Concord grapes. {09\24 no entry} 09\25\{1931} (Friday) Yesterday morning Mary, Jean Northrop, a girl friend, and I went in my Ford car to the Springfield Fair. We stayed all night at a house first, this side of the bridge over the Westfield River. Mrs. Everett H. Clark, No. 12 Springfield St. Agawam{??}. We left there at five this afternoon and reached home at 7.25 having traveled 53 miles. 09\26\1931 (Saturday) Wet all day. I dug some potatoes and worked at the farm. 09\27\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This is my birthday. Seventy three years ago to day I first saw the light of day in a house that stood on the West side of Cherry Street where the Universalist Church now stands. Margaret invited Mary and I to her house to dinner and Raymond and Ruth togather {together} with Rolland Jenner and sister Mary were there. 09\28\{1931} (Monday) Was out to the farm, digging potatoes most of the day. Put six bushels in the bin tonight. Miss Pickett's sister Ella came today. 09\29\1930 {1931} (Tuesday) Worked all day at blacksmith work. The City men are laying a 30" sewer pipe North on the Frost Road starting at the brook above my house. 09\30\{1931} (Wednesday) Dug potatoes at the farm. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 10\01\{1931} (Thursday) Dug potatoes, cut corn etc. at farm, cut the buckwheat. A man was hurt in the new sewer. A big stone caved down and caught him. 10\02\{1931} (Friday) Finished digging the potatoes. Dug eleven and 1\2 bushels. Clarence Pierpont, Ted Wilson and Charles Wikinsbach helped pick them up. 10\03\{1931} (Saturday) This forenoon I drew two loads of corn stalks from the hill and stacked them up. Ted Wilson and Clarence Piepront helped me. This afternoon Mary and I went to Wolcott Fair. The attendance seemed much smaller than usual. 10\04\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon we went to Prospect and saw Halsey Clark. Came home by the Brackett Cemetery. 10\05\{1931} (Monday) Finished cutting field corn at the farm to day. Brought home a load of buckwheat and a load of vegtables {vegetables}. 10\06\{1931} (Tuesday) Election day. Frank T. Hayes, democratic nominee for Mayor and George Tracey, Republican. Mary and I went to a store corner of East Main and Albion{??} Sts. and voted the Republican ticket. I repaired an iron plow beam for Ed Scott and worked about home most of the day. 10\07\{1931} (Wednesday) Painted the roof on my house. Hayes was elected Mayor by a majority of over 6,000 votes. Rained this afternoon. 10\08\1931 (Thursday) Painted on the roof of my house. The City men cleaned out the main ditches in my lot. Rained this afternoon. 10\09\{1931} (Friday) Painted on roof of house. 10\10\1931 (Saturday) Finished painting the roof of my house, the first coat. 10\11\{1931} (Sunday) This morning Ray, Ruth, Mary and I went to West Simsbury to visit brother Frank. We stoped {stopped} in Farmington and attended service at the Farmington Congregational Church after which we drove to Franks where we found him and is wife quite well. At 3.30 we started for home, came through Canton, Unionville, Bristol, and Wolcott. We traveled in my new Ford Roadster. 10\12\{1931} (Monday) Painted on the roof of the house, second coat. 10\13\1931 (Tuesday) Finished painting the roof of my house with more green shingle stain. This evening sister Mary Rolland Jenner, Mary and I went to William Gillette's to supper and to talk over arrangements for the Somers Reunion Thanksgiving Day. Ordered two appletrees, one Baldwin and one Grovenstone frm Mrs. Winchell @ 1.00 each. 10\14\{1931} (Wednesday) I went across the street to Walter Beebie's girage {garage} and he gave me about five gallons of used mtor oil which I painted on the shingles of my wood house. When I used shingle stain, a gallon only covered eight feet square on account of the shingles being very dry, so I covered them with oil and will see if that makes any difference. I have ordered ten gallons of stain to finish the wood house and do the girage {garage}. This evening Mary and I attended the mens supper at the Mill Plain Church. 10\15\{1931} (Thursday) This day I worked about home all day, cleaned the toilet and painted the posts and gates to the chicken yard, etc. 10\16\1931 (Friday) Rained all the forenoon. Mary and I went to Hartford and I procured a license and and markers, No. 1799 which I have had for the past fifteen years, paid 16.00. Got home at noon and worked making a crate to fasten on the rear end of my Ford Runabout. Had twelve gallons of roof stain come to day. 10\17\{1931} (Saturday) Finished calf crate. Went to the farm and stacked the pop corn. Then painted the chicken yard fence and gates, etc. Ray and Ruth called as did she who was Elsie Jones of Cheshire, now Mrs., Doctor{??} Gill of Hartford. The Mattatuck Drum Band left this afternoon by bus for Hartford where they joined the Putnam Phalanx and leave this evening at 8 o'clock by special train for Yorktown where they are to take part in the exercises attending the sesquicentennial of the battle of Yorktown and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Those who went were, Drum Major, Pete Shea. Fifers, Charles Cass, James Phelan, Andrew Kitchenka, William Greenwood, Raymond Atkinson, Albert Atkinson, Franklin Browne, Bement{?} Wakelee, Robert Wakelee, Morris Tyler and Ralph Adams -11. Snare Drummers, Leland Garrigus (Leader), Howard Neal (Assistant Leader), Louvain Fox, Herman Gessert, Arthur Harrison, Fransis Kitchenka (quartermaster), Edgar Upson (Secretary), Ralph Pierpont, Louis Greenwood, and George Cass - 10. Bass Drummers, Paul Miller, John Garrigus, Marvin Wheeler (Treasurer) and Robert Probst. 10\18\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. A very fair congreagation. {10\19 no entry} 10\20\1931 (Tuesday) Yesterday forenoon Mary and I started for Kent. We went through Watertown, Bethlehem, Morris, Ramford, Warren and North Kent to Kent, where we found Frank and his family, all well. After we had eaten dinner, Frank took Dwight and I over to South America, N.Y. then to the Steel Works (a small village) where we arrived a little late to see the champion chopper of the Untied States cut an elm log 15" in diameter in two in one minute and 52 secons {seconds}. A local chopper choped {chopped} the same log in two in 4 minutes and 58 seconds. The champion, a tall slim man, 6' 2" tall would give anybody $50.00 that could chop a log in twice the time that it would take him to do it. H {He} used an ax that weighed six pounds. We returned through Amenia{?} Union stoping {stopping} at the large farm of Mr. Ray Dene where they were milking 68 cows, sending away to Bridgeport over 20 cans daily. We came over a high mountian and down a wild road throug {through} Macadonia Park. We ate supper and at 5.30, Frank and Elsie left for Danbury to attend a masonic meeting, leaving the children in our care. Tuesday morning, after breakfast, Frank and I lengthened out the reach of a new iron wagon he had bought, and put the body tha I had made on it which took till noon, after which we looded {loaded} a calf into a crate I had fastened on the back of my car and Mary and I left at two for home. We came by way of Swifts Bridge, Warren, Bautom{??}, Morris, Bethlehem and Watertown, reaching here about four. I took the calf to the farm and fed it, etc. 10\21\1931 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and cared for the stock after which I took my new car to Bristol to have it inspected, oiled etc. having run it over 500 miles. When I came home I stopped at Arthur Harrison's and had him tell all about the Mattatuck Drum Band at Yorktown, Va. where they passed in review before President Hoover and the French officers. 10\22\{1931} (Thursday) Painted the roofs of the wood house and the girage {garage} to day and husked corn the rest of the time at the farm. 10\23\{1931} (Friday) To day I was at the farm digging potatoes and picking up apples etc. 10\24\{1931} (Saturday) Finished painting the woodhouse and girage {garage} roofs and painted the blacksmith shop roof and water closet. 10\25\1931 (Sunday) This morning Ray, Ruth, Mary and I went in my new Ford car to Kent to take over a rope and post driver. We went through by Stale Road, Watertown, Bethlehem, Morris, Bantam, Woodville, Warren, Swifts Bridge, and Kent. We went to the Congregational Church where we attended service. Then we drove into Macedonia Park where we had dinner and where a thunder shower fell, after which we went to Franks and stayed till three o'clock when we started for home. Came through New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Woodbury, Middlebury and home. We met hundreds of autos on the road, reached home before dark. 42 miles going over, 45 coming back. 10\26\{1931} (Monday) This morning after repairing the truck I went to the farm. Took care of the stock and pulled beets and carrots till noon, then went to town to see about getting 100 communion glasses for the church. Came home, had dinner and sent out order to Lima{??}, Ohio for the glasses, then went to the farm and pulled carrots and husked corn. 10\27\1931 (Tuesday) This day I plowed along the North line fnce to prevent fire from spreading on my land. 10\28\{1931} (Wednesday) Cut brush and cleared along the North line fence and plowed to day. This P.M. with the help of the children, I husked a barrell {barrel} of corn. 10\29\{1931} (Thursday) Rained all day. I went to Prospect and looked over the Blackman PLace that Arthur Merriman has lately bought and William Garrigus and his sons Leland and John are making over for him. A new surfaced hard road is being built from the corner of Waterbury Road North towards Summit. 10\30\{1931} (Friday) Went to Dentist Brewster this morning and had one tooth pulled out and others repaired. After dinner, I took my Ford truck to Ed Garthwait's in Wolcott and had the ignition repaired. I repaired a wagon wheel for Ed Bronson and set the tire. 10\31\{1931} (Saturday) This morning I went to town and got some money to use. Then went to the farm and drew a load of manure up on the hill, and plowed a couple of furrows across the North end of the North West lot. 11\01\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went up to George Browne's and took a frame that I made for his commission as Judge of Wolcott. It rained hard while we were there, but on reaching home we found that there had been no rain here. 11\02\{1931} (Monday) Husked corn all day. 11\03\1931 (Tuesday) Will Service and I husked pop corn til the middle of the afternoon, when we took a load of manure up the hill and there got out stones. He worked from 8.30 to 5. 11\04\1931 (Wednesday) Will Service helped me from 8.30 to 5 in upper lot. He cut white birches, got out stones and grubbed up the ends where I plowed a strip twelve feet wide to prevent the fire from running onto my land. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 11\05\1931 (Thursday) This morning I sharpened two stone drills and one bull point for the unemployed men who are building a swimming pool on Mad River below the Mattatuck Co.'s dam at Homestead Avenue. They have built a loose stone dam across the river. I think that it will not be as high by spring or the fine playground on the West bank will ne washed out if we have generally have. I went to the farm and fed the stock, drew a load of manure on the hill, brought home a plow and put an extension on the mole board, then went to Church and got an order for lights, and Ivory soat {soap} then went to George Brown's in Wolcott and got Mary's hand bag. Then to Bessie Pierpont's and leftt he round robbin then to the farm and did the chores. 11\06\1931 (Friday) To day has been cold and windy. I plowed on the hill all day till 4 o'clock when I came home then went to the East End Hardware Store and bought 1 1\2 doz. Electric light bulbs for the Mill Plain Church. Went to Coultneys and bought 12 cakes of ivory soap for the Church. Mr. Gould, the sexton of the Church told me that it snowed in Wolcott this morning. 11\07\{1931} (Saturday) Very cold to day. I plowed on the hill till 3 o'clock. 11\08\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. This has been a nice day. Stayed home and finished writing an account of the early brass industry in Waterbury as I know. 11\09\1931 (Monday) Wm. Service came this morning to paper the hall and varnish it, etc. I raked up leaves in the yard, then filled my little truck with water and alcohol, and went to the farm and took care of the stock, drew a big load of manure up on the hill. Mr. Manual came and borrowed my heavy trypod {tripod} and block, three chains, 3 grab hooks, 2 drills, and a hand hammer. I mowed a lot of clump grass in the North West lot and drew it to where I am to plant oats. Then I spread it and two loads of manure and plowed some. Sonny Wilkensbach came and rode down the hill. When I was feeding the calf and Jasper, Margaret and three of her girls and two others came and several East Farms children came and they had a good time on the hay. 11\10\{1931} (Tuesday) I plowed on the hill all day. WIlliam Service worked in the front hall papering and repairing it. 11\11\{1931} (Wednesday) Armistice Day. Schools are closed. Wm. Service worked in the front hall. I finished plowing on the hill. 11\12\1931 (Thursday) This morning I sharpened 3 stone drills for the unemployed who are building a swimming pool on the Mad River about eight rods below the dam of the Mattatuck Manufacturing Company. William Service came to work in the front hall. I went to the farm and pulled and cut turnips and cleaned up the lower garden and plowed the greater part of it. 11\13\{1931} (Friday) This forenoon I plowed at the farm, came home, had dinner and filled the furnace{??} with water and then went to town. At 5.30 we went up to Rays' and had supper after which I read my paper on the Early Brass Industry of Waterbury. Ruth is to typewrite it. 11\14\{1931} (Saturday) Will Service and I wroked about home all day. 11\15\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph O. Todd officiated. Rained this morning. 11\16\1931 (Monday) This morning I went to the farm and drew manure on the pop corn piece and plowed the lower end of it. Will Service did not work. This evening I put new leaders in the electric stove. 11\17\{1931} (Tuesday) Plowed all day, finished the pop corn piece. This evening I poped {popped} a bushel of corn on the electric stove for the ladies fair at the Mill Plain Church. 11\18\{1931} (Wednesday) Did the chores at the farm and worked cleaning the Cemetery 5 hours. Went to the Womans Fair at the Mill Plain Church this evening. 11\19\1931 (Thursday) William Service and I worked putting in stakes for contour lines at the farm 5 1\2 hours. This evening we attended the fair at the church. 11\20\{1931} (Friday) Wet all day. I plowed a conture {contour} ditch across the pasture lot. Bent the beam of a small side hill plow, had to move several big stones that were in the line. 11\21\{1931} (Saturday) Plowed with Jasper the contour ditches I am making on the hill. This evening Will Gillette and Iva called. They brought Mary Jenner to see about the number of people that will attend Thanksgiving Dinner. 11\22\1931 (Sunday) This morning at 10 o'clock Marion Northrop was married to Haward Kraft by Rev. J. O. Todd at the Mill PLain Union Church. The best man, Floid {Floyd} Goodwin and Gene Northrop was the bridesmaid. Ray Miller and {? ?} Kraft were the ushers. Mary and I attended service at 10.45, this being Sunday. Forty eight years ago this day, Mary and I were married in the Old Mill Plain Chapel. We were the first to be married there. 11\23\1931 (Monday) William Service came at 8.30 this forenoon and we went to the farm and worked till 5 on the conour (3.00) ditch. Paid him this morning 2.20 for last Thursday. 11\24\{1931} (Tuesday) Will Service and I worked on conture {contour} ditch from 8.30 till 5 PM. 3.00 paid him 6.00 to night. I received the following by mail to day from the Literary Digest 354 - 360 Fourth Avenue N.Y. "This certifies that the stenciled address here imprinted is Charles S. Miller, 2271 E Main St. Waterbury, Conn. {??} January 1928-|29-|30-|31-|32 our official record that the person named is a subscriber for The Literary Digest and as such has been allotted the right to one complete 25 volume Set of the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Knowledge as a Gift after signing the subjoined agreement to continue as a subscriber for The Literary Digest for three years beyond the time to which his or her subscription is now paid, The Literary Digest. ----do not detach---- Acceptance To be signed and mailed The Literary Digest on or before Dec. 28, 1931 354-360 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Certainly I accept your promised gift of the 25 vloume Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia of the Wolrd's Knowledge. I am a subscriber for the Literary Digest and will continue my subscription for at least 3 more years. I will pay the regular subscription price (4.00 a year) for the additional three years as follows: $2.00 when you notify me that my set of the Encyclopedia is ready to ship to me, and $2.00 a month for five months thereafter. I will add 90 cents to my first remittance to cover the cost of packing and preparing carriage costs on the Encyclopedia. Name Charles S. Miller Address 2271 East Main St. Date Nov. 24, 1931 Post Office Waterbury State Connecticut I have signed the above and it is ready to mail. 11\25\{1931} (Wednesday) Worked all day on the upper ditch. 11\26\1931 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. This morning at 7.00, Simon Korting of 116 East Farm St. came and bought Old Jasper the ox and we went to the farm and he loaded him into a truck and took him away to butcher. I filed and repaired a long crassent{??} saw for Frank Welton and made a set of gate irons for Mr. Kunkle{??} the druggest {druggist}. At noon, Mary and I went to the Woodtick Chapel to the Somers family renuion. There were 41 present. 11\27\{1931} (Friday) Began snowing about 8 this morning. I intended to go to Goshen buit gave it up on account of the snow and went to the farm and worked all day on the level ditch. Ruth and her three boys stayed here last night and started for Storrs this afternoon. 11\28\{1931} (Saturday) I finished the level ditch at noon. This afternoon I got the material up for a fence to be built across the lane above the spring. Ray came this morning and got the truck to draw sand. This afternoon I went to Montambeaus{??} and got my battery that they charged, paid .75. 11\29\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Went to George Browne's this afternoon. 11\30\1931 (Monday) To day I put in a new furnice {furnace} smoke pipe and repaired the furnace in the cellar and did several other jobs. 12\01\{1931} (Tuesday) I went to Brookfield to look up the town records regarding Daniel Jackson. 12\02\{1931} (Wednesday) Built a fence across the lane at the farm above the spring to keep the calf from going up in the pasture. 12\03\{1931} (Thursday) Made a gate in the fence above the spring and took the mowing machine to pieces and put the pieces up in the barn. Nice weather to day. 12\04\{1931} (Friday) Mary and I called on Mrs. Fessenden{??} Ives of Goshen and also at the house of Mr. Harry Green at West Goshen. It rained hard the greater part of the time. 12\05\{1931} (Saturday) Cool to day. I went to the farm this forenoon and put up the mowing machines over head and did other odd jobs. Ordered a plate of iron 1\8" thick, 10" x 14" {??} the Hotchkiss Company. 12\06\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiating. This afternoon Mary and I went to East Farms and to the top of Southington Mountain and North past Hitchcock's Lake to the Bergin Road and through Woodtick to George Brownes, but no one was at home. We then called on John Wakelee and wife Rose. 12\07\{1931} (Monday) Raked up and got off leaves from about the house this forenoon till the wind began to blow hard. This afternoon I cleaned out a piece of the middle ditch till Charles Welton brought a single hand cross cut saw to be filed. I went to the farm and fed Teddy. 12\08\1931 (Tuesday) Very cold this morning. Ice froze thick so that boys are skating on the upper pond at Reedville. I began making a small stone boat to draw off small stones with Teddy. 12\09\1931 (Wednesday) Went to the farm and cared for Teddy, when it began snowing and continued till night when it turned to rain. I worked on the stone boat most of the day. Wrote to Clyde this evening and to Fred at Tarrytown. 12\10\{1931} (Thursday) Snow all gone. Cleaned the chicken coop and repaired it and did blacksmith work. Kerte{??} called this evening and I loaned him copy of list of Mattatuck Drum Band. 12\11\1931 (Friday) Rained most of the day. Repaired my good side hill plow and did odd jobs about home. Sent letter to Clyde containing list of Battery Mill at Cotton Hollow. 12\12\{1931} (Saturday) Cut up cherry tree at the ditches at the farm. 12\13\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd preached. Rained all day. 12\14\{1931} (Monday) Wm. Service and I bolted planks for St. Joseph's Cemetery, five hours. I paid Will 2.00. We then went to East Farms and worked in the Cemetery three hours. Set stone and brought home Mellissa Patton's stone to be repaired. 12\15\1931 (Tuesday) Weather some cold, a few flakes of snow fell. William Service and I worked at East Farms Cemetery. We reset Mr. and Mrs. Enoc {Enoch} W. Frost's grave stones. They were large, heavy stones and we set them deep in the ground. Mrs. Fred Pierpont, widow, telephoned this evening that Walter Pierpont died this evening at six o'clock at the Waterbury Hospital. 12\16\1931 {Wednesday} William Service and I worked in East Farms Cemetery setting the William Frosts family grave stones. 12\17\1931 {Thursday} William Service and I worked in East Farms Cemetery resetting grave stones. 12\18\1931 (Friday) Wm. Service and I set grave stones in East Farms Cemetery all day. The weather has been mild for this time of the year. 12\19\1931 (Saturday) Wm. Service and I set grave stones in East Farms Cemetery. The weather has been clowdy {cloudy} and warm, no frost in the ground. Before six, I went to the Railway Express Agency and got a package which Emmma L. Jackson of Redlands, Calf. sent me. 12\20\{1931} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church and Vesper service at 4. 12\21\1931 (Monday) William Service and I worked in the East Farms Cemetery. 12\22\1931 (Tuesday) This is the longest night and the shortest day. Has been warm and rainy all day. Will Service and I repaired broken grave stones. I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got interest of my Mill Plain Church Bonds, 42.00. I then went to Benedict St. and got license for my truck, 15.00. 12\23\1931 (Wednesday) This has been the warmest 23rd of December in over 40 years, the paper stated to night. It has been above 55ø all day. William Service and I repaired broken grave stones all day. The Merchant's Trust Co. closed their doors to day. Great excitement. 12\24\1931 (Thursday) Warm day. Will Service and I worked at grave stones till after noon. I worked about home this afternoon. 12\25\1931 (Friday) Christmas Day. All of the Miller families excepting Clyde's and Irving's met at Ray's house on Capitol Avenue and had a dinner and Christmas tree, and most of them received many presents. The weather was warm this morning but grew windy and colder towards night. 12\26\1931 (Saturday) William Service and I repaired the grave stone of Seabury Pierpont in my wheel house, and then took it to the East Farms Cemetery and set it up. The weather was some cold. When we came home, we went round by Ray's and got table, chairs, etc. 12\27\1931 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. The bell that Mr. Austin Pierpont gave to the Mill Plain Chapel years ago and I hung the same in the tower, was placed in the blfry {belfry} of the new church last week by Julius Cole and others. 12\28\1931 (Monday) This morning I took the striking hammer of the Church Bell to Henry Beckwith to have him weld it togather {together} where they broke it yesterday. I then went out to the farm and drew down two small loads of wood with Teddy, and worked about home the rest of the time. Thawed a little. 12\29\1931 (Tuesday) To day has been cool. Wm. Service and I repaired grave foot stones till 10.45 and worked the rest of the day sharpening picks for the Calvary Cemetery. Aunt Ellen telephoned this noon that she and Will went to Simsbury yesterday and visited Frank. They found Gussie sick in bed. 12\30\1931 (Wednesday) William Service and I trimmed the big Norway Spruce tree that stands in the South East corner of East Farms Cemetery. 12\31\1931 (Thursday) Wm. Service and I trimmed trees in East Farms Cemetery. This morning I sharpened drills and repaired the tolling hammer of the Mill Plain Church Bell. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Ferriss{?} Turkenton{??} of East Morris called. //end of 1931 entries// [CSM Journal for 1932] 01\01\1932 (Friday) New Years Day. Wind from North East and turned colder and snowed at 3.30 about 1" deep turning to rain at night. I filed a large circular saw this morning, ground axes etc. This afternoon, went to East Farms Cemetery and helped Wm. Service trim out trees and load a load of wood. 01\02\1932 (Saturday) Snowed and rained all day. I repaired Mary's writing desk. Went to town and bought a horse skin coat at Sears & Roebucks and did several other errands. Came home, had dinner and slept till three. Then did odd jobs and went out to the farm and cared for Teddy, etc. 01\03\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain union Church. Rev. Joseph Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to George Browne's in Wolcott. He is now judge of the new incorporated Wolcott Cart. 01\04\1932 (Monday) Worked about home. Took my truck to Henry Beckwith and had him grind in the valves and clean the ignition and give it general repairs. I made a pair of rough shafts{??} for the small sled to brake {break} Teedy in at the farm. 01\05\1931 {1932} (Tuesday) William Service and I most of the day trimmed the large Norway Spruce tree on the East side of the gate at the East Farms Cemetery. 01\06\1931 {1932} (Wednesday) Rained all day. Saw Mort Piepront this morning. He is building a manure shed at his barn. Than I worked at the farm till after noon. Came home and went to town and bought some tire chains for my new car, came home and fitted some old chains to my truck. 01\07\1932 (Thursday) William Service and I trimmed the large tree West of the gate and the large double tree on the farther side nearly opposite the gate. The weather has been mild, thawed all day. 01\08\1932 (Friday) William Service and I trimmed Norway Spruce trees in the East Farms Cemetery to day. Weather has been moist, and some snow and rain. I brought home the heaviest load I ever had on my little truck. It was green wood. 01\09\1932 (Saturday) We finished trimming trees in East Farms Cemetery this afternoon. Snow and wet most of the day. Warren Hitchcock and Luly Hassett were married at Hartford this afternoon. 01\10\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. 01\11\1932 (Monday) This day has been cold. I drew out a few small sled loads of manure and put it on the lower lot East of the garden. Cut up a few branches in the Cemetery. 01\12\1932 (Tuesday) To day Mary and I went to Bristol to have my little Ford car oiled and inspected having run it 1000 miles. We went by way of Waterville, Thomaston and Terryville, had dinner at Arthur Birds. Rained some at noon. We came home through Forestville, Plainville, Southington, Plantsville and Marion. After we got home I went to town. This evening Mr. Bernard Allen and Mrs. Pease of Cheshire called and talked about Cara and wanted money to pay for her support. 01\13\1932 (Wednesday) I drew in four loads of wood from the East Farms Cemetery. 01\14\1932 (Thursday) This has been the warmest day for this time of year I ever saw, 72ø at noon. I have worked in the East Farms Cemetery all day. I gave William Service's bill of 53.90 to Morton & Pierpont, Treasurer and he gave me a check which I gave to Will to night. 01\15\1932 (Friday) This morning Mary and I went to West Simsbury to visit Brother Frank. We found him and Gussy quite well considering their age. He is getting a big wood pile up and burning brush etc. while she is about the house. 01\16\1932 (Saturday) This day has been warm. I worked leaning the East Farms Cemetery and getting the brush out of it. Gave Howard Neal $2.00 to buy a record book for the Cemetery association. 01\17\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went up to Woodtick and saw Charles S. Tuttle. Leland and John Garrigus were there making araingements {arrangements} to go to New York with the Mattatuck Drum Band next Friday. 01\18\1932 (Monday) This morning I spread a bag of sheep manure on the front lawn that Frank brought from Kent that came from England a long time ago. I then went to East Farms and burned some brush at the Cemetery but the wind began to blow hard and I gave it up. I then took Teddy hitched into a small sled and went to the young orchard on the hill and spread manure and also in the Barn lot. Then I went to Ed Scott's to see if he knew of Cara. From his place I went East and saw Fritz Hanson working on the highway. He told me many things. I then went through Mixville and on over Prospect Hill and home at dark. 01\19\1932 (Tuesday) Went to town to straighten out my account with the Catholic Cemeteries Inc. Then went to the farm and did odd jobs about the barn. Saw Mrs. William Garrigus and Mrs. Fogg in the Cemetery. Mrs. Garrigus said that she would give toward a $1,000 fund to maintain the ground. I went to the sub station and got a Post Office Money Order for $12.90 which is paid to the Literary Digest of 354-360 Fourth Avenue New York. I enclose $12.90 payment in full for three years subscription for the Literary Digest ($12.00) and packing and carriage charges (90 cents) on the new Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia in 25 volumes cloth bound. In consideration of this cash payment, you are to send me free, the art print of 'The Presidents of the Untied States Signed". 01\20\1932 (Wednesday) I raked up leaves about the house all day. Mr. Henry Cooley helped me about two hours. Weather has been warm with some wind. This evening Mary and I went to the Mill Plain Gym to an entertainment given by the Ladies Union. 01\21\1932 (Thursday) Raked and cleaned the East Farms Cemetery till after noon when it began to snow. Then I burned brush till night. 01\22\1932 (Friday) Burned two big piles of brush at the East Farms Cemetery and raked over the South East corner of the ground. This morning at ten o'clock, I went to M. E. Pierpont's house and saw the Mattatuck Drum Band load into a large New England Bus and start for New York where tonight they will participate in the Beaux Arts Ball to be held in the Waldorf Astoria ballroom. The drum band and the Putnam Phalanx will have a prominent roll to play in the "Pagent {Pageant} of Old New York And The First Inaugural Ball of The United States of America". The pagent {pageant} is being staged as a part of the George Washington bi-|centennial celebration. More than 500 socially prominent New Yorkers will participate in the pageant. Oscar Todd and John Fulgham of Wolcott were found guilty by a jury in the Superior Court yesterday on a charge of bribery and are to be sentenced Tuesday. Bail was refused and they were taken to New Haven jail. 01\23\1932 (Saturday) Wet and rain all day. This morning I made hooks for the doors of the barn at the farm, and then went there and put them on. Then worked in the Cemetery cleaning it up. It rained hard and I came home and repaired the truck and did other work. 01\24\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went up to John Wakelee's in Wolcott. There we met Mr. Major Wiliiam Besse and wife of Torrington{?} 01\25\1932 (Monday) Finished cleaning the Cemetery this afternoon. Then cleaned out the spring that supplies the iron trough by the road. The weather has been rather mild. 01\26\1932 (Tuesday) Painted the North boundary wire fence on the hill to day, 54 ft. of it. Oscar Todd and John B. Fulgham, officials found guilty last Thursday by a jury in the Superior Court on a charge of bribery, were each given a suspended term of one to two years in the state prison this morning by Judge Frederick M. Peasley. Each of the men was also fined $300 and costs. Sent pictures of diger to Irving this morning. 01\27\1932 (Wednesday) Rained this fournoon {forenoon}. I filed saws, made rake handle and did odd jobs about home. 01\28\1932 (Thursday) This forenoon I painted wire fence on the hill. This afternoon I attended a stockholders meeting at the Waterbury Rolling Mills. They pay no dividends this year on account of the depression. {01\29 no entry} 01\30\1932 (Saturday) Yesterday morning Mary and I went to West Simsbury to visit brother Frank. We left there about 2.30 to come home, but the rain was falling and freezing as it fell, and the roads were very slippery. I put on chains and started over the cross road to {????????} but before I was half way there, the car skidded into a soft{?} gutter and I had a hard time getting it out, and then turned back to Franks where we staid over night and started home about eleven to day. We reached home about one, and I worked here the rest of the day. Got pension check of $25.00 cut from 71.50 which it has been since 1924. 01\31\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Howland of Middlebury preached. Weather has been cold. 02\01\1932 (Monday) Worked about home most of the day, and typed a long letter. 02\02\1932 (Tuesday) Snowed the greater part of the day, ran the typewriter a spell. 02\03\1932 (Wednesday) This forenoon I typed a long letter that was writen by Josiah Atkins to his wife in Wolcott in 1781. Josiah was in Camp in the Highlands of New York. This afternoon I went out to the farm and drew out manure with Teddy. I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 02\04\1932 (Thursday) Got out manure with Teddy most of the day. The City men are blasting out a ledge of hard rock opposite my house to widen the street. 02\05\1932 (Friday) Snow on the ground 10 in. deep. It fell last night, first time I have had to dig out pathes this winter. Have been digging the most of the day. The state roads were plowed out when we got up this morning as was the trolley roads. They were hard to plow out, as it rained first and froze, then hail and sleet and snow. Many autos got stuck fast and staid out all night and many could not get them out this morning as the snow was heavy and the cars could not push through it. I went to town this afternoon. 02\06\1932 (Saturday) I worked in the wheelhouse most of the time to day rigging up a Blackmere rotory {rotary} pump. Aunt Imegene {Imogene} Somers died this evening, aged 90. 02\07\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. Frank came this afternoon from Kent and borrowed my Drum Band Uniform. Howard Neal called this P.M. Ray and Ruth called this evening and got a rack for holding a telephone directory, a vise and leavel {level} that brother Frank sent him from Simsbury. 02\08\1932 (Monday) Weather warm and snow melted much. I worked in the wheelhouse on the pump. Leland Garrigus called this evening as Mary wished to see him about the old uniforms that belong to the Drum band. 02\09\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I worked in the wheel house. This afternoon, Mary, Margaret and Ruth, Ray's wife, attended the funeral of Aunt Emogene Somers on Piedmont St., South Waterbury. She was aged 90 years. 68 years ago I saw her and Uncle Dwight married at my father's house on Cherry St. That was in 1862 and a few days after Uncle Dwight left for the War where he served three years in Co. C 14 Rgt. 02\10\1932 (Wednesday) Worked in the wheel house. 02\11\1932 (Thursday) A dog caught a hen to day. The dog belonged to Harrry L. Brinkman, 96 Frost Road. Mary went to Mr. Russel's funeral with Mrs. Ralph Blakeslee. 02\12\1932 (Friday) Worked most of the day in the Wheel House on the pump. This is Lincoln's birth day. There is no school. Weather is very foggy. Margaret called this afternoon. She was on her way home from Storrs where she had been visiting Ruth. 02\13\1932 (Saturday) The weather has been warm and the snow has melted much. Nearly all gone. I took the chains off my truck last night. Have worked to day in the Wheel House. 02\14\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I visited Fritz Hansen at Cheshire. Wrote to Emma L. Jackson, Redlands, Cal. 02\15\1932 (Monday) Cold day. Worked at the pump in Wheel House. This afternoon went to Charles S. Tuttle's in Woodtick. Got a bag of middlings for the young steer. Received letter and check for 15.00 from Clifford Graves of The Poinciana{??}, 434 West 120th St. New York. 02\16\1932 (Tuesday) Cold to day. This morning, 4ø above zero. Have worked in the wheel house all day. 02\17\1932 (Wednesday) Worked in Wheel House most of the day. This evening Mary and I went to the Washington supper at the Mill Pain Union Church. 02\18\1932 (Thursday) Cold to day. Worked on pump in Wheel House to day. 02\19\1932 (Friday) Worked in Blacksmith shop all day. Ray called this evening and told us that a little girl six years old was killed on the Meriden Road near Capitol Avenue late this afternoon as she was coming home from school. She was struck by a heavy truck. 02\20\1932 (Saturday) I sharpened and repaired picks, grubs etc. for the Calvary Cemetery most of the day. The weather has been cold, 4ø above zero this morning. 02\21\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. When I went out to start my car this morning, the battery was dead. I telephoned to Montambeau and he was here in five minutes with another battery. When we got my battery out. it was frozen and cracked, a thing that I never had happen before, though I have had them in very cold weather. This afternoon Mary and I called on Burt Frisbie at Woodtick. 02\22\1932 (Monday) Washington's birth day. I raised the flag on the pole on the barn. Sharpened tools for the Calvary Cemetery. Wrote a letter to Clifford Graves of New York this evening. 02\23\1932 (Tuesday) This morning Mary and I started for Bristol in a snow storm, but the car skidded so much that we turned back. I went down town and got my drivers license for 1932. Paid 3.00. 02\24\1932 (Wednesday) Cold day. Not well this morning. This afternoon I went to Redferns in Bristol where I bought my Ford car and carried back the battery that came with the car which was not good and got another which he gave me. I took it to Montambeaus and he took out his battery and put the new one in. The City men finished blasting out the rocks opposite my house on East Main St. and carting them away to day. 02\25\1932 (Thursday) Worked about home splitting wood and at the farm painting fence on the hill. 02\26\1932 (Friday) Trimmed apple trees on the hill and the young trees in the barn lot. They were cutting ice on Welton's Pond on the Plank Road 9" thick to day. 02\27\1932 (Saturday) Finished trimming the apple trees. Weather warm and thawing some. 02\28\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to Judge Brown's in Wolcott. 02\29\1932 (Monday) This forenoon I painted fence on the hill, but this afternoon it began to snow and I came home and went to the Apothecarie's Hall and bought a 12 1\2 lb. tub of Atlantic white lead and 1/2 pt. of dryers. 03\01\1932 (Tuesday) Weather has been quite cool and windy. This morning I filed a cross-|cut saw for Mr. Rocham. When I went out to the farm after dinner, I drove over the Meriden Road to Ray's on Capitol Avenue and left two dozen eggs. At the farm, I chopped down an old apple tree that stood above the spring so the apples nearly all dropped and rolled into the water and rotted. They apples were of little use, right for cider only they ripened in early Aug. Before other apples were ready, they had decayed. Mr. Joseph Norris who built the house on the hill at the North East corner of my land has moved away. It is said that he has lost the place on account of his many debts. Mr. Forrest Chapen who has lived in the house that William Connor built several years ago. Has sold it and moved to Fairlawn. It is said that he received a heavy cut in his pay at the American Brass Co. which made it impossiable {impossible} to maintain the large house. Howard Kraft came this evening and took his furniture out of the barn. 03\02\1932 (Wednesday) I worked at the farm cleaning up the apppletree at the spring. This evening, attended the meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Union Church. I read a paper on how to raise money to pay off a portion of the Church debt{??}. 03\03\1932 (Thursday) Filed a cross-|cut saw for the man that lives on the old Hiram Bucker{?} place in Prospect. He told me that they were going to continue the State road that they built last fall on past his house towards the Plank Road. I let Mr. Fraser have 8.75 this morning to pay the bill of the communion glasses. A nice warm day above freezing. 03\04\1932 (Friday) Nice warm weather. I painted fence on the hill. The country is greatly stunned in regard to the kidnapping of the baby son of Linburgh at Hopewell, N.J. last Tuesday night. There is a general search being carried on by Government, States, Cities and Towns. As yet, no tidings have been obtained as to who the kidnappers were. 03\05\1932 (Saturday) Painted fence and fought fire at East Farms. There were many fires, mostly set by boys. This noon Mrs. Cooley discovered a fire in our back yard. Mary called the firemen but they could not come so she witht eh help of Mrs. Cooley and a man put it out. 03\06\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon was very stormy, hail, snow and rain. 03\07\1932 (Monday) Wheeled wood into the cellar this morning. Then went to the farm and drew down{?} wood with Teddy, and brought home a load. This evening I popped nearly two bushels of pop corn for the mens fair at the church. 03\08\1930 {1932} (Tuesday) Very cold and windy day. Got wood into the cellar and cleaned the ashes out, etc. Gasoline is the cheapest now that I ever knew it. 13 1/3 cts. per gallon. A woman was hit and killed by an automobile out near Merline Avenue last night. 03\09\1932 (Thursday) {Wednesday} Weather cold and windy. Put up pump frame in cellar. Went to Bank and to Bronson Lybrary {Library??} This evening Mary, I and Mrs. Hapenny and her two daughters went to the Mill Plain Church Men's Fair. 03\10\1932 (Friday) {Thursday} Coldest day of the winter. 8ø above and wind blowing a gale. Worked in the cellar on pump. This evening Mary, Mrs. Hapenny and I attended the Church Men's Fair at the Mill Plain Union Church. The Linburgh baby has not yet been recovered. 03\11\1932 (Friday) Cold day. This afternoon I went to the Bronson Library and looked up the Jackson family. Lewis Somers and a friend called this evening to get information regarding an article I wrote last year on the early brass industry of Waterbury. 03\12\1932 (Saturday) A very cold day. I cut and wheeled in wood into the cellar. Forty four years ago to day the Great Blizard of 1888 began. It was Sunday afternoon at about 4 P.M. Mary and I were over East of Mass{??} Farms in Cheshire looking at the construction work at the Meriden Railroad that they were building at the time and before we got home with our horse and carriage, the snow was quite deep. It continued to snow all night. all Monday and night and some Tuesday when the snow lay nearly four feet on the level, but in most places it was drifted to a great depth. Near the corner of the Meriden and Byam Roads, I stood on top of a high drift and put my hand down on top of a telegraph pole that stuck up through the snow about 18 inches. 03\13\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to Hotchkissville in Woodbury and visited Miss Annie Pierpont. The weather has been clear and some cloudy and some cold. 03\14\1932 (Monday) This forenoon I went to the farm and drew down wood with the little steer till noon when it turned very cold, so I put a load on the truck and brought it home, and before I had it unloaded, it began to snow and continued till night. So I worked in the wheel house the rest of the afternoon. 03\15\1932 (Tuesday) Cold day, 8ø above this morning. Worked in wheel house making a safety valve. 03\16\1932 (Wednesday) Repaired blinds in the Wheelhouse. Weather very cold. 03\17\1932 (Thursday) St. Patricks Day. Little observed of late years. I repaired blinds and went to town and saw James Phelan about having a police patrol established on the Meriden, Pierpont, Cheshire and Scott Roads to prevent the setting of fires without a permit. 03\18\1932 (Friday) Worked at the farm painting fence till noon when on account of its being very cold, I gave it up. I then drew wood with the steer till 4, then came home. {03\19 - 03\21 no entries} 03\22\1932 (Tuesday) Saturday morning Mary and I left for Kent at 9.30. We went through Waterbury, Middlebury, Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bridgewater and New Milford, the distance being 45 and 6/10 miles. After we had dinner, Frank, Elsie and their children Mary, Bertha and Dwight went in his truck up in Macadonia Park where we left the truck and followed the Apalachian {Appalachian} Trail up on Cobble Mountain which was very steep and rugged and required the use of a rope in some places on account of snow and ice, but for the most part the rocks were bare. At the summit the view was fine in all directions. We could see the Catskill Mountains in N.Y. and look down on{?} Allgone{??} and Seatacoke{??} mountains in Kent. We traveled along the summit for quarter of a mile and then descended into a valley which we followed to the Old Chipawalla Road down which we went about two miles to the four corners where the Skiff Mountain Road turns off. There we waited till Frank walked down the road about a mile and got the truck and came back and got us and all went home where we found Mary and Jessie. We had walked and climbed about five miles and rode about five miles more and the trip was worth it. Sunday morning as we were getting into the auto to leave for Church, Weneto (a young spanard {Spaniard??} who works for Frank) told that early in the morning, three men who were well known to them had ran off the road south of Kent and plunged into the Housatonic River and were drowned. There names were E.R. Malahan, Gilbert E. Vincent and B. {???} Shove. As the natives figured it, Malahan lived in Torington but ran a meat market in Kent and the other two worked for him. They had been getting in ice all Saturday and all had been drinking some. At ten o'clock they were in Kent and one of them had bought a large supply of groceries which was in Malahan's new red sedan. After that time, they went to Wingdale N.Y. via Bulls Bridge and loaded with hooch{??} and started home. It is supposed while traveling, they fell asleep with the result as above stated. An Indian who lives across the river heard the crash at 1.20. At 2.20 a Kent and Cornwall man were passing and one of them noticed a light in the water. After they had gone about a mile, they turned back and found it to be the head light of an auto that was covered with 4 ft. of water, and found several lengths of State rail broken away. They went to a house nearby and called the Conaan{??} Barracks and State Police investigated and called the Conn. Light and Power Co. of New Milford who sent their large pole setting truck which they placed in position and with a grapel, hooked in the front end of the top, dragged the car to the road when they found the three men in the car, one at he wheel and two on the back seat. A section of the guard rail had pierced the wind shield and gone through the left rear corner but missed striking the men. All three men were married and beside the widows, they have ten children, Malahan 3, Mr, Shove 4, and Mr. Vincent 3. After Church, Frank drove down and we saw the place where accident occured. We then went home and had dinner. Towards night, we went to New Milford where Frank got a large milk can. Monday morning, Frank and I and Dwight, after chores, drove in the truck to the Jackson farm in Goshen but he was not home. We then went to Beache's creamery in Bantam and got a number of tubs of butter which he left at the school. We intended leaving after dinner for home but as it snowed hard and the roads were very slippery, Mary telephoned Ray's wife that we would stay over till next day. Tuesday morning Frank took four bales of bags{??} to the Depot and carried Mary and Bertha to school, after which we went to Macadonia Park and saw the care taker about buying a hay rigging, after which Mary and I started for home. We came to Swifts Bridge through Warren, Woodville, Bantam, Morris, Bethlehem, Watertown and Waterbury, 44.9 miles. On the high grounds of Warren, Bantam and Morris, there was much ice. 03\23\1932 (Wednesday) Did odd jobs about home and painted 12 lengths of fence at th farm. 03\24\1932 (Thursday) Went to town this morning and bought a push brush 20" 2.85, one qt. of oil 25{??} for the Church. I then went to the farm and painted the fence. 03\25\1932 (Friday) Painted fence on the hill. Good Friday. No school and but few factories running. 03\26\1932 (Saturday) Painted fence on the hill, very windy. Had to stop about 4 o'clock as it began to rain. 03\27\1932 (Sunday) Easter Sunday. Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church which was crowded. About 25 persons joined the Church and about a dozen were babtised {baptized}. This afternoon Mary and I went to Charles Hotchkiss in South Britain. Nice day. 03\28\1932 (Monday) This morning ground covered with snow and rained hard. Stormed all day. At ten I went to City Hall to see Mayor Hayes about fires at East Farms. He was not in. I then called on Chief Joseph Mc Lean of the Police Department. He said that he would attend to it and have police patrol that section. I then bought some pea seed and a small tub of white lead. 03\29\1932 (Tuesday) Painted fence on hill. Lewis Somers called this evening and we made arrangements to go to Logtown next Sunday. 03\30\{1932} (Wednesday) Repaired and painted fence on the hill. Cut the brush along the Norris Road in front of my heavy fence. Ray called this evening and spoke of having a garden at East Farms. 03\31\1932 (Thursday) Rained nearly all day. I went ot the farm and planted six rows of peas, came home and started making a little cart for Teddy. 04\01\1932 (Friday) Painted fence. Weather cool. The East End News which is published at 328 Frost Road by F.C. Beers appears this week with eight pages 7"x10" all for one cent. It is a lively record of a thriving community. To day the Waterbury American called Ruth and wishes her to act as the Mill Plain correspondent, a work which they discontinued some months ago. Mr. Hazelhurst has moved away from the house he bought of M.E. Pierpont about four years ago and Mort now has the house again. 04\02\{1932} (Saturday) Repaired a pump for Ed Sampson of Bunker Hill and worked about home most of the day. 04\03\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon Mary and I went to Louis Somer's place on Piedmont St. and he and I went to Logtown in Prospect where there once stood 8 houses on a highway within 3\4 of a mile distance. All trace of whom the inhabitants were is now lost. 04\04\1932 (Monday) This forenoon I went to the farm and painted fence. This afternoon, worked on cart. At four thirty Ray came and we welded the axel {axle} for the cart. Mary had a letter from Frank in Kent and a large bottle of Maple Syrut {Syrup} that Elsie sent over by Margaret who was over there yesterday. 04\05\1932 (Tuesday) Fine day. Went to George Browne's in Wolcott after eggs to set{?} but she had none. Worked on cart the remainder of the forenoon and painted seven lengths of fence in the afternoon. Mr. Peters called and paid ten dollars for rent of the barn loft. 04\06\1932 (Wednesday) Painted 18 legths of fence 162 ft. Wind blew strong from the North. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Official Board. 04\07\1932 (Thursday) Rained this morning. I worked on cart all day. 04\08\1932 (Friday) Worked on little cart. 04\09,10,11\1932 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) This morning Mary and I left at 10.30 for Stan's in my little Ford roadster. Went through Southington, Plainville, Farmington, West Hartford to Hartford where we stoped {stopped} and saw a great flower exhibit at the armory where we took dinner. We left there at 1.30 and continued on through East Hartford by Silver Lane to Manchester, Bolton Notch, Coventry, Mansfield 4 Corners to Storrs, rained all the way. Found Ruth and the children all well and happy. Sunday we all attended service at the Storrs Church. After dinner Jack took me to Gurleyville, stoping {stopping} on the way to show me a piece of land that he is thinking of buying. At Gurleyville we visited a small shop where they sawed out pearl buttons, the shells coming from Australia. We also visited a log camp where some boy scouts stay night and day. We then came back to Storrs and took Ruth and Mary to Grandma Pattersons and we continued on to Wellington thence to Wellington Hill and to East Wellington where we saw the largest poultry outfit I ever saw. They had 58,800 eggs in incubators and thousands upon thousands of young chicks and 38,000 laying hens and roosters, 200 hens that had layed over 300 eggs in a year and one that had layed 328 eggs. For this hen, they had been offered $1000.00. From there we visited Mr. George Smith at Wellington Hill who had many interesting antiques of many kinds. By this time it was dark and we went home. Monday rained all day. We started for home aboout 10.30, came by Willimantic{??}, Columbia, Hebron, Marlborough, East Hampton, Middletown and Meriden, 60 miles. Reached home at 1.30. I set the boxes in the wheels of the little cart this afternoon. 04\12\1932 (Tuesday) Rained much of the time. I worked on the cart. Louis Somers called this evening. She said business is growing worse all the time. 04\13\1932 (Wednesday) I finished the cart at noon. Went to the farm and got stones off from the ground where I had pop corn last year. Ray came and spaded a while. 04\14\1932 (Thursday) This mornign I went to town and bought garden seed and electric light bulbs, steel wool, etc. Came home, had dinner. Took two pounds of steel wool and 2 -|100 WATT and 2 -|60 WATT lamps to the church, came home and loaded the little cart onto the truck and took it to the farm, hitched Teddy in and took two young apple trees, a gravenstene{??} and Baldwin up into the young orchard and set them out, after which I prepared some ground in the lower garden for planting. 04\15\1932 (Friday) This forenoon repaired a roller handle for Ed Scott of Cheshire. This afternoon, drew 7 loads of manure up to the lot west of the shed. This evening I called the dog warden but could not get him as a dog nearly killed a chicken. 04\16\1932 (Saturday) Cold day. Ground frozen this morning, 1" deep. Was at farm to day, planted lettice {lettuce}, radish, onions and set a trench of pie-|plant etc. Ruth's first piece of news appeared in this evening's Amercan. 04\17\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon went to Prospect and saw Edgar Wallace at his son's Clifford Wallace, at the center. Also called on Miss Mable Hotchkiss at her home for information of the early in habitants of Logtown. Very cold and windy. 04\18\{1932} (Monday) Worked at the farm, painting fence and getting ready to plant. This morning I went to Montambeaults{??} and had my car repaired. Ray spaded at the farm this afternoon. 04\19\1932 (Tuesday) Sowed oats and picked off stones etc. Ray spaded at the farm. This morning's paper said that John Jacoby had been shot in Cuba and is in critical condition. 04\20\1932 (Wednesday) Sowed oats and grass seed on the hill. Ray came to the farm this evening. 04\21\1932 (Thursday) Picked stones off the lots on the hill where I had oats last year and where I sowed oats this year. 04\22\1932 (Friday) Nice day. William Garrigus and his two sons Lee and John are preairing the house that Willaim Hazelhurst lived in on the Cheshire Road. Dr. Egan is to move in soon. I smoothed the ground where I sowed oats on the hill and tamped{??} in the corn stumps. 04\23\{1932} (Saturday) Dug out the level ditches at the farm. There has been many forest fires. I saw the smoke rising from two large ones in Prospect and one in Wolcott. The paper to night states that the Waterbury Fire Department was called out 32 times, mostly brush fires. 04\24\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe conducted the service. Rev. {? ?} preached. Rev. J. O. Todd is at his parents home in Illinois attending their golden wedding. This afternoon Mary and I went with Margaret, Howard Craft {Kraft}, and Marion to Wolcott and looked at the Wird{??} house where Howard and Marion are going to live. We then went to Bucks Hill where I saw Mrs. Henry D. Hotchkiss. Then we went to Prospect and saw the new house that Margaret's second daughter and the man she is going to marry are thinking of buying. 04\25\1932 (Monday) Worked about home part of the forenoon, then went to the farm and burned some brush and planted in the garden the rest of the day. 04\26\1932 (Tuesday) The corner stone of the new Post Office on Grand St. was laid yesterday. To day I spaded and painted a little in the garden here till it rained. I went to the farm and used the small harrow on the hill. A heavy thunder shower this morning. 04\27\1932 (Wednesday) I spaded part of the home garden. The weather has been cold. 34ø above with more or less snow all day. At times it fell very fast. Rith called. She brought a load of woman {women} from Storrs in her car to attend a church coference {conference} at the first Church. 04\28\1932 (Thursday) Cool weather. I went to town this morning and paid the telephone bill, 3.00. Bought of the Hotchkiss Co., one pr. of pruning shears, 2.75 and did other errands. Came home and went to the farm and put wood ashes about some young apple trees, etc. 04\29\1932 (Friday) Harrowed ground for corn and potatoes and planted in home garden. Ray came this evening and got a load of manure. {04\30 - 05\01 no entries} 05\02\1932 (Monday) Last Sat. morning I left home for Kent at 11.15 to go to Frank's place and get seed potatoes, fertilizer and a young pig. Went by way of Watertown, Morris, Romford, Woodville, Warren and then West over rough hilley {hilly} dirt road to Kent 42 miles at Woodville. I went up the Shepang River and viewed the new concrete dam that the City of Waterbury is building. It is about 2/3 two thirds{??} finished. When I reached Frank's house, I took the children, Mary, Bertha and Dwight and went to the field on the East side of the river South of the public school where Frank with three men and a pair of horses were planting potatoes with a machine. It was Father's Day at the Kent school and they had a boat race in the river, the fathers rowing against the Sons. The Fathers beat. Sunday Frank, Elsie and I went to the Congregational Church. After we got inside, it began to rain and continued the rest of the day. Monday -| This morning they 15 forty quart cans of milk to the school. After breakfast, we loaded the pig into the rumble{??} on my car with potatoes and fertilizer on the truck rack and I left there at quarter of nine and came to Swifts Bridge, to Warren, to Woodville, to Bantam, to Morris, to Reyonds Bridge, to Waterville and over through Leakwood, home at 10.30. I took the pig to the farm and left it. Then went to Bessie Pierponts and got a lot of dandelion greens, came home and had dinner, then back to the farm and started to build a pig pen. Ray came out at evening. On Saturday, Frank took us to the Shatacook Indians Burying Ground where the State has been putting a new stockade fence around it. We counted 68 graves, probably there are many more. 05\03\1932 (Tuesday) Spent the forenoon in the valt {vault} at the City Hall looking up Log town records. This afternoon was at the farm building a pig pen. Ray came in the evening. 05\04\1932 (Wednesday) This forenoon I went to Maplehill farm and cut and shaped the front door stone steps that Bessie Pierpont has had put in place there. I then came to the farm and worked on the pig pen. Ray came and helped me. Ray said that all at the factory were notified of another cut in wages. 05\05\1932 (Thursday) This forenoon I worked at blacksmith work. Then went to the farm and cut pea brush and harrowed the potatoe ground and worked on the pig pen. There was a big fire in the south woods this afternoon. At night it was still burning. 05\06\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall and copied records this forenoon. This afternooon worked at the farm on pig pen. 05\07\1932 (Saturday) Finished the joiner work on the pig pen and drew the stone for underpriming{??} and floor. 05\08\{1932} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J.O. Todd. Had dinner at Margaret's. After dinner I went to Prospect and saw Mr. Cowdell and Edgar Jeralds. Came home by Plank Road. This is Mother's Day and we received a telegram from Clyde and Fritsa from Mimico and from Ruth from Storrs. 05\09\1932 (Monday) Filed two wood saws for Ed Bronson, then went to the farm and planted potatoes on the hill. This evening I put stone under and in the pig pen. Ray came and planted in his garden. 05\10\1932 (Tuesday) This morning I went to Town Clerk's office and looked up Log Town records and some Prospect Town Records at the South East corner of the town. 05\11\1932 (Wednesday) Planted potatoes on the hill all day. 05\12\1932 (Thursday) Planted potatoes on the hill at the farm. 05\13\1932 (Friday) This forenoon I went to the Town Clerk's office. Finished planting potatoes this afternoon. 05\14\1932 (Saturday) Ray and I worked putting up the fence about the pig yard. 05\15\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. This is 49 anniversary of the opening of the old Chapel and the 4th anniversary of the Dedication of the new Church. This afternoon Mary and I went to Prospect and stoped {stopped} at Mr. Cowdell's and their daughter took us to Straitville and back over the Hamden Road to Prospect. At one place, in tunring out, we ran off the side of the road and were stuck in the mud. Some people came along and pulled us out. 05\16\1932 (Monday) Worked fixing pig yard. Ray helped this evening. Put pig in. 05\17\1932 (Tuesday) Finished pig yard and repaired the lame fence. Took book to Cowdell's in Prospect. 05\18\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I saw Mr. Nodine and we agreed to divide the fence between our properties, he to have the North half and I the South half. This afternoon I built about 30 ft. of the South end. Ray came and helped towards evening. 05\19\1932 (Thursday) Worked in the garden at East Farms and late in the afternoon, Ray came and we dug holes for corn on the hill. This evening Mary and I called on Henry Hotchkiss at Buckshill. 05\20\1932 (Friday) This morning I drove to the farm in my roadster and when I got back, drew the oil out and put in new and drew the alcohol water out of the radiator and put in fresh. I then went to the City Hall and looked up Log Town records. This afternoon I changed the water in the truck and took a load of chicken manure to the farm and planted in the garden there. 05\21\1932 (Saturday) Finished planting the garden at East Farms. Had a nice shower this afternoon which was much needed. 05\22\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church, Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and Mrs. Cowdell, Nellie, Mary and I went down the Parsons Road and Nellie and I went over to the Log Town Road and found some of the old cellars and I went the whole length of the road from the Clark School to the Straitsville Road. We then returned to Cowdell via Clark Hall and I called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morse. 05\23\1932 (Monday) Worked all day at the farm getting stones away from the garden and making holes for corn on the hill. 05\24\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to the City Hall and looked up records, after which I went to the Waterbury Savings Bank and drew 89 dollars and went to City Hall and paid one half of my tax, 89.17. I worked at the farm the rest of the day. 05\25\1932 (Wednesday) This forenoon I worked at the farm. In the afternoon I attended the Washington Bi Centennial Celebration at Hamilton Park. They had a long and interesting parade and at the Park, Govonor {Governor} Cross was the man who made the address. I later saw William Purdy on East Mountain and then drove to Prospect Center and saw Mr. Theodore Allen about the history of the old Prospect Coronet Band. I then went to East Farms and fed the stock. The pig had got out of the pen. 05\26\1932 (Thursday) I worked at the farm all day. This evening Mr. Peck came from Northfield and bought my old Waterwheel shaft for 4.50. 05\27\1932 (Friday) Planted corn on the hill and harrowed where I am to plant pop corn this forenoon. This afternoon Mary and I drove to Goshen and attended Cousin Lillie Gillette's funeral. She was buried in the Cemetery at the Center where her husband is buried, Cousin Malachi. From there we drove to Kent to Frank's house. He took me in his truck to see the ground he has planted this spring, over fifty two acres of potatoes, corn and oats, beside a large garden of about two acres. While we were up the River the sky becam {became} suddenly overcast with black clouds and before we could get home it began to rain. In the evening we went to an entertainment given by the High School schollars {scholars} in the Community House which was very good. We got home at elven o'clock and went to bed and got up at five and got ready and started for home which we reached at 8.15, then had breakfast and I went to the farm and set out tomatoe {tomato} plants and worked in the garden till noon. Then I worked mowing and cleaning the Cemetery till four. While there, Mr. Clifford Graves of New York came and looked the ground over, especially the graves of his grandparence {grandparents} Eanok{?} W. and Lydia Frost, and he seemed pleased with my work. {05\28 no entry} 05\29\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to the Old Lewis Burying Ground on Southington Mountain after which we drove over Wolcott Hill and to Woodtick and saw Chas Tuttle, then to East Farmes {farms} and cared for the stock. 05\30\1932 (Monday) Memorial day. Ray and I worked at the farm all day repairing and building fences about the lane and pig yard. 05\31\1932 (Tuesday) Mr. Frank Howland and I went to Prospect to find the "Three Brothers" at the South East corner of the ancent {ancient??} Town of Waterbury, now the South East Corner of the Town of Prospect. While we tramped the woods of the mountain over several times, we were unable to find them. We then went to Prospect Center and saw Mr. Theodore Allen and he refered us to La-|Verne Clark as knowing where they are. We went to Mr. Clark's house and Mrs. Clark told us that he had gone to Mrs. Buckley's funeral on the Union City Road. We went to that place and after the funeral was over, we saw Mr. Clark and he said that he knew where the 'Three Brothers" were and that he would show us, so we carried him down to the University land and leaving our car, again entered the woods and beat our way through the woods for a long time only to meet with disappointment and as it was getting late, we returned home leaving Mr. Clark at his home on Clark Hill and Mr. Howland coming to my house where we had supper. 06\01\1932 (Wednesday) To day I worked at the farm all day building a fence along the North end of the barn lot East of the lane. Ray came and helped me in the afternoon. 06\02\1932 (Thursday) I planted corn on the hill next to the North fence in the East lot and got the ground ready to plant in the West lot. 06\03\1932 (Friday) This morning I went to City Hall and looked up records. This afternoon I planted in the Garden at home and mowed grass. 06\04\1932 (Saturday) Made holes on the hill to plant pop corn in. Weather very warm. Ray was out till noon. 06\05\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon went to Prospect to Mr. Purdy's and Mr. Cowdell's. 06\06\1932 (Monday) Very warm, mowed the back yard, sharpened 6 picks, etc. Saw Mr. Cooley about rent. 06\07\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall and copied records. I then went to Dr. Barber's office and he examined me and said that my heart is affected and that I must not work for a while, and a good many other things are not right. I have forgotten what they were, but I must stop working. After I got home, I went to the farm and cared for the stock and spent the rest of the day writing the Frost family genealogy for Clifford Graves of 434 West 120 St. New York City. 06\08\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I took some work to Miss Cowdell in Prospect to have typewritten. Came back to the farm and worked in the garden there the rest of the day. Ray came towards night. This evening we attended the annual meeting of the Mill Planin {Plain} Church. I was elected deacon for three years. 06\09\1932 (Thursday) Planted pop corn on the hill to day and replanted some of the garden. 06\10\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall and looked up records this forenoon. This afternoon I cultivated appple trees at the farm on the hill. 06\11\1932 (Saturday) To day Mary and I attended the Bethany Centennial Celebration. The programme was, 10.00 A.M. Ringing of Church bells, 10.30 A.M. Flag raising exercises at Bethany Center, 11.00 A.M. Re-|enactment of the first Bethany Town Meeting of 1832 in the Congregational Church, 2.00 P.M. Official reception to Governor Wilber L. Cross at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burton L. Nelleton{??}, Bethany Center. 2.30 Address by his Exellency the Governor in the grove near Christ Episcopal Church, 3.30 Centennial Pagent {Pageant} under the personal direction of Mr. Frank L. Fowler, Grand Marshal, Music by the Mattatuck Drum Band of Waterbury and the Woodbridge Bugle and Drum Corps. The parade started at the fox farm near the {????} field at 3.30 P.M. and ended at the Peck Road. The Church bells tolled as the parade passed through the Center of the town. The order of the Parade was as follows, No. 1. State Police, 2. Horseback Riders, 3. Mattatuck Drum Band, 4. Indina Family Float, 5. D.A.R. Float, 6. Sheep Float, 7. Spinning Wheel Float, 8. Loom Float, 9. Plantation Float, 10. Old Phaton{??}, 11. Old Time Sleigh, 12. Manufacturing Float, 13. Ancient Wooden Axle Carriage, 14. Large American Flag, 15. Special Float, 16. Gate School Float-|100 years ago, 17. Beecher School Float-|50 years ago, 18. Center School Float-|The Present, 19. Racing Gig, 20. Baby Carriage, 21. Charcoal Float, 22. High Bicycle, 23. Dary {Dairy??} Float 100 years ago, 24. Dary {Dairy??} Float-| The Present, 25. Fanning{??} Mill Float, 26. Decorated Bicycles, 27. Woodbridge Bugle and Drum Corps, 28. Four {???} Club Float, 29. Polish Float, 30. 1890 Oldsmobile, 31. 1932 Oldsmobile, 32. 1908 Buic, 33. 1932 Buic, 34. Old Ford, 35. 1932 Ford, Clowns, Town Crier, Pack Peddler. 06\12\1932 (Sunday) Attended the Mill Plain Union Church. This was Children's Day and the Church was crowded. This afternoon I went to Prospect but it rained so I came home by Hopkins Hill and Perl{??} Lakes. 06\13\1932 (Monday) Planted in the garden. This afternoon I mowed in East Farms Cemetery, 3 hr. 06\14\1932 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Mowed in East Farms Cemetery, 3 hr. 06\15\1932 (Wednesday) Rained most of morning but cleared before noon. I mowed the grass in the street by the watering trough at East Farms and raked up the grass in the Cemetery. This afternoon Ray came and helped me cultivate my potatoes with the steer. This evening we attended the annual meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery held in the Old Mill Plain Chapel. The building would not hold all who came. 06\16\1932 (Thursday) Rained much of the time to day. I cultivated and hoed some of the potatoes on the hill. 06\17\{1932} (Friday) Went to City Hall and looked up records this morning. Cultivated and hoed potatoes this afternoon. 06\18\1932 (Saturday) Cultivated and hoed potatoes all day. 06\19\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Graduation sermon. This afternoon Mary and I went to Prospect. Visited Treat{??} Hotchkiss. Mr. Cowdell and I went to the Cemetery after which we visited Harvy Green. 06\20\1932 (Monday) Repaired Coley's stairs this forenoon. I told Mr. Coley that they must move on account of the trouble we have with the cats that they harbor. 06\21\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon, went to Town Clerk's office and looked at records. This afternoon finished hoeing potatoes. 06\22\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I saw Mort Pierpont at his dairy barn and made arrangements to get warm milk. I then went to Mr. Cowdells' and got a paper written by Mrs. Burkley on Prospect in young days. This morning I wrote Howard Neal regarding the date of the East Farms Cemetery Meeting and also about money he owes me. This afternoon cultivated and hoed corn and potatoes on the hill. 06\23\1932 (Thursday) I gathered the hay by the water trough and put it in the pig pen and hoed potatoes. 06\24\1932 (Friday) This forenoon I went to the town Clerk's office and looked up records. This afternoon I hoed potatoes. 06\25\1932 (Saturday) To day we went to the Mill Plain Sunday School Picnic at Smith's Pond in Watertown. The children were conveyed in a large Buss and forty four automobiles. I carried four besides Mary and myself. We all went in a prosession {procession} led by a police auto. At the pond which was of considerable size, they had many water races such as canoe, boat rowing, swimming by boys and girls in which Gene Northrop came out first, diving etc. They also had running, sack and many other contests. Late in the afternoon it rained. About this time we started home. 06\26\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph O. Todd. This afternoon I went to see Miss Bessie Burkeley{???} at 1872 Middlebury Road about her father who lived in Prospect years ago. He carried the colors of the 6th Reg in the Civil War. 06\27\{1932} (Monday) One of the hottest days I ever knew. I hoed potatoes on the hill and it nearly done me up. 06\28\1932 (Tuesday) I went to the Town Clerk's office this forenoon. This afternoon I put arsnite of lead on the potatoes to kill the bugs. 06\29\1932 (Wednesday) Hoed the corn on the hill and replanted it where the starlings pulled it up. I hitched the steer into the big cart for the first time. 06\30\1932 (Thursday) Very hot day. I finished hoeing corn and cultivated about half of the pop corn which is in the North West corner of the North West lot. 07\01\1932 (Friday) Replanted some of the corn on the hill and hoed some field corn in the West piece. Ray helped me finish cultivating the pop corn. 07\02\1932 (Saturday) Finished hoeing all the corn and hoed a greater part of the garden at East Farms. 07\03\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon we went to Cheshire at Mr. Hansens and saw Clyde, Fritsa and Willard Miller who came form Mimico, Toronto last evening. Clyde is to have two weeks vacation and is to spend it about here. 07\04\1932 (Monday) Rained much of the time to day. I hoed in the garden at the farm and got the barn ready for hay. 07\05\1932 (Tuesday) Clyde came this morning and we went ot the farm and mowed in the barn lot and got the hay in. This afternoon Fritsa came. 07\06\1932 (Wednesday) Clyde and I mowed the steep side hill East of the barn this forenoon, and in the afternoon, Mary, Fritsa, Clyde and I went to West Simsbury and saw Frank and Gussy. They were quite well. Got home before dark. We all went in my little Ford car. 07\07\1932 (Thursday) Clyde and Fritsa went to Hartford in my Ford Roadster and I raked up the hay that we mowed yesterday and got it in. Weather very hot. 07\08\1932 (Friday) This morning I poped {popped} two bushels of pop corn for the Reopening of the Mill Plain Church Play Grounds and mowed at the farm this afternoon. Clyde and Fritsa went to Torrington this morning. 07\09\1932 (Saturday) Ray came out to the farm and we got in the hay that I mowed yesterday and then mowed more in the barn lot South of the garden. This evening we attended the Reopening of the Mill Plain Play Grounds. 07\10\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon we attended the Reunion of the Pierpont Family. It was held at the farm of Bessie Pierpont at Maple Hill. There were over seventy present. 07\11\1932 (Monday) Clyde and I mowed the East Farms Cemetery this forenoon. It took us about two and one half hours. We then got in the hay that Ray and I mowed Saturday in the Barn lot. I then went to poisen {poison} the potatoes but above Ray's garden I saw a large rabbit. I turned back and got the rifle and shot it. Then I put arsnate of lead on the potatoes. While I did that Clyde mowed the grass in the lower meadow. When I came down Ray was there and we three took our scythes and went to the lot by the shed on the hill and mowed nearly half of it. I gave Mort my bill for taking care of the Cemetery. 07\12\1932 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the dary {dairy} of M.E. Pierpont on the Cheshire Road and got a drink of warm milk, after which I stoped {stopped} at the farm and fed the steer and pig. Came home and had breakfast. After which Clyde, Fritsa, Mary and I drove in my Ford car to Torrington where we left Fritsa at a house on Riverside Ave. and the rest of us drove to Winsted over a fine new concrete road just completed. At Winsted we went to the Winsted Mfg. Co. on the Colbrook River Road where they make scythes and bought two forty two inhes long, paid 1.40 each. We then drove back to Torrington where we left Clyde and Mary and I came on, stoping {stopping} at a rest place above Campville where we had dinner. We then came home where I bought a pair of work pants and then came home and with the truck carried Mary to a ladies meeting at Bessie Pierponts farm and then went to our farm and got in a load of hay. 07\13\1932 {Wednesday} Very hot day. I finished mowing the middle lot by the shed and raked most of it up. Ray came late and helped some. This evening at 8 o'clock we attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Corporation that was held in the Cemetery. There were not many present. Officers elected were C.S. Miller, President, M.E. Pierpont, Vice President, and Treasurer, Mr. Hoadley, Vice President, Howard Neal, Secretary. 07\14\1932 {Thursday} Very hot day. I mowed the clover on the hill and got in a load of it. I also got in the hay in the middle lot by the shed. I used the small truk to get it in. 07\15\1932 (Friday) I mowed the herd's grass in{?} the West end of the upper lot and raked it up. Ray came out this afternoon and we got it in and we mowed the West end of the orchard lot and got it in. This evening I told Mr. Coley that they may stay in our tenement until next Oct 1st. He guaranteed the rent. A son was born this day to my granddaughter Marion Northrop Kraft at the Waterbury Hopsital. They say that it is to be named after me. 07\16\1932 (Saturday) I mowed in the young orchard on the hill and got in a small load. 07\17\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. Rained a little this afternoon. Mary and I called on Cousin Bert Frisbie at Woodtick. 07\18\1932 (Monday) William Service helped me mow the upper half of the orchard on the hill and get it in after which we cultivated the corn and potatoes part of each. 07\19\1932 (Tuesday) William Service helped me this forenoon. We finished cultivating the potatoes and corn and the pop corn. This afternoon I cultivated the young apple trees on the hill, all but one row. Weather very hot. 07\20\1932 (Wednesday) I finished cultivating the young appletrees on the hill and bourhgt down the tools. This afternoon I went to Montambeault's and got a tire that he repaired and then put in another second hand steering wheel and gear as to replace the broken one. Weather hot and dry. 07\21\1932 (Thursday) Mowed the front lawn and trimmed the walks, etc. Ordered 100 ft. hose for church. 07\22\1932 (Friday) Mowed about my home lot, corner of East Main St. and Frost Road and took a small load out to the farm. We had a little rain this afternoon just after I got to the barn which was much needed. 07\23\1932 (Saturday) I took out two loads of hay to the farm to day. 07\24\1932 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this morning at 10 o'clock. Enid Miller of Milwaukee and Malcolm Forsberg of Tacome, Wash. who expect to become missionaries to Africa in a year, addressed the audiance {audience} and were very interesting. They came from Monterey, Mass. where they are preparing this morning and returned this noon. This afternoon Mary and I called on Fred Berger at Summit. 07\25\1932 (Monday) I cut my oats to day. This evening Ray came to the farm and we mowed away two loads of hay. We picked cucumbers, corn and pulled carrots and turnips. 07\26\1932 (Tuesday) I went to East Farms and got in the oats. Ray came this evening and helped me mow them away. 07\27\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I repaired a heavy hoist for the Calvary Cemetery and went to Prospect and to the farm and cared for things there and worked on my Ford truck, put in a new front spring etc. 07\28\1932 (Thursday) James Mulhern brought a broken shipper{?} of his transmission and we made a new one. I mowed some about home and repaired the screen door. 07\29\1932 (Friday) Mowed some by the wheel house and took a load of hay out to the farm. This evening Nichalos {Nicholas} Hapenny came and put sulphate of ammonia on my front lawn. Weather is hot. 07\30\1932 (Saturday) Finished mowing by the wheel house and took two loads to the farm. Ray was out and we set out cabbage plants. Cooler to day. 07\31\{1932} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The battery ran out on my car and I had Mr. Montambeault put in another at one o'clock and at six this one had ran out. So we stayed home all day. 08\01\1932 (Monday) Mowed and took to the farm two loads of hay. Mr.{??} Mannel helped me put it in the barn. Ray came out at 5 o'clock. 08\02\1932 (Tuesday) I went to Mr. Montambeault's and took his battery back and paid him 75 cts. for charging mine. I then brought it home and put it in the car and after dinner drove to Bristol and had the key switch fixed at the Ford Agency. I then drove to West Simsbury and saw brother Frank. He had fallen on some rocks near the dam where he was mowing and hurt his knee yesterday. He is able to be about a little to day on crutches. I came home and did the chores at the farm and picked a few blackberries. 08\03\1932 (Wednesday) Mowed the swamp East of the chicken house this morning and sharpened some drills for Paul Miller. It began raining and continued the rest of the day. This afternoon I started making an auto jack. This evening I attended an Official Board Meetting of the Mill Plain Church. 08\04\1932 (Thursday) I did the chores at the farm and then made twelve swing links for the playground at the Mill Plain Church after which I mowed the front lawn with the lawn mower. Worked at the farm the rest of the day. 08\05\1932 (Friday) After the chores at the farm, I ground my schythe {scythe} and trimmed the sides of the walk by the Frost Road and cleaned it up. I put the grass and weeds from the swamp in the chicken yard and worked in the wheel house. 08\06\1932 (Saturday) Worked in the Wheelhouse most of the day. This afternoon Mary and I went to George Browne's in Wolcott and got a letter that I had lent him some time go. We then went to our farm and picked two quarts of blackberries and did the chores, etc. 08\07\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. Miss Emiline{?} Mangacello{??} and Miss Virginia Roberts made adresses on temperense {temperance}. After Church Mary and I went to Wolcott and saw Marion Kraft's new baby which was named after me. This afternoon we went to Prospect and called at Mr. Cowdell's and Nellie gave me a large map of Prospect that she had traced and enlarged, also a history of the Old Prospect Coronet Band. Tonight about 10.15 two cars, one a Buic and the other a New York car, ran into each other in front of the house. The traffic was heavy and soon the streets were blocked with cars and trolleys and about 200 people assembled. One person was taken to the hospital and the police arrested three of the New York men for being drunk. Their cars were badly smashed. 08\08\1932 (Monday) To day I have been helping Mary clean our room and bed etc. and painted the floor. This morning our granddaughter, Betty Northrop, was married to Vincent Joseph Simons at the rectory of St. Joseph's Church at 9.30 o'clock. 08\09\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall and looked up records. After dinner I repaired a large wire cable for the Calvary Cemetery after which I went to the farm. 08\10\1932 (Wednesday) I cultivated about appletrees this forenoon and went to Meriden this afternoon with Mr. William Warner and saw Mr. Snow about the early making of German Silver. I left letters and papers with him. A copy of a letter I wrote to Clyde last year about the early Brass Industry of Waterbury and a letter written in 1878 by Harris Hotchkiss of Plainfield N.J. to Major George Tucker, telling of his early experience regarding the manufacture of brass in Waterbury, also the State Agricultural Report on the Town of Wolcott for the year 1846. 08\11\1932 (Thursday) This day I spent at the farm cultivating about young appletrees. 08\12\1932 (Friday) This forenoon I went to City Hall and looked up records. The rain fell fast a little after noon. After it stoped {stopped} Mary and {I} went to the farm and picked blackberries. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board. They voted to buy Talking Moving Picture Machine. 08\13\1932 (Saturday) I worked at the farm cultivating apple trees and putting manure about the. 08\14\{1932} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Kenneth Kingston of St. Paul's Methodist Church preached. Frank called this evening. He with his family went to Short Beach yesterday and stoped {stopped} here on his way home. 08\15\1932 (Monday) I started building a road to the top of the hill at the farm. We started near the South West corner of the flat meadow in the pasture and circled up the hill North West and North East. Ray helped. This evening Clarence Brown borrowed two stone drills. I sharpened them for him. Warren W. Hill called to sell paint. 08\16\1932 (Tuesday) Spent this forenoon at the Town Clerk's office copying records. This afternoon I clipped the front yard and went to Montambeaults to have my battery in my old Ford car recharged. I then went to the farm and picked beans, etc. 08\17\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect after which I drew manure to the young appletrees on the hill and cultivated about them till finally one wheel on the cart gave out and I picked beans and vegetables till night. 08\18\1932 (Thursday) To day I repaired the cart wheel, finished an auto jack, sharpened drills, etc. It rained this afternoon and evening. Great preperations {preparations} are being made for the convention and parade of the World's war veterans tomorrow and Saturday. Over 10,000 men are expected to be in line Saturday. Leeland Garrigus called this evening and invited me to attend a clam bake etc. of the Mattatuck Drum Band and Putnam Phalanx next Saturday. 08\19\1932 (Friday) This morning I went to City Hall and copyed {copied} records. This afternoon I drew manure up on the hill and finished cultivating about the young apple trees. The Boy Scouts have established a tent across the Frost Road by Beebe's{??} Filling Station there to give information to strangers coming into town tomorrow as to where to drive and park their cars, etc. 08\20\1932 (Saturday) This morning I did the chores at the farm and then got ready and at one o'clock, Ray came and we went down town, he to take part in the parade and I to look at it. It was to start at 2.30 but it was nearly 3 before it came down North Main. I think it was the largest and best parade every seen in Waterbury. It was given by the American Legion of Connecticut who have been holding a State Convention here the past two days. It is estimated that there were 10,000 persons in line, 8,000 veterans and 2,00 malitia {militia} men. It took nearly two hours to see it pass a given point. There was a great variety of uniforms and many bands and Drum Corps. 08\21\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe of Wolcott preached. This afternoon we went to see Mr. Henry Hotchkiss on Buckshill. We then went to Wolcott and saw Charles Tuttle. Mr. Coley and wife returned this evening from New Jersey. 08\22\1932 (Monday) The weather has been very warm to day. I got out manure and put it about the young apple trees in the barn lot. 08\23\1932 (Tuesday) Went to the Town Clerk's office and copyed records this forenoon. Mary and I picked blackberries this afternoon. Went to see Attorney Phelan but he had gone to Wolcott. 08\24\{1932} (Wednesday) Started getting out the stones on the road to the top of the hill. The second one encountered proved to be a{?} big one and had to be blasted twice which took most of the day. 08\25\{1932} (Thursday) To day has been very hot in the sun. I got out rocks in the new road that I am building to the top of the hill. 08\26\1932 (Friday) This morning I went to Center Street and say {saw} Attorerney {Attorney} Finton Phelan about getting the Cooleys out of my house. I then went to the Town Records and to the Probate Court Records and took a copy of Miss Harriett Pierpont's will. This after noon I got out stones at the farm. When I came home Mr. Cooley met me. He was fierce because a writ had been served on him to move out by Sept. 1st. He is going to see a lawyer tomorrow. 08\27\1932 (Saturday) Worked on the road to the top of the hill. Ray helped get out the stones this forenoon. 08\28\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe officiating. This afternoon I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and to Edgar Gerolds. He knows much about the history of Prospect. 08\29\1932 (Monday) A very hot day. I worked making a road to the top of the hill. The road was badly washed by the great rain storm Saturdy night. 08\30\1932 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall to day and looked up records. This afternoon mowed the front lawn. Arthur Byrd and famiy from Bristol made me a visit, and in the evening I called on Mr. Edgar Jerrels at Rag Hollow. 08\31\1932 (Wednesday) Rained and damp. This morning I went to Mr. Cowdells in Prospect and left some record books for Nelli. She and some others had gone up to Mass. to see the eclipse. I came to the farm and got a basket of tomatoes and corn and pulled two bushels of weeds for the pig. 09\01\1932 (Thursday) This day has been very hot. I sweat all of my clothes through making a road to the top of the hill. Mr. Henry D. Cooley and wife moved from my house to day, having lived there fourteen years. They have gone leaving three months rent unpaid, 36.00. A lady called this evening and wanted to rent the tenement. 09\02\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall and looked up records concerning John D. Johnson who ran a Brass Mill on the South side of East Main St. opposite the high stone wall from 1838 to 1848. Wrote a long letter to Mr. W.G. Snow Meriden. 09\03\1932 (Saturday) I worked on the road to the top of the hill. Weather hot. 09\04\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. He has returned from his vacation to Canada. P.M. Called on Edgar Jeralds in Prospect. 09\05\1932 (Monday) A great day. Mary and I went to Southbury to the Washington Centennial Celebration. I wore my Centennial uniform and took my drum and drummed in the Mattatuck Drum Band a short distance. The weather was hot and I soon tired. Mr. Goddard made the address. He is the state librarian. Ray stad {stayed} at home and picked bushels of apples. This evening Ruth and Jack Brundage called. They had three of theur children. They had been to Goshen Fir and were on their way to Cheshire and later were to drive to Storrs. 09\06\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall. This afternoon I moved part of the front lawn and repaired the meadows of the upper tenement. This evening Ray came and we sorted apples. 09\07\1932 (Wednesday) Worked on the road. William Service worked in the rooms up stairs yesterday and to day. I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Church. 09\08\1932 (Thursday) This morning I went to Prospect and with George and Nellie Cowdell, looked up the old Blakeslee place, and the old Daniel Baldwin place on the old Round Line Road. The Blakeslee place was on the Scott Road. I came back to East Farms and worked on the road, and sowed grass seed on the part that is finished.. ----------Wm. Service worked up stairs. 09\09\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon and looked up records. This afternoon filed a large circular saw for Mr. Rocham and repaired windows up stairs. Then went to the farm and did the chores. 09\10\1932 (Saturday) I finished the steep part of the road to the top of the hill and sowed grass seed on it and used the cultivator and loosened up the sod for the strait and level part. Wm Service worked this forenoon. I repaired the East window and cuppord {cupboard??} door this morning. 09\11\1932 (Sunday) This morning at about 2.40, we were awakened by the fire engines passing by and on looking out of the East window, beheld the sky all aglow with sparks and red. I dressed quickly and started East but had to pay much attention not to be hit by the autos that were passing at a reckless spead {speed}. Before I reached the top of the hill by Raymond's Bakery, the road was lined on both sides and every avalable {available} space for a long distance was occupied by autos. The fire proved to be the great ice houses on the Plank Road at Wedge's Pond and they had just fallen in when I arived {arrived}. There was two Fire Companies and they had two streams of water playing on the fire, but it took till seven o'clock in the morning to completely subdue it. We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon Mary and I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and from there, Nellie and I visited two Driver{??} places on the Straitsville Road. 09\12\1932 (Monday) I worked to day on the road to the top of the hill. Very hot. To night I attended a meeting of the Executive and Finance Committee of the Mill Plain Church. 09\13\1932 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon and got out rocks on the road to the top of the hill in the afternoon. 09\14\1932 (Wednesday) This morning I made a large hoisting hook for Charles Wilkensbach and worked on the road this afternoon. 09\15\1932 (Thursday) Very warm and close. I worked on the road to the top of the hill at the farm. 09\16\1932 (Friday) Rained all day. Went this morning to the Town Clerk's office at City Hall. Worked about home this afternoon. The Dog Warden, Mr. Loughlin, Tel No. 4-|4155 Street Dept. Office called to day to see about a chicken that was killed by a small dog that is owned by Mr. Harry L. Brinkman No. 96 Frost Road, Tel No. 3-|2330. 09\17\1932 (Saturday) I worked on the road to the top of the hill at he farm till about eleven o'clock when Frank and his family came from Kent and we looked at the street and Grump (the pig) and went upon the hill and looked at the potatoes and corn etc. till noon when we all ate lunch under the trees West of the barn. This afternoon Mary and I went to the Wolcott Fair. Frank got there before us. They had a fine exhibit of fruit, vegetables, poultry, a few cows, sheep, oxen, horses, etc. Also, a large Wild West show of horse riding, steer jumping, and riding etc., racing, both horseback and chariot. There was for music, the Fulton American Band and the East Hampton Drum Corps. 09\18\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. This afternoon I and Mary went to see Fred Berger at Summit, but he was away. We then called on Mr. Edgar Geralds at Rag Hollow and then to Mr. Cowdells. after which we went to Cousin Joseph Somers at South Waterbury where we staid till ten o'clock. 09\19\1932 (Monday) Did many odd jobs and worked on the road. 09\20\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall. This afternoon I worked at the farm. 09\21\1932 (Wednesday) This forenoon I went to the farm and mowed all of the yellow blow{??} out of the barn lot and picked up a bushel and a half of cider apples. I then worked on the road when I struck two large rocks that have to come out. Ray came and we tried them with bars but could not raise them. In the morning I will raise the tripod and try the hoist. This evening Ray and Ruth called and we looked up cider mills and presses. We also looked up compressed air water sistems {systems}. 09\22\1932 (Thursday) Weather had been very warm but pleasant. Mary's birthday. She was born at East Farms on Sept 22nd 1860. William Service worked in {???} upper rooms papering and painting all day as he has done every day. I worked hard getting out rocks and building the road at East Farms. 09\23\1932 (Friday) Weather rather warm. To night I finished the work on the road at the farm and put the tools all away. I intended going to Springfield Fair yesterday and to day but money is to scarce. 09\24\1932 (Saturday) This forenoon I was at the farm. Drew down a small load of corn from the hill and picked up apples for cider. This afternoon I went to Prospect and saw Miss Mabel Hotchkiss who sent for me to help her in naming the roads of that town of which she is chairman of a committee. 09\25\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mortimer Owen of Bunker Hill preached. This afternoon I visited Fred Berger at Summit. 09\26\1932 (Monday) Ray and I picked up apples at the farm to day. This evening Howard Kraft came and we gave him the radio that was in the girage {garage}. 09\27\1932 (Tuesday) My birthday. 74 years ago to day I was born on Cherry Street, Waterbury where we lived till the fall of 1864 when we moved into a house owned by Grandmother Somers on Clay Street. This forenoon I was looking up records concerning the present Town of Prospect at City Hall. This afternoon I worked sorting apples, etc. 09\28\1932 (Wednesday) Rained this forenoon. I sorted and picked up apples. We have thirty eight bushels of cider apples and about a dozen bushels of good apples in the cellar. Ray and Ruth called this evening. Mr. Hapenny's man borrowed two jack screws. 09\29\{1932} (Thursday) I picked up and sorted apples all day. 09\30\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall after doing the chores at the farm this forenoon. Worked on my truck this afternoon. 10\01\1932 (Saturday) I worked on my truck this morning. Ray came and helped so we got through before noon. This afternoon I went to the farm and picked up the last of the apples. We now have 44 bushels of cider apples and about 14 bushels of good apples in the cellar. A dog has been catching a number of our shall{??} chickens so last night Mary and I set three large steel traps about a little chicken house where he has been taking them and at daybreak this morning, Mary awoke me, she having heard the dog yell. I went dow {down} and found a large dog in the trap that looked like a wolf. When I came near, he sprang at me. I got an ax and when he sprang again, I hit him on the head and soon killed him, then I buried him. 10\02\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Sunday School Rally Day. About 260 Sunday School Schollars {Scholars} and a large Congregation. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. This afternoon we went to Prospect and visited the house where Benjamin Dutton Beecher lived who invented the screw propeller for steam boats about 1831 and tried it out on a canal boat on the Farmington canal at Cheshire. Mr. Michael G. Valasek{??} lives there now on the Summit Road. We then visited Mr. Cowdell and the Hotchkiss family. 10\03\1932 (Monday) This morning I went to William MacCormick's in Wolcott and as I had fourty {forty} four bushels of cider apples, he told me that he gave three gallons of cider per bushel at his mill and charged four cents per gallon for making. I then came home and got my old cider barrels out and ordered one for the Charles Templeton Co. and have enought to hold 132 gals. I have washed them all out. Then I went out to the farm where Ray has been digging potatoes all day and helped him pick them up, etc. 10\04\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall. This afternoon made a trestle to set cider barrels on, and did the chores at the farm. 10\05\1932 (Wednesday) Rained all day. This morning I loaded 18 bushels of apples on my small truck and took them to Bill Mac Cormick's cider mill in Wolcott. I then came to East Farms via the Todd Road, the South mile of which is nearly completed as a state road, the work having been done in about one month. The Pierpont Road from the Meriden to the Cheshire Road is very rough and in bad condition. At East Farms I did the chores and then came home and loaded 15 bushels of apples and three cider kegs on casks on the truck and went to the mill again and brought home a load of cider, then I loaded on the remainder of the apples, about 11 bushels and two fifty gallon barrels and went {to} the mill and brought home one barrel, 49 gallons. Then went back and got the other 46 gallons, in all 109 gallons, paid him 4 cts. per gal for making 4.25. This evening as we were getting the cider into the cold celler {cellar}, the lights went out. Soon fortunely {fortunately??} Ray came and he tested all the wireing {wiring} out and found two short circuits which he repaired and then we got all the cider in the cellear {cellar} and on the skids, after which we retired weary with the wet day's work. 10\06\1932 (Thursday) This day it rained all day. I have done many odd jobs about home and the chores at the farm. 10\07\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Dug potatoes this afternoon. 10\08\1932 (Saturday) Dug potatoes and drew a small load of corn from the hill. Wm. Service finished work upstairs to day. 10\09\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this morning. This afternoon Mary and I called on Mr. William Chandler of Prospect, after which we drove to South Waterbury and called on Cousin Robert Somers. 10\10\1932 (Monday) This morning I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and left some typing to be done. I returned by the Scott Road which is nearly impassable for an auto. Workemen {Workmen} are cutting the brush on the Summit Road, preparetory {preparatory} to starting grading for the State road for a distance of about one mile. 10\11\1932 (Tuesday) Sharpened picks and grubs for the Calvary Cemetery all day. 10\12\{1932} (Wednesday) Dug potatoes all day. 10\13\1932 (Thursday) Finished digging potatoes. When I was ready to come home from the farm, it being rather cold, I could not start my car so I came home {??} the trolley car and later Ray went out and he started it and we came home. 10\14\1932 (Friday) This morning we had a heavy frost. I went to the City Hall and got home at two P.M. Did odd jobs about home the rest of the day. 10\15\1932 (Saturday) This morning I moved Rowland Jenner's furniture from the corner of Frost Road and {? ?} Road into my barn. Phil Royter helped. I then repaired a large scraper for Mr. Hapenney. Raymond came and helped me. I then sharpened three grubs for the Mill Plain Church. 10\16\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church. In the afternoon Mary and I called on Wm. Purdy on East Mountain Road and on the Cowdells and at Hotchkisses. 10\17\1932 (Monday) This morning Ray came and put a generator in my Ford truck. We then went to the farm and Ray cut corn on the hill and I carted it down with the steer and cart till near noon when I cut too and we finished cutting this afternoon. We took the truck and brought it all down and stacked it up. It began to rain at noon and increased during the time we were working so by night it was raining quite hard. 10\18\1932 (Tuesday) Rained nearly all day. This morning I went to City Hall. This afternoon I went to Prospect to see Edgar Wallice. 10\19\1932 (Wednesday) I repaired and put new netting on the upstairs screen door and painted it. Did odd jobs and sawed fire wood. Rained hard all day. This evening Mary and I went to a hash and pancake supper at the Mill Plain Church. 10\20\1932 (Thursday) Cut wood the forenoon. This afternoon I drew a barrel of wood ashes to the young orchard on the hill and put them around the trees. I then cultivated some of them. 10\21\1932 (Friday) I went to City Hall this forenoon and worked in the vault copying records after which I went to the Bank and drew 90.00 and paid the last instalment {installment} of my tax. I then went to Prospect. They are working on the Summit Road and on the Matthews St. Road making improved State roads, one mile on each road. 10\22\1932 (Saturday) My brother Frank's birthday, 77 years old. This day I went to the farm at East Farms and cultivated about 37 young appletrees on the hill, and also cultivated a strip 12 ft. wide along the high fence on the North side of our land where we had corn and potatoes to keep the fire from crossing in case the land above burns over before next summer. 10\23\1932 (Sunday) This morning after going to the farm and doing the chores, Mary and I took my Ford Roadster and went to Ray's on Capitol Avenue, and there took in Ray and Ruth and started to visit brother Frank at West Simsbury. Ray drove and Ruth and Mary sat in the rumble seat. We went out the Meriden Road and down the mountain where we turned North just before reaching the rail road crossing and followed near the old canal to the H.D. Smith forging shop where we took Middle Street and at the upper end took the right road which brought us onto the Plainville Road and over Red Stone Hill and into Plainville where we turned North on North Washington Street which we traveled to the crossing of the Farmington Road where we found a new concrete bridg {bridge} on the Scott Swamp Brook. Here we took the Unionville Road which is being reconstructed and we found men, steam rollers and shovel in operation near the upper end. We passed by them all and{??} went on down a long hill and through the Village of Unionsville and North up Lovely Street and on past Cherry Park Fair Grounds to the Alberny Road where we turned West and went to Canton Center where we attended service in the Old Congregational Church. The Congregation was rather small and the minister seemed very active and good. After having drove East we took the Bushy Hill Road which we left at the top of the mountain and traveled North to Frank's at West Simsbury. We found Frank quite well and Gussie comfortable. They have a young part Indian girl helping them so they are getting along quite well. Ray built a fire out of doors and fried a lot of meat cakes that he had brough and we had a fine dinner. After we had eaten, Frank, Ray and I went down the road beyond the brook and Ray climbed and shook a walnut tree and we picked up about 13 quarts of walnuts after which we started for home coming over the same roads that we went up on till {until} we got South of Unionville when we turned West on the Copper Mine Road but before reaching the mine, we turned South on a new state road which took us onto the Farmington Bristol Road which we followed into Bristol and on through the town on West Street, up Wolcott Ave. and up Fall Mountain past Cedar Swamp Pond and over Lindley's hill to Woodtick where we turned South on the Todd Road and on to East Farms where we stoped {stopped} and did the chores, then we came in and went to Ray's where they unloaded and then we came back home where we had supper. 08\24\1932 (Monday) I went to Prospect this morning and could not get through the Summit Road as they were putting in heavy concrete sluce{??} pipes and blasting out the rocks preparatory to building a Town improved road. I then went across the Juggernot Road and in Matthews Street, but it was very rough but they have nearly finished the second mile of that road. I came back to the farm and raked up a lot of leaves and put them in the stable, after which I plowed on the hill. The joiners werep {were} putting up the rafters on the new house they are building north of out {our??} land. 10\25\1932 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to City Hall. This afternoon I worked at the farm. 10\26\1932 (Wednesday) This morning it rained quite a while. I went to the farm and plowed on the hill till four o'clock, came home after doing the chores and then attended a supper and lecture of the Mens Club at the Mill Plain Church. 10\27\1932 (Thursday) Rained all day, did the chores at the farm and many odd jobs about home. I bought for the Mill Plain Church 1 gal. flat while 2.75 {??} putty .10 Glass 14 x 30 .55 = 3.40 less .40 $3.00 1 doz toilet paper .50 Total 3.50. 10\28\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Mary and I called on Mrs. Sarah Hine this afternoon. She is the only one left of James Porter's family and is 83 years old. 10\29\1932 (Saturday) Plowed at the farm most of the day. 10\30\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon I went to Prospect and with Mr. Frest{??} Hotchkiss and select man Albert Allen went down the old bound line road to the three brothers which is a large pile of rocks with three large chestnut trees growing out of it. The whole is the bounds at the present time of the towns of Prospect, Betheny and Naugatuck but in 1680, the same spot bounded New Haven, Milford, Wallingford and Waterbury. The chestnut trees are now each about two feet in diameter and all are dead, while they stood with a space of about one foot between them. One was in Naugatuck, one in Betheny and the other in Prospect. The one in Prospect has fallen and lies prostrate on the ground. We also visited the site of an old Saw Mill on the Salem Road. This evening Mary and I attended a gathering at Rev. Mr. Todd's house. 10\31\1932 (Monday) I worked all day getting out rocks where we had potatoes on the hill. 11\01\1932 (Tuesday) I went to City Hall this forenoon. It rained hard all the morning. This afternoon I did odd jobs about home and chores at the farm. 11\02\1932 (Wednesday) Lifted out rocks on the hill all day. Weather was fine. This evening we attended a meeting of the Official Board. 11\03\1932 (Thursday) Weather cool, ice froze 1/4" thick last night. Lifted out rocks all day. 11\04\1932 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Did odd jobs about home and at the farm this P.M. Sent to Hartford for my auto licence {license}. 11\05\{1932} (Saturday) Worked at the farm getting out rocks on the hill most of the day. Raked up many leaves at home and at the farm. 11\06\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. The {They} had the Cotton Blossom (Negro) Singers present. Mary and I went to Mr. George Driver's at the South end of Prospect and to Mr. Cowdell's and over Matthews Street to Fred Bergere. They have the second mile of Matthews Street graded and ready for the crushed stone and the second mile of the Summit Road is impassible {impassable} as the Steam Shovel is working there. 11\07\1932 (Monday) Rained all day. I made some auto irons for Ed Bronson and did odd jobs about home. 11\08\1932 (Tuesday) Election day. After doing the chores at the farm, Mary and I went to a vacent {vacant} store at the corner of East Main and Alma{??} Streets and voted for President Hoover, Govenor {Governor} Trumbrell{?} and for Proabetion {Prohibition} etc. I then went to City Hall till noon, after which I picked up four bushels of apples and did other odd jobs. 11\09\1932 (Wednesday) Rosevelt {Roosevelt} was elected president yesterday and Cross Governor of Conn. To day I worked getting out stones on the hill and doing work about the barn. 11\10\1932 (Thursday) It rained hard all night and this morning. Mad River was higher than it has been foor years as was many other streams. Out to East Farms, Beaver Pond Brook flooded the meadows and was over the Plank Road, the lower end of the Pierpont Road was washed badly with water running two feet deep in it between the two bridges. Many cellers {cellars} were flooded all about Fairlawn. I worked about home all day. This evening Mary and I attended a social gathering of the Church people at Raymonds. There were 32 present. 11\11\1932 (Friday) I worked all day on the hill and got out one big rock. 11\12\{1932} (Saturday) Finished getting out the stones on the hill, that is, all I am going to get out this fall. Now I must break them up and draw them away. The weather has been mild and clear to day. 11\13\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon I went to George Driver's in Prospect and he showed me where the Avery{??} Hotchkiss Saw Mill stood in early times 1784. The site is now partly covered by the dam of the Naugatuck Water Co. We also found the old celler {cellar} where {???} Stephen Hotchkiss first settled, 1705 and where David Payne lived in 1824 and the place where Chaney Judd lived in 1797. This evening we attended a social gathering at Bessie Pierpont's. 11\14\1932 (Monday) This morning I worked a spell in the East Farms Cemetery. This afternoon Mary and {I} attended the funeral of Robert Somer's wife. It was held at Aldersons on Central Av. Sake{??} was buried in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery North of the Church. 11\15\1932 (Tuesday) This morning I filed a saw for Mr. Michael G. Valasek of Rpospect and carried it to him. I then went to Mr. Cowdels and left a letter for Nellie to typewirght {typewrite}. I then worked in the East Farms Cemetery the rest of the day mowing and cleaning up. 11\16\1932 (Wednesday) Rained some to day. I husked out 4 {???} of corn and did jobs about the barn at the farm and raked and cleaned the East Farms Cemetery. 11\17\1932 (Thursday) Worked at East Farms Cemetery 5 1\2 hr. cleaning up and setting stones. {11\18 - 11\21 no entries} {{Newspaper clipping - Headline:}} {{Mill Plain Church To Mark Founding}} 11\22\1932 (Tuesday) After doing the chores at the farm last Friday morning Mary and I started to visit Frank's folks in Kent. We went by way of Middlebury down Ben Sherman Hill and up Woodbury Main Street and across the Cemetery Road through Hotchkissville over the new State Road to Washington and on down the great hill through Washington Depot and along the winding road to New Preston, then up by the East Side of the beautiful Lake Waramaug and over the hills and round the mountain into Warren. The new road that is being built from Warren to Kent is not completed. So we went to Swifts Bridge and down the main road to Kent and reached Frank' s some time after dinner. Elsie soon had a fine lunch on the table of which we ate heartily. We spent the afternoon looking the barns and yards over and in the evening we all except Elsie and the baby went to the Community House and heard the Mendleson {Mendelssohn} Chorus of Waterbury sing. Thirty six men, they were fine. Saturday morning we were up at the usual time but Frank and the children Mary, Bertha and Dwight had their breakfast. Frank gets up at five and with three men do all the milking and feeding and are through by about six, milk each day six hundred quarts and feed 95 head of cattle and 5 horses. Through breakfast at 7 and at work letting out the cows, cleaning stables, etc. This day it rained hard all day and before night, Massodonia Brook had flooded the flat lands and the water was tuching {touching} the old bridge. When Frank went to the School Kitchen after the container that they carry their cooked supper in, it was not yet filled so he took us, Mary, I, Mary and Bertha and Dwight to see the high water at Bulls Bridge. It was a sight to see, the river pouring over the great dams and spillways and then rush through the gorge over under the old covered bridge. We called at the school at dark and got our suppers which we took home and Elsie arranged it on the table and we all partook after which we visited a spell and then retired. Sunday morning, we were up and ate breakfast with the rest. The weather was cold but clear. After the barn work was done, we got ready and went to church. After service, we had dinner and Frank and the children started for Storrs to get a girl to do the house work while Elsie is sick. While they were gone, I took a walk up to the Old Iron Works in Macadonia Park and got back before dark. Mary had gone with Jessie to take the container to the School Kitchen. I got my car out and started but met them near home so I drove up Main St. and back to warm up the engine. After dark I went and got the container, as I came by the New Church the chimes began to ring. They sounded fine. Frank got back about seven bringing Miss{??} Parker, having driven 180 miles. Monday. We ate breakfast with the family and I soon had the car at the door and we loaded up. Dwight, Mary and Bertha got into the rumble seat and I left them at the public school and we came on through New Milford where we stoped {stopped} and Mary mailed a letter. We then came up Chicken Hill and followed the crooked and steep road to Bridgewater, then down to the Shepang River and near it to Roxbury Depot, then up to Roxbury Center, and on to Woodbury and home. In the afternoon I sharpened some drills for Frank Welton and did farm chores, worked on truck etc. To day I husked corn at the farm. Weather cold. 11\23\1932 (Wednesday) I husked corn at the farm. 11\24\1932 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. For the first time since 1866 with one exception, I haven't attended the Somers Family Reunion on Thanksgiving Day. To day Mary and I took dinner at Raymond's house on Capitol Avenue. There was present, Ray, his wife Ruth, his wife's mother Mrs. Loucks and Mary and I. 11\25\1932 (Friday) To day I husked corn. 11\26\1932 (Saturday) I finished husking corn after dinner. Weather, damp, windy and towards night cold. The wind blew some of the felt from the roof of the barn at the farm. Mary recieved a letter from Elsie who is in the New Milford Hospital with a new daughter that was born last Monday named Lois Pierpont. This makes the fifth child for Elsie and Frank and I believe the twentieth grand child for Mary and I. This afternoon Ray came to the farm and I went to his house and helped him put up a roof over his South door. 11\27\1932 (Sunday) Weather colder this morning than any morning so far this fall. Ray came to adjust the generator in the new Ford Run-A-Bout and then we could nto start it. Finally he towed me up the street and it started, but by the time I had breakfast and went out to the farm, it was to {too} late for Church. After dinner Mary and I went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and Mary stood there while Nellie and I went to Fred Berger's at Summit Station and we all walked up the Mintic Road to the line between the towns of Cheshire and Waterbury which line we followed till we came to the stone that marked line of Prospect. We continued southward along the old road that formed the bounde {boundary} between Cheshire and Waterbury before Prospect was incorporated. About 30 rods{??} southerly{?} we came to an old celler {cellar} where a man named Andrew Peach built a house in 1798. He and his wife Anna sold it in 1812 and we have no acount of anyone living there since. We continued on nearly half a mile and came to another house place where Daniel Baldwin settled in 1798. It was later occupied by his son Isaac. We then followed an old path Eastwardly to another old house place, but we knew nothing of who lived here. We then traveled North to the Plank Road and to Mr. Berger's where Nellie and I took my car and came to East Farms where I did the chores. Then we went back the Plank Road and up the Summit Road which they have done grading and are putting on the crushed stone to Mr. Cowdell's where I took in Mary and we came home. 11\28\1932 (Monday) Very cold moring, ten above. It took me a long time to get my car started and it was noon before I was ready to leave for the farm. This afternoon I repaired the roof of the barn where the felt blew off last Saturday. 11\29\1932 (Tuesday) Cold this morning, 10 above. I went to the farm and did the choers {chores} then home and sharpened picks etc. till noon. Then repaired a clip for the Calvary Cemetery snow plow and filed a cross cut saw for Chris Welton which I took out to him. 11\30\1932 (Wednesday) Worked at blacksmith work and filing a large cross cut saw for St. Joseph's Cemetery. 12\01\1392 (Thursday) Drew out manure at the farm all day. Charles De Bissop and Morton E. Pierpont started their lawsuit against William and Edson Hitchcock and the Pine Grove Cemetery for an accounting of the Perpetual Care fund. It was heard before Judge Baldwin of the Superior Court. He has ordered a complete report to begin when Edson Hitchcock was first made treasurer twenty years ago. The report is to be turned into {in to} the Court on the 16th of December. 12\02\1932 (Friday) This morning I worked on the snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery. Did my chores at the farm. Then went to town. Worked again on the plow after dinner, then took a letter to Miss Cowdell to be typewritten, saw Fred Berger at Summit, then to the farm and home. 12\03\1932 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked on the snow plow for Calavry Cemetery. Mr. Dockrum of Waterville brought four gallons of winter oil and I put five quarts in each of my Ford cars. 12\04\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Joseph O. Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went to Cheshire and visited Mr. Albert A. Adt. 12\05\1932 (Monday) This morning Ray came and we cut a side out of an iron barrel and made preperations {preparations} for butchering Grump. Then we went to the farm and plowed both gardens in the lower meadow. 12\06\1932 (Tuesday) Went to Mr. Cowdell's in Prospect and got a letter that was typed for me. Mr. Blewitt called and was greatly excited because Mr. Gramm{??} who is chair man of the Official Board had received a communication from the trustees of the Mill Plain Church recomending {recommending} the reducing of expenses and among other things, the hiring of another minister. In the evening Mr. Todd called and wished me to attend the meeting of the Official Board tomorrow evening. Mr. Brinkman's dog killed a hen this afternoon. This makes six that the dog has killed. 12\07\1932 (Wednesday) Went to the farm this morning and evening and did the chores. I cleaned away the brush and got ready to build a fence on the East side of the lot near the wheel house. I filed two saws for Ed Bronson. I called the Dog Warden and he called Mr. Harry Brinkman and told him to settle with me and he came. I wanted six dollars and he said that he would pay it. This evening we attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Church and the report of the Trustees was submitted to the Executive Committee except the section which gave Mr. Todd sixty days notice to resign which was unamiously {unanimously} rejected. 12\08\1932 (Thursday) I built over the old fence south of the wheel house that divides our land from that of the Roman Catholic land. 12\09\1932 (Friday) Went to the town clerk' s office this forenoon and worked on records. This afternoon I went to the Cemetery at Prospect Center to the funeral of Mr. Herny D. Hotchkiss who died at his home on Bucks Hill. He was born and lived in Prospect until 1880 when he came to Waterbury. 12\10\{1932} (Saturday) This forenoon I repaired the tea kettle and the electric stove. This afternoon Ray came and we went to the farm and got ready to have a man butcher Grump in the morning. Then we went to his place North of the Stetson Road and got his scalding barrel. 12\11\1932 (Sunday) This morning I was up at 5.30. Found the ground covered with about an inch of snow. After a hasty bite, I went out and started my car when Ray came and we went to the farm and got the barrel of water warm and at 7.30, Ray went to the Stilson Road and got Mr. {? ?} who came and killed Grump and dressed him off. Ray took the butcher home after which we loaded the pig into the truck and brought it home. I then, after having breakfast, went down to the bridge and got a paper and, as the day was very cold, staid in and read, etc. the rest of the day. 12\12\1932 (Monday) This morning was very cold and the ground was covered with about one and one half inches of snow on which was a thick crust of ice. Ray came soon after eight and took me to the farm where we did the chores. We then came home and cut up the pig and got the meat ready to salt down, and Mary cut up the leaf{??} and fat and we boiled and tried{??} it to lard. Last night there was a large fire, corner of W Main and State Streets. The building was a large girage {garage}, the upper floor of which was piled with auto tires all of which was burned togather {together} with eighteen autos. The rubber and gasoline made a hot fire. The loss is placed at $100,000.00 12\13\1932 (Tuesday) This morning very slipery {slippery}. I went to the City Hall this forenoon and cut wood in the afternoon. 12\14\1932 (Wednesday) Margaret's little daughter Nita Northrop died at the Waterbury Hospital last night at 8 o'clock of spinal menengitis. She was 4 years and 10 months old. This morning I brushed out the snow paths. Snow ahd fallen during the night to the depth of four inches. Choped {Chopped} fire wood the rest of the day. 12\15\1932 (Thursday) I worked about home cutting wood etc. This afternoon Ray came and we salted down the pork, ham, bacon etc. 12\16\1932 (Friday) Zero this morning, very cold all day. Little Nita was buried in the New Pine Grove Cemetery. The funeral service was held in the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joesph Todd officiating. Ruth came from Storrs and Frank from Kent. There was a large attendance of friends. 12\17\1932 (Saturday) This has been the coldest day in years. There has not been a time during the day that the themometer {thermometer} has registered over three above zero. This morning it was five degrees below. It took me a long time to get either of my cars started so I could not go to the farm. I did odd jobs about home most of the day. 12\18\1932 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. J. O. Todd. This day Fred Wilson was organist, and they had the regular Chair of about 24 voices. For the first time the Boys Choir of about 32 and the Junior Chair, about 34. Altogather {Altogether} there were about 90 singers. This day has been cold. 12\19\1932 (Monday) Ten below zero this morning. I cut stove wood and kept the furnice {furnace} going which kept me busy. 12\20\1932 (Tuesday) Cold weather, five below this morning, but it thawed some at noon. I went to City Hall this forenoon then came home and had dinner then carried Mary up to the Mill Plain Union Church to attend a meeting of the Ladies Union. I then went to the farm and did the chores, then came home and cut wood till dark. Arthur and Mildred Byrd of Bristol called this evening and left some Christmas presents. We received a large package to day from Irving from Milwaukee. 12\21\1932 (Wednesday) I worked about home and did the chores at the farm, then went to Chalres Tuttle's at Woodtick and had a visit. Mary went to town this afternoon. They are making over the road from the Wolcott town line through Woodtick towards Bristol to a little beyond Seavills{??} Reservoir into a State road. 12\22\{1932} (Thursday) Shortest day of the year. Had to feed the chickens at 4.30 as it began to be dark. I choped {chopped} wood all day. Weather not very cold. Thawed quite a little. 12\23\1932 (Friday) I choped {chopped} wood for the fire all day. 12\24\1932 (Saturday) Weather warm, choped {chopped} wood. We received many Christmas cards and Mary Hapenny brought a box of oysters that came from Chespeake {Chesapeake} Bay and Leland Garrigus brought a large basket of fruit from the Mattatutck Drum Band. 12\25\1932 (Sunday) Christmas Day. We attended service at the Mill Plain Church. This afternoon Mary and I went to Margaret's where we had a Christmas dinner and later a tree. We all received many presents. 12\26\1932 (Monday) This morning Cliff, Margaret, Mary and I, with Gene to drive, went to Ruth's at Storrs. We went via Meriden, Middletown, Postland, East Hampton, Marlborough, Hebron, Colombia and Williomantis{??}. At none {noon?} we had a fine dinner and in the evening a Christmas Tree. All had presents and all had a good time. About eight o'clock we started for home. We came by the same route that we went, reached home about 10 P.M. 12\27\1932 (Tuesday) I worked about home all day. 12\28\1932 (Wednesday) Worked about home. This afternoon I carried Mr. Dressler's{?} scalding barrell {barrel} home. I then went to Woodtick and called on Charles Tuttle then to East Farms and did chorse, then home. 12\29\1932 (Thursday) Worked about home most of the day. This evening Mary and I attended an entertainment and dance at the East Farms school. There were many of the nighborhood {neighborhood} present. I read a{?} paper {?????} to the early school and neighborhood. 12\30\1932 (Friday) This morning I went to the vault in the Town Clerk's office and looked up records. This afternoon, did chores at the farm and dug a drain ditch by the Hog House. 12\31\1932 (Saturday) Weather is very mild. I cut wood till it rained hard. Then I repaired a steel stantion {stanchion} for Mr. Edward Scott and cut wood, also repaired my truck and put the 1933 Markers on both cars. //end of 1932 entries// [CSM Journal for 1933] 01\01\1933 (Sunday) My Model A Licence reads as follows, Dated Jan 1, 1933 Certificate No. 1799. Name of Car, Ford. Style of Body, Roadster. Year of Model, 1931. Model A, Piston Displacement 201. Color of Car, Maroon. Personal Tax in Waterbury. Fee $16.00. 1933. The No. on the plates of my Model T Ford truck is 24901. Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. J. O. Todd. After service the members of the Official Board had their pictures taken as well as other orginazions {organizations}. The pictures are to be put into the new Church Directory which is being published. This has been a cold day. 01\02\1933 (Monday) Choped {Chopped} wood and did the blacksmith work. 01\03\1933 (Tuesday) Went to the town clerk's office and looked up records this forenoon and cut wood this afternoon. 01\04\1933 (Wednesday) Cut wood and repaired my auto truck to day. Weather has been warm. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Church. 01\05\1933 (Thursday) This forenoon I cut wood. In the afternoon went to the farm, did chores and odd jobs. Then went up to Woodtick and saw Charles Tuttle. He got his drum and played some of the most diffcult {difficult} pieces I ever heard. He is ahead of any one I ever saw for executing on the drum. 01\06\1933 (Friday) Went to Town Clerk's office this forenoon. Chopped wood this afternoon. Weather very mild. 01\07\1933 (Saturday) Cut stove wood all day, only when it rained twice. Ex President Calvin Coolidge was buried to day. His funeral was attended by President Herbert Hoover and other government leaders from Washington. The funeral service were held in the Edwards Congregational Church at Northamton{????}, Mass. and burial was at his old home at Plymouth Vt. 01\08\1933 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. They had the regular Choir and the new Boy's Choir of 35 boys. The regular had 24 men an {and} women. Did choers {chores} at farm and spent the day at nome. 01\09\1933 (Monday) Snowed steardy {steady} and hard till noon about six inches, then it turned to rain. I dug out the pathes and did some other jobs this afternoon. Wrote all the forenoon. 01\10\1933 (Tuesday) Roads very slippery this morning, many autos skidded. I went to Town to the Town Clerk's office. In the afternoon, went to the farm, did chores and cleaned out the lower spring and water trough by the side of the road. 01\11\1931 (Wednesday) Cut stove wood at home all day. This evening I attended a meeting of the Men's Club at the Mill Plain Church. 01\12\1933 (Thursday) I worked about home all day, except that I did the chores at the farm. Painted and repaired the kitchen floor. 01\13\1933 (Friday) Painted the desk room floor this morning and did odd jobs about home. 01\14\1933 (Saturday) Wheeled wood into the cellar all day and piled it up. 01\15\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Todd had a special service as it was the fifteenth anniversary of his wedding which took place in Calofornia {California}. 01\16\1933 (Monday) Wheeled wood into the cellar and piled it up and made fence, south of the wheel house. 01\17\{1932} (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this morning. Painted miss Picket's window screens and repaired them this afternoon. 01\18\1933 (Wednesday) Repaired the fence and painted it near the wheel house. 01\19\1933 (Thursday) Put in the screens in Miss Picket's room. Rained all the forenoon. Set fence post {???} at the Northwest corner of the home lot. 01\20\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Worked at the farm this afternoon, drew a load of manure to the lot on the hill and drilled a hole in a rock for blasting. 01\21\1933 (Saturday) This morning I put new lining in my brake of the Ford Truck. I then went to the farm and drew several loads of manure up on the hill. The weather to day has been nice and warm more like May than January. 01\22\1933 (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon we went to Mr. C. H. Martin's at East Farms. We staid till about six, and it was very foggy when we came home. 01\23\1933 (Monday) At the farm all day drawing manure on the hill. Drilled a hole in a stone for blasting in the lower lot near the upper gate. 01\24\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to City Hall. Weather was mild. This afternoon I drilled holes in rocks on the hill. Bought of Mr. Beebe{??} five gallons of gasoline for the truck, paid 70 cts. 01\25\1933 (Wednesday) Worked at the farm all day drilling holes in stones. The weather was cloudy and warm. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 01\26\1933 (Thursday) Snowed hard this morning but stoped {stopped} before noon. About 1 1/2" fell. This afternoon I attended a meeting of the shareholders of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc. No dividens {dividends}. Ran behind eleven thousand dollars in 1932, 630,00 1931, 85,00 1930, but business in general is now very dull. 01\27\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. This afternoon I filed 3 buck saw{s} for Ed Bronson and did other odd jobs about home. 01\28\1933 (Saturday) Repaired chairs{??}, filed saws, ground axes, etc. in the wheelhouse. 01\29\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon Mary and I went to Edgar Jerrolds at Rag Hollow. 01\30\1933 (Monday) Repaired furniture in the wheel house and did odd jobs. Frank Welton called to find out about the early schools of Mill Plain. 01\31\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. This afternoon I went to Meriden to see Mr. Snow at the International Silver Co. but he had gone to Hartford. 02\01\1933 (Wednesday) This morning Mary and I went to West Simsbury and there found Frank and Gussy in a fair state of health considering their age. The weather was warm and some cloudy but no storm. We reached home about 5 P.M. This evening we attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church at which it was voted to see $2,000 worth of Church Bonds to help pay the depts {debts} of the Church, especially a bank note for 770.00 that was endorsed by William H. Garrigus and Bessie Pierpont. A committee was appointed to plan for the observence {observance} of the fiftieth anniversary of the Church. I consisted of, {? ?}. 02\02\1933 (Thursday) I trimmed appletrees at home. In the afternoon drilled rocks. 02\03\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. In the afternoon went to Meriden and saw Mr. Snow at the International Silver Works. 02\04\1933 (Saturday) Trimmed apple trees at home and drilled rocks at the farm. 02\05\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The day has been very cold, the ground is covered with snow about 1" deep, but the roads are very icy and slippery. 02\06\1933 (Monday) Very cold day. Did odd jobs about home. 02\07\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. This afternoon Mary and I drove to Edgar Wallace place in Propsect where we ontained some information regarding early manufacturing in Prospect, especialy umbrella trimmings. We then visited Theodore Allenen. 02\08\1933 (Wednesday) Trimmed fruit trees and did the chores at the farm. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mens Club at the Mill Plain Church. Thhis {This} forenoon I covered the ham and bacon with licquid {liquid} smoke and Ray did the same to his this evening. 02\09\1933 (Thursday) Very cold day. Trimmed fruit trees about home. 02\10\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Very cold, worked about home and did the chores at the farm. 02\11\1933 (Saturday) This morning it was snowing hard and by noon about 10" had fallen. It took me all the afternoon to get the pathes {paths} dug out, etc. 02\12\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Weather cold, 6 below this morning. 02\13\1933 (Monday) Cold this morning. 17 below zero. I dug out the clothes[??} paths and worked in the Wheel house. 02\14\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. I got my auto driver's licence on Benedict Street, paid 3.00 for it for one year from March 1st. 02\15\1933 (Wednesday) Did Blacksmith work and odd jobs home. 02\16\1933 (Thursday) Trimmed plum trees and apple trees. An attempt was made last night to shoot President Elect Roosevelt at Miami, Florida last night by a crank{??} named Zangara{?}. He fired five shots and hit five persons, one of which was Mayor Cermae{??} of Chicago who isn't expected to live, also a woman is expected to die. Luckily, Mr. Roosevelt escaped. Morton Pierpotn is bad with the Rheumatism. 02\17\1933 (Friday) Went to the Proabte Court Records this forenoon. This afternoon ground Charlie Welton's ax and worked at the farm. Harold Pierpont has four children sick with the scarlet fever and his wife is sick too. Aunt Edna has came from Hartford to care for them. The style of woman's dresses are changing. They are making them about two inches longer. For the last eight, the style has had them reach to the knees only, and many wore pretty silk stockings that they were not afraid to show above the knees. 02\18\1933 (Saturday) Trimmed apple trees at the farm. Warm day, snow nearly all gone. 02\19\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. Visited Morton Pierpont at his house this afternoon. We rented the upstairs tenement of our house to day to Mr. Vogal who has a wife and small child, price $10.00 per month. 02\20\1933 (Monday) Rained hard this morning. I cleaned the chicken coop and did odd jobs about home. This afternoon I trimmed apple tree branches at the farm and attended a meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association where it was voted to accept an {a} resilution {resolution} empowering the Cemetery to borrow $16,000.00 if they wish or for the treasurer to pay back the $16,000.00 which the Court auditors find he is short. Had a ton of soft coal come to day, $8.00. 02\21\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Weather is cold and windy. 02\22\1933 (Wednesday) Cleaned up the brush from under the appletrees that I trimmed and repaired the wheel drops on my little car. This afternoon I trimmed appletrees at the farm and called on Mort Pierpont. 02\23\1933 (Thursday) I trimmed appletrees at the farm most of the day. 02\24\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. While there, about 1000 unemployed marched into Field Street and presented a petition to Mr. Harris of the Lincoln House and also to Mayor Frank Hayes, I went to Prospect and saw Patrick Spellman this afternoon. 02\25\{1933} (Saturday) Trimmed appletrees till noon when it began to snow. I then cut up a lot on {of??} corn stalks and did odd jobs about the barn, etc. 02\26\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Moses Lovell of the Second Congregational Church preached. The Young People's Choir wore their new robes for the first time to day. There were three Choirs. The regular Choir about 30 voices, the Boys Choir about 36 white robes with black collars, the Young People's Choir about 38 young men and ladies in White robes with red collars. The Old Regular Choir war {wore} black robes. They all sang good, nearly 100 voices all trained. 02\27\1933 (Monday) Did odd jobs about home till noon. Then went to the farm and trimmed an old appletree. This evening Ray and Ruth called and we went to the Grange Hall to a meeting of the newly formed Tax Payers League. The income of the City has been much less than the expenses for the past ten years, except one year when the tax was 42 mills. They have borrowed money to get by with and now there is a bill before the Legislature to empower the City to borrow three million dollars. This forenoon I sharpened some tools for Mr. Gray, .60. 02\28\{1933} (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. Trimmed appletrees at the farm this afternoon. 03\01\1933 (Wednesday) Finished trimming appletrees at the farm to day. 03\02\1933 (Thursday) Snowed hard this morning. I did several jobs about home this forenoon. This afternoon I worked at the farm a spell trimming out the appletree brush. Yesterday afternoon the inside of a house owned by Mr. Swift was burned out. The house was the third North on the West side of the Frost Road. 03\03\{1933} (Friday) I made over a wheel barrow and did odd jobs at the farm. 03\04\{1933} (Saturday) Inauguration Day. To day President Roosevelt is inaugrate {inaugurated} into the office of President of the United States. 03\05\1933 (Sunday) Am not feeling well. Mary called Dr. Barber and he prescribed licquid {liquid} medicine an dpills. I have a bad bronkill {bronchial} cough and raise{?} much. 03\06\{1933} (Monday) Staid in the house all day. Raymond did the chores at the farm. Margaret and Marion called. Weather is dull an {and} chilly. 03\07\1933 (Tuesday) Staid in the house all day. 03\08\1933 (Wednesday) Not much better. Weather chilly, raw and damp. Snowed at times all day. 03\09\1933 (Thursday) Snowed hard this morning. Mr. Vogal moved in up stairs to day. 03\10\1933 (Friday) Every body is short of money. The banks have been closed since last Saturday. Many have checks but cannot get them cashed, and there is no change to be had. Weather is cold, raw and windy. Ray comes and does the choes {chores} here and at the farm. 03\11\1933 (Saturday) Papers tell of a great earth quake in Calafornia {California}. Hundreds of lives have been lost and an untold amount of damage done. Weather still very cold. We called Dr. Barber and he ordered medicine of Mr. Kunkle{?} for both Mary and me. I paid him three dollars for the visit and paid Kunkle four dollars for the medicine. This included medicine that he ordered last Sunday for me. 03\12\1933 (Sunday) Weather cold and wet. Mary and I both staid in the house all day. Ray came and brought in lots of wood, and did the chores at the farm. This is the first time since I was in the hospital in 1928 that we have not attended service on Sunday. Gene came this afternoon and brought a fine dinner for me. 03\13\1933 (Monday) Banks still closed, cannot get checks cashed, many are without money. This morning the sun came out but it soon clowed {clouded??} and began to rain and has been wet and cold all day. Ray let Teddy out this morning and shut him in this evening at the farm. Mary and I fixed nests and put two settling hens on to day. 03\14\1933 (Tuesday) Damp cold day. Painted a wheelbarrow in the wheelhouse but staid in the house most of the time. 03\15\1933 (Wednesday) Cold all day with some snow. Staid in the house all day. Am not feeling as well as I did yesterday. 03\16\1933 (Thursday) Staid in the house all day. To night Ray came and he and Mr. Vogal put up Vogal's pulley line. Mr. Vogal paid me $10.00, one month's rent. Should have been paid the 9th but he could not get it as the Banks were all closed. 03\17\1933 (Friday) To day I went to the farm and did the chores. Mrs. Totten called and visited with Mary a long{??} yesterday afternoon. To day is St. Patricks Day and the girls and young Irish are dressed with green caps, dresses, stockings etc. in his honor. 03\18\1933 (Saturday) Weather has been fine, not very cold. Have felt some better to day. Cleaned the chicken house this morning and went to the farm this afternoon and brought back five bags of oats for the chickens. Money is scarce and many people are out of work. The factories still continue to reduce wages. 03\19\1933 (Sunday) Early this morning it was warm but it soon began to snow and had snowed hard all day. This evening it had turned into rain. We have staid in all the time except I took the small car and went to the farm and did the chores. 03\20\1933 (Monday) Cold and rain all day. Went to the farm and did the chores and repaired bolts in the Wheel House. 03\21\1933 (Tuesday) Could {Cold} and rain most of the day. Thunder and lightening this forenoon. Much of the snow is gone. 03\22\1933 (Wednesday) This morning dawned clear with the sun shining, but later it turned dull and grew colder towards night. Ray and Ruth had a hen hatch six chickens this morning, their first chickens. I hope Cooley's old cat won't get them. 03\23\1933 (Thursday) Cloudy all day. I cut brush wood. Repaired the fence at the North West corner of my lot. Mr. Hannon called and wished to buy my place. We had a ton of soft coal come to day from the Citizens Coal Co., paid $8.00. 03\24\1933 (Friday) This morning I went to City Hall and studied East Farms records. This afternoon went to Paul Kunkle's drug store and got a little bottle of medicine for $2.50 and a fancy bottle of olive oil for .25. I cut up brush wood the rest of the time aside going to the farm and doing chores there. 03\25\1933 (Saturday) Filed a long brass cut saw for Mr. Valesky{??} of Prospect. Planted four rows of peas and finished cutting the brush wood. 03\26\1933 (Sunday) Snowed hard all day, though at night there was only about four inches as it was warm and settled, had it not settled there probably {would} have been eleven inches. Not feeling well. We did not go to Church. 03\27\1933 (Monday) This morning the sun shown bright and warm, melting the snow fast but it gradually grew colder so by night it was chily. I worked at the rotary pump in the cellar this forenoon. Went to the farm in the afternoon and repaired Teddy's manger and trimmed out the brush of two trees. To night my back is stiff so it is hard to sit down and when down, it is hard to get up. 03\28\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall. Got home at 2.30. Went to farm and did the chores. Learned that Henry Kilbourne died last night. 03\28{29}\1933 (Wednesday) Went to the farm and drew manure up on the hill. Drew six loads. Ray and Ruth called this evening. Ray took home two thick slices of ham. 03\30\1933 (Thursday) Was at the farm this forenoon drawing manure up on the hill. This afternoon Mary and I attended Harry Kilbourn's funeral at the Mill Plain Union Church. It was filled with people. He was buried in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery about eight rods{??} south east from the old chapel. After the funeral Mary and I went to the Plains Cemetery this side of Plantsville and looked for the grave of Mrs. Deborah Pierpont, widow of Ezra Pierpont who died in 1842. 03\31\1933 (Friday) This forenoon I went to City Hall. This afternoon went to the farm and did odd jobs till night. 04\01\1933 (Saturday) Rained all day. Worked at the farm trimming apple tree brush, etc. 04\02\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd preached. They had the Boys Choir, the Young People's Choir and the Regular Choir, nearly 100 voices in all, and all fine. 04\03\1933 (Monday) Worked all the forenoon repairing the washing machine. Mr. Warren Hitchcock came for me {to} serve as a pall bearer for Mary Frost who died yesterday at Mrs. Brown's on North Main St. The other bearers are to be Theodore Munson, Hiram Abel and Edson Hitchcock. 04\04\1933 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. This P.M. I attended Mary Frost's funeral as pall bearers. She was the daughter of Charles Frost who lived forty years ago in the house that Warren Hitchcock now lives in but for a long time she has lived at Mrs. Brown's home on North Main St. She is the last person by the name of Frost, of all the numerous family who once lived in this vacinity {vicinity}. 04\05\1933 (Wednesday) To day I worked at the farm drawing out manure and hauling stones from the potatoe {potato} lot. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. 04\06\1932 {1933} (Thursday) Repaired a washing machine for Mrs. Smalley of Cheshire and then went to the farm and drew off stones from the potatoe {potato} lot. 04\07\1932 {1933} (Friday) Went to the Town Clerk's office this forenoon. Sharpened drills etc. for the unemployed men who are working making a ball ground East of the Mad River and South of Homestead Ave. on the flat near the River. This evening Mary and I attended an entertainment by the young people of Mill Plain Church. 04\08\1933 (Saturday) Ray helped me this afternoon break up stones on the hill at the farm. This forenoon I got ready. 04\09\1933 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph Todd officiated. There were four vested choirs of about one hundred and twenty voices. There was the Regular Choir, the Boys Choir, the Girls Choir and the Young Peoples Choir. The grandest singing I ever heard. This afternoon Mary and I went to Prospect to Mr. Cowdells and we stoped {stopped} at the Old Pierpont place a little North of Turkey Hill. Mr. Steeves now owns it. 04\10\1933 (Monday) This morning I repaired the washing machine and sharpened some drills. I then went to the farm and drilled holes in stones on the hill. 04\11\1933 (Tuesday) Went to the Town Clerk's Office this morning. This afternoon I went to the farm and drew brush upon the hill to use to cover blasts with. 04\12\1933 (Wednesday) Rained hard all day till dark, when it turned to snow. I rep {repaired??} hat rack and the kitchen clock and did odd jobs about the house and fired the brake on the truck. 04\13\1933 (Thursday) Blasted stones at the farm all day. This morning there was about three inches of snow on the ground. Arthur Bird and Mildred called this evening and they said that there was six inches at their place in Bristol this morning, and by noon it was all gone. 04\14\1933 (Friday) Good Friday. Worked repairing a wheel barrow for Calavary Cemetery. 04\15\1933 (Saturday) Finished Mr. Hapenny's wheel barrow and took it home to him. I then went to the farm and blasted rocks on the hill, except the time I spent helping the Italian get his car out of the mud. 04\16\1933 (Sunday) Easter. Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. The attendence {attendance} numbered over six hundred. There were four choirs. The regular seniour {senior} Choir of about 30 members, the Boys Choir, the Girls Choir and the Young People's Choir, all combined making over 100 voices. There were fifty seven who joined the church. 04\17\1933 (Monday) Drew stones off the lot on the hill this afternoon. This forenoon it rained and I cut up cornstalks, etc. 04\18\1933 (Tuesday) Rained hard this forenoon. Went to City Hall. Filed a large circular saw this afternoon and did Blacksmith work. 04\19\{1933} (Wednesday) Rained all day. I sharpened a lot of picks and repaired a wheel barrow. Put a tire on the wheel four inches wide. This evening Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hill called. 04\20\1933 (Thursday) Drew stones off the potatoe {potato} lot all day. Weather cold. 04\21\1933 (Friday) Went to the Town Clerk's Office this forenoon and looked up early records of South East Prospect. In the afternoon I drew stone off the lot on the hill. 04\22\1933 (Saturday) Drew stone the greater part of the day. Weather has been cold and windy. Yesterday morning we had a heavy frost. 04\23\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went to Prospect. I left Mary at Mrs. Cowdell's while I went to see the work that is being done on the Betheny Road. I walked down about a mile. They have the brush cut and the tile sluice pipes in, and they say that they ar {are} grading on the lower end. 04\24\1933 (Monday) I began plowing for corn and potatoes on the hill. This evening I attended a Committee Meeting at the Mill Plain Union Church. 04\25\1933 (Tuesday) Went to the Town Clerk's Office this forenoon. Sharpened drills this afternoon and did other odd jobs. 04\26\1933 (Wednesday) I had Henry Beckwith tighten the clutch on my old Ford car. I then went to Robert Tyler's on the Meriden Road and had a board plained, then went to the farm and plowed. This evening Margaret called and brought a check from Ruth of $10.00 for me to use towards a suit of clothes. 04\27\1933 (Thursday) Weather very cold, ground frozen this morning. I worked at the farm plowing most of the day. 04\28\1933 (Friday) I went to the Town Clerk's Office this forenoon. I then went to the clothing store of Joseph Hilton & Sons, cor {corner?} of Bank and Grand, South East and bought a suit of clothes for fifteen dollars and a top coat for eight dollars and ninety five cents.. After I got home and had dinner, I did several odd jobs and went to the farm and did the chores, and then went and got the clothes which the taylor {tailor} had altered somewhat, then came home on the trolley. Weather was cold. 04\29\1933 (Saturday) Weather to day was warm and nice. I plowed all day. 04\30\193 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. Joseph Todd. Went to Prospect this afternoon. Saw Mr. Steves at the ancient Pierpont place. 05\01\1933 (Monday) Worked at the farm all day. Cleaned out the spring and watering trough and planted onions and plowed. This evening I repaired a lot of window screens. Mr. Berkelee{??} Frisbie called this evening and invited Mary and I to go to Silvermine (a village North of Norwalk) next Wednesday. 05\02\1933 (Tuesday) I went to the Post Office this morning (the first time I was ever in the new building) and mailed a lot of recorded matter about Ezra Pierpont - (great grand father to my wife) to my son Irving in Milwaukee. I then went to the Town Clerk's office. This afternoon I went to Prospect and then to East Farms and let the steer into pasture etc., then home and worked on fly screens for the up stairs windows. 05\03\1933 (Wednesday) This morning Berkeley Frisbie and Mildred his wife called and Mary and I went with them to Silvermine a village North of Norwalk. We left my house at 9 and reached Norwalk at 11. There we found Mr. Carl Jackson sitting on the steps of the Armory reading a paper. He went ahead in his roadster and we followed four miles to his home. We staid there till four o'clock. Had dinner and talked over geneological {genealogical} matters and many other matters. When we came home we came by way of Danbury, Newtown and Middlebury. 05\04\1933 (Thursday) This forenoon I put the fly screens in Vogals{???} part and worked at the farm this afternoon. 05\05\1933 (Friday) Went to Town Clerk's office. 05\06\1933 (Saturday) Worked at the farm nearly all day. Weather damp and cold. 05\07\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. todd officiating. The sermon was by Dr. J. Quinter Miller. Stayed home all the afternoon and wrote paper to be read at Church, at one of the Fiftyth {Fifitieth} anniversary meeting{??}. 05\08\1933 (Monday) I got out rocks and plowed a terrace North of Fort Dunlap on which to set out grape vines, which took all day. 05\09\1933 (Tuesday) I went to the Town Clerk's Office an {and} studied and copied records. This afternoon took up some grape vines and took them to the farm and set them out. Rolland Jenner spaded up a portion of my home garden and planted radishes. 05\10\1933 (Wednesday) {no entry} 05\11\1933 (Thursday) Yesterday Mary and I went to Kent where we stayed all night at Frank's and came home this morning. Brought one bushel of potatoes and a bag of fertilizer. This evening we attended an entertainment given by the Ladies Union and Mens Club. I read a paper. 05\12\1933 (Friday) Worked at blacksmith work this forenoon. Went to the farm and harrowed this afternoon. 05\13\{1933} (Saturday) Got the ground ready to plant potatoes, furrowed out some roots. 05\14\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. To day was celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of the Old Mill Plain Chapel. At 10.45 there was a {an} Anniversary Sermon by D. Charles Dinsmore. At 2.30, a Fellowship service. The speakers were Dr. John N. Lewis (Episcopal), Rev. David P. Gaines (Baptist), Rev. Moses Lovel (2nd Congregational), Rev. Richard Haggerly 1st Methodist. At 3.45 a memorial service was held in the Old Chapel. Dr. Lewis opened it. Rev. W. Moreton Owen offered prayer and I read a paper giving a history of the meetings held in the Shrub Oak Scool {Shcool} house for eight years previous to the building of the Chapel in 1883. Rev. J. O. Todd had charge of all of the meetings to day. 05\15\1933 (Monday) Furrowed out for potatoes. 05\16\1933 (Tuesday) Went to the Town Clerk's office this forenoon. Furrowed out for potatoes this afternoon. 05\17\1933 (Wednesday) Planted potatoes till I used up all the fertilizer, then went to Prospect and to Charles DeBissops. 05\18\1933 (Thursday) Finished planting potatoes this afternoon. 05\19\1933 (Friday) Went to Town Clerk's office this forenoon. This afternoon went to the farm and planted a few potatoes on the grape terris {terrace??}. 05\20-21\1933 (Saturday-Sunday) {no entries} 05\22\1933 (Monday) Last Saturday morning Mary and I went to visit our son Frank at Kent. We went via Thomaston, Terrington, Norfolk, Conoon, South Conoon, Lime Rock, West Cornwall, Cornwall Bridge and Kent. We staid over night and went to Church and then Frank showed me about the farm. He has six acers {acres} of potaotes planted and is planting eighteen acres of field corn. We went to South Kent farm and he {gave??} salt to 22 head of cattles. We then went abou the new brick Chapel that they are building for the South Kent school. We also went up the new Warren Road that they are building. The Blakeslee Co. of New Haven are building it. An other company started to build it last year, but met with great misfortune as the storms washed in a long deep cut{??} which they were obliged to dig out twice. We stayed over Sunday night and this morning we went up the Macedonia Road and bought a little pig of Mr. Schnider for 3.75 and brought it home in a box on the trunk rack. I took it to the farm and put it in the steer stable till I get the pen repaired. 05\23\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I mowed the East yard about the garden and the clthes {clothes} yard and went to the farm and mowed about Ray's garden and cultivated both gardens, etc. 05\23{24}\1933 (Wednesday) Took a load of hay to the farm and got the fertilizer in and ready to plant field corn. Rained this afternoon some. I furrowed out a strip by the North fence for corn. This evening I went to Charles DeBissops on East Mountain and got some tomatoe {tomato} plants and set them out. Ray and Ruth came this evening. 05\24{25}\1933 (Thursday) To day I planted corn with the corn plantes {plants} on the hill in the East lot. In the West lot I planted three rows across the North side. Then I plowed out one row of appletrees in the young orchard on the hill. This morning I took a lot of flower pots and the box up to Charlie DeBissops. I then went over the south end of East Mountain Reservoir and over Clark Hill and down across the Union City Road and South past the Clark School and Southeast and out and across the Nangatuck Reservoir to the Straitsville Road, then up to Prospect Center and down through Matthews Street to the Plank Road and to East Farms. 05\26\1933 (Friday) Went to City Hall and paid my taxes. Automobiles two listed 300, tax 4.88. First half property 4945 tax 80.36, total 85.24. Then went to Records etc. This afternoon Roll Jenner came and visited after which I went and bought seed and worked at the farm and home planting them. 05\27\1933 (Saturday) Planted in the gardens this forenoon. Mary and I went to Wolcott this afternoon to the dedication of a large gun of the late war. Judge Theodore Meyer and Dr. O'Hara were the speakers. The Mattatuck Drum Band was in attendance {attendence} and Veterans of the World, Civil and Spanish Wars were there. Just as the parade was in progress it began to rain and all sought cover, some in the Town Hall, others in horse sheds, church, automobiles, etc. After the rain the exercises were continued but the attendence was smaller and it continued to rain more or less. After the benediction, Mary and I went to Simsbury and visited brother Frank. They are constructing a fine new road over Fall Mountain along the East side of Cedar Swamp Lake and down the Mountain. We got home just at dark stoping {stopping} at the farm and did the chores and found that there had been a heavy shower here which was much needed. 05\28\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J.O. Todd officiated. This afternoon we went to Mr. Cowdell's in Propsect and Nellie and I located the first layouts of land on the West side of the Old Bound Line Road, from the Three Brothers to the North line of the Layout to Rev. Samuel Hall. 05\29\1933 (Monday) This morning I mowed the yard and ground the new scythes that I bought at Winsted last year. In the afternoon planted at the farm garden. This evening planted thirty hills of potatoes in the home garden. Widow J. Henry Garrigus died last evenin {evening} after a long illness, aged 91 years. 05\30\1933 (Tuesday) This morning Ray came and went to the farm to plant his garden there. I raised the flag as it is Decoration Day and then ate my breakfast and mowed a path to the wheel house and wen {went} to the forum where Ray and I put the pig up in the pen. I then planted in my garden and Ray went home before noon and it began to rain and continued more or less the rest of the day. I set out about forty four tomatoe {tomato} plants that Ray gave me. 05\31\1933 (Wednesday) Finished planting the garden at the farm, veyr wet. This afternoon Mary and I went to Mrs. Jacob Henry Garrigus' funeral. She was 91 years old. Oldest person in Wolcott. Wrote to Mr. Snow of Meriden. Howard Neal came this evening and paid $1.00, leaving $7.00 to be paid. 06\01\1933 (Thursday) Finished planting garden at home. Mowed the grass at the roadside about the watering trough at the farm. This evening carried goods to Philip {Phillip} Royter's cottage at Hitchcocks Lake. 06\02\1933 (Friday) I wen {went} to the Town Clerk's office this forenoon. This after noon I opened out a lot of hay that I have mowed and mowed for two hours in the East Farms Cemetery and then raked the hay up and raked up the hay at home. 06\03\1933 (Saturday) Worked in East Farms Cemetery 6 hours mowing and cleaning it up. Cared for hay. 06\04\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated. {?????} preached. This afternoon I went to Prospect, to Cowdells, Drivers and Fred Berger's. When we came home we stoped {stopped} at Mort's farm and got a pt. of ice cream. 06\05\1933 (Monday) Weather very hot. Worked in East Farms Cemetery 7 hours 3rd{???} and a lot of hoeing in the gardens. 06\06\1933 (Tuesday) Last night a thunder shower started and it continued to rain hard all night and well into the forenoon. After grinding my scythes, I mowed the front yard by hand and after dinner went to the farm where I made the barn ready to receive hay and then plowed under the appletrees on the hill. 06\07\1933 (Wednesday) Hottest day so far this year. I plowed under the appletrees on the hill, dried hay and got it into the barn and did many other odd jobs. This evening Mary and I attended the annual meeting of the Mill Plain Church. 06\08\1933 (Thursday) I finished plowing on the hill under the appletrees. Got in a litle hay. This evening Mary and I went up to Raymonds. Weather very hot. 06\09\1933 (Friday) At eight this morning I started for Hartford, stoping {stopping} at the farm and doing the chores. I went in my Ford runabout and reached the Capitol at nine fifteen, went to the State Lybrary {Library} and looked up Prospect, Tyler Records till one o'clock when I started for home, stoping {stopping} at Mr. Goddards office where I met Mr. Snow of Meriden and the three of us staid and talked so it was three before I got out of the building. Reached home about four thirty. Weather very hot. Heavy shower this evening. 06\10\1933 (Saturday) Worked at the farm all day. Cultivated the corn and potatoes on the hill. Very warm. 06\11\1933 (Sunday) Attended worship at the Mill Plain Union Church. Children's Day. The Sunday School which numbers over four hundred schollars {scholars} had charge of the exercises. This afternoon I called on Mr. Thomas Payne on East Mountain. His wife is very sick, not expected to live from one day to another. Then I came home and Mary and I wen {went} to Woodtick and called on Berkeley Frisbie and Mildred, his wife. 06\12\1933 (Monday) This has been as hot as any day I ever saw or knew. I mowed at the farm and replanted the garden there and some of the time lay in the shade. Thomas Miles Payne's wife died this morning. 06\13\1933 (Tuesday) Went to the Town Clerk's Office this forenoon and after dinner went to Meriden and saw Mr. Snow. We have found that the first German Silver made in the country was cast at Benedicts factory by Capt. James Grannis for Fred Curtiss of Hartford who procured sime nickel and had Mr. Grannis mix it with copper and zinc and cast it. Then it was rolled into sheets. Mr. Curtis took it to Hartford and made it into spoons. This was in 1834. 06\14\1933 (Wednesday) Weather cool. Cultivated and howed potatoes and corn on the hill. 06\15\1933 (Thursday) At the farm hoed potatoes and corn this forenoon. Attended Mrs. Thomas Miles Payne's funeral in the afternoon. Rev. Mortimer Owen and Rev. Mr. Cockard of Prospect. {????} attended, Owen of Bunker Hill, Long Church. Then went to the farm, fixed fence and hoed in the garden. Ringland & Barnham's Circus was exhibiting in Waterbury to day. Enid, Irving's daughter, graduated from Wheaton's College at Wheaton, Ill. to day I suppose as this is the appointed time. 06\16\1933 (Friday) Howed {Hoed} corn and potatoes all day. This afternoon it rained quite hard for a time. 06\17\{1933} (Saturday) Bunker Hill Day. The Mattatuck Drum Band went to Hartford and with the Putnam Phalanx {????????} observed the occasion. I hoed corn till the middle of the afternoon when a hard shower came up. Then I stored away hay in the barn and came home etc. 06\18\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd preached to the graduates of the schools and colleges in this vacinety {vicinity}. There were 22 present. This afternoon Margaret, Cliff, Mary and I went in their car to West Simsbury to visit Frank. We went over Southington Mountain and through Mill Dale, Plantsville, Southington, Plainville, Farmington, Avon, Wheatogue where we turned to the left and came out at West Simsbury. Hard surfaced road nearly all the way. Years ago I used to drive to Plainville over the Southington red sand narrow dusty roads at 5 or 6 miles per hour and had a good time at that. 06\19\1933 (Monday) This forenoon I built a fence of chicken netting from the Northwest corner of the Barn to the Frost Road to keep the chickens out of Mr. Vogal's garden. I bought a can of powder to kill the Mexican beetles that eat the bean leaves, last year was the first that we had them, and a can to kill other incex {insects} on other plants, .20 each and a bag of 100 lbs. corn meal, 1.55. Went to the farm and planted where the corn missed and built a little bridge in front of the North stable door. Weather very cool. 06\20\1933 (Tuesday) To day we voted on the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This morning Mary and I went to the Anderson School and voted against repeal. Fourteen years ago the amendment was passed and we have had few drinks since. To night a drunken driver bumped into a large car in front of our hous {house} and smashed the front wheel and fender and then ran away. I went and handed in my tax list at City Hall and looked up records in the vault. I then went to Woodtick and saw Mr. Garthwait about repairing my old Ford truck. Then went to the farm and hoed in the garden till night. 06\21\1933 (Wednesday) Worked in the garden at East Farms all day. This morning I took my Ford truck to Edward Garthwaits in Wolcott and had the engine repaired, 4.50. This evening Mary and I attended the annual meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery. The following were elected trustees, W. B. Hitchcock, Theodore Munson, E. W. Hitchcock, A. F. Meyerhans, A. E. Blewitt, J. W. Gardner and F. A. Wells. We learned by the paper that it was Peter Griffin that was drunk and smashed into the truck owned by Mr. Manthey of the Plank Road near Summit Station last evening in front of our house. He is Chairman of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Waterbury. After hitting Manthey{'s} truck he swevered {swerved} across the street and struck a small runabout and continued his mad run till after he passed the Cheshire Town Line where he charged into the railing on the right hand side and a plank of the railing went through the radiator and on through the large sedan taking off the leg and killing Timothy Sullivan who was riding with him. Cheshire officers investigated and arrested Griffing {Griffin}. A hearing was held and he was released on $5,000 bonds. Mayor Hayes furnished the bond. 06\22\1931 {1933} (Thursday) This morning I went to Prospect and left some letters for Miss Cowdell to type, then went to East Farms and did the chores and set out a lot of cabbage plants. Then came home and sharpened picks and grubs till dark. Hot work. 06\23\1933 (Friday) This day I ground two sets of knifes for the mowing machine, then went to the farm and got the machine ready to mow, then mowed around the upper pice {piece?} by the pig yard. This evening Mary and I attended a reception at the Woodtick Chapel which William Garrigus and Sons have lately completed. My son Irving was the architect. There were many there. 06\24\1933 (Saturday) Mill Plain Sunday School Picnic. This morning I went to the farm and did the chores, then came home and took my Ford Runabout and went up to the Church where they were loading up to start for the picnic. I opened up my rumble seat and took four boys, Pierce Carew, Robert Holmes, Howard Heaton and Bobby Reed, and we went to the Y Camp at Smith's Pond in Waterton where they had all kinds of water sports and land games and races etc. At noon they had a picnic dinner in the grove. 06\25\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Todd. This afternoon we attended the Dedication of the New Woodtick Community Chapel. The order of service was, Organ Prelude, Processional Hymn 173, Invocation Rev. R. Wiley Scott of Wolcott Congregational Church, Lords Prayer Responsive Reading, Glora, Anthem, Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd by young peoples choir of Woodtick, Scripture and Prayer Rev. H. Gertrude Coe, Announcements, Offoering, Doxology, Anthem - "Lead and Keep Me", Dedication Sermon - Rev. J. O. Todd, Hymn 177, Dedication of Chapel - Rev. Joseph O. Todd, Rev. R. Wiley Scottt, Rev. H. Gertrude Coe, Recessional Hymn 358, Benediction Rev. R. Wiley Scott, Organ Pasttude Mrs. Germam{??}. After this service Mary and I went up over Wolcott Hil and to Arthur Harrison's then home. Sister Mary and Rolland Jenner called. Had supper after nine o'clock. 06\26\1933 (Monday) Mowed with the machine, first time the steer was hitched into a mowing machine. Ted Wilson helped me 70{??}. Rained and we cut up a large appletree limb and repaired the fence. Then mowed some more till 5 o'clock. 06\27\1933 (Tuesday) Sticky weather with much damp. We mowed the lot half way up the hill West of the shed and have the hay in the lower lot out. Ted Wilson helped, 80. 06\28\1933 (Wednesday) Turned over all of the hay and managed to get it dry and got it in two loads from the middle lot. Ted helped me, 70. 06\29\1933 (Thursday) Hottest day so far this year. We got in two loads of hay and mowed round the piece on the hill three or four times. The grass is heavy and the steer panted so pulling the mowing machine that we gave it up. Ted helped, 75. 100 over{??} This evening I painted the roofs of the chicken house and part of the engine house. 06\30\1933 (Friday) Finished mowing the heavy grass in the upper lot on the hill and we raked it up and got it in half of it. Ted helped 75 - 55. 07\01\1933 (Saturday) This morning Ted and I got in a large load of hay from the upper lot on the hill. We brought it down on the truck and got into the barn by noon. Then Teddy Wilson left and went home and the whole Wilson family are going to Mansfield's Grove at the sea shore for a two weeks vacation. This afternoon I hoed in the garden, then Howard Neal came and we went to the Cemetery and posted a notice calling a meeting of the Association for evening of July 12th. When we came up we stoped {stopped} at the watering trough and Howard got a drink, then a few drops of rain fell, and we ran for the barn, but before we reached it we were wet through and the rain was falling in torrents. After it ceased I picked a mess of peas and pulled up the vines and came home. It rained again through the evening. 07\02\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph Todd preached. This afternoon Margaret and Cliff came and carried Mary and I up to Wolcott to Arthur Harrison's where I left a new scythe for him to try. We then came home stoping {stopping} at the Bucks Hill Cemetery. 07\03\{1933} (Monday) This morning I got most of the weeds out of the home garden and charged the battery on my best car. Then went to the farm and did the chores. Came home, had dinner and got ready and went to Frank Ineson's funeral at the Old Pine Grove Cemetery. He was 59 years old. We waited a spell and then attended the funeral of Charles Brown who's {whose} wife was Susie Bronson. I came home and worked late oiling up my best car. 07\04\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I finished weeding the garden then got my good car ready to run and mowed some big grass by the Wheel House. Had dinner and went to the Farm. I saw Mr. Barbour who lives at the Hattie Pierpont place and who has torn down the old barn and bought a chestnut stick 6" x 6" - 18' for 75. I took it to our barn on my truck. Then got the steer and plowed out corn and potatoes on the hill, then came home and raked up the hay when in {it} began to rain. This has been the quietest Forth {Fourth} of July I ever knew. Weather cool and damp with little sunshine. 07\05\1933 (Wednesday) Weather damp. little rain and little sunshine. Mowed big grass at home and took a load to the farm where I plowed out corn and potatoes till 4.30 when I raked and heaped the load out there, came home and raked and heaped the hay here. This evening we attended a meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Church. They appointed officers. Mr. Reece is appointed purchasing agent in my place. Hope he will be able to buy without money. 07\06\1933 (Thursday) Weather to day very hot. Finished plowing out the corn and potatoes on the Hill East lot, hoed eight rows and got in a small load of hay that I took out from here. 07\07\1933 (Friday) Howed {Hoed} corn and potatoes on the hill all day. 07\08\1933 (Saturday) Plowed out three rows of corn two hundred and thirty four feet long in the Northwest lot and hoed them then put arsnate of lead on the potatoes to kill the bugs, howed {hoed} in the garden etc. Weather very hot and dry. Sun burned my back and arms so the skin is peeling off. 07\09\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Jones of the Seymour Congregational Church officiated. After service I went to the farm and did the chores then Mary and I drove to Mr. Winfield Norton's in Wolcott North East part and found him sick in bed. We visited with his son John and wife after which we drove over to Spindle Hill to Henry Norton's but he was away. We saw his son Kenneth. I was looking for information concerning Elsworth Norton who was killed at Rapidonford, Va. in 1863. We then visited Judge George Browne and had tea there. Wiliiam Gillette and Iva came along while we were at Henry Norton's and we enjoyed a visit with them. 07\10\1933 (Monday) Mrs. John R. S. Food{??} died last night after an illness of long duration although she has been able to be about until within the last two weeks. This morning I went to town adn to the Waterbury Savings Bank on the West cor. of North and Weest Main Sts. and got a check for 25.00 cashed. I then went to the new telephone building, cor. of Grand and State Sts. and paid my telephone bill then saw attorney Phalen about collecting a bill against Howard Neal then to the Army Store, cor. of Bank and Grand Sts. and bought two work shirts for 79 cts. each then home and cleaned the ground between my fence and trolley track. Had dinner and went to the farm and pulled the pea vines and picked the peas and cleaned the North spring. Then went to Mort Pierpont's Dary {Dairy} Barn and he paid me 10.80 for work done in East Farms Cemetery the past year. Rained this evening. 07\11\1933 (Tuesday) This day I mowed the grass in the East Farms Cemetery which took seven hours. 07\12\1933 (Wednesday) This morning I raked all of the East Farms Cemetery over and took away the rubbish. I then came home and Mary and I went to Mrs. Carrie Patchens funeral. She was 74 years old and was buried from her daughter's home on Fairlawn Avenue to the Old Pine Grove Cemetery. We then waited at the Mill PLain Church till 3.30 when Mrs. John Todd's funeral was held. There was a large attendance. She was buried in the family lot at Woodtick. Rev. J. O. Todd officiated at both funerals. 07\13\1933 (Thursday) To day I worked in the garden at the farm getting the weeds out of it and pulled four bushels of over wripe {ripe} radishes. I stored away several loads of hay. The weather has been very warm. 07\14\1933 (Friday) To day I set out about one hundred cabbage plants at the farm. This afternoon Mary and I went to the funeral of Elliott Bronson at Wolcott Center. We then went up over a narrow steep up and down dirt road to the Bristol line the West side of Cedar Swamp Pond where we came to a good state road which we followed through Bristol (via) Wolcott West and North Streets and out the Farmington Road a new brick school house wher {where} we angled to the Northeast to Unionville and then on to West Simsbury where we found my brother Frank and his wife quite comfortable considering their age. We staid til {till} six and then came home. 07\15\1933 (Saturday) I set out a row of cabbage plants at the farm and howed {hoed} in the garden. Came home and after reading the paper about kidnapping that is now being carried on by gangsters in the country and resting, I mowed the back yard. 07\16\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph Todd officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went out to Bessie Pierpont's at Maple Hill Farm and had a good visit. Here daughters Marion and {? ?} were there, as were Mr. and Mrs. Anniman, Mrs. Bessie Mashire of Prospect and Mrs. Sarah Hine. They were all Grangers and later left for Cheshire where they were going to hear Mr. Gardener, High Preast {Priest} De-meter{??} speak. We came home and soon Mr. and Mrs. Berkley Frisbie of Woodtick called as they were about to leave Mr. and Mrs. Ferriss Furkenton of East Morris called. Joseph Pierpont and wife and son Wilson of Ware, Mass. called after dinner. 07\17\1933 (Monday) This forenoon I mowed all of our front yard then I took some wagon irons out to Ed Scott's in Cheshire then came to the farm and mowed a small piece of clover, and then came home and raked up the grass that I mowed in the morning. 07\18\1933 (Tuesday) Mowed the West end of the orchard on the hill and got it in togather {together} with all the other hay that was out. Ted Wilson helped, .70. Weather was dry and good. 07\19\1933 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson, .75 and I mowed part of the orchard on the hill and got the hay into the barn, etc. 07\20\1933 (Thursday) Finished mowing on the hill. Ted Wilson, .65 and I got it raked up a little befar {before} two. It began thundering a little before one and as soon as it was raked up we went for the trunk to draw it down when it begn {began} to rain hard. We drove down to the barn and put the truck under the maple trees when it began to hail stones about the size of hazelnuts now and then. Soon the lightening and thunder was fierce and the hail increased bothe{?} in quantity and size till the ground was nearly all covered and we picked up many that measured 1 1/2 inches in diameter and now and then one that measured 2 inches the longest way. They pounded many holes in the felt roof of my barn so that afterwards when it rained it leaked everwhere {everywhere}. The roof was put on in 1921 and never before did the hail make {a} leak in it. The hail lasted about one hour when it began to rain hard. Ted Wilson went home to get some dry shoes on and found that the hail had broken 22 pains {panes} of glass in their house. Mr. and Mrs. James Upson of Southington called this evening to talk about historical matters. 07\21\1933 (Friday) This morning I carried a letter to Maple Hill Farm and left it but Bessie Pierpont was not at home. I stoped {stopped} at Mort's and saw the damage done by the hail yesterday. It pelted his barn{??} and garden and vegetables so the stalks were standing nearly bare and the ground was thick with apples under the trees. Mr. Prilneitz who lives in the Wiliiam Austin place was raking the leaves off his lawn as the ground was covered thick with them under the trees all about East Farms. I dried and drew the hay that got wet yesterday from the hill and mowed some in the lower lot. Ted helped, .35. 07\22\1933 (Saturday) Very hot day. I mowed at out home lot and then went to the farm and mowed the big grass next to Mr. Fred Wilson's fence which was for the most part lying flat but there was much of it. I then came home and went down town to Sears & Roebuck and bought five rolls of tar felt to cover the South side of the roof of the barn, paid $10.40. There was a great crowd, principally women, in the town shopping. The stores were crowded and as I looked along Bank Street the sidewalks were white with the hats on the heads of the women, they were so numerous. 07\23 \1933 (Sunday) To day I drove to John Norton's in Wolcott and he and I left about 10 and went to Mr. Charles Norton's place at Plesant Valley in the Town of Barkhamsted where we staid till four when we came back to Wolcott via New Hartford, Pine Meadow, Satan's Kingdom, Collingville, Unionville, Plainville and Bristol where I left Mr. Norton at his home in Wolcott and I reached home at about six. 07\24\1933 (Monday) This day has been very hot. Ted, .75 and I spread out all of the hay that was mowed and before noon we came over and put a big load on the truck, but the heat was so great that we had to work very slow. After dinner we went to the farm and turned over the hay there and got it in in two loads and then unlowded {unloaded} the truck. When we were through my clothes were driping {dripping} wete with sweat and we were well tired. Sears and Roebuck's truck brought five rolls of three {??????} coated roofing that I ordered Saturday and piad $10.40. 07\25\1933 (Tuesday) Weather cool, damp and rainy. I went to the farm and Sid and I unloaded a load of hay and cleaned up the barn. Then he howed {hoed} in the garden and I mowed by hand till the middle of the afternoon when it rained hard. William Purdy of East Mountain died last night. 07\26\1933 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and mowed by hand as the weather was damp. Came home before noon. Soon Cousin George Somers of Cleveland, Ohio came and took dinner with us. At three Mary and I attended William Purdy's funeral at his house on East Mountain. There were many people there. He was buried in the Prospect Cemtery. Rev. Mr. Cochard, the Odd Fellows and another minister officiated. We then went down the new Betheny road which is not yet completed to the old New Haven Road which we followed to Straitsville where we turned to the right by the old tavern and took the Hopkins Hill Road but before we got to the top of the first hill the wheels spun round in the gravel and we had a hard time getting up. Mr. Evens and his two sons came and helped and we managed to get to the top of the hill after which we came over Hopkins Hill and up the Hopkins Road to Pearl Lakes and on home. 07\27\1933 (Thursday) Mowed with the machine n the barn lot and Ted .80 and I got in three loads of hay. 07\28\1933 (Friday) Mowed with machine in barn lot. Ted helped, .55 and we got it in. I then went to Prospect and paid Nellie Cowdell 1.00 for typewritting{??} over paid .25 then came home and redd {read} the paper when Rev. Dr. Johnson and wife called. He is Irving's minister in Milwaukee and is on his way to the White Mountains to spend his vacation. 07\29\1933 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and mowed a small piece of old dry grass. Weather very hot. Then I came home and went down town and did some errands and came home and had dinner after which we started for Kensington to attend the Upson Family Reunion which was held in the old Congregational Church which was built in 1774. We stoped {stopped} at Maple Hill and got Bessie Pierpont and she rode in the rumble seat. We went to Meriden and on West Main St. at Capitol Avenue turned North and went through Cat Hole Pass and on through a fine farming country to the Meeting House. There were many people there so that the Church was well filled. Some from Talmage, Acron and other places in Ohio, others from New York state and Montreal and many other places. There were many fine addresses and appaers read and much given of interest to the Upsons. We came home through Southington. 07\30\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon attended the family reunion of the Descendants of Ezra Pierpont which was held at Maple Hill Farm. There were about thirty five present. Raymond H. Miller was elected President and Marion Pierpont Secretary. Frank and his family of Kent was present. 07\31\1933 (Monday) Hottest day I ever knew. Ted and I finished the machine mowing at the farm. So hot that it made the steer puff{??} and we had to stop for a spell. We raked the hay up and then cleaned out the lower spring but it was so hot that we did not get the hay in. Had slight shower this evening. 08\01\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I finished hand mowing at the farm. Weather hot, 110ø after dinner. Ted, .75 and I got in a big load of hay. 08\02\1933 (Wednesday) Finished haying at the farm and cut the oates {oats} and got them in. Ted, .50 helped. Weather very hot. For five days the thermometer has stood at nearly {??} 100ø in shade at noon and 110 in the sun. That is where we worked with all of our clothes sweat through. [[end of Journal Book]] [[start of new Journal Book]] Charles S. Miller. No 2271 East main St Waterbury Conn. From Aug 3rd 1933 to Nov 8th 1935. 08\03\{1933} (Thursday) Mowed the tall grass next to the Frost road this forenoon, and took a load to the farm. Ed{50?} helped Mary went out with us and we picked about two quarts of bill berries{hill berries?} in the North East lot on the Hill. 08\04\{1933} (Friday) To day I mowed the tall grass and weeds in the North part of my home lot, and Ted{65?} and I took out three loads and put them on the stack. Weather was cood/cool{?} with rain last night. The trolley men have been repairing the track in front of my house yesterday and to day. 08\05\{1933} (Saturday) Weather to day has been just about right. I finished mowing the North end of my home lot and cliped about the lot in odd{add?} places. Did the chores at the farm, and then clearned and polished part of the little car. Mr Winfield Norton of Wolcott{Wolkott?} Died last night aged 79 years, after a twn weeks illness. 08\06\{1933} (Sunday) Attended worship at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Girtrude Coe{?} of Wolcott preached{preacheded?}. Had dinner at Margarets on Beecher Avenue. As we were coming home a flood of water came out of the main gate of the Mattatuck ___{M_g?} Co's gate{gale?} by the mad River Bridge and rushed across the street we drove through it, but soon it increased in volum{volume?} and flooded the entire street and rushed down White Oak lane. The 36 wooden pipe that conveys the water from the dam to the power house had burst. just above the waterwheel house and forced earth bricks and stones all over the street stoping{sloping?} all trafic{traffic?} for a spell, a trolley car tried to run through it but got off the trace. After a time they closed{clased?} the head gate at the dam and the water ceased. We came home and I went to the farm{,?} and then, to Prospect stoped at Mr Cowdells and left some papers, then went over the Parsons Road which they are making over into a inproved{improved?} road, here I met Mr William Morris and Patrick Spellman{?} and they gave me much information concerning{concrning?} that locality, then I went on to the West school house where i turned North, and crossed the new Union City road and went up to Leverne Clarks{?} where I stoped and visited a while, got home after dark, and found that Frank and family had been here and left some cloru's{?} oysters and muscles{mussels?}. They had been down to Short Beach at Morts Cottage where they went the day before and were on their way home{?} to Kent. We cooked some and they were good. 08\07\{1933} (Monday) This morning Ted Wilson{30?} came and we raked and loaded a load of hay{,?} then we pulled some weeds by the wood pile{,?} and as I had to grind the sickle we went to the Wheel house nd he turned the grindstone and and{written twice} the cracks that were caused by the shafts rusting opened and it came apart, so we got the shaft out. He wiped up my car and I got ready and went down town and did some bank business. Three savings Banks have consolidated The Dimes savings bank, The Waterbury saving Bank and the West Side savings Bank, and all are doing business at the Dimes Bank Building.{.?} After dinner Mary and I went to Wolcorr and attended the funeral of{af?} Winfield Norton, after which we went to Bristol. to the Nurseries to visit Mildred, but found that they had gone to Clinton to spend their vacation, Merritt Pierpont was there and we had a good visit, then we started home/via{)?} Terryville but before reaching Plymath{Plymouth?} we turned down{?} the Todd Hollow Road and came to the Rail Road where they were building a new bridge, so we were obliged to turn back to Plymoth{Plymouth?} and{?} come home by way of Thomaston and Waterville. 08\08\{1933} (Tuesday) To Day Ed{100?} and I took the last of the hay on the hom_{home?} lot to the farm and put it on the stack. We then came home and cut the weeds and grass East of the hen yard in part, and then put new shoes on the big dirt scraper for the Calvary Cemetery, which took till seven o'clock, as soon as _e{we?} began to work on it the rain started and every time that we got a shoe red hot and went out to fit it it would pour and wet us through, but about the time{lime?} that we were through heating the irons the rain ceased. 08\09\{1933} (Wednesday) Finished mowing the swamp East of the chicken yard and Ted{70?} and I got it into the yard, We then cleaned and repaired my little car and mowed beside the walk on the Frost road, etc. 08\10\{1933} (Thursday) This morning Ted and I finished trimming the high hedge, and then went to the farm. He on his wheel, and I in my truck, stoped and left a pair of heavy shoes at the cobblers to be soled and healed, and also at Bessie Pierponts and left a plant that mary sent her. She is greatly concerned over the wellfare{welfare?} of Hazel and Hellen{?}, they were to leave Havanna to day for home. This mornings paper says that Cuba is in a state of War, and Strikes and riots. At the farm Ed and I got out some stones and plowed about the young apple trees, etc. 08\11\{1933} (Friday) Was at the farm all day getting stones out of the barn lot above Fort Dunlap, Ted{70?} helped me. 08\12\{1933} (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and plowed out the 2nd terrace above Fort Dunlap{?}, which{whicls?} took till noon, then came home and, in the afternoon made an ox bow pin, as we cannot buy them any more, then I did odd jobs about home, and went to bed tired and weary with the labor of the past week. 08\13\{1933} (Sunday) This morning I went to the farm and did the chores, came home had breakfast, and at nine Margaret and Cliff called and we all wnet to Rays Cottage at Lake Zoar{?} where we rested a spell and then had dinner, after which all Margaret, Cliff, Mary and Ray took Rays morot boad and Sailed{sailed?} down the pond four or five miles, and back and up above where they ar{are?} pulling the piers for a new concrete bridge above the old iron present bridge. After they came back we had supper and then started for home at eight o'clock, which we reached in due time. 08\14\{1933} (Monday) Wet and rain this morning, I wnet to the farm and hoed in the garden. Ted came, but went home again on account of the rain. I cultivated{cullivated?} about the fruit trees, and plowed on the terrice{terrace?} but plowed into a hornets nest, they stung the ox and I took him away. I then went went{written twice} up the rough Pierpont road{soad?} and up the Todd road to Charles Tuttles. They are building over the North end of the Todd road, putting a concrete pipe sluce{slice?>} at Misery Hollow and fillind{?} it in _bout{about?} seven feet and changing the road about its width North, a large steam shovel is working half way down the hill and at the bottom __e{are?} filling about five{?} feet, are putting in a new bridge at Lillie Brook and running the road farther East, Have been working four days. 08\15\{1933} (Tuesday) To day Ted and put more than half of the new felt roof on the Barn at East Farms south side and covered the one that was full of holes made by the great hail stones{.?} a few weeks ago. 08\16\{1933} (Wednesday) We finished putting the new roof on the South side of the Barn, and repaired the North side, and got ready to truss{triss?} up the stable roof. The town is repairing the Pierpon road, and ree{?} to put oil on it. 08\17\{1933} (Thursday) Rained this morning, Ted and I got up the 6'x6" chestnut stick in the stable to truss up the roof and then went to patchen{patchin?} the roof and repairing it. The gutter stick{slick?} had rotted so we wne tover to Cheshire Depot and bought another 3"x2" long for .36 cts and brought it back by the Plant road, and made the roof ready to paint tomorrow. 08\18\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to the farm, and Ted{?} and I painted the roof on the North side with aspholt{asphalt?} paint, and as we finished about eleven it began to rain, and continued the rest of the day. After dinner we came home and worked in the Wheel house hanging the new grindstone{?} that I bought of the C. S Templeton Co{?} for $5.00 I then worked on some chair irons for Christs Chapel. This afternoon there was a bag of feed delivered, and it appears that Frank in Kent sent it and paid for it. 08\19\{1933} (Saturday) Ray went to the farm this morning and gathered vegtables from his garden etc. Mary and I soon came and Mary went to picking blackberries and I took the steer{.?} and cultivated under the young{yound?} appletrees on the hill. Ray and Mary went home before noon, and I finished about three, when it began to thunder, so I took four scithes{scythes?}, two axes and two hoes and came home and ground them. It rained the rest of the afternoon. 08\20\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev C. E Benedict Preached. The son of Howard Seymour of Watertown sang a solo, Ruth, Rays wife was in our seat she hasent{hasn't?} been there for a long time as they and Morton Pierpont dont like Mr Todd and only come when he dosent{doesn't?} preach, however there is a goodly attendance every sunday. This afternoon Mary and I went to Leverne Clarks on Clark Hill, in Prospect where we talked over matters concerning the history of the place, and of the early Metodist{Methodist?} meetings held there about 1800. 08\21\{1933} (Monday) Began raining light and fine this morning. I went to the farm{.?} and got ready to repair fence soon it rained harder, so I came home and lay down, then ate dinner and wrote up some accounts and made chair{?} irons for Christs Chapel, and it rained hard all the afternoon, Bellie{?} came after eggs, and later Margaret came. 08\22\{1933} (Tuesday) Rained nearly all day and did a lot of good as it filled the springs and streams. This morning I finished making a lot of chair irons for Christs Chapel, then went to the farm and did the chores, after which I finished making up a list of the men who went from the town of Woolcott{Wolcott?} to the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1865, have been working a long time on it. I also finished getting information for the present, of Stephen Upson the settler in Waterebury/Watersbury{?} and his son Thomas. John Serton{Seton?} of Prospect came this evening and copied fife music. 08\23\{1933} (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and Ted Wilson and I set two bar posts{?} at the Southeast corner of the orchard lot, but at noon it began to rain and I came home. Hellen Pierpont{,?} got home from Cuba yesterday, but Hazel was not allowed on the boat{biat?} as it was crowded with people fleeing from the Island on account of the revolution there. 08\24\{1933} (Thursday) Rained nearly all day. I spent the time in reading writing and doing odd jobs about home. Margaret Cliff John Castle and wife left night last for Cape Cod{?} to get Jene{?}, has rained nearly all the time since they started.{.?} 08\25\{1933} (Friday) This morning Ted Wilson and I finished repairing the bars at the South East corner of the young orchard lot, we set concrete posts eight feet long and wired the old wooden bar posts to them, and made a good job of it, we the{then?} cultivated the young appletrees{.?} After that we drilled a hole in a big rock East{east?} on the barn and intend to blast it out. 08\26\{1933} (Saturday) Nice sunny day. I shook out the hay that I had mowed and it dried well. Helped Mary this morning clean our bed etc. Then went to farns{farm?} got vegtables{vegetables?}, apples etc.{.?} and got in hay and cultivated about apple trees{?} in the barn lot. 08\27\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Girtrude{Firlrude?} Coe{?} of Wolcott preached, the Attendance was small. This afternoon Mary and I went to Rag Hollow and I saw Mr Edgar Jerrels who was born in 1850.{.?} about some historical facts, then we went through Prospect Center and out the Salem or Parsons road which is being made over into a state ade{?} road and on past the Indian well so calld, and over Pond Hill to the Naugatuck old Cemetery, where I found many graves of interest to me, then we went to Baptist Corner, where I went into a small Cemetery where the graves were nearly all of the Wooster family who formerly owned all the land there abouts{,?} Harry Roberts ]lives in a house next South who I had not seen for over fifty years, we had an interesting visit. He took me to the North West{Wist?} corner of the Hopkins and Union City roads and showed me the spot where the first Baptist Church stood, in the early part of the eighteenth century. 08\28\{1933} (Monday) Ted Wilson and I finished drilling a hole in a large rock in the{copy is light} Barnlot above Fort Dunlap{?}, Weather very hot, we drew down an old Ford auto body and loaded the the{written twice} blast and covered it with the auto body and brush and sticks, then we fired it and blew the rack all to pieces, without any damage. Soon it began to thunder and a few drops fell. We went to the barn and got the mowing machine in and Ted o_led{oiled?} it{il?} while I got pieces of stones{?} away but it began{?} to rain and then blew and pored{poured?} and hailed, and after it stoped we went home. Yesterday Rays wife Ruth was taken to the Waterbury hospital{?} and this morning at eight an operation was preformed{performed?} on her for appendex{appendix?} removal etc Raymond called this evening and said that _heshe?} is getting along very Confortable{Comfortable?} 08\29\{1933} (Tuesday) Nice weather though rather warm. Worked at the farm getting out rocks. East of the barn and North of Fort Dunlap. Ted Wilson lited the blasts and then run. 08\30\{1933} (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and I got stones onto Fort Dunlap. Weather very warm. Rays wife is getting along very well at the hospital{.?} 08\31\{1933} (Thursday) Ted Wilson and I got stones on Fort Dunlap, but we could not get many up, either with out ton hoist or the steer because they were so large and heavy, we had to blast and break many, and did not make much headway. 09\01\{1933} (Friday) Ted Wilson and I got stones upon Fort Dunlap{Dunlop?} to day, we used the,{,?} steer and rope and chain lakeles{?} hitched to at tripod on top of the pile. 09\02\{1933} (Saturday) This morning I went down to the center to the bank and got a check cashed. The town was full of people and automobiles, I then went to the new building corner of State and Grand Sts and paid{?} the telephone bill, then to Templetons{?} store{?} Cor of Benedict and Meador_/Meadorn{?} sts{Sts?} and paid for a grindstone, then back to center and did several little errands{?}, and home at noon. This afternoon went to the farm and brought home vegtables{vegetables?}, etc. This evening wrote a letter to the Waterbury American, about forest{?} fires and many {next line difficult to read} {other things?} 09\03\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd who has returned from his vacation at Old Orchard Maine, officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went to Wooster Street Naygatuck{Naugatuck?} and visited Mrs Jones who was a native of Prospect, and descended from Isaac Hotchkiss who came from Betheny{?} and bought the house and land, that Ezera{?} Pierpont built{?} and occupied{accupied?} in 1781. She knew much of the history of Prospect and Naugatuck. 09\04\{1933} (Monday) Rain. Rain. Rain. To day is Labor day and we were going to the Goshen Fair. But we staid home, I went to the farm,{,?} and did the chores, and then went to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick. Yesterday they put in the South abutment of the bridge over Lillie Brook near where he lives. To day the water is high, so they got it in just in the right time. This afternoon I read and looked up records, etc. 09\05\{1933} (Tuesday) To day I was at the farm all day getting rocks upon Fort Dunlap. I got the last of the heavy ones up, I worked alone. 09\06\{1933} (Wednesday) Went to prospect this morning, and then to the farm and got three or four stone boat loads of stone upon Fort Dunlap and then plowed a terrice{terrace?} and got a lot of vegtables and came home, the weather _as{was?} very hot. The City has been surface harding the Plank Road from the Harpers Ferry Road to the Scott Road, last week. 09\07\{1933} (Thursday) Went to Mr Cowdells in Prospect this morning, found that there is ten new houses{?} built and being contructed between his house and the plank road. Came to the farm and repaired the fence at the South East corner of Clydes{'?} lot. The weather was very hot. 09\08\{1933} (Friday) This forenoon I went to the Town Clerks office and copied records. This afternoon Mary and I went to Naugatuck and saw Mrs Jones{Jownes?} about the Wooster family. 09\09\{1933} (Saturday) To day Mary and I went to Goshen Fair. They had a good fair and a large attendance. After dinner we left the fair and drove to Kent to see Frank. We found him with his ensilege{?} cutter just set up and used a little. Monday he intends to start cutting corn. We left there at 6.30 and it was dark when we reached Waterbury Center, where we were a long time getting through on{an?} account of the heavy traffic. When we reached home we found Margaret and Cliff putting up new curtains in the Kitchen. 09\10\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd officiated. After service Mary and I went to East Farms where I did the barn chores then we went to Capitol Aven and saw Ruth who Ray had brought home from{_?} the Waterbury hospital{hospitol?} earlier{aurlier?} in the day, then we came home and had lunch{lench?} and read the Sunday Republican.{.?} and got ready to go to Naugatuck, when Mr H. A. Barnes{?} of 115 Chapel St New Haven called, and wished{?} to know{knoww?} about the boundry line of the West side of the Colleage Farm in the lower end of the town of Prospect. He has bought the farm and there is a dispute aout the West line. I gave it to him, I then went to Naugatuck to see Mr Shelon Payne{?} who lives at the Corner of Ward and Spenser Streets and who is 92 years old, but he was not at home. I then came home{?} through Middlebury Center. 09\11\{1933} (Monday) Mowed a lot of rowen{?} at the farm this morning and then worked getting the bank away from the fence at the Southeast corner of Clydes lot. Gathered a lot of vegtables and brought{?} home etc.{.?} Edgar Upson son of Evelyn of Wolcott and Miss Butler of Watertown{Waterloun?} Avenue were married at the Mill Plain Union Church by Rev J. O. Todd at two o'clock{a'clock?} yesterday. 09\12\{1933} (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to the Town Clerks office and looked up records. After dinner I went to the farm and did the chores, then I went to Mr Coudells and left some typeing{typing?} for Nellie to do, then I went to Naugatuck at the West side corner of Ward and Spenser Sts and found Mr Sheldon Payne, He is ninety one years old and very active and a good mind and memory{?}. He is very interesting. We talked about Prospect so fast and long, that I did not get to the subject that I went for, the College Farm. 09\13\{1933} (Wednesday) This day I was at the farm all day, opened ___{?} and dried the rowen{?}, then worked at the fence digging away the bank and stones that Mr Norris threw against it when he graded/gradid{?} Norris street ten years ago. As he is dead and buried Norwich he cannot get them away. I stoped at three and went down to burn and turned over the hay,{,?} and raked it up and loaded it on the cart and got it in the barn. Then I came home not feeling very well{,?} as I have a bad cold. 09\14\{1933} (Thursday) Rained all day. I staid in the nearly all the time as I had a bad cold spent the time writing etc. This forenoon I drove to Prospect to see about some letters that were typed fore{for?} me, then I went to East Farms and unloaded{untoaded?} a{?} load of hay,{,?} came home and cleaned out the furnace and started a fire as the house was cold, etc etc. 09\15\{1933} (Friday) Rained all day. This morning I went to the Town Clerks office and looked up records, then I wen{went?} to Sears and Roebucks and bought a pitcher pump{.?} to lawyer Phalens office, the{they? then?} told me that Howard Neal is paying steadily{sleadily?} on the account he owed me. Came home had a good dinner went to the farm and did the chores, Came home and filed a large circular saw for Mr Rocham, etc. 09\16\{1933} (Saturday) Rained all day. This is Wolcott fair day. I staid about home, except when I went to the farm and did the chores{choses?} Ray and Vincent {blank space in text} came and ray picked a basket of tomatoes and vegtables, I then went up to Chas Tuttles, The new bridge over Lillie brook is nearly completed, The Fair is prosponed{postponed?} for one week. 09\17\{1933} (Sunday) This is the anniversary of the battle of Antetam, when I was young on the 17th of Sept in many holmes{homes?} there were many sad thoughts for in 1862 a Company of about 100 men left Waterbury and a few days after took part in that bloody battle and nearly half of them were killed and many wounded. It is also the 54 anniversary of the dedication of the Capitol Building at Hartford. In Sept 1879 I was a member of the Wolcott Drum Band, and we played at the Dedication of the Soldiers monument at Wolcottville (now Tarrington) Gen Joseph. R. Hawley{?} mad the principal address, and before night he engaged us to play for his old Regt{?} of Veterans athe/at the{?} 7th Conn,{,?} at Hartford on the 17th. On that Day more Conn Veterans were togather{together?} than ever before, or since. They marched in their old regiment formation carrying the Battle flags of the Civil War which were assembled for the first time since the War and were deposited in the Capitol Building by the same men as/us{?} far as possible{passible?} who bore them through the battles of the war. On the whol{whole?} of the many celebrations I have taken part in during the fifty five years that was the most imposing. To day It{?} rained all the forenoon. We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J O. Todd, This afternoon Mary and I went to see Walter Marse {next line difficult to read} in Prospect They are building a new State ade{?} road {by his house?} 09\18\{1933} (Monday) To day I worked repairing fence at the farm and cutting brush on the West side of Norrist Street, I also put up a scare-Crow in the corn on the hill. 09\19\{1933} (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to the town Clerks{Clerk's?} office and looked up records. After dinner I did the chores at the farm, then I went out the plank road and up he Summit road which was very rough had to travel in slow speed, stoped at Mr Dowdells, but he had gotn to summons jurimen for the Court in New Haven tomorrow. I then went down the old Bound line road, and explored a pathwaw{pathway?} that turned in below the Salem road, then went through the Salem road and on to the Pond Hill School House, and down and turned right and came home. 09\20\{1933} (Wednesday) To day I finished repairing the fence at the South East corner of Clydes lot. A new Iron fence is distributed and lying in bunches to be built in front of Calvary Cemetery.{.?} {No entry for 9\21\{1933} (Thursday)} 09\22\{1933} (Friday) My wifes birthday she was born in 1860. Yesterday she and I went to the Springfield Fair we left here at about nine, then went to the farm and did the chores, then on over Southington Mountain, through, Southington, Plainville, Farmington, up the East side of Farmington river to Tarriffville{?} then to East Granby, through West Suffield{?} to Feeding Hills and to West Springfield where we stoped at the second house West of the Agawam{?} bridge Mrs Maynards,{,?} and engaged rooms for the night,{,?} and here left our car and walked to the Fair Grounds,{,?} a short distance a little before noon, paid one dollar each to enter. It certainly was a wonderful exibition{exhibition?}. I did not see only a part of it although I staid till ten a{at?} night and after three to day, when we left for home coming through Agawam, Suffield to West Suffield and the rest of the way as we went up. 09\23\{1933} (Saturday) This forenoon I painted wire fence at the farm. This afternoon mary and I went to Wolcott{Wotcorr?} Fair. 09\24\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd, officiated. This afternoon Mary and Iwent to Prospect to Mr Cowdells, and then over the rough Salem road which they are making over to Pond Hill in Naugatuck where we called on mrs Jones{,?} and a blind lady. 09\25\{1933} (Monday) To day I went to the farm to paint wire fence, But found the steer in the young orchard, so I set posts in the center of the East wall where he got over and strung{slung?} a single barbed wire up about fifteen inces. This took till after noon, then I went to painting the wire fence. 09\26\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks house in Prospect, but no one was home. I then went to Mr Cowdells and paid Nellie for typing letters etc. then went{wint?} to the Cemetery where there was a grave open ready to receive old Ralph Driver. Stoped at the nearby house of Mr Sinnett and had a long talk{.?} about the old place where they live{.?} I{It?} was formerly the Harris Platt house, then I came home and had dinner, after which I went to Walter Morse place in prospect, where I staid till night. When I came home I stoped at the Town Clerks house and made an appointment to call there next Friday morning at nine o'clock. This evening Ed Scott called and I lent him two taps{tops?} and some cap screws, to repair his corn cutter with. 09\27\{1933} (Wednesday) My Birthday I was born in 1858, on Cherry Street west side in a house that stood where the Advent Church now stands. To day I spent{went?} to the farm painting the wire fence, and cutting corn. 09\28\{1933} (Thursday) I cut corn all day and took it down and stacked it near the barn, Worked hard to finish the job and got through at dark which was at six,{,?} as we started on standard time last Sunday. This morning I wrote a letter to Mrs Jones in Naugatuck, and to Fred at Tarrytown. Redc a letter fron{from?} attorney Phalen, with check for $7.00 from H Neal. 09\29\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks Mrs Talmage. in Prospect and studied the early Perambulations of the bounds of the Twon. Then I came home and had a good dinner of clam chowder that Mary had prepaired,{,?} and went down town and saw Attourney Phalen about collecting he has done, and other business Then I came home and went to the Cemetery in Prospect and copied inscriptions on the grave stones. 09\30\{1933} (Saturday) Got things ready and dug nearly three bushels of potatoes to day, and brought in a lot of vegtables. Weather was clear and nice. 10\01\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Mary and I left here at tnine and went across by Lakewood park to Waterville then up and across{acrass?} Reynolds bridge and up the West Branch to East Morris{,?} and then North over a rough dirt road to South Street and to the Church in the Center. I used to attend that same Church in 1870 with my Grandfather. He told me that he was at the raising of it in 1829, when a boy, that he carryed{carried?} beer for the men to drink,{,?} from a store North of the Jail. This church was mowed away on to the Wolcottville road and made into an amusement{amucement?} hall about 1878-9? and a new one built on it{its?} site. But a few years ago it was moved back again, after the later Church was taken down, and has been restores{restared?} to its former beauty, at an expense of One Hundred and ten thousand dollers{dollars?}. It was done as the Inhabitants considered it more in keeping with the architecture of the Town. Then we went to Mr {blank space in text} Newburies{?} just over the line in Tarrington where we had a fine visit. We left there about four and went across the country to Litchfield station,{,?} reached home before dark. 10\02\{1933} (Monday) I dug potatoes on the hill most of the day. Mildred and Arthur called this evening. Ray went to the farm and got a load of cabbage's and is making saurkraut{sauerkraut?} this evening. I{J?} wrote a letter to Fred at Tarrytown telling him{hin?} that Ray and I could not go to his place tomorrow. 10\03\{1933} (Tuesday) Election day Mayor Frank Hayes, Democrat{Denocrat?} was reelected by over 9000 majority as was the other Democrat officers. This morning I went to the Town clerks house in Prospect and copied the Perambulations{Peranulations?} between that town and Cheshire boundry line, that took till noon. I did not get there till after ten as I went to the Anderson school to vote. After noon I wen{went?} to the Cemetery and copied toom{tomb?} stone inscriptions, till five, when I came home over Clark hill. 10\04\{1933} (Wednesday) This morning {.?} Men were setting long iron posts across{acrass?} the road for a new iron fence in front of Calvary Cemetery, Other men were building nice looking stone posts for the gates and ends of the fence. I sharpened picks the greater part of the forenoon for Calvary Cemetery. In the afternoon I dug potatoes at the farm 10\05\{1933} (Thursday) This morning{moring?} I went to the farm did the chores and took the steer and cart upon the hill but it bagan to rain I dug 1/2 but of potatoes when it rained so hard that I gave it up and came home. This afternoon I went to the center and{dnd?} did some bank business and bought a shirt/winter{?} working) and a pair of suspenders, then came home and worked on my records till bed time. It rained hard all day. 10\06\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to Prospect and saw Walter Morse. They were laying crushed stone past his place, while we were sitting{setting?} on his varanda{veranda?} they brought the stone in trucks and laid and rolled about a quarter of a mile in length. Towards noon I went to the Cemetery in the Center of the Town and copied the inscriptions from the grave stones. After that I went to Cowdells{?} and got some type written work I had them do. 10\07\{1933} (Saturday) To{Td?} day I dug potatoes,{,?} it took all day to dig and pick up, and get a lot of vegtables and do the Chores at the farm. The weather has been nice and cool, a good day to work. 10\08\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J. A. Todd, All four Choirs were in attendance, they were the Boys Choir, The Girls{?} Choir the Young{?} Peoples Choir, and the Seinour{Senior?} Choir. The Boys and Girls Choirs{Chairs?} each about 30{?} in numbers wore white capes and black collars. The Young Peoples about 30 in numbers wore white capes and red collars while the large Synour{Senior?} Cour{Choir?} were robed in black Gounds{Gowns?}, The seinour{senior?} Choir came into the Chancel part from one side and part{?} from the other, while the other three came in the side door and down the side isle{aisle?} and up the center {.?} to their places{?} all singing, while Mr Fred Wilson made the organ peal fourth{forth?} the praise. Mr J. Henry Manick and his wife formerly Anna Pierpont of from Longwood Fla met us at the church and came to our house and had dinner. Mr J Henery{Henry?} Mennick{?} has been elected Mayor of his Town. After they left Mary and I went to visit Judge George Brown in Wolcott. 10\09\{1933} (Monday) Dull and lowery day. I finished digging the potatoes at the farm. We have now twenty one and a half bushels in the cellar. I brought in a load of beits{beets?} carrots and other vegtables from the garden. 10\10\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning I went to Hartford and got my motor licence{license?} for my runabout car, stoped at the State Lybrary{Library?} and saw Mr Goddard{?} about Revolutionary soldiers of Wolcott. Then I came back to Prospect and worked in the Cemetery there till night. Hand{had?} my dinner in Farmington near where they are making the over pass over the College Highway for the new Hartford road. 10\11\{1933} (Wednesday) To day I finished cutting corn and stacking it, then finished gathering carrots, and then cultivated about some appletrees, and worked on terrices{terraces?} above fort Dunlap. This evening I attended a supper of the Mens Club at the Mill Plain Church. 10\12\{1933} (Thursday) Was at the farm making terresses{?} and getting out stones This is Columbus day, no school. 10\13\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to the Waterbury Savings Bankd and had my account corricted{corrected?}, Then I went to City Hall and got some records. Then to the farm and did up the chores, Came home and had dinner then went to Charles DeBissops{?} on East Mountain and looked at a sign that needs repairing for the Mill Plain Church, then to Prospect and at dark finished copying all of the inscriptions on{?} all of the grave stones. 10\14\{1933} (Saturday) At the farm making terrices and getting{gelling?} out rocks{racks?}. This afternoon and evening I repaired a large plow for the Calvary Cemetery. 10\15\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O. Todd{?}. This afternoon Mary and I went to Naugatuck, Mort and Jessie{?} Pierpont started for Chicago to atten_{attend?} the _air{fair?}, this ___ning{morning?} {Monday Oct 16th 1933.} {entry for 10\16\{1933} begins in the entry for 10\15\{1933}} 10\16\{1933} (Monday) To day when I got out to the farm smoke was blowing out of the breather pipe of my engine, and I was scared, fearing that that it was worn out. I finished getting the stones away, and making the terresses. At noon I went over to Jacob Albert's and saw him about getting a release from she who was{.?} Mrs Wilner{?} when I bought a piece of land on the hill. about 3.30 I drove to Mr Garthwaits in Wolcott and he looked at my engine and all appeared to be right, we think that there must have been water in the oil that made it smoke. 10\17\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and did the chore, then I started for Mr Cowdells in Prospect. Went out the Plank road, and started up the Summit road but a workman told me that I could not get through at{as?} the steam shovel was working and blocked the way. I then went on out the Plank Road and up Matthews Street, They are still working there putting in the ends of the culverts and finishing the shoulders, but the road is fine. I went to the Town Clerks and copyed{.?} the Original peramulations{perambulations?} of the line of bounds between Waterbury and Prospect, made in 1827. Then I went to see Gould Clark{.?} but he was not at home. Then I came home, it began to rain and rained hard all the afternoon. I did odd jobs{?}. 10\18\{1933} (Wednesday) To day I plowed _{a?} strip twelve feet wide next to the fence{?} with the concrete posts to keep the fire from running onto my land. This noon I saw Jacob Albert, They say he is a Jew. 10\19\{1933} (Thursday) To day I repaired a large double iron{?} gate for St Joseph's{Josephs?} Cemetery, it took about{?} nine hours. The weather has been fin_{fine?}. Teddis{?} Vogal{?} went out to the farm with me when I did the chores. 10\20\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to City Hall and looked up records{recards?} then went to attourney Phalens office and had him draw u_{up?} a _int{Qint?} Claim Decd{Deed?}, then came home had dinner _nd{and?} went to the far_{farm?}, and did the chores then mary and I went to Union City and saw Mrs Jones, about historical matters. 10\21\{1933} (Saturday) At the farm to day,{,?} gathering apples, and husking corn and repairing the pig pen. 10\22\{1933} (Suncay) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd is sick and another minister preached. After service we went to the farm and did the chores{,?} and then came home and read the Sunday Republican and then went to John Wakelees in Wolcott where we visited till towards dark, when we went to the new girage{garage?} that Howard Kraft and Marion built and are building on Spindle Hill near Mr Petersons, it was then dark and we came home. Just as we were finishing supper Frank and all his family called from Kent,{,?} they stayed about one hour. To days paper states that the Waterbury and Mill Dale Trolley line is to be discontinued and busses put on{.?} some time this week. It was started about twenty years ago. From the top of Southington mountain to Mill Dale it was abandoned several years ago. 10\23\{1933} (Monday) This morning{moining?} I went to Old St Joseph's Cemetery and looked at the gates that need repairing than I went to Levergne{?} Clarks in Prospect to see Gould but could not find him,{,?} came to the farm and did the chores, then came home and cleaned up a heater{,?} and after dinner went to St Josephs Cemetery and worked on the gates till night, at both Cemeteries both Old and New. 10\24\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Waterbury Savings Bank and drew out 86.24 and then went to the City Hall and paid it to the tax collector, the Oct half, the other half I apid last May, I then worked in the Town Clerks office till one, then went to the Manufacturer and Citizens Bank and got a check cashed for 28.41 and then went to Judd and Puffers and had the Insurance on my house renewed for three years paid 9.00 went and paid my telephone bill 2.75 came home had dinner, went to the farm and dit the chores{choers?}. Camne home, and the electric fuses had burned out. I tried to fix them, but could not. Telephoned Ray and he came down and after much labor got it to working, Rained hard during the middle of the day. 10\25\{1933} (Wednesday) To day I repaired a large gate for the St Josephs Cemetery that was made of iron, trucks and autos had ran{run?} into it when open at both ends and bent the frame pickets and all. 10\26\{1933} (Thursday) This day I repaired some grave hooks,{,?} put a wide tire 4" on a wheelbarrow, sharpened some picks, and repaired gate irons for St Joseph's Cemetery. This morning was cold ice froze. A ton of soft coal{cool?} came from the Citizens Coal Co $8.00 10\27\{1933} (Friday) Got up early this morning went to the farm and did the chores. Came home had breakfast, and got ready quick, and Cousin Berkele{Berkels?} Frisbie{?} and wife called and we left after eight Mary, with us and went to Silver mine, about four miles North of Norwalk, a{and?} visited all day with Mr and Mrs Carl Jackson. Their dayghters{daughters?} came one from the law school at new Haven, the other from New York. They are a very interesting family. We went via Naugatuck, Derby, Shelton, Bridgeport, Westport, Rained some during the day. Reached home at 8 o'clock. 10\28\{1933} (Saturday) To day I husked corn at the farm. Weather fine and clear. 10\29\{1933} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Roy Schramm{?} of Broadview Community Church, of Hartford officiated, and Rev J. A. Todd preached at his Church. After service {.?} Mary and I went to margarets on Beecher Ave and had dinner, after which we went to Lavergne Clarks on Clark Hill in Prospect where we had supper and a good visit. 10\30\{1933} (Monday) This day I husked corn all day, the weather was nice. Wrote a letter this evening to Charles F Norton{?} Pleasant Valley telling him that {.?} Margaret, Cliff, Gene, Mary and I were coming up next Sunday to call on them. 10\31\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning I went to Prospect stoping on the way to see a new pair of steers that Fred Berger has bought. I had to turn back on the Summit Road as I could not get through a{as?} they have not all the sluces{?} in. The grading is completed. This afternoon I plowed on the hill. 11\01\{1933} (Wednesday) This mornng I went to Prospect and then came back to the farm and gathered all of the good cabbages and loaded them into the truck, then plowed on the hill in the west lot next to the North fence. I saw Mr Albert about getting a Release{?} from she that was Mrs Wilner. 11\02\{1933} (Thursday) Weather to day has been clear and warm. I worked at the farm cultivating about the appletrees{.?} on the hill and did other odd jobs. 11\03\{1933} (Friday) This morning I went to the City hall and looked up records. This afternoon went to the farm and got out manure. 11\04\{1933} (Saturday) I went to the farm and did the chores, then went up the Summit Road to Prospect stoping{etoping?} at Mr Cowdetts{?} and got {.?} Nellin {.?} and we went to Clark Hill where we were joined by Levergne an/on{and?} Gould{?} Clark then went to the North{Northe?} West corner bound of the Town of Prospect and from there followed the line between the Towns of Prospect and Naugatuck 800{?} Rods to a Great flat Bed rock, where we left the line and returned home. 11\05\{1933} (Sunday) This morning soon after nine o'clock Margeret{Margaret?}, Cliff, and Gene came and took Mary and I in their Chevolet Car to Pleasant Valley, where we attended service in a little white Methodist Church which wa very interesting. After which we went to the home of Mr Charles Norton where we had an interesting visit{vislt?}. He is a fine fiddler and played while I drummed, and Gene played the piano after a time, we went to Mr manchesters and looke{looked?} over the violins that they had made, which were very fine workmenship, after which we returned to Mr Nortons and loaded my _rum{drum?} on the car and we left for home which we reached about six. Gene drove all the way, and we all ate supper here, Closing{Clasing?} a very pleasent{pleasant?} day. 11\06\{1933} (Monday) This morning the ground was covered with snow about one inch deep, all day it has rained and snowed so there is a part of the ground covered to night. This morning I went to the farm and got out ten loads of manure{.?} and put it on the garden and about the appletrees{.?} by which time I was wet through, and I came home. 11\07\{1933} (Tuesday) This morning{mornining?} I went to the office of the Conn Electric Light and Power Co and paid our electric light bill, 5.80? they sent a bill of over 20.00 all of which had been paid except last months. I then went to the Town Clerks Office and worked till one o'clock, then came home had dinner, Mr and Mrs Peters came and paid 14.00 rent for barn room. Then I went to the farm and plowed a spell in the lower garden. by night nearly all the snow had gone but the day has been wet and cold. 11\08\{1933} (Wednesday) Stormy morning with snow and rain, I indexed records, and then went to the Wheelhouse and filed saws till Mr Hapenny{?} came with an iron screw shackel{?} that belonged on their{this?} tractor that was broken, and wanted it welded and the thread recut, I with the help of big Jim repaired it and repaired several Steel wedges{.?} for Ed Scott of{af?} Cheshire, and sharpened drills for Fred Berger{?} of Summit. Then after dinner went{.?} to the farm and did the chores and came back and worked on cross-cut saws for Charles Welton of East Farms till dark, then did odd jobs. 11\09\1933 (Thursday) This morning I went to Prospect down the Straitsville Road and st{at?} the Horatio Clark place turned West and across{acrass?} the Naugatuck Reservoir and a little beyound{beyond?} left my car, and then walked about half a mile to the big bed flat Rock that marks an angle in the West boundry line of the Town of Prospect,{,?} then I went looking for the bounds that we could not find last Saturday. With a line ten rods I measure 5 1/2{degree symbol} West of North 80 rods where the first heap{.?} of stones should be according to the records, but could not find it, then I continued on and 75 rods found the bound that we missed the other time, then I measured back South 80 rods and found the first bound, which according to my measurements was 68 rods North of the large flat Rock. by this time it was noon, and after doing some exploring I cam{came?} back to East Farms, and as it was Snowing I came home. Two autos came togather{together?} last night in front of our our{written twice} house about six o'clock. One was a runabout driven by a girl, and the other a large sedan driven by ayoung man, which was going West, and occupied by three other young Cheshire young men who were going to Night school. The girl was coming up the hill at a rapid rate of speed on the North side of the road{soad?} and the man turned to the left to avid{avoid?} being hit, when she turned to the right and struck him in the running board and tipped the large car over, No one was injured, but both cars were badly damaged. 11\10\1933 (Friday) Cold weather for this time of the year.{blank space} This morning I went to the Town Clerks office, as I am in the habit of doing Friday forenoons. This afternoon{aflernoon?} I repaired the cap on the radiator of my runabout Ford Car, and did other odd jobs. Put alcohol in my Cars. 11\11\1933 (Saturday) This morning I put up brackets to hold the new electric wires that run to the wheel house, then I pulled all of the carrots in the garden, and after dinner went to the farm where I plowed in the garden till dark{.?} came home, and after supper indext{indexed?} a picture that I am going to take to Charle Norton at Pleasant Valley next Monday. Agout{About?} 8.30 Ray called after my hip rubber boots, as he wants to go to Niantic{?} tomorrow after sea food, and he said that it was snowing hard, We looked out and much to our surprise found that about two inches had fallen since dark and it was still snowing hard. 11\12\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church{Churcch?} Rev J. O. Todd{.?} officiated. This afternoon{aflernoon?} I went to Mr Cowdells in Prospect and to Lavergne Clarks. 11\13\1933 (Monday) This morning Gene Northrop and I left at nine and went to Pleasant Valley. We went up over the snow clad hill of Woolcott{Wolcott?} through Bristol, Unionville, Collingsville, Pine Meadow, and New Hartford. We stoped at Charles Nortons and there I got 100 Raspberry plants, and had a fine visit. 11\14\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to City Hall {.?} after a Photographer, for the newspapers had been here{?} and took our (Mary and mine) pictures for the papers to be used at our 50th wedding anneversary{anniversary?}. This afternoon I went to Mr Scovills at Clarks hollow in Prospect. I found that I knew him when a boy, and went to the old Clay Street school with him soon after the close of the Civil War, and have not seen him to know since. It snowed hard this forenoon and the ground is now covered, and the weather has come off very cold. 11\15\1933 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and set out the Rasp berry plants that Mr Norton of Pleasant Valley gave me the snow was nearly two inches deep but there was no frost, and there was 96{?} plants. I then plowed in the garden but it became so cold that the earth froze to the plow and froze when I plowed it out so I gave it up and came home. Mary's and My picture was in the American this evening, and a description of our lives and that the fiftieth anniversary of our marrage{marriage?} will be celebrated in the Mill Plain Church. 11\16\1933 (Thursday) Chopped wood all day only the time that I went to the farm and did the chores. 11\17\1933 (Friday) Very Cold this morning ice everywhere. I went to the Town Clerks in Prospect and looked up the Perambulations of the line between Prospect and Woodbridge now Betheny, and other matters. Came home at noon and did odd jobs about the place. 11\18\1933 (Saturday) Cold day. Worked in the Wheel house most of the time{.?} and tended the furnace fire. Went to the farm and did the chores. 11\19\1933 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd, officiated. {blank space in text} After warde {Afterwards?} we went to the home of Morton E. Pierpont, where we had a sumptiou_{sumptious?} dinner of turkey and many other good things. Ray and Ruth were there, and we had a fine visit during the afternoon. They told of their visit at the Worlds Fair{,?} and of their visit at Irvings in Milwaukee. They had a great Ice Cream Cake about 2" thick and 10" across with fancy cream trimmings{.?} and the words, "Charles, Mary. 50 anniversary." etc on it. 11\20\1933 (Monday) This day has been cold. I took out the electric pump that I had in the cellar, and put in a pitcher pump so I could get water for the furnace and other purposes, and did other odd jobs, etc. 11\21\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks office where I staid till after one. When I got home I found Ruth Brundage here with Margaret fixing Mary's clothing in preperation{preparation?} for the event tomorrow. I went to the farm and did the chores{chares?} etc. This evening we had supper at Margarets. 11\22\1933 (Wednesday) Fifty years ago this morning Mary and I were married in the Old Mill Plain Chapel at Seven o'clock in the morning {.?} by the Rev Joseph Micow{?}. In comemeration{commemeration?} of that event, our Children planned a recepion{reception?} which was held in the parlors of the New{.?} Mill Plain Union Church, and such a wedding anniversary was never held before in Mill Plain. When Charles De Bissop came in he said that they ought to have us at the Church Fair that he scarcely{?} find room to park his car. The street yard and playground {play-ground?} was full, more cars that he had ever seen before there{?}. By count there were over 203{.?} people there.{.?} Beside relations Neighbors and Friends. The Boys Choir to the number of 30 marched in and tendered us their congratulations. Soon this was followed by a delegation of men with whom I worked at the International Silver Co.{.?} years ago, all of whom I was glad to see. before they left Max Gross{?} in their behalf presented me with a five dollar gold piece, for which I thanked them. Refreshments of cakes, ice{.?} cream and tea were served, and next was heard the martial strains of Hail to the Chief played by the Mattatuck Drum{Druma?} Band as they came marching in all fully equiped in their grand uniforms, which added color{colar?} to the whole affair. They planyed another selection. Ten years ago they played at our 40th anneverary{anniversary?}, {,?} and 50 years ago they serenaded us, Not one now remains in the band who played at that time, By a fine speech delived by Ralph Pierpont they presented me with a $50.00 bill. There were many other presents, among which was a fine silver set presented by Robert, Lewis & Joseph Somers{.?} $5.00 bill from Elizabeth,{,?} Mira, May, and Jasephene{Josephine?} Somers $5.00 bill from Mrs Benjamin Chatfield, a fine tray from my sister Cara, a large tray of fruit from Joseph Mulcum, a lot of fine apples from Morton E Pierpont, a Gallon can of Maple syrup from somebody, we think Frank, and many flowers from different persons, esepally{especially?} one large basket from the Mill Plain Union Church. Among those present were myself and Wife, Mr and mrs C. W. Northrop, Mr and Mrs A. J. Brundage Robert, Kenneth, G. Pierce, and Margaret, M. Brundage, Mr and Mrs R. H. Miller, Mr and Mrs V. J Simons, Mr and Mrs H. R. Kraft, Charles H. Kraft, W. E. Gibson, Jean Northrop, Mr and Mrs A. G. Bir_{Bird?}, Mr and Mrs W. A. Service, Margary Service{?} Mr and Mrs E. W. Russell, of Bridgeport, Mr and Mrs P. A. Reutter H. J. Ahle, C. W. Wolcott, Mrs F. R Turkington Alice Turkington Lucy and Ferrice Turkington{?} of Morris, Mrs W. P. Jones, Mr and mrs Max. E. Kraft, Mr and Mrs John E Peterson, Frank Spray, Mr and Mrs Robert Gardner, Mrs Beatrice Pierpont, Mrs J. R. Jacoby, Marion Pierpont, Mrs W. E. Gibsom{?}, Cara A. Miller, of Cheshire, Alie Pickett, B. J. Butter, Lois Gillette, Mary Miller, Berta and Dwight Miller Mr and Mrs Frank P. Miller. Mrs Harriet Henion{?}. Harold Pierpont, Mrs Sarah Hine, Mrs Armond Reid Mrs John Reed, Misses M__a{Myra?} and May Somers, Mrs Edwin Charles, Gladys Charles Mr and Mrs Henry Menick of Florica, Josephine and Elizabeth Somers Mr and Mrs Herbert Wilcos, Mrs and Mrs Thoedore{Theodore?} Voghel{?}, and{.?} Son,{,?} Mrs Morton Fogg, Elton Alexander, Frank and Eunice Frisbie, Mrs Florence Kilbourne, Mrs William Carter, Mary Hapenny, Nicholas Haypenny, Mr and Mrs William Gillette, Mr and Mrs Howard Neal. Mr and Mrs Charle_{Charles?} Penniman, Robert Clark Irving B. Steadman, Mr and Mrs Joseph E. Somers, Edith Somers Mr and Mrs Leslie Coley, Mrs Joseph Maulkern, Mrs Dorothy Green, Mrs Morton E. Pierpont, Laurence Pierpont, Mr and Mrs Rowland Jenner, Mr and Mrs Arthur Gross, Mrs Walter Colby Sr{?} Mrs N. J. Hapenny, Mrs Fanny Upson, Mrs Minnie Hitchcock Mrs Edgar Upson, Robert E. Lewis, Fred Pretat, Oscar Brehn, Laurence Cunningham, Fritz Snowman, Albert Ascott, Ernest Rogers, James Maddaloni. Armond Schupack{Schupach?}, John Stuhlman, Frank Tobin, G. M. Haward{?}, Arthur Gross, Max Gross, Mrs Charles Cars, Jaseph{Joseph?} Picard, Mrs Leland Garrigus, Mrs Milton Reed, Mr and mrs L. G. Somers, Robert Somers, J. Ogren{?}, Arthur Heaton, Charance{Clarence?} F. Brown, Louis Holmes, Eddie Kahl, Rev and Mrs J. O. Todd, Mrs George Browne, Sarah Browne, Charles J De Bissop, Al Crandall, Harry Storet, Arthur E. Blewitt, Mr and Mrs Elmer Coe. Burton Beecher Mr and Mrs Nathan Pierpont, Mr and Mrs George Pierpont, Frank Tracy, Michael Cunningham, Olga Hanson. Of the Mattatuck Drum Band were Lee Garrigus, Leader, Robert Browne, George Cass, Charles Cass, L. A Fox, Howard Neal, Paul Miller, Charles Tuttle, Edgar Upson, Arthur Yarrington, Milton Reed, Andrew Kitchenka, and Ralph Pierpont. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Chatfield, Mansfield Gillette, C. Raymong Gansing{Ganning?}, Lenard{Leonard?} Coley, and George Hubbard. 11\23\1933 (Thursday) This morning Iva Gillette telephoned that they wanted to take Mary and I down to the sea shore{?} to have a shore dinner, We accepted the invatation{invitation?} and They called at quarter to one with their nice Packard car. The party included Will and Ive Gillette, Margaret Northrop, Mary and I. We went through Cheshire, Wallingford, Montoese and other places that I did not know, and came to the Post road in Branford, where we stoped at a place called the Oasis, and had a fine shore dinner. After which we went through Gilford and to Hammonassett Beach then to Madison and home by North Madison, Rockland, Durham, and Meriden, after an interesting ride and fine dinner. Among the 50th Anniversary Cards we have received They were sent by the following people. James H. Courtney, Rob, Joe & Lou Somers, Mrs. Margaret Northrop, Frank Tobin, Phil, Ethel, & Ruth Royther{Routher?}, Mr & Mrs George Cowdell, Miss Nellie Cowdell, Mr & Mrs William A. Taber. From the Drews, Ansonia, Nellie, Libbie, Jennie, Cleveland Ohio, Francis Lee Case{?}, Joseph E. Emerson, E. Hampton Conn, Harriet L. Heinon, Dr. & Mrs. Chas. S. Beers, Elton, Jane Alexander & sons, Harold & Sarah Pierpont, Doris & Will Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Voghel{Vaghel?}, Mrs. John Hart, Naugatuck, R. Kingston. Ward & Girtrude Henion, Mr & Mrs Ralph Roberts, Mr & Mrs C. H. Lee, Mr & Mrs Hapenny, Mort, J{?}, and Boys. Mr and Mrs H J. Hamel.{.?} New York. Mr & Mrs Joseph Mulkern, Mr & Mrs W L Garrigus, Mrs David B Hotchkiss, Mr & Mrs John Castle, Mr & Mrs Robert Clark, Mr & Mrs Louis Brewster, Mr & Mrs George Hubbard, Cornelia M. Walker, Mr & Mrs George Woodward, Mrs W Lynn, May Pierpont and the Boys.{. or ,?} Mr & Mrs Walter Beebe{Beibe?}, Eliz, Joephene{Josephine?}, Myra, May, & George Somers, May & John, Gertrude{?} & Ted, Mr & Mrs Robert Gardner, Mame & Roll. Mr & Mrs E. L. Raymond, Anna Pierpont, Hartford, Annie J. Pierpont, Woodbury. Mr & Mrs Laurence Fraser, Will, Louise & Margery Service. Mr & Mrs John Mckay, Mr & Mrs Signery Spender, Clyde, Dick, Fritsa, Willard, Bob, and Ronald, Toronto, Letters from Edna L. Foster, Watertown. Bert P Garrigus, Storrs, Mr & Mrs G. H. Goddwin, Mr & Mrs Howard Newbury, Torrington, Mrs R E Streter, Emma{Enma?} Drew. 11\24\1933 (Friday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks Office. This afternoon after the chores at the farm Went to Prospect and spent the most of the afternoon at{.?} Mrs Murpheys place on the Straitsville{?} Road. 11\25\1933 (Saturday) This Morning. I went with the Mattatuck Drum Band and attended Major Pete Shea's funeral,{, or .?} I served as an honorary pall {.?} bearer, and walked at the head of the left side of the Hearse from the house to St Margarets Church,{,?} and from there to the grave in the New St Joseph's Cemetery. Petes{?} was a large funeral, headed by the poleace{police?}, and Massed Colors, the Mattatuck Drum Band The Putnam Phalanx{.?} of Hartford, The Mayor and several ex mayors, a firing squad The hearse then Veterans of all Wars{.?} and a long train of auto Carrigges{Carriages?}, While passing through the Center, the chimes of St Johns Church payed{played?}, "America," and "Nearer my God to thee{thei?}."{or".?} This afternoon Ray came and put up wires from the Girage to the Wheel House, got through at dark. 11\26\1933 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church{.?} Rev J O. Todd, Preached and Fred Wilson is orgnist{organist?}. This evening the Concordia Singing Society were there and gave a concer, which was fine. The weather to day has been fair and warm. 11\27\1933 (Monday) This morning I drove over to South Britain and got Mr Frank Howland and we went to Danbury and looked up the Distribution of Daniel Jackson who died in Brookfield about 1800. From there we drove to Kent. Saw Elsie but not Frank as he had gone to South Kent. Then we drove over Kent Mountain, where Mr Howland used to live when young. They have a new road built about two miles out of Kent and the same West of Warren. We reached home before dark. 11\28\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the City Hall. This afternoon{aflernoon?} surveyed 70 Rods of the Log Town Road. 11\29\19833 (Wednesday) To day Lavergne and Goulde Clark and Nellie Cowdell went over the bound line from the large flat bed Rock which is 800 Rods from the corner of Prospect Waterbury{Walerbury?} and Naugatuck South{south?} to the Three Brothers at Betheny Naugatuck & Prospect, two of the bounds we were unable to find. This afternoon I plowed in the garden at East Farms. 11\30\1933 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. This forenoon I went{.?} to the farm and plowed in the garden.{.?} till a great fire was started in the swamp near Mr Montgomeries house and raged through the Catails{Cattails?} and grass. I went to protect the Cemetery. Soon the firement came and they got it under Control{Contral?}. This afternoon Mary and I went to Rays to a fine Thanksgiving dinner. 12\01\1933 (Friday) This morning was warm but it was freezing cold to night. I finished plowing the gardens at East Farms, and went to Cowdells and got some typewritten work which I sent to Cousin{Couin!} Emma Jackson Redlands Calif. 12\02\1933 (Saturday) This morning I cut up cornstalks at the farm. Worked at the small car all the afternoon. Wrote a letter to Cousin Emma Jackson of Redlands Calf. this morning. 12\03\1933 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd, preached. This afternoon{aftirnoon?} I went to Naugatuck and saw Mrs Jones about geneological matters. This evening Ray and Ruth called. 12\04\1933 (Monday) To day I graded a road{rood?} out to the farm the upper half from the gate to the barn{barm?}. To night I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons to a class of young men. Weather has been dam{damp?} but not cold. 12\05\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to Prospect and surveyed the Log Town Road{Rood?} through{.?} it is 368 Rods long from the Straisville Road to the West Prospect Schoolhouse where if Joins the Salem Road. It passes through a rough stony land without much water. The weather was fair and not cold. 12\06\1933 (Wednesday) Wet rainy day. This morning I undertook to put new brake lining in my old Ford car, but lost a washer down in the gear case, and have worked all day trying to get it, run the car out so I could see, then it rained hard an{and?} wet me through, so I had a time of it. Will have to take the gear case apart tomorrow. 12\07\1933 (Thursday) Worked on my Ford Car all day, and had to get Walter Beebe who runs a Gasoline Station just West of the Frost road to help me and we got out the washed that I let drop into the gear case, and at dark was ready to put in the brake bands. A big job for a slite{slight?} cause. 12\08\1933 (Friday) Finished the Ford truck this afternoon, and filed a single Crosscut{Crasscut?} saw for Ray Bronson of Bunker Hill and one for his Father {Raymond is crossed out} P. Edward Bronson of East Farms. Then took the truck and went to East Farms and did the chores. 12\09\1933 (Saturday) Weather to day has been cool. Snowed a little this morning I raked up leaves and put them in the chicken yard, then took a sixteen ft ladder to the farm, and left it, anmd took a check of $70.00 to Lee Garrigus. for the Mattatuck Drum Band. from the City of Watervury pay for playing Armistice day parade. I cam{came?} back to the farm and cut the branches off the maple trees West of the barn{barnd?} that were so low as{?} to stike the auto tops. While there Mr Scott brought a lot of iron that he wanted made into sled iron, so I came home and sawed up old cart{cort?} tires all the aternoon. 12\10\1933 (Sunday) The weather has been cold just zero this morning and cold all day. We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph O Todd{?} officiated. This was Scottish Sunday and there were many Scotch Societies{societies?} represented about 100 persons in all, their singing was excelent{excellent?}. This evening we attended a meeting of the young peopld and Mr Raymond of the Raymond Baking Co told of his{.?} experiance{experience?} in America, from a poor emigrant boy {is word crossed out?} 1900 to a successful Business man at the present time. From a watch case maker in Switzerland to the Proprietor{Proprietar?} and Manager of the Largest Bakery in this part of the State 12\11\1933 (Monday) Weather cold and snow on the ground, this morning I went to Pierpont Hights{Heights?} and saw Mr Smith about butchering the pig. He says that he will do it next Thursday. Did the choers{chores?} at the farm, then came home {,?} and worked on irons for Mr Edward Scott to put on a log sled that he is building. News has reached us that Lilian Cass daughter of Charles Cass of North Wallingford, could not be found{?} this morning. They all went to bed last night as usual After a long search, one person said "we have looked everywhere except down the well,"{or ",?} They looked there, and finally a man went down and found her in the water clothed only in her night dress. Her death is a mystery. 12\12\1933 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the City hall and looked up records. Then I went to Benedict Street and got the 19.34 auto license for my little truck 15.00 Then to the farm and did the chores everything froze up. Weather very cold. 12\13\1933 (Wednesday) We Margaret, Mary and I went to Wallingford to Lillian Cass funeral. There were more flowers there than I ever saw at a grave. When the Sexton took them off the mound and placd{placed?} them on the ground they would cover a spot one rod squre{square?}. It began snowing before __{we?} reached home. 12\14\1933 (Thursday) To day the snow lay four inches deep on the ground, and the themometer{thermometer?} three below at seven{.?} o'clock{a'clock?}. I went to the farm and were getting things ready to butcher the hog, when Mr Smith and his son came{cam?} and we got the water hot and killed and had him dressed off before noon, and I brought him home Three Mill Plain boys came this evening and copied drum music. 12\15\1933 (Friday) To day I made ironwork for Edward Scotts sled. He came for them this evening. Weather has been very cold. 12\16\1933 (Saturday) To day Ray came and we cut up all of the meat. I took a letter to the {M is crossed out} Leyland Garrigus, gav{gave?} Jack 1.00 towards flowers for Lillian Cass. To night I made over irons for Scott. 12\17\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J O{.?} Toodd{Todd?}. Weather wet and rained all day, stayed home. 12\18\1933 (Monday) To day I worked repairing the iron gate of St Josphs Cemetery, and did other odd jobs. 12\19\1933 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to the Office of the Town Clerk{:?} and tried to find out when the old Lewis house was built in Naugatuck, for Mrs Jones. After doing the hores at the farm I went to Mr Cowdells in Prospect and got some work they did. The weather has been mild and it thawed some. 12\20\1933 (Wednesday) Rained all day{.?} and very icey{icy?}. Many automobile acident{accidents?} more now than ever before, owing to the speed that people drive, and as the roads are slippery the cars skid down banks through fences, and even into the fronts of builsind, thereby injuring many peopld and wrecking cars. Wrote Clyde. Worked on gate. 12\21\1933 (Thursday) I finished the repairing of the Cemetery Gate to day. This evening two boys came George Baldwing and Ernest ]Robinson and copyed drum music. 12\22\1933 (Friday) This forenoon I spent at the Town Clerks office. Did chores at Farm this afternoon and, bought a gal of White paint at East End hardware store 2.50. and 1 pt{?} of stove pipe enamel at Sears & Roebuck .35 Weather has been fari. 12\23\1933 (Saturday) To day I apinted the greater part of the grape arbor on the East side of the house, and trimmed the grape vine. This evening I made prien{?} and put over the Ham and Bacon, in six weeks it will be ready to smoke. ]Mary is busy sending out Christmas cards. 12\24\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Church Rev J. O. Tood{Todd?}, Fine singing by all four Chairs{Choirs?}. This P. M. went to mrs Jones. Attended vesper service at Mill Plain at 4.30 Church lighted with candels. {Next line difficult to read} Weather warm, and thawing. 12\25\1933 (Monday) Christmas. This forenoon I painted on the grape arbour, and went to the farm and did the chores. At noon we all went down to margarets, where we had a fine Christmas dinner. Those present were Cliff and Margaret Northrop{,?} Mr and Mrs Howard Kraft, and{ant?} their son Chrarles{Charles?}, Mr and Mrs Raymond Miller, Mr and Mrs Vincent, Simons, and Gene{.?} Northrop Mrs Ruth Brundage from Storrs and Sons Rogere{Roger?} and Pierce, and Daughter Peggy, Enid Millr, My wife and I. Later Frank came from Kent with Elsie, and children Mary, Bertha, Dwight Jessie, and Louis. In the evening, we had a Christmas Tree {.?} and all got many presents. When we came to draw for next years presents I drew Elsie Miller of Kent. 12\26\1933 (Tuesday) Snowed hard all day{,?} about 10 inches fell. I stayed{stoped?} in the house nearly all day{,?} as I had an attack of brontetas{bronchitis?}. We received{recived?} to day a nice Christmas reath{wreath?} of hawley vine with an abundance of large red berries from William Pierpont of Portland oregon, and the same mail brought a fine hand made Christmas card from Lewis L Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancouver Ore. with{wilk?} a fine holly reath{?} worked in on it. {next sentence difficult to read} ono{one?} of the best pieces of work I ev__{ever?} saw{?} of the kind. 12\27\1933 (Wednesday) Snow this morning about here is eleven inches deep I was busy till noon digging out the snow paths, Got the delivery car out at noon and went to the farm and did the chores{choers?}. Bad traveling this side of the arch, the East side the State had the road plowed out {.?} good and wide, But this side were deep ruts. 12\28\1933 (Thursday) Coldest morning yet 6 below and cold all day I did odd Jobs about home, and the chores at the farm. 12\29\1933 (Friday) This has been the coldest day I ever kn_w{knew?}, the themometer was 20 {degree symbol} below zero this morning and at Noon it was 9 {degree symbol} below tonight it is 15 {degree symbol} below. But few autos are out, and the people when they get off the trolley cars hasten to get where it is warm. This morning I went to the Town clerks office and at noon went to the farm, on the trolley. 12\30\1933 (Saturday) Themometer 15 {degree symbol} below zero this morning, but at noon it was 10 {degree symbol} above, and tonight about zero. An{Am?} not feeling well and have spent nost{most?} of the time in the house, except that I filed a larg{large?} circular saw for Mr Rochambea__{Rochambear_?}, and then had a time getting my car thawed out, so I could go to the farm and dod the chores. There are{are?} but few autos on the road on account of the cold. 12\31\1933 (Sunday) On account of not feeling well I stayed indoors all day except the time it took to go to the farm and do the chores. The weather has been cloudy and some rain and mist{.?} which made paths and roads very slippery. Mr Dockum brought two gallons of engine oil for my model T Ford, car 130 01\01\1934 (Monday) This day has been fairly warm, some fog, some rain and thawed much. I painted the stove and pipe in the Drum Corps room. The stove and pipe in the garage{Girage!}, and the stove and pipe in the wheel house, and did other jobs. 01\02\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Town Clerk's Office, then came home and went to the Farm and did the chores, then did odd jobs about home. Saw Fire Marhal{Marshall?}. about Mr Garrigus fire \at the farm./{supralinear addition} This evening Joseph Auzooino from Tarrytown called he had been sent by Brother Fred to call on me{.?} and get a drum of his. I gave him one that was made by William Brown in Winsor in 1830. The weather to day has been cold but above zero for which we are thankful. 01\03\1934 (Wednesday) This day has been cold. I did odd jobs about the home. Wrote a letter to mr Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt], Vancouver, Wash, and to Mr William E Pierpont at Portland Ore, and to Cousin Miss Emma L Jackson, of Redlands Calf. 01\04\1933 (Thursday) Winter weathr Cold. Snow, Ice, and slippery. Did odd Jobs, getting in wood, selling window glass, etc. 01\05\1933 (Friday) Ice, Ice, Ice. everwhere{everywhere?} the women{?} cant get out of doors put ashes{?} on the walks and the rain that is falling freezes and soon it is all ice again. I went to the Town Clerks Office this forenoon, and drove to the farm after dinner and did the chores, and sliped about considerable. Mort Pierpont, is President of the milk Producers Association, and there has been a controversy{controversery?} carried on in the papers and otherwise, with the President of the Milk Control Board, in which Mort has tired and is not to carry argument any father, But is{?} going to act, which seems to me would be{bi?} much better. 01\06\1934 (Saturday) Wet and icy I repaired and painted windows in the Wheel house and in the Blacksmith shop. I saw William Garrigus at the farm, about the fire hazard he has mantained{maintained?} an{and?} which nearly set fire to my property, and of which I saw the City Fire Marshal{Marshall?}, Garrigus was very mad and talked{takked?} very rank to me, But after he had gone a while I turned on him, and he quieted, but I gess{guess?} out friendship is strained. The{Then?} I went to Prospect and left some type work to be done at George Cowdells, then came over the main road over East Mountain home. 01\07\1933 (Sunday) Rained hard all day. We attended service at the Mill Plain Union{Unibn?} Church. Rev Joseph Todd officiated. I went to the farm and did the chores, then staid in the house the remainder of the day. Ray{?} and Ruth called in the evening. We received a nice callender{calendar?} from Kent yesterday, with pictures{piclures?} of Father Sill and others on it. 01\08\1934 (Monday) This morning I bought two pounds of putty and a package of glazier points, then fixed up ladders and plank and took out the broken glass from mrs Vogals{?} front closet and set in a new one, and painted the sash and ridge board over the front poarch{porch?}. I amde an iron for Ed Scott and took it out to him. He has a steam saw mill at his place sawing up logs. I am to have slabs for pay. Charged .50 for iron and .50 that he ows{owes?} me toatl 1.00 on account. 01\09\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks office. This afternoon I did chores at farm, then changed the oil in the Model T car, and repaired windoes{windows?}. 01\10\1933 (Wednesday) Weather to day has been nice. I went to Cheshire Depot and got two sheets of beaver board and some lumber to make a partition{paitition?} in the upper{?} hall, and then came home and repaired windows. 01\11\1934 (Thursday) To day I put a Beaver-board partition across the long hall at the head of the stairs. I put it there so the cold air couldnt go up into Mrs. Vogals{?} room and so Miss Pickett couldnt hear the Vogals Radio and also Mary could open the door into our room at the head of the stais and get the heat from the radiator{rodiator?}. This evening three Mill Plain boys came to learn to fife. 01\12\1934 (Friday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks office. After doing the chores at the farm I took the brake out of the ford car and started to repair it. The day has been mild for this time of the year. 01\13\1934 (Saturday) I finished repairing the brake of my Ford Car which took till noon, then I went to the farm, and after I came back finished the partition in the upper hall. 01\14\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd officiated. This afternoon I went to see Mrs. Jones in Naugatuck. But she is in St Mary's Hospital with a broken hip, she fell on the ice Christmas day and Mr Jones now is very sick, I went to get a record book that I left there the day before Christmas. 01\15\1933 (Monday) I set glass and puttyed and painted windows this forenoon, then I went to the farm and did the work there then went to Mrs. Edgar Wallace funeral in Prospect. There were many there, so many {word hard to read, ink blot} automobiles that there was no toom to put an _ther{an other? word hard to read, ink blot} car near the house. She was buried in the Cemetery at Prospect Center. It was very cold there and some of the women shivered from want of more clothing. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and instructed a class in drumming. 01\16\1934 (Tuesday) This morning{mornining?} I went to the Town Clerks office and looked up records. After doing the chores at the Farm I sharpened a load of picks for Calvary Cemetery, which took till six o.clock{o'clock?}. Yesterday was uncle Will and Aunt Ellen Somers sixtieth wedding anniversary. he is 80 years old. I think she is a little older. 01\17\1934 (Wednesday) Repaired saws and Windows all day 01\18\1934 (Thursday) {Thirsday?} This morning I sharpened picks and put handles in two sledges for St Joseph's Cemetery. This evening two boys came for Fife lessons. 01\19\1934 (Friday) Went to the Town Clerks Office this forenoon. When I got home Mary told me that Mr Arthur Jones of Naugatuck{Nougatuck?} was dead, his wife is in St Marys Hospital with a broken hip, she fell on the ice Christmas day. 01\20\1934 (Saturday) Nice weather thawed a little. I repaired and painted windows. A Ton of coal came to day. Mr Eastwood called. 01\21\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. After Church I and Mary went to the farm and then to Prospect, to Cowdells, and then through the Parsons road and up the Clark road then. down the Union City road to Baptist Corner then up past the Brockett Cemetery, and up the Pearl lake road home, where we stayed the rest of the day. In to days paper was the following. {blank space} A announcement was made this past week of the marriage in Millerton N.Y. on{?} Monday of Mrs. Marion G Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Milldale, formerly of Goshen to Robert Bergeron of New Britain. The attending couple were Mr and Mrs Samuel Thomen of Torrington. Following the cerimony{ceremony?} a reception was held at the Thomen residence. Mr and mrs Bergeon will reside in Milldale. 01\22\1934 (Monday) Weather Cold Repaired windows all day. 01\23\1934 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall to day. This P.M. went to Prospect and got some work that was done. Rained hard this Forenoon. 01\24\1934 (Wednesday) To day I repaired and painted windows all the time except when I went to the farm, and cleaned the furnace and riddled ashes etc. 01\25\1934 (Thursday) This morning I repaired windows{windoes?} up stais in the barn. This afternoon I went to the Barber up at the old Doolittle, place and he cut my hair and shaved for .75 Then hastened to the farm and did the chores, and in fifteen minutes I was at the office of the Waterbury Rolling Mills Cor, where I attended the annual stockholders meeting. They paid a quarterly divident of 1 1/4 op the first paid in two years. I got home at 4 o'clock and mary and I went to South Waterbury and visited Uncle William Somers. 01\26\1934 (Friday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks office. This afternoon worked on windows{windoes?} in the barn, setting glass puttying and painting them. 01\27\1934 (Saturday) This forenoon I repaired and painted windows, but it came on to snow and I had to stop. This afternoon two young men Mr Eastwood and Hurlburt{?} came and we repaired a lot of heavy chains for Calvary Cemetery. 01\28\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd officiated. The weather was wet and cool. This afternoon Mary and I went to Judge George Browns in Wolcott. We had an enjoyable visit. 01\29\1935 (Monday) Cold and windy day, froze hard at noon. I did several jobs. Cleaned out Mrs. Vogals{?} sink pipe, which her sister from New York stoped up by poring melted sausage{sassage?} grease down and it hardened. I cup up old auto tires to burn in the stove in the wheel house and repaired one half of a window in the barn, but it was to{too?} cold to be out of doors. My car froze up going to the farm. 01\30\1934 (Tuesday) This morning was very cold 2 below zero. I went to the Town Clerks Office, after which I came home, and after dinner wnet to the farm, came back home, put up curtains etc. 01\31\1934 (Wednesday) One of the coldest days, and windy. Have burned much coal in the furnace I painted and repaired many windows I think I have them all done. 02\01\1934 (Thursday) Began snowing at 8 this morning and has snowed all day. I repaired drawing board and picture frames etc 02\02\1934 (Friday) Dug out snow paths all the forenoon. Snow about 10" deep. Filed saw, and did odd jobs, etc. 02\03\1934 (Saturday) This morning{mornin?} I took up the hams and bacon and hung them up to drain. I then worked in the Wheel house, made a wind mill from a Ford radiator fan wheel. Very cold all day. 02\04\1934 (Sunday) Attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. Snowed nearly all day and very cold. 02\05\1934 (Monday) Cold Day. Worked in Wheel House, etc. This evening I went to Mill Plain Church and gave lessons in drumming to a class nine boys. 02\06\1934 (Tuesday) Cold 15 below zero this morning the themometer{thermometer?} hasnt been{ben?} above freezing any time for a week, some of the coldest weather I ever knew. I knew a week in the year about 18_2{1882?} when the themometer was below zero all of the time, mornings usually from 10 to 14, and at noon 1 or more below. On New Years day in 1874 I saw ice cut on Wedges Pond on the Plank Road 32" thick, the thickest ice I ever saw cut in Waterbury. I{In?} 1890 there was scarcely any ice cut 4" Inches{"?} was the thickest that it froze and that was in January. 02\07\1934 (Wednesday) Cold weather 6 below this morning here{hese?} but others reported 15 below. I did odd jobs, repaired the corn sheller{?} in the hen house and did several jobs in the wheel house. 02\08\1934 (Thursday) Six below this morning 2 above at noon 8 below this evening and going down fast, no thaw so far this month. I went{wen?} to the farm and did the chores. Put liquid{licquid?} smoke on hams and bacon, and worked the rest of day in Wheel house, making a hay rake. Hiram Abel called. 02\09\1934 (Friday) This mornig the themometer regerstered{registered?} 26 below zero the coldest I ever knew here, at noon 5 below and 10 below this evening. I went to the Town Clerks office this forenoon, Then to the farm on the trolley, and staid in the house the rest of the day. But few autos are out as the oil is so hard that they cannot be started unless kept in heated girarges{girages?} 02\10\1934 (Saturday) This morning it was 10 below zero, 20 above at noon and 8 above this evening. I went to the farm on then trolley car. This afternoon I took the cool grates out of the kitchen stove and fixed it to burn wood. This evening a ton of coal came, after dark, which was very welcome as we were nearly out, it was soft coal price $8.00. 02\11\1934 (Sunday) This day was warmer 10 above this morning 32 at noon and 18 above this evening To day is the first time that the themometer has been up to the freezing point this month. We attended the Mill Plain Union Church this forenoon, Rev Clarance Wells{?} of the Watertown Congregational{?} Church preached. Went to the farm and did the chores then staid hom the rest of the day. This afternoon Cousin Berkeley and Mildred Frisbie of Woodtick called, as did Nephue{Nephew?} Ferress{?} and Lena Turkinton {Turkington?} of East Morris. 02\12\1934 (Monday) The weather to day has been milder thawed some Wrote a letter to Mrs. Renfro of Sioux City Iowa this morning and did odd jobs about home etc. 02\13\1934 (Tuesday) I went to City hall this forenoon. Weather not so cold but at noon it turned cold and windy an{and?} at night it was below zero and wind blowing. 02\14\1934 (Wednesday) Cold 6 below zero this morning, but we dont mind it so much now. I sharpened frost bars and repaired the truck for Calvary Cemetery this forenoon. After dinner I went to the farm, then to Cowdells in Prospect, and left some typewriting to be done{,?} then went to making a new pinion for the old clock. This evening Ruth called and paid for the sholder{?}. 02\15\1934 (Thursday) Thawed considerable to day. I worked all day on the old Clock that is nearly 150 years old, made{nade?} a new pinion out of iron wood that Charles Tuttle gave me four years ago, and it is hard and strong. I had to rig up my little speed lathe to turn it out, and turn down the old shaft{,?} that part is finished except I have no fresh glue. 02\16\1934 (Friday) I went to City hall this forenoon. Ths ground is still all covered with snow, and weather is cold. I had a flat tire on my new car the first one. 02\17\1934 (Saturday) This day I sharpened a lot of bars, Frost fins, and picks for Calvary Cemetery, and finished fixing the old clock that Grandfather Miller gave me in 1875, that his father traded two hogs for, in 1790. His Father was Timothy E. Miller and he lived on Chestnut Hill a mile North of the four Corner in Litchfield, and half a mile South of the Torrington Road. 02\18\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev J. O. Todd. This afternoon I went with William Leroy Garrigus to Wolcott center and visited Mr Moss{Mass?} a New York man who has bought the Old Erastus Warner place and is repairing it up in good shape. 02\19\1934 (Monday) This morning I made an iron for Edgar Upsons truck end board and did several other odd jobs. This evening I went to the Gim{Gym?} of the Mill Plain Church and gave a drumming lesson to a class of boys. It was snowing hard when I came home. 02\20\1934 (Tuesday) This morning the snow about here is 30 inches deep no trolley cars running to day, a snow plow went east during the night but it hasnt came{comne?} back, and scarcely any auto trucks are running, cars are stalled everywhere since last night. The Frost road is drifted so no cars can pass, I walked out to the farm and beyond the arch there was only a single track, and there were many stalled cars. 02\21\1934 (Wednesday) Shoveled{ink blot} snow all day. Lots of snow everywhere. A trolley snow plow that went out yesterday morning before day light got stuck in the snow at the Notch-in-the Rocks and the crew have been digging all the time till they returned this morning at about eight o'clock. A sweeper came out from town on the South track and they got the cars running a little after noon. Lots of trouble with Auto trucks The Byrowley Co have twenty five stalled in different parts of the State One of their large trucks was stalled in the drifts on the Frost Road above Circular{Ciscular?} A_{Aa?} since _ight{night?} before __st{last?}. They got it out this afternoon. B__{But?} li__le{little?} Groceries, Meat, and Milk are being delivered. 2 below this morning 02\22\1934 (Thursday) Wahingtons birthday No School. This day it thawed some and rained, Everybody busy shoveling snow and breaking out roads so autos can travel. Snow about 20 inches deep The time of the Great storm in 1888 it was 40 inches deep Zero this morning. 02\23\1934 (Friday) This morning I went to the Town Clerks Office, then went to the farm by trolley and did the chores ther{there?} Weather very cold, came home and kept warm. The Government will not allow the C.W.A. men to shovel snow, 1,600 of them have been digging the streets out for three days and the City will have to pay over 18,000 dollars. The themometer four below this morning 02\24\1934 (Saturday) Great time opening roads and paths. The City had four heavy trucks, and two with snow plows in front{fpont?}, and they hitched another in front and they could take a little snow and ice off the Frost road. With the truck pulling ahead of the plow they managed to take it down about half the depth to hard ice and snow after going over it many times. I dug out the drive way but did not take a car out as there is no place to part at the farm, as the road is very narrow there. We listened to Jack Brundage talk over the radio this noon. he has a good voice. The themometer was{ws?} 3 below this morning. 02\25\1934 (Sunday) Real winter of the old fashioned sort, more snow than we have had in ten years, and the coldest weather I ever knew. Six below zero here at 8.30 this morning. Ralph and Laurence Pierpont, and little Ted Wilson started this morning at five o'clock, for Florida, The themometer was 15 degrees below zero when they started. We didnt got to Church this morning as{at?} the walking was hard, and there was no place to leave the car up there, only a single track plowed by the church, and if a car stoped it would block everything. And it is the same at East Farms so I go out on the trolley car. This afternoon it began snowing again at about four o'clock, if we get as much as we already have it will make it bad. As the banks at the sides of the roads are{?} so high and big that there is no place to plow more out. But then! 02\26\1934 (Monday) Snowed all day, about ten inches has fell last night and to day. Making more snow on the ground now than has been at any one time in ten{ink blot} years, I went to the farm on the trolley, and did the chores But few people are out to day, and only a few cars, they are running snow plows to keep the roads, and car tracks open. This evenings paper stated that Edgar Jeralds{?} of Prospect Died last night. Hazel Pierpont Jacoby sailed from New York for her home in Guaro{?} Cuba last Saturday. She has been spending the past fe months with her mother Bessie Pierpont of Maple Hill Farm. 02\27\1934 (Tuesday) Have shoveled snow all day, except the time I took to go to the farm, and repair the kitchen pump. 02\28\1934 (Wednesday) Twenty two below zero this morning. I went to shoveling out my driveway{,?} so I can get my Car out, but did not. I went to the farm on the trolley as there is no place to park a car on the side of the road, the snow banks are high where the snow plows have thrown it out. Snow is about {.?}24 inches deep about here now. I cleaned out the back-house which a long time. 03\01\1934 (Thursday) Warmer to day. Thawed some I put up a new Windmill on the garage{girage!} made from the fan wheel of an old Ford Engine. I got my little Ford car out to day and drove out to the farm. Had to shovel a place in front of the gate to set it. 03\02\1934 (Friday) This day has been warmer and it has thawed some, I have done odd jobs about the place. I went to the farm and got stuck turning round, but the mail man, and another helped me and I got out. Cousin Lewis Somers and wife called this evening. 03\03\1934 (Saturday) Warm and thawing all day, I moved the great{?} bank of snow so I could get the business car out and I put it in the garage{Girage!} where I will paint it. Put my other car in the business car garage{girage!}. Snow is settling lots of Water{water?} running. Roads are rutted deep and are dangerous. 03\04\1934 (Sunday) At 10 this morning I went to the Mill Plain Church and told about one hundred Sunday School Schollars{Scholars?} about Mill Plain as it was when I was young or about Sixty five or Seventy years ago. We later attended service Rev J. O. Todd, officiated, traveling bad on account of Snow banks and ice ruts. This afternoon, I went to South Waterbury and visited Uncle Will Somers. 03\05\1934 (Monday) To day has been warm, much snow melted and run away. I have worked all day cleaning my business car,{,?} getting{gettin?} it ready to paint. A ton of coal came this afternoon. 03\06\1934 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon, and did several errands about town before I came home. After dinner I did the chores at the farm, and then worked on the business car, etc. 03\07\1934 (Wednesday) Spent all day getting the business car ready to paint, and repairing it. Gave the top a coat of dressing. 03\08\1934 (Thursday) To day I painted on my business auto all day it snowed all the afternoon. This evening Ernest Robinson and George Baldwin came and wrote drum music. Yesterdays paper stated that Leland Garrigus had been appointed Drum Major of the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford. 03\09\1934 (Friday) Went to examine records at the Town Clerks Office this forenoon, then I bought paint and varnish and did other errands. Went to the farm, after doing a job making a heavy Neckyoke ring for Ed Scott.50 03\10\1934 (Saturday) Painted on my car all the forenoon. It has snowed all the afternoon and and{written twice} is still snowing this evening. 03\11\1934 (Sunday) Snow lay on the ground about seven inches deep this morning. {blank space} Did not got to Church as it took till near noon to get dug out. Ray and Ruth called this evening. 03\12\1934 (Monday) I in 1888 March 12th the great blizzard started Snow was three ft 6 inches on the level, and many great drifts. I saw one on the Meriden Road beyond the present Todd road that was{word smudged} at{as?} high at{as?} the top of the telegraph pole. To day I worked at the farm getting out manure, Covered the raspberries, and drew three loads on the hill, some of the snow was three ft deep where we drew over. It held up ox cart and all. 03\13\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I got up as the sun was just showing in the East at 6.30 I went to the Town Clerks Office this forenoon. I left my old watch at Mrs. Halls on Bank St to be repaired It has thawed much to day, but there is plenty of snow left yet. 03\14\1934 (Wednesday) At the farm I drew manure up on the hill till noon when it began to snow hard, and I came home and got the business car ready to varnish. 03\15\1934 (Thursday) I finished varnishing the business Car this forenoon Then I went to the farm, and was home again before four o'clock when Mrs. Hauce{?} and Miss Brown of Naugatuck called to find out historical matter about the town of Prospect previous to 1850. 03\16\1934 (Friday) I went to the City Hall this forenoon. This day has been warmer than any day we have had for a long time. 03\17\1934 (Saturday) St Patricks Day. Years ago we used to parade this day. Drum for the Irish temperance Societies march through the mud ankle deep. Long before the streets were paved. To day I got my delivery car to gather and ready to run. Then little Teddy Vogal{?} and I went to the farm, and I choped down a large old apple tree at the upper end of the barn lot. Came home and cleaned out the chicken Coop 03\18\1933 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd Officiated. Went out to the farm, and as we went Carried, Mr Montgomery, and Sarah Pierpont home. Staid home all the afternoon, Rained quite hard before night. Spend my time in reading. 03\19\1933 (Monday) Was at the farm all day drawing manure up on the hill. Used my business auto. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church Gymnasium and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys. 03\20\1934 (Tuesday) Went to City Hall this forenoon. After dinner, Went to the farm and did up the chores. Then I went to East Mountain and saw Miles Payne. To get there and keep on the State roads I went from East Farms East to the Notch-in-the-Rocks, and then West over the old Plank Raod, then up the Rog{Log?} Hollow Road to Prospect Center, and in the Waterbury Road to East Mountain. Along the Waterbury Road opposite the residence of Mr Harry Talmage there is a bank of snow {next line is difficult to read} 7' high and 10 rods long, all other snow is gone. 03\21\1934 (Wednesday) To day I sawed up the big old appletree on the hill in the barn lot. The weather was nice, not warm enough to thaw much. {blank space} Received a letter from Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] who lives in Vancouver Washington State, 34 {degree symbol} above zero is the coldest weather they have had. 03\22\1934 (Thursday) At the farm I split up the old appletree and with the steer drew it down near the gate. The weather has been quite cool to day. A young man got killed at the arch at Reedville Monday morning, he was delivering milk and did not see the trolley car as he{hi?} ran and it knocked him off and to the concrete road below,{,?} in stiking he fractured{fractired?} his skull. 03\23\1934 (Friday) Went to the Town Clerks office this forenoon. To the farm this afternoon, did chores, etc This evening Mary and I went to the Mill Plain Church Gymnasium to a play Given by the Maple Hill Club, Lient{?} Governor Wilcox was there and gave an illustrated{illustriated?} lecture on hunting. etc. 03\24\1934 (Saturday) Cold this morning. Ray called. I showed him my new Remington 22 Rifle that I bought yesterday. Went to the farm, after repairing the cap on the front Rith wheel of my car, and filing a saw. Drew a load of Manure up on the hill and brought home a load of wood. Snowed this afternoon and evening. 03\25\1934 (Sunday) Nice day, rather cool. We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd. From Church I went to Mr Blewitts and got my paper as I am in the habit of doing{dooing?}, then I went to East Farms, and carried out Mr Montgomery, and two small Girls. Did the chores and came home and looked the paper over. Mr Howard Neal called and we had a good visit, Rev Mr Hautz{?} of Naugatuck called. And Later{?} Arthur Byrd and Mildred with their children called, and all had{haa?} an interesting time. 03\26\1934 (Monday) To day I built under the floor under the radiator under Miss Picketts room to keep the rats from knawing{gnawing?} through. Went to Mill Plain Church to night and gave drumming lessons, in a {next line difficult to read} room North of the Bowling Alley. 03\27\1934 (Tuesday) To day I sharpened a lot of tools for the Calvary Cemetery. made an iron post driver, made a heavy cutting iron for a scraper, and did several toher small blacksmith jobs for other people. Rained more or less all day. 03\28\1934 (Wednesday) Rained all day. Cleaned Chicken coop and did other odd jobs about home{?}. 03\29\1934 (Thursday) To day I was at the farm, drawing manure up on the hill, and drawing stones back down and putting them into the gulley that the melting snow washed out. I cannot get any pea seed to plant, I wish to plant them in March. The weather has been fair all day. 03\30\1934 (Friday) Repaired a rifle this morning and made four countersunk head bolts for the Calvary Cemetery. Then went to the farm and drew manure, and repaired the road leading to the top of the hill, and harrowed two pieces of ground. Brought home a load of wood tonight. 03\31\1934 (Saturday) This morning I went down town to buy some pead seed after going to several stores I got a pound of dward and one pound of high telephone peas. I brought them home and huried{hurried?} out to the farm, and dug to{two?} trenches 50' long and planted the dwarf, then ate my dinner and planted the high peas, as it began to rain. Ther{There?} was about six inches of earth that was thawed and below that it was frozen. It rained hard all the afternoon. Howard Neal called and we made arrangements to go over the line between Prospect and Waterbury, next Saturday. 04\01\1934 (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd, officiated. The Church was full to capacity, all four choires, many flowers, a large number joined{jouned?} the church. This afternoon we went to Burt Frisbies at Woodtick. All of the streams are high from the rain yesterday Ray and Ruth called, Ray has painted his car. Margaret reported that Ruth Brundage is in the Danbury hospitial{hospital?} sick. 04\02\1934 (Monday) At the farm to day I repaired the road to the top of the hill, but did not finish it. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys. 04\03\1934 (Tuesday) I went to the City Hall this morning, Saw Mr Anderson, Mr Howland and Mr Clarance Styles{?}. This afternoon I carried Mary up to the Mill Plain Church to the ladies Union entertainment Then I went to the farm, and did the chores, then I came home and painted on the grape arbor. This evening Baldwin and Ernest Robinson came and copied drum music. Weather has been fair and warm. 04\04\1934 (Wednesday) Wet and rainy. I made a surveyors{surveyoss?} rod and cleaned up two rifles. Cleaned out the furnace pipe, and did other odd jobs. This afternoon I went to John Gaffeneys{?} to get a bag of Porland cement and some bricks but they were out of them, and are not going to sell any more. {blank space} Then I went to the farm and as it was raining I went up to Woodtick and saw Chas Tuttle. He is tearing down his large barn {next line difficult to read} East of the house. 04\05\1934 (Thursday) This morning I bent-some break shoes of 4x1 1/4" steel for De Witte Cole{?} of Wolcott. Jimmie Egan came and we went to Cheshire where I bought a bag of Cement and three pieces of 2x3"-10' for 1.48{?} then we came to the farm and we drew with the chain{?} block and takles{?} a large rock from the road on the hill, then I took the steer and plowed six or eight furrows on the hill. The{Then?} I came home and drilled the brake block{;?} and rigged the enginelathe to countersink them. This evening mary and I went to William Garrigus on the Meriden Road and I borrowed his transit to do some surveying{suryeying?} saturday. 04\06\1934 (Friday) Rained more or less all day. I worked in the wheel house all the forenoon. This afternoon repaired a brake iron for Mr Cole of Wolcott{Woolcott?}. 04\07\1934 (Saturday) Rained all the forenoon. After doing the chores at the farm I painted on the grape arbor, and repaired in after which I cleaned up a small piece of the yard. 04\08\1934 (Sunday) We ttended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Joseph Todd preached. When we came home and out to the Farm We took out Mr Montgomery{?}. and Harald Pierpont's wife and child. This afternoon we called on Judge George Browne, and Mary traded three dozen eggs for two settings of eggs, with Mrs. Browne. 04\09\1934 (Monday) Plowed at the farm, Jinnie Egan{?} came and spread{spreal?} the manure. We set two hens this evening. This evening I gave drumming lessons at the Church. 04\10\1934 (Tuesday) I went to City Hall this forenoon. This P.M. I went to Prospect and visited Thomas Payne on East Mountain, and went to margarets and Paid her and got the names of the people in the picture. 04\11\1934 (Wednesday) Plowed on the hill the greater part of the day. Jimmie Egan{?} helped, he spread the manure 04\12\1934 (Thursday) Rained this morning. I wrote letters to Frank in Kent about potatoes, to Fred in Tarrytown about drums, and to Mrs. Renfro in Sioux City Iowa about the Somers family. This afternoon I raked up leaves and cleaned the North yard. 04\13\1934 (Friday) This day I plowed on the hill for corn, oats, and potatoes Good cool day to work. Jim Egan drilled a hole in a rock and we blasted it this noon. 04\14\1934 (Saturday) To day Howard Neal came at a little before nine and we took my old Ford car and started to get Gould Clard{?} on{of?} Clark zHill in Prospect, all went well till we got on the upper Peach Orchard road, where we got into the mud up to the axles but we managed to pull through. We got Mr Clark and then started to suvey the line between Prospect and Waterbury We stoped at Mr Steves and left the car and it began to rain. We looked over the site of the old Pierpont house, and the sun came out. We then climed{climbed?} to the top of Turkey Hill but the undergroth{undergrowth?} was to thick that we could not see away. We then went down and got out things and started for the corner bound of Cheshire, Prospect and Waterbury, and when we reached it, the rain began to fall, and it rained harder and harder to we started back without doing much work, and by the time we reached home the sun was shining. 04\15\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. {blank space} This afternoon we went to Judge Browns in Wolcott, and took supper ther. Mary exchanged two dozen eggs with Mrs. Brown for setting. 04\16\1934 (Monday) Rained off and on all day, toward night it rained hard. I went to the farm and plowed on the hill, got wet through but finished. 04\17\1934 (Tuesday) This forenoon I spent writing letters to Mrs. E L Jackson Redlands Calf. to Mr Wm E Pierpont, 148 Second St - Portland Oregon, and to Lewis L Ovaitt [Oviatt] Vancouver, Wash and sent all pictures of our relations taken on our 50th wedding anniversary. 04\18\1934 (Wednesday) To day I went to farm and drew manure to the lot West of shed on the hill and plowed part of it I staked out. 04\19\1934 (Thursday) I plowed at the farm finished James Egans piece and plowed under the appletrees on the Hill. Ray came this afternoon and trimmed his grape vines. 04\20\1934 (Friday) Was about home this forenoon. This afternoon at the farm made over orad. Blasted roak. Peas are up 1" Teddy went with me 04\21\1934 (Saturday) This morning I went to Clark Hill in Prospect and got Gould Clark and then went to Prospect Center and we got harry Talmage Jr. We{?} then went to Summit and saw Fred Berger, then up the Mintie Road to the Bound of Cheshire, Prospect and Waterbury. We then set our transit 56{degree symbol} West of North and started on the line between Prostpect and Waterbury, at night we got to the angle near the Corner of Scott road but could not find it. 04\22\1934 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J A. Todd. This afternoon We went up the Scott road and I found the corner bound of Prospect, it is in Frank Bergins lo_t{loft?} corner of the Austin and Scott road. 130 ft West of the Austin Road and 250 ft North of{af?} the Scott Road. While at the bound I saw a great cloud of smoke rising from the Forest Chapin house opposite the East Farms School House, as though it was on fire. 04\23\1934 (Monday) Did odd jobs about home and painted the grape arbor. 04\24\1934 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to the Bronson Lybrary{Library?} and studied the Tuttle Geneology. This aternoon cam{came?} home and painted and repaired the East Grape Arbor, and cleaned up the yard. This evening Mr John Barr called and wished to find out about Revolutionary solders{soldiers?}. 04\25\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I drove to prospect{Prospect?} to tell Harry Talmage that I am going away Saturday The Road department are moving houses, trees, etc getting ready to make over the State road up East Mountain. I took some work to Cowdells to have done then went to the farm and planted. 04\26\1934 (Thursday) Filed a large circular Saw for Mr Rocham. Fixed a leaver for Mr Ed Scott. Repaired a transit box for Will Garrigus instrument Planted and did other jobs. 04\27\1934 (Friday) This morning awned{dawned?} fair and warm, and after doing a job for Mr Edward Scott, I went to the Farm and cleared the stones out of the pig pen and it began to rain a little, then it would break away, then I got the ox and cart and began getting out the manure and spreading it on the upper end of the lot, when it rained harder and grew colder, anfter{after? and after?} the third load it rained hard and I was all wet so I stoped and came home, and got my car ready to go to Kent tomorrow. I then read in the paper about John Dillinger and his gang that the Government has got over 5000 Officers out to capture dead or alive. He is the most noted outlaw ever known, has got out of prison three times, and with his gang has killed and murdered thirteen men, robbed numerous banks, in Iowa, Wis. Ill. Ind. Ohio and other places. Has robbed many poliece{?} arnels{arsenals?} of machine guns, pistols guns and bullitt{bullett?} proof vests, poliece and de__ctives{detectives?} have laid traps for him in many places, but he shoots his way out, and disapears{disappears?}. His last battle was at Mercer. Wis{?} last Sunday night, When he and his gang of five killed three men in getting away, H_{He?} has women with him much of the time, and they cepture three of these. The Government has air planes and guards everywhere in the locality where they think he is, but still he eludes them. To date it has cost the government over $2,000,000 hunting him and the lives of several Federal officers. 05\01\1934 (Tuesday) Last Saturday morning Mary and I in my little runabout Ford car started for Kent, to see Frank and his family and get some seed potatoes and fertilizer. We went vie Middlebury down Ben Sheman Hill on the new road, into Woodbury then through a portion of Southbury then Rocksbury and down through Roxbury station where we crossed the Shepang River and on through Bridgewater up over Chicken Hill and down into New Milford where we crossed the Houstonic River{?} and travled up the West side through Gaylordsville, and past the great power plant at Bulls Bridge and reached Kent before noon having traveled at the rate of thirty miles per hour mos_{most?} of the way. After dinner I went with Frank and the men dwon to the field south of the School where they were planting potatoes and with three others cut potatoe seed and although we cut as fast as we could, we could not keep up to the planter, it took a bushel of seed for a row, and two men and a pair of hroses ran the planter. The next day Sunday the time changed to daylight saving time and all hands had to be up and milking at four o'clock. Had to turn clocks and watches ahead one hour. They are milking about sixty cows and about eight hundred quarts per day. We went to church at the Congregational Church, ther_{there?} was a small attendance. Some time after dinner Frank took his Buic{Buick?} car and Mary and I and his children mary, Bertha, Dwight, and Jessie, and we went for a ride up the Kent Mountain Raod which _hey{they?} are building new to connect two miles already built at each end, and they are slahing{blastin?} out rock cuts forty feet deep and building where it seems impossible to make a road, at one place we got stuck in the mud on the old raod, as did two other autos that came along. They managed by backint to go round through a steep side field. I went to a house in East Kent where I barrowed{borrowed?} two shovels, and soon after I got back, the man that I borrowed them of and his son came with a truck (They knew Frank.) and hitched on and pulled frank out with what help we could give with our own car. We then proceeded over a very rough road through East kent, to Warren Center, then South through the town of Warren to Waramang Lake, and on through New Preson and Marbledale and a little South we turned to the right and went up a steep hill and West over hills and down throuh{through?} deep valleys and through Upper Mariall and on over steep and winding roads to mud pond a wild spot where there was real log huts, they call them cabins, and on to South Kent. Then over the mountain West, where the new school chapel is built, and to Bulls Bridge then up the State road home. When we arived{arrived?} the men had finish/finished{?} milking, nearly 800 quarts for the day. Monday I went to the field and cut potatoe seed till noon. Then with a bushel and a half of seed and one hundred pounds of fertilizer and numereous{numerous?} other goods that Elsie put in the car, all of which they would take no pay fo we started for home. Came by way of South Kent, whgere we stoped at Boyds Store and got five gallons of gasoline, then through Upper Maryoll/Maryall{?} and New Preston Hill where there is a stone Church built in 1824 and down into New Preston, then to Washington Depot, and over Washington Center to Hotchkissville where we stoped and Mary visited with Mrs. Elton Edwards, then on through Watertown and home. 05\01\1934 (Tuesday) To day I worked at the farm. Got out manure from the pig pen till noon, then harrowed and bushed the ground for potatoes. This evening I practiced with the Mattatuck Drum Band at Mr Morton Pierpont's place. They elected Officers Lee Garrigus Leader, Andrew Kitchenka Assistant Leader, Edgar Upson secretary, and Ralph Pierpont Treasurer, there was a large attandence{attendance?}. 05\02\1934 (Wednesday) This day I furrowed out for potatoes and corn on the hill all day. In the afternoon Jim Egan came and we planted five or six rows. I then came home and put new rubber hose pipes on the engine of the Ford delivery truck, but it began to rain before I had it finished and the two inch pipe was not renewed. 05\03\1934 (Thursday) Rained hard all day. I went to Town this forenoon and di some business. Thsi afternoon I telephoned Francis Egan and we sharpened some cutting bars. Then I repaired some Lawn Moers, etc. 05\04\1934 (Friday) Rained more or le_s{less?}, finished furrowing out at the farm, set out a quart of onion sets, etc Mr John Barr called this evening and we looked up Revolutionary historicl matters. 05\05\1934 (Saturday) Jimmie Egan and I planted potatoes on the hill finished. 05\06\1934 (Sunday) This afternoon Mary and I called on Halsey Clarks folks on Clark Hill in Prospect. 05\07\1934 (Monday) We planted Jimmie Egans potatoes to day. 05\08\1934 (Tuesday) {This record dated 5/7/1934} Jim Egan and I finished planting potatoes and we plowed around the appletrees in the barn lot. 05\09\1934 (Wednesday) James Egan and I planted the big piece of corn on the hill to day. Fine weather. They brought a large steam shovel into the Calvary{.?} Cemetery East of the gate where they are grading, where road need to run, and filling in the hollow where the old Lewis House stood. 05\10\1934 (Thursday) {This record dated 5/9/1934} This morning I repaired the foot starter switch on the Ford, delivery car. After dinner little Teddy and I went to Cowdells and got some work and then to the farm, where I worked the rest of the day. 05\11\1934 (Friday) James Egan and I drew munure{manure?} on the hill and plowed for corn. When we went out we drove up East Mountain then out the Old Gilkey Road to the Scott road, then down to the Cheshire rod{road?} then out to Ed Scolls in Cheshire, and left a key for my farm gate then to the farm. 05\12\1934 (Saturday) James Egan came this mornng and we took my Ford car and went to Lavergne Clarks in Prospect and then got Gould Clark, then we went to Harry Talmages and got Harry Jr and we all went up the Scott road to Mr Bergins where we began to survey the line between Prospect and Waterbury, by starting at a pile of stones on a ledge about 130 ft Westerly of the Austin Road and about 250 ft Northerly from the Scott road. We set the transit 72 {degree symbol} W of South and ran across the Scott road and through Archie Haggerties{?} lots to a great swamp which we had to cut our way through for about sixty rods, then through woods to the end of 160 rods where we found an old heap of stones, then on 80 rods more but we failed to find the bounds, and it being late we came home. 05\13\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O. Todd. Had dinner at Margarets on Beecher Ave, Frank came from Kent with his family in a new Buic{Buick?} car, We all went to East Farms and looked over crops and place, He{He or We?} started back home. Mary and I went to Cowdells, and Mrs. Hotchkiss, Mable __nt{lent?} me some papers and a letter. 05\14\1934 (Monday) This morning I went to the farm and planted three rows of field corn next to the North fence, and then got off a lot of worms nests from the wild cherry trees west of the hill lot. This afternoon James Egan and I repaired the Cemetery fence for the New St Josephs Cemetery, three lengths of which were badly bent and broken. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons to a class of boys, Franklin Browne was there and fifed. Rained this morning, Fair the rest of the day. 4 hr 05\15\1934 (Tuesday) Rained all day. James Egan and I worked repairing the iron Cemetery Fence 8 hours. We then went to Mort Pierpont's dairy{dary!} and looked at a big wagon wheel that he wanted me to repair. 05\16\1934 (Wednesday) James Egan and I set up the fence that we repaired at the new St Joseph Cemetery, 8 hr. The Lane Construction Co of Mariden{Meriden?}. started work on the new State road up East Mountain to day. 05\17\1934 (Thursday) This morning James Egan and I went to St Josephs Cemetery and put in the cement foundation for a fence post. He left me then as he has a job in the Raymond{?} Baking Co. I went to East Farms and planted potatoes (Irish Coblers) between the young apple trees on the hill which took all the afternoon. 05\18\1934 (Friday) Mowed the door yard this forenoon. Then worked on Mort Pierpont's Wheel. 05\19\1934 (Saturday) Got lumber out of the pile and cut to lengths the spokes for Mort Pierpont's wheel. This afternoon I took it to Robert Tylers on the Meriden Road and he sawed it up and plained{?} it to size. When I got home Ray was there setting our tomatoe plants He gave me over a dozen which we set out, then we went to the farm where he set out a good number in his garden and I set out fourteen plants in mine. 05\20\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd. This afternoon mary and I went to George Brownes and got the Line of decent{descent?} from Revolutionary soldiers of Franklin and Robert. We then went to Mrs. Jones in Naugatuck where we staid till it began to rain and thunder and lighten{lightening?}. We then came home, and I carried mary up to the MIll Plain Church, and I went to John Wakelie's{?} in Wolcott, where I staid till 7.20 when I came to the Church in a hard shower and got Mary and came home. 05\21\1934 (Monday) Went to Robert Tylers to have a picture frame stuff got out, and to the farm. Then came home and made spokes for a wheel. This evening I gave instructions in drumming to nine boys at the Mill Plain Church. 05\22\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the hardware store and bought a handle for a spading fork, and some seeds. Then I went to Prospect. Found men working on the new road up the East Mountain. They had moved the house from opposite the School house to the East side of the road, and are going to tear down the four or five houses at the foot of the mountain corner of the Harpers feery road, on the high hill East of the upper Reservoir they have men cutting brush and a large air compressr{compressor?} drilling racks, while other men are moving poles and wires. I went on and left some work at Cowdells then came to the farm and did the chores, and home and, worked on the wheel making new spokes. 05\23\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the bank and drew out eighty five dollars, and then went to the City Hall and paid the first half on my tax, then after doing some errands came home, and cleaned out the out house and took the load to the farm and spread it. Then came home and made spokes the rest of the day. Sergeat{Seargeant?} Russell Called and wished me to have the little old Fire Engine in a parade to be held Aug 18th. 05\24\1934 (Thursday) I worked all day on wheel. Mary went to town _nd{and?} paid her taxes. 05\25\1934 (Friday) Rained all day. Repaired and packed Vogals{?} pump had to go to town for packing. This evening went to Mill Plain Church to help make out a list of deceased early members. 05\26\1934 (Saturday) Ro day Ray came and we went to the farm and worked in the gardens, and planted some. Mowed the clothes yard etc. Recd a letter from Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancouver Wash. 05\27\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J O Todd, held a Memorial Service. This afternoon Mary and I went up on East Mountain and called on Mrs. Willis Lounsbury. She is sick but able to see folks, her alement{ailment?} is hopeless so the Doctors say. We talked about the Boiling Spring and other things. From there we went to Harry Roberst{?} at Baptist Corner near the Wooster Cemetery. Nice Weather all day. 05\28\1934 (Monday) Mowed and cleaned up the East Farms Cemetery. This evening Mr Vogal{?} dame down and said he would pay 20.00 per month if I would put in City Water and gas. Marvin Wheeler borrowed my Continental boot leggins. {blank space} Went up to the Maple Hill Club Cabin at the Frost Pond, but no drummer boys were there. 05\29\1934 (Tuesday) Worked about home this forenoon. Setting a big tire on Morton E. Pierpont's wheel etc James Egan helped me. This afternoon Teddy and I went to the farm. 05\30\1934 (Wednesday) Decoration Dy. This Morning I went to the New St Josephs Cemetery. Where the Mattatuck Drum Band and members of the American Legion Drum Corps, and{an?} War Veterans were assembled at the grave of Major Shea I was called to make an address, and prayer. All went away, and when I got into my car I could not make it go. I tried and tried every way that I Knew, Then I walked home{hom?} and telephoned Ray. Who came and started by pusing me with his car, when we got home, we found that the battery ground connection was caroded{corroded?} through. This afternoon I went to the farm and cultivated under the apple trees on the hill. Weather has been fair. 05\31\1934 (Thursday) Worked all day at Farm Mowing, Cultivating etc This morning I went to the Fort Station on Cottage place and got a ground lead, and put it on my car. 06\01\1934 (Friday) This morning I took Morts{Mort?} Pierpont's wheel out to him and paid him .30 for a hundred of land lime. He paid me for repairing the wheel 8.40 I spent the rest of the day cultivating and hoeing the raspberries. 06\02\1934 (Saturday) To day I plowed on the hill in the west lot for corn. Weather very warm. This evening mr Blanchard called to see about putting City water in the house. 06\03\1934 (Sunday) This morning{mornining?} I put on my uniform and took my drum and with Mary went to Wolcott and turned out in the Dedication exercies. They had service in the Church and then marched to the Cemetery and decorated the soldiers graves Chas Russell of Southington was the only surviving Divil war veteran present, after a fine dinner in the Beecher Memorial hall. The Mattatuck Band went to the Cemetery and put flowers on the graves of the former members. 06\04\1934 (Monday) This morning two Blanchards came and looked the hous_{house?} over. to figure up the cost of repairs, etc. I went to the farm and planted. 06\05\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the East End Hardware Store and go a paper of Radish seed and some Romatoe plants Then I went to the farm and planted in the garden and set out the tomatoe plants, between the young apple trees, Then planted pop corn between the apple trees on the hill, then cultivated potatoes and corn on the hill. This evening Ray came and we hoed his garden here. Howard Neal called and left a statement that he had prepaired. regarding land deals of the original Ezera Pierpont{?}. 06\06\1934 (Wednesday) Mowed some this morning, and cultivated Corn and potatoes on the hill. Cultivated James Egans potatoes, and he hoed them. Mr Albert Blanchard called and gave me the figures for putting in city water. Toilets and bath tub etc 429.00 06\07\1934 (Thursday) Cultivated and hoed on the hill Mr George Blanchard called and gave figures on making joiner work for toilets etc 178.00 06\08\1934 (Friday) Repaired a lawn mower for Mr Clark at Christs Chapel 2.00 Then finished mowing the frong yard and went to the farm and hoed potatoes and corn. 06\09\1934 (Saturday) This morning I sharpened the large tools for cutting out ivy bushed for Mr Clyne and tempered them Then James Egan and I went to the farm and finished hoeing the corn and potatoes, and I mowed some grass. This Evening Mr George Blanchard came and We signed agreement, that he do joiner work for 178.00. and Mr Albert Blanchard and I agreed that he do pluming{plumbing?} work for 409.00. 06\10\1934 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Childrens sunday. Church well filled. This afternoon I went to John Nortons in North East Wolcott. They are about to take the.{?} Trolley Cars off East main St and run Busses in their stead. They first ran Trolley cars on East main St in 1894{?} First to Wolcott St and later to Silver St. In 1904 they started running to Cheshire and Mount Carmel where passingers{passengers?} changed to the New Haven cars. About two years later the Waterbury cars began running through to New Haven. Before the Electric cars ran on East Main St Hares{?} Cars carried the passengers They started running about 1886{?}, and before that time a single omnibus made regular trips from Silver St to the center. 06\11\1934 (Monday) To day at about 8.30 Mr Blanchard set a man to work digging a trench to the street for the water pipe. This afternoon a lot of 4" soil pipe came and was unloaded on the North side of the house. This morning I went up East Mountain and saw them{then?} making the new road. They have three large steam and gas shovels and.{?} one large pusher, one small and, all kinds of Improved road machinery. I went to Cowdells and got some work, Mr Cowdell is in Hartford to day at a hearing of the Public Utilities Commission regarding the abandoning of the East main Trolley line and substituting busses. I then went to the farm and weeded the garden. 06\12\1934 (Tuesday) This morning at 9 o clock I went to the Department of Public Works on Benedict Street and got a permit for water and Receipt for fees. Application No 14170. Mr Chas S. Miller.{.?} is hereby permitted to have a 3/4 inch Service Cock inserted in East Main St water pipe to supply premeses{premises?} at No 2271 {blank space} Street with water, for purposes specified in application of file with this Bureau. {note in margin of text: 575} Plumber Blanchard, Thomas J Flemming Supt Date of Tapping For Commissioners Fee Charge 5.75 Received by L.C.B. Mr Albert Blanchard came with two men and dug a trench from across the Street to the house, and they encountered numerous rocks and stones some of which were large I went to East Farms and got my tripod and hoist to lift out one. They then put in a 3/4" brass pipe and were obliged to{ta?} bend it around the rocks, it cam on to rain, and they had to stop a spell, then they covered the part in the Street and Side walk, This evening it rained hard. 06\13\1934 (Wednesday) To day the connection with the water main on the Frost Road was made and the water turned into the cellar. Mr George Blanchard and his son worked on the lower toilet got the window in and etc. I mowed the west part of the front yard and then went to the farm and mowed the roadside by the watering trought and got it up to the barn. The bendix spring broke on the starter and I came home and to Coplains and got a new one for .50{?} and got it on before dark. 06\14\1934 (Thursday) To day George Blanchard and his son worked at Joiner work they cut out the particion{partition?} and set the studs and put the window in up stairs. Albert and his digger Jimmi_{Jimmie?} put in the Septic Tan_{Tank?} and connected it with the house and did other work. I raked the west half of the front yard, and took a load of green grass out to the farm and mowed some and dried some and heaped the rest up. 06\15\1934 (Friday) To day the Blanchards George and Son worked on Bath rooms,{,?} and put the clapboards on{in?} by the windows Albert put in the Soil pipes and drain to Septic tank and vent on the roof. I got in ten heaps of hay at the farm. 06\16\1934 (Saturday) James Egan went to the farm and hoed his potatoes and part of mine. I cultivated his and mine and my corn Albert Blanchard worked this forenoon till two o clock. Roy planted corn in Jim Egans garden. 06\17\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd. Special Service for the graduates{groduates?} of Grammer, and High Schools, and Colleges. We took dinner at Margarets on Beecher Avenue. 06\18\1934 (Monday) This morning I went up on East Mountain and saw where they are making the new road. Got a dozen tomatoe plants of Charles De Bissop{?}. Saw Mart{Mort?} Pierpont about his broken wheel, he is to send check and get two new wheels for 6.00 and on{one?} ade{made?} for 2.00 I then went to the farm and hoed potatoes, and hoed some in the garden 06\19\1934 (Tuesday) Rained hard all day. I repaired and made over a cutting bar for Edgar Upson and turned four Bass drum sticks for Frank in Simsbury who Fred sent to, to make them. Albert Blanchard came this afternoon and we carried the new sink up stairs and he took the pump out of Mrs. Vogals kitchen. 06\20\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the Gas and Electric Light Office and signed an agreement to have Gas put into the house. I then went to the bank and drew out Two Hundered{Hundred?} Dollars, which I brought home and paid to Albert Blanchard, for work he has done at our place. I then went to Simsbury to Brother Franks and took two pairs of Bass Drum sticks that I made yesterday out of apple tree wood that he furnished, he is going to finish them and sent them to Fred at Tarrytown. 06\21\1934 (Thursday) James Egan came this morning and we mowed the front yard, he with a lawn mower I with a scythe. Then we went to the farm and first we weeded out his beets parsnips etc. Then we{wa?} got down the mowing machine, and he went home and I put it togather. The weather was hot and I could not work very fast, then I picked a mess of peas and came home. Two joiners have been working, and the Gas man came to see about putting the gas in. This evening two boys came and we practiced drumming.{?} 06\22\1934 (Friday) To day I went to the farm and mowed about the old haystack, then I made a new hay rigging for the cart. I poisened{poisoned?} the potatoes so as to kill the bugs. George Blanchard and his man worked on the Bath rooms etc. 06\23\1934 (Saturday) This morning I went to the City Hall and handed in my list to the Assesors{Assessors?}. Then I went to the Colonial Trust Co and got 28.00{?} on the bonds I hold against the Mill Plain Church 1400.00 at 4 op{%?}. Then I went to the Dime Saving Bank and drew $1.00.00{?} and Came home. This noon I paid George Blanchard $150.00 for work 100. from Bank 10.00 from Bond interest, and Mary gave 40.00. The Blanchards did not work to day. I went to the farm and got in a little hay and mowed some. Bought, of East End Hardware Co 50' rubber Hose 4.25 06\24\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. This afternoon We took Jean Northrop in the Rumble seat and drove to North Haven to the basement of the Congregational Church where the Pierpont family reunion was held, there were 81 present, and over 22.00 was collected, to pay expenses. 06\25\1934 (Monday) To day George Blanchard and man worked till noon, Albert was not here at all. I Cultivated potatoes and got in hay at the farm. To night I went to the Cabin at Frosts Pond and gave a drumming lesson to a class of Boys. 06\26\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I called up Albert Blanchard and told him that I would get some one else on the job if they did not finish it. James Egan came and we went to the farm, he hoed his potatoes, after we had mowed away the hay on the barn floor. I finished cultivating mine and howed some. Both of the Blanchards worked to day. They have the Vogals Bath room nearly finished. 06\27\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I mowed the clothes yard, Then the Blanchards came and went to work. I went to the farm and hoed potatoes and corn. Edgar Upson came and wanted me to repair his cutting bar. I came home and forged out two guide irons and fitted them up and repaired the bar. Then I put a handle on Harold Pierpont's spading fork, and a handle in a hoe. Mr Blanchard the plumber came and said he had finished his job, and I owe{?} him 220.00. 06\28\1934 (Thursday) To day I hoed Corn and potatoes and cultivated the corn in the North West lot. This evening some boys came and we repaired a drum. 06\29\1934 (Friday) One of the hottest days I ever knew. 106 {degree symbol} in shade. I painted the windows and new siding where the bath rooms were put in. Then sharpened a load of{if?} picks for the Calvary Cemetery, hot work. Men are installing the gas meter to day. 06\30\1934 (Saturday) Very hot. This morning I went to town, at bank drew 200.__{200.00?} and at the Colonial Trust had check cashed for 43.06 Came home and painted the inside of bath room windows. Mr Albert Blanchard came and I paid him $220.00 in full. I went to the farm with some hay and gathered garden pease, etc. 07\01\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd. Had dinner at Margarets, this afternoon, Cliff, Margaret, Vincent, Betty, Mary and I went to Quassapang{?} and all but Mary and I went swimming. Came home and staid here the rest of a_e{the?} day. 07\02\1934 (Monday) This morning I went to Cheshire and bought a lot of clear white pine boards for which I paid 4.96 I went{wen?} via of East Mountain and left a large flower basket at Saxe and Flotas Green{?} house corner of Brass Mill road and Hamilton Avenue, then I went up East Mountain and found the road blocked at the top and had to deture{detour?} up the Peach Orchard Road and over past the Gaff Links{?} to the School House onto the old road again. After I got home from Cheshire I took the lumber to Mr Tylers on the Meriden road and had it cut up for which I paid 2.00. I then brought it home and jointed it, and{ang?} was ready to use it{,?} when Edgar Upson came and wanted the pitman rod of his mowing machine repaired, this took till night. I went and gave a drumming lesson to the Maple Hill Club boys at Frosts pond. Aft__{After?} I got home I paid James Egan 4.00 for help repair St Josephs Cemetery Fence. 07\03\1934 (Tuesday) To day has been very hot. I worked finished the joiner work on the bath Rooms. 07\04\1934 (Wednesday) Worked all day on the Bath rooms, practically finished the wood work. 07\05\1934 (Thursday) Worked all day on toilet rooms. 07\06\1934 (Friday) this morning at 9.30 Mary and I drove over to New Milford where we stoped at the Hospitol{Hospital?} and Mary went in and saw Elsie and her new baby girl. We then went __{to?} a reteraunt{restaurant?} and had dinner. Then we drove to Kent and found Frank at the plains getting in hay. He killed a big rattle snake{2 words?} this morning on the West side of th mountain. We went to the house and barn and looked about, he has them about half full of hay now. We then came home via South Kent, New Preston Hill stoping at the Church that was built of stone in 1824, then through New Preston, Washington Depot Washington, Woodbury, and Middlebury and through Waterbury home. 07\07\1934 (Saturday) At home all day on sizing bathrooms and toilets. 07\08\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J. O. Todd. This afternoon We went to Prospect Called on Mable Hotchkill, and George Driver, and went to see Mr Orson Hotchkiss of Striatsville {next line difficult to read} but he was not at home. 07\09\1934 (Monday) To day I mowed the East Farms Cemetery This evening I went to the Maple Hill Club house and gave a drumming lesson to a class of six young Men. 07\10\1934 (Tuesday) Finished mowing the Cemetery and the way to it and drew the hay up to the barn. 07\11\1934 (Wednesday) To day Painted _t{At?} home This Evening attended meeting of East Farms Cemetery Association. 07\12\1934 (Thursday) Painted and worked on toilets etc This Evening Albert Crandall, Baldwing and Robinson came and we made runway to Engine House etc 07\13\1934 (Friday) Spent all day painting and finishing. Sent a letter to Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] at Vancouver Wash. 07\14\1934 (Saturday) Worked painting toilets nearly all day. This evening Mary and I went to the farm and picked the last of the peas. 07\15\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Edward Jones of Seymour preached. This afternoon we drove to Mr Orson Hotchkiss of Betheny and visited a while, after which we drove towards Naugatuck then turned to the right and up over Hopkins Hill and home. To day. Mr Morton E Pierpont and wife started for the Pacific Coast in his new car. 07\16\1934 (Monday) Worked varnishing toilets and painting the floors and repairing the bins in the cellar. This evening I went to the Maple hill Club and gave a drumming lesson. 07\17\1934 (Tuesday) Painted and varnished the upstairs bath room this morning{morming?} Then went to Mill Dale and bought some bolts for the Calvary Cemetery, then went to Cheshire and bought some wall plaster. Worked about home till night {next line difficult to read} then went to farm and s__a__ed{sharpened? sprayed?} the _eans{beans?}. 07\18\1934 (Wednesday) Worked all day repairing the pantry floor and shelves and papering in Mr Voghals{?} Kitchen and bed room. Mrs. Vogal came home from the hospital this afternoon. 07\19\1934 (Thursday) Did blacksmith work for Paul Kunkle, and repaire_{repaired?} floor in upper front room and hung paper in upper Kitchen. This evening some boys came and we cleaned up the little Fire engine and jumper{jimper?}, and tried it out. It worked much better than we expected We repaired Baldwins drum head. 07\20\1934 (Friday) This day has been intensly{intensely?} hot, and yet hay would not dry I mowed the chicken yard and a little by the wheel house. Toad{Towed? Took?} a small load to the farm. 07\21\1934 (Saturday) Very hot, Mowed all the East side of lot. Took load to the farm. Put poison on beares{berries?} to kill the Mexican beetles that are eating the leaves. 07\22\1934 (Sunday) {07\29\1934 is the date given} 07\22\1934 (Sunday) {date given twice} Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev J O Todd{?}. Very hot, staid home all the afternoon. 07\23\1934 (Monday) They{The?} brought the large tractor from the Calvary Cemetery to have new shoes put on. We worked on it all day. It is reported{rported?} that John Dillinger the noted outlaw was surrounded by Government agents yesterday and shot in Chicago. He is said to be the greatest outlaw the country has ever known. Raymond came and put in electric lights in Voghals{?} bath room, and in our toilet. 07\24\1934 (Tuesday) Wor___{Worked?} on the Cemetery tractor. This forenoon I went to Southington and got 150 bolts $7.00 I paid. 07\25\1934 (Wednesday) Worked on the Cemetery Tractor all day. Brother Fred _f{of?} Tarrytown Called to day with his new wife and her sone in law. I settled with George Blanchard to day for 14.00. This evening Mr Shoepeck{?} called, togather with his Son, to get some stamps. I ordered a Drum head for Albert Crandall, of Tufftest Labratories 920 Chicopee St. Willimansett Mass. 07\26\1934 (Thursday) Worked till three o clock on Tractor. We had a severe thunder storm last night, and to day it was very hot. This evening I saw Vernum Able{?} about getting Boy Scouts to turn out in parade Aug 18th. 07\27\1934 (Friday) To day I mowed the North end of the home lot. Weather hot, muggy and rained several times. Miss Thomas took Miss Pickett to the Waterbury Hospitial to day. 07\28\1934 (Saturday) It has rained six times to day, and between times it has been very hot. I finished mowing the home lot. 07\29\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O. Todd. This afternoon we went to see Roll Jenner at Phil Reuter's cottage at the South End of Hitchcocks Lake, then to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick. The Benhams have a new car. 07\30\1934 (Monday) To day Joe Howell came and we cleaned up the sidewalks on the Frost Raod and on East Main Street. We then mowed East of the chicken coop till the sun came out, and then we tedded out all of the hay that I mowed Saturday, and in the afternoon took a load to the farm. They have began{begun?} widening the street at the arch a Reedville preparetory to taking down the arch. {blank space} The paper stated to day that they expect to start the new Busses running on East Main ST and to Cheshire next Sunday, they are to replace the trolley cars now in use. 07\31\1934 (Tuesday) To day Joe Howell and I mowed the oats and got them in. We took out the last load of hay from home and put it on the stack. 08\01\1934 (Wednesday) Joe and I mowed the lot west of the shed on the hill and got it into the barn. 08\02\1934 (Thursday) To day Joe Howell and I mowed the upper lot with the machine, then we raked it up and cocked it in heaps. 08\03\1934 (Friday) This morning I went down town on the trolley car. I wondered if it would be my last ride on the East main St line, as they expect to replace them with busses which are to start Sunday. Joe Howell mowed the weeds East of the hen coop and put them into the chicken yard. After I had my dinner We went up East Mountai_{Mountain?} to prospect{Prospect?}. They had th new road up the hill more than half graded. Mrs. Willis Lounsbury{?} died night before last and is to be buried in the Old pine{Pine?} Grove Cemetery tomorrow. We went to George Cowdells and found what they use to kill bean bugs. We then went to the farm and opened out the hay and got in a load. 08\04\1934 (Saturday) To day Joe and I mowed the West end of the orchard on the hill, then we got in a large load that was already mowed, and then got in what we mowed in the morning. We have watched with interest the trolley cars passing through East{Eeast?} Farms, and wondered if they would be the last they we would see, for tomorrow the Conn Light and Power Co expect to replace them with Busses to Cheshire. I think the first trolley cars ran to Cheshire in 1905. 08\05\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd officiated. AFter service mary and I went to Franks at West Simsbury, We found him quite well, But Gussie{?} was very sick confined to her bed and out of her head, We went and came, through Wolcott, Bristol Unionville, and Canton street. 08\06\1934 (Monday) Joe Howell and I mowed the orchard on the hill and got the hay in, to day The new Busdses started running on the East Main St and Cheshire line yesterday morning. The East Main St busses run every ten minutes and the Cheshire every half hour, with fares the same as they were on the trolley cars. 08\07\1934 (Tuesday) To day James Egan came and we went to the farm where he Joe Howell and I hoed the pop corn. This evening Albert Crandell{Crandall?} came and we worked getting the fire engine ready for the great fire parade Aug 18th. Miss Allie Pickett{?} who has lived here for a long time died at the Waterbury Hospital to day. 08\08\1934 (Wednesday) This morning Joe and I repaired a ton and one half hoist for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon we mowed the grass at the Norris place. This evening I went to see Carlton Chapin about Boy Scouts that are to parade, I then took a lot of red shirts to Margarets{Margaret?} to be pressed, I then saw Mr George F Magure about the parade. 08\09\1934 (Thursday) This Forenoon Joe and I hand mowed at Mr Donovans place which was the Norris place. This afternoon Margaret Mary and I attended Miss Pickett's funeral at the Alederson{?} Funeral home on Central Avenue. Rev Mr Haggerty of the First Methodist Church and Rev Mr Owen of the Bunker Hill Church Officiated She was buried in the Riverside Cemetery. After the Funeral Margaret and I went to several stores to buy some red and yellow cloth, and I went and saw the Fire Marshal{Marshol?} about the parade, then I came home on the Buss{Bus?}. My first ride on the new East Main Busses. 08\10\1934 (Friday) Joe and I put a new beam in the Cemetery plow. This evening I went with the Mill Plain Boys up to the Wolcott Fair Grounds to practice marching. 08\11\1934 (Saturday) To day Joe and worked about home in the morning, then we went to the farm and finished mowing for the Donovans on the hill. We then repaired the East fence, I was so ho that we had trouble to breath{breathe?} on account of the humidity, we had not a dry thread on us but what was sweat through. We put up the tools and got ready to come when Charles Wolcott and Joseph Howell St came and we went over the place and looked around. Then we came home and after supper I went out to the East Farms to see Scout Leader Carlton Chapin{?} but he was not at home. I then drove to Vernum Ables{?} on the Frost Road and he telephoned the Chief Scout Master {blank space} and also the Wolcott Scout master, and he thinks that they can furnish 25 or more scouts to report at my place next Wednesday evening. 08\12\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Gurtrude Coe{?} Preached. This afternoon I went to Hitchcocks Lake and saw Harry Hyde who is a Boy Scout Official about getting boys for the Parade next Saturday. It rained very hard this evening. 08\13\1934 (Monday) This morning Joe came and we worked about home all day. The Conn Light & Power Co had a steam shovel at work tearing up the trolley rails this morning but the smoke stack happened to hit the trolley wire and quick as a flash it burned the cable that held up the boom and that ended its operations, but they gathered up the ties and rails of {next line difficult to read} the North line, and took them awa_{away?} 08\14\1934 (Tuesday) This morning Joe and I went to the farm and mowed the North west Corner of the barn lot and got it in then we mowed more with the machine and then came home. This evening Albert Crandell{Crandall?} and several Mill Plain boys came and we set a drum head and repaired several drums. 08\15\1934 (Wednesday) Joe and I worked about home all day. This evening the boys of St Perers & St Pauls Church came and got red shirts, and a number of Boy scouts came, and after the shirts were fitted and the rain let up we got the engine and hose cart out and marched around the first block above here, the drummers did very well. 08\16\1934 (Thursday) Rained most of the day. We mowed at the farm, and in the afternoon we came home and worked here. Al{All?} Crandell{Crandall?} came and we repaired drums in the evening. 08\17\1934 (Friday) At the farm we dried hay and heaped it up. This evening we had a rehersal{rehearsal?} of Our Fire Department, it consisted of First a Color guard two stands of colors and two riflemen then a banner with the words "Mill Plain" Waterbury Conn, then a Drum Corps of Six men, next{nevt?} Capt Mac Guire with 38 boys in red shirts and hats, then 16 Boy Scouts with the hose reel{?}. They marched up the Frost Road over Woodland Avenue and returned by Circular Avenue, An imposing{impasing?} neighbarhood {neighborhood?} parade. 08\18\1934 (Saturday) Great day largest Fire parad{parade?} ever in Waterbury,{,?} over 8000 Firemen in line and about 80 pieces of fire apperatus, in line. Ten Bands, and thirty two Drum Corps{,?} took two and one half hours to pass the reviewing stand. My personal part was to get my fire engine ready with hose reel that I built about forty years ago and at twelve thirty Chas Graham with his truck came togather with the Drum Corps boys and we loaded the Engine and jumper in with the drums banners etc and drove to Freight St where the line was forming. We unloaded and formed, and after much monovering{manouvering?} got our position which was the last Company in the first Division. At two o clock, the line moved, up Meadow St to Grand and passed the reviewing stand in front of City Hall, soon after I fell out, and went back of the drowd and out on to the street and waited till the Kent Company of which my son Frank was Foreman came, then I fell in with them and drummed again aby the revie_ing{reviewing?} stand and continued on down Grand and up South Main St to Scoville St where I got onto the Engine and rode, I think the Company got more applause while I was drumming than it did at any other time. The line of march continued up So Main out East Main up Cherry St over Grove St, down Willow St in West main St along the North side of the Green, then down Bank etc. through Grand St to the place of beginnin_{beginning?} I staid on the Engine till it halted at the corner of Exchange Place and East main. When I saw the head ]of the Parade halted at the North East corner of the Green, I then went over to the North side of the Green and waited a long time before the line moved, and when the Mattatuck Band came along I fell in with them and drummed through Exchange place and Bank St to about Center St where I fell out and made my way back to the North side of the Green and waited till the Mill Plain Boys came along when I fell in with them and drummed to Center St as before, where I stood and saw the remained of the Parade pass, as I supposed, then I made my way{was?} towards City Hall to join the boys, but a large drum Corps was coming and then a great many Bands, Companies and Drum Corps passed. The line was so long our boys tole me that when they got back to the place of starting, they found many Companies waiting to march. I started after all had passed for Wilby High School{?} where the boys were to have dinner, By the time I got there Our Band Boys had been there and gone, but Capt Mag Guire was there with his Company. All had a good dinner. Each drew a box that contined{contained?} two ham, and meat sandwiches{?} of{a?} large piece of cake a larg{large?} cookey, a banana, a cup of ice crea, and lemon ade was served. After I had eaten I made my way to the South side of the Green, where I got a Buss and came home. Soon Brother Frank came and sister mary togather with Roll and Laeise{?} and her daughter and others were here and all had a good visit. I sent Howard Kraft to West Simsbury for Frank in the morning, and just before dark he came and took him back. The Mill Plain Band Boys had loaded the Engine and brought it home and put everything up in good order before I got home. 08\19\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev. Gertrude{Girtrude!} Coe of Wolcott officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went to Lavergne Clarks{?} for a visit; soon Halsey{?} and his wife came, and all staid to supper, we got home as it was getting dark. 08\20\1934 (Monday) I worked all day on a large scraper for the Calvary Cemetery. Joe Howell went to th farm and opened out the H__{hay?} and in the afternoon he raked it up and heaped it. The trolley Co had a large Steam shovel pulling up the rails in front of my house, to day on the South line, they took up the North line some time ago. 08\21\1934 (Tuesday) Joe and I went to the farm and got in three loads of hay, and mowed some in the lower Barn lot, besides we picked a bushel of beans. Howard Kraft has broken his leg again to night he is just able to be about from the effects of a broken leg, which he broke playing ball at Millerton N.Y. 08\22\1934 (Wednesday) To day Joe and I mowed the grass in the Barn meadow South of the garden. I saw Bessie Pierpont and bargained to trade hay for wood. 08\23\1934 (Thursday) Joe and I worked at the farm mowing all day Bessie Pierpont's men came and got 18 heaps of hay. 08\24\1934 (Friday) To day Joe and I finished hand mowing in the barn lot which was all that I have to mow. It rained at times this afternoon. After we finished we went to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick then to Arthu Harrisons and got my scythe{scyhe?} that I loaned him last year. Joseph Howell got through to night, To morrow{Tomorrow?} morning he and his father, Albert Crandell{Crandall?} and wife expect to start for Chicago to attend the Century of Progress Exhibition{Expisition?}. 08\25\1934 (Saturday) A boy that lives near the Notch-in-th-Rocks has helped me to day, we dried the hay and raked it up and then heaped it 36 heaps. {blank space} The battery on my good car gave out and tonight Ray and I went to Sears & Roebucks and got a new one for 5.35 and the old one. {no entry for 08\26\1934 (Sunday)} 08\27\1934 (Monday) Yesterday morning at 9 o clock Mary and I left for Kent, we went through Middlebury, Woodbury, Hotchkissville Washington, New Preston to New Preston Hill, Where w_{we?} attended service in an Old stone Church that was built in 1824, the date is cut in a block of marble that is over the center door. The stone work is an excellent{elcelent?} job not a stone has moved, the corners and walls are true and strait as when built, and the inside wood work is the same as then built. I had a talk with the minister, and with Mr David Strong, who has charge of Waramang Park. I also called on mr Ferris{?} who lives East of the Church. Then we journeyed West and{an?} stoped at a Cemetery in Upper Mariall{?}, which I look over, then we went to South Kent and on to Kent, where we found Frank and his family all well. After a time he took his new Buic car and we looked at his corn and potatoes then we drove to Bulls Bridge where the Conn - Light and Power Co are repairing their ditch and putting new gates, two sets, We then went home, and after a time to bed. Got up this morning and saw them milk and then Frank and a man tied lines on{an?} a small cedar tree one on each end, and the man went on the hill North of the tool house{chouse?} and climed{climbed?} a tree and Frank ran a truck to the proper psotiion South of the tool house, and both had the lines in hand and pulled the tree so as to knock down a large hornets nest that was under the cornice at the end of the shed, They wish to get rid of the pests as it is near an upper door where they want to put in hay. Then I carried Frank, and children, Dwight and Mary down to the Smith lot where he mowed a large piece of rowen{?} with the tractor, on which there was a seven foot cutting bar. He got through at noon and we came home, and had dinner, after which Mary and I left for home. We came by way of North Kent Cornwell Bridge, Cornwell Goshen where we called on Charles Stocking, then we came through Litchfield East Morris, and down over where they are building the new road to Watertown and home. This evening I attended a meeting of the drummer boys at their cabin at Hitchcock's pond near the Frost road. 08\28\1934 (Tuesday) Dick and I worked at the rasp berries at the farm, it rained more or less, and at noon we stoped, and came home. In the afternoon I worked at the wheel house, and watched the roadmakers, making anew road where the trolley tracks were taken up in front of our house. 08\29\1934 (Wednesday) To day we worked at the berries, all day. Bessie Pierpont's team came and took away 36 heaps of hay, this with the 18 heaps taken last Thursday makes 56 heaps in all. The Conn Co has the road finished b_{by?} our place where the two lines of trolley tracks were. This evening Mort and Jessie Pierpont called and told us about their auto trip to the Pacific coast and their visit with William and Russell Pierpont of Oregon and Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Wshington. 08\30\1934 (Thursday) Dick Trice and I worked about home all day clipping the grass ad repairing walks steps etc This evening three Drum Boys came and copied "The Turks Beat" and Half Time. Weather rather cool. 08\31\1934 (Friday) Dick and I finished hoeing the rasp berries, then{thene?} we mowed the side of the road by the water trough, then dug 1/2 bushel potatoes, then mowed briers in the pasture, then got the hay in, etc etc. 09\01\1934 (Saturday) This day Richard Tice/Fice{?} and I went to the farm and pulled the onions and cleared the garden of some of the weeds, then we went onto the hill and cut brush and briers in the pasture. 09\02\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev J. O. Todd. this afternoon Mary and I went up through Wolcott and saw where they are building the new Bristol road. Arthur Harrison told me that they have seven steam shovels at work, and much improved _oad{road?} building machinery. We called at Marian Kraft's on Spindle Hill, and at Judge George Browns. 09\03\1934 (Monday) Mary and I attended the large and fine Fair at Goshen. 09\04\1934 (Tuesday) We Dick Tice{?} and I cleaned out the open{,?} shed and the truck garage{girage!}. 09\05\1934 (Wednesday) Dick and I cut brush in the pature lot at the farm, Margaret and Gene {.?} started for Tennesee{Tennessee?} this morning. 09\06\1934 (Thursday) Dick mowed the front yard this morning while I went down town and did some business. After I got home we appempted{attempted?} to sharpen the lawn mower but found that it was broken. Ater dinner we went to the farm and repaired the fence, and cut brush. The Voghels got home this evening from New Bedford. where they have been for upward a week. 09\07\1934 (Friday) This morning I went up East Mountain where they are constructing the new road. They have the crushed stone laid and rolled most{nost?} of the way. We then went to Templetons hardware store _or{cor?} of Benedict and Meadow Sts and bought some iron, then Paid Electric and Telephone Bills, and came home and worked on two wheel barrows the rest of the day. 09\08\1934 (Saturday) Rained all day, but harder to night. I went out to the farm and dug 1/2{?} bu potatoes and brought them to Mrs. Voghel. Dick and I worked all day on the wheel barrows, except the time I was gone to the farm. 09\09\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd Officiated{?}. This afternoon I went to Seymour to see Mrs. Farrell{?} but she was not at home, I then went to Southbury and saw Mr Stiles{?}. 09\10\1934 (Monday) Dick and I cut brush at the farm. This {,?} evening I gave a drumming le__on{lesson?} to a class of Boys in the Mill Plain Church. 09\11\1934 (Tuesday) Henry Beckwith{?} came this morning and weldd two wheelbarrow wheels and the lawn mower. Dick and I finished up the wheelbarrows, etc. then we went to the farm and finished cutting brush. 09\12\1934 (Wednesday) Dick and I painted 15 lengths of fence at the farm by the Norris road. 09\13\1934 (Thursday) Dick Tice{?} and I painted the fence by the Norris Road. This evening A. Crandell{Crandall?} came and we ___{set?} a Drum head. Two other boys{,?} came and practiced drumming. Clyde is 50 years old to day. 09\14\1934 (Friday) Dick and I painted fence till it began to rain, then e came home and did odd Jobs. 09\15\1934 (Saturday) I went{wen?} to town this forenoon and paid Judd and Puffer 7.20 cts for insurance on the barn at East Farms for three years. Myrtle West Hitchcock was buried this afternoon from Christs Chapel to the New Pine Grove Cemetery. It has raned all day. Margaret got home from Tenesee{Tennessee?} last night. 09\16\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. This day the service was broadcast. Mary and I ate dinner at Margarets. This afternoon I went up __{to?} Charles Tuttles and got him and we went to Bill Mc Cormicks and left a gallon bottle, then we went up on Miner hill where they are building the new state road and where they are making a ceep cut and a high fill towards the river. While there it rained hard and wet us nearly through. We then came back to Tuttles, and soon I came home. 09\17\1934 (Monday) Rained this morning, and rained all day but some of time it rained as hard as I ever knew it. Dick came and we did some blacksmith work for Charles Tuttle of Wolcott, {blank space} and then I made two pairs of orchestra drum sticks for brother Fred of Tarrytown N.Y. Which took till night. This evening I gave drum lessons to the Mill Plain boys. 09\18\1934 (Tuesday) This forenoon I turned out two pairs of Bass Drum Stick. One pair for Fred and one pair for Mr Collinge{?} of Hartford, I also filed a large circular Saw for a man in Prospect. Dick polished my Ford runabout car, after which we went to the farm by way{was?} of Woodtick where I left at Chas Tuttles his door irons, at the farm we dug 1/2 bu potatoes and cut a large load of corn, picked up apples etc. 09\19\1934 (Wednesday) Dick and I cut corn and drew it to the barn. all day. {no entry for 09\20\1934 (Thursday)} 09\21\1934 (Friday) Yesterday morning Mary and I started for the Eastern States Exhibit at Springfeld{Springfield?} Mass, We went up through Wolcott, past cousin Bert Frisbies on a good new senficed{surfaced?} hardened road to the upper side of Scovills reservoir where we struck into a narrow crooked hilly dirt road which we traveled to the Bristol line, the upper end they are beginning to rebuild as part of the State road from Waterbury to Bristol. From Bristol line by the East shore of Cedar swamp pond a new State road has been built down Fall Mountain into Bristol, which we traveled and on to West Simsbury where we stoped at brother Franks and eft some drum sticks that I have made for Fred, and Frank is to finish. We reached Springfield at noon and{on?} engaged lodgins at Mrs. Beans at 175 Maple Street. W_{We?} then went to the fair, Which was large and fine. Mary went to Mrs. Beans as she was tired I went back to teh grounds and staid will ten o'clock In the morning We went to the Fair again and staid till five when we left for home, which we reached at 7 P.M. 09\22\1934 (Saturday) This is Mary's birthday she was born 1860. Dick and I cut the corn and stacked it at noon it began to rain and we came home. James Egan dug some potatoes. 09\23\1934 (Sunday) {date difficult to read, 09\24\1934?} Attended service at the Miull Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd Took dinner at Raymonds this noon, this afternoon Ra_{Ray?} and I went up over the line of the new state road to bristol, We saw five steam shovels and a Steam Dredge that they were using in the building of the road, they have started in many places, but in no place have they got it to grade. 09\24\1934 (Monday) {date difficult to read, 09\24\1934 or 09\25\1934?} This forenoon Dick and I pulled carrots, parsnips, etc out of the garden at East Farms. Dick went at noon and I went up on the hill and dug potatoes. This evening I went to the Mill Plain{?} Church and gave a class of boys a drum lesson. Robert Browne{?} was there to learn them to fife. 09\25\1934 (Tuesday) {date difficult to read, 08\25\1934 or 09\26\1934?} Dick Tice__{Tice's?} Mother telephoned from Cheshire tat Dick had gone{gon/} to work for somebody else, So I went to the farm and howed half of the rasp berries, then dug 4 rows of potatoes and got 8 1/2 bushels. 09\26\1934 (Wednesday) This forenoon{fournoon?} I went __{ut?} to Woolcott{Wolcott?} and saw the Steam shovels, steam drills, not steam, but compressed air drills etc work where they are building the new Bristol road. When I was coming away I found Mr Gallagher with his auto stuck in the mud, I took him in my car to mr Mc Cormicks where he got five gallons of gasoline and we carried it up to the Minor place and I hitched my little truck in front and we started up both cars and he got out of the mud. I then came to the farm and loaded eight bushels of potatoes on the truck and came home. 09\27\1934 (Thursday) Seventy Six years ago I was born in a house on Cherry Street that stood on the West side where the Advent Church now stands. Here we lived till the fall of 1864 when we moved to the East End of Clay Street. To day I went to the center this forenoon, and dug potatoes this afternoon. 09\28\1934 (Friday) Dug 11 bushels of potatoes to day. 09\29\1934 (Saturday) James Egan and I went to the farm this morning to dig potatoes, but it came on to rain ad we came home. I did odd jobs the rest of the day. 09\30\1934 (Sunday) Attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J A Todd. This afternoon I went up art of the new East Mountain Road, and stoped at Mr Hodges House, found him leaving with his family for Bridgeport, I then went Mr Cowdells in Prospect, and to mr Brundages at summit. then I came to M. E. Pierpont's dairy{dary!} barn where I stayed some time. 10\01\1934 (Monday) I dug potatoes. This evening I attended the Maple Hill club drum repersal/rehersal{?} {rehearsal?} 10\02\1934 (Tuesday) I dug Potatoes to day This evening I attended the meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band who entertained the Plainville Drum Corps a_{as? and?} visitors. 10\03\1934 (Wednesday) I finished digging the potatoes to day have 43 bushels, Jame{James?} Egan finished digging his. 10\04\1934 (Thursday) Made a double takel block for Frank in Kent this forenoon After dinner I look five bushels of potatoes to Rev Mr Todd, then went to the farm and loaded 7 1/2 bushels of potatoes on the truck and brought them home and put them in the cellar. This evening some oys came and copied fife music. 10\05\1934 (Friday) Painted fence at the farm all day. 10\06\1934 (Saturday) Rained hard all day, they say that this is the seventh Saturday that it has rained in succession. I filed three buck saws and one hand saw for Mr Duprey of Prospect, then I cleaned out the furnace in the cellar and filled it with water and made it ready to light. I also cleaned out the kitchen stove and pipe, etc. This evening is very warm. 10\07\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd officiated Rev Mr {blank space} Preached. 10\08\1934 (Monday) Painted Fence at the farm. Ted Wilson helped me two and on ehalf hours, 25 This evening I went and drummed at the Mill Plain Union Church. 10\09\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I did a lot of work on the old truck, put in oil, water, blew the tires up, put in a new battery which I bought of Sears. & Roebuck for 5.95 and{an?} old battery, then went to the farm and painted fence. Ted helped me .36 The Connecticut Co are taking up the trolley rails through East Farms. 10\10\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I filed a large circular saw for Mr Duprey of Prospect. I then went to the farm and painted fence. Ted Wilson helped mt this afternoon 36{26?} All of the rails and ties on the trolley line are taken up, and the poles that supported the trolley wire are down out to the East Farms Cemetery. 10\11\1934 (Thursday) Painted fence on the hill this afternoon Ted helped 36{26?} This forenoon I went up to Wolcott to see the new Bristol road that they are building. 10\12\1934 (Friday) Ted Wilson and I got in the last of the corn to day, then we painted fence and finished on the hill. Cousin Lewis Somers called this evening and gave me a section of the oak sill that lay in the river at Platts Mills 104 years. 10\13\1934 (Saturday) This day is remarkable, as it is the first Saturday that it has not rained seven weeks, but it has been very cold and windy. {blank space} This morning I went to town. This afternoon I Pained fence, Ned Wilson painted this forenoon. 42{?} 10\14\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Joseph Todd. This afternoon I went to Seymour to see Mrs. Benjamin Farrell but she was not at home. I then went to South Britain and called on Dell Chandler. 10\15\1934 (Monday) This morning I went to Plum Bros hardware store and bought six sticks of dynamite. I then went to the farm and painted fence, This afternoon Ted Wilson came and we set two Concrete fence posts This evening Rolladn Jenner and Phil Renter came and borrowed my cross cut saw, After which I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave a drumming lesson 10\16\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to Plum Bros Hardware store and ordered a point for my Surucuse{?} side hill plow, Then I went to the farm and repaired the East and WEst fence North of Fred Wilsons house, Ted helped 36 10\17\1934 (Wednesday) Painted fence, Ted helped 36 10\18\1934 (Thursday) Painted the fence East of the Barn, Ted helped 36 This eve Albert Crandall{?} came with some boys and they practiced bass. 10\19\1934 (Friday) Painted the lower end of the fence. Ted helped 36 {no entry for 10\20\1934 (Saturday)} {no entry for 10\21\1934 (Sunday)} 10\22\1934 (Monday) Last Saturday at 3.30 P.M. Mary and I went to Kent, We went up the Frost road then in the Meriden, then up the Woodtick, over STilson up the Wolcott over the new fill across the swamp where they dug out the muck 30' deep, then over Lakewood, and up N Main St over Chase ave, and over the Naugatuck River at Waterville, and out onto the Watertown Road to Watertown, then over the new road not fully completed to East Morris, where we turned West and on through Morris Center, and up the West side of Bantam Lake to Bantam where we turned West to Woodville. and to Warren, Then West to the Kent town line but the new road, is not completed so we turned North to North Kent, then to Kent, where we found Frank busy getting turnips into the South root cellar of the School. Sunday we attended service at the Congregational Church Rev Mr Bartlett. In the afternoon I took Mary, Bertha, Dwight, and Jessie, in the Rumble seat and went up through Macedonia Park and over Skiff Mountain and back home. This morning Frank cut up four large loads of corn and put it in the silo. We left after dinner, and came home via Bulls Bridge, Gaylordville New Milford, Bridgewarer, Roibury{?}, Southbury, Woodbury, Middlebury, to Waterbury, which we reached at 3.35. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mill Plain drummers. 10\23\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to City Hall and paid my taxes. This afternoon I plowed on the hill a strip twelve ft wide across the upper lot to keep the fire from crossing. 10\24\1934 (Wednesday) Plowed on the hill all day. This evening the Mill Plain boys came and drummed and we repaired a drum. 10\25\1934 (Thursday) To day I plowed a strip twelve feet wide next to the North fence in the North west lot on the hill. The weather has been nice. This forenoon Mary and Margaret went to City Hall and paid Marys tax. They stoped at Plumb Bros store and got a plow point for me. 10\26\1934 (Friday) This morning was cloudy, Ted Wilson and I picked stones off the corn and potatoe lots and drew them down and repaired the road west of the shed till noon{50?}, when it began to rain, I came home, and worked in the wheel house all the afternoon. 10\27\1934 (Saturday) This morning I finished filing a 28" circular saw for Mr Rocham, Then I went to the farm and Ned Wilson and I finished picking stones off the potatoe lot and finished pepairing{repairing? prepairing?} the road. We then went to the young orchard on the hill and I plowed about some of the trees and he put ashes about all, 75 I came home and went to the East End Hardware store and bought 100 pound of Atlantic White lead for 9.75. 10\28\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O. Todd. When we left the Church we drove up through Wolcott to Bristol and went to Arthur Byrds where we had dinner, after which we went through the Bristol nerseries{nurseries?} and saw a great variety of flowers, shrubs etc. We came home via Plymoth{Plymouth?} 10\29\1934 (Monday) This morning I filed a crosscut saw for Ed Bronson. Then repaired my car and put a reflector on it, and went to the farm and plowed, picked up apples etc. {blank space} This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave a lesson in drumming, to a class of boys. 10\30\1934 (Tuesday) This forenoon I plowed about the appletrees on the hill. I then husked some pop corn, and mixed paint for Ned Wilson to paint the wire fence on the hill in the lot West of the shed, then I came home and got my drum and myself ready to got to Danbury with the Mattatuck DRum Band this evening. Ralph pierpont called at 5.30 and we drove in his car to Meadow Street where we left his car and loaded into a Connecticut Cos/Cas{?} Bus togather with the rest of the boys, 28 in all and started for Danbury with the Lyon's Club of Waterbury, We reached Danbury about 7.30 and unloaded from the Bus and marched to the Hotel Green where we found several hundred{hundre?} Lyons assembled, members of other Clubs from about the State and New York, Rhode Island and other places. They gave us a fine turkey supper, they also had{hade?} a fine antertainment etc which lasted till about 10.30 when we were called upon to play several selections outside, after which we marched to the bus and loaded in and started for home at 11 P.M. We reached Waterbury at 12.10 and Ralph and I came here. He continued on to his home, it was 12.30 when I got into the house. 10\31\1934 (Wednesday) To day I filed a saw, and repaired two oil squirter_{squirters?} for Frank (over in Kent) and did other jobs which took till noon, After Dinner wne tot the farm and gathered up a lot of leaves and put them in the stables, Ted Wilson came and painted fence, and I plowed on the hill Orchard till 5 o clock. 11\01\1934 (Thursday) Rained hard all this forenoon. at Noon I went to town in my{ny?} little car which I parked in Cottage Place paid .15 I then went to the Colonial Trust Co and got Mary's Church{Chirch?} Bonds cupons{coupons?} cashed, and then went to the Waterbury Consolodated{Consolidated?} Banks and got my pension Check cashed, I then drove to Seymour and visitied Mrs. Benjamin Farrell, about historical matters, and returned home as it, was getting, dark. 11\02\1934 (Friday) This morning I drove to Spindle Hill and took a basket of potatoes and a small baket of vegtables to Marian Kraft, I then drove down Mad River to whre they are building a new Bridge above the Reservair{Reservoir?} and leaving my car explores an old road that lead up the East side of the River that was in use in Revolutionary timess before the road on the West side of the Rier was built, I then looked at the concrete work that is being done in building the North abutmen_{abutment?} of the bridge then I went to start my car, but found that I had lost my key. I then went to William Mc Cormicks, and his Son wne tiwht me and made a wire connection between the switch wires ad I started the Engine and drove home, I then went to Kaplains{?} store and bought a #63 key for .15{15?} and the car was all right again, but it was noon, I then went to the farm and Ted Wilson and I husked corn all the afternoon. Weather was very cold. 11\03\1934 (Saturday) To day I husked corn, Ted Wilson helped from nine to twelve I brought home seven bushels. This morning was very cold, 16 {degree symbol} above zero. 11\04\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd, officiated, I staid home and read. all the afternoon a_{as?} it rained very hard. 11\05\1934 (Monday) This morning I went to the farm, and husked corn This afternoon Red Wilson came and helped me 34{?}, we husked out ten bushels. He told me that there are eighteen young people that go from East Farms to the High Schools in Waterbury every morning on the bus. The weather has been fair and warm, This eve I went to the Church and taught the boys to drum. 11\06\1934 (Tuesday) To day it rained hard, I did odd jobs about the place. 11\07\1934 (Wednesday) I husked corn all day and finished husking, Ned helped 36{?}. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Baord of the Mill Plain Church. 11\08\1934 (Thursday) To day I worked at the farm getting out manure and putting it on the garden South of the barn and plowed some of the garden. Ted painted fence 36{?} This evening Al Crandel{Crandall?} came and we repaired the electric stove, and with the Robinson boys practiced drumming a spell. 11\09\1934 (Friday) To day I plowed the garden and got out stove{stone?}. Ted painted fence above the barn lot, 36{?}. 11\10\1934 (Saturday) This forenoon I sharpened a lot of Picks and grubs for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon I went to Cheshire with Albert Crandell{Crandall?} and partly surveyed a boundry line for James ___________{line drawn in text} 11\11\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, REv J. O. Todd. The service was broadcast as several have been before. This afternoon I went to the Center and saw the great Armistance{Armistice?} Parade. 11\12\1934 (Monday) With Ted Witson{Wilson?} I plowed and got stones out of the garden at the farm. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave a drumming lesson to the boys. To night they elected officers as follows. Albert Crandell{?} Leader, Robert Browne Assistant Leader, George Baldwin Secretary and Treasurer, Charles S. Miller, Instructor and General Manager, A committes{committee? committee's?} to draw a Constitution and Bylaws was elected Consisting of Charles S. Miller, Albert Crandell{?}, and George Baldwin. 11\13\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and started plowing on the hill, but the ground was frozen two inches deep, and it began snowing so I came home and worked in the wheel house making three stands to set show cases on. The snow continued all day and at night the ground was covered. 11\14\1934 (Wednesday) Worked all day in the Wheel house making stands for Show cases. This evening Albert Crandall and George Baldwin came and we drew up a Constitution and By Laws for the New Maple Hill Continental Drum Band, After which Ernest and Charles Robinson, and the rest of us practiced drumming 11\15\1934 (Thursday) To day I was in the wheel House making stands and fixtures for at tent to use over graves in stormy weather{.?} for the Calvary Cemetery. 11\16\1934 (Friday) This morning I went to the Center and did business of various kinds. Paid the Charles Templeton Co 53 cts for a bar of 7/16" round machine steel. Got my auto licenses{licencis?} for 1935. Paid $16.00 for the Runabout, and $15.00 for the Light delivery. Came home and changed the oil in the Runabout by putting Winter oil, and put two quarts of alcohol in each car. Then young Tutsey Vogal and I went to th_{the?} farm and fed the steer. We went out over the new road up East Mountain and through Prospect to the Notch-in-the-Rocks, in Cheshire. After we got home I made an iron and pipe frame for a tent to use over graves when it is stormy, for the Calvary Cemetery, then worked on stands for show cases till long after dark. {no entry for 11\17\1934 (Saturday)} {no entry for 11\18\1934 (Sunday)} 11\19\1934 (Monday) Margaret and Raymond came this evening, Margaret had received a telegram from{forom?} Toronto informing us that Clyde had passed away, at the Toronto hospital to day. He was taken sick a week ago to day, worked in the forenoon. Last Saturday Mary and I left here to visit Ruth and family at Stoorrs{Storrs?}, started at 10.30 stoped at the farm and fed the steer, then we went through Cheshire, Meriden, Middletown crossed the Connecticut River to Portland{Rortland?} then through East Hampton, Marlborough, Hebron, Columbia, Willimantic{?} to Storrs, where we found all of the family quite well. But Jack was in Hartford, and we didnt see him until the next morning We all went to Church, after which I rode down to Willimantic with Jack, and back again, in the morning Ruth told us that Margaret telephoned Sat night that she had a telegram from Fritsa that Clyde was very sick. In the afternoon Jack got the key and he and I went up in the Church Tower and saw the lage set of thirty ... bells, after we drove to Willinton{?} and visited Mr George V. Smith, who has a large collection of curiasities{curiosities?} and old book. We left Ruth's this forenoon before eleven, and came home via Mansfield Depot{?}, Coventry, Bolton Notch, Manchester, Silver Lane, East Hartford, Hartford, West Hartford, Farmington, where we took dinner, then through Plainvill{Plainville?} Southington to East Farms where I did the chores and then home. 11\20\1934 (Tuesday) Ray Called this evening and that arangements{arrangements?} had been made so that Fritza and the boys are to leave Toronto tomorrow morning and drive all day and expect to reach here tomorrow night, and Mr Yates will leave later with Clydes body and come by train and arrive in Waterbury Thursday forenoon at 10 AM. Mr Alderson{?} will meet the train and take charge and the funeral will be held in the Mill Plain Union Church, with the Rev Mr Joseph O. Todd, and Rev Mortomer Owen{?} officiating. Burial will be in Clydes lot in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery. This forenoon I plowed in the upper lot on the hill. Ted Wilson painted the gate by the road. Several people called to day and evening, and offered their symphaty{sympathy?} The new Silver St Bridge was opened to day for travel. 11\21\1934 (Wednesday) To day wet and clowdy{cloudy?}. Many came to offer sympathy. In the afternoon Ned Wilson came and we carried out the showcase in my room, and put it in the drum room. 11\22\1934 (Thursday) This is our 51st wedding anniversary. But other matters have happened. This forenoon at about eleven Mr Yates, arived{arrived?} in town from Toronto with Clydes body, to gather with Fritsa, Richard, Willard, Robert, and the child Ronald. Mr Alderson, met them and took charge of the funeral. Ray, and Margaret, wer_{were?} there also, and took the family to Margarets home{shome?} on Beecher Avenue. Soon the other members of the family arived{arrived?} Frank and family from Kent. Ruth and family from Storrs. The funeral was held from the Mill Plain Union Church, at three o clock. Rev Joseph O Todd officiating assisted by the Rev W. Moreton Owen{?}. The honorary pall bearers were Frederick B. Schofield, Frederick E. Yates, of Toronto Canada, Edgar C. Franklin, Carl F{T?}. Suhr, William Bartlett, and Edwin W. Beardsley. The active bearers were Wendell P. Viall, Edward G. Freethy{?}, Lyle C. Traver, William C. Krusus{?}, Mansfield M Gillette and Morton E. Pierpont. The Church was filled. The Mayor and about 40 others came from Tarrington, and about as many more from the American Brass Co. and many frend_{friends?} and relations from this City and adjoining towns. He was buried in his lot in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery. 11\23\1934 (Friday) This morning Fritsa and Margaret came and helped Mary and Fritsa and I had a talk about Clydes affairs, she is going to visit her parents in Cheshire this afternoon, and they expect to start for Toronto tomorrow. Dick started last night, Mansfield Gillette carried him to Bridgeport, where he was to take an express for New York, and then to Toronto, he wished to reach home to day, as he is Captain of the football team of the University of Toronto and they are to have a game tomorrow. I worked in the show Room till noon and then went to the farm and plowed this afternoon. I am reminded at every step about here of work that Clyde{clyde?} did when a boy, he was 8 years old when we built this house, and he later helped to build the barn and all the other buildings, and much of the lumber and frame timber he drew from Brooksvale in Cheshire when he was ten and eleven years old. It does not seem right that I should outlive my boy. 11\24\1934 (Saturday) This forenoon Albert Crandall and I drove to Manchester and saw Mr _{M?} J Barry of 41 Florence St, about the drummers, got back soon after noon. This afternoon I plowed at the farm. 11\25\{1934} (Sunday) Attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. We took dinner at Margarets, where we spent the afternoon, after which we came home. Margaret Cliff, Howard Kraft and wife were going to Bridgeport where Fritsa, Willard, Robert, and little Ronald were to take the train for Toronto at six o'clock. Mr William Gillettee/Gillette{?} was going to Cheshire and get{?} them and take them to Bridgeport, and all were to bid them good by. {no entry for 11\26\1934 (Monday)} 11\27\1934 (Tuesday) I worked about home most of the day. In the afternoon I put a lot of old books in a show case in the drum room. At about 5.15 Margaret called, and we started{slarted?} for Manchester, stoped at Albert Crandells{Crandalls?} and got George Baldwin, Mc Carthy, and another. We got to Manchester at 6.45 Went to the Recration{Recreation?} Building, and were met by Mr Barry and others, Soon the remained of my boys arrived about 15 inall, after which the members of the Moodus Drum Corps came, and they gave a short street parade. We then went in the small Gininasium{Gymnasium?} where they played four pieces, and my boys played two, then the Mattatuck boys came, and they played some, after which we went up in the Main Hall and after various drumming We all consolidated about 36 in ___{all?} 7 Bass drums and 2_{?} snare drums and six fifers. Many of the snare drums were large and it was said the building viberated{vibrated?} after a time there was some individual drumming, and the Moodus Corps{Corpse?} played several in double beats then we went to the floor above where there was a good lunch served, then after a jolly good time we started for home, which we reached at midnight in a Snow storm. To day I have worked about home, much of the time. Went to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick but he was not at home, then we went to the farm in East Farms and fed the steer, and cut up a lot of corn stalks. This evening Mr Kirtz{Kirlz?} called, and showed me a history of drums that he is prepairing. 11\28\1934 (Wednesday) To day I have plowed on the hill all day, some of the time it has rained and some of the time it hasent{hasnt?} 11\29\1934 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. At one o'clock the Decendants of David and Almira Somers assembled to the number of about forty{fortry?} at Mrs. Grays Tea Rooms at 437 Willow Street and had a fine dinner, and Reunion, Mary and I were there, and our only children were Margaret, and her husband Clifford Northrop. 11\30\1934 (Friday) Rained all day. This morning I expected to go to the farm and plow, and started but it began to rain again I went to Montambeans garage{Girage!} and bought one gal of winter oil for my old Ford car. paid 50 cts I then went to Charles Tuttles at Woodtick and visited with him till noon, then drove to he farm, but it began to rain hard again, so I ate my dinner and fed Ted and put things up, got the yoke and traces out when it be_an{began?} to rain hard, so I came home and worked in the Drum room, and at show cases the rest of the afternoon. 12\01\1934 (Saturday) This day I expected to go to Cheshire surveying, but it has rained all day. I have spent most of the time putting electric lights in the Drum Room, and doing other odd jobs. 12\02\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev Mr Stokese/Stokesi{?} of Hartford preadhed. Some say Mr Todd is sick, others that he was called from town. This afternoon Mary and I went to Mr Hansens in Cheshire The weather to day has been fine. 12\03\1934 (Monday) No rain to day. Plaowed on the hill all day. Ted Wilson painted wire fence three hours. 12\04\1034 (Tuesday) This forenoon I went to town and did a lot of business got home at one. After dinner went to the farm and finishe_{finished?} plowing. {blank space} This evening Mr Bartlett the head of the Engineering Dept of Construction for the American Brass Co, called to tell us of Clydes work on _he{the?} new Mills that he had just completed, and showed pictures of them. 12\05\1934 (Wednesday) This morning I filed saws, and sowed wood etc. This afternoon I went to the farm and repaired the road up the hill in the pasture lot. This evening I attended the Ladies Fair at the Mill Plain Union Church. There was a large number present. The weather to day has been fair. 12\06\1934 (Thursday) This forenoon Leo Gallagher{?} and we went to Wolcott where we called at Will Pritchards{?} then we went up over the North part{?} of Spindle Hill and past Cedar Swamp pond{Pond?} to Allentown and back to Pritchards Saw Mill then up over Wolcott Center and North East out past the Bronson places nearby{?} to the Southington line{?} then turned back to the North Road and went to the Rufus Norton place then turned WEst adn came out on the Bristol road, then South to Woodtick and home. {blank space} In the after noon I went to the farm, then home, and in the evening the Maple Hill Drum boys came and we went up and seranaded Mr and Mrs. Charles Wolcott, it being their fiftyeth{fiftieth?} Wedding anniversary, after visiting{visitin?} a a {written twice} short time, Mary and I went to the Mill Plain Church to the Ladies annual Fair. The Bunker Hill Church Band was in attendance and rendered some fine music, there was other entertainment. 12\07\1934 (Friday) Cold to day. This forenoon I went to th farm and cut up a lot of Cornstalks. This afternoon The school teacher Miss Hunt of the West districk{district?} in Wolcott came with all of her schollars{scholars?} to see the curious things in the drum Room. They seemed very much interested and were here till dark. 12\08\1934 (Saturday) Cold Day. At Noon Albert Crandall came, and we went to Cheshire and surveyed{Surveyed!} a preliminary{prelimenary!} line for surveying at James {blank space} Place 12\09\1934 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph O Todd. This was Scotish Sunday. Several Scottish societies were present, namely. The Daughters of Sciota, Robert Burns Club, Bide-A-Wee Club, and Klan Mr Alpine, The Dhurch was filled, although the weather was very cold. The service was broadcast. I went to th farm and did chores, then stayed{slayed!} at home the rest of the day. Howeard Neal called. 12\10\1934 (Monday) This morning was cold mercury stood at zero, warmest was at noon 22 above. I sawed adn split appletree wood all the time except when I went to the farm and fed ad watered the steer. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons to the boys. 12\11\1934 (Tuesday) This has been colder than yesterday, zero this morning and 14 above at noon and much colder this evening I filed a crosscut saw for Charles Welton and repaired Marys desk, etc. 12\12\1934 (Wednesday) Seven above this morning. After I got out, (not very early) I repaired the brien tub in the blacksmith shop. Ruth came from Storrs and began cleaning house. AT noon I went to the farm adn did the chores. Then Back and sharpened tools all the afternoon, for Calvary Cemetery. Margaret and Ruth came in the afternoon and cleaned the pantry and kitchen, etc. 12\13\1934 (Thursday) Not so cold to day. Ruth and Margaret came this morning and cleaned the front room and did much other cleaning and arranging{aranging!}, etc. I cut wood for the stove beside going to the farm etc. This evening Arthur Bird and Wife of Bristol called Margaret and Ruth took Mary to see Dr Barber this afternoon. 12\14\1934 (Friday) Margaret and Ruth came and cleaned. Ruth went home at noon. Margaret came in the afternoon, and brought a boy who cleaned the outside of the windows. 12\15\1934 (Saturday) Mary was sick during the night, and things moved slow this morning. A light fall of snow lay on the ground and the weather was biting cold. I got ready to go to Cheshire surveying but when Mr Crandall{Crandell!} came we thought it was too{to!} cold, and did not go, but spent the time till noon looking up records, and reading about the boiling sping on East Mountain, etc This afternoon I choped wood and got it into the wood house. {blank space} There are so many {somany!} auto busses and cars, Trucks etc passing and stoping at the corner that the wind carries a cloud of smoke continaully in the street past the house these cold days. 12\16\1934 (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Three Choirs and Rev Joseph O Todd officiating. This afternoon, We went up to Wolcott and saw the new Bristol road that they are building which is about half graded. We visited at Judge George Browne's till a late hour. It has snowed a little this morning. Flakes large as goose{goase!} belly feathers. While we were gone, Ray Ruth and Margaret came and put up curtains etc. preparitory {usually spelled prepairatory!} for Christmas{Cristmas!}. 12\17\1934 (Monday) To day the weather has been fine. This morning De Witt Cole came from Wolcott and wanted a large T iron, and other pieces made for his big wood wagon, this took till four o'clock then I got out to the farm ad did the work there then got ready, adn Mr Gross called and at 5.45 we started for Meriden after picking up three other foremene of the International Silver So. After we arrived{arived!} there we attended a great banquet given by the International Silver Co to its officials of which I am an ex. I met many men that I worked with ten years ago. 12\18\1934 (Tuesday) This morning I went to teh center and deposited a check of $5.00 in the Waterbury Savings Bank which made $1475.37 that I have there. I then went to the Colonial Trust Co. and turned in ten cupons for Mary and got $30.00 also turned in fourteen of my own and got $42.00. Came home on the bus and then took an electric toaster{toster!} that was Ruth's down to the Mattatuck factory to be repaired. Then went to the farm, after cleaning and taking away six wheelbarrow loads of rubbish from the outside of our front fence{is this spelled fense!}. After I came back from the farm I put a new felt and slate coated roof on the back-house, this took till dark. This evening Mr Mathews came and brought his son Albers{?} who is learning to drum. 12\19\1934 (Wednesday) Rained hard nearly all day. First rain that froze and made the roads very slippery, then heavy rain. Margaret and Marian came and cleaned the pantry. I worked for the most pat in the wheel house on a large picture frame. 12\20\1934 (Thursday) This morning I sent pay 2.60 to the Tufftest Laboratories at Willamansett{?} Mass to pay for a drum head. I also ordered 32' of Drum rope, I then went and saw Bessie Pierpont at Maple Hill about getting an old appletree for wood, did work at farm and worked in wheel house the rest of the day. 12\21\1934 (Friday) About home doing odd jobs, principally picture frame. 12\22\1934 (Saturday) To day I finished the picture frame for holding emblems, and hung it in the drum room. I then went to the farm and painted a little on the fence, but it began to snow, so I came home. 12\23\1934 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. The morning service was a Christmas service. At 4.30 was held a Vesper Service. The Church was lighted with candles, and the singing was excellent{excelent!} All four Choirs were present. Two on the platform by the organ, and two at the other end of the Church in the balcony. 12\24\{1934} (Monday) This day I have worked about home. This evening Albert Crandell, Cahill, and Robinson came and brought a nice radio and made me a present of it. 12\25\1934 (Tuesday) Christmas day. We had a fine Turkey dinner, and in the evening c Christmas tree, and many present were distributed, Ruth and her family came from Storrs, Ray and Wife, Margaret and her family, and Frank and family came from Kent but did not get here till after dinner. {blank space} In Ruth's family were Augustus, Jackson Brundage, and Wife Ruth, Sons Roger, Kenneth and Pierce, and Daughter Peggy. Ray's family, Raymond H. Miller, and Wife Ruth. Margaret's family, Clifford Northrop, and Wife Margaret, with daughters, Marian, and Husband Howard Kraft with sons Charles and __________ {line drawn in text, [Robert]} Frank's family, Frank P. Miller and wife Elsie, and daughters, Marion, Jessie, Louis, Bertha, and June, and Son Dwight Somers. 12\26\1934 (Wednesday) This morning the roads were very icy{icey!}. I put chains on my car and went to the farm. Soon after I got home it began to rain, which soon took the ice away, and it continued till about five, when it grew cold fast. This evening I attended a supper and an election of officers of the mens club at the Mill Plain Church. 12\27\1934 (Thursday) A Cold wind has blown from the North West and it has been very cold. I have been about home all day. Filed a cross cut saw this morning, and worke_{worked?} on picture frames etc. Mrs. Morris came this morning and did the washing. {no entry for 12\28\1934 (Friday)} 12\29\1935 (Saturday) {29?} Rather cold all day. Did the chores at the farm then went to town, and got a new large double cut file, and some drops for my auto back fenders. The roads are very icy and the autos skid. 12\30\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. Attendance rather small on account of the ice on the ground. Weather very cold. I stayed in all day except ehn I went out to the farm. Howard Neal called this afternoon. 12\31\1935 (Monday) The weather to day has been fair and not very cold. I took the chains off my car wheels as the ice is nearly{marly!} all gone. I have worked most of the time on picture frames. This evening I went to the Gymnasium and gave instructions in drumming. Not many of the boys there, as so much is going on New Years eve. 01\01\1935 (Tuesday) New Years Day. When we awoke this morning the ground was covered with about four inches of snow and it was snowing hard, about nine it turned into to rain and continued till after noon, which made traveling very splashy{spashy!}. I had to put on the chains that I took off yesterday, to go to the farm. This afternoon Albert Crandell came and we got down the old drum form that I used in 1881 to make the drums for the Mattatuck Drum Band on. We are enlarging it and will make a bending machine, to bend the shells of drums for the newly organized maple Hill Continental Drum Band. 01\02\1935 (Wednesday) Ground coated with ice, hard to get about. Made picture frames all day. 01\03\1935 (Thursday) Very slippery{slipery!} no thaw since sunday. This afternoon I went to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick, and he drummed the three Camps as written by Strube. He is the best Drummer that I know of in the United States. Painted fence at the farm, in the afternoon. 01\04\1935 (Friday) Cold day. Six above this morning and very cold all day. Have spent much time in the Show Room. This evening Mr Mathews{?} brought his son Albert to take a drumming lesson. 01\05\1935 (Saturday) Four below zero this morning. I got ready to work in the Drum Room this morning, when Albert Crandall and James {blank space} came and wished me to go to Cheshire and survey a line through _ames{James?} land and set the boundry stakes, this took till night. 01\06\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd officiated. All four Choirs were in attendance, and the service was broadcast. This afternoon I went to Wolcott and visited with Judge George Browne. They are widening{wideing!} the road to the East past his house 30 ft and the fill is very high. The weather has been warm so that much of the ice has melted and ran away. 01\07\1935 (Monday) I have done odd jobs about home principally getting a machine ready to bend drum shells on. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons. Wrote a letter to Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] of Vancouver Wash. Weather wet {no entry for 01\08\1935 (Tuesday)} 01\09\1935 (Wednesday) {01\08\1935 or 01\09\1935?} Weather wet most of th time, Very foggy mornings. I painted fence at the farm this afternoon. This evening I attended the Installation of Officers of the Mens Club at the Mill Plain Church. Joe Holmes was made President. 01\10\1935 (Thursday) Rained most of the day I worked in the Wheel House and chicken coop. 01\11\1935 (Friday) I went to the Town Clerk's office this morning and copied records relating to Isaac Spenser taking up land in Prospect in 1754. Then I went to pay our electric bill at the Conn Light and Power Co. But had lost the bill and money. I then went to the Bank and deposited a check and cashed another. Then went to Templeton's hardware store {.?} Cor of Benedict and Meadow Sts and ordered a grind stone shaft. Then to Sears andRoebucks{Robucks!} on Grand St and bought _{8?} auto chains for 2.32 then to Davis & Nye on Bank St and got a Scrap book, Ink, Rubber bands{2 words?} and clips then to the Telephone building and paid Telephone bill, then home and had dinner. Then to farm and did the chores. Then to Cheshire and saw Mr. Charles Jackson and Wife about Lettering Hattie Pierpont's monument in the East Farms Cemetery. Then home had supper. Mr Matthews came with son Albert who I gave a drumming lesson. 01\12\1935 (Saturday) This morning I repaired the hen coop, put galvanized iron covering under the roosts. I then worked in the wheel house. Weather has been very cold. 01\13\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, REv J. O. Todd. officiated. The young people's Choir took the place of the Senior{Seinor!} Choir. Mr. and Mrs. Peters brought some good and stored them in the loft. Bessie Pierpont's Birthday she was born Jan 13, 1879. It is snowing his evening. 01\14\1935 (Monday) Cold to day. Worked on bending machine in the Wheelhouse most of the time. This evening went tot he Mill Plain Church and gave lessons in drumming. 01\15\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Town Clerk's Office {caps?} in the City Hall and got the bill and money that I lost{last!} there last Friday and then paid the Conn Light and Power Co what I owed them. Then I got Mr. Howland and we drove to Farmington where we looked up records at the Town Clerk's office. The weather has been cold 6 above this morning. 01\16\1935 (Wednesday) Cold to day. This afternoon I finished painting the fence around the flat lot midway up the hill at the farm. This evening Albert Crandell{?} came and we fixed up a small drum. I worked on a bending machine in the Wheel house. This is a time of danger, on the highways on account of the great speed that some people drive their automobiles, as there is no speed laws in this state many run at 60 and 80 miles per hour through the country, their cars skid and cause many acidents{acidents!} by hitting trees, railings, and going off the side of the road at curves, many people are hurt and killed by thus{this?} doing. But a worse danger is caused by drinking people who leave the saloons and _____ns{taverns?} and then get into their cars and after driving a time lose their sense{sence!} and cause untold damage and death, and so popular is drinking since probition{proibition!} that the local courts scarcely punish drinking men for causing damage. 01\17\1935 (Thursday) This morning it was snowing hard when I got up 6.30 and continued till after noon, when it turned to a light rain. I worked at blacksmith work all the forenoon, after dinner I made paths till after three o'clock then went to the farm. Mr Crandell and James came to see me about the land that James {blan space} bought in Cheshire. About six inches of snow fell{fill!}. 01\18\1935 (Friday) Worked on the bending machine to day. Mary attended the Hobo social{sacial!} at the Church to night Albert matthews came to night{to nigh!} for his drumming lesson 01\19\1935 (Saturday) Cold weatehr. Worked on bendin_{bending?} Machine. De Wit Cole had me repair some wagon irons. 01\20\1935 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O. Todd. Weather fine rain which froze and everything is coated{coted!} with ice 01\21\1935 (Monday) Very-icey, with rain, a little{a;ott;e!} warmer towards night Mrs. Callan called on business connected with the Daughters{Daughter!} of the American Revolution. I worked in the Wheel House. 01\22\1935 (Tuesday) To day has been slightly{slitely!} warmer, but the ground is covered with snow. Last evening Mr. Crandell telephoned that the Drum boys were going to Meriden to play basket ball and there would be no drum meeting. This forenoon Margaret phoned that six of the boys were injured in an auto accident in returning from Meriden. It was very foggy and at Mill Dale{?} a Hartford buss was turning off the Meriden road when the car t__y{they?} were in struck it at the front door damaging the car they were in, but not injurin_{injuring?} the buss very much. The six boys in the car were taken to the Meriden hospital where they were treated and all but two were discharged, Ernest Robinson, was badly hurt, possibly his skull is fractured, and his scalp is badly lacerated. William Cahill had nine stitches taken in his scalp, and the flesh on his leg badly torn, they are still in the Hospital, and are reported comfortable{confortabl!} as could be expected to night. 01\23\1935 (Wednesday) Worked on the bending machine in the wheel house to day. It began snowing at eleven this forenoon and and{written twice} is still snowing hard. 01\24\1935 (Thursday) This morning there lay about 18 inches of snow on the ground, but it was drifted in some places, and not much in others. I dug the paths out and went to the farm and did the chores, when I got back{?} had a hard time getting the car into the garage{garoge!} had to shovel much snow as it skidded down the grade. 01\25\1935 (Friday) Cold this morning ten below zero. I worked in the wheel house on the bending machine. Mrs. Thompson came and did the washing. This evening Albert Matthews came for a druming lesson. 01\26\1935 (Saturday) About two inches of snow fell last night, it was 14 above zero this morning I have worked som_{some?} of the time on the bending{?} machine and have it finished Albert Crandell called and a_{as?} he was going through the yard found two dogs in the chicken house trying{?} to kill the hens, he beat them away with{wisth!} a broom. He told that Ernest Robinson and William Cahill were getting along very well i_{in/ih?} the Meriden hospital. Had a letter from Irving and he says they have had cold weather out there in Milwaukee one morning seventeen degrees below zero. 01\27\1935 (Sunday) 10 {degree symbol?} below zero this morning and cold all day. We attended service at Mill Plain Union Church this morning Rev J O Todd. Went to the farm and did the chores. This afternoon Cousin Elizebeth{Elizabeth?} Somers telephoned, that Cousin{Couin!} Jennie Goldsmith. Phillips passed away at the Waterbury Hospital this morning. This afternoon I attended a meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Church. Rev Mr Todd read a report in which he stated that some time ago some members headed by Mr. Hubbard called on him at nine o'clock at night. They were Mr. George _ubbard{Hubbard?} and wife, Mr. Ray Miller, and wife Mr. Burton Beecher, and Mr. Morton E Pierpont and asked him to resign as Pastor. He and a committee Arthur Blewitt and Aubury Hill{?} took the matter up with Mr. John Coe and two ministers, Mr. Gregg and another. They advised tat he find another parish if possible, as the best way to smooth the matter over. This he has tried to do. The matter was a great surprise to nearly all of us. All of the board present except Burton Beecher were with Mr. Todd. Action was taken that those disaffected members present their complaints in person and{an!} writing before the Board that they may be considered by said board and Congregation. Also there is an note formerly $17,000 at the bank which has been reduced to about $8,000 which M.E. and Mrs. Bessie Pierpont endorsed{endarced!} that is now ordered paid. A committee of several headed bay M.E Pierpont was appointed to start a drive to pay said note. etc. etc. etc. 01\28\1935 (Monday) 24 degrees below zero this morning, been a very cold day The busses run very regular on the Cheshire line every half hour, and pass here very often as the East Main busses run to the arch as Reedville every seven minutes. A ton{Aton!} of coal came to day. We have burned a ton of soft coal in our furnace in 26 days this month. Paid 8.00 per ton 01\29\1935 (Tuesday) Not so cold. Thawed some at noon. This forenoon I worked on a steaming chest in the Wheel house. This afternoon I, with Margaret, and Bettie in Vincent's car attended the funeral{funereal!} of Cousin Jennie Phillips which was held from her house at no 303 Dwight St Waterville. She has been principle{?} of the Spragne School for the past thirty five years. Before that she taught the Mill Plain School, where I was th first to hire her, when I was the Committee of that District. 01\30\1935 (Wednesday) 8 degrees below zero this morning. Cold all day. I helped Mary do the washing for the first time this morning, and worked in the Wheel House on the steam box. Sent $4.00{?} to New York. 01\31\1935 (Thursday) Eight below zero this morning. Cold all day fourteen above at noon. This afternoon I did the chores at the farm and then went out the Cheshire road to the Notch-in- the-Rocks, then turned South on the Old Plank Road, and up over Prospect Center, where I found great banks of snow whwere the snow plows had thrown{throun!} it out, and in some places they had shoveled it where the drifts were deep so at the sides of the road were piles ten and twelve feet high. I worked in the wheel house making snare tighteners, etc. The paper stated to night that Ernest Robinson who was severly injured{injuired!} in an auto accident at Mill Dale over a week ago is much improved and his name is taken from the danger list. 02\01\1935 (Friday) 21 {degree symbol} below zero this morning. I worked in the wheel house this forenoon, and went to town in the afternoon. 02\02\1935 (Saturday) This morning it was 10 above zero and at noon 38 above first {-?} time I have seen the themometer above freezing in over ten day, I have worked in the Wheel House making snare tighteners. 02\03\1935 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. After service Mary and I went to the farm, then out the Cheshire Road to the Notch-in-the- Rocks, then to Prospect where there were deep drifts of snow, then in the Waterbury road home. This evening I went to 142 Grove St and gor Miss. Kirk{?} and took her to the Mill Plain Church, where she gave a talk to the young people about her trip around the world{wourld!}. 02\04\1935 (Monday) Cold to day I havelped Mary with the washing this forenoon did the chores at the farm and worked in th wheelhouse the rest of the time. Wrote a letter to Frank at Kent this evening. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church to give drumming instruction. 02\05\1935 (Tuesday) Cold, snowed all day, fine snow only about 1" fell This afternoon I carried Mary up to the Church to attend a meeting of the Ladies Union. It was reported there that she gave over $500.00 to the Church of money she earned while reporting as Mill Plain correspondent{corraspandent!} to the Waterbury American. 02\06\1935 (Wednesday) Ten above this morning. Worked most{mos!} of the day repairing a pair of sled shafts for Edgar Upson of Wolcott. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board of the Mill Plain Union Church. Thers{?} was a deligation{dilegation!} of eighteen headed by Morton E Pierpont, who wished Mr. Todd to resign as pastor of the church. They gave reasons through their Chairman Mr. Pierpont but his voice was so low that I couldt{couldn't?} hear them, some said that they were all personal reasons, and very poor at that. By far the great majority of the people are with Mr. Todd. When I got ready to come home I brought Margaret to her home on Beecher Ave and I found that my car was froze, there{ther!} was so much steam coming out that I had{hd!} trouble getting into the girage, as it cut off my view. It was eleven o'clock{a'clock!} and the themometer was ten below zero. 02\07\1935 (Thursday) Seventeen below zero{,?} this morning. This is the coldest winter tat I ever knew. On the average there has been more real{rial!} cold that I ever knew before during a whole winter. This is the 7th of Feb and winter is but little more than half gone. I have worked in the Wheel house much of the time. Went to the farm and up to Woodtick and saw Chas Tuttle. The main roads are polowed bare but the cross roads are very slippery on account of the ice that was under the snow. Near Mort Pierponts house I stoped and took in Mr. Brown. Who lives on the Todd road and then my car would not go ahead so I put on cha___{chains? chaings?} and, then on the Todd road on the leavel near Mr. Kunkels{?} my car skidded crosswise of the road and it took some time to get straight again, I drove slow and careful and got there all right. 02\08\1935 (Friday) Snowed all day, but only made about one and one half inches. I have worked in thWheel House all day only the time I went to the farm. William Baldwin came to night for a drumiing lesson, as did Albert Matthews. 02\09\1935 (Saturday) Weather has been warm, and thawed to day. This forenoon at about eleven Frank came from Kent with his whole family in his new Buic car and brought ten maple boards to make drums of. We went out to the farm and saw the steer, after which we casme home and they started back to Kent. I worked making snare tighteners till night. 02\10\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain{Planin!} Church Rev J. O. Todd. This afternoon I went to visit my old and dear friend Edward Johnson at No 70 Chestnut Av. When I got there they told me he died last November, I was greatly shocked to hear it. had an interesting visit with his widow. This evening Morton E. Pierpont, his wife Jessie, and sons Laurence and Ralph, Came and brought their moving picture machine, and shoed a lot of fine pictures that they had takin on their various trips to the Pacific coast{cost!}, Florida{Flarida!}, Worlds Fair at Chicago etc. They took pictures of Mary and I. 02\11\1935 (Monday) This morning I helped with the washing, then worked in the Wheelhouse. Went to the farm, and then up to Charles Tuttles This evening Went to the Church and gave a drumming lesson. 02\12\1935 (Tuesday) {line inserted above entry} 6 {degree symbol} below this morning This morning I took three maple boards that Frank brought to J. E. Smiths, on Benedict St and had them plained to one eighth of an inch thick, after I got them home plained the ends down and got them ready to bend. It has thawed a little to day. 02\13\1935 (Wednesday) To day was not so cold. I went up to Woodtick and got Chas Tuttle and we bent up drum shells all{?} day{?} b_t{but?} only got three made. Then I carried hime home, travelling is very dangerous as there is much ice on the roads. More cold weather this winter than I ever knew before. 02\14\1935 (Thursday) Worked in the wheel house most of the day. This evening it is raining hard. 02\15\1935 (Friday) To day has been warm and snow melted. This forenoon I went{wen!} to J E. Smiths and had some maple boards plained down to 1/8" thick, brought them home and plained down the ends, and got ready to bend them. The great Hupman trial is ended. He is convicted of kidnaping the Linber{Lindbergh?} baby and killing it, and receiving the $50,000.00 ransom{ramsom!}. The trial was held at Flemington N.J. 02\16\1935 (Saturday) This morning I went up to Woodtick and got Charles Tuttle and we bent up four drum shells. Albert Crandall came and helped, the shells were 17 3/4" in diameter and 16 1/2" long of hard maple 1/8" thick. This afternoon I went out to the farm after taking Charles Tuttle home, and I saw several automobiles in front of Mr Landon{London?} Greeters house and flowers at the door indicating taht some one was dead within When I got home Mary told me it was mr. Greeter he died yesterday afternoon aged 49. 02\17\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd. Snowed nearly all day. Ruth came{cane!} from Storrs and Peggy came with her. {blank space} Ray called this evening. 02\18\1935 (Monday) This morning I took five maple boards to J E. Smiths and had them plained to{.?} one wighth{?} of an inch, and brought them home and thined the ends and got them ready to bend. This evening went to the Mill Plain Church and gave a drumming lesson. 02\19\1935 (Tuesday) This morning was warm, but it gret colder as{an!} the day advanced, and to night is freezing cold. I got things ready to bend drum shells this morning{mornind!} and at nine John Mc Kay and __________ Cosgrove{?} came and at .2.30 w_{we?} had five shells formed. I then went down town and looked at Ford Light Delivery cars, Saw one that I think will answer me. Came home, and then went to the farm, and did the chores. Then went to Will Garrigus and gave him my old truck. 02\20\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I did the washing, and after dinner went to the Ford Sale yard on West Main St and bought a Used Ford Pickup Car #A4201587. For which I paid $150.00 I gave them $1.00 to have the License{Licence!} transfered. I also gave them another dollar to deliver the car. This evening I met with Mr. and Mr. Badger, Elizebeth Warner{?} and George Warner, Mr. __________ Mrs Terrell, Mr. and Mrs. Berkley Frisbie at Mr. Frisbie's house in Woodtick, to arrange for a{al!} tercentennial Celebration at Wolcott this coming summer. 02\21\1935 (Thursday) This morning I cleaned up th pickup car that I got yesterday, and put it in running condition I then went to the farm and did the chores, then home and made blocks to hold the numbers on the car. 02\22\1935 (Friday) Washingtons Birthday. Celebrated. by No School, Banks Closed, and but few papers issued, Many entertainments{?} given in his name in the evening. I worked about home, and on my new pickup car, and went to teh farm and cut some wood. This evening Mary and I attended an Washington Entertainment at the Mill Plain Union Church. When we came out it was snowing hard and about two inches had fell. 02\23\1935 (Saturday) Snow fell to the depth of about fourinches during the night, and a light rain se in which has continued all day making a crust on the snow and everything very slippery. Lee and Jack Garrigus came this afternoon and got the old Model T Ford truck that I gave them. 02\24\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd. {Blank space} This P.M. Arthur and Mildred Bird of Bristol called, they had their youngest son Bobbie with them. 02\25\1935 (Monday) Henry Beckwith worked on my pickup. Mr. Harry A. Klilton{?} of Watertown called this P.M. Weather warm and thawed much 02\26\1935 (Tuesday) Henry Beckwith finished repairing my Pickup For car, this afternoon, and I paid hime $10.00 I repaired the back end board, etc. This evening Mary and I attended a meeting of the Officers and Members of the Mill Plain Union Church, to consider the recomendation{recommendation?} or Morton E. Pierpont, George Hubbard, Burton Beecher, RAymond Miller and wife and others who have requested that Mr. Todd should resign as pastor. The meeting was largely attended, and Mr. John Coe, and Mr. Lewis Reed of the Ministers association of Waterbury was present. While a large amount of talking was done, no action was taken, other than to appoint a Committee of three, of the disaffected persons, th_ee{three?} members{memembers!} in good standing of the Church, and Mr. Coe is to appoint three disinterested persons, making nine in all who are to see if some arrangement cant be made to settle the diffi__lty{difficulty?}. When we came out, about six inches of snow had fallen. 02\27\1935 (Wednesday) When I got up this morning about eight inches of snow lay on the ground, I got breakfast quick as possible of pancakes etc. then I dug out the paths, and then went to the State Motor office o_{on?} Benedict Street and got my Auto Drivers License paid 3.00 I then changed the cars, and after dinner went to h farm and did the chores, then did odd jobs about home. This evening is very cold. 02\28\1935 (Thursday) Cold Day. This forenoon I sharpened tools for the Calvary and St Josephs Cemeteries. This afternoon I took a point{pint?} of oysters to Charles Tuttle, in Woodtick, then went to the farm, then home, etc. 03\01\1935 (Friday) Nine degrees below zero this morning at 6.30 but at noon it was 38 {degree symbol} above, and at night it was at freezing. This afternoon I went to the farm and cut up two stacks of cornstalks. This evening Albert Matthew and William Baldwin came for drumming lessons. Set a hen in the Woodhouse this evening. 03\02\1935 (Saturday) To day has been warm and much snow and ice has melted. {blank space} This morning Albert Crandall came and we repaired a door on my Pickup and made a set of hooks for it. This afternoon James Egan{?} came and we put them on. Albert Crandall came with Ernest Robinson, and William Cahill who have just been discharged from the Meriden Hospital. We James Egan and I went to the farm and then went up to Charles Tuttles in Woodtick but he was not at home. 03\03\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Dr Wm Frazier State Supt Congregational Churches, Hartford Service broadcast. 03\04\1935 (Monday) This morning, I did most of the washing etc. then visited Bill Mosley{Masley?}. Went out to the farm and cut down a large white birch tree. This evening I went to the Church and gave drumming lesson. 03\05\1935 (Tuesday) To day I cut up and brought hom an old apple tree within the wall by the road in front of Bessie Pierponts house at Maple HIll Farm. This evening I attended a meeting of the Ter Centenneal{Ter Centennial?} Committee at the house of REp Mr Badger in Woodtick. 03\06\1935 (Wednesday) This I went down street and did some trading. Then Teday Voghel{Voghal?} and I went to the farm where I cut some large white lurches{burches? birches?}. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Union Church. 03\07\1935 (Thursday) Worked on the Pickup car cleaning the engine, and changing wheels etc. Then went to the farm and did the chores{,?} etc. Snowed all the afternoon. 03\08\1935 (Friday) This morning I made paths, then went to Sears & Roebucks and exchanged{exchamged!} my battery tester, after charging my battery in my Ford Pickup, went to the farm, and to Mr. Robert Tylers on the Meriden road and had a lot of drum hoop sawed and plainned{plained? planed?}, paid him $3.00{?} 03\09\1935 (Saturday) This morning Francis Crosgrove came at 9 o.clock, and soon after Ernest Robinson came and we got twelve drum shells ready to put the inside rims in Albert Crandall came and after dinner we bent them up and put them in. After which Crandall worked on Bass Drum belts. Signey Spender and John Mc Kay called this afternoon. John McKay Jr helped this afternoon bend the hoops 03\10\1935 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Chur__{Church?} Rev J. O. Todd. {blank space} Had dinner at Margarets, and there visited most of the afternoon. 03\11\1935 (Monday) This morning I helped with the washing, then I went to Robert Tyler's on the Meriden road and had a lot of wooden clamps made. This afternoon went to the farm and cut wood. This evening went to the Mill Plain Church to drum____{drumming?} no drumme_{drummer? drummes?} boys there. Fifers Browne, Troske{?}, and Cosgrove were there. 03\12\1935 (Tuesday) Rained this morning I made an iron rack for my car to carry ladders on. Then I went to the farm and cut up corn stalks. 03\13\1935 (Wednesday) The snow lay on the ground about 4 inches thick this morning, I swept out the paths. Then I had a hard time{tine!} getting out my truck on account of the mud, I went to the farm and cut a lot of corn stalks. Then went to Calvary Cemetery and asked permission to get a load{lood!} of gravel to put on the mud in the yard. They loaded up their big truck and brought me a load. This evening I attended a meeting of the Tercentennial Committee at the Woodtick School House. 03\14\1935 (Thursday) This forenoon I worked putting in the inside hoops of the Drums. The afternoon I went to the farm and cut white birches for wood. [[Loose Postcard inserted somewhere in Journal Front of postcard photo of Kent School Farm, Kent CT. Reverse side of postcard Address: Mr. Charles S. Miller 2271 East Main St Waterbury, Conn. Message: Mar. 14, 1935 Plenty of lumber come any time, Frank {Pierpont Miller (son)}.]] 03\15\1935 (Friday) This forenoon I worked on drum rims, etc. This afternoon I went to the farm and cut white birches. This evening William Baldwing and Albert Matthews came and drummed. 03\16\1935 (Saturday) This Francis Gosgrove, John Mc Kay, and Albert Crandall came and we steamed and bent the rim hoops for the twelve drums that we are making We finished about one o'clock. While I was eating my dinner Jimmie Egan came and wanted to help me so we went out to the farm and cut wood till night when I was good and tired. 03\17\1935 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. They had the Senior{Seinour!} and young peoples{people's?} choirs consolidated, and they did some fine singing. This afternoon Margaret{Maigaret!}, Cliff, Mary, and I went to Union Square{Squre!} and saw the St Patricks parade pass I estimated that it was about three miles long. After that Mary and I went out and visited John Todd. 03\18\1935 (Monday) This morning I did the washing, then worked on my cars till noon{roon!}. The{Then?} Teddy Voghel{?} and I went to the farm and drew a load of manure to the top of the hill and drew a load of wood down then came home and cleaned out the chicken coop. 03\19\1935 (Tuesday) This morning Margaret, Mary, and I started for Kent in a snow storm at nine o'clock we went through the center and up to Watertown, then over the new state road built last year to East Morris, then turned West and through West Morris to Lake-side{?} then North to Bantam, and West to Woodville, then to Warren, and West over the new road finished last fall to Kent, which we reached a little past eleven. Found Frank unloading a load of hay, that he had brought from the hay barn up the river. At noon he and I went to the Kent school and got the dinner in a container and brought it home. After dinner, we took my little truck up to the barn and loaded on some lumber and four hundred of land lime. The lumber was maple for drums that I am making. At three P.M. we started home in the rain which continued the rest of the afternoon. Coming over the same road that we went up on, I would here state thar{that?} _e{we?} stoped at the home of Ferrice Turkinton{Turkenton?} in East Morris and saw our neac{niece?} Lena and daughter, Ferris is Represent__ive{Representative?} and was in Hartford. We reached home before five. 03\20\1935 (Wednesday) To day I have worked at the farm drawing manure to the lot on the hill, and drawing wood that I cut down, to a place near the big gate where I can load it on the truck The weather has been fair and warm. 03\21\1935 (Thursday) Rained all the forenoon, I did odd jobs about home, after dinner I took some lumber to Robert Tyler's to have it sawed and plained, but he was not at home, I then went to the farm and did chores there, then came home and worked on snare tighteners. This evening Mary and I went to the Mens Club Fair at the mIll Plain Church. Just before the close Mary seemed to lose consciousness, and it was some time before we could revive her. Leslie Cooley brought her home in his large car, and they called Dr. Hackett. She seems better now. 03\22\1935 (Friday) This morning I got up and got my own breakfast and washed up the dishes. Margaret came, I went to the East End Hardware store and got a gallon of turpentine, Margaret telephoned to Mrs Thompson to come and help. I went out to th Charles Hall house just beyond the Cheshire line and got her, then Margaret, her and Mrs. Voghel took teh bed to pieces and covered it with turpentine to kill any bugs tha might be on it then brought it down and set it up in the front room{roon!}, and got Mary down onto{?} it. I filed two hand saws for Mr. Miner, and after dinner went to Robert Tyler's and had a lot of lumber sawed up and plained, then I came home and got the rim stuff ready to be steamed{?} and bent to morrow. Ray called. Mrs. Hgapenny called I paid Mrs. Thoppson 1.00 This evening Mr. Matthews and son Albert called, and Albert drummed. Mary is much better to night. Weather has been fair and rather warm. 03\23\1935 (Saturday) This morning after I got my breakfast, I did the chores about the place, took care of the fires, took up the furn___{furnace?} ashes, fed the hends etc, then went to the Wheel House and worked on snare tighteners till about nine when John McKay and Frances Cosgrove{?} came and they built a fire and we bent hoops for drum rims. Then we repaired drum shells till night. Then we went out to the farm and did the chores there. Came home by way of the Meriden road, and left the boys at Fair Lawn. 03\24\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Re J. O. Todd. Officiated. Mary staid home on account of poor health.{. or ,?} Mrs. Thompson{?} was here, till after dinner. Ray and Ruth called this evening. This afternoon I went to William Mc Cormick's, in Wolcott. This afternoon Rev. and Mrs. J.O. Todd called. 03\25\1935 (Monday) This morning Mrs. Thompson did not come till late, I got my own breakfast. Then I went to the farm and drew four loads of manure up on the hill. Came home at noon, and had a fine dinner. I then mixed a pot of paint. John Mc Kay and Francis Cosgrove came and they painted the ridges of the Barn, Woodhouse Shed, Girage, Wheelhouse, Hencoop and Fire House, white. To day the state has turned all the travel of the Meriden road onto the Frost road and past here which makes a lot of traffice. It is on account of the building of a new bridge over the Mad River at the crossing of the Meriden road. This evening I went to teh Mill Plain Church and gave drumming lessons. 03\26\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and drew manure. In the afternoon Frances Cosgrove and John Mc Kay came and painted the ridges of the house, and put white on the Fire Cngine House This evening I attended a meeting of the members of the Mill Plain Union Church, to hear the report of the committee_{committees?} that had been considering the causes of the trouble between some of the member_s{members?} Headed by M. E. Pierpont, and the matter of causing Mr. Todd to resign. According to the report they have brought about a reconciliation. The report was accepted. 03\27\1935 (Wednesday) This forenoon I wen to the farm and planted six rows of peas I then put a load of wood on the truck and brought it home. This afternoon I wtih Francis Cosgrove went to the farm and drew stones off the garden and put them on Fort Dunlap. This evening George Baldwin came and borrowed my Brass Mill Drum. Alber{Albert?} Crandall has my Perkins Drum and __________ Cahill has my Som_rs{Somers?} Drum. 03\28\1935 (Thursday) This morning I went to the farm and plowed four furrows across the Middle lot, Came home at noon It rained the rest of the day. I glewed{glued?} the hoops for drums. 03\29\1935 (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and plowed on the middle lot. I came home and worked on drums a spell. Then John Mc Kay and Frances Cosgrove{?} came and we went to the farm and drew stones onto Fort Dunlap. We then went to Woodtick and saw Charles Tuttle. This evening William Baldwin and Albert Matthews came for DRumming lessons. 03\30\1935 (Saturday) To day the weather has been cool. This morning Albert Crandall came and we got up steam and so_n{soon?} John Mc Kay and Francis Cosgrove came and we bent the flesh hoops for the twelve drums that we are making This afternoon Albert Crandall and I finished many of the rims. To day a steam shovel has been brought to the bank near the arch at Reedville to start soon{?} making over the road at that point. 03\31\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev J O Todd. After service I went to Cheshire to get Mrs Thompson to come tomorrow and do the washing, but she was not at home. I then went to Bill Mc Cormicks in Wolcott, but while there a man and woman came who had their car stuck in the mud up on the Tucker-ring road and wanted young Mr. Mc Cormick to pull it out, but he had gone away. They, the man and woman were to broad cast at five o'clock and wanted to get to Waterbury so I brought them to my place where they took the bus. I then went to Cheshire and found that Mrs. Thompson had gone to New York state for a month. 04\01\1935 (Monday) Wet and rain after ten. Got up and did the washing and got breakfast. Then I went to the bank and got wome money. Then worked on drum hoop_{hoops?} till noon. Then John Mc Kay and Frances Cosgrove came and as it was raining, we went to North Wallingford and saw George Cass about spraying apple trees. Then we went to Charles Cass to see about fifing but he was not at home saw Tracy. Came home and after supper Went to the Church and gave drumming lessons. They began work on the new road at Reedvill to day with a steam shovel. I{In?} Wallingford they are making a {next part of sentence difficult to read} surface{?} hardened road East of Broad swamp Pond. 04\02\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I glued the flesh hoops of the drums which took till noon. This afternoon John Mc Kay and Frances Cosgrove came and we went to th farm and drew stones on fort Dunlap. 04\03\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and plowed till noon. This afternoon John Mc Kay and Frances Cosgrove came and we went to the farm ad drew _ome{some?} big stones up on fort Dunlap. This evening I attended a meeting of the Official Board at the Mill Plain Union Church. The State is making fast progress at Reedville on the new road. Grading with steam shovel, pushe_{pushes?} and trucks. Air drills are drilling holes in the concrete arch so as to, blast it up. 04\04\1935 (Thursday) This morning I went to the farm and plowed, This afternoon John Mc Kay and Frances Cosgrove came and we repaired my pickup car. About dark a Mr. Cazy{?} telephoned that an Albert ran into some one down town with _y{my?} _ny{only?} car this afternoon. I had let Albert Crandall and the above mentioned boys take it to go after{apter!} some tables, but they said nothing about an addident{accidint!} when they returned the car. I immediately went to 313 and saw Crandall. He said that a car stoped suddenly in front of him{?} and he bumped it slightly. H{He?} said that the car was owned by Mrs. Perkins nd he had offered to pay the bill, that Mr. Cozy{?} must berkins the choffer{chauffer? chauffeur?}. The weather to day has been fair and cool. 04\05\1935 (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and took a load of bag hay on the hill, and plowed till noon. Then came home and after dinner made a post iron for Edward Scott, and did odd jobs. Mary seemed more feeble, and I saw Margaret and she called Dr. Barber, he will call in the morning. 04\06\1935 (Saturday) This morning{mornining!} I finished Mr. Scott's post iron 112{?} and drilled some auto ladder irons, then worked on drums rims. John Mc Kay and Francrs Cosgrove sandpapered drum shells Margaret came up this morning and staid till noon. Dr. Barber came about five o'clock. I had to go to Kunkel's drug store and get a prescription filled, I then went to Dr. Hackett's{?} and paid him $10.00 for doctoring Mary. I th_n{then?} went to the farm and did the chores, at dark. 04\07\1935 (Sunday) Mary is a little better this morning but not able to get about only slowly. Dr. Barber told her that it would be better for her not to go to church which she much felt although not able to. It would not do to leave her alone, so I stayed{stoyed!} with her most of the day. Margaret came before noon and brought up a fine dinner. This evening she went to the corner of West Manin{?} and Willow Sts and tried to see a Mrs. Montambeau{?} to come but she was not at home, the lady next door said that she would telephone. Ray called this evening. 04\08\1935 (Monday) Mrs. Montambeau came this morning to take care of Mary. Weather has been cold I have worked in the Wheel House nearly all day. 04\09\1935 (Tuesday) This morning the ground was covered with 1 1/2 inches of snow and it continued to snow and rain all day. Mrs. Montambeau came at 8 o'clock and staid till 8 P.M. Mary seems some better, I worked at drums in the Wheel house the greater part of the day. 04\10\1935 (Wednesday) Rained this morning all the forenoon. Mrs. Montambeay{Monambeau?} came about 8 o'clock. Dr. Barber called, said that mary's Kidneys are effected{effected? infected?}. Mr. Todd called and{?} did Len Turkington and May Pierpont. 04\11\1935 (Thursday) This morning James Egan came and we went to the farm and drew a large load of old hay upon the hill and I plowed some, he drilled a hole in a stone. Mrs. Montambeau came, to eaight and went to town at about three. Ruth came from Storrs and we were glad to see her. Ray called this evening after work, Margaret came after choir rehearsal{rehersel!}. 04\12\1935 (Friday) This has been a wet and rainy day. Mrs. Montambeau came this morning, Ruth came up from Margaret's where she stayed last night. This forenoon Berkley L Frisbie{?} called and told me that his brother, Cousin Frank Frisbie{?} died this morning at about two o'clock at his home on Bunker Hill. There were several callers this afternoon. 04\13\1935 (Saturday) To day Albert Crandall came and we worked on drums, the weather was wet and rainy all day. Mrs. Montambeau came at about eight to take care of Mary. Soon Ruth and Margaret came, and Ruth stayed till four when she took a bus for Hartford where she was to join{Join?} Jack and then they were going home to Storrs. Ray came during the forenoon, and Dr. Barber came. He said that Mary must be kept very quiet. This evening Margaret went up to Wolcott and got a woman to come and stay to night I went to town this morning and paid the telephone bill and did some chores. Payed Mrs. Montambeau{Montambeay!} $10.00 to night before she went home. Margaret had a letter from Irving stating{statinig!} that he was coming next week. Mary seemed very pleased. 04\14\1935 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. Preached. Mary sat up some to day. Frank and his family came from Kent{?}. Arthur Bird and wife and son came from Bristol. Rev. Todd called this afternoon. Margaret went to Wolcott and brought nancy Goodson to stay to night. Weather cold and wet for the most part. 04\15\1935 (Monday) This morning was bright with lots of sunshine. I got breakfast of boiled eggs and coffee bread etc. Mrs. Montambeau came soon after eight, and I took my truck and carried Miss Goodson to her home in Wolcott after which I went to the farm and took a load of old hay to the lot on the hill, and then plowed till noon, then I came home and had dinner, and worked about here the rest of the day as it rained all the afternoon. About five Ruth came from Storrs and Mrs. Montambeau left I gave her $1.00 She expects to go to New York tomorrow to be gone a week. 04\16\1935 (Tuesday) To day dawned bright and cold. Ruth got breakfast and I went to the farm and plowed till noon. This afternoon I did odd jobs{Jobs?}. There was plenty of Company Rev. Mr. Todd, Bessie Jessie and Sarah Pierpont, Lena Turkinton{?}, RAy and others. Very cold to night. 04\17\1935 (Wednesday) This morning _he{the?} ground was covered with snow about one and one half inches deep. I repaired some cart irons for Ed Scott, and put a new shaft{?} in a grind stone for Charles Welton and did several other jobs. Mary had several callers to day. I h_{had?} a letter from Irving stating that he e_pected{expected?} to leave Milwaukee{?} {next line difficult to read} this evening and get here Friday b_{by?} Buss. 04\18\1935 (Thursday) This morning Ruth got the breakfast and I did up the chores, then I loaded Charles Welton's grindstone into the truck and took it out, he paid $3.00 I then went to Cheshire depot and bought thee{three?} pound{pounds?} of Timothy grass seed 38 cts per pound, and a bag of scratch feed for 2.05 Then I came to the farm and so___{sowed?} the oats and grass seed,{, or ;?} came home and after dinner filed two crosscut saws for Charles Welton. Irving came from Milwaukee at about four o'clock. This evening Iva and Will Gillettee came, as did Margaret and Cliff. 04\19\1935 (Friday) Mary seemed a little brighter this mroning. Irving stayed at Margaret's last night and Ruth Brundage stayed here. Irving came about 8.30 and we took Mary's bed and clothes out and aired and cleaned them, then we put them back again. Then Irving and I went to Charles Welton's and left two cross-cut saws that I had filed. We then went to th farm and Albert Crandall came and we set out thee{three?} chr_ry{cherry?} trees at the edge of the lower garden, and two Baldwin apple trees in the young orchard{archard!} on the hill. After this we went to Charles Tuttle's in Woodtick, stopping for Irving to make short visits at Jessie and Bessie Pierpont's{?} Bessie is tearing down the long storage shed East of the house. At Charles Tuttle's we enjoyed a good time hearing him drum and talk. The arch at Reedville has been bl__ted{blaster? blausterd?} down with dynamite{diamite!} since I saw it yesterday, andnow the veiacles{vehicles?} pass over the new{newe!} road south of it. 04\20\1935 (Saturday) This morning I trimmed the rambler rose bush, then went to work on drums. Soon Albert Crandall came, and after a time ERnest Robinson and William Cahill, and we got a lot of Work done. Mary did not seem as bright this morning.{. or ,?} Dr. Barber came, but I did not see him. This afternoon Irving and I took my car and went over on to the Wolcott road which they are building over into a state road adn we went up on it to Prichard's Saw Mill, then we went up to the center and down past Mr. Roger's place to Charles Tuttle's where we drummed a spell, then we came to East Farms where{wher!} we fed Buster then home. Had much company. 04\21\1935 (Sunday) Raymond came and staid with mary while Irving and I went to the Mill Plain Union Church. "East Sunday." Rev J. O. Todd. Large attendance over 400 people including the three Choirs. This afternoon we had many visitors Arthur Bird and family from Bristol, Jack Brundage and {...??} Wolcott, Vincent Simons and wife from South Waterbury Frank P. Miller and part of family from Kent. Ray and Ruth, Phil Royter{?} and family, Wm Service and family, and others, Nancy Goodson of Wolcott came to take of{?} Mary at noon Ruth went back to Storrs this afternoon. 04\22\1935 (Monday) Mary is a little brighter this day. This morning I made up the flower bed in the front yard and did other odd jobs. This afternoon Irving came and at three we went to George Somers funeral in the old Pine Grove Cemetery. After we went to West Cheshire and bought some{som!} chicken feed. Then we went to North Wallingford to George Cass where I fot{?} a gallon of spray mixture and arsnate{arenate?} of lead. We also visited Charles Cass, then we drove home in the dark and rain, coming through Meriden and up the Southington mountain. 04\23\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I got the spray mixture ready with ten gallons in thi{?} pumpt and ten gallons in a milk can. This afternoon little Teddy Voghel and I took it to the farm and there loaded it into the cart{?} and hitched Buster on and{dnd!} sprayed all the young trees. This evening Cliff called and gave mary 102. Which he got from thge Merchants Trust Co on Mary's book of 157. I paid Margaret $10.00 and gave Cliff $10.00 to send to Ruth. 04\24\1935 (Wednesday) This morning Irving came and bade Mary Good Bye and left Waterbury on the 8 o'clock train for his home in Milwaukee. Will go bny train to New York and there take a bus for Chicago, and probably trolley the rest of the way. I went to the farm and cleaned out the barn then loaded a load of old hay on the cart and drew it up on the hill, and then plowed. Nearly all of the trolley concrete arch t Reedveille is blasted away, and the new road partly{?} graded. 04\25\1935 (Thursday) This morning I took Charles Tuttle's{?} drum head to him. Then went to th farm and plowed all day till 3.30 P.M. Margaret came and stayed with mary this afternoon while Nancy Goodson had the time off. Mary had supper at the table with me, the first time in over a month. Yesterday morning margaret with others in her car went to the foot of Southington Mountain to see the wreck where one of Carces five tone trucks loaded with ten tons{ton's!} of brass goods got out of the control of the driver and dashed down the mountain and at the curve kept strait on and went through{throuth!} a house and wrecked itsself beyond, killed the driver, and then burned, and acattered the load about for a great distance. The occupants of the house were on the second floor asleep, and were uninjured. But it awoke{awake!} all except one boy who it is said slept through it 04\26\1935 (Friday) To day I finished plowing on the hill and harrowed a little. This forenoon a fire started in the East end of the New Pine Grove Cemetery and spread onto adjoining land. The City Firemen came and put it out. About one o'clock it started again and the wind carried it up the hill and it set the large barn owned by Miss Charlotte Hartley on fire. soon the Firemen came and saved the house and put out the grass fire on each side of it. The barn was a total loss. 04\27\1935 (Saturday) Yesterday noon at{a!} twelve I was plowing at the farm and all the steam whistles in town began blowing and continued for ten or fifteen{fifteeen!} minutes. I could not understand{uderstand!} the cause, until I got home when I learned that it was the opening of the three hundreth anniversary of the settlement of Connecticu_{Connecticut?} The weather this day has been fair and warm I have worked all day on the new drums tat I am making. Had a hen come off with twelve chickens. 04\28\1935 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. This afternoon{affernoon!} I carried nancy Goodson to her home in Wolcott. Then I stayed home all day. We had much company. 04\29\1935 (Monday) Harrowed and made drills in the potatoe field. This evening I attended Drum Band rehearsal{rehesel!} at the Mill Plain Union Church. 04\30\1935 (Tuesday) Cold and wet. Mary is able to sit up and ate dinner at the table with us. I cut wood, spread 100 lbs of ground lime-stone on the front lawn. After dinner went to the farm and plowed out drills for potatoes. Teddy Voghel was with me and was very cold. This evening several of the drummer boys came and we set two Bass Drum heads, and talked over matters. 05\01\1935 (Wednesday) Went to the farm and planted potatoes. Albert Crandall came in the afternoon and we tried spraying trees for the tent cat_pillers{catapillars? catapillers?}, came home and repaired the pump. Cold and windy. 05\02\1935 (Thursday) Planted potatoes 05\03\1935 (Friday) Went to Cheshire and bought Fertilizer and seeds 2.50{?} Planted potatoes 05\04\1935 (Saturday) Worked at drums, Al Crandall, Francis Cosgrove, John Mc Kay, and {blank space} Flemming helped. 05\05\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church REv J. O. Todd, Miss Goddson went with me, after service I carried her home. Margaret came and stayed with Mary and got dinner. Ferris Turkington, wife and daughter called this afternoon. 05\06\1935 (Monday) To day I cultivated the garden at East Farms and cultivated the raspberries. Went to West Che_hire{Cheshire?} and bought a bag of scratch feed 205.{?} and Garden Seeds. This evening the Maple Hill Continental Drum Band went the home of Charles Cass{?} in North Wallingford to hear him fife. 05\07\1935 (Tuesday) Rained nearly all day. I worked about home all day. Will and Iva Gillettee called this evening. 05\08\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and hoed the raspberries cleaned the lower spring, and planted cabbage and tomatoes. Miss Goddson had the afternoon off, and Mrs. Merino of Wolcott came and stayed with Mary. 05\09\1935 (Thursday) This day I planted in the garden at the farm, and got things ready so that when Albert Crandell came at about 4 o'clock we sprayed the apple trees. This evening William Gillette and Iva called. They had Chas Tuttle with them and we went to the Rail Road Station and saw the first Streamlined train ever seen in Waterbury. "The Comet" owned by the New York New Haven & Hartford RR Co. 05\10\1935 (Friday) Rained all the forenoon. I did odd jobs picked the sprout{sprouts?} off from four bushels of potatoes and baged them up Dr. Barber called, and said that Mary was better, that when a warm day came she could go out and take a short ride. I paid him{?} his bill of $15.00 This evening I went to a minstral{minsterel!} show given by the Maple Hill Social Club. I drummed with the boys, and with little Albert Matthews. 05\11\1935 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and did the Chores, then came home and drilled holes in the rim hoops of drums. Frances Cosgrove{?}, George Baldwin, John Mac Kay, Ernest Robinson, and Albert Crandall, helped. 05\12\1935 (Sunday) I alone attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd. After service home and dinner. Soon Jack Brundage and family came from Storrs, and Nancy had the{thi!} afternoon off. Jack brought specimens of rare wood, he showed me how to kill and dress a chicken he stuck a knife in the chicken's mouth and cut the jugular{jugler!} vein{vain!} then picked it dry, and cut it up in a few minutes. He and I went to the farm and looked the appletrees over. While there Frank and his family came from Kent. We all came home and found Phil Royter with sister mary and her husband Roland Jenner, and then Ray and Ruth came, and all brought some presents for mary as this is Mother's Day. {the following line is written in test} Monday May 05\13\1935 (Monday) This morning I repaired the washing machine and ironing board, and did several{severarl!} other odd jobs, then went to the farm and planted, carrots, Radish, lettuce, etc. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church, to give, drumming lessons, but only four boys showed up. Nancy said she will stay for $8.00 per week. 05\14\1935 (Tuesday) To day I was at the farm drew two loads of old hay upon the hill an put most of it about the young apple trees 05\15\1935 (Wednesday) This morning margaret and I with Teddy Voghel started at 9 o'clock for Fallsvillege{?} to get some Agricultural lime We went by way of Watertown East Morris, Litchfield, Goshen, and Canaan. We got seven hundred pounds then we went to Kent and took dinner at Frank's after which we went down to the fields at the dump then up to Macadonie Park{?}, and around by Myra Hobson's place, and back to Frank's, and at three we started for home, which we reached before five, coming through Warren, Bantam, Morris, East Morris, Watertown and Waterbury. 05\16\1935 (Thursday) To day I worked at the farm, put hay about some of the young apple trees, and destroyed twnt catepillar{cattipillar!} nests. They{The!} have the concrete pavement in on the stret__{stretch?} of the Cheshire road where the trolley arch was. Lee Garrigus and Paul Miller called to night to have me go, to Norwich Saturday to drum with the Mattatuck Drum Band. 05\17\1935 (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and put oil on the tent caterpillar's{?} nests I then spread manure and harrowed for cor_{corn?}. Came home early and repaired an iron bracket for Ed Scott. Went to the store etc. 05\18\1935 (Saturday) To day I put on my Continental uniform and went with the Mattatuck Drum Band to Norwich. I drove to M.E. Pierpont's residence at East Farms, where we got aboard of a Bus that had came{come?} from Wallingford, and at 9 AM, we went out the Meriden road and through Meriden, Middletown, Portland, East Hampton, Marlborough, Colchester, to Norwich Town, where we soon turned Right, and went to the Fair grounds, Where was held a Sheep shearing contest, and where we played several selections. They then sent us down to the Lower Norwich City where we drummed to advertise the contest, and then returned to the field, where the contest was still{sill!} on. On the ground near by was a monument which marked the spot where a fierce Indian battle took place in 2643{?} On that spot Miantinomo Chief of the Narraganetts, was defeated by the Mohegans{Mohikans?} under Uncas. He was taken prisoner and later tried and executed. After playing several pieces and having a lunch we loaded again into the Bus and went through portions of the Towns of Montville, Salem, Lyme{?}, East Hadam where we crossed the Connecticut River, then through Haddam, Higganum{?}, to Middletown, th__{then?} down to Middlefield. Where we attended the crowning of the appleblossom queen. This was held at the Lyman farm of several hundred acres where there were thousand_{thousands?} of apple trees all in bloom. There were about ten thousand people there, and the entertainment consisted of many sports, and exhibitions{exibitions!}. We played there several times then took the Bus and came home, Reached her_{here?} at 10 P.M. 05\19\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd, officiated, and Mr. John Coe preached. Came home and staid with Mary. Nancy went to her home. There were visitors Mrs. Mulcern, Mrs. Green, Bessie and Jessie Pierpont, and Rev. Mr. Todd. 05\20\1935 (Monday) This morning I went to West Cheshire and bought some grain and seed. Then I came to the farm and got the ground ready to plant corn{corn_!}. Albert Crandall came and worked on his garden. 05\21\1935 (Tuesday) To day I got the ground ready to plant corn in the upper lot on the hill. The large crushed stone elevator that stood by the trolley track West of Raymond's Bakery has been taken down, and is now a thing of the past. 05\22\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the Bank and drew out 96.00{?} then went to City Hall and paid $95.12 one half of Mary's and my tax. I also paid the Water rent bill of 5.00 and the Telephone bill of 3.20. Then I went to the Apothecaries {Apothecaries'?} Hall Co on Benedict St and bought 50 lbs of Nitrate of Soda for $3.00. Came home, and went to the farm and got ground ready for corn. This is nancy's afternoon off. Mrs. Voghel stayed with Mary, and got supper, I was with her this evening. 05\23\1935 (Thursday) Rained this forenoon, I did odd jobs about the chicken coop, and did blacksmith work for Edward Scott of Cheshire, I went to Mr. Garthwait's in Wolcott and had him look at my car. Then went to Charles Tuttles{Tuttle's? Tuttles'?} and left a drum head. I then went to the Farm and planted corn on the hill. 05\24\1935 (Friday) This morning I went to Mr. Garthwait's and he{?} put a ball bearing in the Generator of my red truck, and a fan belt on. I then went to the farm and got the ground ready to plant corn{corns!}. This evening Mr. William Baldwin came for a drumming lesson as did Albert Matthews. 05\25\1935 (Saturday) I worked on the new drums till four o clock. Albert Crandall helped. At four We took Mary for a ride, went down to Margaret's, then up and saw the new bridge over the Mad River on the Meriden road, then we went North and crossed the River at the Woodtick road, then _outh{south?} on the Frost road and out the Meriden road and up Capitol Avenue and visited Ray and Ruth then out the Meriden road and down the {Frost is crossed out} Pierpont road to East Farms where we stoped at the farm, and then home. This is the first time Mary has been out since Mar 21st. 05\26\1935 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J.O. Todd, officiated. This afternoon I took Mary and and {written twice} we went out the new Wolcott road and carried Nancy Goddson home. Then we went North on the new road where it was finished and the rest of the way on the old road to the top of Miner hill{bill!}. Then we came back and stoped at George Browns{Brown's? Browns?}. then to sister Mary Jenners{?}, and home. 05\27\1935 (Monday) To day I got the ground ready nd planted corn in the North West lot on the hill, I then went to the bank on East Mountain and got a load of sand for the chickens. This evening I went with the boys to the Wolcott Fair Grounds and drummed. 05\28\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I planted the flint corn in the Middle lot West of the shed. Then I worked in the Cemetery about three hou_s{hours?}. Albert Crandall and some boys came and made Bass Drum belts. 05\29\1935 (Wednesday) This forenoon I went to the East Farms Cemetery and mowed grass. Then I came home and put on my uniform and at Noon James Phalen{?} called and we went to the Hotel Elton where the Lyons Club were having a dinner. They called on me to give a brief history of the Mattatuck Drum Band, and Drum several selections. This afternoon I took Mary, Mrs. Voghel and two children and went to the Pine Grove Cemetery where Mary put flowers on her Mother's and Clyde's graves. Then we went to East. Farms Cemetery. 05\30\1935 (Thursday) Decoration Day. This morning the maple Hill Continen___{Continental?} Drum Band met here and loaded their drums into my little red truck, and at 7 started for Kent. We went through Watertown, East Morris, Morris, Bantam Woodville, and Warren to Kent. After a time the line formed, at the Town Hall, which consisted of Mounted men and girls, Kent School Band, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts School children carrying flowers, CCC Camp men, 100 in number. Our Drum Band and then the Fire Company. We marched to the Cemetery back of the Congregational Church, where the School Children put flowers on the graves of Soldiers then Mr. Bartlett spoke and made a prayer, after which we marched to the Cemetery near the Episcopal{Episcapal!} Church where the Episcopal Minister spoke and made a prayer. Then we marched to the monument, where Father Sill spoke and made a prayer. Then we visited the Kent School buildings and farm. Then we went to Macedonia Park where we had a dinner. After which we started for home where we arrived in due time. 05\31\1935 (Friday) This morning I finished mowing the East Farms Cemetery and raked over part of it. I spent some time shaking tent catapillars{catapillers!} off{of!} from the young apple trees. 06\01\1935 (Saturday) I worked at drums in the Wheelhouse till 4 P.M. John Mc Kay, Frances Cosgrove, George Baldwin, and Albert Crandall helped me. Late in the afternoon, after Mrs. Hine who had been calling had gone, I took Mary and Nancy for a ride. We went up East Mountain,{,?} to Prospect Center, then down the New Haven road through Betheny, then up through Straitsville{?}, and Naugatuck, and by the back road home. 06\02\1935 (Sunday) I attended service at the mill Plain Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd, officiated. After dinner, I with Mary took Nancy to her home in Wolcott. Then we started up the new road for Bristol, but we could only follow it to William Mac Cormick's, then we went over Wolcott Hill, and North East to Plum St which we followed till we found the new road again, which was practically finished the rest of the way to Bristol. We then went and called on Mildred and Arthur Bird at the Bristol Nurseries{Nerceries!}. We came home through Southington. 06\03\1935 (Monday) This forenoon I went to the farm and worked in the garden a spell. Then{The!} I rigged up the spraying outfit and sprayed the young appletrees that were literally{litterly!} covered with the tent caterpillars Took Mary and Nancy for a ride to Chas De Bissops{?} {next line difficult to read} and down the Peach Orchard Road then{the!} over Pond Hill and home. This evening I went to the Boys Camp at Hitchcocks pond East of the Frost Road, and gave a drumming lesson. 06\04\1935 (Tuesday) Late in getting up this morning. Set out Tomatoe and Pepper plants in the home garden. Then went to the farm and set out tomatoe plants, and worked in th garden till it rained hard when we came home. Later I went to the Atlantic & Pacific store and got groceries. Rained most of the day. 06\05\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I made four hooks for Charles Tuttle of Woodtick, and sharpened five drills for Frank Welton{?} of the Woodtick road. This afternoon I went to the farm and planted in the garden. 06\06\1935 (Thursday) This morning {morninig!} when I got up it rained a little and was very cloudy, I prepaired to go to new London to play in the Mattatuck Drum Band to Commemorate{Commerate!} Nathan Hall Day, and the unveiling/unveilling{unvailing!} of a monument to his memory. I was at Morton E Pierpont's place at 8 o clock and soon the Bus came from Wallingford that was to take us, and the boys came to the numbe_{number?} of 18, and we left in the rain at 8.45 and traveled out the Meriden turnpike through Meriden, Middletown, Higganum, Haddam, Chester, Deep River, Essex{?}, Saybrook, where we crossed the Connecticut River of a long Bridge into Old Lyme, and through East Lyme and Waterford to New London which we reached soon after eleven. We went about the town till noon, when we _ad{had?} a fine dinner with the Sons of the American Revolution in the basement of the methodist Church. After which the procession formed, and was composed of U.S. troops from Fort Wright and other stations, with U.S. Marine Band, and a large force of Marines{Marenes!}, this was followed by numerous Patriotic organizations and Band, including a large High School Band and 700 High School Girls with hats on all __like{alike?}. Then came our Band which headed the Sons of the American Revolution from Rhode Island, Massachussetts, and from Connecticut, who gave to the City of New London the Monument that was later unvailed. On{One!} the way home we drove down to North Wallingford and visited George Cass at his home, who had lately been badly injured in the{thi!} right leg. 06\07\1935 (Friday) To day I spent putting new cutting blades on three large lawn mowers for Calvary Cemetery, except I with Mary and Nancy went to Cheshire and bought a bag of scratch feed for the chickens. Yesterday Mrs. Chipmans Chauffer{Chofer!} called on me with a bill of 13.50 (about) for damage that Al{A?} Crandall did when using my little truck. I saw Crandall about it this evening. 06\08\1935 (Saturday) Cloudy{Clowdy!} this morning. At 10.30 I put on my Continental uniform and with my small car went to No 14 Holmes Avenue and got Mr. Fox and we started for Oxford to celebrate the Tricentennary{Tercentenery!} of that Town. When we got to Soughford we inquired{enquired!} for Quakers Farms, and were there at 12 o'clock, where we understood that a dinner was to be ready at that time. But when we got there we found nobody only a man at a newly erected platform who knew nothing of a dinner and told us that the parade was to start from Oxford center four miles away, so we went there, and found many peopl and two High{Hight!} School bands, and found the lady in charge who told us that we were to be at Quakers Farms at 1.30 and have dinner, so we went back there and found that the ladies were prepairing dinner in a Hall East of the Church. We waited a long time but none of our boys came. After a time M Hawkins whose{whos!} wife was getting the dinner ready said that he would wait no longer. So we three sat down, and then came a load of our boys, and soon others came until all were there. We had a good dinner, after which we loaded into a large truck and started for Oxford{Orford!}, and then it began to rain aplenty. at Oxford the other Bands loaded into trucks, and after a time started South of the road towards Seymour followed by a long train of autos. We passed several places where Old __ ____{sa anes?} and old people and antiques{anteaks!} were displayed. We reached a point North of Seymour where we turned about and counter rode until near Oxford we turned West and went up over the mountains, now and then passing ancient places where people were out in costume some of which were very elaborate, it was raining all the time and we got very wet. After a long wet ride we reached Quakers Farms and as we were playing down the street a mounted ____{mous?} horse jumped and plunged throwing{trowing!} the rider a distance clear of him and down he went never to rise again for he died within thirty minutes. We formed and lead a _ong{fong? long?} procession up into a large field where in 1635 a meeting was held and the town of Oxford was organized. That meeting was reenacted{reeanacted!}, after which we marched down into the street and up in{if!} front of the hall where we were dismissed. {blank space} There were present in the Band The Major Fifers Jame Phalen{?}, Andrew Kitchenka, Franklin Browne, Robert Wakelee{Wakeles?}, Alber Atlkinson, {blank space} Snare Drummers Chas Monsham, Howard Neal, Louverne{Lauverne?} Fox, Charles Tuttle and Charls Miller, {blank space} Bass Drummers, Paul Miller, {blank space} Wheeler{Wheeles?} - and {blank space} Judd. 06\09\1935 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J O Todd. {blank space} This afternoon I took Nancy home and then called on Willie Pritchard{?}. 06\10\1935 (Monday) Rained this forenoon. I mowed the front and back yards. This evening Frank and Elsie called, they had with them Clyde Moses of Middlebury Vt{Wt!} who may go to work for Frank. They all came from Storrs where they had attended a Celebration of some sort. 06\11\1935 (Tuesday) Warm day I cultivated corn and potatoes on the hill till 3.30 came home and raked up the grass here. 06\12\1935 (Wednesday) I cultivated all day. Miss Goddson ha_{had?} afternoon off. 06\13\1355 (Thursday) Hot day. Cultivated most of the day. 06\14\1935 (Friday) The corn in the middle lot needed weeding, I went over it with the{he!} weeder, and howed it some. ]Then I banked the corn and potatoes on the hill. Went down town and paid the Conn Light and Power bill this evening. 06\15\1935 (Saturday) Cultivated and hoed on the hill till about {-?} three when a hard shower came up. 06\16\1935 (Sunday) Attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev J. O. Todd.{.?} This was Children's{Childerens!} day. To day was the first time that Mary has attended since the middle of March, Nancy was with her. This afternoon Mary and I carried nancy to her home in Wolcott, then I called on Willie Pritchard after which we called on Berkley Frisbie. He told of the letter he received, stating their{thar!} cousin Carl Jackson died in Brazil a week ago last wednesday. 06\17\1935 (Monday) To day James Egan helped me a spell hoeing potatoes and then I hoed alone. This evening I went to the cottage at Hitchcocks pond and gave a drumming lesson to the Maple Hill boys. 06\18\1935 (Tuesday) Rained all day. I worked at{a!} bl;acksmith work, then Louis Somers and mr. Smith called to see me about the brass business{businers!} as connected with great uncle James Somers and Grandfather David Somers and down to Robert, Lewis and Joseph Somers. I then went to town an_{and?} gave in my tax list and got my bond cupons cashed at the Colonial{Coloneal!} Trust Co, I then came{come!} home and made drum sticks. 06\19\1935 (Wednesday) Finished hoeing on the hill, cut some grass near the barn, and drew the weeder over the lower piece of corn, and over the corn in the North West lot. This evening Albert mathews came and we practiced drumming a spell. 06\20\1935 (Thursday) Worked at the farm. This evening I attended an entertainme__{entertainment?} at the Grange Hall, I drummed with the Maple Hill Boys etc 06\21\1935 (Friday) I worked at the farm this afternoon. This forenoon Mary Nancy and I went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed for 1.95 When we came back we stoped at the farm and picked a mess of peas, which we had for supper. 06\22\1935 (Saturday) Howed and weeded the garden at the farm. 06\23\1935 (Sunday) Attended service with Mary and Nancy at the Mill Plain Union Church. This afternoon we took nancy home. 06\24\1935 (Monday) I worked at the farm, for the most part at garden work and cultivating and hoeing, James Egan helped me till 11. and Ted Wilson from 8.30 to 5. .90{?} Margaret gfot home from Toronto at 3 o'clock this morning having left there at 9 yesterday morning. She brought Bobbie with her. 06\25\1935 (Tuesday) To day Ted Wilson and I cultivated and hoed potatoes on the hill till three o clock when I came home, to meet a Mr. Smith who was to call at four, but he failed to show up. We have had several showers to day. This evening{evenind!} Mr. Banjamin F Hubbell{?} called to make a sketch of a soapstone Indian pot that I have. 06\26\1935 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and plowed out and howed corn and potatoes. 90{?} Nancy had afternoon off. In evening Mary and I went to the farm and{an!} picked peas. Mrs. Vogel mowed the front lawn. 06\27\1935 (Thursday) We finished hoeing corn and replanting it. Then we mowed the gra_s{grass?} by the road side at the watertrough. 06\28\1935 (Friday) We finished mowing by the water trought and drive wa_{way?} and hoed in the garden till 2.30 when I came home and met mr. Smith at 3 PM, and we looked up the Somers family in regard to their connection with the brass{?} industry. I loaned him a letter that I wrote on the subject of brass manufacturing in Waterbury as I knew it. __{$_?} Paid 1.00 .40{?} 06\29\1935 (Saturday) I went to the farm this morning and Ted Wilson and I hoed in the garden, and mowed and ca___{cared? cased?} for hay etc. till 11. {See below} Came home and got ready and Mary, Nancy, and I went to Wolcott and attended the tricentennial{tercennial!} celebration at the Center. Frank Browne Arthur Harrison{?} and I represented the "Spirit of 76" I also took charge of the Mattatuck Drum Band. The Celebration was an interesting one{ond!} and was well attended. The weather was perfect. {the following equation was written in small handwriting in the third line of the above paragraph: 40 .30 {this line is underlined} 10} 06\30\1935 (Sunday) Mary I and Nancy Goodson to care for mary went to New Haven this morning to attend the 12th Pierpont Family Reunion. We went over the new road through Propsect to the united Church Parish house corner of Temple and Elm Sts. Where the Farmily assembled and from there all walked to the Center Church a part of the service was devoted the 250th anniversary of the ordination or Rev. James Pierpont, who was the second ordained of Center Church in 1685, and one of the founders of Yale Rev. O E Maner pastor of Center Church spoke of Rev. Pierpont as a Churchman, Rev. Herbert D. Gallandet a member of the Association, spoke of him as the Ancestor{Ancester!}, and Samuel H Fisher Chairman of the Connecticut tercentenary{?} commission and representing Yale, described him as "the Educator" After service we returned to the Parish House, and had a bountiful dinner, about one hundred and thirty four sat down, at this time a business meeting was held and the same Officers were elected, Raymond H Miller President Marion Pierpont, Secretary{Secretery!} and Treasurer Mrs. Edward Craft{?} historian and Arthur Bradley vice president. Howard neal and Arthur Sherman Meloy of Stratford were names as assistant historia_{historian?} After this meeting nearly all walked to th colleges where they were conducted in groups with special guides through many of the buildings, Special{Speilal!} rooms were opened for them and in some special displays of books and papers had been prepaire_{prepaired?} pertaining{pretaining!} to Rev. James Pierpont One large and beautiful building is named in hi_{his?} honor. The distance traveled was over two miles. After this trip we returned to the parish house and had a light lunch, said{?} good bys{?} after five and left for home. The weather was perfect. 07\01\1935 (Monday) Ted Wilson and I mowed in the BArn lot, and I repaired a pitman rod for Edgar Upson, and we put my mowing machine togather. This evening July 2nd Albert Crandall came and I paid him 3.50 and he paid for the damage done Mrs. Sarah Chipmans car. We saw Ralph Adams and Michael Daily{?} about fifing in the Bunker hill parade July 4th. 07\02\1935 (Tuesday) We mowed in th barn lot, a little, and tried the machine out. 07\03\1935 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and I mowed with the machine the lower part of the barn lot, and got in one load. We put poison to the potatoes{,?} before dinner. Mary, Nancy and I went to Chreshre and got a bag of scratch feed, for 1.95 07\04\1935 (Thursday) This morning I went with the Maple Hill Continental Drum Band to Bunker Hill, and took part in a large parade, I wore{ware!} my Continental uniform, and took the prize{prise!} for something I know{knows?} not what. 07\05\1935 (Friday) One of the hottest days. Ted Wilson and I got in a load of hay, and mowed round the North West corner of the barn lot. 66 This evening Louverne Fox called and showed me a history and doings of the Mattatuck Drum Band that he has prepaired, which was fine. 07\06\1935 (Saturday) This morning Mrs. Garrigus called on the phone that buster was in the garden at East Farms I went there immediately and put him in the stable, and found that we left the gate open a{at?} the upper end of the lot. Later Mary and I went out and we picked a mess of peas and I howed the garden, very hot. 07\07\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at{a!} the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd, not many present. In the afternoon We carried Nancy home and I visited with William Pritchard. 07\08\1935 (Monday) Ted Wilson and I mowed the East{Eeast!} Farms Cemetery. 07\09\1935 (Tuesday) Ted Wilson and I worked in the East Farms Cemetery, raked it all over and carted away the grass to my barn after which my truck would not start. We worked at it in the rain for a time, and then I walked home. This evening Ray went out and found a bad battery ground connection, he repaired it, and all was right. 07\10\1935 (Wednesday) This forenoon Ted Wilson and I set stones in the East Farms Cemetery. This afternoon I worked about home as nancy had the afternoon off and I stayed with Mary. We had the annual meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Association this evening, the same Officers were elected, i.e. C.S. Miller, President Harald Pierpont Vice president, Howard Neal Secretary{Secr_tery!}, and M.E. Pierpont, Treasurer. All bill paid and about $400.00 on hand 07\11\1935 (Thursday) Weataher hot. Ted wilson and plowed out the corn in the lot West of the shed half way up the hill. We got a load of hay. This evening mary, Nancy, Margaret, and I went to the farm and picked 3 pecks of peas. 07\12\1935 (Friday) Ted Wilson and I mowed the big grass in the North West part of the barn lot. This has been one of the hottest days so far this year. 07\13\1935 (Saturday) I saw Morton Pierpont this morning and sold to him the grass that we mowed yesterday, I then opened it out and dried ti and heaped it up, then went to the dary and told Laurence that it was ready at 11.AM He came right over with the truck and took it away by noon. I then went to West Cheshire and bought a bag of chicken feed. After dinner we put poison to the potatoes, and beans. Came home at about 4.P.M. Ray called this evening. Has been to new London at a Convention of the officers of various Family Reunions. 07\14\1935 (Sunday) Mary, Nancy and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. {The next sentence is written above the line, no mark is in the text to indicate where this sentence should be inserted} Rev Thomas Crosby of South Waterbury. This P.M. Mary and I carried Nancy home, then we continued on the new road (nearly finished) to Bristol and visited Mildred and Arthur Bird. I also called{colled!} __{on?} Charles Minor/Minos{?} on West Street. 07\15\1935 (Monday) Ted Wilson and mowed in the North East part of the Barn lot. {blank space} This evening Mr. & Mrs. Vogle, Nancy Mary and I went to the farm and picked peas got over 1/2 bushel. Took the washing to Margaret's. 07\16\1935 (Tuesday) Ted Wilson and I mowed in the Barn lot and put the{thi!} hay in winrows{?}. I went to town this afternoon. Weather very hot. 07\17\1935 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and I hand mowed in the barn lot, and mulched{milched!} the raspberries, and howed in th garden Hot and muggy. 90 degrees in shade 07\18\1935 (Thursday) {next line is difficult to read} Ted Wilson got in the hay{,?} from the North East part of the barn lot, two loads. 07\19\1935 (Friday) Ted Wilson and I mowed, and got in the grass on the lot West of shed. We mowed clover in the North East corner {next line difficult to read} of upper lot. 07\20\1935 (Saturday) This morning Ted Wilson and I mowed the piece of grass West of the potatoes, and turned out the clover that we mowed yesterday, after dinner we raked up and heaped the clover and then it began to thunder We, loaded the hay on to the cart and got it into the barn, and I got home before it began to rain. This evening I mowed the grass west of the garden at home. 07\21\1935 (Sunday) Attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church this morning at ten o'clock. Rev {blank space} of Winstead preached. This afternoon Mary and I went to Bristol and visited Charles Minor on West STreet. 07\22\1935 (Monday) This morning I sharpened seven picks for the Calvary Cemetery. It rained. Took the washing down to Margaret's. Then I went to the farm and pulled up the pea vines and got the ground ready to plant turnips. Ted Wilson came at noon. Had a talk with Mr. and Mrs. Vogel about rent. 07\23\1935 (Tuesday) Ver hot day. This morning Ted Wilson and I planted turnips. Then we drew down a load of clover and spread it near the barn, then we went on{?} the hill and mowed in the West end of the orchard but it was so hot that the {.?} ox could not stand it, so we went down to the barn and turned over the clover, when it began to rain and then we put it in the barn and I came home and ground two scythes and repaired a hay rake, this evening Mary, Nancy, and I went out to Hitchcocks lake to see Mrs. Cowles about papering the Voghel's rooms. 07\24\1935 (Wednesday) This forenoon Ted Wilson and I mowed a small piece of grass on the hill, then we mowed the oats, and I came home and Dr. Barber called after dinner, and said that mary was better. We then went to teh Somer's Brass Co. but Lewis was away. We then went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed. This evening I saw Wm Garrigus about the Vagel{?} ceiling, the cheapest would be 16.00 07\25\1935 (Thursday) Rained hard all day. This morning Ted Wilson and I mowed away the clover. Then we went to th shed on the hill and took to pieces the wagon stored there. 07\26\1935 (Friday) This morning I got up early and got my breakfast, and got otu to the farm, but the weathewr was too{to!} damp to work at hay so Ted wilson{caps?} and I finished taking the old wagon apart and fixed up things in the shed, then raked up the hay and heaped it, and raked up the oats. This evening I went with the Mill Plain boys to the Wolcott{Wotcott!} Fair grounds to practice, for the big parade in New Britain tomorrow. 07\27\1935 (Saturday) Weather clear and warm. The Maple Hill Drum Band boys came, and we left here at 12.30 for new Britain where we took part in the Tricentennial{Tercentennial!} Celebration and {beginning of next line difficult to read} the biggest parade ever in that place. Those who went were. Fifers Fred Troskey{?}, Bob Hill, M Daly, and {blank space} Cook, {blank space} Bass Drummers {blank space} Fleming, Joe Howell{,?} and Ernest Robinson, {blank space?} Snare Drummers, C. S. Miller, George Baldwin, Albert Crandell, __________ Cahill, __________ Robinson, and {blank space?} Mc Carthy. 07\28\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd. Mr. Todd gave{?} me a check of $10.00. This afternoon Mary and I took Nancy to her home in Wolcott and then called on Berkelee Frisbie{?} and saw Mrs. Carl Jackson, after which we went to Southington to see Mrs. James Upson on Oakland St, but she was not at home. We then drove South and on through Cheshire Street and home. I saw Mr. Vogel and told him that I could not lay out{.?} any money at present on their kitchen. He said that they would move and be out by the 10th. 07\29\1935 (Monday) Ted Wilson and I got in two loads of hay and one load of oats, and mowed some in the orchard on the Hill. This evening Al Crandall and Bob Hill came and Hill took a Continental Coat and one pair of boot tops{?} Crandall took Coat, Boottops, and hat. 07\30\1935 (Tuesday) Ted Wilson and finished getting the hay at the farm to day. This evening{evining!} Mary, Nancy and I went to the far and drove up on{.?} the hill, dug a few potatoes and got some vegtables. Later Mr. Vogel called, and stated that he wanted to remain in the rent up stair for $20.00 per month and he would paper, and paint the kitchen etc. at his own expense. 07\31\1935 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and I worked a long time on the Washing machine I went to town and{ang!} got Check cashed. Mr. Kurtz came and took photograph of my old drums. Then I ground a lot of scythes, and Wilson{Witson!} and I mowed a spell. I carried him home and saw Raymond{?} about repairing the clutch on the Washing machine. 08\01\1935 (Thursday) Hot day. I mowed about home, Ted Wilson helped this afternoon. 08\02\1935 (Friday) Mowed about the home lot to day Wilson helped in the afternoon. We unloaded hay, got the mowing machine down from the hill, got vegtibles{usually spelled vegtables} etc. Louis Somers called this evening, about _r{Mr.?} Smith and my manuscript{manuscrip!}. 08\03\1035 (Saturday) This morning I went to the Center, Mr. Smith carried{cirried!} me down in his Packard car. He was here to return some papers that I lent him. Went to Dimes{?}, and Manufacturer's {Manufacturers'?} Banks, then to Cheshire and got bag of scratch feed and powder. Then I got on my rig to represent the "Spirit of 76," and after dinnr the boys came and at one o'clock Albert Crandall, Robert Hill, Fifer){only ")" included} George Baldwin, Color bearer, and myself drummer, with Crandall, left for Washington, Mary and nancy also went in my car. We went via Ben Sherman Hill, Woodbury and Hotchkissville. The Celebration was larger thatn any ever given in Washington (this state) 08\04\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev. Wyley Scott of Wolcott preached. This afternoon Mary and I carried nancy home, then we went to Charles Cass in North Wallingford and mad a visit. We also stoped at George Cass. All of the fish in the large reservoir near there died last week. They claim that the hot weather head the water so as to kill the vegtable matter in the bottom of the pond and this caused the tons of fish to die. They had a large number of men gather them and bury them about fruit trees in the vicinity{vacinety!}. 08\05\1935 (Monday) Mowed near the wheel house, Ted Wilson and I took a load of hay to the farm this afternoon. He only helps me in the afternoon as he and Laurence{Laurense?} Pierpont peddles milk at night, while Yarrington is away on his vacation. 08\06\1935 (Tuesday) This forenoon I mowed the lower part of the home{?} lot. This afternoon Ted Wilson and I painted the, Deck roof over the Vogal's kitchen and the roof over their varanda{varandd!}. Received from irving my fife and fife book. This evening Wm and Iva Gillettee called and we had a nice visit. 08\07\1935 (Wednesday) Mowed big grass in home lot this forenoon, and Ted Wilson and I took a load out to the farm. We worked on the washing machine. Nancy was gone this afternoon, Mary got supper. 08\08\1935 (Thursday) Ruth came from Storrs, and brought Peggy, and Frank's wife Elsie, and children Marion, __________ and Dwigh{Dwight?} Elsie and her children are visiting at her Father's Prof{Prof.?} Hary Garrigus at Storrs and Ruth brought them down here, and they returned at four P.M. I mowed in the home lot West of the barn, and Ted and I took a load of hay out to the farm. Buster tore up the fence in the lot on the hill We__{West?} of the shed and about ruined the {next line difficult to read} pi_ce{piece?} of corn{?} there. 08\09\1935 (Friday) Mowed East of the Chicken coop, and put the hay in chicken yard. Ted Wilson and I took the last load to the farm, and fixed the barn yard fence. 08\10\1935 (Saturday) I mowed the front yard and did other odd jobs. Went to the farm, got vigtables/vegtables{?} etc. 08\11\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Congregational Church at Prospect Center Rev. Thomas Cochard{?}. After dinner, Mary and I carried Nancy to her home in Wolcott then we went to Mr. James Upsons at 56 Oakland St Southington, and I turned in the papers that I received from ___{Wis?} 08\12\1935 (Monday) This morning Mary and I did the washing. Then I went to the new Lincoln store and bought a Wheel puller, and brake lining for my Model A.1931. Ford truck for 2.16 and when I got home Ted Wilson was here and it took us till six o'clock to put the New linings in th four wheels. Nancy went up in our old room to sleep for the first time to night. The weather to day has been clear and warm. 08\13\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I mowed the front yard. This afternoon Ted Wilson and I repaired the roof where it leaked over Vogle's kitchen We then raked up the hay that we mowed and took it to the farm. We received a letter rather a postal card from Irving dated Alexandria{Alexandra!} Va on which he stated that he left home last Sat and traveled 452 miles to Columbus Ohio then to Middletown Maryland{Mareyland!} 3.66{or 366?} miles. 08\14\1935 (Wednesday) This I went to West Cheshire and bought a roll of fil__{ink blot} roofing and a bag of Scratch Feed. At about 10.30 The Mill Plain Drum boys came and we loaded our drums into my truck and at 11.00{?} started for Warama_g{Waramaug?} Lake where the Litchfield Farm Bureau were having a Convention and field day. There were thousands there and acres cov_red{covered?} with automobiles. We played in the Pageant{Pagent!} several times and{an!} received great applause, Margaret took, Mary and nancy. Of the Band who went were Fifers Michall{Michael?} Daly, Robert Hill. Bass Drummers Ernest Robinson and Byron Flemming Snare Drummers C.S. Miller, George Bldwin, Albert Crandall, and Charles Robinson. 08\15\1935 (THursday) I mowed about home, and did odd jobs all day. Took a small load of hay to the farm, and there thinned out one row of turnips. Ted Wilson has gone to Maine with the Pierpont girls Hellin{Hellen?} and marion, expects to be back Monday 08\16\1935 (Friday) Worked about home etc. 08\17\1935 (Saturday) This aternoon mary, nancy, and I attended the Upson family Reunion at Farmington. There{Ther!} were about 131 present. We had our dinner in the Grange Hall Irving and family arrived in Waterbury this evening first at Margaret's, then up here and spent the evening 08\18\1935 (Sunday) This morning Irving came with his car and he, Mary and Nancy and I went to the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe of Wolcott preached. We came home and had dinner. Those who sat down were Irving{Irvind!} and Dorothy, their children David, Barbary, and John, Margaret and Clifford Northrop, Mary and I, and Nancy Goodson. After dinner nancy went home, Margaret, David, John and Barbara went for a ride, Irving, Do__thy{Dorothy?} Cliff Mary and I, went over to Wallingford, and called on George Cass, but he was not at home, We then went to Charlie Cass, and made a Visit. He will go to Kent next Friday with the drum boys. When we left there we went North up to the meriden and Middletown road{?} and came through Meriden to, Mo__{Mort?} Pierpont's where{?} Margaret and her party joined us, and Lena Turkington and daughter called, and there we learned that nancy had stuck a nail through her foot, and had been taken to the doctor. We had a fine supper, after which Cliff, margaret, Mary and I came home. Soon Nancy came, she __{is?} very lame. 08\19\1935 (Monday) This morning I worked about home did the washing etc. Irving came, But he left for Storrs at about 11.00 He and Dorothy, David, Barbara, and John, to go to the funeral of H__ry{Harry?} Garrigus son who was shot. This afternoon I went to the farm and repaired the barnyard fence. This evening The drummer boys came and prepaired to go to Kent next Saturday. 08\20\1935 (Tuesday) Went to the farm and Ted Witson{Wilson?} and I set concrete fence posts on the North side of the middle lot West of the shed. In the afternoon Irving and John came and altogather we set six posts. Nancy's Parents came in the evening and took her down to the doctor, after they got back they spent much time in the drum room. 08\21\1935 (Wednesday) Went to town this forenoon, and wrote a long letter to Mr. Atherton of Litchfield. This afternoon Irving came late and we went, and visited Wm Gillettee{?}, Art Warden, and Mr. Macken on Bunker Hill, and then went to Wouth Waterbury and saw cousins Robert, Louis and Joseph Somers, and went in their facotyr and saw some wonderful electric furnaces that annealed long strips of thin metal and they came out bright and clean. The metal was pure nickel{nicel!}. 08\22\1935 (Thursday) Thursday mnorning I took my Ford runabout and with Mary and Nancy Goodson, started for Kent. W_{We?} first went to Margaret's on Beecher Avenue, where Irving joined us with his new Dodge car, and with him was Dorothy, Barbara John and David. We went North through Lakewood, Waterville, Watertown East Morris, Morris, Bantam, Woodville, where we went up the Shepang River and viewed the high new Reservoir dam, then we came back onto the main road and went through Warren, to Kent. We had dinner at Frank's, after which we went to the great Meadows where the Celebration is to be and met Mr. Mc Dowell, who arranged to have Frank take Irving with a bass drum, and I with my large Snare drum, and Rube __________ with a banner, and we went to Flanders, where we got out and drummed, then we went to North Kent where we drummed{drumed!} again and Rube told in a loud voice about the Celebration then to Cornwall Bridge where we done the same thing, then up to Cornwall plains{?} where we drummed and shouted again then we went to West Cornwall and did as before, then up to Canaan and marched through the Main Street drumming, then to Lakeville where we drummed and Rube shouted, then to Sharon, drummed again, then to Amenia Union and drummed the niggers out, then down through Macadonia and home, after which the women loaded up the cars with provisions and we went back up the Masadonia brook and had a fine picnic supper, came home after dark and went down to the meadows and saw part of the pageant{pagent!} rehearsed{rehersed!}, then home and to bed, Irv, David and John slept in the barn on the hay. Friday morning we got up and Irving{Iring!} got things ready and about 8 a.m. started for milwukee, Frank attended to business, I went down to the Great meadow where they were getting{gelling!} ready for the Celebration.{.?} At noon I came home and had dinner, after which, Rube and I went town to the meadow, and mr. Mc Dowell got M Reynols{Reynolds?} to take us in this car and we went to New Milford where we got out and I drummed and Rube shouted at every corner, we marched around the square, then we went to Northville, we did our part, but few appeared, then to new Preston, where we repealed, then to Washington Depot,{,?} where we drummed and marched through the main St and across the narrow iron bridge. Then up the long hill to Washington green where we drummed around the green. Thgen over a long and interesting road to Litchfield, where we drummed out a large number of people, we went up West St and down South St a little way. Then to Bantam where we played down the main St. Then through Warren to Kent, which we reached at 4.30. I took the drums that I had to the new Sports hall, and then went with Charles Cass to the place where his grandfather lived. Tha Mattatuck and maple Hill drummer boys now arrived to the number of 25 and we headed a procession and the Governor{Govenor!} and played to the Great Meadow South of the town, where were assembled a great number of people, and there the Goshen Coronet Band played, and then we won much applause by palying severl old pieces When it began{begn!} to get dark our boys left for home I stayed and saw the Indians come up the river in canoes, and come to the council fire and meet the white men and smoke the pipe of peace, of the 4 or 5 white men not one knew how to smoke. An old stage coach with 4 horses came driving up to an old tavern, built for the occasion These with many other attractsion made n ainteresting pageant{pagent!} in the night, all lit up with search lights. At about 11 P.M. I started for Frank's, but there were so many autos passing out of the gate, and on the raod that I made slow progress, But Frank had been home with the folks, and came back looking for me, he could not get onto the grounds at the gate as there were such a rush of autos out. He went to a pair of bars at the lower end and got in, as he did not find me he started for home and overtook me on the road a short distance up. This morning I got up and we got ready soon after breakfast{,?} and started for home, came by South Kent to new Preston, then to Washington where we stoped and saw Mr. John Hollister from whom I bought a 24"{?} Bass drum for the boys. Then we came home, and I fell{feell!} to the usual work. 08\25\1935 (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev Mrs. Girtrude Coe{?} preached, I suppose good, but I could not hear a word. After dinner Mary and I took Nancy home, and then visited Charles Tuttle, then to the farm and did chores etc, then home. 08\26\1935 (Monday) Did the washing this morning. This afternoon Ted Wilson and I went to Cheshire and got 2 bags of chicken feed. Then we came to the farm and set 4 fence posts. Weather hot at noon. 08\27\1935 (Tuesday) To day Ted Wilson and I set some fence posts at the farm. Tred came in the evening and we went to the Mattatuck Drum Band meeting at Ralph pierpont's barn at East Farms. 08\28\1935 (Wednesday) Ted Wilson and I drew fence posts on the hill and set several, it __{is?} hard work as the posts are 8 ft long made of concrete and weight 120 lgs each and are{ars!} set in the ground 3 ft deep, it is very stony where we dig and hard pan at the bottom of the holds. 08\29\1935 (Thursday) This morning I did odd jobs about home, and got ready, so that when Albert Crandall, and Mike Daly came. We loaded up and started for Canaan to take part in the Tercent_nary{Tercentenary?} Celebration, of Canaan{?} and North Canaan{Canan!}. We acted the "spirit of 76." There was a great concors{concourse?} of people there from, Massachusetts, and New York state and all the surrounding towns. More automobiles than I ever saw before at such a Celebration The parade consisted{consested!} of Mounted Marshals{Marshalls?}, Band from Torrington{Tarrington?}, Float, A Colonial Town meeting, Float A{?} Colonial house, Float, The covered wagon. Small drawn{?} by two goats, on side was letered PIKES PEAK, OR BUST. Float, A meeting house Scene. Float, An Indian Village. Float, An Old fashined Singing school_{?} Float 1821. - 1935. Float, A Colonial Grist Mill, Fall Village Firemen. Float, Colonial, and Modern girls, Gloat An Old time Country store. Canaan Fire engine of 1839, and Firemen, An Old Fashioned Wagon. Float, Spirit of Methodism{?} Float. Winter Sports. Float An Old Fashioned Choir. FLOAT A Forest Scene FLOAT. A{Aa!} Soldiers{Solders!} grave in France. Boy Scouts, West Scockbridge Band, FLOAT, An Old time Blacksmith Shop, FLOAT An Old Fashioned School. FLOAT. An Old time Quilting Party, Boy scouts of Canaan. Float. Southern New England Telephone Co. Old Reo{?} Auto 1906. Old Buic 1908. Old Express wagon, Old small Slay{Sleigh?} carrying one lady, drawn by a large negro, "Spirit of 76" Large Float, Canaan Bord{Board? Bard?} of Trade, Wagons, Marshal_{Marshall?} etc. {New paragraph or is there a blank space in text} The parade ended at Laurence Field at 5.30 where the exercises etc. were held, and where we had lunch after which we left for home. The weather has been cool and nice, only sweat a little. 08\30\1935 (Friday) Ted Wilson and I set out to set fence posts but it rained before we got two holes dug so we gave it up, and I came home. This evening Brother Fred and wife of Tarrytown called, with Wm Gillette 08\31\1935 (Saturday) To day{?} Ted Wilson and I finished setting the concrete fence posts and straightened up the old wire fence. I came home and went down town and bought binding wire of Plum Bros and did other errands. The weather has been nice and fair. 09\01\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I Attended Church at the Mill Plain Union REv J. O. Todd, preached. Having returned from his vacation. This afternoon we went to the farm and fed the ox, after which we went out the pla_k{plank?} road and up Matthews St to the road from Cheshire to Preospect, then in from the Center on the Waterbury road and home. Nancy Goddson came to night after a week vacation. This evening Jack Brundage and all the family called. 09\02\1935 (Monday) Stormy day. I worked polishing my little car, and cut wood. 09\03\1935 (Tuesday) Went to town this forenoon, and with Ted Wilson made fence, this afternoon. 09\04\1935 (Wednesday) Rained all day. This morning I went to the farm and yoked up Buster and started up to the lot but it came on to rain and I came home. Then I went to the Wheel House and lettered some signs for my little Ford truck, and sawed off a stock of iron wood, and then sawed it in halves lenthwise to make drum sticks of. 09\05\1935 (Thursday) Rained at times all day. I went to Robert Tyler's and had a stick of iron wood 18" long sawed into 1" square pieces, for drum sticks. I then went to West Cheshire and bought a bag of scratch feed 1.85 and a roll of barbed fence wire for 3.50 then I came to the farm and took care of the ox, and worked on Arthur Bird's{?} dr_m{drum?} the rest of the time 09\06\1935 (Friday) I have worked on Arthur Bird's{Birds'?} drum nearly all day. Saw Chas Tuttle this afternoon late. The Vogle's returned this evening from their vacation to New Bedford. 09\07\1935 (Saturday) Ted Wilson and I made fence at the farm. Put letters on my truck to night Nancy helped. This is the first day this week that it has not rained. 09\08\1935 (Sunday) Miss Goodson Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph O{?} Todd officiated. This afternoon Mary and I went to Wallingford and saw one of the finest Tercent_nary{Tercentenary?} Pageants{Pagents!} held in the State. 09\09\1935 (Monday) Ted Wilson and I finished the fence t the shed lot at the arm, as we were getting through it began raining and continued through the evening. Robert Browne called this evening to get drum notes, I helped to do the washing. 09\10\1935 (Tuesday) Fair weather. I hav_{have?} worked about home, Mr. Valaski of Prospect brought a large circular saw and I filed it. Mrs. J.I. Biam{?} called this afternoon and wished me to wrtie a paper for her, "How Mad River Grange got its name." This evening as I was writing The Maple{Mapli!} Hill Drummer boys came and wished me to go to Cheshire and drum to advertise Mr. Baldwin's new Bowling alleys. I went and at up{?} after eleven having finished Mrs. Byam's paper. 09\11\1935 (Wednesday) Nice weather. This morning I took my little red truck to The Malcome Motor Co's and West Main St and had the Speedometer repaired, ad stop light repaired, after I got home I worked on Art Bird's drum, and then cut wood, and went to the farm and got a bushel of vegtibles{usually spelled vegtables}, etc. Nancy had afternoon off. 09\12\1935 (Thursday) Nice Day. This morning I took Mary and Nancy and Went to Bristol. Left them at Arthur Bird's at the Bristol Nurserys{Nurseries?} and I ook my car to Redfernes Ford Co nd had the Stop light repaired. Then I got the womenernes Ford Co and came home, 12.7 miles from Arthur Bird's house to outs. After dinner I took my pickup car to Redfernes in Bristol and had a dash{dosh!} light put on, when I came home I stoped at Carl Moulthrop's at Cedar lake, he is 80 years old. 09\13\1935 (Friday) Cut Wood nearly all day. Went to town and saw them inspect {-?} Cars on Freight Street. Painted Front Stops. 09\14\1935 (Saturday) I got the wood into the Woodhouse{,?} and then worked on Frank's Milk Truck 09\15\1935 (Sunday) We attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd. This afternoon Mary and I went and visited Mr. John Hollister{?} in Washington. We went and came back over Bunker Hill. 09\16\1935 (Monday) Nancy staid at her home last night, but was here at seven, and I helped to the washing. Then I repaired the stop light on the pickup car. Then I loaded lumber tat I had prepaired and took it to Robert Tyler's ladder shop on the Meriden road and had it sawed and plained to build a milk truck fro Frank. This evening I turned out a drum stick for Robert Browne. 09\17\1935 (Tuesday) To day I went to Freight St. and had my cars tested, got there{?} at nine{ninen!} and there was about twenty ahead. I passed with he Runbout on everything except wheel alighment and brakes. Went to the Ford dealers and had the repairs made, and passed, except one wheel, then I had that repaired and all was O.K. This afternoon took the Pickup car down and had much the same experience that I had with the other car, both are 1931 mak. Rigged stove over to burn coal. 09\18\1935 (Wednesday) Worked at drums staining them, and went to Cheshire and got bag of scratch feed. Nancy is away this afternoon. 09\19\1935 (Thursday) Worked about home all day. Made fixtures{firtures!} for setting drum heads, and set one head in Arthur Bird's drum{.?} 09\20\1935 (Friday) Worked on Frank's Milk truck the greater part of the day. This afternoon Mary, Nancy and Ted Vogel went and saw Raymond, then to Bessie Pierpont's and to the farm where we gathered a lot of vegtables. 09\21\1935 (Saturday) Worked most of the day on Frank's truck The City is putting in a swer pipe from the Mad River up East Main St and around the corner of The Frost Road about 40 feet, where they expect to stop for the present, at the corner they are putting it at a depth of 15 feet. 09\22\1935 (Sunday) Mary and I and Nancy attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J O Todd. This is Mary's 75 birthday. This afternoon Maigaret{Margaret?} and Cliff Northrop called, and Ferris and Lence{?} Turkington, and Morton and Jessie Pierpont, allso called. 09\23\1935 (Monday) I have donw some of the washing, and did some on Frank's truck. {blank space} This afternoon Mary, Nancy and I attended the funeral of Judge George W Brown of Wolcott. Margaret carried us up in her car, Rev. John N. Lewis of St Johns{John's?} Church officiated. The service was held in the Woodtick Chapel{Chaple!} and the great number of people in attendance was so large that the building would only hold a small part of them. Over 100 people walked to the Cemetery, and there was a long procession of Automobiles. There were delegations, of Masons, Grangers and Foremen from Scoville's in attendance. 09\24\1935 (Tuesday) Worked to day on Frank's truck. 09\25\1935 (Wednesday) Worked to day on Frank's truck. To day we recieved cards announcing{announceing!}, that Mr. and Mrs. James Lester Hackworth announces the marriage of their daughter Lydia Catheryne, {blank space} to Mr. Mansfield Miller Gillette on Saturday, the twenty first of September. One thousand nine hundred and thirty five. Louisville. Kentucky. 09\26\1935 (Thursday) This morning Margaret came with her Chevolet{?} car, and took mary Nancy and I to Simsbury to to {written twice} visit my brother Frank. We went up over the new State road in Wolcott to Bristol where we left a drum that I had repaired at Arthur Bird's at the Nurseries. We then went through Unionville an_{and?} up Lovely street and past Cherry Park to West Simsbury. We found Frank farily well and doing all the house work, Gussy is blind and out of her head most of the time. We staid there and ate the dinner that we carried along with Frank's corn beef and vegtables. Before two we left for Charles Norton's at Pleasant{Plesant!} Valley We went up through North Canton{?} over very rought and hilly roads, then toe Bark hamstead{?}, passing several Churches and groups of houses, but whether{wheather!} we went through the center of the town, we know not. After passing up and down long mountain raods and crossing the Farmington River we reached Mr. Norton's where we left a picture frame that I made him, and after a short visit we left for home, by way of Winsted, Tarrington{?}, Thomaston etc. We reached home before dark. 09\27\1935 (Friday) This is my 77th birthday, Nancy gave ma as a present{presint!} three hankerchiefs. Weather fine. I worked on Frank's milk truck. 09\28\1935 (Saturday) I worked on Frank's milk truck all day. 09\29\1935 (Sunday) Mary, Nancy and I attended service at the Mill Plai_{Plain?} Union Church. Rev J. O. Todd. 09\30\1935 (Monday) This morning I did most of the washing, in the afternoon went to the farm and began digging the potatoes, dug 1 1/2 bushels. 10\01\1935 (Tuesday) This morning I filled my car with oil then I went to Cheshire and got a bag of chicken feed. Then came to the farm and dug potatoes. 10\02\1935 (Wednesday) Worked on the milk truck most of the day The Mill Plain boys drummed for St Peters and Pauls{?} Church. 10\03\1935 (Thursday) This forenoon I repaired the fence and gate on the hill, in the afternoon Ted Wilaon and I got out a large stone{?} from the pass way, and then dug potatoes. 10\04\1935 (Friday) I repaired the gale{?} on hill, P.M. Ted and I dug potatoes. 10\05\1935 (Saturday) Nice day. Heavy frost this morning. Harry, Nancy and I went to the Harwington{?} Fair. There were many fine exhibits, and a large crowd of people, I counted 36 yoke of oxen, the most that I have seen togather in several years. We went over the new road through Wolcott, then through Bristol, and up route 117, to harwington 22 1/2 miles. 10\06\1935 (Sunday) Mary, Nancy and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev J O Todd. This afternoon I carried Nancy Goodson home as she has got through working here, as I could not afford to pay her. When I came home I stoped at East Farms and took care of the ox. 10\07\1935 (Monday) This morning I cooked the breakfast. Then I took the tuyer{tire?} iron out of my forge and the blower and repaired them and Ted Wilson and I put them back again, then we sharpened picks. This evening I went to the Mill Plain Church and gave a drumming lesson. 10\08\1935 (Tuesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. This afternoon dug potatoes Ted Wilson helped me. 10\09\1935 (Wednesday) This morning I did the washing, and went to the Citizen's and Manufacturer's Bank and got a check of $10.00 cashed. This afternoon I went to th farm and dug potatoes. This evening I went to the Men's Club supper at the Mill Plain Church Mr Curtiss{?} told of the Manufacturer's exposition {exhition?} Ter_centenary{Tercentenary?} at Hartford. 10\10\1935 (Thursday) Dug potatoes, to day. Ted Wilson helped in the afternoon. We received a letter from Irving. His address now and until Nov 15 will be EL MONTE HOTE, {, or .?} MONTE VISTA %{c/o?} R.C. BORCHART{?} COLORADO{CALORADO!}. He is employed at the gold mines near there by L.R. Smith. 10\11\1935 (Friday) {Is entry for 10\11\1935 or 10\12\1935?} I finished digging potatoes, and got down o__{one?} load of corn. Ted Wilson and I husked it out, we also cut the pop corn and husked it, found many corn borers{?} in the pop corn. 11\12\1935 (Saturday) Ted Wilson and I cut corn all day. 11\13\1935 (Sunday) Mary and I attended the Tercentenary{?} service at Prospect{Porospect!}, the church was filled to overflowing. Rev. Sher___{Sherwod? Sherwood?} Sould{?} of Hartford, preached the sermon and the regular minister Mr. Cockrain officiated, after ser__ce{service?} we viewed the, relics{relicks!} of former days on ex________{exhibition?} in the Grange Hall and in the old Parsonage, and Lybrary. 11\14\1935 (Monday) Te Wilson and I cut corn and husked corn. This evening I attended the drum rehearsal{reshaal!}. 10\15\1935 (Tuesday) We cut corn and husked it out Ted and I. 10\16\1935 (Wednesday) We finished the large piece of corn on the hill. 10\17\1935 (Thursday) Ted Wilson and I cut and husked corn{corm!} Frank and Chas Patterson{?} called this morning. 10\18\1935 (Friday) Ted Wilson and I finished husking corn and cleaned up and plowed on the road up the hill. 10\19\1935 (Saturday) Ted Wilson and I worked at the farm, he loaded manure and made road, while I plowed. 10\20\1935 (Sunday) We Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Rev. Wayne Wormer{Normer?}, preached, and Rev. Mrs. Coe conducted the service. After service we went to East Morris{Moris!} and had dinner with _erris{Ferris?} Turkinton{?}. 10\21\1935 (Monday) Did the washing as Mary is very feeble, I then went to town and paid the taxes and other bills. This afternoon worke_{worked?} at the farm. 10\22\1935 (Tuesday) I plowed in teh middle lot, and drew manure up on the hill. 10\23\1935 (Wednesday) I plowed on the hill, Ted Wilson got out Manure{Manuer!}, and baged up the corn 10\24\1935 (Thursday) I plowed on the hill. Ted Wilson finished{?} getting out manure, and worked on the road. 10\25\1935 (Friday) Ted Wilson painted milk truck frame. I sharpened tools. 10\26\{1935} (Saturday) Worked at farm plowing. Ted Wilson made road 10\27\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain. Then went to Gilletts{?} on Bunker Hill had dinner. Then all went to Kent and got Frank and we all went to Harring's{?} farm at Bulls bridge and saw about holding the Somers Thanksgiving dinner there. They want 1.25 per plate. The Royters{Royter's?} went also. 10\28\1935 (Monday) I did the washing. Then went to Cheshire and got a bag of Scratch feed. Then to the farm and plowed, Ted Wilson{?} worked on the road. 10\29\1935 (Tuesday) Plowed all day on the hill. Ted Wilson picked stones. 10\30\{1935} (Wednesday) Finished plowing. {blank space} John Barr called this evening{.?} 10\31\{1935} (Thursday) {next line difficult to read} Worked __{on?} the milk truck in the forenoon, and went to Woodbury and saw Hollister Sage in the afternoon. Cara{?} called this afternoon and left her pension papers. 11\01\1935 (Friday) Went to town this Forenoon{Farenoon!}, and made oath to Cara's Old age Pension papers before Attourney Phelan{?}, and did other{ather!} business. Worked on Milk truck this P.M. 11\02\1935 (Saturday) Ted Wilson and I worked all day bending the axel for Frank's milk truck. Ray came this afternoon and we welded it. Weather moist but no rain. 11\03\1935 (Sunday) Mary and I attended the Mill Plain Union Church{?} Rev. Girtrude Coe preached No rain 11\04\1935 (Monday) I did the Washing this morning. Then I set the axel{axle!} for the milk truck, and Ted Wilson and I worked on it in the afternoon. The Republican published this morning that Rev. Mr. Todd is going to Worcester Mass to preach Dec 1st. 11\05\1935 (Tuesday) I went to the farm this morning, brought{brough!} in vegtables. Then worked on Frank's milk truck This evening Will and Iva came and took Mary and I up to Reutter's{?} and we talked over the matter of meeting Thanksgiving. 11\06\1935 (Wednesday) I worked on the milk truck. This evening John Barr, Leland Garrigus, __________ __________ Howard Neal and Louvane Fox, came and we arranged to have the Mattatuck DRum Band, broadcast{broodcast!} in December. 11\07\1935 (Thursday) T{?} Wilson and I worked on the milk truck Mary, Iva, Effel came and reported, and it was decided to hold the Somers family Thanksgiving dinner at Lakeside Tavert{Tavern?} at Hitchcocks Lake. Price per plate 1.25 11\08\1935 (Friday) This forenoon I went to Wolcott and saw Arthur Harrison about drumming, then went up to Carl Moulthrops and he will drum, then I saw Charles Tuttle, then came to the farm, then home. This afternoon Wilson and I worked on the truck. [[Read by Ruth Brundage -Summer{?} 47 " " Frank P. Miller - January 1948]] [[end of Journal book]] No of Ignition Key to my Ford Runabout Car is A 1335 " " " " " " For Pickup " " A 1475 Both Cars are Model A, 1931. Charles S. Miller No 2271 East Main Street Waterbury Conn. 11\09\{1935} (Saturday) Mary had a poor turn during the night, So{so?} this morning I went out to Edgar Upsons to see Mrs Butler if she could come and help us some, but she was not at home. Came home and telephoned to Nancy Goodson, but as the telephone is of no use, made out but little. 11\10\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph Todd officiated{offciated}. He resigned from the Pastorship of the Church to accept the minisry of a Congregational Church in Worcester Mass. He is to leave about Dec 1st The attendance was rather large. After service we drove out and saw Leland Garrigus{?} and asked him to see Charles Cass in the Drum Band in the Armistice Parade this afternoon, about playing in the broadcast with those who had played over fifty years,i.e. Arthur Harrison. Frederick C Moulthrip, Charles S. Trittle, Gcouvani{?} Fox and myself drummers, and James Pheland and Charles bass fifers. We left there and came home, then we went over to visit James Phelan at 561 Highland Av. At 4.30 we left and drove out to Raymons where we had a fine clam chowder supper, and visited till nine when we drove home. 11\11\{1935} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, and hung it on the line, ub as the day has been warn{warm?} and damp it has not dried. The gound is very dry, last month was the driest Oct in 45 years{?} and we have not had a rain since only a few sprinkles. Ed Bronson called to have two hand cross-cut saws filed, and Ed Scott had{?} me fix the reflector light and fender light on his truck. He is to have them inspected in a day or two. I went to the farm and did other odd jobs. 11\12\{1935} (Tuesday) Very foggy this morning, fast driving of Autos was very dangerous, slight warm rain throuout{throughout?} the day. I went to{?} see Mrs John Wakelee{?} in Wolcott to acertain{ascertain?} who the Revolutionary soldiers were thlt{that?} their son Bemat{?} (who is a fifer in the Mattatuck Drum Band) is decended{descended?} from. He is descended from David Wakelee, Benjamin Bement, James Thomas, Nathaniel Merrill, and Lien William Andrews. Bement is one of the 21 members who are descended{?} from Revolutionars{?} soldiers. From Wakelees I went over Wolcott hill and saw Arthur Harrison about practiceng/practicing{?} at Carl Moulthrops{?} tomorrow{?} night, then I came to Woodtick and saw Charles Trittle but as he is to have company, he cannot practice with the other six who have been playing over fifty years. I then came to East Farms and cared for the ox, then came home and worked on the milk truck. Ed Wilson came and helped this afternoon. Nancy Goodson came to day and cleaned the rooms. 11\13\{1935} (Wednesday) Wet all day. We finished the wood and iron work on Franks milk truck. 11\14\{1935} (Thursday) I pained the milk truck a priming coat this forenoon This afternoon Ted Wilson and I raked the leaves from the front yard and banked the house with them put gravel on to hold them. 11\15\{1935} (Friday) This morning I dressed a chicken, Nancy came and did house work, I did odd jobs about home and at the farm. 11\16\{1935} (Saturday) I painted the hand milk truck green this forenoon. Then little Tutsey{?} and I went to the farm and got a load of cabbage and carrots. Weather is rather chilly. 11\17\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Joseph O. Todd, officiated. The attendance was rather small owing to the windy wet weather, the rain of the morning turned into sleet which covered the paved streets to the depth of one inch making them rather slippery. This day being the twentyfifth{?} anniversary{?} of Margarets marriage she invited us to a fine dinner, others who were there were John Castle and wife Lena, Howard Kraft and Marion and two children, Vincent Simons and wife Betty. When we left their home on Beecher Ave after Marion had read a letter from our Granddaughter Enid, who is in Ethiopa{Ethiopia?},{?} the storm was raging at its full hight{height?}, and the wind was blowing a gail. Note in margin of text: 1st Snow 2" 11\18\{1938} (Monday) About two inches of snow and sleet lay on the ground this morning. I did the washing, and other jobs, such as getting the wheels on the milk truck, etc. This afternoon, Tutsy Vogel{?} and I went to the farm and I got out a bushel of large parsnips, and some beets and carrots. Weather has been cold and damp till towards night when the sun came out. 11\19\{1935} (Tuesday) This morning nancy Goodson came and I beat a large rug, and she cleaned the house. I went to the farm and pulled turnips till noon, Ted Wilson came in the afternoon and we{?} finished pulling all the turnips. To night I put seven bushels in the cellar. 11\20\{1935} (Wednesday) After Breakfast I loaded the hand milk truck into my Ford Pickup ruck and with Tutsey Vogel drove to Kent and left it at Franks place. We went up the Frost Rd over the Meriden{?}, Woodtick, STilson, Wolcott, Lakewood, Bucks Hill{?}, Perkins Ave,{?} to Waterville, then to Reynolds Bridge and up the West Branch road to East Morris{?} then North to the Plains, then West across to the main road East of Bantam, and through Woodville to Warren, and to Kent, where we had dinner at Franks. Soon after we left for home,{?} coming to Bulls Bridge, South Kent, Maryall{?}, New Preston, Washington, North Woodbury, Buker Hill{?}, Waterville,{?} and home. The weather has been fair no rain and no sun. 11\21\{1935} (Thursday) We received two postal cards from irving who is at Summitville Colo{?} setting up machinery at the Gold{?} mines. I worked at the farm most of the day. Rev Joseph O Todd called this evening. 11\22\{1935} (Friday) This is the 52 anniversary of my marrage{marriage?}. This morning I went to town and paid a lot of bills. Then I came home and went to the fam and plowed the garden etc, Nancy Goodson came and helped Mary. This evening We went to the Mill Plain Union Church for a fairwell{farewell?} party given to Mr Todd, who is to leave for a Church in Worcester Mass after Dec 1st. There was a great number of people there incluging{including?} Ex Gov Templeton{?} Mr Irving Chase, a number of Ministers etc. Mr and Mrs Todd{?} received a number of gifts including flowers, money etc. The weather to day has been warm for this time of the year. I received a letter from Hollister Sage who is at Homestead Florida. 11\23\{1935} (Saturday) I worked about home all day, as it Rained, then turned into hail, and snow, to night it his{is?} 3" deep on the ground and still snowing. Note in margin of text: 2nd Snow.{?} 8" 11\24\{1935} (Sunday) This morning snow lay six inches deep on the ground. After breakfast I dug out the pathes{paths?}. The snow plows were out early and the streets about here were all plowed out, Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. 11\25\{1935} (Monday) Weather rather chilly. I did the washing, and after dinner got my pickup out but found that it had frozen up and the top cap of the engine had burst, so I took the little car to go to the farm. We received a letter from Irving to day that stated where he is at Summitville Colorado elevated over 11.000 ft the snow had fell to a depth of over 3 ft. this season and thermometer was once 14{degree symbol} below zero. 11\26\{1935} (Tuesday) This morning I worked on shelfs a spell then went to Frederick C Moulthrops{?} in Wolcott to tell him of the rehersal{rehearsal?} for the broodcast{broadcast?} tonight. Then went to the farm and did the chores there, and home agin, at 4 I drove to Mr Moulthrops again, putting chains on my wheels before I left the main road so as not to get stuck in the snow as I did in the morning and brought him to my place where we had supper, after which we went to the drum room and practiced, after a time Albert Crandall came and we practiced some more, About nine o'clock Leland Garrigus{?} on Major Oswold Amberlin{?} came and and{written twice} we all got ready and drove to the broadcasting station of the American and Republican on Grand Street where we rehearsed, after which I went wilh{with?} Crandall and took Moulthrop home,{?} I got home at midnight. 11\27\{1935} (Wednesday) This day I worked about home all the forenoon and After going to the farm in the afternoon I went up to Charles Trittles and practiced drumming a spell. It has thawed a little all day. 11\28\{1935} (Thursday) Thanksgiving. Fortytwo members of the Somers family sat down to dinner{,?} at the Lakeside Tavern on the Meriden road{?} at the South end of Hitchcocks Lake. It has rained some all day but at dark it begn to rain hard, and at five when we came home it pored{poured?}, and was very dark. 11\29\{1935} (Friday) This morning I worked on shelves, then went to the farm and finished plowing the garden, then went to Cheshire and got two bags of Chicken feed and 1/2 pt of mahogany stayne{stain?}, for 4.29 came home and worked at shelfs{?} a spell then went to Charles Trittles in Wolcott and practiced drumming a spell then home and supper. The sun has shown some, rather cool 11\30{1935} (Saturday) Put up hhelves{shelves?} in my room and stained them mahogony {mahogany?}. Did a job{Job?} for Ed Scott, and went to town. Weather was damp all day 12\01\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I went to Church in a snow storm. Rev Josph O. Todd{?}, Officiated for the last time, He expect to preach in the Pilgram{Pilgrim?} Congregational Church in Worcedster Mass next sunday. The Church was well filled. Mr Todds new address will be 105 Brookline Street Worcester Mass. The Pilgrim Congregational Church is at 911 Main St. 12\02\{1935} (Monday) This morning I did ht ewashing. Then I went to town and bought some 1/2"x3/16" #24 thred machine screws to repair my little truck with, Then with Mrs Vogel to stear/steer{?} I changed and put the truck in the girage{garage?} and the car in the shed, then went to the farm and did the chores then to Charles Trittles in Wolcott where we practiced drumming a spell, then home and arranged books etc on the new shelfs. A large gan{gang?} of City men are laying a storm water swere along East Main St in front of our house they are putting it down deep about 10' and as it is solid rock it requires a lot of cutting with air compressors, and blasting. 12\03\{1935} (Tuesday) Worked putting patch on{-?} the truck engine. 12\04\{1935} (Wednesday) Weather very cold froze all day. I went to Wolcott this forenoon, and worked on my car this afternoon. About 2" of snow fell{?} this morning Note in margin of text: 3 Snow 2" 12\05\{1935} (Thursday) Worked all day on the truck, only I went to town and to the farm. This evening Mary and I attended the Ladies fair/farr{?} and supper at the Mill Plain Church. Weather has been cold. About one inch of snow fell this morning. Note in margin of text: 4th Snow 1" 12\06\{1935} (Friday) Cold and freezing all day. I worked on the little truck till two thirty when I finished it. Mrs Sarah J. Hine{?} was buried this afternoon in Pine Grove Cemetery she was 86 years old 12\07\{1935} (Saturday) I worked on the old clock all the forenoon,{?} but it does not run. Went to the farm and to town this P.M. 12\08\{1935} (Sunday) Attended Service/service{?} at the Mill Plain Church. Rev David P Gains{?} of the 1st Baptist Church Officiated. 12\09\{1935} (Monday) This forenoon I did the washing, after which I reputtyed{reputtied?} some of the windows in the upper par of the house. This evening I attended a repersel{rehearsal?} of of{writte twice} Mattatuck Drum Band that was held in the dance hall at the Wolcott Fair Grounds. 12\10\{1935} (Tuesday) I worked makeing{making?} a rack post{?} to carry ladders on the truck{?}. Weather damp and cool. 12\11\{1935} (Wednesday) We made a ladder rack for the front end of the truck. Harriet Frazer and Laurence Pierpont{?} were married at the Mill Plain Church this evening at 7.30 by Rev John Lewis of St Johns Church. 12\12\{1935} (Thursday) Weather dull and Chilly. This afternoon Lourane/Louvane Fox{?} and I went to Charles Trittles and practiced drumming. 12\13\{1935} (Friday) To day I repaired Vogels toylet{toilet?}. Cut down apple tree at the farm at the upper end of barn lot, Ted Wilson and I sawed it down. 12\14\{1935} (Saturday) After the chores this morning I went to the farm, and Ted Wilson and I cut up the tree that we cut down yesterday. Ray{?} came in the afternoon and borrowed the truck and went to De Witt Coles{?} in Wolcott and drew to his place two loads of horse manure. He left his car, and I drove it home. Weather has been cool but not freezing. 12\15\{1935} (Sunday} {A.D. written following date} Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Thoedore/Thaedore Bobolin{?} of the First Methodist Church.{?} Preached. The church was well filled. After service we went up to Wolcott and told Frederick Carl Moulthrop that the Mattatuck Band is to Broadcast next Wednesday night at.{?} 7.30 or 8. 12\16\{1935} (Monday) Did the washing this morning. This afternoon Ted Wilson and I sawed up the apple{?} tree that we cut down. This evening I with the Foremen{?} of the International Silver Co attended the annual supper in Meriden given by the Internationgl{Interantional?} Silver Co. 12\17\{1935} (Tuesday) Worked at the farm,{?} Ted Wilson helped, cut wood etc. 12\18\{1935} (Wednesday) To day{?} I with Ted Wilson cut down an apple tree in the barn lot North east of the barn and cut it up into 12" lengths. This evening at 9.30 I went with the Mattatuck Drum Band and broadcast several pieces, and I drummed a selection with Frederick C Moulthrop on the bass. Charles Cass and several{?} others fifing. 12\19\{1935} (Thursday) Went to the farm and trimmed appletrees, and in the afternoon Ted Wilson and I cut down two dead appletrees. 12\20\{1935} (Friday) This morning the ground was covered with snow to the depth of one inch but by ten o'clock it was all gone, but about four it begn{began?} to snow and now 9 P.M. about 1 1/2" have fallen. This morning I took my little truck to Mr Garthwaits{?} in Wolcott to have him repair it, He brought me home in his car, I then took my small car and went to the arm, and worked till dark{.?} trimming appletrees, and Ted Wilson and I sawed up a dead tree that we cut yesterday. Toosey Vagel/Wagel{?} was with me at the farm all the time. Note in margin of text: 5th Snow. 12\21\{1935} (Saturday) Cold Day. Worked about home{?} all day at blacksmith work. 12\22\{1935} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev John Lewis of St Johns Episcopal Church officiated. There was a fair attendance. Mary did not attend as the weather was very cold dnd/and{?} she did not feel any two{too?} well. This afternoon Margaret called and she had Dick with her after traveling From Toronto by bus since eleven o'clock yesterday he reached here at eleven to day. 12\23\{1935} (Monday) I did the washing this morning, and then odd jobs about the house and tended the fire, for the day is very cold, freezing all day. 12\24\{1935} (Wednesday) Very Cold all day,{?} the City has been finishing up Storm water catch basin's{.?} a little East of my lot on East Main St. This morning I went to the Center on a Buss{Bus?}, and then went to the Coloniel{Colonial?} Trust Co and got 14 cupons{coupons?} of Church bonds cashed for $28.00.{?} then paid the Electric bill of 3.66 at the Conn Leight/Light{?} and Power Co. then to the Southern New England Co. and paid the Telephone bill 2.75.{?} then to Davis & Nye, and bought two letter files{?} for $1.00 and 100 thumb tacks for .20 Came home had dinner. Then wen{went?} to the Cheshire{.?} Grain & Coal Co at West Cheshire and got two bags of feed for 3.20 and a lump of salt .10 On the way stoped and/an{?} paid Mort Pierpont one months milk bill 3.90 stoped at the barn and fed Buster and left{?} a bag of feed, ame home and put up the truck and went down to the Atlantic & Pacific store and bought some Groceries, then did chores etc. 12\25\{1935} (Thursday) Christmas This morning Vincent Simons and his wife Bettie Called and took Mary and I up to Ruth Brondage place at Storrs. We went vis Cheshire{?}, Meriden{?}, Middletown, Portland, Marlborough, Hebron, Colombia{?}, Willimantic{?} and to Storrs which we reached at 12M{?}. Soon others came and we sat down to dinner, after which they had a Christmas tree, and all got presents, I got hankerchiefs{?} from the Krafts' a Towing steel tape fifteen feet long from Dwight Miller, a fine picture of Dick Miller from Dick, Come{Comb?} and brushes from Jean Northrop, $5.00 from Irving, $5.00 from Margaret, 1.00 from Ray Miller and 1.00 from Ruth and Jack, while Mary got several{?} articles of clothing, a large bos of Chockolet (Chocolate?} cars/cands{?} and other things including 7.00 in cash, Such presents show a very dutiful and prosperous family, I made a present to Margaret of $2.00. At 5.30 Vin Bettie{?}, Mary and I started for home. The weather was very cold, and he had put much antifreeze in the radiator and it boiled over several times, but we reached home at 8 P M.{P.M.?} 12\26\{1935} (Thursday) Very cold day. I worked about home all day, Dick Miller came and helped me load a chopping box into the truck and we took it out to the farm, When we came back we found Olga here waiting and, Dick went to her home in Cheshire to stay tonight. This morning about 1 1/2" of snow lay on the ground that had fallen during the night. The day being very cold the most of it is still lying on the ground. 6th Snow 1 1/2" 12\27\{1935} (Friday) Cold day. I turned out drum sticks the greater part of the day. Went to the farm, and had to break the ice so the steer could drink. The spring are very low as there have been no fall rains to fill them, water is very scarce, Bessie Pierpont has to draw all the water she uses from Morts dary{dairy?}. 12\28\{1935} (Saturday) This is the coldes day yest/yet{?}, themometer{thermometer?} 8 above this morning, 20 at noon with cold wind, I finished making{?} drum{?} Sticks for Fred of Tarrytown. We had a ton of soft coal come to night price 8.00 12\29\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church this fore noon 10.45 to 12. Rev James Gregg of the First Congregational{?} Church preached. The day was very Cold. My small car froze, they say it 4 below zero early. When I looked at about 8 it was two above. Dick started back to Toronto yesterday, about noon he took a bus from here for Albany. 12\30\{1936} (Monday) Cold day. This morning I did the washing, but as it was snowing I did not hang the Clothes out. It stoped snowing at about 20 o'clock, but remained{?} coudy{cloudy?} and cold, I worked at blacksmith work till the middle of the afternoon, then went to the farm,{?} and did the chores there. About 3" of snow fell{?} Note in margin of text: 7th Snow 3" fell 12\31\{1935} (Tuesday) Very Cold day. I made drum sticks of iron wood all the forenoon{,?} and made one this afternoon, Little Tutsy Vogel{?} and I went to Charles S. Trittles in Woodtick and found him not very well. We then went to the farm and took care of the ox, then to the Atlantic and Pacific store and bought some groceries. City workmen began digging a trench up the Pierpont road to lay water pipes in to Mort and Bessie Pierponts houses. 01\01\{1936} (Wednesday) Another Cold Day. I turned Drum Sticks in the Cellar this forenoon, After dong the Chores at the farm I repaired the tall clock{?} that my Grandfather Miller gave me, His Father traded two dressed hogs for it when new{.?} in 1790. He got only the works. The base was made by Mr Edwards{?} about 1832.?{"?" in text} Part of the hill corner of East Main St and Idylwood Ave has been taken to fill in the swamp and low meadow North side of the Meriden road by Mad River{?}, near the New Concrete Bridge, and where the hill was they{.?} are building a filling Station. 01\02\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I cleaned the Cellar etc. Then put pictures into frames, and worked on picture frames, and at the farm the rest of the time. This evening {blank space in text} Auberton{?} came and I gave him a drumming lesson. It began snowing about four, and about one and one half inches fell{?}, it then turned to rain and is still raining. Note in margin of text: 8th Snow 1 1/2" 01\03\{1936} (Friday) Rained hard all night, and until the middle of the afternoon I have worked in the Wheelhouse the greater part of the day. 01\04\{1936} (Saturday) This day has been damp and warm, I have worked in the wheel house most of the time, making picture frames. This morning Alber{Albert?} Crandall called and wished me to file his hand saw, which I did. This afternoon I went to Rays on Capiol{Capitol?} Ave,{,?} and left a letter and helped him a spell breaking up a rock, I then went to the farm and did the chores, and cut up a lot of Cornstalks. This evening I was out in the yard. The night is dark and cloudy, and I noticed the head lights on the autos coming down the Frost road, there was one right back of the other and several going up and on the Cheshire road it was the same at nine oclock{o'clock?}, while overhead the air planes/airplanes{?} could be seen and heard. All of the vehicles were going at a rapid and dangerous rate of speed, In the night they run faster than in the day time. There are so many people being killed and injured{?} that, that the sentiment of the people in general is against this fast and reckless driving, and probably something will be done to lessen it, Just at present drunken drivers are causing much loss of life and damage, this is on the increase, since the repeal of Prohibition, and as here in Waterbury the majority of the lawyers and, Courts are in sympathy with the drinkers owing to its popularity, and the drunken drivers are delt{dealt?} with very liniently{leniently?}. 01\05\{1935} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J.R. Coombs operstand{assistant?} of the second Congregational Church preached. We staid home all the afternoon.{?} A boy Joseph G Schilling{?} was killed on the Wolcott Road near the junction of the Stitson road yesterday afternoon at about 5.30 by a truck hitting him. The truck kept right on and they do not know who he was. 01\06\{1936} (Monday) It began showing{snowing?} soon after dinner and continued till bout eight o'clock this evening. This forenoon I did the washing, and at noon went to town, This afternoon, Young Teddy and I went to the Farm and cut up some corn stalks, and did the hores, We came home and worked in the Wheel house a spell. Note in margin of text: 9th Snow{snow?} 1 1/2" 01\07\{1936} (Tuesday) After getting breakfast and eating it with Mary. I went to the Wheel house and finished putting pictures into frames, and later hung them in the Drum Room. I received a letter from Edgar C. L Cotting{?} of Tupelo Miss.{.?} It told of the burial places of the widow of Ashbill Upson{?}, and of the widow of Orren Jackson{?} Mrs Upson{?} is buried in __________ Penn and Jackson in Bristol Wis. I went to Woodtick to see Chas Tuttle regarding the matter, but failed to find him at home. 01\08\{1936} (Wednesday) I worked about home, and cut up Cornstalks, and brush at the farm{.?} etc This evening I attended a meeting of the Mens Club at the Mill Plain Union Church, Clarance Brown{?} was elected Prisedent/President{?}. They had a fine supper{?} and speaker. 01\09\{1936} (Thursday) This morning Mary and I prepaired{prepared?} to go to Simsbury and carry up some small Drum sticks that I turned for {.?} brother Fred, and Frank is to finish them. But about 7 it began{?} to snow, so we gave it up, at 9 it stoped so we started and fouud/found{?} good traveling after we reached Bristol roads all bare, and we reached there all right, but about 1.30 it began to snow hard and we started for home, it was bad driving as the snow covered the wind shield and the wiper would hot/not take it off, we stoped at a gas station in Farmington on the Bristol. and a Woman cleaned it with a wad of salt dun{?} up in a cotton cloth, and gave it to me and{.?} said you wipe it with this, which I did two or three times{,?} and the snow ceased to stick, But it was a hard storm on Wolcott Mountain so thick that we could not see but a short distance, it later turned to rain and continned/continued{?} into the night. 01\10\{1936} (Friday) To day I got out lumber to repair the roof of the shed on the hill at the farm. This evening {blank space in text} Albertine came for a{.?} drumming lesson. Had a battery put in my truck. 01\11\{1936} (Saturday) To day I made an ax handle, and did a wagon job for De Wit Cole{?} of Wolcott. It snowed this afternoon so as to cover the ground. Two Men, a Mr Rogers and another from New Haven came{?} to look at my Indian collection, and at my drums. Note in margin of text: 11th Snow{snow?} 2" fell light. 01\12\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain Church. Rev Mr Crosly{Crosby?} preached, He was from South Waterbury Confederated Church{?}. 01\13\{1936} (Monday) Did odd jobs about home. Went to West Cheshire this afternoon and got a bag of feed and 10 lbs of Nails. It rained very hard. 01\14\{1936} (Tuesday) Did odd jobs and made two ax handles, of hickary/hickory{?} that Frank brought{?} from Kent. 01\15\{1936} (Wednesday) I filed a long cross cut saw for Frank Welton{?} to day It rained hard this afternoon. 01\16\{1936} (Thursday) Worked a{at?} blacksmith work the greater part of the day. This evening Mary and I went down to the Beacher Ave{?} to Margarets to supper, Ruth Brundage{?} was there. 01\17\{1936} (Friday) I went in my Runabout car to No 480 Watertown Avenue and got the licenses for my cars for 1936. For the Pickup I paid 10.20 and for the Roadster 7.00. Last year I paid 16.00 for the roadster, and 15.00 for the Pickup. The City has about completed the New Bridge over the Mad River at Benedicts & Burnhams{?}, on South Main St,{,?} and laid temporary tracks so as to let three trolley cars across that they may go to New Haven. These{?} will be the last cars to travel from Waterbury to New Haven. The first Trolley cars ran from the Barns on the South side of West Main St near the Bridge over the Naugatuck River{.?} to the Center and down Bank St on July 28, 1894.{.?} Bbefore{Before?} that we had Horse Cars. They commenced running Nov 18, 1886. 01\18\{1936} (Saturday) This morning I finished some work I have been doing at odd times all the week for {blank space in text} De Wit Cole{?} in Wolcott he called for it this afternoon. This forenoon Frank and his family came from Kent and we had a fine visit, He and they brought many presents, including a block of slippery elm, from which I pealed{peeled?} the bark and this evening made some Cough Medicine. It began snowing about the middle of the forenoon and late in the afternoon it turned to rain. Note in margin of text: 12th Snow 2 1/2" fell 01\19\{1936} (Sunday) When we got up this morning it was snowing hard and by 9 it was 6" deep. We did not got to Church, as it continued to snow till about 1.30 when it stoped, but soon began to sleet,{?} and later turned to snow and it is now 10 P.M. showing{snowing?}. I went out to the farm and did the chores, started to walk but soon a Bus came along and I rode. The snow was about 10" deep. The City snow plow had cleared the road to Reedville, and the State plows had plowed it out to Cheshire{?} I came home on a Bus. Note in margin of text: 13th Snow{snow?} 12" deep 01\20\{1936} (Monday) This morning the snow{.?} lay on the ground{.?} about 12" deep, I went to shoveling, and have been at it ever since and am not yet dug out, as many places where I dug it had drifted to the depth of three and one half ft and in front of the drive ways the street plows had piled it up four feet deep and very hard, and I had to move a lot of snow to get my truck out, And{and?} out to the farm had to dig again to get the car out of the road, and more digging to get the barn door open,{,?} and had to dig the snow away from the spring,{,?} and break the ice so the ox could get water. Now have got to dig the long walks by the side of{?} the street. the street and roads were all plowed out at an early hour,{,?} by the State and City plows. 01\21\{1935} (Tuesday) I dug snow the greater part of the day. This morning it was very cold, Themometer{Thermometer?} 10{degree symbol} below zero, Coldest so far{for?} this winter. King George of England dided last night. Note in margin of text* 20{degree symbol} below aero up in Wolcott 01\22\{1935} To day{?} I did odd jobs, and cut down a large dead plurm/plum{?} Tree that stood North of the barn,{,?} amd cit ot omtp fore wppd/ Miss Nandy Goodson came this morning and tided{tidied?} up the ouse. The soldiers bonus bill has passed yesterday. 01\23\{1936} This has been the coldest day of the winter so far Ther ehemometer{thermometer?} regerstered{registered?} zero here this morning{?} and 10{degree symbol} above is the highest that has been, that was at noon,{,?} and a stiff cold wind has blown from the North West all ay. I have worked in the wheel house makind drum snare tighteners. This evening Clifford German from Wolcott, and Raymond Aubertin of Reedville came for drmming{drumming?} lessons. The main highways are all plowed out of snow through the country. The State had the big plows out all Monday night, but it is dangerous traveling about in the City as the streets are banked with snow and autas/autos{?} cannot pass in many places. The City Government do not seem able to handle the situation. While they have Snow{snow?} removing machines, Steam shovels etc etc{written twice} they have not used them, and{,?} they have only a small force of men shoveling. Before election they had thousands of men working on the streets in order{,?} to get their votes,{,?} Mpw the{they?} claim they have no money with which to hire men. 01\24\{1936} (Friday) Cold day, not so bad as yesterday, I wordked in the Wheel house on the twelve large drums that I am making. There is but little auto travel on the roads, owing to the cold, and dangerous conditions, Many of the country roads ars{are?} not yet plowed out, and our City streets are very narrow, as they only plowed the centers. 01\25\{1936} (Saturday) Cold winder day. Zero this morning and there hs{has?} been no thawing for a week, I worked at drums in the Wheel house most of the day. Mrs Vogle is sick, and has been since last Thursday Nancy Goodson is careing{caring?} for her. 01\26\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Shinn{?} of the West Side{side?} Hill Mehtodist Church preached. Cold day. 01\27\{1936} (Monday) When we got up this morning the ground was covered with snow, At times during{.?} the dy we had flurries of snow but in all there was only about an inch. I did the washing, and put up an moulding board in the pantry and did odd jobs. Very cold all day. Note in margin of text: 14th Snow 1" deep 01\28\{1936} (Tuesday) Six above zero this morning and cold all day 20 above the warmest. I worked in the Wheelhouse, and at the farm cutting up corn stalks, etc. But little travel on the roads on{an?} account of the cold 01\29\{1936} (Wednesday) Cold 4 above this morning, 20 at noon, I worked on drums{?} in the Wheelhouse. 01\30\{1936} (Thursday) Twelve below this morning, and freezing cold all day. I worked at drums in the Wheelhouse and kept warm. I had Hanlon put a new battery in my pcikup, Sent a letter to Edgar L Cotting{?}, of Tupolo{Tupelo?} Miss. 01\31\{1936} (Friday) Four below this morning, and freezing cold all day. I worked on drums in the Wheelhouse, and went ot Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed and 50 lgs of hay salt. Last night, Clifford German an{and?} Raymond Aubertin, were here for drumming lessons. 02\01\{1936} (Saturday) Four above zero this morning. Eighteen above the highest freezing cold day. The paper to day stated that Ralph Pierpont and Lais Gillette{?} are to be married at the Mill Plain Church the 24th of the month, at 2 o'clock. I have worked in the Wheelhouse on drums, and this forenoon in the blacksmith shop sharpeneing tools or the Calvary Cemetery. 02\02\{1936} (Sunday) Four above zero this morning,{,?} Twenty above at noon, and freezing cold all day. Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mortimer Owen{?} preached. This afternoon Mrs Vogel's brother came from New York and cut Mary's hair bob short, because she is unable to comb and braid it any more. Two weeks ago to day it snowed, and it has not thawed since, and all the roads except the main ones, are covered with hard snow so cars skid everywhere, many do not use chains, and the cars have a hard time to get along if the tires are worn{?} a little,{,?} Some of the non skid new tires go very well. 02\03\{1935} (Monday) Twelve below zero this morning, ut in the afternoon the themometer{thermometer?} went up to 22{degree symbol} above at four o'clock and now it is snowing at 9 o'clock. I did the washing this morning, then went to the arm, and worked in the Wheelhouse on drums{,?} in the afternoon. We received a letter from Irving written.{.?} a week ago Sunday. From King Solomond {Solomon's?} mine, mailed at Black Bear P.O. Siskiyou{?} County Calafornia{California?}, {new paragraph?} Getting to the Mine on the mountains was hard as the snow was so deep that it took eight days to travel 150 miles. To some of the Camps the only way they get mails and food in{?} is by pack mules, 10 a a time, the mules wear snow shoes 12" square to hold them up in passing over 40' drifts. 02\04\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning 20{degree symbol} above zero. To night 32 above with little fine rain. I put a pilot light in our sitting roon{room?} so that we could till/tell{?} when the cellar light is on, I am apt to leave in{it?} on all night. I have not done much to day. Shoveled out the long street path etc.{.?} did chores at the farm. 02\05\{1936} (Wednesday) Not so cold to day. Thawed quite a little,{,?} {new paragraph?} I repaired Mrs Vogels bath room door, and our up stairs East room door, Then I went to town did some Bank business, then pair various bills etc, Then I came{come?} to the factory of The International Siler Co, and Mr Warner the Supertendant{Superintendent?}, showed me about, which interested me very much. 02\06\{1936} (Thursday) To day it is cold again, freezing hard all day. {ne paragraph?} I orked in th Wheelhouse, making Snare tighteners for drums. This evening Mr German brought his son Clifford for a drumming lesson, he is making good progress. 02\07\{1936} (Friday) Very cold day. I repaired some Snow plow irons for the Calvary Cemetery this morning. Have been to the farm, and the rest of the time I made snare tighteners in the Wheel house. 02\08\{1936} (Saturday) Cold all day. Thoedore Kirtz called to day and showed me a drum that he got in Plainville. I worked in the Sheelhouse making snare tighteners. {new paragraph?} The young people have mad a nice ice polo square at East Farms East of the Cemetery, and were playing there to day. 02\09\{1936} (Sunday) It bean snowing at 8 o'clock this morning and nowed hard till about 3 P.M. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev F. L Sinclair{?} of All Soles{Souls?} Episcopal Church preached, I went to th farm and did the chores there, and after the snow stoped I dug out the paths Note in margin of text: 16th Snow 6" deep 02\10^{1936} (Monday) 12 below zero this morning and very cold all day. I did the washing this morning, and sharpened a lot of hand drills for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon went to the farm, and worked in the Wheelhouse till dark. About eight. The Citiaens Coal Co delievered a ton of soft coal, with the weather at zero. 02\11\{1936} (Tuesday) 15{degree symbol} below zero this morning and freezing cold all, day. {new paragraph?} I sharpened tools for the Calvary Cemetery all the forenoon, Went for the farm in the afternoon and.{.?} worked in the Wheelhouse. 02\12\{1936} (Wednesday) Six above this morning and freezing cold all day. I worked ]in the Wheelhouse most of the day. The Waterbury American, printed this evening that Mr George S Goddard of Hartford State Litirarian{?} died, I have had much to do with him, regarding historical matters. {new paragraph?} Mr and Mrs William Gillette and Lois called this evening and invited us to Lais{Lois?} wedding which is to take place the 24. 02\13\{1936} (Thursday) Snowed all day, I worked in the Wheel house the greater part of the day. This evening Clifford German came for a drumming lesson. Note in margin of text: 17th Snow 2 1/2" fell 02\14\{1936} (Friday) The snow continued to fall during the night and kept{?} on till about three in the{.?} afternoon, in all about seven inches fell. I went to town this forenoon, After dinner I went to the farm and did the chores, then came home and shoveled snow till after dark. 02\15\{1936} (Saturday) To day it has thawed some, Themometer{Thermometer?} reached 40 above at noon, This is the first that it has thawed since the 18th of January. A long freezing cold spell. I worked in the Wheelhouse making snare tighteners. 02\16\{1936} (Sunday) To day has not been very cold, but very slippery. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev F H Roberts{?} preached. Raymond got burned about the face and hands while at his electrical work at the factory. 02\17\{1936} (Monday) This forenoon I did the washing, then repaired my tire chains.{.?} This morning Every/every{?} road was covered with ice, and people slipped about,{,?} women fell down and cars skidded, but it came warm and thawed much, I went to the farm and got in a shock of corn stalks, and cut some up, etc. 02\18\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning it rained and at eight it turned into snow and snowed hard till noon, when it came off cold, I worked in the Wheelhouse in the forenoon, and went to the farm on the Cheshire Bus,{,?} after I got home, spent the rest of the time digging out the paths. Charles Belding{?} a tailor who I went to school with was buried in Riverside Cemetery{?} this afternoon,{,?} he was 74. Frances Cole{?} formerly of Wolcott, now of Woodbury, was buried in the Center Wolcott Cemetery this afternoon,{,?} Both died Sunday. Note in margin of text: 18 Snow 4" fell. 02\19\{1936} (Wednesday) {Wendesday written in text} Cold day 2 below this morning Staid in the house and wrote Geneology Records for Mr Edgar L Cotting of Tupela/Tupelo{?} Miss.{?} 02\20\{1936} (Thursday) Colder day 20{degree symbol} below this morning, I wrote a spell and orked in the Wheelhouse making snare tighteners. This afternoon I got my truck out and strted to go to Cheshre for feed, but when I got into the street there as a tractor coming towing a large truck that was beok{broke?} down,{,?} and I backed to get out of the way and backed into a car and dented the fender, I went to Hanlans to get it fixed. Then put my car up and went ot the farm on a bus, as the roads were terribley{terribly?} slippery. 02\21\{1936} (Friday) 12 below this morning, thawed a little at noon. In the forenoon I went to the Cheshire Grain & Coal Co and got two bags of feed. The road was a glair{glare?} of hard ice all the way,{,?} it had een sanded much of the way. I have emergency chains on and drove slow, and got along all right. Worked in the Wheelhouse the rest of the time. 02\22\{1936} (Saturday) Washingtons{?} birth day. We put the flgg{flag?} up on the pole on the barn. The day has been cold for the most part, but it thawed some during the middle of the day. I have worked in the Wheelhouse at snare tighteners{tightenere?}. 02\23\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev J. D. Walker{?}.{.?} of the Second Congregational Church preached. Ray called this afternoon,{,?} It has thawed some 02\24\{1936} (Monday) An eventful day for Mary and I. This morning I did the washing the hung it on the lines, Then I started for the farm, But as I was leaving Ruth Brundage came. She having came{?} from Storrs{?} the night before and staid ar{at?} Reutters{?}. Before I got back she had sent my suti to be pressed and was busy{.?} doing everything, pressing Marys dress and getting everything ready, for the weeing{.?} of Ralph Pierpont and Lois Gillette{?}, which was to take place At Trinity Church at two o'clock. We were to have dinner at Margarets this being her birthday. I took my car and carried Mary and Ruth down and brought the car back and put it up, The reason of this was, the roads are very narrow on account of the deep snow,{,?} and coated with ice, and many cars are damaged on account of other cars skidding into them, So I walked down and had my dinner. After a time Vincent and Betty came as did Jack and Peggy. Then Margaret and Cliff loaded into Vincents car and Ruth Peggy Mary and I into Jack Brundage's{?} car and we all went to Trinity Church on Prospect St where was held the grandes wedding I ever saw. The ceremony was preformed{performed?} by Rev Henry Baldwin Todd{?}, former ector{.?} of Trinity Church, assisted by the present rector{.?} Rev Roger B F.{?} Anderson{?}. The Church was well filled, and a recepton{reception?} followed at Th{The?} Gillette home on Farnam Ave.{?} Bunker hill, at which many attended, Late in the afternoon they left for a trip through the south, {new paragraph?} They had some trouble in getting away, as someone plugged the keyholes to their car, and as they started someone disvonnected the wires, and several started to persue{pursue?}, but Manfield Gillitte/Gillette{?} who was driving started the car down the grade and while it was moving connected the wires, and some one drove their{?} car across the mouth of the street, Ono ff {One of?} the persuers{pursuers?} attempting to pass round the car and over a great pile of snow got hung up on the pile which raised the hind wheels clear and they spun, This completely blocked the street and Ralph and Lois got away. 02\25\{1936} (Tuesday) To day has been warmer and thawed much, I worked in the Wheelhouse making a machine to flut the snare tighteners. 02\26\{1936} (Wednesday) It has thawed to day. I got in a stack{?} of cornstalks at he farm, it required much woak/work{?} as the snow was three feet deep about them and had to be dug away so that I could chop them free from the ground as they were frozen down tight. 02\27\{1935} (Thursday) Not very cold to day, it thawed much, I worked in the Wheel house making Snare tighteners. Ray brought out five gallons of paint that came from Cleveland{.?} by freight. 02\28\{1936} (Friday) Thawed much to day, I worked in{?} the Wheelhouse at drums. 02\29\{1936} (Saturday) Thawed some I worked in the Wheelhouse. Pur{Put?} the new 1936 markers on my cars.{.?} Worked at drums. 03\01\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Gormer Lewis{?} of the third Congregational Church preached. This afternoon we went up to Woodtick and visited cousin Bert Frisbie. 03\02\{1936} (Monday) I ran the washing machine and did the wshing this moring{morning?}, I then did odd jobs about the place and at the farm. 03\03\{1936} (Tuesday) This has been a nice warm day, about all of the snow that fell during the night has melted, I choped down one of the large willow trees at the{.?} lower end of my home lot. Note in margin of text: 19th Snow 2" fell. 03\04\{1936} (Wednesday) Mailed letter to Mrs James Upson of Southington. Weather has been warm, much snow melted. Arthur and Mildred Bird called. I worked cutting down large willow trees at the foot{?} of the home lot, they{there?} were whips that I stuck in the ground eleven years ago, now they are 13" in diameter and very tall. 03\05\{1936} (Thursday) I cleaned the spring and repaired the watering trough at the farm, Then I cut wood a spell till it began to snow, Then I finished marking the twelve new drums that I am making and put them up in the barn. Note in the margin of text: 20th Snow{snow?} 2 1/2" fell 03\06\{1936} (Friday) This morning I made snow paths all about, then went to he farm, and did the chores,{?} Then home and cut up wood the rest of the day. It has thawed some, but came cold towards night. 03\07\{1936} (Saturday) I went to the farm this morning, and did the chores. Then ame home and filed my little cross cut saw, Jimmie Egan{?} came and we sawed up a willow log before noon. In the afternoon{?} we cut up the rest of the wood. This evening I attended a banquet, {,?} given by the Maple Hill Club, at which the fathers were invited. 03\08\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev William Dickinson{?} of St Pauls Methodist Church preached We staid home all the afternoon. 03\09\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, then cleaned out the chicken coop, and went to the farm and got in a stock{stack?} of corn stalks, and cut up some of them. Wailliam{William?} Garrigus{?} & Son and{?} others are repairing and painting the interior of the house owned by M.E.{?} Pierpont opposite my watering trough at East Farms for Ralph Pierpont and wife who are now on their way home from Florida where they have been on their wedding trip. 03\10\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I cut up brush wood, Went to the farm in the{.?} afternoon and trimmed one row of appletrees. 03\11\{1936} (Wednesday) Rained hard all day. I cleaned{?} the chicken coop,{,?} and repaired the front fence. After dinner Teddy Vogel{?} and I went to the farm{?} and did the chores. FWhen{When?} we were leaving Ralph Pierpont and is new wife came out of their house and got into their auto and drove towards town. 03\12\{1936} (Thursday) This morning the streams were very high,{,?} the heavy rain of yesterday and last night{,?} having caused them to rise. I never knew so much water in my cellar. I repaired the front fence, and cut brushwood at the farm. This evening Clifford German{?} and Ray{?} came for drumming lessons. Mr Kirtz called,{,?} he had his book{.?} of drums. 03\13\{1936} (Friday) I repaired blinds most of the day. Weather has been chilly. Yesterday morning the dam on Beaver Pond Brook just above the Scott Road washed awaw{away?}, as did the dam below the said road, which took away the bridge and washed out the road that goes over to the Scoville Property and by the house, {new paragraph?} That same dam, and a Saw Mill that stood just below it was carried away by the great fobd{flood?} of Oct 9, 1869. When the Beaver Pond Brook, and Mad river were higher than I have ever seen them since, and the old people at that time said they had never knew the water to be so high. On the Mad River, The Paper Mill Lam{Dam?} at Woodtick was carried away. The bridge on the Woodtick road was deep under water but remained. The Meriden Road bridge was swept away,{,?} The East Main St bridg{bridge?}{.?} remained, But the road east of the bridge which was low at that time was badly gullied{?} out for some distance. The Plank rood{road?} bridge was secured by a large chain, but it swung around on the West bank, Te{The?} bridge over Beaver Pond Brook here it empties into Mod/Mad{?} River{?} was swept away. {new paragraph?} The dyke at the North West end of the Bross{Brass?} Mill Pond gave way and did great damage to the rood{road?} an{and?} property below. Part of the dam of Rogers & Brother, was swept away,{,?} as was the Dublin St stone bridge of two arches. The Baldwin St stone bridge of two arches was washed away. Morris Garigan{?} went down with the bridge and lost his life. The next bridge at that time{.?} was the South Main St bridge which they{?} secured with ropes so it did not go down. 03\14\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Al Crandall{?} came and we painted the East side of the barn, which took till noon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and did the chores there and then repaired my 24' ladder, etc. By noon the snow had all gone. Note in margin of text: 21{.?} Snow About 1 1/2" fell 03\15\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev David P. Ganes{?} preached. This afternoon I went down town and saw{.?} the St Patricks parade. 03\16\{1938} (Monday) Did the Washing this morning and went to the farm, This afternoon {blank space in text} Robinson came and we painted the North end of the barn. 03\17\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to{.?} town and did several errands, {new paragraph?} After dinner a man came and examined the telephone and decided it best to put in a new one. After which Francis Robinson{?}, Ted, and I went to the farm and I planted six rows of peas, while Francis{?} cut up Corn stalks, after we got home, We worked on drums, Weather has been damp with some rain. 03\18\{1936} (Wednesday) Rained all last night and to day. This forenoon I repaired blinds,{,?} This afternoon Francis Robinson{?} rubbed{?} down drum shells and I painted drum rims red. There are reports of much damage done by high water, The dam at new Hartford on the Farmington river has broke away, causing many buildings{?} and bridges to go down. About here bu tlittle damage has been{?} done as I have heard 03\19\{1936} (Thursday) Painted blinds this forenoon, In the afternoon I and Francis Robinson went to the farm and I trimmed appletrees and he cut brushwood. Great Floods in the Connecticut River, Water the highest ever known and still rising. 03\20\{1936} (Friday) I finished trimming appletrees at the farm. The Connecticut river is still rising and has caused about $5,000.000 damage at Hartford. The water is up to Main St. and highest ever known and still rising, Boy scouts are canvassing this neighborhood for funds to aid the suffering people who have been driven from their homes. 03\21\{1938} (Saturday) Rained hard this morning, but stoped before noon. This afternoon I went to the farm and drew two loads{?} of manure up on the hill and spread it under appletrees. This morning I cleaned the East Room on the third floor, and took off the blinds to paint them. I also worked on the new drums, and repaired the door to the drum room. The high water in the Connecticu River has reached 37 feet the highest ever known, and is still rising.{.?} at Hartford. All of the roads are overflowed so there is no way to get into the City only from the West. At Middletown the water is touching the flooring of the bridge to Portland,{,?} and the City is nearly surrounded by water, and no road open only from Durham. 03\22\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev John Lewis of St Johns Church preached. This afternoon Margaret Cliff, Bob Hill, Mary and I.{.?} went to see the high water at Middletown. To day the water reached a hight{height?} of 37.5 feet the highest ever known. All of the roods{roads?} leading into the City are under water except the one from Durham. We went there, But the State Poliece{Police?} would not let us go any farther{further?}, They turned all back only those living there. We got within five miles. 03\23\{1936} (Monday) I did the washing this morning, and the chores at the farm Margaret called up and told tha the Red Cross wished her to take some supplies to New Haven.{.?} and we could go and from New Haven we would go to Middletown and view the flood in the Connecticut River. She called about 2.30 Bob Hill drove, and anolher{another?} Bob{.?} and a girl between occupted/occupied{?} the front seat. Mary, Margaret, and I the back seat, We went dwon through Prospect, to No 89 Sheldon Ave where we left the Red Cross goods, and then out State St onto the Durham Road to Middletown There we drove down to the water from Main St. The river had been to a hight{height?} of 37.5 ft but had gone down about five feet,{?} but the low street, Rail Rood{Road?} and the lower stories of many houses were under water. About 700 people hod/had{?} been driven from their homes, and were quartered in Churches, School Houses etc {new paragraph?} Many of the Barns, Sheds, Girages{Garages?} etc had been secured by ropes, and Cables, and in one place other buildings planks, and lumber had drifted against them and made{?} a great pile of Wreckage. The river was just touching the cross girders of the Portland Bridge, When the water was at its hight{height?} the{they?} said it was even with the floor plank. A lot of rubbish,{,?} timbers, trees etc had lodged.{.?} against it and extended under and below it and was serving to hold the{?} water back and making a great pressure against the bridge which is over 1000 ft long which caused some alarm for fear it might{?} push the high pears{?} over. So they were setting off great charges of dynimite{dynamite?} in the obstructions, which seemed to have but little effect as far as we could see. The only road that we could drive out of the City on was to Durham 5 miles then North 5 miles to the Meriden road 10 miles to get 4 could we have come strait. 03\24\{1936} (Tuesday) To day Francis Robinson and I painted the South end and West Side of the barn. 03\25\{1936} (Wednesday) I painted the South end of the Girage{Garage?} to day. This afternoon late I went out to the Hall place{Place?} and engaged Mrs Thompson to come tomorrow. 03\26\{1936} (Thursday) To dy{To day?} Mrs Thompson came to help stiad from8.30 to 1.30 paid her 1.00.00{100.00?} I painted the West side of the girage{garage?} this forenoon, This{.?} afternoon Francis Robinson came and we finished it. Weather has been fair and warm William Jones{?} died to day. 03\27\{1936} (Friday) It has rained all day, I mixed paint this morning, after I had got breakfast, and after Mrs Thompson{?} came. This afternoon Francis Robinson came{,?} and we rigged up the paint mill dnd/and{?} Francis ran some through, then we went to the farm and Francis cut up a stack of Corn stolks/stalks{?} while I took a load of manure upon the hill and put it under thi/the{?} appletrees. Then we came home and Francis finished grinding four gallons of paint, Whil I took{.?} care of the chickens, I got 18 eggs. 03\28\{1936} (Saturday) This morning I got breakfast, and after Francis came we painted the Wheelhouse, and then the Woodhouse{Wood house?}. Mrs Thompson came and worked till four Mr Walker came and informed me that I drew 5.00 worth of groceries at the mens Circus at the Mill Plain Church last night. 03\29\{1936} (Sunday) Nice sunny warm day. Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Waights G Henry Jr{?} assistant at Bunker Hill Congregational Church preached. We staid home all the afternoon. Margaret told us to day that Cliff had been retired on a small pension. 03\30\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, Mrs Thompson came about eight. After I was through with the wash, I took my pickup car and went to the grocery store at the fork of the Wolcott and East Main Sts and got 5.00 worth of goods that I drew at the Mens Circus last week, but when I came to leav the gears were locked on my car and I could not go forward as back, I went to an Oil station near by and a man there brought me to Hanlons station{?} and Mr Hanlon went down and got it so I drove it up to his place and it is there now. I then painted the South end of my Girage{Garage?} a second coat,{,?} and after dinner Francis Robinson came and he painted the North end of the Girage{Garage?} the South end of the Wheel house.{.?} the second coat, and the North side of the Engine house, while I was painting on the chcken coop. Mary is very feeble, but cheerful.{.?} 03/31/{1936} (Tuesday) I painted part of the chicken coop and Engine House. Went to the farm and then to The Strass Hardware Co and got 50 lbs of white lead,{,?} then to the East End Hardware Co{.?} and got Lampblack, Dryers, and turpentine,{,?} came home and helped Frances{?} paint on fence. Mrs Thompson came and worked. 04\01\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning it was rather Cold. After breakfast I repaired and then painted some on the front fence, then I went to the East End Hardware Co and got three gallons of linseeis/linseed{?} oil for .85 per gal. I then went to the farm, stopping at pine tree and got five gallons of gas for 88 cts, at the farm I loaded up a load of wood in{?} my little truck.{.?} and got some of the stones off the garden, then came home, After dinner I put the wood in the Woodhouse and after Francis Robinson came we ground four gallons of white paint, and we painted on the front fence. Mrs Thompson came and washed the sitting room curtains elc.{etc.?} Some body stole 18 of my hens last nights. 04\02\{1936} (Thursday) It has rained more{?} or less all day. This morning I went to the farm and got the stones off the garden etc. This afternoon Francis{?} painted most of the drum rime{rim?}, and I stained the shells Mrs Thompson came to day. 04\03\{1936} (Friday) Did chores at the farm, And went to town this morning. This afternoon Francis and I painted Mrs Thompson came. 04\04\{1936} (Saturday) Francis came and we painted nearly all day. Ray had the truck to draw bricks, from the West.{.?} Brass Mill to his home.{.?} Mrs Thompson Came 04\05\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended Church at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Roscoe Nelson preached, They say he is from Hartford. 04\06\{1936} (Monday) Rained all day This afternoon Francis{?} and I put tacks in drums etc.{.?} 04\07\{1936} (Tuesday) Rained all day, I put tacks in drums, Francis not here.{.?} 04\08\{1936} (Wednesday) Francis and I trimmed the barns, I repaired chicken house and painted on the Girage{Garage?}. 04\09\{1936} (Thursday) I went to Bristol this morning and bought two Baldwin appletrees, came hom at 8.30 had breakfast then painted on the Wheelhouse putting on the trim. This aflernoon/afternoon{?} went to the farm and set the trees out, and Francis and I cut up the brush in the orchard on the hill. 04\10\{1936} (Friday) Francic/Francis{?} and I painted the trimmings on the North end of the Wheelhouse, and put tacks in drums. This is Fast day. Rained this forenoon. 04\11\{1936} (Saturday) Rained hard nearly all day. Francis and I put brass headed nails in drums. 04\12\{1936} (Sunday) Easter Sunday. Church well filled, Rev Wesley.{.?} U Riedel{?} afficiated/officiated{?}, three two woman and Fred Froskie{?} joined. 04\13\{1936} (Monday) Rained nearly all day. Francis and I worked on drums. and trimmed the upper North end of Barn. Mary fell to night. 04\14\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and cut up some corn stalks, then I cultivated the lowed half of the garden, then I came home and drew the water out of my cars, and put fresh water in. Francis came and we took down{.?} the flag pole and painted the lrim/trim{?} on the Barn etc.{.?} I took my truck down to Dans/Dons{?} and had the tire fixed Mary has been in bed all day.{.?} Dr Barber called this evening and says that she must stay in bed for a week, that she hurt her hip when she fell. 04\15\{1936} (Wednesday) Rained nearly all day This morning I went up to{.?} the Barbers{.?} and had my hair cut and a shave .75 cts then went to Goodsons in Wolcott, no one at home. Then went to Cottage place and parked my car, and to the Manufacturers bank and got checks cashed, then to the Apothecaries Hall and bought a book of gold leaf and varnish etc. came home, and out to the Farm{.?} did chores there, and worked about home all the afternoon, Went to Goodsons and engaged a girl to come and slay{stay?} afternoons with{.?} Mary. Rev Mr Todd{?} and wife called this aflernoon/afternoon{?}. 04\16\{1936} (Thursday) This day has been cold and windy I went to the farm and did chores. Then Francis and{.?} I painted the yard gates and fence. I at 3 went to Woodtick school and got Rosemary Goodson to come and stay with Mary, took her home again. 04\17\{1936} (Friday) This day has been cold and windy, but it did not rain. I apinted about the Chicken yard all day. Mrs Thompson came at 8.15.{.?} Miss Goodson came 3.45 Ruth and Jack called in the evening, Mary is so lame that she is hardly able to move in bed. 04\18\{1936} (Saturday) Cold and saw weather. Francis and I finished painting the Chicken yard, and the door to the shed, Then we went to building a new fence East opf the garden. Mrs Thompson came, and at three I went and got Rosemary Gibson. 04\19\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service a{at?} the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Thomos/Thomas{?} Chappell{?} assistant at St Johns preached. Mrs Thompson came this morning, stayed till one Dr Barber called,{,?} said Mary must lie in bed a week longer, Mary is loosing gradually, growing weaker all the time. 04\20\{1936} (Monday) I did the washing this morning. Mrs Thompson came and hung the clothes out. This afternoon Francis came and we worked on the fence East of the garden. Mis{Miss?} Goodson came the aflernoon/afternoon{?}. 04\21\{1936} (Tuesday) To day has been clear and rather cool. Mrs Thompson came this mornind{morning?} at 8.15 and staid till after one, Soon after Mrs Crose called, and I with Francis went to the farm, and staid till six, after I had gone Mrs Moulthrop called as also did Mrs Harlod{Harold?} Pierpont, and Mrs Vogle came down and found Mary alone,{,?} (She usually staid with her afternoons especially when Rosemary was here,) and telephoned Margaret who immidialely/immediately{?} came, and was here when I came. {new paragraph?} We agreed and she telephoned Mrs Pierce of Waterville to come and care for Mary all the time for 15.00 per week. 04\22\{1936} (Wednesday) To day has been clear and cool, I worked about home all the forenoon, at one o clock I went to Mr Williams on Downs St in Waterville and got Mrs Pierce{?} and brought here here, Mrs Thompson went away after I paid her 1.00 I took my car to Dons{.?} and had the horn repaired, after which Francis and I went to the farm, and we cultivated he appletrees{?} in the Barn lot, after which I drew two loads of manure up on the hill, and he cut up brush. Mary seemed brighter to day, but her mind wanders some. 04\23\{1936} (Thursday) Mrs Pierce got the breakfast this morning before eight a clock{o'clock?}, and I went to the farm and howed the peas and trimmed two grape vines, and drew two loads of manure up on the hill. Came home and had dinner then went to Kunkets drug store and got alcohol, and to the A. & P. and got Fish st___, oranges, Tapaoka{Tapioca?}. To the East End Hardware, and got bolts, Bulbes{Bulbs?}, etc. Then to Dons and got 5 galls of gas. Then Francis came and we went to Cheshire and got 50 lbs white lead. Then to the farm and We cullivated/cultivated{?} berries, then cultivated appletrees on the hill and brought down a load of brush wood. Clifford German came to night for a drum lesson. 04\24\{1936} (Friday) This day has been fair and cool. I went this morning to the Department of Motor Vhicles on Watertown{.?} Ave and got{.?} my Drivers License for the coming year paid 3.00 Then I parked my car at a yard on Cottage place.15.cts I then went to th manufacturers bank and got a check cashed. Then pay my telephone bill 3.07 then to cor of Meadow and Benedict Sts and bought some cememt{cement?} to repair grave stones, and then home, and to the A. & P. Store on E. Main. St and got 1/2 pk of greens and at the East End Hardware and got 3 gals of linseed oil @.90 = 2.70 This afternoon Francis and I worked at the farm. Albert Blanchard put a trap in our Sink pipe 3.90 04\25\{1936} (Saturday) Clear and Cool. Heavy frost this morning. Francis Robinson came and we went to the farm and planted Leittice{Lettuce?}, Onions, and Radish, and repaired the driveway{?} above the gate. Then we howed over part of the garden above the barn, and after dinner sawed up a {an?} appletree log at the ledge, and repaired the fence there, and howed two roes{rows?} of Rasp berries. Workmen have began drilling in the old pavement on East Main St from the bridge to Calvary Cemetery gate preparetory{preparatory?} to putting in a new pavement. 04\26\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev T/F{?} Bobolin{?} Preached. I did the chores at the farm and staid home the rest of the day. Daylight Saving/saving{?} time started to day. 04\27\{1936} (Monday) This morning I went to the store and got groceries and meat. Then out to the farm. Howed Rasp berries, and plowed about the appletrees on the hill. Francis Robinson began painting the Cemetery Fence.3 1/2 hr 04\28\{1936} (Tuesday) I plowed about appletrees on the hill etc Francis Painted on Cemetery fence 3 1/2 hr 04\29\{1936} (Wednesday) Weather Perfect. I plowed and cuttivated/cultivated{?} under the appletrees on the hill.{.?} etc Francis painted on the Cemetery fence. 04\30\{1936} (Thursday) Very pleant{?} day. This forenoon I worked at the farm, Francis painted the Cemetery fence. Mrs Pierce had afternoon off Margaret called,{,?} and staid all the afternoon Ferris Turkington{?} and daughter called, I pained on the new wire fence East of the garden. 05\01\{1936} (Friday) This forenoon I took a load of manure on the hill, and then killed worms nests on the trees. This afternoon I worked in the Cemetery 3 hr. setting stones etc. 05\02\{1936} (Saturday) Very pleasant day Francis and I worked in the East{.?} Farms Cemetery till three, Frank called and brought me some polatoes/potatoes{?} from Kent. He was on his way to a Sheepshearing contest to be held at Old Farms Avon. This afternoon Francis killed many worms nests, and we gathered in the signs "No Trespass" to have them paint__{painted?} over. 05\03\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at Mill Plan{Plain?} Rev Harald{?} Craw{?} preached Rained all the afternoon, with thunder and lightening 05\04\{1936} (Monday) Dr Barber called and found Mary better. This morning I sharpened picks for Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon Francis Robinson and I worked{?} on drums and I varnished them. Rained till middle of afternoon. 05\05\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to town and got my pension check cashed, then went to City Hall and got Marys{?} tax bill. Came home and worked in the garden till noon. After noon Francis and I went to the farm and I took a load of manure up on the hill, and then hand hoed under the appletrees, and got the stones off. Mary sat up to day. 05\06\{1936} (Wednesday) This{.?} morning I went up on East Mountain and got a load of sand and took it up to the Maple Hills Boys Club at Hitchcocks pond{?}, then I went to the farm and plowed. This afternoon Mr Thomas Barbour{?} or Portland a State Highway Right-of-way agent called to see me about property on the East Bristol Road in Wolcott, and Mr Saunders{?} of South Meriden called to see the new drums that I am making. I then went to the farm and plowed. 05\07\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I went and got 25 pounds of White Lead{?} of{?} the Stross Co.{?} for 2.90 then, got groceries and seeds, then went to the farm, and hoed the rasp berries. This afternoon, I staid home all the time as Mrs Pierce{?} had the afternoon off. Margaret came and said that Dick Miller had just came{come?} from Toronto, and is to stay at hir/her{?} house for some time. 05\08\{1936} (Friday) I plowed on the Hill for pototoes/potatoes{?} and Corn nearly all day. Weather has been very hot. 05\09\{1936} (Saturday) I plowed harrowed, and bushed{?} the Corn and Potatoe{?} land on the Hill Francis killed the worms nests {-?} in the lower lot, and helped{?} me mark the rows for the potatoes and corn. 05\10\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev D. P. Gains{?}, preached. Dick met me at the door and sat with me. In the afternoon John Heinion and I went to the South end of the Scott road and explores it{.?} clear up through. We also went over on the old Bound Line road{?} and visited the site of the Old Daniel Baldwin and Peter.{.?} Gilkey{?} places. Weather fine.{.?} 05\11\{1936} (Monday) Weather fair and nice. I worked all the forenoon furrowing{furowing?} out for potatoes. In the afternoon Dick and Francis helped me and we{.?} planted more than half of the piece. 05\12\{1936} (Tuesday) This forenoon I furrowed out and planted potatoes. This afternoon after francis{Francis?} came we finished planting potatoes and put the chicken droppings in the corn furrows. The weather has been very warm. 05\13\{1936} (Wednesday) I went to the bank and got Mr Todds check cashed. Came home and went to Cheshire and got seed oats, then came to the farm and cultivated under the appletrees in the{.?} barn lot. This afternoon it rained all the time. Francis and me sprouted the potatoes{.?} in the cellar and cleaned the cold storage{?} celler{cellar?} out. Francis turned out some knobs for the posts of the fence East of the garden{?} 05\14\{136} (Thursday) This morning I planted three small pieces of oats. This afternoon Mrs Pierce had off.{.?} I staid about home. Margaret came after three. Dick had been to Tarrington{?} and came when he got home. Weather has been cold Francis mowed the front yard. 05\15\{1936} (Friday) A heavy frost this morning. Dick came and we made a beam for a heavy plow for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon Francis, Dick and I went to the farm. They finished plainting the potatoes, I bushed the peas and we all{?} howed in the gardin{garden?}. The Steam Shovel is now working in front of the Waiting Station. Having dug out half of the width of the street from the bridge up 05\16\1936{Saturday) Cool pleasant day. Francis and I went to the farm, and planted garden etc. 05\17\{1936} (Sunday) Dick and I went to Kent. 05\18\{1936} (Monday) Planted corn on the hill, and got{?} ground ready in shed lot. 05\19\{1936} (Tuesday) Dick and I planted corn at the farm. In the afternoon He Francis and I built nearly a new wheelbarrow shed. 05\20\{1936} (Wednesday) I went to town this morning and paid taxes and other bills,{,?} at the farm in the afternoon. 05\21\{1936} (Thursday) Mrs Pierce{?} was off this afternoon and I worked on{?} the wheelbarrow shed. Francis painted at the cemetery. Dick and I went to Wolcott and looked up records{?} and especially the Layout of the Todd road. The City commenced poring{pouring?} concrete on the street 05\22\{1936} (Friday) Dick and I started surveying the piece of land owned by Bessie Pierpont at the junction of the Todd road and Lewis avenue, Francis helped in the afternoon. I worked eight hours. Francis finished painting the Cemetery fence. 05\23\{1936} (Saturday) Dick,{,?} I and Francis worked Seven{seven?} hours and a half running and chaining the line on the East side of Bessie Pierponts lot. We then went to Cheshire for chicken feed but the store was closed. This evening I went to the Wolcott Fair Grounds with the Maple Hill Boys and practiced drumming 05\24\{1936} (Sunday) Fine pleasant Day Sunday. The City men have worked in front of the house all day, getting the old road dug up ready to put in the iron forms,{,?} for the concrete on the first lane, there is to be four lanes,{,?} and they have changed over the cross over{crossover?} for the Frost Road by moving it farther East. I did not go to Church as when I went to start my{.?} car the battery was dead. This{.?} afternoon Ruth and Jack with __________ and Peggy called, Ruth staid here all the afternoon, And they took me and we went to Jacks Fathers, Brundage farm in Danbury. I saw some fine vegtables{vegetables?} growing,{,?} they shoed me about{.?} 1800 young chicks, and hundreds of hens{?}. There were many autos on the road, in Middlebury were stationed two state Poliece{Police?} who made every driver show their licence's{licenses?}. 05\25\{1936} (Monday) Dick came at{.?} 8 o'clock and we went surveying at Bessie Pierponts{.?} lot. We ran over the East line, and got an opening throught the brush for dale ave. I in the afternoon,{,?} Francis helped. Dick and I were there 7 hours 05\26\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning the Great concrete miring{mixing?} machine.{.?} that cost the City.{.?} $18.ooo was in front of our gate putting down the new road. I watched it operate a while, till Dick came He went to work on maps, and I went to the farm and howed the weeds out of the potatoes and corm{corn?}. Ine{In?} the afternoon Mary gave me an Order on the Bank and I went down and drew $50.00. I came home and Francis and I went to the farm and finished hoeing the corn and polatoes{potatoes?}, and I hoed some in the garden. 05\27\{1936} (Wednesday) To day I worked with Dick surveying on the Todd Rood{Road?} and Lewis Avenue. It rained and we went to Wolcott Center and looked up Records. 8 hours We stoped at Charles Tuttle's as/a{?} short time. This evening Clifford German came for a drumming lesson. 05\28\{1936} (Thursday) This forenoon I was with Dick three hours. Mrs Pierce had the afternoon off and I stayed home. Dick came and made maps. Francis came and made knobs for the fence. This evening the Maple hill Boys came and got their drums, and went to the Wolcott Fair Grounds to practice. 05\29\{1936} (Friday) This morning I went surveying with Dick. H_{He?} was called to go to the American Brass Co,{,?} and was given work,{,?} and is to report Monday morning. We went out to the job gain in the afternoon calling on the way for Francis, I worked five hours. After we were through, we went to Cheshire and got a bag of feed. 05\30\{1936} (Saturday) Decoration Day. Nice Weather, Rather cool. This morning at 8 I started for Kent with the Maple Hill Drummer boys to play in the Parade in that place. I went in my small car, and took three others,{,?} Fred Froskey/Troskey{?}, Bob Hill, and another. We went through Waterville, Raynolds Bridge, up by the Branch Reservoirs{?}, East Marris/Morris{?}, Marris/Morris{?}, Bantam, Woodville, Warren and over the new road to Kent, where we assembled at the Town Hall. At 10, The line formed and marched. It was composed of Mounted Marshals{Marshalls?} Kent School Band. Men from C.CC. Camps{?}, School children, Bay/Boy{?} and Girl scouts, floats, Firemen. etc We played for the Firemen who atteared{?} in Red shirts, White pants, and fine caps. Marched up Main St {.?} and into the Cemetery back of the Congregational Church We played a dirge after we entered the Cemetery. After the exercieses at this place we marched by{?} was{way?} of a back street to the lower Cemetery, where exercises were held, and then to the soldiers monument at the Center where a memarial/memorial{?} service was held. We were then taken to a large house on the East side of Main St where a fine dinner was served us. Then the Maple Hill boys went up to macadonia Park to the reunion of the native of Kent, and had a fine time I went to Franks, and he showed me his crops, etc after{.?} which we went to the lone{?} grave of John Rogers a Civil War soldier who died of the small pox about 40 years ago and was buried in his own garden at what was then known at{as?} Alder City{?}, on the West side of the Housatonic River, about {-?} 1/2 mile beloy{below?} the North Kent Bridge. The grave is{?} between the rood{road?} and the River, on a bank about 40 ft from the water, A large willow tree stands at he foot, and a smaller maple at the head and about 18 towards the rood{road?} stands a large Locus{Locust?} tree. Frank placed a flag on the grave last night and his children laid flowers. To day{Today?} he put a board at the head Marked John Rogers. Civil War soldier, Died about 40 year ago. aged 42, We then went and viewed the North Kent bridg{bridge?} as it lies by the West bank of the river, much bent and twisted. We reached home before dark. 05\31\{1936} (Sunday) This morning Ray and Ruth Came with their large new Oldsmobile,{,?} and took Mary and I to church, Rev W. Moreton Owen{?} preached. The attendance{?} as about 140 including Choirs, Minister and all. Mrs Pierce went away, and I staryed home all the afternoon Ferris and Lena Turkinton{?} or East Morris called. 06\01\{1936} (Monday) Dick went to work at the American Brass Co this morning. I went to the farm, and cultivated under the appletrees on the hill. Ine{In?} the afternoon FRancis Robinson came, and we picked stones off the Potatoe and Stone lot. 06\02\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning everything was astir{?} about here as the City are poring{pouring?} concrete on the{.?} second lane of the Street by here and are coming up the hill with the great mixer and new spreading machine. This with the Steam roller, rolling down the ground{.?} ahead{-?} of the mixer and all of the five ton trucks bringing crushed stone, Sand and cement, makes a busy time. I went to the farm this morning and drove over the potaloes/potatoes{?} and corn with the weeder, and in the afternoon Francis and I finished picking the stones off. 6 carts loads. 06\03\{1936} (Wednesday) Very hot day. This forenoon I finished making a coop{?} for little chickens, and did a lot of writing etc. In the afternoon I went to the farm and hoed and cultivated the trees in the lower lot. Had a severe shower this evening. 06\04\{1936} (Thursday) Nice Weather to day. I went to Robt Tylers{?} and had soem 48 {.?}surveying stakes made, then wen{went?} to M E Pierponts Dary{Dairy?} and Mort paid me for work done in the Cemetery. Then to the farm and mowed about the barn a little. This afternoon Francis mowed the lawn and I worked in the garden. 06\05\{1936} (Friday) To day I have cullivated/cultivated{?} my potatoes and corn. Francis hoed in the afternoon. The City men have completed the second lane of concrete rood/road{?} from the Bridge to beyond the Calvary Cemetery gate. The weather has been fair to day. 06\06\{1936} (Saturday) I helped Dick survey Mr Theriault's{?} property at the 'old{old?} Todd's Saw Mill place on Lilly Brook in Wolcott. Francis Robinson helped, finished{?} at {.?}3 then went to Bessie's piece{place?} till 5 06\07\{1936} (Sunday) Attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Ray came with his new car and Mary I and Dick went{.?} with them. Rev Matthew Madden preached. At this meeting, I was voted to engage Mr Madden to become the settled{?} minister for one year. 06\08\{1936} (Monday) To day has been very warm. I hoed potaloes/potatoes{?} and corn on the hill all day. This afternoon Francis helped and we finished. This evening Dick{.?} came and finished the drawing{?} and made a tracing of the Theriault Property in Wolcott that we have surveyed. 06\09\{1936} (Tuesday) Warm Dry day. This forenoon I mowed the roodside/roadside{?} at the farm. In the afternoon Francis, the boy, and I went about putting up trespass signs{sighs/} about the farm. This evening Dick and I went to Mr Theriault in Wolcott and took a bleuprint/blueprint of his property. We then went to Bessie Pierponts and saw about some surveying to be done{?}. 06\10\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I went to Thomaston Ave and had my truck tested by the State It passed by recomending{recommending?} a change from a green reflector on the rear end to a red one. I brought it home and then took my little roadster, and that passed. The testers seemed not to be very strict this year. The testing of cars is not very popular, as it takes so much of the owners time, and is very inconvienient{inconvenient?} for those who ork, and it has not amounted to much in rigard/regard{?} to preventing accidents. This afternoon Francis and I cleaned the spring at the farm and then mowed in the Cemetery. This evenind{evening?} Francis and I went with Dick and cut survey lines through the brush at Bessie Pierponts lot on the Todd road, it was hot hard work. 06\11\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Great Atlantic and Pacific sotre and bought a lot of Groceries. Then came home and did odd jobs/Jobs{?} the rest of the day, cut much gra__{grass?}. This afternoon Francis Robinson came and painted the fence East of the garden{?} and the{?} clothes line posts. We guilded the ball on the top of the flg{flag?} pole. The City men are working in the street at our orner getting ready to put down the concrete. They sat that the Waiting Station is to come down. 06\12\{1936} (Friday) This forenoon I worked about home and went to the farm{.?} and planted cabbage etc. This aflernoon/afternoon{?} Francis and I worke_{worked?} mowing the Cemetery, three hours. 06\13\{1936} (Saturday) Rained all day. In the afternoon Dick Francis and I went to the Pierpont tract{.?} and set boundry{boundary?}{.?} stakes. Then we went to Chas Tuttle's and he showed us an{.?} line bound on the Old Bound Line. 06\14\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev John Lewis preached. Mary did not go{.?} as it reined In the afternoon I went __{to?} Chas Tuttle's. 06\15\{1936} (Monday) Rained some most of the day. I mowed about home{?} in the forenoon. In the afternoon Francis and I mowed in the Cemetery. 06\16\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I took my truck to Dons{Dans?} and had a new cap put on the engine. I went to the farm and hoed in the garden. This afternoon Francis and I went{wint?} to the farm and hoed in th gardens. 06\17\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I went to th Colonial Trust Co and got Marys and my Church bonds certificate's{certificates?} cashed, Mary 20.00 mine 28.00 Came home and went to the farm. In the aflernoon/afternoon{?} Francis, his brother{.?} and I took a load of hay out to the farm. 06\18\{1936} (Thursday) This morning The dy{Thedy?} Vogle{?} and I went to the farm and cultivated the apple trees in the lower lot, and some corn in the shed lot. Mrs Pierce was out this afternoon and I stayed a{at?} home, Roll Jenner came and lettered a lot of ard for Pierpont records. 06\19\{1936} (Friday) Rained this morning{.?} I sharpened a lot of picks for the Calvary{.?} Cemetery. This afternoon Francis came and we went to the farm and hoed the corn in the lot West of the shed up the first/ferst{?} hill. This evening I helped Dick survey. Heard to day that Lewis Ovaitt [Oviatt] has died. 06\20\{1036} (Saturday) This morning I went to Dons and had my engine and radiator flushed out with water and air. Then Dick came and we went out to the tract of land{?} between the{.?} Todd Road and Lewis Ave, stopping on the way{.?} and getting{.?} Francis Robinson, and surveyed it, the lower end into building lots and streets. This aternoon, we went over to the old Saw Mill pond to see Mr Della Bello{?} about some surveying,{,?} but he had gone home, We went into the old ice houses and saw{.?} millions of mushroons{mushrooms?}.{.?} growing, then we drove to Mr Garthwaits{?} and had him epair the timer on the car. The weather has been fine. 06\21\{1936} (Sunday) The Pierpont Family Reunion was held to day in the Community house in Morris Center. There were about 150 present. Raymond was President and the presideing officer, and did well. I went in my little ar and took Mary, whe is very feeble. 06\22\{1936} (Monday) To day Francis and I hoed my potatoes and corn. I first ultivaled/cultivated{?} them with the ox. 06\23\{1936} (Tuesday) The City has inslalled/installed{?} a fire hydrant on the opposite corner of the frost road, and workmen are{?} commencing putting in the foundation for a gas station back of the hydrant, where Mr Beebes{?}{.?} GGas station used to be. Francis and I worked in the garden at East Farms his morning. This afternoon He put arsnate of lead on the potatoes while I cultavated{cultivated?} under the appletrees on the hill. This evening Francis and I went surveying with Dick. 06\24\{1936} (Wednesday) Rained this morning,{,?} I worked about home. This afternoon I went to the farm and hoed and fertilized my Raspberries This evening{.?} I and Francis helped Dick survey at Bessie Pierponts tract. I received the following from Nelson C. Ovaitt [Oviatt], of Ocean City N.J. in a copy of the Detroit Free Press{?} Among the Death Notices were.{.?} June 14th at the home of Carl E Henesner{?}. Birmingham, Michigan. Lewis L. Ovaitt [Oviatt], of Vancouver, Washington aged 78. Father of Mrs Grant C. Braman{?}. Portland, Oregon and brother of Nelson C. {blank space in text} Funeral services at Portland Oregon. 06\25\{1936} (Thursday) Francis and I got down the mowing machine and put it togather{together?}, then we hoed over the raspberries, then cleaned the Cemetery.2 This afternoon we mowed the lawn, and ground scylhes{?},{,?} and mowing machine knifes, and partly repaired the cultivalor/cultivator{?}. Mrs Pierce had the afternoon off. 06\26{1936} (Friday) Francis and I mowed a small piece{?} in the barn lot. 06\27\{1936} (Saturdary) This forenoon Francis and I went with Dick surveying out on Bessies{?} Tract. It cami/cae{?} on to rain an noon. This afternoon I worke_{worked?} about home. 06\28\{1936} (Sunday) Ray{?} came with his new car and we loaded Mary in and ent to the Mill Plain Church. Rev H. Girtrude Coe{?} preached This afternoon I went to Wolcott {.?} and saw Carl Moulthrop{?}. 06\29\{1936} (Monday) Francis and I went to the farm and got in a lood/load{?} of hay and mowed the North East Part of the Barn lot Mr Joseph Porter{,?} of New York called on me this evening He had his own fine car, Chofer{Chauffeur?}, Nurse and House keeper. He is 88 years old. 06\30\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to town, Francis and I went to the farm and got in a big lood/load{?} of hay. This evening Dick, Francis and I went surveying. 07\01\{1936} (Wednesday) Francis and I mowed the meadow South of the barn We then went to Robet Tylers and had 105 survey pins sawed out. This evening we helped Dick survey.{.?} at Bessies tract. 07\02\{1936} (Thursday) This morning Francis and I got in two loads of {-?} hay. This afternoon Mrs Pierce had off and I staid with Mary, I worked on Dicks ink rack. Mr Coe{?} came to see me about making shutter irons The great Concrete mixer was lyaing the last or 4th lane in front of my gate, and the telephone Co are changing their wires. The Texas Co are putting up the frame of their building. 07\03\{1936} (Friday) Francis ad I plowed out and hoed corn an{and?} potaloes/potatoes{?} and got in a small load of hay. 07\04\{1936} (Saturday) Francis and I went with Dick surveying this forenoon. This afternoon I worked at odd jobs and made a survey pole. 07\05\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended servie at Christ Chapel, this morning This afternoon I and Dick went{.?} to see Ed Todd. The weather has been fine. Ths evening Ray came and brought some fine round clams that he got at short Beach 07\06\{1936} (Monday) Weather warm and clear. Francis and I hoed potatoes{?} and corn. This evening Dick came and hod/had{?} supper of clam chowder, and then worked on his picture developing room. 07\07\{1936} (Tuesday) Francis and I mowed with the machine the North Eat part of the Barn lot. This afternoon I went and had my hair cut, and soon after four Mrs Howard Coe{?} called and took me to Woodbury where I measured up the windows{?} and doors on a new cabin they are building on the mountain East of Hotchkissville. 07\08\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I carried Francis/Frances{?} out to the farm to work then I went to Wolcott to Mr Goodsons to get nancy to work or us, but she has a Job{job?} in Naugatuck. Came home and went to Bank and drew out $100.00 came home then went up on East Mountain to mr Hodge, and he told me of Mrs Purdy who I engaged. Then after dinner went to the farm and we got in a load of hay. This evening I attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Association. 07\09\{1936} (Thursday) This morning{.?} I took a tire to have replaced by a new one then went to Margarets and left some peas. Came home paid Mrs Pierce 15.00 and told her that I must reduce{?} erpence{expense?} and could not pay her so much. She said that she would get through this noon. I went up East Mountain and saw Mrs Purdy, she is coming in the morning I then went to the farm{.?} and Francis and I worked in the garden till noon. I came home Mrs Pierce had dinner, and left at about one, I staid with Mary all the afternoon. Very hot day. 07\10\{1936} (Friday) This morning Mrs Purdy came to work. Weather very hot. Francis and I went to the farm He worked in the garden, and I mowed, all the ramining grass in the Barn meadow. We went to Dons{?} and got the new tire for the truck. 07\11\{1936} (Saturday) Very hot day. This morning Dick Francis and I worked surveying Bessie Pierponts lot. This afternoon Dick and I fussed about here rigging up an ink rack, and a dark room for doveloping{developing?} pictures. 07\12\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service in the Wolcott Church. There was a goodley mumber/number{?} present considering the hot weather. Mrs Purdy had the afternoon off. The City opened the new street{.?} they constructed{constricted?} by our place so now the public are using it. 07\13\{1936} (Monday) Showers all round us but everything drying up here. This morning I went to town and payed a lot of bills. In the afternoon Francis and I went to the farm, cleared the pea vines off and planted watermellons, and picked seven qts of raspberries,{,?} and got in a small lood/load{?} of hay. Dick came this evening and we worked on his water tank. His mother telephoned that they were in Tarrington{?} and would be at the Waterbury station soon _____ _______{after driving?} from Toronto. They expect to live here in the future. 07\14\{1936} (Tuesday) Very hot day. Francis and I mowed the upper lot on the hill and this afternoon got it in. This evenind{evening?} Dick and Willard came and{?} Dick took my truck and they went out to Mr Della Bellas{?} to see about a survey job. Dick paie me 45.00 to night for helping him, and truck stakes{?}, etc. 07\15\{1936} (Wednesday) We had a thunder storm last night that cooled the weather. Francis and I went to the farm and trimmed about the lot on the hill and got it, the hay in. We then went to Cheshire ond{and?} got a bag of Scratch/scratch{?} feed, came home and sharpened stone tools for Andrew{.?} Kitchenka. This evening Dick, Willard and I went surveying{"g" written above text} on Bessie's{Bessies?} tract. 07\16\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I worked about home repairing the chicken coop etc. Mrs Purdy was off this after noon and I worked on Dicks dark room and did other jobs. Ferris Turkington{?} and wife called as did Fritza.{.?} Dick came this evening. 07\17\{1936} (Friday) This morning Willard Miller and I piped up Dicks place in the dark room. Then we worked at blacksmith work two hours. Teddy and I went{?} to the farm and picked three qts of Rasp berries. 07\18\{1936} (Saturday) Very warm day. I worked making hinges most of the day. We are having a thunder storm this evening which is much needed. 07\19\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at Wolcott. Rev Mr Dice{?} officiated. This afternoon,{,?} they had a miniture{miniature?} auto race on{?} the hill between here and the Mattatuck shop. There were thousands here to see it, about 150 boys,{,?} with cars of their oun/own{?} manufacture were in the contest. 07\20\{1936} (Monday) Francis and I made shutter irons till four{,?} when we went to the farm and picked four qts of Rasp berries,{,?} and brought in a lot of garden truck. Rained hard ____{this?} afternoon{?}. 07\21\{1936} (Tuesday) Worked all day on Mr Coes{?} shutter irons.{.?} The City men are putting in concrete about the waiting station __{in?} front of our house. The weather has been very nice and cool all day 07\22\{1936} (Wednesday) The weather to day has been fair, Francis and I worked on shutter irons till three. Then went to the farm and picked two quarts of Rasp berries, and Beans, Cucumbers, and weeded the garden. Dick came this evening and he and Francis worked on their developing place. 07\23\{1936} (Thursday) Francis Robinson and I worked on Mr Coes{?} shutter irons, all day. 07\24\{1936} (Friday) To day Francis and I worked on shutter irons.{.?} Weather rain some of the time{.?} 07\25\{1936} (Saturday) Francis and worked on shutter irons. 07\26\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service At Wolcott this morning. The weather was fine. Harvey{.?} Greene{?} from Summit called this afternoon,{,?} his{?} wife and family were with him. 07\27\{1936} (Monday) Francis and I worked on shutter irons{,?} and went to the arm and got a lot of vegtables{vegetables?} etc Frank called this evening, had been to Storrs. 07\28\{1936} (Tuesday) Francis and I worked on shutter irons. This evening I called on Miss Wakelee{?} about the old stone school house{?} in Woodtick. 07\29\{1936} (Wednesday) Francis and I finished Mr{.?} Coes{?} shutter irons this noon. Then we mowed a small load of hay and took it to the farm, where I worked in the garden. Then went to Mr Pierponts dary{dairy?} and paid my milk bill.{.?} Came{came?} home and went to the Mill Plain Church with Albert Crandall and got several tables and chairs and took them to his hous_{house?} Mr Howard Coe{?} called this evening and ____ ___{took his?} irons{.?} 07\30\{1936} (Thursday) Francis and I mowed the lower end of our lot{.?} this forenoon. This afternoon Mrs Purdy had off and I staid with Mary. Mr Hollister Sage{?} ______{called?} this afternoon. This evening I took my truck and arried the tables and chairs back to the Church. Dick came up this evening. 07\31\{1936} (Friday) Francis and mowed the lower part of our lot and got two loads to East FRams. Albert Blanchard{?} Cleaned Vogles Toilet this morning charged 3.25. Dick came this evening had my car to take his girl to the show. The City men put in the new curb of concrite/concrete{?} in front of my house this forenoon. 08\01\{1936} (Saturday) Francis and I mowed south of the Wheelhouse and chicken yard etc. Dick came and we put up the flag pole. Then we took a load of hay out to the farm. Dick and Francis took the truck and carried a table from Margarets down{?} town to John Castles. Weather rather warm and dry. 08\02\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I atended service at the Prospect Congregational{?} Church. It was a Re-Dedication Service and the Church was filled to overflowing. Rev Thomas Cachard{?} was the Minister, and Rev Kermit Green{?} of Waverly Pennsylvania, a brother of Harvy{Harvey?} Green of Summit preached the sermon. After Church we went to Mrs Purdys on East mountain and had dinner. She lives on the top of a high hill.{.?} between the old and new roads near the junction{Junction?}, have to drive up a very steep road opposite Thomas Pains to reach the house. After a fine dinner we came home where we staid the rest of the day. 08\03\{1936} (Monday) Hot dry weather. I mowed the swamp East of the chicken coop, and Francis mowed the yard, then we brought a load of choped up brush wood, but when we went back for another load the bottom of the engine pan{?} struck a rock, which knocked open the drain plug so the oil began running out. I took the truck to Don Hannons{?} and he put on another pan for 3.50 with new oil. but the engine knocked badly so I left it to be repaired. Francis and I cleaned up the little car. Dick came{?} in the evening, I worked on his ink bracket. 08\04\{1936} (Tuesday) Very dry hot weather. It has rained to the North and South of us but we get{got?} little here. This morning Francis and I went to the farm and I cultivated under the appletrees in the barn lot and he hoed{.?} the Rasp berries. This afternoon we mowed the{.?} West end of the orchard{?} lot on the hill. 08\05\{1936} (Wednesday) The weather this morning was damp, Francis and I went to the farm and put up the hay that was heating onto the upper mow, then we went up on the hill and mowed around the edge where we{?} mowed yesterday, then hitched the ox on to the mowing machine and mowed the orchard lot{.?} and raked it up an got it into the barn and put it on the mow. This evening I went to Dan/Don{?} Hanlans{?} and got my truck that he had tightened the bearings on. They have the building completed for the Texico{Texeco?} Gas Station, and have 4 one thousand gal tanks ready to set inthe ground. I dug our first potaloes/potatoes{?} yesterday. 08\06\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I had Francis make lobles/lables{?} and placed them in old books and journals{Journals?} that I had and then took thm up to th Old Stone School house in Woodtick Where a Celebration was hel_{held?} dnd/and{?} the building dedicated as a memorial to A. Bronson Alcott. This evening there were many people there, and the Mattatuck Drum Band played several pieces. Mary and I went up at six, and got our things. When we arrived home we found Dick and his brothers, and Gene and a girl friend here. It has rained{.?} quite hard some of the time to day. 08\07\{1936} (Friday) This morning Francis and I sharpened a lot of picks for the Calvary Cemetery. While we were doing that Frank drove in from Kent with a load of lumber on a large Chevolet{Chevrolet?} truck, which we unloaded, and some of which he wishes made into a large horse sled. He soon left and stated for Storrs via Meriden and Middletown. Francis and I loaded hay on the truck{?} and took it o the farm. After which we put pickets __{on?} the fence East side of the chicken yard. 08\08\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Francis and I finished the fence{.?} __{up?} the chicken yard. Then we went to the farm and mowed thi/the{?} lot west of the shed on the hill,{,?} and Dick came from Cheshire where he took a stove with my truck, and we raked up the hay and got it in. Ine{In?} the afternoon I did off jobs{Jobs?} about home. 08\09\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Kermit Green{?} of Waverly Penn preached. In the afternoon we went to Mrs John Nortons{?} in Wolcott, She wished to find out about Daniel Lane{?} who settled in Wolcott in 1773. This evening Brother Fred and wife, Mansfield Gillette{?} and wife and Wm Gillette{?} called and we had a good visit. 08\10\{1936} (Monday) Very warm day. Francis and I went to the farm and raised up the North West corner of the shed on the hill 9" an put stones under it, then he lengthened out the rathers and I cultivated apple trees on the hill{?}. Dick came this evening and got my truck and went after a heater. 08\11\{1936} (Tuesday) Weather hot and dry. Francis and I went to the farm and worked in the gardens, and then mowed the aats/oats{?} We then prepared the shed on the hill for new roof. Fred and I attended M.D.B.{?} _______{meeting?}.{?} 08\12\{1936} (Wednesday) Francis and I went to O.Hearns{?} East End Hardware Co and got 6 Rolls of Roofing{.?} Felt and took it to the farm and finished the roof on the shed on the hill and starled/started{?} on the stable of the barn. Weather burning hot. Frank came to day and brought Slabs, lumber, Sled, and Piano{.?} stool. 08\13\{1936} (Thursday) Francis and I went to the farm and put felt roof on the stable shed. At noon we came home,{,?} and I staid here all the afternoon as Mrs Purdy had the time off. I filed a crosscut{.?} saw and did olher/other{?} jobs in the Wheel House. This evening Fred came and talked drumming etc. Will Gillette came and we arranged to call or{on?} Orlo Camp{?} on Preston Hill in the near future.{.?} Weather has been very hot. 08\14\{1936} (Friday) Weather very hot and dry. I went to town this morning and paid bills. Then Farancis{Francis?} and I after dinner wnet to the farm and finished putting the roof on the stable, then picked beans dug potatoes etc. Mr Hollister Sage called this afternoon and took several books. 08\15\{1936} (Saturday) Warm and dry. This morning I went to the farm and cultivated under the appletrees on the hill. Dick and Francis were there and weeded in the garden and hoed under the appletrees on the hill. This aternoon{.?} Fred came, and Dick was here and we varnished his ink rack{?} and table. After five about eight of Freds drum boys came from{.?} Tarrytown dnd/and{?} we had a good time and a light lunch. Then we went to M.E. Pierponts where we met the Mattatuck boys and hdd/had{?} much drumming. after which they served a a lunch. 08\16\{1936} (Sunday) Hot dry day. Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Gregg of he First Congregational Church preached. Dick and Margaret sat with us.{.?} It was hot and we staid home all day. 08\17\{1936} (Monday) Tounsond Garrigus{?} and I got in a load of oals/oats{?}, after dinner a thunder shower came up{.?} and I came home and worked on Franks piano stool. Two men came this evening to see abut leasing 360 ft of the South East corner of our home lot..for a grave stone business. Loaned Mr Monnel{?}, 2 drills 1 sppon and one 10 lb Sledge. 08\18\{1936} (Tuesday) Weather fair and not to{too?} warm. This morning I ook a load of slabs to the farm, and got Townson nd we started back, when we found{.?} one tire was flat. We stoped{?} at the news station just{?} this way of my gate but they hadnt installed their free air We then came over To Dan/Don{?} Hanlins{?} and there got it fixed. Then we took a maple board up to Robert Tylers{?} and had it sawed and plained, then came back and repaired Franks piano stool, and at night took another load of slabs to the farm and brought back vegtables{vegetables?}. Mr Zepps{?} house caught ire this afternoon, and was badly damaged. 08\19\{1936} (Wednesday) This forenoon Tounsend{?} and I put a lot of the oak{?} humber/lumber{?} up stairs in the barn, and the 3x4 up in the shed, and took the long stuff out to the farm. This afternoon I did little but read and went up to Chas Tuttles, When I came home I could not get through the Pierpont road as they are still laying{?} the water pipe up there. Have been laying it since last March, A great Public expensive job{Job?}. 08\20\{1936} (Thursday) I went to the farm{.?} and set out a lot of cabbage plants and Tounsend{?} watered them, and did a lot of other work{?} 08\20\{1936} (Thursday) {Same date given again, 2nd entry for 8/20/36?} Weather rather hot and very druy. I went to the farm and set out cabbage plants and Town picked 1/2{?} l_s{lbs?} of beans. This fternoon Mrs Purdy was off, and I took mary up to Wolcott to Marion Krafts to get a flute but n one was at home only lhe/the{?} dog. Mrs Purdy had the afternoon off. 08\21\{1936} (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and set out cabbage plants, and then went up on the hill and cultivated under the apple trees. This evening I took my tlou/blow{?} torch up to Raymond to have him repair it for me. He has put in a new cispool{cesspool?}, under the walk. 08\22\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Will Purdy and I drove to Kent to see Franks farm. We went through Waterville Reynolds Bridge up past the West Branch Dams{?}, East Morris, Bantam Woodville, then to the Shepang Reservair/Reservoir{?}, To Warren and Kent. We foudn Frank ready to leave with his fire Compant{Company?} for Greenwich to attend a State Fire Muster{?} So we looked about as best we ould and had dinner and came home. 08\23\{1936} (Sunday) Mary and I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Walker{?} Preached. In the afternoon Jack Brundage{?} came with his family, after they had gone Mary and I went to the farm, and brought back some vegtables{vegetables?}. 08\24\{1936} (Monday) Weather very warm. Francis and I went to the farm and hoed our{?} gardens all over. Then we set two concrete posts in the fence on the lot{.?} East End back of the shed on the hill Then went to work repairing the wall and covering the upper spring. This evening Mr Smith of the American and the Republican called to get information of Henry Kirk{?} who was machinest{machinist?} at the Waterbury Brass Mill in 1868, etc. 08\25\{1936} (Tuesday) Hot day. My shoulders are all row{raw?} from working and sweating Francis and I worked on the spring. 08\26\{1936} (Wednesday) To day Frances{Francis?} and I worked on the spring at the farm. 08\27\{1936} (Thursday) The hens layed no eggs to day{days?}.{.?} I worked at the farm this forenoon on the spring putting a cover of slabs over it. Tis afternoon I staid with mary as Mrs Purdy had the afternoon off. Miss Jillson{?} of Bunker Hill{?} called to find about Joseph Clark who lived in Betheny{?} in 1821. 08\28\{1936} (Friday) To day I worked at the farm covering the Spring{spring?}. Dick took my little car to go to Cheshire{.?} this evening. 08\29\{1936} (Saturday) Rained all day. I helped Dick repair his dresser and did odd jobs{Jobs?} about home. 08\30\{1936} (Sunday) Nice day. Mary and I attended service at Mill Plain. Rev H A/S{?} Worth preached. This afternoon Mary and I called on Mrs Jones of Union City, she was not in. We then called __{on?} Mr Sheldon Payne. 08\31\{1936} (Monday) I worked to day on the spring at the farm. Robert Miller helped me this afternoon. This evening I attended a Republican Rally at Hamilton Park. Mr Knox{?}, The cantidate{candidate?} for Vice President spoke. There was a large attendance. 09\01\{1936} (Tuesday) Nice and cool. I went to the farm and worked in he garden and at the spring. After dinner Mrs Purdy telephoned for me to come home as Mary was worse, I came and found her in bed and out of her head, Called the Doctor. he came in the evening, said she was better than when he saw her last. Prescribed medicine etc. 09\02\{1936} (Wednesday) To day I went to the farm and worked on the spring{?} got the Covering all on, which is made of slabs.{.?} The weather has been rather cool. 09\03\{1936} (Thursday) Nice weather to day. This morning I went to town and did business. To day the City finished laying side walks on the street from the bridge to Cavary{Calvary?} Cemetery gates, and to the Frost Rd. 09\04\{1936} (Friday) Weather to day has been clear and rather cool. I went to the farm and finished banking{?} up the spring. This afternoon I saw Rose Wakelee in Wolcolt/Wolcott{?} about the Alcotts, A Bronson and Dr William. I then went to the farm and dug potatoes and cultivaled/cultivated{?} under the appletrees{?} on the hill. To day I bought a dozen little chickens of the Spenser{?} grain Co. for .12{?} each,{,?} one day old. 09\05\{1936} (Saturday) Weather has been nice and cool to day. I went to the farm this forenoon and put my tools etc. This afternoon Dick came and we worked in the Wheel house I ground a lot of paint,{,?} etc. An Italian mon/man{?} came to see about renting a pie{ink blot, piece?} of ground East of the house. 09\06\{1936) (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Mary did not go, as the Docotr thought her to{too?} weak, This evening{?} Margaret and Cliff came Margaret is going to Litchfield next Wednesday to cook for Judge Swymour for a week. Rev Matthew{.?} G. Madden{?}, preached his first sermon as regular Pastor at Mill Plain to day. Church program inserted in text Left side of page: Announcements Ladies' Aid meeting Tuesday, September 8. Men's Club meeting Wednesday, September 9. Senior Choir rehearsal will be held on Friday. Sunday School will reopen September 13. The Men's Club will sponsor a Flower Show on September 11 and 12, afternoon and evening. Right side of page: The Mill Plain Union Church WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT MATTHEW G. MADDEN, PASTOR Morning Worship 10:00 a.m. September 6, 1936 SILENT PRAYER ORGAN PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL HYMN 2 INVOCATION AND LORDS PRAYER RESPONSIBE READING GLORIA PATRI SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFERING DOXOLOGY HYMN 150 SERMON HOLY COMMUNION HYMN 458 BENEDICTION ORGAN POSTLUDE SILENT PRAYER 09\07\{1936} (Monday) Labor Day. Damp in forenoon, Sunshine in afternoon Mary is hardly able to arise from her chair although I help her all that I an, walks very feeble with three inch steps. Whe is very cheerful and eats well, and sleeps well. Dick came this afternoon and made a frame{?} for his Collige/College{?} banner, and we went to the farm and dug half a lu/bu{?} of potatoes, some of which weighed a pound, and we brought in 1/2 bu of vegtables{vegetables?}, which I gave to him, as he helped plant the potatoes. 09\08\{1936} (Tuesday) Good weather. I painted the North side of the Blacksmith{?} shop. After dinner went to Rbot Tylers{?} on the Meriden Rd and had some{.?} sowing{?} and plaining dove/done{?}, and then could not get through the Pierpont Rd, it has been clased/closed{?} since lat March as they are putting a 8" cast iron water main up to Bessie Pierponts house, So{so?} I had to go out and down the Byam Rd{?} and in the Cheshire Rd. Mary is out of her head this evening. 09\09\{1936} (Wednesday) Good cool weather, very foggy this morning. I went to the farm and repaired the fence at the North West corner of Fred Wilsons lot, Then went to Cheshire{?} and got a bag of feed. 09\10\{1936} (Thursday) Nice weather. This morning I went to the farm and did odd jobs{Jobs?}. Staid with Mary this afternoon s Mrs Purdy had the afternoon off.ary this afternoon Wrote, Elsie, and Mr Todd, etc. 09\11\{1936} (Friday) Nice weather. I repaired the washing machine this orenoon. This afternoon Tutsy{?} and I went to the farm and cultivated under the apple trees on the hill. This evening Mrs Farrell{?} and three dayghters{daughters?} from Seymour called, and we had an interesting visit. 09\12\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Dick and I went to Tarrington{?} an{and?} looked up Farrell Records, Then Dick visited with a friend whom he went to school with, While I looked over the Cemetery. After dinner we drove up to North Goshen and saw where Samuel Gillette{?} lived and where the Church, and Saw Mill stood and School{school?}. Then we went West to Cornwell{?} Hollow, then Cornwall Bridge and to Kint/Kent{?}, where we found Frank, and after visiting a time with him, started for home in a shower, We came through Warren, Woodville, Bantam Morris, East Morris, Watertown, and Waterville, got home a little after dark. 09\13\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. Staid home all the afternoon with Mary. Fritsa{?} called towards evening with Ronald. The Texico{Texeco?} Co opened their Gas Station across the Frost Rood/Road{?} last night. 09\14\{1936} (Monday) Weather has been clear and cool, I painted the Wheelbarrow shed{,?} and did odd jobs{Jobs?} about home this forenoon, Went to the farm and cultivated under the appletrees North of the barn,{,?} then I found that some one had let the water out of the spring and old buster was very thursty{thirsty?}. I took him to the trough and he drank much water. I then gathered some mushmellons,{,?} and grapes which I brought home. Took some mellons dwon to Fritza{.?} this evening. 09\15\{1936} (Tuesday) I worked on Franks slead{sled?}, and out to the farm and some about home. Bob and I picked some grapes, this evening at the farm. Got a lood/load{?} of old pipe from The International Silver Co this morning. 09\16\{1936} (Wednesday) Nice cool day. Worked on Franks{?} sled, and did other odd jobs about home, Took some pipe posts out to the farm. 09\17\{1936} (Thursday) Worked on Franks sled{.?} this forenoon. Mrs Purdy had afternoon off, and I staid with Mary. Mrs Vogle told us that a Cheshire Buss{Bus?} had an accident out beyond Blackeys{?}, and several were killed at about six. 09\18\{1936} (Friday) Rained all day. I worked in the Wheelhouse on Franks horse sled, I went to the farm, and then out the Cheshire rood/road{?} to where the accident ocured{occurred?} last evening when 4 people were killed and 16 injured It happened about ten rods this side of ten mile river in the town of Cheshire{?}. 09\19\{1936} (Saturday) Nice Weather. Wolcott Fair to day. I worked in the Wheelhouse on Franks horse sled this forenoon, and out to the farm in the afternoon. Then I drove up the Pierpont road, the first time in many months, on account of the putting in City water pipe main to Bessie Pierponts house. Then on to Woodtick where we saw the Fair from the road, then down to Beecher{?} Ave where we left the car and to the store and got a lot of Groceries, and 5 lbs of 6d{?} nails, But when I went{?} to come home I could not go forward or back, I walked to the Girage{Garage?} and got Dan/Don{?} Hannon{?}, and he fixed it so it would go. Dick went to Tarrington this afternoon. 09\20\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Mary was not well enough to go. This service was Conducted by Rev Mr Madden. This afternoon Margaret, Bobbie, Ruth, Roger.{.?} Old Mrs Brundage and Gene Brundage, and Peggy Brundage called, soon Dick came, and then Mr and Mrs Ferris Turkington called and we had a jolly time. 09\21\{1936} (Monday) Wet and chilly this forenoon,{,?} I worked about home, in the forenoon, This afternoon I went to the farm and put up the mowing Machine, and brought home a load of vegtables{vegetables?},{,?} {New paragraph?} This evening Tony Ciarlo{?},{,?} and Dominico Anastasio, came to see about Leasing the South-East{?} corner of our lot for 25.00 per month. 09\22\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went down town and had Attourney{Attorney?} Phelan drow/draw{?} a lease for Tony Ciarlo,{,?} and did other business. This afternoon, I had my hair cut and then went to Christs Chapel and saw Mr Clark,{,?} about getting a girl to work for us. 09\23\{1936} (Wednesday) This forenoon I flattened the ends of a lot of window bars for the gas station across the Frost Road, drille and countersunk them this afternoon,{,?} and went to the farm, etc.{.?} John French told me of Mrs Paten. 09\24\{1936} (Thursday) To ddy{To day?} I worked clearing the sidewalk of stones and did other odd jobs{Jobs?} about home in the forenoon{?} and went to the farm. Staid with Mary in the{?} afternoon as Mrs Purdy had the afternoon off. Tony Ciarlo and John L. Siriea{?}.{.?} Called.{.?} to see about the Lease of the land. 09\25\{1936} (Friday) It took all the forenoon for me to get the colble/cobble{?} stones raked off the front walk. This afternoon I went to he farm and put up a sign which said Private,{,?} Keip/Keep{?} Out, placed it just above the Barn facing West. {new paragraph?} Then I came home and worked on Franks sled. This evening I went at seven o'clock to Allourney{Attorney?} Phalens{?} at 54 Lexington ave{Ave?} where I men{met?} Tony Ciarlo, and we signed the Lease that gave Tony the use of the South East corner of my lot. The weather has been rather{.?} cool to day. 09\26\{1936} (Saturday) This day I worked most of the time on Franks sled. Dick came before dinner and we went to the farm and got some vegtables{vegetables?} and did the chores. The weather has been cold and a heavy frost this morning. I have taken a bad{?} cold and had to give up work this afternoon. 09\27\{1936} (Sunday) My birthday 78 years old. Had a hard cold and staid home all day. This evening Margaret, Gene, Vincint{Vincent?}, Bettie his wife, Marion{?} with her two boys, and several others came, and brought a large four story birthday cake, and put on it a great mumber/number{?} of candle and lit them, then they had me blow them out, and served the cake to all that wanted some. Weather cold. Have had the furnace going all day 09\28\{1936} (Monday) Weather rather cool, Got to work and felt better, dug six bushels of Potatoes to day, This evening I went to Margarets, stoped on the way and got bobbie{Bobbie?} to help, then we looded/loaded{?} it into my truck to take to Litchfield tomorrow morning 09\29\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to margarets, and she drove and we went to Litchfield and took her washing - machine, to Mrs Judge Seymours on South St for Gene to use, while she is acting as a maid, We got home before noon, and I begn{began?} work on some window bars for the Gas{.?} Station/station{?}, which kept me busy the rest of the day. It began raining before noon, and has continued ever Since{since?}. 09\30\{1936} (Wednesday) This day has been very fair though rather cool, {new paragraph?} I finished making iron bars for the Gas station{.?} windows, and then went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed paid 2.50 then came to the farm and dug potatoes, Francis Robinson came at three and dug and we picked up five bushels. This evening Jack and Ruth Brundage came. They have started on a long Western trip to be gone till{?} about Christmas. 10\01\{1936} (Thursday) Mrs Purdy got through,{,?} this noon I went down town and did some Bank business, then I saw Mr Clark at Christs Chapel and arranged for Mrs Payton to come this afternoon, When she came, she{?} said that she did not want to come till next week, I then telephoned Mrs Purdy and she said that she would come for a week. 10\02\{1936} (Friday) Dug 8 1/2 bu potatoes. Francis helped this afternoon. 10\03\{1936} (Saturday) Weather cool. Mary has been out of her head much of the day, I did odd jobs about home. 10\04\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the{.?} Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached, There was a large attendance Mary was not able to attend, I stayed home with her all the aternoon. No one called. The weather has been fine. 10\05\{1936} (Monday) Weather to day has been fair and pleasant. I dug potatoes and picked them up. The Southern New England Telephone Company, changed the{.?} Grey wire that supports their pole at the corner of our place, from the decayed black oak tree that stands in our{.?} yard at the South West corner, to the large White Oak tree West of the house. 10\06\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to Christs Chapel and saw Mr Clark about Mrs Payton coming to work for me. I then went to the Mill Plain Church and saw Rev Mr madden, the new minister, about Enid. I then went To Charles Tuttles and got him, and we went to the old Woodtick Schoolhouse, where we met Mr Hoddn{?}, Mr Fred Wilson and an achitect{architect?}, and planed{planned?} restoring the building as it was in our school days in 1870. I then went to East Farms and gud potatoes. [108-109 blank] 10\07\{1936} (Wednesday) To day I dug Potatoes at the farm. This evening Mrs Payton called and we arranges.{.?} to have her come to work next monday morning at eight o'clock. 10\08\{1936} (Thursday) This morning, I went to the Bank and got checks Cashed{?} and then paid Dr Barbers bill, and the Conn Light and Power bill, then went to Mr Hills and bought some books, Mrs Purdy had this afternoon off and I staid with Mary. This evening Fritsa and Bobbie came and said they had just received a telephone message that Clifford Northrop had dided up at Storrs this afternoon. 10\09\{1936} (Friday) This morning I went to Cheshire and bought some bricks and a bag of lime, I then went to the Coloniel{Colonial?} sand and Gravel Co and got two barrells{barrels?}, of{?} washed sand and a load of sand for $1.00 I then came home and found that Mary had a bad turn, and was with her the most of the afternoon, This evenings American stated that Cliff Northrop is to be buried from the Mill Plain Union Church tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock. 10\10\{1936} (Saturday) Rained this forenoon, Dick came up and we finished spreading the dirt on the walk on East main St. At 2.30 Ray{.?} and Ruth called and took me in his fine cart to the Mill Plain Church where we attended Clifford Northrops funeral, He is buried near the{.?} East Enerence{Entrance?} to the New Pine Grove Cemetery. 10\11\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached. This evening Margaret, Gene, Bettie, Vincint/Vincent{?}, Howard Kraft,{,?} and Bobbie, called. Margaret and some of the rest went down to Mr Clarks on Englewood Ave and got Mrs Payton and a lot of her good and brought her and them up here, Then Vincent and Howard took my truck and went and got her cedar chest, and quilts etc and took them up to her room. 10\12\{1936} (Monday) This morning I went to the farm and cut corn, till noon, then I came home, had dinner and then put Franks slead{sled?} togather{together?}, Then got ready and Margaret came and took Mary and I up to Philip Reuters{?} where sister mary and Rowland Jenner are celebiating{celebrating?} their Golden Wedding. 10\13\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and cut corn and stacked it up. Mrs Purdy got through working here regular to day. Mrs Payton takes her place. The weather this morning was very cold 22{degree symbol} above zero. 10\14\{1936} (Wednesday) This day has been cool. I went to the farm and found the glass in the West window all shot to pieces with air rifles, I then cut and stacked the corn in the lot West of the shead{shed?}, Before I came home I saw Mrs Garrigus{?} about the Window being shot out. 10\15\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I made pins for the sled, Then Went to the farm and gathered garden vegtables{vegetables?}. Mrs Garrigus Called me, and siad she knew who the boys were that shot the windows through. 10\16\{1936} (Friday) Wet this morning but came off clear, I worked about home this forenoon, Went to the farm this afternoon and gathered garden vegtables{vegetables?}. 10\17\{1936} (Saturday) Rained hard all day. I{?} worked most of the time on Franks heavy slead{sled?}. 10\18\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church{.?} Rev Matthew G Madden Preached. This afternoon Ferris Turkington{?} and Lena called. Dick and Rob borrowed my car to go to Cheshire to elebrate Mr Hansons birthday. 10\19\{1936} (Monday) This morning I went to City Hall and paid my taxes, and to the Bank and had a check 45.50 cashed. Then to poliece{police?} Headquarters and saw Chief Roach{?} about the boys shooting out the windows of my barn with air rifles, Then home and repaired a chair{?}. Mr Kelley{?} cut down the large Black Oak tree in the South{south?} West corner of my yard. This afternoon Polieceman{Policeman?} Overton called and he had been out to see mrs Garrigus about the boys shooting out my windows. 10\20\{1936} (Tuesday) Mrs Purdy came and did the ironing, I repaired the rocking chair. This afternoon I went to the farm and got some vegtables{vegetables?}{.?} etc. 10\21\{1936} (Wednesday) Worked to day on Franks sled. 10\22\{1936} (Thursday) The weather has been as near perfect as could be. I worked on Franks sled till 11.15 When I took my small truck and went up to Mill Plain where I parked my car near the Church and then went over in front of the Chase School{?} where I could see President Rosevelt{Roosevelt?} who is to speak at{.?} Lybrary{Library?} Park at noon, A large number of people assembled and we waited till a few minules/minutes{?} afler/after{?} twele when a single motercicle{motorcycle?} polieceman{policeman?} came along soon after two more came warning the poliece{police?} to clear he strees, then Six Waterbury Poliece cars, the{then?} about twenty five mounted poliece, the four large cars carrying{?} secret service men, stadngin on the running bars{boards?} then, Seventy five State poliece on motorcicls{motorcycles?}, then the Presidents large open car, The President{.?} Mrs Rosevelt{Roosevelt?}, and Govoner{Governor?} Cross{?} on the back seat, then four cars of secret service men, then two long lines of Military Oficials, than a long line of cars etc the whole about one mile long I should judge. This morning Allin Burgers{?} of Syolosing{?} Pa and his wife called, and daughter. 10\23\{1936} (Friday) Weather,{,?} Cool with some rain, and cloudy. This morning Rolland Jenner and I left for Simsbury to visit my brother Frank. We went up through Wolcott to Bristol where we stoped at Redferns Ford station and had my car greased. Then we went out the Farmington road, and up through Polkville and past the old copper mine {.?} and through Unionville to Conton{?} Street West Simsbury, We found Frank chopping wood, and Gussie{?} in bed hardly able to move, having been sick for over three years. He gave me some drum stick timber, and turning tools. We came home, through Symsbury{Simsbury?}, Wheatang, Avon, Farmington, Plainville, Southington, Plantsville, and over Southington mountain, Stoped at East Farms and fed the ox. Reached home at 3.30 10\24\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Dick came and we repaired the top of the chimney. We then sawed off a few{?} cuts of the oak tree. 10\25\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden Preached. This afternoon we {.?} had several callers. Which included Robert, Fritsa, and Ronald, Mrs Norman Reed and her mother, Mr Beal, and her mother Mrs Hage{?}. 10\26\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, but did not hang it out as it rained quite hard. Then I took some morter and pointed up the underpinning of the house, and made some grout{?} and filled some rot{?} holes in the Chicken house. Then worked on Franks sled till it was dark. 10\27\{1936} (Tuesday) Very cold this morning, ice froz 1/2" thick. I worked on the sled this forenoon, After dinner I went to Bristol to have my truck overhalled, but they could not attend to it, so I came home again and went to work on the sled 10\28\{1936} (Wednesday) ]Mary had a very poor night, tossed about and vomited, and used the stool often, but was very patient, and no omplaint, Has eat hardly anything to day. This morning I went to Bristol to J. D. Redferns. Ford station and had my, Pickup oiled and greased also a new tire put on, and got two gats{?} of anti freeze got home at noon. The state has began work on he East Bristol Road in Wolcott at Scovills reservoir and{.?} are grading and streightening{straightening?} it. North to joing the state road at Plumb St, South of the Cedar Swamp Pond, After dinner I went to the farm and gathered in the cabbages, then I came home and worked on Franks sled. Tony {blank space in text} Began cutting the hedge and (removed the fence{.?} yesterday). 10\29\{1936} (Thursday) Went to Cheshire and got a bag of Lay Mash 2.55 very high now, Stoped at the farm and{.?} did a little work. Staid with Mary while Mrs Paton{Payton?} went down town. Helped Tony {blank space in text} level the lines for a building. 10\30\{1936} (Friday) This morning I worked on Franks sled, then went to the store and got groceries etc, At the farm this afternoon, and at the pole of Ranks{?} sled. Dr Barber called to see mary, and prescribed etc.{.?} Elton Edwards and Sarah{?} callid/called{?}, as did Roll Jenner. 10\31\{1936} (Saturday) This morning Dick came and we surveyed{.?} a strait East line along our property, and set the corners of the ground that I leased, 13{?} North and South, 60 ft East{.?} ]and West. 11\01\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church{.?} Rev Matthew G Madden{Maddin?}, who lives at 55 Wacona Avenue, preached, This afternoon I went to Wolcott and saw the big Gasoline Shovel{shovel?} work at Tuttles corner making the new East road to Bristol. I then called on Art Harrison. This afternoon. Howard Croft{?} borrowed my truck{.?} to go to Litchfield and get magarets Washing machine. 11\02\{1936} (Monday) This morning I ran the Washing machine and hung he clothes out to dry. The rest of the time I worked on he sled. This aftenoon I went to the farm and fed the ox. 11\03\{1936} (Tuesday) Election day. This morning I went to the Anderson School{school?} and pulled the Second Leaver{?} in a voting machine or Landon{?} for President of the United States and the other republican officers. Then I came home and made iron work for the sled. This evening we listened to the election reports as they came in on the radio. Waterbury went over 14000 democtratic{democratic?} 11\04\{1936} (Wednesday) Rained all day. This morning I took my Pickup to the Testing lane on Thomaston ave and, had it tested but had to bring it back and hove{have?}, stop light repeaired{repaired?} also tire ad brakes, by Charles Urban, I then took my small car, but found the lanes closed on account of the rain, I then drove through Wolcott to East Farms and fed the ox then came home and worked on the sled. It is stated tha{that?} Roosevelt got a majority of over 10.000.000{10,000,000?} votes for President of the United States. I notifyed{notified?} the Southern{southern?} New England Tetephone/Telephone{?} Co to take the Phone out of my house to day. 11\05\{1936} (Thursday) I worked on the sled this forenoon,{,?} and staid ith Mary in the afternoon while Mrs Paton{Payton?} went down town. Dory Connor{?} called snd/and{?} visited/vsited.{.?} Mary was glad to see him. 11\06\{1936} (Friday) I worked most of the day on the sled. Went to Cheshire and got two bags of feed{.?} and 4 lbs of 8d{?} nails, The state is widening the road in many places, principally{?} back of he railings 11\07\{1936} (Saturday) Dick came this morning and we made the heavy pole races for the sled, and I finished the sled all but the extra floor. Dick sharpened the picks, and partly made two picture frames, {, or .?} Mr Voghel{Vogel?} pitched on{?} me about the mail. 11\08\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev M.{Mr?} Maddin/Madden{?} prached, Rained this afternoon. Ray called this evening and left some oyster, that he got at Stony Creek. Tony put up concrete barrells{barrels?} to day for his building. 11\09\{1936} (Monday) This mornin{morning?} I did the washing, and then worked on Franks two horse sled, which I finished before night except the painting. Today The Sou____ern{Southern? ink blot} New England Telephone Co took their Telephone out. It has been in this house since 1893,{,?} but I have had a phone since 1885{?}. 1907{date written in text? 11\10\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I painted Franks sled, This afternoon I went to the farm and husk{husked?} a bushel of corn, but it took a long time to get ready, and the wind blew a gail, and would blow the stalks out of the cart. 11\11\{1936} (Wednesday) Armistis{Armistice?} Day. Fair and warm, This morning I went to the Citizens Co Co{written twice} and ordered one ton of soft coal, Came home and did odd Jobs{jobs?} till noon, After dinner I went to th_{the?} farm and husked out two bushels of corn. This evening I went down town and saw the Armistice Parada/Parade{?} 11\12\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I went to the farm and stacked up corn stalks, and husked corn. In the afternoon I staid with Mary, while Mrs Paton{Payton?} went to town{.?} We had a letter from Ruth she was in Elko Nevoda/Nevada{?} when she{?} wrote it. 11\13\{1936} (Friday) Went to thi/the{?} farm and husk{husked?} corn, etc. 11\14\{1936} (Saturday) Dick came and we went to the farm and husk{husked?} corn till noon. In the afternoon, Dick, Bobbie, and I went to Wolcott at Howard Krafts{?} to see about some Surveying of a pice of land on both sides of Mad River that belongs to mr Carl Pererson. When we came back we came to Truttle Corner and saw the work they were doing on the New East Bristol Road. 11\15\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at Mill Plain Union Church, Rev M, Madden officiated, after I went to the farm did the chores The Depmsey boys were there and took the old Ford engine, In the afternoon, Harold Pierpont{?} called wilh/with{?} his wife. Later Ferris and Lena Turkinton{Turkington?} called. Tony had a crew of men{.?} put up part of the frome/frame{?} of his building. 11\16\{1936} (Monday) I did the washing this morning, and put sales/soles{?} on a pair of slippers, etc This aflernoon/afternoon{?} I went to the farm and husked corn, but on account of the wind and cold had to give it up, I came home and filed a cross cut saw for Charles Welton. 11\17\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning was very cold 10 above. As I was filing a Saw{saw?} Leouise/Louise{?} Service{?} called and told me that Franks wife Agusta died last night, I soon went to the farm and did my work there, Then with Roll Jenner We drove to Simsbury and found Frank alone in the house. The undertaker had taken the body over to the town. The funeral is to be Thursday at 2 o'cloc_{o'clock?} 11\18\{1936} (Wednesday) I went to the farm and drew all the corn into the barn,{,?} The wind blew hard and cold. When I dame home I foun_{found?} that my engine was frozen. 11\19\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Bank and got, Howard Coes check cashed, then to City Hall and paid Mrs Patons{Paytons?} Rent, then to the Conn Light & Power Co and paid my light bill, then home and put non freeze in my little car ad went to the farm and did the chores, then came home and had lunch, And at noon Effel Royter/Royton{?} called, and Fritsa Effel, Roll, and I went to West Simsbury and attended the funeral of Franks wife Gussie, Rev Mr Mitchel{?} of the Simsbury Congregational church conducted the service and Mr Vincent of Symsbury{Simsbury?} was the undertaker, There were about 50 persons present,{, or .?} She is buried in Hartford. We came home through Unionville and Bristol. The weather this morning was cold 9 {degree symbol} above zero. 11\20\{1936} (Friday) This morning I took my Pickup down to Dan/Don{?} Hannons and found that the wishbove{wishbone?} brace was broken, left it there to be repaired, I then took my Runabout up to the Testing lane to have it tested, It passed all right except the stop light was burned out. I then went to the farm and did the chores, and husked a bushel of corn, Came home had dinner and staid with mary all the afternoon. This evening Mr Kirtz{?} called. 11\21\{1936} (Saturday) Ths morning Frank came from Kent{.?} got here at about 7.30 with his big truck, and unloaded Lumber, old wood Feed, Fertilizer, Squash{squash?}, etc, and we loaded on the new heavy sled that I had made. Dick came and we sawed off a couple{?} of cuts of the big tree. This afternoon he did not come, and a boy and I cut off another cut. I went to the farm and did the chores, etc. 10\22\{1936} (Sunday) This is Mary and My 53 Wedding anniversary. Mary staid in the house all day as she has for a long time, She appears more brighter than she has for some time. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew G. Madden{?}. Preached. His Subject was Great, through Ordinary. There was a large congregation, This afternoon I called on mr David Plumb of Prospect, who old much of the history of the locality. 11\23\{1936} (Monday) This morning I got breakfast, of Bacon and fried potatoes. I did the Washing got through at 10 o'clock, Then repaired the Woodhouse door and did other jobs till noon. After dinner went to the farm, and husked corn etc. 11\24\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning the ground was covered with snow, and it scacely{scarcely?} thawed during the day. I dug path's/paths{?} and got chains on my car, Then went to the farm and husked corn. Note in margin of text: First Snow 5" 11\25\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I went to Dan/Don{?} Hanlans/Hanlons{?} and he put non freeze in my Pick up {.?}Radiator,{,?} and having put in another Wishbone{?} Brace, I paid him 7.50 and then after dinner went to the farm and husk{husked?} corn, When I came down out of the lot Clarance{Clarence?} Pierpont told that the front wheel did not turn. I found Old grease{?} had stuck the brake{?}. 11\26\{1936} (Thursday) Thanksgiving day. I went to the farm. Then home Mrs Paton{Payton?} went away before dinner, and I got dinner for Mary and me, After which Mary lay down and had a nap. William Gillette{?}, Fred and wife called, {blank space in text} after they left Mary was taken with a sick spell,{,?} and I had a hard time of it, but luckily Margaret and the Brundage boys came Margaret helped get things in order, and telephoned for the doctor. He came and gave mary a hypodermic, and she rested easier, Margaret staid during the evening. 11\27\{1936} (Friday) This morning I went to town and drew 25.00 from the Bank and paid Telephone and Water bills. Then to Sears & Roebuck's/Roebucks{?} and bought 20{?} cross chains for .98. Then home {new paragraph?} After dinner put cross chains in firtures{fixtures?} and then to e farm and fed the ox, came home and carried ood from the big oak in the front yard. Mary is much better to day, Came out and ate supper, Cou{?} talk very good. This morning I saw attourner{attorney?} Tinton/Finton{?} J. Phalen{?}. and gave him Mr Voghels{Vogels?} rent account to collect. {blank space} Dr Barber called this afternoon found Mary much better. 11\28\{1936} (Saturday) This morning I cut up and carried{?} to the back yard some of the big black oak tat stood in the front yard, I expected Dick was coming up and we would saw up the log and butt{?}. But Roll Jenner told me that he went to Canada last Wednesday and will not be home till tomorrow, I went to the farm and took out the broken windows, and came home and got glass and worked on them. They have been working on the buildingin the yard, and filling in with dirt which they bring from the South side of the Plank road {.?} near the mouth of Turkey Hill Brook. Note in margin of text: 2 Snow 1" deep 11\29\{1936} (Sunday) I attended Church at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Rev Matthew {.?} G. Madden{?} officiated, Subject of preaching "From Nothing to Nothing" Mary was able to sit up and eat at the table, though very weak, cannot talk very loud, or stand on her feet without some one holding her. 11\30\{1936} (Monday) This morning after breakfast I did the washing and hung it on the line. I then took down the grape arbor that reache_{reached?} on the land that I leased to Tony Ciarlo{?}. After dinner I went to Mort Pierponts{?} and paid a milk bill 5.50 he gave Mary and I two baskets of nice apples, then stoped at the arm, Then up to Thomaston Ave and had my truck tested, then home and worked on{?} windows. 12\01\{1936} (Tuesday) Cold day 4{?} below zero this morning. I went to town this forenoon, then worked at windows in the Wheel house, This afternoon{?} went to the farm, and repaired windows. 12\02\{1936} (Wednesday) Rined all day. I worked in the Wheelhouse repairing indows the greater part of the time, Snowed this morning. Note in margin of text: 3rd Snow 2 1/2" deep turned to rain 12\03\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I made a mallet, and sawed wood etc In the afternoon I staid with Mary as Mrs Poton/Paton{Payton?} went to {.?} town. 12\04\{1936} (Friday) This morning Dan/Don{?} Hannon{?} came and adjusted my timer on the Pickup, I sawed wood for a spell, and then went o the farm and husked corn till night. The weather has been cool. 12\05\{1936} (Saturday) I sawed wood and filed saws this forenoon. Dick came and we cross cut 5{?} lengths from the big butt log of the Black oak tree. Weather rather cold. Tony Cairlo{?} worked on his building with three or four men. 12\06\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew G Madden{?}, Sermon{?} Testing Things that Differ. It has rained all day. 12\07\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, and filed a crosscut saw and sawed wood till noon, I had Dan/Don{?} Hannon{?} repair the calurator/carburator{?} on my Pick Up, then went t the farm and finished husking corn. Weather has been cold all day. 12\08\{1936} (Tuesday) This forenoon I sawed wood, In the afternoon worked at the Farm. 12\09\{1936} (Wednesday) Went to the farm and got out amnure and put it on the garden, and spread it. 12\10\{1936} (Thursday) Rained all day, Started making a Snow plow for Dan/Don{?} Hannon{?}. I staid with Mary this afternoon. Mrs Paton{Payton?} cleaned the Sitting Room. 12\11\{1936} (Friday) Rained all day. I worked on Snow plow part of day, and at farm cutting up corn stalks. 12\12\{1936} (Saturday) To day I worked on Snow plow, and at the farm cutting up cornstalks. Went up to Woodtick and sa_{saw?} Chas{?} Tuttle, then home{.?} and more work on snow plow, down to the store etc. 12\13\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev M. G Madden{?}, Minister, Subject; A Christian{Christion?} Despite. the DEvil. {blank space in text} Tony Ciarlo{?} had a plummer puting{putting?} 3/4" galvanized pipes in the cellar to carry the City water out into his new building. 12\14\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing. Then when cleaning out the furnace pipe broke a hole in it and had to et a new one and fir it up and put it in, I then went to the farm and tried to plow but there was to{too?} much frost in the ground. 12\15\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to attourney{attorney?} Phelan's/Phelans{?} Office and he gave me a check for 21.00 to pay Mr Voghels{Vogels?} rent.{.?} I then ordered ot the Citizens Co 1 ton of sof_ _oal{soft coal?}. then went to Mr Hills and exchanged a history of Derby{?} for a hist of Danbury/Donbury{?}, then did several other errands, and came home. After dinner went to the farm, and did the work there. Then went to the farm, and did the work there, Then went to Carl Moulthrops in Wolcott, then came home.{.?} stoping at the Fulton market at Mill Plain and bought some groceries. Tony Cairlo is having the Plumming put into his building to day. 12\16\{1936} (Wednesday) I worked on the Snow Plow this morning, Did the work at the farm this afternoon, and then put the wires and lights on the Evergreen tree in the yard, and tonight had it lit up. 12\17\{1936} (Thursday) This morning I plowed a piece in the garden at the farm. This afternoon I stayed home with Mary as Mrs Paton{Payton?} had the afternoon off. C{C?} Lena Turkington{?} called, And Roll Jenner called. 12\18\{1936} (Friday) To day I worked on the Snow Plow. 12\19\{1936} (Saturday) To day I worked on Snow Plow, It begn snowing about four o'clock, but has now turned to rain. Note in margin of text: 4th Snow 1 1/2" deep 12\20\{1936} (Sunday) I attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Churce Rev M. G Madden officiating. Subject "No Room in the Inn",{,"?} Last night is snowed, then it rained very hard and this morning the streams were very high{?}. Out to the farm the water washed down the hill taking much soil etc with it, The springs are now well filled. 12\21\{1936} (Monday) This morning I did the washing, then odd jobs about the place. In the afternoon I went to the farm and dug out the drain ditches, Then came home and went to the East End Hardware store and got two pains{panes?} of glass for Vogles part of the house, then worked on the Snow plow. Weather has been cool. 12\22\{1936} (Tuesday) Shortest day. This morning I went to Pierponts dairy, and got a drink of warm milk. Worked on Snow plough. At dinner time Jack and Ruth came in{.?} near the end of their long trip of about 12000 miles across the Continent and back by auto. The longest continuous trip I ever knew of. They had many curious things that they had gathered{?} and a great store of information which was most interesting. 12\23\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I was awakened by a commotion{comation?} up stairs at about two o'clock. Soon Mrs Payton came down and said he house was on fire, I got on my clothes lively and ran up stairs and opened the attic door, to find the inside as well as the stairs and all above on fire. I ran East to Nichaelus Haypennies{?}, and pounded on the door and shouting fire aroused them, Mrs Hapenny{?} telephoned the fire dept and I ran home, and when I was in the yard the Fire Co was coming up the hill, Soon another Co came, followed by the Hook and Ladder Co. They put two streams on the fire, one up the front stairs, the other up the back stairs. The flame was leaping high above the chimney, after the water was turned on it was not time before they had them subdued, All the people got out of the house except my wife who was unable to move very much, But a big fireman, Private Harold Parker{?} took her in his arms as he would a child and carried her to Mr Haypennies house, For which I wish to thank him The lower floor was not damaged by fire, but well drenched by water, but the Firemen covered my books and much of the furniture{firniture?} with canvas{canvass?} so it was not badly injured, Soon after the alarm{olarm?} was given they telephoned Ray and he came, He in turn called Margaret and Ruth at Storrs, and before eleven o'clock they were here. This afternoon we took Mary down to Margarets, and they and I could not agree on the way she should be cared for, so I came away feeling very bad for I know Mary wants me to care for her nights as I have for nearly two years, But with all of my troubles I scarcely{scarely?} know what I ought to do. To night I lie alone in this house. 12\24\{1936} (Thursday) The weather has been warmed. This morning Mr Dalton{?} and an estimator{istimator?} from Judd and Puffers Insurance{?} office called and looked over the rooms of the house and estimated the damage{damags?} at 1.700.00{?} dollars{dollers?}, and would have the work done, or they would pay me the money and I could have the repairs made. I went and saw Will Garrigus and he is coming tomorrow to look it over. Yesterday afternoon. Yesterday afternoon Margaret, Ruth, Will Gillette, Jack and I took Mary from Mr Hapennies{?} house down to Margarets, where she is now. 12\25\{1936} (Friday) Christmas Day. This forenoon William and John Garrigus{?} came and looked the house over in regard to making repairs. I had dinner at Fritsa's{Fritsas?} and staid with Mary who is at Margarets, while Margaret went and had{hade?} her dinner, at about five we all assembled at Rays and had a Christmas tree, and a fine lunch. I am staying alone in the house to night. 12\26\{1936} (Saturday) The Voghels{Vogels?} moved out of our house this morning. Mr Blanchard gave 950, as the figures that he would make my house good. Dick, Bobbie, and I let the bedding down out of the East room on the third floor, and then cleaned the west side of the house where they littered the yard. Dick split up a lot of wood. 12\27\{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church, Rev M G Madden{?} Subject (The sun goes Down) Went to the farm, then had dinner, Carried Mrs Payton home{?} and went to Margarets and stayed with Mary will after dark, Will and Leland Garrigus{?} called and looked the house over 12\28\{1936} (Monday) This morning Robert Miller came up and we cleane_{cleaned?} out the upstairs and took up the linoleum{lenolium?} and Rolled it up and put it in the bar. Mr {blank space in text} the electrician{electrition?} came to day and looked the house over in regard to new wiring{wireing?}. 12\29\{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Insurance Office of Judd & Puffer{?} and agreed with mr Dalton on assessed{assest?} damage to my house in the sum of $1700.00 I am to receive my check next Monday. Robert Miller came this morning and we{?} cleaned out the rooms on the third floor. After which sawed off a cut on{?} the butt log of the big oak tree, Then I carried Mrs Payton over to her daughters on Lockhart Ave{?}, I stoped and saw Mary at Beecher ave on my return, found her very weak 12\30\{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I went to Lockhart Ave and got Mrs Payton Robert Miller came and helped me get the Snow plow down to Dan Hanlin's. He did not come in the afternoon. 12\31\{1936} (Thursday) Robert came and helped me finish up the lifting divice/device{?} for the Snow plow, and we went to the farm and cut up a lot of corn stalks{corn stolks?}, I got Mrs Payton and carried her home this evening. It has rained all day. [Separate Sheet found in 1935-37 Journal, pertaining to 1936] April 29, Found windows shot through in my Barn June 1, Stones in barrell of ashes. July 8 Francis Worked at farm while I went looking for a woman{women} to come and work Francis saw the Garrigus boy come over on my lot and get on the mowing machine. Was called home by his sister.{between the lines} July 13 Found glass Jar shot to pieces{topieces}, by the wall " 30 Found tops of oil pails dented and one tipped over Sept 24 Someone has been taking the Old Ford engine to pieces. Oct. 2 [ditto marks to previous entry] " 4 Found Water turned on, at the Watering trough in the lot. Oct 14 Window panes{pains} shot out of West Window of barn, Saw Mrs Garrigus about it ' 15 Mrs Garrigus Called me, and said she knew who the boys were that shot the windows out Oct 19 Saw Chief Roach about the above matters " " P. M. Policeman{Polieceman} Overton called, he had interviewed Mrs Garrigus. 01\01\1937 (Friday) Robert Miller came this morning and we took down he smoke pipe of the Girage{Garage?} and put it up East of the house, and we put in an iron 8" pipe to connect with the furnace, and bricked up the window, 01\02\1937 (Saturday) Rained to night and snowed this afternoon. Dick came up and we made a sleve{sleeve?} for the temporary Furnice{Furnace?} pipe, and did other odd jobs. Note in margin of text: 5th Snow 1" deep 01\03\1937{1936} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden. This text or Subject was a "Chained Life." {".?} After Service{service?} I had dinner at Margarets, then I went to the farm. To day I have been here alone and got my own Breakfast and Supper, Fried sausage for breakfast, an{and?} had Fried oysters for supper. The weather has been wet all day. William Garrigus is coming to work on the house tomorr__{tomorrow?} 01\04\1937{1936} (Monday) This morning William and John Ga__igus{Garrigus?} began work on my house repairing where the fire burned it, I went to the City Hall and got a Building permit for which I paid $5.00 Then I went to the Water Bureau for a permit for Tony Ciarlo, but he must go himself and get it, I then went for the Insurance, and found that the check will not be ready before Wendesday, I then ordered a ton of soft coal of the Citizens{Cilizens?} Coal Co for $8.00, then I came home Soon a load of lumber came, Made a bargain with Fritsa{Fritza?} that she will have the rent when ready, 7 1/2 hr 01\05\1937{1936} (Tuesday) This morning I connected the furnace with the New Outside{Outsid?} pipe and Will Garrigus and John took down the Chimney I had them move the stove to the East side of the oom and I ran the pipe through the window and out and up. Fritsa came up and we looked the rooms over and she practically agreed to rent it. Will and John worked 8 1/2 hrs. 01\06\1937{1936} (Wednesday) This morning I went and got Mrs Payton, after which I filed a circular saw and made a piece f a saw frame Wm and John Garrigus have been getting the hole cut up through for the New chimney, Mr Garthwate{Garthwaite?} who is to build the chimney came to day and figured out the material{materiel?} needed {nee ded?}, and tonight, the Cement, Lime, Sand, Tile, Outlet pipe Tiles and tools came. The Garrigus worked more than 8 hours. 01\07\1937 (Thursday) Rained all day. This morning was very icey{icy?}. I went to Lockhart Ave and got Mrs Payton, To night she staid here in her room. Will and _ohn{John?} Garrigus worked on the upper floor taking down the burned{burnid?} partitions{particions?} and laying new floor, etc about 8 hrs Edward Garthwait{Garthwaite?} came and got the Chimney materials{matirials?} in, and laid the chimney up about 4 ft. I went down to Margarets and visited Mary twenty minutes at six o'clock. 01\08\1937 (Friday) Weather has been very warm, thawed all day. This morning I went to Judd and Puffers Insurance Office and they gave me a check fo 1.700.00 I took it to the Waterbury Savings Bank and deposited it, keeping out 100.00 which I paid out, 44.14 for putting on temporary Roof, 500 for Building Permit, 50.00 to William Garrigus for work leaving a balance of .86 cts I sawed up logs in the front yard a greater part of the day. This evening I went to Margarets and visited Mary. 01\09\1937 (Saturday) This morning Dick came and we cross cut sawed all day{.?} and finished sawing up the big tree in the front yard. Will Garrigus with John and Lee worked on the Roof, they got the Deck up. Edward Gathwait{Garthwaite?} worked this forenoon and{ond?} got the Chimney up through the sittingroom. 01\10\1937 (Sunday) Rained this morning{mornind?} and turned into snow this afternoon I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Gregg of the First CongregationalChurch officiated Text Kings and Kingdoms. Note in margin of text: 6th Snow 1" fell, 01\11\1937 (Monday) This morning I sharpened picks all the forenoon. Went to the farm and did odd jobs this afternoon. Will and John Garrigus put the roof on North and East of the deck. Edward Garthwait laid the chimney to a level with the upper floor. Mr Lavellee and a helper put in the Electrik{Electric?} wireing{wiring?} for the second floor. The weather has been cool all day. 01\12\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I raked and cleaned the East side of the front yard, then did odd jobs about the house and took care of the fires etc. This evening Margaret, Mildred Bird, and Robert Miller called. 01\13\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I raked the West part of the front yard clean, Sawed Wood and did ojj Jobs, etc Went to the farm this afternoon, and later sawed wood. The weather has been cool Tony Ciarlo put a large Sign board on the top of his building. 01\14\1937 (Thursday) I finished sawing up the old oak tree to day. William Garrigus worked all alone to day, he put in a new frame and window in the North end and new glass in{il?} all the other windows. This day has been damp and wet 01\15\1937 (Friday) Damp and wet to day, Worked in the Wheel house and did odd jobs. Will and John Garrigus put up the ceilings in the Kitchen, Living{Leiving?} and Front rooms up stairs to day. I went down to see Mary this evening at Margarets, and made arrangements to bring her home Sunday. 01\16\1937 (Saturday) Clear and cool, I cut up brush wood, Went to the farm after dinner, then put the furnace pipe into the new Chimney, and Dick and I took down the temporary smoke pipe,{,?} and Dick split up a lot of Oak wood, Will and his sons Leland and John nearly finished the roof on the house, and repaired windows. Edward Garthwait finished the chimney. 01\17\1937 (Sunday) This morning Ray came with his nice war car, and we went down to Margarets and got Mary and brought her up here. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Mr Madden preached Subject Living in a Chilly Weather, Cold this morning,{,?} Rain to night. Tomb. 01\18\1937 (Monday) This morning I ran the washing machine and did the washing, Then I went to the farm, Had dinner. Then went to the Manufacturer's Band{Bank?} and got check for 45.50 cashed, then took Trolley car and went to the Motor Vehicle Dept on Watertown Ave and had my Car Licence{License?} renewed for 7.00 Then I went to Mr Upsons office and had my eyes tested for glasses, The{Then?} to the Bank and drew 300.00 from my insurance{Iinsurance?caps?} account, then home and paid W L Garrigus 300.00 Mary is out of her head tonight. 01\19\1937 (Tuesday) Weather, Wet this morning cool this evening. Will Garrigus and John put up studding on the third floor this morning, John went away as he is going to be married tomorrow, and Will worked alone in the afternoo_{afternoon?} I cut up brushwood, Took Fritsa to Ruths to look at sinc{?} and then we went to Cheshire and{gnd} got a bag of Dry mash, 01\20\1937 (Wednesday) It began snowing at noon and continued till about eight o'clock {blank space in text} Jack Garrigus and Martha Wakelee were married at the Mill Plain Union Church at 10 this morning, by Rev Mr Madden, and have started for Florida on their wedding trip. William{Willcam?} Garrigus worked this afternoon putting wall board on the upper rooms. I went to Richard Upsons and got a pair of glasses, paid 17 00{"00" is in superscript} Note in margin of text: 7th Snow 3".Fell 01\21\1937 (Thursday) This morning the snow lay 4" deep on the ground and I had plenty of paths to make. The wether came warm and uch of it had gone before night. {new paragraph?} Will Garrigus lathed up the chimney, and did othe work. Ed Garthwait came this afternoon and thut{?} on the first coat{coot?} of plaster about the chimney. Lee helped a short time this evening. 01\22\1937 (Friday) Wet and foggy all day, Will Garrigus set partitions and put on Wall Board all day. Lee stoped this evening and helped. I worked in the Wheel house at chairs and blinds etc. 01\23\1937 (Saturday) Weather rather cool. I worked some in the Wheel house on blinds, etc This afternoon we set the stove back again and connected it with the chimney. Ruth and Jack called. Had been to a wedding at Bridgewater. {blank space in text} Dick came and split wood, etc. 01\24\1937 (Sunday) I attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. Subject;{;?} In reverse or{ar?} Forward - Which?"{"?}{.?} Weather was cool this morning, At noon it began to rain and freeze and became{become?} very icy{icey?}. 01\25\1937 (Monday) Rained this morning. I did the washing, and repaired blinds etc. William Garrigus worked on the roof, and putting on Wall Board in the upper rooms, etc. 01\26\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I hung the clothes out to dry, and repaired the Clothes{Clolhes?} Line, by putting on a heavy spring Worked in the Wheelhouse rep blinds chairs etc. This afternoon I went to town and ordered a ton of coal, and drew 20.00 from the bank. Mr Charles Wolcott went to the farm with me. No one worked on my house to day. 01\27\1937 (Wednesday) Weather has been cool I worked at the Wheelhouse on chairs etc. Chas Wolcott and I went to the farm and he cut up some corn. We then drove home through Prospect. Will Garrigus did not work on my house to day. 01\28\1937 (Thursday) This morning I repaired the clock, and painted chairs in the Wheelhouse. This afternoon Charles Wolcott and I went to the farm and trimmed appletrees, etc. 01\29\1937 (Friday) I worked in the Wheelhouse on a book rack this forenoon. {new paragraph?} This afternoon Charlie Wolcott and I went to the farm and trimmed appletrees. Will Garrigus came this morning at 7 and set door casings etc, 9 1/2 hr. 01\30\1937 (Saturday) Cool day, Dick came this morning and we put Makers labels in the twelve new drums that we are making, Then we put things to order on the upper floor of the barn then we lowered the furniture down out of the East room hird floor, Dick split and piled a lot of wood. We received a letter from Irving. 01\31\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew madden preached, Life at a Standstill Ray Ruth Fritsa Robert, & Ronald came after church, It soon began to Snow, and later turned to rain{.?} This evening James{Jame's?} Paton called. 02\01\1937 (Monday) I cleaned out the furnishings of the South room third floor and put them in the East room ready to lower down, and lowered some down before noon. Chas Wolcott came and we lowered{,?} the rest in the afternoon and put them under the shed. Will Garrigus worked on the new stairs for the third floor. 02\02\1937 (Tuesday) Cold windy day. This morning I put the furniture{furnture?} up in the barn, after a time Charles Wolcott came and we soon finished it. Albert Blanchard came and offered to put in a porcelain{sparcelain?} combination Sink, hot water boiler, and do all the piping and plumming etc for $112.00 Irving Hitchcock was killed a Scovills{Scoville?} factory yesterday afternoon, by cranking a truck that was in gear and ran ahead and crushed him against an iron column and pipes. 02\03\1937 (Wednesday) Weather cold this morning 4 above zero. I worked in the Wheelhouse fixing{fizing?} furniture {.?} etc Mr Wolcott came and we went to the farm, etc. Wm Garrigus came this morning and hung the three doors on the third floor, etc Lee came this evening, and puttied the ceiling. 02\04\1937 (Thursday) To day has been very cold, I have a hard cold and have not done much work, Repaired a book rack in the Wheel House{,?} etc Wm Garrigus did not come to day. Albert Blanchard came and put in a big combination sinc{sinc?}. and zHot Water boiler and piping 02\05\1937 (Friday) Snow began this morning and continued till afternoon. I worked in the wheel house on a book rack. Will and John Garrigus Worked about eight hours up stairs, Albert Blanchard came this afternoon{aflernoon?} and brought the old sink down and put it in the cellar. Note in margin of text: 8 Snow 3" fell, 02\06\1937 (Saturday) Cool and Clear. Dick, Bob, Ronald and Fritsa came Will, Lee, and John Garrigus worked, Plastering, Puttying and Painting. Dick cut brush wood etc. 02\07\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr Madden preached, Subject an Ambulance or{as?} Fence. After service Ray and Ruth called, to see Mary and look the house over. This evening Mr Booth called and took a picture{piclure?} of his Father that was taken in 1884 in the Mattatuck Drum Band. 02\08\1937 (Monday) Weather wet and cold, I ran the Washing Machine this morning{.?} Will and John Garrigus painted ceilings etc Mr Liddell had two men working putting in new wires on the first floor, I set a glass 14x28 in East Kitchen window. 02\09\1937 (Tuesday) Wet cool day. This morning I went down town to the Bank and drew out 335.33. and also had a check cashed 25.00 I then went to Judd & Puffers Office and paid my Insurance, 11.50 then I came home and paid Will Garrigus for work and materials from Jan 4th to Feb 4. $335.33 This settled all but 25.00 to Blanchard 163.00 to Liddell. Will and John Garrigus painted mos of the time to day. 9 hrs Lidell{.?} had two men working 9 hours 02\10\1937 (Wednesday) Cool clear day, Will and John Garrigus Painted{Painled?} the Kitchen, and did other work. 9 hr Mr Liddell had two men here to day 9 hr. Mrs Payton{Paton?} went to her house this afternoon{.?} and I staid with Mary. 02\11\1937 (Thursday) Cool clear day, I finished the book rack that I have been repairing, and painted chairs, etc. Will and John Garrigus put shelves in the Living{Leving?} room closet, and painted etc. Mr Libbell had two men working at electrical{eleclrical?} work, Fritsa came and we decided on the paper for the upper rooms. 02\12\1937 (Friday) Nice cool day. This morning I went to the farm and caired{cared?} for Buster. Then I Took Mr Charles Wolcott and we went to Kent. We went via Waterville, Reynolds Bride{Bridge?} then up the West Branch past the City Reservoirs and through East Morris, and Morris Center, Up{up?} the West shore of Bantam Lake where we stoped and saw men cutting ice that was about nine inches thick. They cut it with as{a?} large saw that was propelled by a gasoline engine,{,?} and as it cut sent the powdered ice ten feet in the air. The{They?} also had an elevator run by power that slid the ice onto a platform where several{severol?} trucks were loading at the same time. Then we continued through Bantam, Woodville Warren and to {ink blot} Kent where we arrived at the Solders{Soldiers?} Monument at eleven. Mr Wolcott went to see his relations and I went to Frank's. He was away so I went to the barn and saw the cow. They are{ars?} giving over Seven Hundred quarts per day now, and are eating about 40.000 lbs of hay, with grain and ensilege{?}. Took dinner with Frank, and had a fine visit. After which we looked at his new Tractor and attached Snow Plow. At two Mr Wolcott came with his brother Olliver{?}, and we soon left for home coming through South Kent. Merriall{?} to Preston Hill, where we went North and down the longest and steepest mountain road that I have seen in a long time to Mr Orlo Camps{?} fine Stone residence, Mr Camp is a fine man, but could tell me nothing of Elijah Camp of New Milford, who owned the old Bass Drum that I have. From there we went North East to Waramaug{?} Lake which was a great sheet of ice, and around the West side and across the South End and over the hill to New Preston Station on the Shepang Rail Raod,{,?} then through Washington Depot, and up the hill through Washington{Washinglon?} .{.?} and on to North Woodbury, then through Woodbury and up the New Ban Cherman Hill road and through Middlebury and home, which we reached at dusk. 02\13\1937 (Saturday) To day has been warm and nice, I did odd jobs about home, Dick came and he and Robert brought up a load of stuff and put it in the cellar. We then put things to order up stairs in the Barn. Will and John Garrigus painted and finished the Kitchen This afternoon Lee came and the three papered the front room between 4.30 and 5.30. 02\14\1937 (Sunday) Rained nearly all day. I attended service{sirvice?} at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr Madden preached Subject "Troublesome{Troublesom?} Detours. 02\15\1937 (Monday) Weather Clear for most part, and Cool. I did odd jobs about home. Will and Jack Garrigus papered{,?} on the 2nd floor all day,{,?} Lee came this evening and helped. 02\16\1937 (Tuesday) Cool weather. This morning I went to town and did business. Got License for my truck $10.20 Will and John Garrigus pained floors and practically finished the rooms on second floor. Roll called and went to the farm with me. I bought one ton of soft coal{.?} $8.00 02\17\1937 (Wednesday) Cold to day. I went to the Bank and got 20.00 this morning. Then I worked on odd jobs. Will and John Garrigus worked on the third floor. Lee came towards evening{eving?} and helped paint. 02\18\1937 (Thursday) Fair and Cool weather, I did odd jobs and filed a saw{sow?} fr{for?} Mr Rochan{?} {.?} this forenoon. This afternoon I staid with Mary as Mrs Payton took the afternoon off. 02\19\1937 (Friday) Fine nice day. This morning Roll Jenner and I left at 9 o'clock and drove to West Simsbury and visited my brother Frank, We staid there till 2.30 when we left and came home via Collinsville. Will and John Garrigus worked on the third floor. Papered the East room, etc. 02\20\1937 (Saturday) Weather warm and clear. I did odd jobs about home this forenoon, Dick and Bob took my truck and brought up three loads of goods. This afternoon Bobbie and I put the Bedding that was under the shed up in the barn, and got all of Marys books up in the case. They were formerly in the East room{roon?} on the third floor{froor?}, and were some burned, Smoked, and wet{wets?} at the time of the fire. 02\21\1937 (Sunday) Warm Rain since noon. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev M. Madden preached, Church well filled. I went to the farm Alice Benham rode{rade?} out to their place with me, After Dinner I staid with Mary all the afternoon, Mrs Payton lay down. 02\22\1937 (Monday) Washingtons Birthday. This morning As I was frying some oysters Mrs Payton came down and as she passed she took cover of the frying pan that I was using I told her,{,?} I wanted that, She flew into a rage and accused me of insulting her, and went to the sink and took up a basket of clams that Ray had left and threw them acrosst{?} the room to the floor, and said that she is not going to stand it, etc etc. I continued to fry the oysters and told her that she was excited, after a time she quieted down, and continued as usual.{.?} After breakfast I ran the washing machine, after which I took my truck and{,?} went and saw Margaret about getting a younger woman, This afternoon Chas Wolcott came and we went to the farm, after which we drove through Prospect to Naugatuck to Mrs Jones, but found she is in the hospital{hospitol?} and could not help me, I then drove to George Drivers in the South end of Prospect, but he knew of no woman, I then came home an{and?} cut bruch wood. Will and John Garrigus papered the South room on the third floor, They got through at noon, 5 hr, as to attend Joseph Weltons funeral{funerol?} in Waterville{.?} who was Will's cousin Fritsa moved up some good this afternoon, Louise Service brought them in her car. 02\23\1937 (Tuesday) Very mild weather, for this time of year, I chopped up brush wood and did other odd jobs about the place. Will and John Garrigus finished papering the South room third floor and painted all the floors up there, and nearly finished. After i had been to the farm I drove to South Waterbury and visited Uncle Will and Aunt Ell__{Ellen?}. They are 83 years old and have been married 63 years. 02\24\1937 (Wednesday) Weather to day has been very mild, above thawing as has every day been lately, There has been but little ice not exceeding 3" thick this winter, now it is all gone. I never knew such mild weather at this time of the year. I helped elar the furniture out of the big room, this morning, and then cut brush wood till noon. This afternoon when I went to the farm I found all the{lhe?} water out of the trough. I cleaned the spring out and cleared the strained{slained?} and got it running again. Will and John Garrigus finished the upper floors and started on the ceiling of the large room, and had it nearly finished tonight. Lee came after four and helped. Mary sits in the front room and hardly realizes what is going on. 02\25\1937 (Thursday) Mild weather to day. I choped brush wood in the forenoon and went to the farm, and worked on bedstead{bedstead?} in the wheel house. Will and John Garrigus put up the partition dividing the large room and finished the ceiling. 02\26\1937 (Friday) This morning the ground was covered with snow{.?} but little remained to night. This forenoon Rovert came and we t__k{took?} the truck and went to Albion St and got a load of Fritsa's goods and brought them up. I worked the most of the day in the Wheel House getting old burned paint off a bed stead. William and John Garrigus worked on the big room, Finished the partition and Will hung the glass door, etc. Effel and Louise with their cars brought up some of Fritsas goods this afternoon. The Electricians{Electritions?} where{were?} here and installed the Switchboard and meters{meeters?} etc. Note in margin of text: 9th Snow 1" deep 02\27\1937 (Saturday) 18{degree symbol} above zero this morning. Dick came early and took my truck and has been usint it all day moving up furniture {.?} and goods. They have them all moved up now, I worked in the wheel house prepairing{preparing?} a bed- stead for painting. Will John and Leeland Garrigus papered, and varnished the big room which has been divided. 02\28\1937 (Sunday) Ten above zero this morning. It soon grew warm and clear, I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Matthew .G. Madden{.?} preached. Subject "Be Still my Soul".{."?} Large Congregation. This afternoon, Fritsa went to Cheshire with her brother, Dick and Bob put up Radio wire. Frank and family came from Kent, and made a visit, Margaret came this evening. 03\01\1937 (Monday) Weather 10 above this morning, but warmer through the day. I did the washing after breakfast. Then I worked in the wheelhouse on the bedstead. Will and John Garrigus papered the front hall, etc. Mr Labbell{Leabell?} with a helper put up the most of the light fixtures. Fritsa went to the hospital{hospilal?} for treatment of a carbunkle{carbukle?} on{an?} her leg{lig?}. 03\02\1937 (Tuesday) Nice warm day. I went to the Bank and drew 435.10 which I paid to Will Garrigus, this morning I worked in the Wheelhouse on bedstead etc Will and John Garrigus put up new shelves in the West room{.?} near the bay window. Mr Libbell finished the Electrical work. 03\03\1937 (Wednesday) This day has been very mild as all days are this year, I stained the bedstead with mahogany{mahogony?} stain and did odd jobs, in the Wheelhouse. William and John Garrigus repaired the Linolium in the Middle room put in door sills, and varnished the linolium, pained the floor in the West room, and worked in th bath room. Lee came this afternoon and helped. 03\04\1937 (Thursday) To day I was within the house clearing out the N W Room John Garrigus and I moved all the books onto the new shelves in the center room and mowed everything out of the room, and they pained the metal ceiling and striped{sliped?} the paper from the walls and did many other things. 03\05\1937 (Friday) Weather fair and war, I polished the large clock and set it up and running, this morning, and worked on other jobs. Will and John Garrigus Pained and papered the North West Room, Sold Creuss{?} Co 1 bu Potatoes. 03\06\1937 (Saturday) It has snowed by spells all day with about 1" on the ground. This morning Will and John Garigus and I cleaned out the front room, and Will and John pained and paper it. I did odd jobs etc. Note in margin of text: 10 Snow 1" fell 03\07\1937 (Sunday) Fritsa came home from the hsopital{?} about 4 o'clock Philip Royter brought her. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev M Madden preached. 03\08\1937 (Monday) Rained all day. I worked helping clean out the East Room up stairs, and did many other odd jobs. Will and John Worked on the East Room at the head of stairs 10 hr. Lee came this evening I sold The Frank Cruess & Sons Co 5 bu of Potatoes delived @150=7.50 03\09\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I sorted potatoes{polatoes?}, and worked in he Wheelhouse etc. Will and John Garrigus finished the room at the head of the stairs and Started{Slarted?} on the Kitchen, 9 1/2 hr Lee worked this evening. Willard Miller came this afternoon from Toronto. 03\10\1937 (Wednesday) Rolland Jenner and I went up to Brother Franks in West Simsbury. This forenoon and staid till after three o clock. Will and John Garrigus worked in the Kitchen to day. 9 1/2 hr Lee came this afternoon. 03\11\1937 (Thursday) Cool and showed{showered?} the greater part of the day. I worked at blacksmith work most of the time. This afternoon Mr Wolcott and I went to the farm and to West Cheshire and got a bag of Dry Mash after we got home I worked in the Wheel House making a bos to keep Drum Sticks in. 03\12\1937 (Friday) Weather Clear and Mild. I worked about the place etc. Went to West Cheshire and got a bag of middlings 2.15. 03\13\1937 (Saturday) Snowed hard this forenoon to the depth of 2 inches it stoped about three o'clock. William John and Leeland Garrigus came this morning{mornining?} and renovated the pantry and Will finished the toilet and painted the Bath Room floor, Lee plastered up the cellar wall on the North end west of the door, and patched up the wall in the stairway. Willard Miller left this morning for Toronto. Dick took him to Hartford in a car, and there he was to board a Bus for the remainder of the trip. Note in margin of text: 12th Snow 2" deep 03\14\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached, Subject A'Pleasant Way to goodness. 03\15\1937 (Monday) Snowed all day,{,?} but this evening it turned to rain, very disagreeable weather. This morning I ran the washing machine and did the washing. Then helped Mrs Payton put the things back in the pantry. This afternoon I went to the farm, and after I got home worked on a bedstead and got it ready to varnish. Note in margin of text: 13th Snow 3" deep. 03\16\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I went to town and drew from the Bank $165.91 and this afternoon I paid of it to William Garrigus 158.91 and paid Sears & Roebusk{Robuck?} 6.90 for new Curtains. This afternoon I went out the Meriden Road and down the Pierpont Road to East Farms. We had an Ice storm during the night and trees and things about here were coated with about a quarter of an inch of ice, But when I reached the high ground on the Meriden road the White burches{bushes? birches?} were bent to the ground and many branches broken from the trees, This was true about the Maple Hikl Farm and that vicinity{vacinity?}. 03\17\1937 (Wednesday) This morning the ground was covered with snow, by noon it was about gone. This forenoo_{forenoon?} I put up curtains in my sleeping room and repaired the Wardrobe and did{dig?} other jobs about{atout?} the house, This afternoon I put up a __elf in the Girage{Garage?} and repaired furniture, etc. Note in margin of text: 14th Snow{snow?} ground covered 03\18\1937 (Thursday) This morning I with Ronald{Rhonald} went to Cheshire and got a bag of Scratch feed 2.60 then came and did the work at the farm. This afternoon Mrs Payton went to town and I staid with mary. I pained the washing Machine. 03\19\1937 (Friday) Weather clear ad warm, I worked all day{,?} putting up curtains in the house, and fitting them, and am not through yet. 03\20\1937 (Saturday) Two years ago this evening Mary was stricken in the Gymnasium of the Mill Plain Church. She was brought home in Mr Colies car and Dr Hackett called, I was thought then that she could only live a short time, Her health is better now than it has been in a long time. To day I finished putting up{.?} curtains on the third floor, South room, and varnished a bed stead and Stand. The weather has been damp and cool. 03\21\1937 (Sunday) Clear and mild, I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Matthew Madden preached, The Church was well filled. 03\22\1937 (Monday) Weather clear and pleasant. I did the washing this morning{mornining?} and set up a bed in the East Room{Roon?} 2nd floor. This afternoon I took Mary and Mrs Payton out to the farm for a ride, First time Mary has been out in a long time. 03\23\1937 (Tuesday) To day I made a bin to keep hen manure in, and cut up brush wood. Mr Frank Stapleton called 03\24\1937 (Wednesday) Nice clear day. I choped brush wood all day, only the time that Mary Mrs Payton and I went to the Farm. 03\25\1937 (Thursday) This morning I worked at chairs in the Wheel house This afternoon Mrs Payton was out and I staid with Mary{,?} and pained the wash tubs. It began snowing about three o'clock and stoped at five about two inches fell. Note in margin of text: 15th Snow 2" fell 03\26\1937 (Friday) Cold day with some snow, I worked at chairs in the Wheelhouse,{,?} much of the time. Dick was there as to day was Good Friday and there was no business at the office. 03\27\1937 (Saturday) Cold day. This morning I killed and dressed two roosters{roostess?} Went to the farm and got ground ready to plant peas, and worked in the Wheel house on chairs. 03\28\1937 (Sunday) Cold Day I did not got to Church, a Mrs Payton wished to go. I staid with mary. Fritsa was with her while I went to the farm Easter Sunday, They say that the Mill Plain Church was packed full. 03\29\1937 (Monday) Coold day. I did the washing this morning and stained two chairs. This afternoon I planted 6 rows of peas at the farm. This evening Mr Stapleton called. 03\30\1937 (Tuesday) Fine nice day, I worked in the South Room on the third floor repairing iron beds and painting them. Note in margin of text: 16th Snow 1" fell. 03\31\1936{1937} (Wednesday) To day Rolland Jenner, Ronald Miller and I went to West Simsbury and visited Brother Frank. While there Roll who was out of doors saw a great smoke and fire over to the North East. He came and told us, I with Roll and Ronald started over across the lotts but It proved to be a mile away when we got there we found the burning building to be a tobacco barn about 100 ft long and a hay barn across the street{slreet?}, both burning to the ground The Simsbury Fire Engine was there bur could render but little assistance as there was no water near. The buildings were owned by Thomas Case. We reached home about six o'clock. 04\01\1937 (Thursday) This morning I painted the Single iron bed stead in the South Room{Roon?} 3rd floor 2nd coat, and varnished two chairs in the Wheelhouse. Then I went to the farm and drew manure up on the hill. 04\02\1937 (Friday) This morning I went to Plum Bros and ordered two plow points and bought a roll of tie wire. In the afternoon I stayed with Mary as Mrs Paton{Payton?} went out. It has rained more or less all day. 04\03\1937 (Saturday) Snowed this morning. I worked at chairs in the Wheelhouse only the time I went to the farm, and what I worked on Cultavator{?} irons, etc. Note in margin of text: 17th Snow 1" fell 04\04\1936{1937} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached Subject "A Journey into Life".{."?} I staid home all day. The Weather was cool, with a few flakes of snow. 04\05\1937 (Monday) Damp day. This morning I went to town and and{written twice} attended to various business matters. I did the washing before I went. This afternoon went out to the farm and plowed some in the garden, but it pained me so I stoped and went into the barn and lay down. I think I broke{brok?} one of my ribs, when I was thrown in the Wheelhouse a few days ago. I came home and worked in the Wheelhouse on burned chairs. To day it is reported{.?} they are running the last Trolley cars, They are all to be replaced by Auto Busses. 04\06\1937 (Tuesday) Rained hard this forenoon, I worked on furniture in the Wheelhouse. This afternoon I went to the Redfearn{?} Co in Bristol and bought a new tire and tube{.}7.35 for my Ford truck. 04\07\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm{.?} and fed the ox. I came home and took Ronald and went to William Renters and Rolland Jenner got into my truck and we started for Falls Villege{Village?} to get 500 lbs of Land lime. We went across by Lakewood Park to the lower part of Waterville and across the Naugatuck River to the Watertown Road and then North through Watertown and _till{still?} North through East Morris and through Litchfield Center and up North Street to and through Goshen Center and still North over and down Roberts Mountain to Cornwall Hollow, where we stoped and got 5 gallons of gas, then up through the Hollembeck{?} Valley{valley?} to Falls Villege{Village?} where we went to the United States Gipsum Co's works and bought 500 lbs of Land lime{.?} 1.05 the distance was 42.2 miles. Then we started at 11 o'clock for Franks at Kent we followed the Housatonic River down through West Cornwall and Cornwall Bridge and reached Franks house before twelve the distance being 22.8 miles had dinner there, and looked about some, and Frank loaded in a bushel of Green Mountain seed and three bundles of tobacco lath, and a hickory stick for ox handles, and gave me two axes, and other thins. We left there after two o clock{a clock?} and came through Warren, and Bantam, and down the West side of the Lake to Morris Center and to East Morris then turned South and came by the same road that we went up in the forenoon. When Roll got out at his house we had come 40.3 miles fro_{from?} Franks house. The day was cold and win_y{windy?} this forenoon, but came warmer and fine towards night. 04\08\1937 (Thursday) Nice day. Tony Cairlo had his first car load of Granite come to day. I went to the farm this morning and cleaned the spring out, and plowed a little. This afternoon Mrs Payton was out and I had to stay with Mary. Bobbie pained the shingles on the roof. He broke the Sky light. 04\09\1937 (Friday) It rained most of the day, and turned to snow this evening and just covered the ground. I went to the farm this morning and plowed in the garden till noon when it began to rain harder, I drew two loads of manure up on the hill, then came home, Ronald went out with me. I killed and dressed a rooster and sold it to Tony Cairlo. He had another load of granite come to day. Note in margin of text: 18th Snow Ground covered 04\10\1937 (Saturday) This morning it snowed, not enough to cover the ground, I went to the farm and drew manure up on the hill. 04\11\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev M Madden preached, Subject The Davel{Devil?} Lane. Ruth and family came from Storrs and visited us Margaret and Birt Frisbie and wife called. 04\12\1937 (Monday) I did the washing this morning, and in the afternoon went to the farm and finished plowing the lower garden and plowed under the row of apple trees in the barn lot. 04\13\1936{1937} (Tuesday) Weather has been nice but a little cool. I worked most of the day sharpening stone cutting tools for the Calvary Monumental works. Robert Miller painted on the roof, 4 hrs. 04\14\1937 (Wednesday) I went to the farm this morning and planted Onions, Radishes, Cabbage and tomatoes. We had a thunder shower this afternoon. Robert Miller painted on the roof 1 1/2 hours. 04\15\1937 (Thursday) This morning I went to the farm and planted in the garden Parsnips{Parsnps?} and Lettuce. It rained some, This afternoon I staid home as Mrs Payton was away. 04\16\1937 (Friday) This morning I went to Watertown Avenue and got my Drivers License for 1937-8 and then did several errands{enrands?} about town, Came home on the bus, After dinner I went to the farm and planted a row of carrots. Soon Robert and Ronald came and we hitched the ox into the cart and went down and did a little plowing for Frank Wright, Then we went up on the hill and repaired the East fence by Norrist St Robert worked 4 hrs. 04\17\1937 (Saturday) I sharpened tools the greater part of the day. Marion Kraft called with Mrs Dice, and looked over my collection of antiques Later Rev Mr Dice called 04\18\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden officiated. Did chores at the farm and staid home the rest of the time. 04\19\1937 (Monday) I did the washing this morning, then went to the farm and planted a row of carrots, and then plowed some on the hill. 04\20\1937 (Tuesday) Sharpened tools all day. Robert helped this afternoon. 04\21\1937 (Wednesday) To day Rolland Jenner and I went to Brother Franks at West Simsbury. We went through Wolcott, Bristol Forestville, then North through Unionville West Avon to West Simsbury 28 miles. Had dinner there, and came home by the same route,{,?} in the rain. 04\22\1937 (Thursday) Wet and rain all day. I sharpened tools all day, for Tony. 04\23\{1937} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon, Robert helped me in the afternoon and we made over a Sldge hammer, then we went to the farm and made a fence by the Spring. 04\24\1937 (Saturday) This morning I sharpened tools, and did blacksmith work for Charles S. Tuttle I then went to W L Garrigus and paid hi_{his?} bill of 24.30 and also left Fritsa's money to pay her bill, Then, Dick, Robert, Ronald{.?} and I went to Maple Hill where we left Dick and we went to the Maple Hill Dairy where I paid a milk bill 6.50 to Laurence, then we went to the lot on the hill at out farm, where Robert spread the manure and I plowed till 4.30 Dick came and took the truck and came home and got his transit and tools and then he and Robert went surveying at Bessie Pierponts farm. A family moved into the Hattie Pierpont house to day. 04\25\1937 (Sunday) I attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew madden preached. Cool clear day. This afternoon I went to the farm Mary went with us. Robert and I carried her to the car, and when we came back Robert carried her into the house. 04\26\1937 (Monday) Cool day. This morning I did the washing, then did a job of blacksmith work for Mr Bromegen{?} of Cheshire, and then sharpened tools all day. This afternoon Robert painted on the roof. 04\27\1937 (Tuesday) Rained all day. I sharpened stone tools all the forenoon for Mr Cairlo. In the afternoon I went down town and did some little business. Ordered tie wire, a 22" drum head from Indiana, got money from the Bank on the Building fund, etc. Came home and went to the farm, see that my peas, Radishes, and lettuce are up. We brought home a lot of pie plant. 04\28\1937 (Wednesday) Rained all the forenoon, I worked about home, This afternoon I went to the farm and plowed in the North lot on the hill. 04\29\{1937} (Thursday) This morning I finished plowing on the hill. In the afternoon sharpened points, Mrs Payton was away this afternoon. This evening we celebrated Rolland Jenners 80 birthday which was yesterday, at Fritsa's. There was present Will Gillette and Iva, Mansfield Gillette. and wife, Lois and her husband Ralph Pierpont, Philip Reuter, and Effel and daughter, Will Service and Louise{Leouise?}, Rolland Jenner and Mary, Mary and I Fritsa, Dick, Robert, and Ronald. Weather has been clear{clears?} with sprinkles some of the time. 04\30\1937 (Friday) This morning I dressed a rooster for Fritsa. Then I sharpened stone cutting tools all day. 05\01\1937 (Saturday) Weather to day has been fair and warm. I sharpened tools till 3 o clock Then Ronald and I went to the farm nd cultivated the row of appletrees, and Rasp berriesrm and some of the garden, Yesterday I hoed two rows of peas. 05\02\1937 (Sunday) Nice Clear warm day. I attended Service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Mr madden preached Subject "Your Greatest Enemy. This afternoon I took Mary out to the farm and then up to Woodtick, stoped at Charles S Tuttles, then came home. 05\03\1937 (Monday) This morning I did the washing, then Robert and I planted some seeds in the new garden, then we loaded up the truck with burnt rubbish and took it to the farm and unloaded it up in the pasture, then we took 300 lbs of lime up on the hill and spread it. 05\04\{1937} (Tuesday) I worked at sharpening tools in the forenoon, and harrowed for potatoes and corn in the afternoon. 05\05\1937 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools this forenoon, and furrowed out in the afternoon for potatoes etc. 05\06\1937 (Thursday) Sharpened tools nearly all day, Robert spread two big loads of dirt on the garden North of the Girage{Garage?}, and cleaned up the pile of burnt stuff. Weather warm with slight showers, Mrs Paton was away this afternoon. 05\07\1937 (Friday) Robert and I planted Potatoes to day. We also got the worms{wormes?} nests out of the appletrees on the hill. 05\08\{1937} (Saturday) I cultivated under the appletrees on the hill to day. Ronald was with me till the middle of the afternoon when Olga Hanson came and took him to Cheshire. This evening Albert Crandall and George Baldwin came and gave me a check of 3.90 to pay for my drum head. 05\09\1937 (Sunday) Mothers Day. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev M Madden preached. AFter Dinner, I took mary out to the farm for a ride. After we returned hom, Jack Brundage and Family came from Storrs, and Frank and Family came from Kent, Margaret came up and w had quite a family gathering. Ray had been here after church. 05\10\1937 (Monday) Weather Clear and Cool, I did the washing this morning, Then I sharpened tools the greater part of the day, Robert painted on the roof, three hours this afternoon, I went to the farm and hoed two rows of rasp berries. 05\11\1937 (Tuesday) Clear and Cool. Frost this morning. I sharpened tools this forenoon, Went to the farm and hoed the Raspberries. This evening Dick and I went to M E Pierponts place where I gave instructions in drumming to the Mattatuck Drum Band. This forenoon I took my truck down to Dan Hannons to have it repaired and inspected. 05\12\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I went to Cheshire and bought a bag of fertilizer and some seed oats, then came to the farm and plowed two small pieces and planted them. 05\13\1937 (Thursday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Mrs Payton was away this afternoon, and Mary sat alone in the house Robert worked on the roof painting the shingles on the North and East sides of the deck, and did other work. 05\14\{1937} (Friday) Roll Jenner and I went to West Simsbury and saw Brother Frank. 05\15\{1937} (Saturday) Sharpened tools, and repaired Mr Bromegins{?} gractor iron, and Robert and I went to the farm and destroyed worms nests etc. 05\16\1937 (Sunday) This morning Rolland Jenner and I left Philip Royters house a little after nine, for Kent, We went through Waterville and across to the Watertown Raod, then up through Watertown to East Morris where we turned West and went through Morris Center, and on around the South end and up the West side of Bantam Lake to Bantam then turned West and went West on the fine concrete road to Woodville, where we turned North and West over the fine black road to Warren Center, then turning West went nine miles to Kent. We planned to meet Frank at the Church, and attend service. But we were told that Frank and his family had gone to Storrs to attend some celebration{.?} there, The attendance at the service was very small about 25 persons. After service we drove to Franks house. We found the door unlocked but no one there, we then about the barn after which we went to the All Gone Restaurant{Restaurent?} for dinner but found that they served no dinners now. We then went to {ink blot} hotel a little farther on but there they served no dinners, then we went to a restaurant{restaurent?} on Main St, where we were served to good dinners for 75 cts, after which we walked down and across the bridge to the School Chruch which we looked over, and went up the bell tower and saw a yound man ring the chimes, then we climbed{climed?} the tower and saw the ten bells and heard them ring. From there we went to the cattle barn and I found some seed corn for which I had come. Roll wrote a note and left it on the table in the dining room, telling that we had been there and found the seed corn. We then started for home,{,?} and after we crossed Main St at the Solders{Soldiers?} monument,{,?} in front of the Kent Inn, Roll saw Will Gillette's car. We stoped and he went in, and I soon followed and we found Will and Ive, Phil Royter and Effel at dinner. They were much surprised to see us there. We then drove to South Kent where we turned East up a steep hill {ink blot, and on?} several miles through Merry-All and on East and N.E. to Waramaug Lake, then down the West side to its outlet, then on East over the hill to the Litchfield and new Milford road to the Bee brook Road an down that road to Washington Depot, then up the long hill to Washington Center, and on to Hotchkissville, then down through Woodbury street and up Ben Sherman hill and through Middlebury,{,?} and on through Waterbury Center and home. B____ok {ink blot} the great number of automobiles that were out especially in Waterbury. 05\17\1937 (Monday) I run the Washing machine this morning,{,?} and repaired two chicken coops. This afternoon I went to the Spenser Grain Co and bought 12, little chickens for 1.33 after that Robert and I moved al{a?} lot of wood etc. 05\18\1937 (Tuesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools, Went to the farm and to Cheshire and got feed. This Evening I went to M E Pierponts and gave drumming lessons to the Mattatuck Drum Band. 05\19\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I went to town and did some business Sharpened tools, and repaired a chair, in the afternoon. 05\20\1937 (Thursday) This morning Ronald and I went to the farm and spread chicken manure in the furrows where we are to plant corn. 05\21\1937 (Friday) Nice warm day. I sharpened tools this morning, then Ronald and I went to the farm, where I hoed in the garden till noon, then we went up on the hill and I covered the fertilizer{firtilizer?} and planted corn, planted half the piece. Fritsa cam home from the Waterbury Hospital this afternoon. 05\22\1937 (Saturday) Fair weather with slight rains, Robert and I worked at the farm planting Corn. Heailed{?} worms nests I weeded the potatoes. He loaded manure I drove the truck to the corn lot{.?} West of the shed on the hill. He spread the manure I plowed the upper garden and a little in the corn lot. 05\23\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Mr Madden preached. The attendance was not as large as usual. The papers state that the last Trolley cars ran in Waterbury last night, Busses are to replace them and start running to day. My Grandfather used to say, that work done on Sunday never paid, and projects started on Sunday never succeeded. I thought of it when I saw the Trolley cars stat on Sunday. Now I see their end. But what of the Busses, All of their lines have started on Sunday. 05\24\1937 (Monday) I did the washing this morning and sharpened tools the rest of the day. 05\25\1937 (Tuesday) Sharpened tools all the forenoon. Plowed for corn at the farm Robert Miller helped me at the farm. This evening I gave drumming lessons to a large class at M E Pierpont place. 05\26\1937 (Wednesday) Was at the farm all day, at the corn Robers{?} came in the afternoon and we planted all of the piece in the lot West of the shed half way up the hill. 05\27\1937 (Thursday) This morning I went to town and paid my taxes came home, Mrs Payton had the afternoon off. I did a blacksmith job for De Witt Cole of Wolcott, and then went to the Strass{?} Hardware Co and bought 82 lineal feet of chicken netting 4 ft high, and Robert and I put it up. 05\28\1937 (Friday) This morning I went to Holland and Hyghes and looked at electric refrigerators{refrigators?}, Then went to Sears and Roebucks and bought{.?} a pair of shoes, and got a Catalogue of refrigerators {refrigators?} and a confirmation of the order I put in yesterday for one. //end of physical Journal// [[flyleaf contains the notations: Read by RMB - Mar. 1945 [Ruth Miller Brundage] " " MMNH - July 1946 [Margaret Miller Northrop Hall] " " F.P.M. August 1947 [Frank Pierpont Miller] " " R.P.M. November 1984 [Robert Pierpont Miller] " " MK Sept. 1987 [Marian Northrop Kraft] ]] Charles S. Miller Journal 1937-39 [shevitz 1990] 05\29\1937 (Saturday) This morning I had a ton of coal come. I was sharpening tools in the blacksmith shop when it came. I got down a {an?} old spring hammock and repaired and painted it. Then I went to M. E. Pierpont's and payed a milk bill, and then cultivated in the garden and under the appletrees in the barn lot, then came home and went to Creuse Bros. and got some groceries. 05\30\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached. Ted Williams of Tarrytown called in the afternoon with friends, after I went to Woodtick and visited Aunt Frisbie. 05\31\1937 (Monday) This morning I left at 8:15 with a bunch of Mill Plain drummers for Kent, where we drummed in a Decoration Day Parade. {Caps.?} 06\01\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools most of the day {.?} I went in town and looked up {?} mattress for hammock, etc. 06\02\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I repaired window screens then went to th farm and planted in the garden, and planted corn in the upper garden {comma or mark in original text?} and took {is text written in the margin?} a load of old brick and {?} morter etc. up and spread it on the pasture lot. 06\03\1937 (Thursday) This morning I was at the farm and planted potatoes, Sharpened {Caps?} tools all the afternoon. Mrs. Payton was away this afternoon. The weather was fair this fornoon but it rained more or less during the afternoon. 06\04\1937 (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools till 9:30 then Roll Jenner, {?} and Ronald and I started to see my brother Frank in Simsbury.{?} We stoped {?} in Bristol and left a pettern for two wheels to be cast at the Sessions Foundry. {Is there punctuation in original text?} Did {Caps?} the business wih Mr. Wilcox. We found Frank feeling quite well. Roll set the table and we had a fine dinner {punctuation or mark in text?} that we took up. When we came home we went to North Canton {?} then to Canton {?} Center {punctuation or mark in text?} then to Collinsville {punct.?} then through Burlington {punctuation?} and Warwinton, {spl. & punctuation?} and Terryville {spl. & punctuation?} and up the {?} mountain and through wolcott {caps. & punctuation?} and home. 06\04/37 (Saturday) {June 5th?} I sharpened tools this morning, {?} then Robert and I went to the farm and I cultivated {?} the potatoes and corn on the hill, {?} and Robert hoed all the time and I after cultivaating, {?} We finished at 4 o'clock. 06\06\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden. 06\07\1937 (Monday) I sharpened tools this farenoon {?} and did the washing. {?}In {?} the afternoon Robert and I went to the farm and mowed a little,{?} and got the Mowing {caps?} machine ready to use. 06\08\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I went to Sears {Caps?} Roebuck Co and found That {caps?} they would send the Electric refrigerator {spl?} tomorrow. Then I came home and sharpened tools the rest of the day. This evening I went to M {?} E Pierponts {?} place and gave drumming lessons to a large class. 06\09\1937 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools this farenoon, and howed and Weeded {Caps?} in the garden. Sears & Roebuck delivered the Electric Refrigator {spl?} this P.M. Mrs. Payton paid 79.50. 06\10\1937 (Thursday) {?} This forenoon {?} I mowed the side of th road by the watering trough at East Farms. I sharpened tools this afternnon. Mrs. Payton was away. Ralph Pierpont told me this morning {?} that his wife Lois {?} had a son born at 10:45 last night at the Waterbury Hospital that weighed 9 1/2 lbs. {?} and they named him William Seabury. 06\11\1937 (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon{?}. In the afternoon Robert and I went to the farm and mowed the upper part of the Barn lot. Sears and Roebucks {?} man came a {?} set the electric refrigator {?} going. 06\12\1937 (Saturday) Robert Miller and I were at the farm Hand mowing {?} and we got up {?} the hay by the road, {?} then raked and heaped up the hay in the upper part of the barn lot, about 3.30 Rob came home and I cultivated the corn in the Shed {caps?} lot, then hoed the corn in the garden above the barn, and {?} hoed in the lower garden. 06\13\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Lawrence {?} Dry preached. He left the Mill Plain Church eleven years ago and has preached n Nebraska ever since.{?} He with his wife and two daughters are{?} now on their way to England and are stoping at Mort Pierpoints. I went out to the farm, {?} but have been at home all of the rest of the time. Mary is not able to be about, {?} but sits up most of the time. 06\14\1937 (Monday) I did the washing this morning, {?} and worked about home till noon. Then Ronald {?} and I went to the farm and I cultivated Corn {caps?} and potatoes on the hill till one of the hardest showers caught me{?}. We had some blankets and made a _____{?} tent by the fence which protected us till a fierce wind came and blew {?} everything away and we got drenched to the skin. Then we came home. 06\15\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools till noon then went to the farm and cultivated potatoes {mark in text or punct?} and howed some. This evening went to M {?} E Pierponts place and gave drumming lessons to a large class. 06\16\1937 (Wednesday) Took a load of hay to the farm, and there opened out and dried a lot in the Barn lot. Then got the cart {?} ready and Ronald and I got in one lead when Wonny Wilkinsback {?} came and mowed it away, {?} then we got in another load and a lot near the barn we carried in on poles. It has been a nice drying day though cool to night{?}. 06\17\1937 (Thursday) This forenoon I hoed potatoes.{?} Mrs. Payton was away this afternoon and was at home with Mary. 06\18\1937 (Friday) Sharpened tools all the forenoon.{?} Went to the farm and cultivated and hoed potatoes in the afternoon. Sonny Wilkinsback {?} helped after school. 06\19\1937 (Saturday) This morning Dick, Robert, and Charles Wilkinsback {?} hoed my potatoes and corn, while I cultivated the lower piece of corn which we hoed later.{?} When we got down to the barn we found Charles Wolcott cultivating in the garden. I mowed out the Rasberries {Caps & Spl.?} and the boys hoed them, {?} and helped hoe the garden. This afternoon I went down town and saw a large Parade of World war veterans, 7000 in line. 06\20\1937 (Sunday) I attended the 14th annual reunion of the Pierpont family. It was held at the summer home of the President at Lost Lake in the town of Holland Mass. {?} seventy five miles from here. I went with Raymond in his Olsmobile {?} togather {?} with Ruth Fritea {?} and Ronald. We left at nine and reached there at 11.30 there were 88 present. We reached home about six. Weather was very fare{?}. 06\21\1937 (Monday) Longest day of the year. Wet and rainy. I went to town this morning, and after I returned sharpened tools. This afternoon I went up Suburs {?} ave and paid Mrs. Haigh {?} for staying with Mary yesterday afternoon. I then went to Cheshire and bought arsnate {?} of lead. 06\22\1937 (Tuesday) This morning I went to West Cheshire and got a bag of Scratch {caps?} feed,{?} and Groceries, then we came to the farm and I put arstate{?} of lead on my potatoes, and cultivated under the appletrees on the hill. Sonny came after school and hoed them. This evening I gave drumming instructions at Pierponts. {Should text on additional page be typed?} 06\23\1937 (Wednesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools in the afternoon. Ron and I went to the farm and put nitrate {?} of soda under the appletrees on the hill. Sonny did not come. 06\24\1937 (Thursday) This forenoon I went to Waterville and got five gallons of auto oil of {?} Mrs. Butcher{?} No 22 Byron St. Ronald was with me. We then went up a very steep hill and over Spindle and Bucks hill to Wolcott and over through the Center {caps?} and down past the Rogers place and through Woodtick to Charles Tuttles where we staid some time,{?} then we went to the farm {?} and worked in the garden till noon. Mrs. Payton was away this after noon {?} and I staid home and sharpened tools. Fritsa {?} brought down some straw berry short cake for our supper. 06\25\1937 (Friday) This morning George Baldwin came with his car at nine and Ronald and I went up to Cruse{?} store where we took in Rollond Jenner{?} and we all drove to Brother Franks at Simsbury stopping on the way at Sessions Foundry in Bristol and getting two iron wheels paid 3.24 At Franks we left Roll and Ronald and George and I continued on the Willimansitt Mass Where we found Mr. Kane who makes drum heads, and we ordered 12 Beating 24" heads and twelve 24" snare heads,{?} and rawhide for snares and 480 ft of drum rope. For the heads we are to pay 40.00 For 8' snare rawhide 2.88 " 480 ft Rope e{?} 2 1/2 sets{?} 12.00 _____ 06\26\1937 (Saturday) Today I sharpened tools all day in the Blacksmith Shop. The Mill Plain Sundayschool had a picnic at Smiths {?} pond in Watertown to day. 06\27\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Uniion Church Rev Matthew Madden preached. 06\28\1937 (Monday) Went to town this morning in the rain. Sharpened tool etc in the afternoon. 06\29\1937 (Tuesday) Went to farm and plowed out potatoes and corn. Sonny helped in the forenoon. This evening I gave drumming lessons at East Farms. 06\30\1937 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools all day. Margaret is moving out of her house on Beecher{?} avenue to day, and starts working for Adolph Reymond{?} at 26 Westland Ave Milford tomorrow. Last night the City decided to put a sewer through the Frost{?} Road. 07\01\1937 (Thursday) This morning I went to the farm and hoed my Potatoes{caps?} and corn on the hill. This afternoon Bharlie Wilkinsback{?} came and I ploywed out and he hoed the corn in the shed lot. 07\02\1937 (Friday) To day I sharpened tools all day. Mrs. Payton was away this afternoon. Mary was bad, out of her head much of the time and wanted me to take her home. 07\03\1937 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I picked 3/4 of a bushel of peas and then pulled the vines up and got the weeds off and prepaired{?} the ground for Cabbage{?}. We then hoed the whole garden. To night came a heavy shower that matted the ground, and set the weeds to sprouting. 07\04\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Abill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madded preached. This afternoon Frank came from Kent and brought the most of his family We had a good visit 07\05\1937 (Monday) This day is observed as fourth of July holoday{?} I mowed much of the yeard, and sharpened tools the rest of the day. Dick cliped the front yard with the lawn mower, an wheeled{?} away the pile of chimney bricks, and made the yard look much better. The weather has been fair{?} and it has not rained. 07\06\1937 (Tuesday) Mowed in the lower end of our home lot, and dried it and took it out to the farm this afternoon, Chas{?} and I sharpened some tools and did other work. The {?} evening I gave drumming lessons to about 15 at Pierponts 07\07\1937 (Wednesday) Worked at blacksmith work mos{t?} of the day. Took a load of hay out to the farm. 07\08\1937 (Thursday) This is one of the hottest days I{?} ever knew.{?} Made a pair of skids{?} for Anthony Cairlo,{?} and sharpened some Tools.{caps?} I mowed some this morning and took a small load of hay to the farm. This evening Dick and Bob took my truck and went surveying out on the __________ Road for Bessie Pierpont. 07\09\1937 (Friday) This morning I sharpened a lot of tools and Chas{?} Wilkinsback{?} painted the skids that we made yesterday. This afternoon we went to the farm and picked four qts of rasberries,{?} then hoed in the garden, {?} and gathered a bushel of spinish,{?} and repaired the barn, etc. 07\10\1937 (Saturday) This morning I went to Mr. Beirs in Prospect to see about a work woman Mrs. Doolittle. I then went to Clifford Wallaces,{?} then to Merrimans station {caps?} and got 5 gals gas, then stoped at Mr. Cowdells,{?} then to Bessie Pierponts house and found Mrs. Doolittle. Then to the farm where we mowed a piece of grass, and picked 2 qts of berries, and got the hay in Chas left at 330 and at 4 I came home with my clothes all wet with sweat expecting to take it easy. But Anthony was here with a lot of tools that he wanted sharpened so he could have them early Monday morning, so I went to work and sharpened them. 07\11\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mrs. Girtrude Coe{?} of Wolcott preached. Mrs. Paton{?} laid down I got Alice Pierpont to stay with Mary while I went to see Mr. Beirs{?} in Prospect Mary seems a little weaker to night. 07\12\1937 (Monday) This morning I went to the Bank and made some deposits,{?} and drew out some money, then I did some errands, and came home. This afternoon I went to the farm and Chas. Wilkinsback{?} and I set out a lot of cabbage plants. 07\13\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon.{punct?} Then went to the farm and mowed a little in the barn lot, and broke a shaft on the mowing machine, then I mowed by hand and we cleaned out the spring some. This evening I gave drumming lessons. 07\14\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I went to Robert Tylers on the Meriden{?} Road and had a pair of shafts for my mowing machine sawed out and brought them home and finished them up, {?} after dinner we took them to the farm and Charlie Wilkinsback{?} went to picking Rasberries{?} and I mowed the tall grass about the spring. Charlie picked nine quarts. I took two qts to Raymond and gave Charlie one quart and gave Fritsa{?} two quarts, and we had plenty for supper. 07\15\1937 (Thursday) This morning I and Fritsa{?} and Ronald went to the Farm,{caps?} and Charlie and Fritsa{?} picked rasp berries{?} while I mowed. In the afternoon I bared{?} out two cast iron truck wheels. Wet all day. This eve I attended the East Farms Cemetery annual meeting,{?} and elected President. 07\16\1937 (Friday) This morning Roll Jenner and I went to West Simsbury and found Frank in a lonesom{e?} state of mind. He is not meeting with good success in morging {morgaging?} his place,{?} and needs money to pay doctor and funeral bills etc 07\17\1937 (Saturday) Weather very hot. Chas{?} Wilkinsback{?} and I have mowed some and heaped the hay. We {or he?} picked four and one half qts of berries. 07\18\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mrs. Girtrude Coe {?} preached there were only about a dozen people there I got Sylvie Pierpont to stay with Mary. I went to Prospect and visited Clifford Wallace. 07\19\1937 (Monday) Went to the farm this morning,{?} while Charles picked berries I mowed.{?} Afterwards we opened out the hay that was in heaps and dried it and got all into the barn,{?} and at night I was good and tire{d?} and my clothes all wet with sweat.{?} Charles picked four quarts of berries, and we got in three large loads of hay. 07\20\1937 (Tuesday) Sharpened tools all day. Brother Fred was at o.b.{?} meeting This evening went to Pierponts and gave drumming lessons. 07\21\1937 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools all day. 07\22\1937 (Thursday) Sharpened tools the greater part of the day. Mrs. payton had afternoon off. Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary. 07\23\1937 (Friday) I sharpened tools all day. Weather very warm. 07\24\1937 (Saturday) Today I repaired my tripod for Anthony to use and put iron pins on the legs. I also put a ring in the front end of his truck to hitch blocks to, to draw stone up the skids{?} 07\25\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at Wolcott Rev Mr. Dice{?} preached Alice Pierpont staid with Mary. While Mrs. Payton lay down,{?} I went to Prospect and saw Mr. Beirs but he was busy repairing the lights on an automobile,{?} so I went on and saw Mr. Allie Scoville{?} When I got home I found Dick and Howard Kraft unloading Margurets things into my Barn. 07\26\1937 (Monday) Chas and I mowed at the farm and raked the hay up. It{?} rained and thundered and lighten_________{?} this evening. 07\27\1937 (Tuesday) To day I sharpened tools. I went to town and paid Electric bill. Chas Wilkinsback did not work this afternoon as he is getting ready to go to camp with the Boy Scouts tomorrow. A large Express package came from Willamarrsett ________{?} 17 drum heads and rope for the drums that I am making. This evening I went to Mart Pierponts and gave drumming lessons. 07\28\1937 (Wednesday) To day Ronald and I went to East Farms and dried out the hay and got it all in the barn and got a lot of weeds out of the garden. This evening Crandall{?} and Baldwin came and worked on Drum head setting{?} tools. 07\29\1937 (Thursday) I sharpened tools.{?} Mrs. Payton was away this afternoon and Sylvia Pierpont came and staid with Mary, she got supper. 07\30\1937 (Friday) I went to the farm and workedin the garden while Fritsa picked Raspberries. We then drove to Chas Tuttles,{?} and I showed him 17 drum heads and we talked matters over,{?} then I came home and sharpened tools, and worked on Window screens, and drum head setters{?}. 07\31\1937 (Saturday) This morning I went to the Maple Hill Dary{Dairy?} and paid Ralph Pierpont a milk bill 6.30,{?} then I came back to the farm and hoed in the garden a spell, then home and worked on window screens and drums and drum tools. This evening Dick and I practiced drumming a spell. 08\01\1937 (Sunday) I attended Church at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev William Reed of Yale College preached After dinner I drove out to East Farms and got Sylvia Pierpont to come and stay with Mary. I went down to Prospect and saw Charles Finn{?} about historical Matters.{?} Mrs. Payton went to see Mrs. Eastwood who is blind and Sylvia got supper. 08\02\1937 (Monday) This morning I went down town and did some business.{?} Came home and sharpened tools the rest of the day. Charles Urban{?} polished my car, paid 4.00{?} 08\03\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools the greater part of the day. This evening I went to Morton Pierponts{?} and gave drumming lessons. 08\04\1937 (Wednesday) I took my truck to Dan Hannons to have it tuned up. I and Ronny {?} went to the farm and I mowed the remaining grass in the barn lot. I picked 1 qt{?} a{?} blackberries, and dug some new potatoes. 08\05\1937 (Thursday) I went to the farm and hoed a little in the garden,{?} But sharpened tools most of the day. Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I got in a load of hay, then we came home and cleaned up the little Fire Engine. 08\06\1937 (Friday) Roll Jenner Ronold{?} and I went up to West Simsbury and visited Brther Frank. 08\07\1937 (Saturday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Then made snares for the new drums. 08\08\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached. Alice Pierpont staid with Mary this afternoon while Mrs. Payton slept. We had thunder and lightening and showers all the afternoon,{?} so I staid at home. 08\09\1937 (Monday) To day{?} I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about home, Chas{?} Wilkinsback helped. Charles S. Miller 08\10\1937 (Tuesday) I mowed the upper lot at the farm. Wehad several showers. Chas{?} and I worked. This evening I attended the Mattatuck{?} Drum Band Meeting where I gave instructions. 08\11\1937 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools and worked about home all day 08\12\1937 (Thursday) Charles Wilkinsback and I dried the hay on the hill and got in two big loads. This noon I went and got Alice Pierpont and she staid with mary. Mrs. Payton went out this afternoon. 08\13\1937 (Friday) I made a set of barn hinges for Bessie Pierpont this forenoon, and sharpened tools in the afternoon. Chas Wilkinsback{?} picked two quarts of blackberries in the forenoon,{?} but did not work this afternoon. The Maple Hill Drum boys were here for uniforms this evening, and 18 boy scouts were here from Wolcott and got riged{?} out to dray{?} the Fire Engine in the Parade in Derby,{?} tomorrow. Charles S. Miller 08\14\1937 (Saturday) This morning I got my uniform on an tuned up my drum before breakfast. About 10 o'clock Edward Garthwait drove in with a large truck and about 18 boy scouts from Wolcott with Mr. German{?} in charge. We borrowed Anthony Cairlos{?} long skids,{?} and loaded my little Fire Engine in togather{?} with the hose real,{spl?} and the boys got on their unidorms, and we started for Derby to take part in the State Fire Parade. We reached there before twelve, and went to a Restaurent{spl?} and got dinner.{?} and at one formed in the Fifth{?} Division, eleventh Co. There were over 70 Companies, and 39 Bands and Drum Corps. We were a long time in getting started owing to automobile traffic jams. As the line advanced, at different places they were confronted with a jam of automobiles, and although Derbys whole poliece{police?} force was out, they were unable to handle the situation, and called in lots of State{caps?} poliece,{police?} as every avalable{?} plac{?} about the main streets were taken up, with Busses{caps?} and cars, they stoped all at the City limits and the people had to walk in. Te{The?} parade formed at the Depot, and everybody drove there with trucks, Busses,{caps?} and cars.{?} but it was dismissed at coon hollow four miles away,{?} so people had to walk back to the starting point to get their conveyances,{?} which caused much dissatisaction {dissatisfaction?} I started with the boys and drummed a short distance, but my wind gave out, and I fell out. Then I walked slow up the stereet{street?} to a point near the reviewing Stand, where I could see all as they passed, Several large Continental Drum Bands passed, but my own boys only twelve in number made a much heavier sound and better than any of them.{punct?} I fell in and drummed past the Reviewing stand and then fell out again,{punct?} and saw the remainder of the line pass by. Frank and his Kent Co looked{?} as neat as any of them, and Marion fifed well in the Kent school Band.{punct?} At the end of the march in Coon Hollow{?} which I reached by walking,{?} and riding with a woman who had a car,{?} We were served with sandwiches, and bottled drink, and then visited while Mr. Garthwait{?} went for his truck. When he came they would not let him into the Park so we took the Apperatus{?} out and loaded into the truck. The boys got in and we started for home which we reached soon after dark. 08\15\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr Madden preached. Sylvia Pierpont stayed with Mary while Mrs. Payton went out. 08\16\1937 (Monday) I sharpened tools all this forenoon, Charles Wilkinsback{?} helped, We cut the grass by the side walk and trimmed up about the yard. Also went to the farm and got vegtables{vegetables?} 08\17\1937 (Tuesday) Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I mowed and got in the hay on the East and West end of the orchard on the hill, 31 heaps one load,{?} The weather has been very hot. Mary Wooster Sutton{?}, the only Woman lawyier{lawyer?} in Waterbury came to see me, about Capt Charles Abbott{?}, and his dayghter{daughter?} Clara Belle Abbott{?}, who is now 80 years old and lives in Pennesylvania{Pennsylvania?},{?} and wishes to get an Old gge{age?} pension. 08\18\1937 (Wednesday) Sharpened{caps?} tools, and worked about home the most of the day. 08\19\1937 (Thursday) Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I worked about the farm {comma or mark in text?} Mowed the orchard on the hill and got the hay in to the barn. I got Alice{?} Pierpont to stay with Mary while Mrs. Payton was away. Weather very hot,{?} and dry. 08\20\1937 (Friday) We mowed the lot West of the shed on the hill and got in the hay. One of the hottest jobs I ever did. This finishes up my haying. 08\21\1937 (Saturday) Chas Wilkinsback{?} and I worked in the Wheelhouse to day. I {?} making raw hide snares,{?} and he repairing and painting blinds. {punct?} It was very hot in the forenoon, but after dinner in{?} began thundering and continued with lightening and little{?} rain into the night The sky was black, and many times during the evening {comma or mark in text} our electric lights went out. 08\22\1937 (Sunday) {Original text lists 1936} I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev Matthew Madden preached,{?} It began raining in the night and has continued all day very hard at times. I went out and got Sylvia Pierpont to stay with Mary. But on account of the rain, Mrs. Payton did not go away. Nor did I {comma or mark in text?} though I started to see Mr. Hotchkiss{?} or Betheny,{?} but came{?} back on account of the hard rain. 08\23\1937 (Monday) I worked in the Wheel house {?} nearly all day making snare clips, and getting the drums ready to finish I set the snare head in two this afternoon. 08\24\1937 (Tuesday) Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I worked in the Wheel house at drums and chairs, and repairing my truck. The Weather has been rainy and moist.{?} This evening I went with Dick to East Farms and gave drumming lessons. 08\25\1937 (Wednesday) We worked on my truck till the middle of the afternoon,{?} When we heapped {heaped?} up the hay that I had mowed, and we took it to East Farms going by way of the Meriden{?} Road and leaving the Round Robin at Rays on Capitol Avenue. I brought home Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and Carrats{Carrots?}. Dick mowed the lawn this evening. 08\26\1937 (Thursday) Mrs. Payton was away this afternoon Alice{?} Pierpont staid with Mary. I went to the farm and Chas Wilkinsback{?} and I repaired the fence above the spring and then I cut weeds and oats on the hill while he dug 1 bu{?} of potatoes,{?} This{?} afternoon we worked in the Wheel house.{?} Anthony Cairlos Brother is dead and he has not worked very much for the last three days. 08\27\1937 (Friday) This morning Ronny,{?} I and Roll Jenner drove to West Simsbury and visited my brother Frank. We went by way of Wolcott Bristol and out the Copper mine road to Unionville then up through West Avon{?} to West Simsbury. While we were{comma or mark in text?} it thundered and rained very hard,{?} Roll got the dinner of stull{?} that we carried up. About three we left for home came through Canton Street and past Cherry Park to Unionville,{?} then to Forestville, and south{caps?} to Pine street to Bristol through Wolcott home. It was 31 1/2 miles going up. 08\28\1937 (Saturday) C Wilkinsback{?} and {?} sharpened picks and worked in the Wheel house to day 08\29\1937 (Sunday) I and Fritsa{?} attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church.{?} Rev Matthew Madden preached.{?} This afternoon I attended a gatherin and dinner of the Wolcott Fire Department at the Chateau near Hitchcocks Lake on the Meriden{?} Road. 08\30\1937 (Monday) We sharpened tools and worked in the Wheelhouse,{?} rep furniture etc This evening Bement Wakeler,{?} brought Mr. Alfred Head{?} and Wife of RFD. 2 Gilboa Way, and another man, who owned the grove where the annual picnic is held in West Conesville {punct or mark in text?} and also a girl. 08\31\1937 (Tuesday) Charles Wilkinsback{?} and I worked at the farm mowed the roadside by the Watering trough, and cut the oats on the hill and brought them home. This evening I went out to Mort Pierponts{?} with Dick and taught drumming. 09\01\1937 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools, nearly all day. Charles{?} cut the artichokes, and did several odd jobs about the home lot. This afternoon We went to the farm and took a heavy load of burnt stuff{?} and plaster etc. and put it on the road at the top of the hill. 09\02\1937 (Thursday) This morning I went to the bank and got my pension check cashed, then came out and had my hair cut, and bought one point {pint?} of furniture varnish,{?} at the East End Hardware Co then walked home and went to sharpening tools. After dinner I went and got Alice Pierpont and brought her in to stay with Mary while Mrs. Payton was out, and I brought in Chas Wilkinsback{?} and he varnished a chair in the Wheel house,{?} then helped me sharpen some Four points,{?} Then we put on a small load of hay and took it to the farm and put it into the barn,{?} and then picked two dozen of corn, and then I drove to the dairy and paid my milk bill 6.50 and came in stoping at Creuss{?} store and got some groceries. This evening I went to Will Services{caps?} and got some chicken coaps{coops?}. 09\03\1937 (Friday) Charles and I plowed about the appletrees in the Barn lot, and som on the hill. We picked up two baskets of apples, one of Tomatoes and a lot of corn. 09\04\1937 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Chas Wilkinsback{?} and I plowed under the appletrees. Charle{s?} started to come over here with Mrs. Piercy{?} but I was out there at 8.30. We worked about home this afternoon. 09\05\1937 (Sunday) I attended service{s?} at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached,{?} It rained all day. Mrs. Payton went out and Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary. Harold and Sylvia called in the evening, and Alice walked home with them. 09\06\1937 (Monday) Fine Weather. This morning Fritsa,{?} Ronald, Chas Wilkinsback{?} and I started for the Goshen Fair{?}. We drove over to Bunker hill and there got into Will Gillettes{?} big new car,{?} and with Will and Iva{?} went the rest of the way. The fair was fine and the attendance large about 10,000 people. The grounds were filled with automobiles,{?} and both sides of the road was lined with them South{caps?} for about a mile. I saw many people that I knew and had a good time and reached hom{e?} before six. 09\07\1937 (Tuesday) The hens laid six eggs to day. I went to East Farms and mowed in the Cemetery nearly{?} all day, 8hrs Wilkinsback 8.{?} A new Street {caps?} light has been installed opposite my drive way{?} on the Frost road to day. 09\08\1937 (Wednesday) Today{?} I sharpened tools, and worked at the farm. Frank came from Kent this forenoon and left some milk, I did not see him. 09\09\1937 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and Worked {caps?} in the East Farms Cemetery this afternoon 3 1/2 hrs Wilkinsback 2 hr{s?} 09\10\1937 (Friday) Worked in the Cemetery 8{?} hours. Wilkinsback 2{?} hr{s?}. Weather has been cool and a little sprinkle. 09\11\1937 (Saturday) Mary had a poor night and to day is out of her head.{?} I worked in the Cemetery 7 hrs Wilkinsback 7 This evening I put heads in two drums,{?} that I am making. 09\12\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Chuch.{?} Rev Mr Madden preached, subject,{?} "The secret of Making Life worth Living.{?}" This afternoon Will and Iva Gillettee{?} called and took Fritsa{?} Ronald and I{?} over to New Preston{?} to see Mr George H. Couch{?}, but he was not at home we then went to Kent and visited Frank,{?} and came home by way of New Milford.{?} 09\13\1937 (Monday) Rained all day I worked at drums in the Drum Room setting heads, putting on ears{?} and cords etc, In the late afternoon I worked on Roberts desk,{?} 09\14\1937 (Tuesday) Worked about home in forenoon,{?} and went to the farm and mowed weeds in the potatoe lot. 09\15\1937 (Wednesday) Fritsa{?} was excited this morning, When sister Olga came to go to work in the bank,{?} she told that the woman Mrs Hivon,{?} who lived in the next house south of them in Cheshire was murdered last night by her mad husband, and that they hadnt {hadn't?} caught him yet, and she wanted Fritsa{?} to go to Cheshire and stay with thir {their?} mother, which she did.{?} I sharpened tools all day, etc 09\16\1937 (Thursday) I did odd jobs{caps?} about home this forenoon and went to the farm in the afternoon, and mowed the weeds on the potatoes. Alice Pierpont staid with Mary while Mrs. Payton was away. 09\17\1937 (Friday) 28 years ago to day I drummed in the Wolcott Drum Band at the Dediation of the Capitol Building at Hartford.{?} On that day were assembled more Civil War Veterans than were togather{?} at any other time in Connecticut. To day Rowland Jenner and I went to Simsbury and saw Brother Frank, While there Frank J Terry{?} of Hartford called to tell Frank that he had sold Franks place {Is the above text 1 paragraph?} 09\18\1937 (Saturday) I worked at the farm a greater part of the day digging potatoes, Chas Wilkinsback{?} and I dug 5 1/2 bushels. The weather has been cool. 09\19\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church.{?} Rev M Madden, Rained in the forenoon. Mrs. Payton was away and Sylvia Pierpont came and staid with Mary. 09\20\1937 (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon, and went to the farm and dug potatoes this afternoon, Charles helped,{?} 09\21\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon,{?} and made a smoke pipe for my forge etc in the afternoon. 09\22\1937 (Wednesday) Marys {punct?} Birthday 77 years old. Health very poor, but she is patient and cheerful. I sharpened tools and went to the farm and husked{?} out a bushel of corn and dug 3 by{?} of potatoes. 09\23\1937 (Thursday) I went to town this forenoon and drew out all the money I had on my special book{?} of the Waterbury Savings Bank 32.84{?}. Then I did some errands and came home and sharpened tools,{?} in the afternoon I went to West Cheshire and got two bags of feed. This evening Fritsa{?} had a birthday party in honor of Mary and Iva{?} and Mansfield Gilletts{?} wife,{?} Well{?} Service and I, at whitch{which} many of our family were in attendance,{?} they gave many cheap but useful presents,{punct?} I received 28 of them,{?} all of which i had use for. 09\24\1937 (Friday) This morning Fritsa Rnald, and I in my pickup truck droe to West Simsbury,{?} to Brother Franks,{?} and found that he had sold much of his firniture {furniture?} etc. We put on a load of goods that he may need here and brought it down. 09\25\1937 (Saturday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon,{?} and Charles Wilkinsback{?} came and picked two bushels of grapes,{?} and we took them up to Creuss{?} Store {caps?} then we went to the farm and cleared the weeds off the potatoes and I plowed some of the rows,{?} and Chas{?} dug 1 1/2{?} bushels. 09\26\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr Madden preached.{?} Alice Pierpont staid with Mary. I went to Mrs Jones{?} in Union City,{?} and to see Freemont Hoadley{?} but he was away. 09\27\1937 (Monday) This is my 79 Birthday. Margaret left a present last night of 5.00. I sharpened tools all the{?} forenoon, and dug potatoes at the farm in the afternoon,{?} 5 bushels. 09\28\1937 (Tuesday) Wet most of the day. I went to the farm and plowed out potatoes and dug eight bushels.{?} This evening I went to M. E. Pierponts{?} and gave drumming lessons to a large class, among them was Mr Pullman of the Stony creak {?} drum Corps. 09\29\1937 (Wednesday) I finished up four drums to day{?} and did many other odd jobs.{?} This evening two boys came for fife lessons. The weather has been clear and cool. 09\30\1937 (Thursday) I sharpened tools most of the day. The weather has been cool and nice. Mrs Payton was off this afternoon and Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary. 10\01\1937 (Friday) This morning Roll Jenner and I went to West Simsbury and found Frank in good stirits {spirits?} as he has sold this place and got his pay,{?} and is intending to come here next Monday. We brought down a load of goods, as we were nearing Bristol my truck began to go bad and missed,{?} We stoped as {at?} Redferns and had it repaired and reached home at dark.{?} Weather has been nice. 10\02\1937 (Saturday) Charles Wilkinsback and I picked 25 bushels of field corn,{?} and brought home the potatoes that I had baged up. This evening Fred came from Tarrytown{?} and brought 15 drummers.{?} They tried out my New Drums,{?} and visited here,{?} Then they went out to Mort Pierponts{?} place and had a good visit and Drum with the Mattatuck{?} Boys. Will Gillette{?} carried me out. We had a good time till ten o'clock. 10\03\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Matthew Madden preached.{?} at noon I went to East Farms and got Alice Pierpont,{?} to come and stay with Mary. I went to Naugatuck{?} and saw Freemont Hoadley,{?} but did little as he was going away to Bristol.{?} I then wend{went?} over Hopkins Hill to Straitsville to see{?} Mr Hotchkiss but he was away,{?} so I came home through Prospect. 10\04\1937 (Monday) To day {1 or 2 words?} I drove to West Simsbury and got a load of Franks {?} goods, and brought them and him down, above Bristol on the old Copper Mine road we had a Blowout,{?} and had to change wheels.{?} We stoped at Redfernes{?} Ford Station {caps?} ong{?} got a new tire and tube. Frank is occupying the East Roon{Room?} on the second floor. He is furnishing the pillows Sheets {caps?} and coverings {punct?} 10\05\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools and went to the farm and Frank and I picked corn. 10\06\1937 (Wednesday) Frank and I went to Simsbury and brought down the last load of his goods,{?} Mrs. Lynch helped clean out the house, and when we came away she rode down to her house and gave us a fine dinner. 10\07\1937 (Thursday) This morning Frank and I went to Waterville to Mr Butchers{?} and got five gallons of Motor oil We then went to the Center{?} and Frank went to Richard Upsons{?} and had a pair of glasses partly fitted,{?} then we went to the bank and I got some money.{?} We then came home.{punct?} This afternoon we went to the farm and picked corn all that I had. Workmen started digging for a sanitary sewer up the Frost{?} road {punct. or mark in text?} to day. 10\08\1937 (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon,{punct. or mark in text?} and some in the afternoon, and did odd jobs {punct?} 10\09\1937 (Saturday) This morning I went to Upsons{?} with Frank and he got a pair of glasses,{punct. or mark in text?} then we came home,{punct?} had dinner and went to the farm and cut corn,{punct or mark in text?} on the hill. Chas Wilkinsback{?} loaded it, Ronny went with us. 10\10\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Matthew Madden preached. Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary while Mrs Payton went away. The weather has been wet and cold. 10\11\1937 (Monday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon, and Frank Ronny and I went to the farm and we cut quarter of an acre of corn. A heavy frost this morning. This evening Mr Wm Gillette called for me soon after seven and we went to the Headquarters of the Wolcott Fire Department at Hilchcocks Lake{?} they had voted me in as a Honorary Leife {Life?} Member at a previous Meeting and the Chief gave me a Badge. 10\12\1937 (Tuesday) Frank and I and Ronny went to the farm this morning {typed at 1 word} and got down a load of cornstalks,{?} it ployed{?} Frank out. In the afternoon, I got Charles Wilkinsback{?} to help as it is Colombus Day{?} and there is no school and we got down the rest on the lower lot and cut the standing corn on the upper lot it made a {quote in test?} large load we got it down. This evening I gave drumming lessons to a large class at M.E Pierponts {punct?} hall at East Farms. The Mattatuck{?} Band made arrangements to go to Tarrytown next Saturday {.} 10\13\1937 (Wednesday) This morning I finished a drum. This afternoon Ron and I went to the farm and husked 2 by of corn. This evening two boys came to learn to fife. 10\14\1937 (Thursday) Ronny and I went went {?} to the farm and gathered the apples, and husked some corn 10\15\1937 (Friday) I worked all day repairing a wheelbarrow for the Calvary Cemetery. 10\16\1937 (Saturday) I did odd jobs about hom,{home,?} and went to the store {punct or mark in text?} and bought round steak and groceries paid 55 cts per pound for steak. I bought one heavy wool shrrt{shirt?} for 2.50 and a lined blue jumper{?} for 1.90 This afternoon I got ready and put my uniform on,{?} and Wm Gillettee {Gillette?} called for me at four and we went to the headquarter of the Mattatuck Drum Band at M.E Pierponts at East Farms{. or ,} Where the Band assembled and at five we started for Tarrytown N.Y. about 30 men in a large new bus from Wallingford,{?} where we were to visit the Continental Drum Band of Tarrytown.{?} We reached our destination at eight. They had a street parade in which I did not march,{?} after which we went to a hall and had a lunch, {?} and we drummed and visited, and left there for home after twelve,{?} which we reached at three in the morning. 10\17\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached{, or .?} Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary while Mrs Payton lay down. I went up to Woodtick and visited Chas Trittle.{?} 10\18\1937 (Monday) This morning Frank and I did the washing with my old bristol machine {, or mark in text?} and hung it out, then I went to the farm and gathered a big load of cabbage, Parsnips, and carrots. 10\19\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all day{, or .?} Ruth called from storrs{?} and took Mary for a short ride which she seemed to enjoy. Rained all the afternoon. 10\20\1937 (Wednesday) Rained and I worked about home all day. 10\21\1937 (Thursday) Fair day. Frank and I went to Mac Cormicks Mill in Wolcott and left two bushels of apples and got 8 gallons of cider. We also went to Cheshire and got two bags of feed and some groceries. 10\22\1937 (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and dug out of the garden the parsnips and carrots, and plowed on the hill under the appletrees.{?} The weather has been fair till night when it began to rain. 10\23\1937 (Saturday) Rained hard all day. I put up a rack for drums in the drum room. 10\24\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary. Mrs Payton went out. I went to Naugatuck and Prospect. 10\25\1937 (Monday) This morning Frank and I did the washing in Our {caps?} old machine bought in 1915 for $150.00 of the New England Electric Engineering Co. We then washed parsnips and carrots and took them up to Creuse's store,{?} and sold them. Mr. J. E. Rogers, Associate Editor for the American Historical Society of No 90 Eighth Ave New York City called to get data for a history they are publishing of this vacinety.{?} In the afternoon I went to the farm and husked out some corn. 10\26\1937 (Tuesday) Frank and I went to town this morning {mark in text?} and I Paid {caps?} my taxes, and fing {find?} that I have Marys {apostrophe?} paid bill of 12.60 but mine of 81.03 is missing. This afternoon I went to the farm and plowed on the hill. This evening gave instructions in drumming {1 word} to a class at Pierponts. 10\27\1937 (Wednesday) To day{?} I went to the farm and plowed the piece of land on the hill where I had corn. The weather was farir{fair?} and cool. 10\28\1937 (Thursday) Rained all Day.{caps?} I made picture frames,{?} and did odd jobs about home. Mrs Payton went away,{?} and Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary. 10\29\1937 (Friday) The month is passing fast. I sharpened tools and did work about home all day. Frank and Rollond Jenner{?} went to town this afternoon. 10\30\1937 (Saturday) I repaired a wheelbarrow for Calvary Cemetery, {?} and polished my little Car etc. {caps?} 10\31\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev M. Madden preached. Alice Pierpont came and staid with Mary while Mrs Payton slept. I went to see Miss Jones{?} about historical{1 word} matter. 11\1\1937 (Monday) This morning Frank and I did the washing. Then I repaired a wheelbarrow for the Calvary Cemetery This afternoon we went to East Farms and plowed some. Mr Harry Matthews came this eve to see about m{?} fixing Alberts drum. 11\2\1937 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon and plowed at the farm in the afternoon. 11\3\1937 (Wednesday) Frank and I went to Simsbury to day.{?} 11\4\1937 (Thursday) To day{?} I sharpened tools till the middle of the afternnoon when I went to the farm and cared for Brister.{?} I then went to Woodtick and saw Charles Trittle,{?} then I wen {went?} and saw Robert Wakelee {Wakelu?} about learning some boys to fife. 11\5\1937 (Friday) I sharpened toolsthis forenoon. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats,{?} then came to the farm and finished plowing in the lot by the shed on th {the?} hill. Then went to Morton Pierponts dairy and got five gallons of cider for Tony.{?} The St Louis family burned leaves which got over in my lot and burned a spot under a pile of slabs West of the Barn. 11\6\1937 (Saturday) I worked on picture frames etc. This eve I set two drum heads, etc Worked all day and didnt accomplish much. 11\7\1937 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church Rev M Madden preached. This afternoon I wen {went?} and saw John Todd{?} he is 92 years old. Sylvia Pierpont came and staid with Mary. Charles DeBissop{?} called and brought nice flowers to Mary. 11\8\1937 (Monday) Frank and I did the washing this morning.{M> it is now at Nine twenty eight above. I worked clearing the snow from the driveway,{?} and Cliff Heaton cleared a large spot in the back yard se{so?} we have plenty of room to turn the cars about. There has been many accidents on account of cars skidding as many drive about without chains. Many cars were frozen this morning. 11\27\{1938} (Sunday) This morning we found that it had snowed eight inches during the night, so now the snow lies20" deep on the ground, and it is snowing again{?} this evening. I staid home and dug out the pathes{paths?} and went to the farm and fed the ox, etc. Note in margin of text: Second Snow 8" deep 11\28\{1938} (Monday) This morning it was zero and has not thawed all day and the weather coudy{cloudy?} and threatened snow. I worked in the wheel house and took lumber to Robert Tylers Ladder shop to have{?} cut up and plained,{?} then went to the farm and fed the ox. This morning we found that 2" of snow had fallen during the night. Note in margin of text: Third Snow 2" deep 11\29\{1938} (Tuesday) Lots of snow everwhere{everywhere?}, tut it has{?} settled quite a little to day, with but little thaw. I repaired a large snow plow,{?} for the Calvary Cemetery. William Gillette{?} Administrator called this evening{?} and we went over the papers on Marys Estate,{?} after which I went to East Farms and gave drumming lessons. 11\30\{1938} (Wednesday) To day the weather has been cool, but it thawed some. I went to the Bank and got money and paid the water rent and Margaret Mahler. The great trial of Mayor Hayes{?} and 26 others for conspiericy{conspiracy?} to defraud the tax payers of Waterbury of more than a million dollars started yesterday. 12\01\{1938} (Thursday) Cold day. I worked in the Wheelhouse the greater part of the time. To day the Court chose{?} the 2nd Juaror/Juror{?} for the Great trial of the conspiritors{conspirators?}. 12\02\{1938} (Friday) Cold day 2 above zero this mornin{morning?}, and 18 above the highest to day. I spent most of the day in the Wheel house. Went to Cheshire and got feed, much snow{?} along the Plank road, and driving was very slippiry{slippery?}. 12\03\{1938} (Saturday) Cold day. I worked in the Wheel house most of the time. 12\04\{1938} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Unin Church Rev Mr Madden preached. It rained hard last night a{?} about half of the snow was gone this morning. This afternoon I went up to the Garrigus{?} place and saw Charles Tuttle. This evening Mr and Mrs Ferris Turkington{?} of East Morris called, They expect to leave for Florida Jan 1st,{?} to stay the rest of the winter. 12\05\{1938} (Monday) To day has been wet and rainy, with fog late in the afternoon. I worked on a wheel barrow for Frank in Kent most of the time, but cleaned out the spring at the farm. 12\06\{1938} (Tuesday) Damp day. I worked in the Wheel House and at the farm. This Evening Ralph Pierpont came for me and took me to the Mattatuck Hall{?} to give drumming lessons. 12\07\{1938} (Wednesday) To day I repaired Fritsa back stairs, and worked in the Wheel house. Went to Cheshire and bought lumber to repair a long step ladder, and a bag of middlings. The weather has been fair not very cold. 12\08\{1938} (Thursday) To day a ton of soft coal came. I ironed the wheelbarrow this forenoon. Did work at the farm and other odd jobs. This evening I attended the Leadies{Ladies?} Fair at the Mill Plain Union Church, and had a turkey supper. 12\09\{1938} (Friday) I pained the wheelbarrow, and sharpened tools and did some work at the farm. After it stoped raining this afternoon I took the fine flowers that I bought last night up to the Cemetery and put them on Marys grave. 12\10\{1938} (Saturday) I worked in the Blacksmith shop{?} sharpening stove cutting points much of the time, and did some work at the farm. The weather has been{?} wet and damp. 12\11\{1938} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. This afternoon{?} I went up to Margarets place on Spindle Hill, and Marion, Margaret and I called on Mrs Atkins. 12\12\{1938} (Monday) Wet damp day. I sharpened tools most of the time{?} and did the chores at the farm. 12\13\{1938} (Tuesday) I went to town and got check cashed at the bank 25.00 then bought a pair of work shoes and a pair of slippers,{?} then came home and sharpened tools till noon. This aflernoon{afternoon?} I worked{?} at the farm and cleaned out the chicken coop. This evening I went out to East Farms and gave drumming lessons to a dozen boys. 12\14\{1938} (Wednesday) Weather has been cool all day. I made a hook and sharpened tools, and Roll Jenner came and we did up a pair of shoes for Frank, and a pair of Rubbers of Ruth's{?} and took them over to Cheshire, and sent them by Parcel Post. The shoes to Frank H Miller, Old Fellows Home at Groton Conn, and the Rubbers to Mrs A.J. Brundage{?} Storrs Conn. James Egan took my Runabout Roadster down on Thomiston Avenue and had it texted. 12\15\{1938} (Thursday) James Egan came this morning and took my truck to be inspected It did not pass on account of the brakes. I sharpened tools, Went to the farm, and worked in the Wheel House. 12\16\{1938} (Friday) I worked in the Blacksmith shop all day, except the time Roll Jenner and I went to Chshire. The day has been very cold,{?} 6 above this morning and no thaw all day. 12\17\{1938} (Saturday) I worked in the blacksmith shop all thre forenoon. This afternoon Dan Hanlon{?} repaired the front spring on my truck, then I went to the farm and fed Buster, and put stop leak in my Radiator, came home and filed Ed Bronsons cross cut saw. 12\18\{1938} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Robert Faster/Foster{?} preached, as Mr Madden at his doctors advice{?} will not preach. In the afternoon I went to Prospect and visited Mr and Mrs Wilson on the Summit Road where I took tea, after which I drove home in second gear much of the way as it was snowing and raining{?} and very dark, and the road was very slippery. 12\19\{1938} (Monday) This morning Jimmie Egan{?} took my truck and had it inspected, and brought it back, and had Dan Hanlon{?} readjust the brakes, then took it down again and it passed. I have worked all day in the Wheel house. Wet and Snow. 12\20\{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I went down town and deposited a check in the Bank then I went to the Colonial Trust Co{?} and got .14 Mill Plain Union Church cupons{coupons?} cashed 28.00 I then went to Sears and Roebuck's and bought 36{?} cross chains for my Auto. When I got home I found that Will Gillette{?} had been here and wanted me at his office at 1.45 to attend a Probate hearing at 2. I went there and attended the haring{hearing?} on Mary's estate. I was the only one that appeared. This evening I went to the Mattatuck hall and gave drumming lessons. The weather was cold. 12\21\{1938} (Wednesday) Cold and Snow to day. I sharpened tools this forenoon and nade{made?} over a pair of wheel chains this afternoon. 12\22\{1938} (Thursday) Shortest day, and good and cold. I sharpened tools his forenoon, and finished my wheel chains. This afternoon I took some vegtables{vegetables?} to Margaret{?} up at Spindle Hill, and came home over Wolcott Center and down the County road to Hitchcock Lake. Men are working on the County road making a good sursface{surface?} hard road of it, from the Lake to the East Bristol Road. 12\23\{1938} (Friday) Cold and snow to day I worked in the Wheelhouse this forenoon. This afternoon I took a small load of Wood and a pair of Old Andirons up to Margarets home on Spindle Hill in Wolcott. 12\24\{1938} (Saturday) Cold{?} day, snowed a little{?} last night. I worked in he Wheel house the most of the time. Went to the farm after dinner. Had supper up stairs with Fritsa and her family. 12\25\{1938} (Sunday) Christmas Day. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. This afternoon I went and visited Charles Tuttle,{?} he is staying with Mrs Minnie Hitchcock{?} at the old Garrigus{?} Homestead, in Garrigus{?} Court, North of the Meriden Road in Wolcott. 12\26\{1938} (Monday) This day was observed as Christmas and my family gathered at Margaret's and Marian{-on} Kraft's on Spindle Hill in Wolcott and had a grand dinner to which 32 sat down, and in the evening we had a Christmas tree and many presents for all. 12\27\{1938} (Tuesday) Last night it snowed about 5" deep but it turned to rain and settled much. The greater part is gone by tonight. This morning I went and got a check for 19.02{?} cashed at the Manufacturers Bank, and went to Templetons store and bought iron to make andirons of,{?} then I went to the American Sheet Metal Works and got a piece of cold rolled steel, and came home, dug out the paths, and worked a little in the Wheelhouse, and went to the farm. 12\28\{1938} (Wednesday) Cold day. This morning I met William M Gillette{?} as{at?} his office in the Court House,{?} and we arranged to the final settlement of Marys estate, then we went to Lawyer Finton Phalen{?} and he drew up he deed to me. 12\29\{1938} (Thursday) Cold day. I worked in the Wheelhouse, after dinner Will Gillette{?} phoned for me to be at his office at two I went there and he said the Probate Court allowed me 40.00 per week since Marys death for carrying on the business, it amounted to 600.00 and we went to the bank and he paid it out of her estate{?} What I have loaned and paid is a great deal more{?} than her estate is, Which she wanted me to have, and which the Court has allowed. 12\30\{1938} (Friday) Another cold day. I did odd jobs both here and out to the farm. This evening Will Gillette called to see about the Insurance on{?} this house. 12\31\{1938} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came and helped me put the corn up in the bin, and then helped me make a pair of Andirons. Charles Somers Miller Journals, 1939 Edited Robert A. Kraft, 21 March 1991 01\01\{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church Rev Mr Madden preached. This afternoon,{?} I went to the house of Mr David Plunb{?} in Prospect, but he is in Florida, but I saw his sons, and had a good visit. The weather has been cold all day. Last year my good wife was taken by dath. We know not what this year may bring forth. 01\02\{1939} (Monday) This day was observed as New Years day. I worked in the Blacksmith Shop making a pair of Andirons. Dick pierpont{Pierpont?} helped me. 01\03\{1939} (Tuesday) Worked in the lacksmith shop. Told the boys that I would stop them using the pond if they damaged the Cemetery any more 01\04\{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. The weather has been very cold. I received a letter from brother Frank who is t the Old Fellows Home at Groton. 01\05\{1939} (Thursday) Cold day. I worked on my gasoline engine to get it to run, most of the day. I went to the Pine Grove Cemetery with Tony Cairlo{?} to have him put a top{?} on the monument in our lot and a footstone{foot stone?} and lettering etc it will all cost estimated One Hundred Dollars. I went to the farm and put a wheelbarrow load of manure on the pie plant. 01\06\{1939} (Friday) Rained hard this morning, I worked in the Wheel house repairing a 8' step ladder for the Calvary Cemetery. 01\07\{1939} (Saturday) This day has been warm and nice, Dec{Dick?} Pierpont came to help me make a pair of Andirons but the iron was to poor So{so?} we worked in the Wheelhouse and at the farm. 01\08\{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr Madden This afternoon I went to Prospect and saw Mrs Bottomely{?}, on the straitesville road{?}. [[end of Journal volume]] Read by M. Hall Sept, '46 Ruth M. Brundage - June 1948 M.M. Brundage Sept 1948 Frank P. Miller, Dec. 28, 1948{?} R.P.M November 1984 [Robert Pierpont Miller?] Marian Kraft 9/9/87 [[end of flyleaf]] [[start of new Journal Book]] Inserted in front cover of Journal: Newspaper clipping concerning the marriage of Reutter and Jenner Charles S. Miller 2271 East Main St. Waterbury, Conn. Jan. 9 1939. 01/09/1939 (Monday) This morning I went to the New York Body Co. on Meadow St. to have nerve celioid{??} put in the side curtains of my little car. Then to C.L. Fimpletons and bought iron to make andirons of. Then to Davis & Nye and bought this book. Then to the Bank and deposited some money on my Line Savings Bank Book and had a check cashed, and then home at noon. This afternoon I repaired the washing machine and went to the farm where I wheeled some manure on the garden. Mr. Charles S. Futtle of Wolcott died this morning at the Waterbury Hospital. He was aged 78 years. He and I sat side by side in the little stone school house on the Nicholds Road in Woodtick in 1871. Miss Julia Pickett was our teacher. 01/10/1939 (Tuesday) Rain and wet all day. I worked in the Wheel House this forenoon. Went to Spindle Hill in the afternoon. 01/11/1939 (Wednesday) Clear cool day. I went to town and got a piece of galvanized iron, and my auto curtains at the New York Auto Body Works where the put in new cellioid. {??} This afternoon I attended Charles S. Futtles funeral. It was held at the Alderson Funeral Parlor. He was buried in the Woodtick Cemetery. The Bearers were Louvane Fox, Arthur Harrison, Charles Cass{??}, Franklin Browne, Andrew Kitchenka and Ralph Pierpont, members of the Mattatuck Drum Band. Honorary Bearers were Charles S. Miller and James Phelan, all in full uniform. O1/12/{1939} (Thursday) Cool day. I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats, then to Prospect and saw Miss Murphy about the people living on the Parsons Road. Then home at dark, and killed and dressed a rooster for Marion Kraft. 01/13/{1939} (Friday) This morning I called for Roll Jenner{??} at 8.30 and we started for Kent. We went to Spindle Hill where we left the chicken at Marion Kraft's, and then went down Fall Mountain and up Todd{??} Hollow to Plymouth. Then Thomaston, East Morris, Morris, Lake-| side, West Morris, Romford, Woodville, Warren, to Kent where we left the hay grapple and wheelbarrow and took on feed, fertalizer{fertilizer}, harness, old wheelbarrow etc. and left for home at 2.30. Came through New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Southbury, Woodbury, Middlebury, Waterbury and home, which we reached at 4.30 01/14/1939 (Saturday) It has snowed to day about ten" deep. I have worked on a pair of andirons the greater part of the time with Hick Pierpont to help, when we were not digging out the paths. The young people at East Farms have two Hockey yards built and night before last Mr. Atkins thought that there would be about 200 auto loads of people there. He wished me to open my lots to the autos. There {are} several new houses being built about Mill Plain, 4 on the old Boen Property above the bridge on the Woodtick Rd. Several of the Mattatuck Boys attended the Inaugural Military Ball at Hartford. 01/15/1939 (Sunday) Four above this morning. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached, the attendance was larger than usual. This afternoon I went to see Mr. Hoffnagle on the Parsons Road in Prospect. Found out much about the Old Hotchkiss Saw Mill etc. 01/16/{1939} (Monday) 5 below this morning. I sharpened tools most of the day. 01/17/{1939} (Tuesday) Cold day. Worked sharpening tools in the Blacksmith Shop and went to the farm and fed the ox. 01/18/1939 (Wednesday) Cold day, 20 above at noon. Sharpened picks, and four points in the blacksmith shop, went to the store and farm this afternoon. 01/19/1939 (Thursday) Snowed all day but made only 2" on the ground. I have worked in the Wheel house all day. In the Great defraud trial they got the 14th Jurior {Juror} yesterday. 01/20/1939 (Friday) Three below this morning and cold all day. I worked in the Wheelhouse drilling 1000 holes in the new washing machine cylinder. 01/21/{1939} (Saturday) Three above this morning and cold all day. I worked drilling holes in the cylinder of the washing machine all day, and still have more to drill. Hiram Abel came to see me this afternoon. He is 83 years old. 01/22/1939 (Sunday) Rained this morning. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. This afternoon after doing the chores at the farm, I went to Prospect and visited Mable and Ruth Hotchkiss, who showed me the maps of the road that the state is building past their house. They are making it 75 and 100 ft. wide, 75 ft. in the clear between the fences and will cut down 4' in front of their house. 01/23/1939 (Monday) Three above this morning and very cold all day. I finished repairing the washing machine. Then in the afternoon went to the farm and cut up corn stalks. 01/24/1939 (Tuesday) Not so cold. Snowed some. I worked in the Wheel house repairing a saddle for Frank to be used at Kent. This evening Laurence Pierpont came for me to give drumming lessons at the Mattatuck Hall at East farms. There was a large number of people at the Hockey games at East Farms. Every avalable {available} place was taken up with autos along the road. 01/25/1939 (Wednesday) Warm this morning but cold the rest of the day and colder still to night. I filed two crosscut saws and did other work in the Wheelhouse. Fill Frank came from Kent with Dwight, Bertha, June and another. I was glad to see them. He took a lot of bags and the sideboard of the wheelbarrow that I repaired, some time ago. 01/26/1939 (Thursday) Very cold day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon I attended a stockholders meeting at the Waterbury Rolling Mills Inc., after which I came home and went to East Farms, in my little car which froze up when I got there. I called at Atkins station, but they had no antifreeze. 01/27/1939 (Friday) Cold day. Below 20 above all day. I sharpened tools till 9.30. Had Fritsa call Mr. Barber as I have developed a bad bronchal {bronchial?} cough. I went to the store and got meat, fish, groceries etc. and got home and got my heavy clothes off before the Dr. came. He told me that I must keep quiet and rest, and not do much work, and take the medicine regulary {regularly} etc. So I ate dinner, then lay on the couch a long time. Then went down to the drug store and got the prescriptions filled which took a long time and cost $2.35. Then I went out the Meriden Road fast and down to East Farms and had to move a half ton of corn stalks to get hay to feed the ox. Then I took care of him and came home, and drove up and saw Roll Jenner, who is sick with a bad foot. Then I hurried home in the dark and did the chores. We only had six eggs. Had a fine sutter {supper??} of mush and milk, and have {been} reading and writing ever since, stoping {stopping} at 7.00 to take a pil {pill} and at 8.00 to take a teaspoonful of medicine, which I must take every four hours. It has cost $5.35 to day to be sick, doctor 3.00 and medicine 2.85. We will hope for the best. 01/28/1939 (Saturday) Another cold day. I have staid in the house much of the time, done some reading and wrote a letter for the Round Robbin which came last night. This evening Will Gillette called. He and Iva are staying out at Ralph Pierpont's to night while Ralph and Lois go to New York to attend the Grand Ball given by the Old Guard of New York City. Dick came up from New York this afternoon. He tells that he bought car loads of rice and shiped {shipped} it to Chile{??} for the Earthquake sufferers and a ship load of sugar flower and staple supplies and clothing. The ship left yesterday and is not to stop till it gets there, only what is necessary going through the Panama Canal. He says that the Anaconda mines and properties{??} were not badly wrecked as they were North of the quake zone. In their town ar {are} 22,000 people and they need supplies of all kinds. 01/29/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The Reverend Robert Foster of the South Federated Church preached. His subject was "Christians for to day" Mr. Madden is conducting service this morning at the First Congregational Church in Cornwall. I have staid in all the afternoon as I am not feeling any to lively. Fritsa told me that they have taken Roll Jenner to the hospital this afternoon. 01/30/1939 (Monday) It was raining when I got up this morning but the weather turned cold and the snow came in place of the rain and it has continued all day. It is now three inches deep and the traveling is very slippery, the worst traveling I have seen this year. I went to the Maple Hill Dairy and got a saddle that Laurence Pierpont let me take, so I would have a pattern to repair Franks from. A number of the Mattatuck Boys and their women went to New York Saturday night and attended the Old Guard Military Ball held in Hotel Commodore. 01/31/1939 (Tuesday) Snowed off and on all day. I have not felt very well and have not done much work. Sharpened tools this morning and did odd jobs the rest of the day. The Great Conspiricy {Conspiracy} Trial of Mayor Hayes and 21 others started this morning. They have been sitting since last Nov. 29 selecting 14 juriors {jurors}. 02/01/1939 (Wednesday) Cold day. I staid in most of the day. This morning I went to the Bank and got a I.S. check cashed, 25.00, and went to the farm. 02/02/{1939} (Thursday) Snow and fog to day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Mrs. Nahler had the afternoon off. I drove down to Prospect and called on Ruth Hotchkiss, a short visit. When I left there the rain froze on my windsheild {windshield} so I could not see, and I had a time getting to East Farms, where I did the chores and then home. 02/03/1939 (Friday) This morning at about seven o'clock Will Service came in and told that Rowland Jenner died this morning about 5 o'clock at the Waterbury Hospital. He said that he and the Royters were there when he passed on. This day has been warm enough so it has thawed some. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the farm and called at Royters in the afternoon. 02/04/1939 (Saturday) Snowed a little this morning and thawed some but the air has been cold all day. I sharpened some tools and did odd jobs but all that I did didn't amount to much. This is bad weather for the health and nearly everybody is sick with cold or something. The first week of the Great Fraud Trial is ended and the week has been taken up hearing the testimony of the first witness, Mr. Levy of New haven who says that he received over $125,000 of the Cities{??} money but turned back to Mayor Hayes and Leary and Olson all but $15,000 of it. He is not through with the testimony. 02/05/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. The day has been rather cold and the ground covered with ice. In the after, Jack, Ruth and Roger called. They came from Storrs to the Alderson Funeral Home to see Rowland Jenner whoes {whose} funeral is to be held to morrow. Later Frank and Elsie came from Kent with some of their children. Fritsa had a party up stairs in honor of her mothers 75th birthday. 02/06/1939 (Monday) This is getting to be a real sad place about here. There are to {too} many funerals that we are called on to attend. Scarcely has one grown dim by time before another is inaugurated. To day, this afternoon, we have laid Rowland Jenner to rest in the New Pine Grove Cemetery. This was a large funeral. It was from Aldersons Funeral Home. Fred and wife and I rode in Will Gillette's car with him and Iva. The weather has been cool and thawed some. 02/07/{1939} (Tuesday) (Margin note - Snow 7") The ground was covered with snow this morning. Before I got out Robbie had swept out the paths in the backyard. I swept the front paths and along the street about 460 ft in length. I then worked on pads for a riding saddle, in the wheel house but the day was gone before I had accomplished much. This evening Laurence Pierpont came and took me to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms where I gave him special drumming lessons. He is making good and correct progress. 02/08/1939 (Wednesday) Cool weather, ground very slippery. Have not done much as I did not feel like work, but did finish ling ---{??} the saddle I am repairing for Frank, my son. 02/09/{1939} (Thursday) Damp day. Did odd jobs about home in the forenoon. Margaret had the afternoon and evening off. I went to Prospect. The state men are cutting the old large trees along the Union City Road and along the Waterbury Road, preparing to widen, regrade, and surface harden them. I called on Miss Hotchkiss. They are to sell a lot of their land and trees to make the road wider and straiter. 02/10/{1939} (Friday) Cold out and icy day. Very slippery everywhere. I sharpened tools, very cold in blacksmith shop. Went to the store and out to the farm. 02/11/{1939} (Saturday) I have spent much of my time to day in the Wheelhouse stitching leather for saddles. 02/12/1939 (Sunday) I have staid in the house nearly all day, as I did not feel very well, and the back yard is so slippery that I am afraid to try to walk out there and it would cause much work to get my good car out. I used the truck to go to the farm in as it has chains on. I only have to use them in my yard and on the side of the road at the farm. Everywhere else it simply wears them out. 02/13/1939 (Monday) Thawed some to day. I have felt very dull and have only fussed some on a saddle in the wheelhouse. To day I raised the flag on the pole on the barn but to night I could not pull it down as it caught on the ridge so I pulled it up and left it. We had a ton of soft coal come to night after dark. It took the man about six minutes to unload it, with his new improved elevator dump truck. 02/14/{1939} (Tuesday) (Margin note - Union City Road being regraded) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon, Ronnie and I Went in my little truck down to Prospect where the Stare is regrading the main road from Union City to Prospect Center. They are now working from the crossing of the Black Hill Road to the Straitsville Road with steam shovels, trucks and pushers{??} through a hard country to build a road. To night I went to Pierponts and gave drumming lessons. 02/15/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning I went to the State Office on Watertown Ave. and got the 1939 Leicenses {Licenses} for my cars. Had to pay 10.20 for the pickup and 7.20 for the roadster. The weather has been wet and foggy all day but much of the hard ice has gone and it is less slipery {slippery}. The Fairlawn Gas Station across the street was broken into last night. 02/16/{1939} (Thursday) I worked in the wheelhouse this forenoon. In the afternoon I staid in the house, as it has been the coldest feeling day of the winter and my feet were swolen {swollen} and I had a bronchial cold and did not feel well. 02/17/1939 (Friday) This has been a cold day. This morning I went to the Bank and drew 20.00. Then came home after paying a bill to the Conn. Light and Power Co. of 6.27. I then got my truck out and went down to the Drug Store and got medicine and fish, clams and onions at the Atlantic & Pacific Sea store. This afternoon Ronnie and I went to the farm and cleaned out the spring and did the chores. Then we went to the dairy and I paid my milk bill. 02/18/1939 (Saturday) Much of the ice and snow has gone to day. This forenoon I have repaired a drum that I made 57 years ago for the Mattatuck Drum Band. Now Laurence Pierpont is to use it. This afternoon I have did little, except the chores at the farm, 02/19/{1939} (Sunday) I did not attend service, as I telephoned the doctor last night and the office girl said that he would probably call before noon to day. I waited and he came about 2.30. He bandaged my legs and feet and told me to keep them elevated so that the blood would have easier circulation, and not stand on them very much, so I have sat with them in a chair ever since. Wm. Gillette called this evening. 02/20/{1939} (Monday) This has been a warm day up to 60ø this P.M. I have staid in the house, only the time I went to the farm. 02/21/{1939} (Tuesday) I have staid in the house the greater part of the day and kept my feet elevated in a chair. This evening Laurence Pierpont came and we drummed on a chair in the kitchen. 02/22/{1939} (Wednesday) (Margin note - Snowed 1 1/2 deep) Snowed this morning and came off cold. I staid in the house all day. Only when I went to the farm to feed Buster the ox. The swelling on my feet have have gone down but the little sore on my right foot is getting very painful toward morning each night. Wrote a letter to Frank at the Odd Fellows Home at Groton, Conn. 02/23/{1939} (Thursday) I have been in the house all day only the time it took to do the chores. Weather has been cool and damp. Margaret and Ruth came over this afternoon and looked over the dishes in the pantry and made a list of the old and valuable ones, that formerly belonged to the Warners and Pierponts. 02/24/{1939} (Friday) To day Margaret and Ruth came and continued to look over Mary's clothes etc. and make an invatory {inventory} of them. Margaret Mahlor went to her sisters. The doctor came this afternoon and did my feet up again. He said that I could stand on them and work at the forge one hour each day next week. 02/25/1939 (Saturday) Cool day. Margaret and Ruth came again to day and looked over the things on the third floor. Mr. Harry Roberts of Nangatuck was buried this afternoon in Riverside Cemetery. Mrs. William Fabar or Buckshill died this morning. Berkeley Frisbie{??} and wife called this afternoon. 02/26/1939 (Sunday) This morning everything was covered with ice. Margaret started for Church soon after six but came back on account of the ice. It has rained all day and froze as it fell. I staid at home only put chains on my little car and went to the farm and fed the ox. Wrote a letter to Irving at Milwaukee. 02/27/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about home this forenoon. This afternoon Ronnie and I attended the funeral of Mrs. William Fabar. She was buried in the cemetery at Bucks Hill and was formerly Hattie Scott, daughter of Merritt of the Woodtick Road, Mill Plain. 02/28/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I sharpened tools etc. It rained hard nearly all day. Ronnie and I went to the farm and did the chores there. 03/01/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools a while this morning and did odd jobs. This afternoon I took an overcoat to Margaret's on Spindle Hill. Stoped {Stopped} on the way and saw William Fabar. 03/02/1939 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and did other odd jobs about home. This afternoon I, with little Ronnie, went to Prospect and visited the Hotchkiss family. 03/03/{1939} (Friday) Cool day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon Ronnie and I went to Prospect and saw Mrs.{??} Elizabeth Murphy who lives on the Straitville Road about the early schools at Prospect Center. On the Waterbury Road, they have cut all the great maple shade trees on both sides and the high stumps now line the way. The state is to regrade and widen it as they are the Union City road. 03/04/{1939} (Saturday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and did some work at the farm in the afternoon. 03/05/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. Fair day. I staid home only did chores at the farm. 03/06/1939 (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Worked in the Wheelhouse and went to the farm in the afternoon. The weather has been fairly pleasant but I am not feeling too well. 03/07/{1939} (Tuesday) Not feeling very well to day I have done but little work. This afternoon, I took some of the old clothes that were in the upper room that Margaret and Ruth have put in bags, down to the Hotchkisses in Prospect for their hired help to wear. This is bad weather for people that have colds. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bird of Bristol called this afternoon. 03/08/{1939} (Wednesday) Snowed all day. I did not go out of the house. This morning I was bad. Fritsa gave me an injection and that relieved me but still I had a great pain in my left side. The sore on my heal {heel?} is much better but take it altogether, I am very weak. 03/10/1939 (Friday) I have been in the house the greater part of the day, and I am not feeling well. Now I have broken out all around my body in great red blotches. Fritsa says it is the shingles. It is very painful. 03/11/1939 (Saturday) This day it has snowed nearly all day but has not made very deep on the ground, about 3". Last night was a sad, painful, lonely and sleepless one for me. Whatever way I turned, my body, body{??} and legs and knees pained so there was no sleep for me, and by morning I was weared out. Fritsa telephoned the Doctor Barber and he came while we were at dinner. He said it started in my back and partly circled my body on the inside, then broke through to the outside and that it would be some time before it will be well. 03/12/{1939} (Sunday) I did not attend service to day as I was not feeling well. There was a lot of snow fell{??} to day, as it snowed all day. 03/13/{1939} (Monday) I remember nothing that happened this day. Nor did I remember scarcely any thing that happened till the next Friday forenoon. 05/29/1939 (Tuesday) {Journal skips here to May, this is probably the wrong date} (Margin note - Ralph Pierpont got his drum.) Very warm day. This morning I ran the washing machine, along with Mrs. Giddings. Then I did but little the rest of the day. Ralph Pierpont came and got his drum that I made for him. This afternoon Dick Pierpont came and mowed the front yard. I took Mrs. Giddings down to the A&P store on East Main St. opposite Beecher Ave. and then we went up to the Pine Grove Cemetery and put flowers on Mary's grave. Then we went up the Woodtick Rd. to Woodtick then down the Todd Rd. and in the Meriden Rd. then down the Pierpont Rd. and in the Cheshire Rd., leaving Dick at his home. 05/13/1938 (Saturday) {Wrong year on this entry.} Last Thursday about six o'clock, May 11, Raymond brought me home from the Waterbury Hospital where I had been since Mar. 14th. I have suffered all pain and agony than any man ought to suffer. When I was taker there, Doctor Barber said that I had the shingles. I was broken out with blotches and large pimples around the left side of my body and back. Those on my side looked like bee stings but on my back were blotches 1 1/2 in. long and about the size of ones finger, and were filled with water and they broke when I lay on them and at times I was lieing {lying??} in a puddle of water. But it was all very painful, and I remember nothing that happened Mar. 14, the day that they brought me in, or the succeeding days till Friday when my mind gradually returned. In a few days they got the shingles healed, and began to arrange for me to go home. But my bowels did not work right. They gave me enema's time and time again, but they kept growing worse, and finally stoped {stopped} all action for two days. They were very painful, when Dr. Carman Modregno performed an operation and opened me out and took away great masses of solid matter and finally got a passage through, then by the use of oil and medicine, they got them working right, and after a few days again I was making arrangements to go home again. But a great bunch came out on my side, in three days it was eight inches in diameter and projected out four inches. The doctors got their heads together, and at night gave me some sleeping pills, and I slept and in the morning the bunch had gone down. They explained that there was on my side a pain spot and there two large mussells {muscles} crossed, and the pain caused the mussells {muscles} and nerves and cords to contract into the bunch, and when I slept, the pain ceased and the nerves etc. relaxed and returned to their places. But the bunch has since returned but nothing like as large, and by rubbing and heating etc., we have kept it down. 05/14/{1939} (Sunday) I staid in the house all day, and visited with brother Frank who came from Groton yesterday morning. We are having our meals up stairs with Fritsa. Frank left at 4.15 when Mr. Goldsmith called for him. I am in pain most of the time and very lame. The weather has been clear and cold for this time of the year. Mr. Clark came this evening and told of Mrs. Giddings of New Milford wanting a job. He will write her. 05/15/1939 (Monday) To day I have staid about the house all day, did go out to the chicken coop. Fritsa did the washing this morning. 05/16/1939 (Tuesday) Was in the house all day, unable to go very far. I worked, caining{??} the back of my desk chair. Sister Mary called this afternoon. 05/17/{1939} (Wednesday) Staid in the house all day. Cained{??} the back of my desk chair. Mort left one pt. of milk this morning. (Crossed out: Charlie Wilkensback worked 40) 05/18/{1939} (Thursday) I was in the house most of the day, worked caning{??} the back of my desk chair. Mr. Clark came and said that Mrs. Amanda Giddings of No. 32 Main St., New Milford would come to work for me next Monday. Charles Wilkensback came. (40) 05/19/{1939} (Friday) I was in the house the most of the day. Not very well. Cained{??} the chair a little. Charles Wilkensback came. Told Dick Pierpont not to feed Buster any more. 05/20/1939 (Saturday) My side and back pain me bad when I attemp {attempt} to move. Charles Wilkensback came and cleaned the hen coop this forenoon and cleaned the yard. Ray came this evening and looked up Oil Burners. Irving wrote me a letter in which he states that his son David is married to a girl who attended Wheaton College. 05/21/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. This afternoon Mr. George Hall of West Hartford and Wolcott called with Margaret and Mr. Hall told me that he is going to marry Margaret. 05/22/{1939} (Monday) This morning Ronny and I went out to the farm and teathered {tethered} Buster by the barn to eat the grass there. Mrs. Almira{??} Giddings of New Milford came to work for me this afternoon. Frank went from Kent and got her and brought her over. 05/23/1939 (Tuesday) I and Ronny went to the farm and tethered Buster out this morning. This afternoon Charlie Wilkensback and Dick Pierpont came and spaded part of the garden. Ruth Brundage called this afternoon. 05/24/{1939} (Wednesday) I planted a row of radishes this morning, the first seed that I have planted. Dick Pierpont came this afternoon and spaded in the garden and we went to the farm and took care of Buster. 05/25/{1939} (Thursday) To day I did not feel very well. I ate some has{??} for supper and the corned beef that it was made of was not good and it made me sick all night, and I have not been so well to day. This evening the girls drum corps from Mill Plain came up East Main St. and went up the Frost Road and another corps came down the Frost Road and they passed each other in front of my house. 05/26/1939 (Friday) This day I spent about home. Some of the time I got things ready to sharpen Fritsa's lawn mower. Mrs. Giddings is a excelent {excellent} cook, and gives me good meals. 05/27/1939 (Saturday) This morning Dick Pierpont came and after I had my breakfast, he caught a rooster and I cut his head off and Mrs. Giddings dressed it, after which Dick and I went to the Wheel House and we sharpened Fritsa's lawn mower and after dinner Dick mowed the front yard. Then we got the truck out and we cleaned it up and got it in running order. Then I carried Dick home. 05/28/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. Came home, had dinner and spent the rest of the day on the varanda {veranda}. Mr. Robert Clark called in the evening. Mrs. Giddings and Ronald went up to the circle in Calvary Cemetery after supper. 05/29/1939 (Monday) This day I did but little, only sat on the front varanda {veranda}. Dick Pierpont came and mowed the front and West side of the house. To day I received a circular from the Quaker Hill Inc., Nurserymen of Newark, New York State., offering me the agency for their goods. 05/30/{1939} (Tuesday) Memorial Day. The Mattatuck Drum Band turned out in the usual parade in this city. I and Dick Pierpont did odd jobs and some planting and mowing. Sheldon Payne of Nangatuck is dead, aged 96. The last survivor of the Civil War. 05/31/{1939} (Wednesday) Very hot day. I planted some, and did odd jobs till Dick came and then we cleaned out the stove. then we went to the farm and shut the gate by the spring so I will not have to go as far to go in the morning as I tie him down in the lower lot. 06/01/1939 (Thursday) I planted some in the garden etc. Dick came and we repaired the stove, and did other jobs. We went to the farm and put Buster in the barn. The following appeared in the Mill Plain News in the American. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Hansen of Cheshire announce the engagement of their daughter, Mrs. Fritsa Hansen Miller of Oak Corner to Prof. H. Clifton Heaton of New York University, New York City. The Wedding will take place June 24 at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. Matthew Madden, pastor officiating. 06/02/1939 (Friday) To day I planted some in the garden and did several odd jobs. This afternoon Dick came and we cleaned the wheels on my little car. Fritsa told me to night that Ruth Miller had a note from Margaret in which she stated that she and George Hall were married at the Pilgrim Church in Worcester, Mass. by the Rev. J.Q. Todd{??} and she wished Ruth to put it in the paper. 06/03/1939 (Saturday) After breakfast I took Mrs. Giddings down to the store. Then I went to the farm and with Dick we cultivated the garden and fixed the two springs so they would run the water through the pipes, and did other odd jobs. [[ Here are found several different documents and clippings. There are four programs for services at the Mill Plain Union Church, dated December 31, 1939, June 10, 1940, March 24, 1940, and December 3, 1939. There is also what appears to be a newspaper clipping. It is a picture of the view of the waiting station at Fairlawn Manor, looking North on Frost Road. The date on the clipping is only a handwritten "1930's". There is another clipping of some sort which is an add for silver plated knifes, forks and spoons. And finally, there is a postcard to Charles S. Miller from Major Frank E. Soule, Commandant and Lieutenant Harrison C. Bracken, Secretary concerning the regular monthly meeting of the Putnam Phalanx Veteran Corps of Hartford, Connecticut. ]] 06/04/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. Went to the farm and tied Buster out this morning. This evening I took Mrs. Giddings out to Mr. Evetta on {??} Street but he was at his farm in Cheshire. So then we went to my place at East Farms and I put Buster in the stable. Then we went East to the Chester Road, then out the Plank Road, down the Summit Rd. to the Salem Rd., then West on the Salem Rd. to the Hopkins Rd. Then to Wooster St., down Wooster and onto Prospect St., Union City then up the back Waterbury Rd. to Perl Lake Rd. and home. 06/05/1939 (Monday) To day I planted some and did odd jobs about home. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I plowed eight drills across the garden at East Farms to plant potatoes in. This evening's American had the announcement of Margaret's marriage to George Hall at Worcester, Mass. by the Rev. J.Q. Todd{??}. It was in the Wolcott News, and Mill Plain News. 06/06/1939 (Tuesday) I set out pepper plants and tomato plants and loaded a load of chicken manure in the truck. This afternoon I took it to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I out it in the trenches we had made for potatoes. This morning when I went to the farm, I came home through Prospect and found that they were making over the Waterbury road from the new Catholic church to the Waterbury line. It is very dry and the streams are getting very low. We need rain very bad. Wm. Gillette called this afternoon and we straitened up the cash account between up. 06/07{1939} (Wednesday) To day after school, Dick and I planted 8 rows of potatoes across the garden at the farm and plowed out 6 drills for corn. I did odd jobs about home this forenoon. To night Ray brought oil burners for the cook stove that he got at the Triplex Stores for 7.95 and an electric grill that he bought at Sprague Electric supplies Inc. for 5.20. 06/08/1939 (Thursday) This morning I took the old grill off the electric stove and put on a new one that Ray got yesterday. Then Ronald and I went to West Cheshire and bought a bag of scratch feed and suds. When we came home, at the Notch-|in-|the-|Rocks, they were getting ready to set a big blast off. They sent men out each road in sight of a mile with red flags to stop all passers. Then they blew a large gong, and in five minutes set the blast off. We were near the Flagman on the Plank road and we only heard a dull thud and saw nothing unusual. We came home and after dinner we unloaded the grain and I loaded a load of chicken manure and took it to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I put it in drills and planted six rows of corn across the garden. 06/09/1939 (Friday) This forenoon I sorted potatoes and did other odd jobs about the house and premeses {premises}. Dick came in the afternoon and we planted sweet corn in the garden. then we went to the farm and caired {cared} for Buster and then took Laurence Pierpont's drum home. 06/10/1939 (Saturday) Very warm day. This morning I went to the farm and tethered Buster out. Came home, had breakfast, and then worked in the cellar sprouting and sorting potatoes. This afternoon Cliff Heaton, Fritsa, Ronald and Mrs. Giddings went to New Haven. Fritsa to buy a fine wedding hat and Mrs. Giddings to call on her sisters who live on Dixwell Avenue. I finished the potatoes and went to the farm and put Buster in the stable. They got home from New Haven soon after six, and then we had supper. 06/11/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. In the afternoon, Fritsa invited me to go to Starrs with her and Cliff. We went through Middletown, Portland, Hebron, Colombia and Willimantie. At Starrs they were having graduating exercises. Gov. Baldwin was there and gave out the diplomas. We came home through Manchester, Hartford, Bristol and Wolcott. 06/12/{1939} (Monday) I staid about home all day recuperating. Dick came and cut grass this P.M. 06/13/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I did but little as my side pained me very much. I went down to Han Hannans{??} and got my car. Then Dick Pierpont came and he mowed the backyard and I trimmed up about the rose bushes. We went to the farm and put Buster in and repaired the lain fence where he had horned it down. 06/14/1939 (Wednesday) This morning Mrs. Giddings and I drove to her place in new Milford. We went through Waterbury, on the new road through North of Middlebury, through Roxbury to Bridgewater, then New Milford. I left her and drove on to Franks place in Kent. Found him and his men washing out the cow barn. After dinner, Frank, Marion and June went down through Scaticook{??} to Bulls Bridge where on the East side of the river below the bridge we found the old Iron Furnice {Furnace}, which it is said was first operated before the Revolutionary War but was last run in 1896. It is now in ruins. We left there and looked at Franks fine potatoes and alfaffa {alfalfa} near the public school, some of the fine hay he had cut. Then we went up the Skiff Mountain Road and saw his large piece of corn. Then on up the river road to where Alder City formerly stood. To the grave of John Rogers, a Civil War veteran, which is between the road and river, and over which he has put a good sized concrete monument. We then drove to his house and I got into my car. They put in cream, and other things and I left for home at 4 P.M. Drove 15 miles to New Milford and got Mrs. Giddings. Then we came through Washington, Hotchkissville, North Woodbury, Watertown, Oakville, Waterville, to Mill Plain at 6.30. 06/15/{1939} (Thursday) This day I spent much time doing nothing as my side hurt when I worked. This afternoon Dick came and we mowed around the garden, etc. I hoed some in the garden. 06/16/{1939} (Friday) This morning George Hall and Margaret came with his new Buic {Buick} car and took sister Mary and me to their summer house at Wolcott Center where we remained all day and had dinner and supper. He took me through his extensive grounds of ten acres or more, the entire place being covered with clipped walks, rock gardens, groves, swimming pool, vegetable gardens, fruit, flowering plants and springs with many other novelties such as I have never saw anywhere else. 06/17/1939 (Saturday) This is the 164 anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. We hear little of it now. This has been a nice fair day. Not hot like 1775 which was one of the hottest days ever known. I have done odd jobs about home. Not feeling very well. 06/18/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. In the afternoon after a fine dinner of roast beef, etc., I went to East Farms and got Mr. Adkins{??} five gallons of gas for which I paid .68 cts. I then went up the Pierpont Road and out the Meriden Road, up the Todd Road, up the East Bristol Road to Mark Tutter corner then to the Center and to Margaret's where I went down the path to the swimming pool where I sat on a bench and wrote letters the rest of the afternoon, when I came home. 06/19/{1939} (Monday) This day in the forenoon I spent the time writing to Mrs. Edeth J. Kebian, 131 Dwight St., New Haven about her ancesters {ancestors}, Mix and Blakeslee who lived in Prospect about 1845. In the afternoon, Dick came and we took a load of hay to the farm. 06/20/1939 (Tuesday) This morning I worked in the garden planting the corn over and do other odd jobs. This afternoon wend{??} over to Cheshire and saw Emma Doolittle then went to Prospect to see Ruth Hotchkiss but could not get there on account of the Waterbury Road being blocked in front of the New Catholic Church where it is being made over and the steam shovels are at work, so I came over the old Waterbury Road. This evening we went to sister Iva's who gave a shower for Fritsa and Margaret. There were a great number of relations and friends present and each received a card table full of presents. 06/21/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and staked out the ox. Then I came home and repaired the hose pipe and sprinkled the garden. Dick came and painted rose{??} racks, and we cleaned the path to the Wheelhouse, and then went to the farm and put in Buster. We went to the store and I left my black suit to be cleaned and pressed. 06/22/1939 (Thursday) I did odd jobs about the home place and in the afternoon went to the Hotchkiss Place in Prospect to see about cemeteries, and how the new Waterbury Road is getting on. They have the greater part of the grading done. The new Union City Road they have nearly completed. They are putting on the last of the hard finish. 06/23/1939 (Friday) This morning I worked in the garden, and repaired the old hose that belongs to the fire engine, and then sprinkled it. Dick came this afternoon and helped me to repair the hose pipe, and then he mowed the lawn, etc. 06/24/{1939} (Saturday) The Great event to day was the marriage of Fritsa to Professor Clifford Heaton of New York City. It was the grandest wedding ever held in the Mill Plain Union Church. The church was well filled with guests. The Episcapal {Episcopal} service was used by Rev. Mr. Madden at four o'clock in the afternoon, after which a reception was held in the Church Parlors and soon after they left amid a great shower of confetti for a two weeks wedding trip to nobody knows where. 06/25/1939 (Sunday) To day I attended the Pierpont family reunion which was held at the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich. I went with Raymond and Ruth Miller. There were nearly about 100 present, and all had a good time. After dinner they took me through a large garden and Estate of a wealthy man. There was the greatest variety of flowers, shrubs, vines and mases{??} that I ever heard of. We rode on the New Merritt Park way for a long distance. 06/26/{1939} (Monday) To day I worked in the garden and did other jobs about home. Dick came and cleaned from the front fence and we put up the rose arbour{arbor??} in the front yard. This afternoon we went to Cheshire and got feed, then drove through Brookvale, and East Prospect, home. 06/27/1939 (Tuesday) This morning I drove over to Mill Dale to Clarks Bolt Shop to see Ed Todd about the East Farms Cemetery. After dinner Charles Urban saw me about renting the up stairs tenement after Fritsa goes to New York. 06/28/{1939} (Wednesday) To day Dick and I worked repairing the fence by the Frost road and did other jobs. 06/29/{1939} (Thursday) The weather has been very dry. The dryest {driest} June since 1912, so the paper says. This morning Dick and I went to the farm. I hoed the corn, and he the ground for the cabbages. In the afternoon I drove down to Prospect but could not go out the main road as it was closed by the workmen who are making it over. This evening it began to rain, the first of any account this month. A few days after I got out of the hospital, Dick and I planted some potatoes at the farm. The ground was so dry that only a few are up now. 06/30/1939 (Friday) This morning I made a cage of laths to put setting hens in, and hung it up on the grape arbor by the girage {garage??}. In the afternoon, as it was wet, Dick and I set out 200 cabbage plants at the farm. This evening Mr. George Goodwin came to see me. Dick came this evening from New York. It rained for the most part all day. It will do a lot of good. 07/01/1939 (Saturday) This morning Dick Miller ate breakfast with me and dinner also. He helped Dick Pierpont mow down by the Wheelhouse. This afternoon Pierpont and I raked the hay up and carried it to the farm and put it on the mow. 07/02/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. This afternoon I visited John Todd on the Todd Road. The weather to day has been perfect. 07/03/{1939} (Monday) To day has been perfect weather. Richard Pierpont came and clipped all the grass that we cut with the lawn mower. I filed a saw for Tony Cairlo and ground up the scythes. After dinner we took a small load of hay to the farm, and there hoed the potatoes, corn, etc. A few boys at various places were firing off fire crackers which they buy in Wolcott or adjoining towns. Here the police are raising about to ketch{catch??} the boys who violate the City law prohibiting the sale and use of fireworks. My sister's birthday was this day, 77 years old, and at her daughters, Mrs. Phillip Royter's. They had a party. I was present, as was my sister Iva and her children and their families, 10 in all. 07/04/1939 (Tuesday) This morning Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield Gillette called for me at 11 A.M. and I went with them to Mr. Radcliff's cottage at Laurel Beach in Milford, where we found Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Service, Mr. and Mrs. Radcliff, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gillette, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pierpont and two children came later. There were also Miss Margery Service, Ruth Royter, and three or four others. We went down through the back road to Union City, then through Beacon Falls and at Seymour crossed the wide new concrete bridge that replaced the old wood covered bridge. Then down the West side of the river through West Ansonia and Derby and over the Housatonic to Shelton and down the new river road to Stratford. Then crossed the Washington Bridge, into Milford along the Post road and turning South to the Beach. But alas the old marshes and land is all covered with streets and buildings, and where I used to dig clams over 60 years ago, the bars are covered with people and no clams are to be found. In my younger days, there was a small hotel at Burns Point, one on Charles Island, one at Meadows End and 4 or 5 shacks on Milford Point and no other buildings along the shore. We had supper there and about nine we left Wm and Iva Gillette, Mr ------- and I in Wills new Buick and came to the Post road and found two processions of autos, one going East, the other going West. We fell in with those going East and passing Milford, turned North and came through Orange and on to Woodbridge where we turned East and over to the New Prospect Road and home. When we came down East Mountain, we saw the fine display of fireworks that were set off in Hamilton Park and they were in full view the rest of the way home. They left me at my house a little after ten and I stood out and watched the rockets and other pretty fireworks. Nice weather to day. 07/05/1939 (Wednesday) Richard Pierpont came this morning and we mowed the lower end of my lot by the Wheel House. the grass was big and the weeds tough and I strained my side and have been in great pain ever since. I lay down after sinner, but got up at 1.30 and took my Pick Up and took some letters to Spindle Hill, and then called on Margaret at the Center. Then came home and we heaped up the hay, and I have done but little ever since. 07/06/1939 (Thursday) This forenoon I did odd jobs, and in the afternoon sharpened 11 drills, the first tools I have sharpened since early March. 07/07/{1939} (Friday) Dick and I did odd jobs. I went over the garden and got the weeds all out. dick mowed East of the chicken house. We took a good load of hay to the farm. 07/08/{1939} (Saturday) Fritsa and Cliff returned from their wedding trip to night. I worked at the farm, and did work on my little car. 07/09/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. After dinner I went over to Plantsville to see Mr. Edward Todd about East Farms Cemetery matters but he was asleep so I came away. After I got home, Mrs. Giddings son came from Stamford and we had a fine dinner, after which we took a ride up to Waterville and saw the Chase Metal Works Buildings. Then we went North and turned East and passed Hoadleyville{??}, but before we reached Terryville, we turned right and up Fall Mountain to Wolcott Center, and saw Margaret, then down through Woodtick and home. They left for Stamford before dark. 07/10/1939 (Monday) This morning I sharpened tools. Dick came and we went to the farm, and worked there the rest of the day. 07/11/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I sharpened tools. Dick came and repaired the fence on the East Line, and mowed the grass in the front yard. We then went to the farm and cleaned out the stables which have not been cleaned out since before I was sick. This evening Fritsa and Cliff, or Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heaton returned from New York. 07/12/1939 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools, then went to the farm and Dick and I plowed out the corn and potatoes and hoed the whole garden. This evening I attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Association. I offered my resergnation {resignation} as President, but they would not have it, and elected the shame officers as they had before, Howard Neal, Secretary, and M.E. Pierpont, Treasurer. 07/13/{1939} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got my Mill Plain Union Church Bonds Coupons, cashed $70.00, then went to the Waterbury Savings Bank deposited 30.50 in checks. Then came home, had dinner and took a ride to Prospect and made a bad call, then went to Straitsville and South on N.H. road to Hotchkiss Corner then up through Prospect to the Plank road and through Mixville and home. 07/14/{1939} (Friday) Sharpened tools till noon. Then went to the farm and put fertilizer on my cabbages, and hoed them etc. 07/15/1939 (Saturday) I sharpened tools this morning. Richard Pierpont came and clipped the grass in the backyard. The we went to the farm and got the mowing machine down, and put it together and repaired it. That took the rest of the day. Fritsa and Cliff came home from Starrs{??} yesterday and brought Ronny back home. 07/16/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mortimer Owen of the Banker Hill Church officiated. When the collection was taken up, I put in envelopes to fill the plate all it would hold as I had many that were sent to Mary all of which I put in .25. Then there were many extra ones in which I put in .10 and I was back on my own, in these I used .60. All together they totaled about 33.75 in silver, the largest I ever gave at any collection. After dinner I went to Prospect and had a fine visit with Senetor {Senator} Joseph Lawler, after which I came to Mr. Williams, then to the farm and put up Buster, then home and Mrs. Giddings had a fine supper for me. 07/17/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools this morning. After breakfast I ran the washing machine, then ground the mowing machine knives and scythes, then went to the farm and rigged the machine ready for use, cleaned the stable, etc. 07/18/{1939} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this morning, then went to the farm with Dick Pierpont to help hitched {hitch} Buster into the mowing machine and mowed about 1/8 of an acre of heavy grass and we dried it ang {and} got it in the barn. Dick tried to drive the ox but found that he could not manage him, so I had to drive him, and I made better work than I thought I could. I received a very interesting letter from my grand daughter, Enid Forsberg from S.E. Soudan{??}, East Africa. 07/19/1939 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this morning. Then I took my little car and drove to Orange at Garden Street and engaged Mrs. Mary Ingraham to come and work for me on Aug. 1st, as Mrs. Giddins {Giddings} is going to get through the last of this month. 07/20/1939 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this morning. Dick came and painted trellises and we split wood. Then we went to the farm, with Cliff Heaton and I showed him the bounds of their lot that Mary gave to Clyde. Dick and I worked on the lane fence. 07/21/1939 (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools, and went to the store with Mrs. Giddings. Dick came and did odd jobs and we split a lot of appletree wood. After dinner we went to the farm and worked on the fence in the lane. 07/22/{1939} (Saturday) I sharpened tools this morning. Then dick and I went to the farm and worked repairing the lane fence. The weather to day has been fine. 07/23/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madding {Madden??} officiated. His subject, "The Impact of Gossip Upon the Soul." This afternoon I visited John Todd. 07/24/1939 (Monday) Dick and I went to the farm and mowed the lot North of the barn and got it in N.E{??} the part of it East of the path to the gate. 07/25/{1939} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this morning and went to the farm with Dick and did odd jobs. 07/26/{1939} (Wednesday) Dick and I mowed the lot next {to} the street at the farm with the ox and mowing machine. Cliff Heaton came and helped mow by hand. In the afternoon, Dick and I raked it up and got it in the barn. We had bad luck as the gears locked on the truck and the truck was stuck between a manure pile and the barn. We had to move the manure, and get the ox and hitch on the truck and pull it out. Blanchard worked 4 hrs. 07/27/{1939} (Thursday) This morning Dick and I went to Cheshire and got lumber, log cement and bag{s} of oats. Dick cut grass, helped Blanchard, and we split wood. Blanchard worked 8 hours. 07/28/{1939} (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools and went to the farm. Then went up to John Wakelees in Wolcott and got sand. Dick and I split old appletree wood, then went to Cheshire and got feed and a plank for front step. The weather is very hot, every day. Blanchard worked eight hours. 07/29/{1939} (Saturday) This morning Dick and I split wood, and helped Blanchard. This afternoon Dick and I painted some, but it rained and we had to stop. We then cleaned up after Blanchard. He got through at noon. Four hours. A total of twenty four hours = 24.00 07/30/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madding {Madden??} preached, his subject was, "The Rich Man and the Beggar." 07/31/{1939} (Monday) This morning I took Mrs. Mary Giddings to her home in New Milford. Dick and Alice Pierpont and Ronny Miller went, then we went to Franks at Kent where we had dinner. 08/01/1939 (Tuesday) This morning I went to East Farms and engaged Alice Pierpont to come and work for me to day. Dick came and painted the greater part of the day. This evening I went to the rehersal {rehearsal} of the Mattatuck Drum Band. The Plainville Corps were there as guests. 08/02/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning Dick and I went to Cheshire and got a bag of cement and lumber. then we put up a farm{??} for coping on the wall at the North West corner of the house. 08/03/{1939} (Thursday) Dick and I put concrete coping on top of wall at North West corner of house. 08/04/{1939} (Friday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Went and paid electric light bill. Dick cut grass and did other jobs. Had a letter from Mrs. Margaret Pitkin of 137 Fayette St. Lowell, Mass. of Mrs. M Clifford applying for a job. 08/05/1939 (Saturday) This morning I sharpened tools. Alice Pierpont came at about ten. Then I got the Washing machine out and did the washing. Alice hung them out. After dinner I worked in the garden, and did odd jobs till supper time. Alice got a fine supper, after which she washed all the dishes up and I carryed {carried} her home in my little truck. I received a letter to night from Miss Emma Haywood, East Harwich, Mass. Cape Cod. applying for a job housekeeping. 08/06/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. No subject on program. This afternoon I went to Margaret's in Wolcott and had supper there. 08/07/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Dick went home at noon. I received a letter from Mrs. Jennie R. Sartuell, Winchester, N.H. for a job of housekeeping. 08/08/1939 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Took my truck to Mr. Hammans and had it repaired. Received a letter to day from Miss Emma Haywood from Boston General Delivery, Devonshire Street. 08/09/1939 (Wednesday) This morning I got up at 5:45 and cooked my own breakfast, as I do every morning, and after I had eaten it, I went to the farm and Dick and I mowed, with the machine with the ox to draw it, the North East corner of the barn lot. We raked it up and got it in. It was well that we did for it rained hard this evening. 08/10/1939 (Thursday) Dick and I mowed by hand the remainder of the barn lot at East Farms and we got it in. Alice Pierpont got through working for me to night. 08/11/{1939} (Friday) I have stayed about home all day. went up to the Mill Plain Diner and got dinner. Got breakfast and supper myself. Has{??} letter from Emma Haywood to night and answered it. 08/12/{1939} (Saturday) I have been about home all day writing some and doing odd jobs. Mailed a letter to Miss Emma Haywood this morning. Got telegram this afternoon that she would come next Monday or Tuesday. I answered back to come as soon as possible. 08/13/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. A salvation army officer officiated, as Mr. Madden is away on his vacation. I got my own meals and staid home all day. 08/14/{1939} (Monday) I worked about home all day, only I went down town this morning. I received a letter from Irving and one from Mrs. Mary Ingrahan, #7 Green St, Merrimac, Mass., Miss Emma Haywood. 08/15/{1939} (Tuesday) I got my own breakfast this morning and washed up the dishes. Then I went to the farm and Dick and I mowed with Buster, the West end of the orchard on the hill, and got it in. 08/16/{1939} (Wednesday) This forenoon I worked about home. In the afternoon I went to the Rail Road station to meet Miss Emma Haywood who was coming from Boston to do housework for me, but she didn't come. But when I got home she was sitting on the varanda {veranda} waiting for me. She had come through on the bus. To day the Jury found Mayor Hayes and 18 others guilty of defrauding the City of Waterbury out of over three million dollars. The trial started last November. 08/17/{1939} (Thursday) This morning Miss Haywood got my breakfast and then I went out to East Farms and got Harold, Alice and Richard Pierpont and then we drove over and across Bulls Bridge into York State where they got on the Appalattion {Appalachian} Trail that comes from Florida and goes to Maine. There I left them and I went to Franks in Kent and they were to follow the trail over the mountains and were going to stay at Franks place to night. I staid about Franks till three and then left for home. I came through Warren, Romford, Waterville, Lakewood, Mill Plain and home, the whole being 80.3 miles. 08/18/1939 (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools and unloaded the truck. Then Emma and I went to the store and got some groceries, and I did odd jobs about the place. 08/19/1939 (Saturday) This forenoon I sharpened tools, etc. This afternoon I went to Bridgeport to the State Firemens Annual Parade. Edward Garthwait called for me, and took me to Hitchcocks Lake to the Fire Engine house where there was two busses waiting, one for the men and one for the women to go in. We left there at 1.30 and reached Bridgeport some after two. The line of march was about five miles long and ended on Pleasure Island. It began to rain soon after the First Division reached the Island, and by the time the eighth division, an hour later, reached there, it was raining quite hard. We had a sandwich or two and a bottle or two of soda for lunch. But there was not much left after the third division got in. We left there about 10.30 and I reached home a little before twelve. 08/20/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mrs. Gertrude Coe preached. Her subject was, "God and the Harvest". After dinner, Emma Haywood and I went for an auto ride. We went up through Wolcott, and through Bristol, then up through Edgewood, and out the Copper mine road to Lake Garda{??}, then down to Plainville, and over Pine street to the Forestville School House, then down past Componce Pond and South and up the Southington Mountain on the Meriden Road and home. The day has been warm and muggy. 08/21/{1939} (Monday) Hot high humidity. I sharpened tools this morning. After breakfast, I got the washing machine out and Emma Haywood and I did the largest washing that has been done in my house in five years. This day I suppose ends up the great conspiracy trial that has lasted more than seven months in which it has been proven that the following convicted men with others have defrauded the tax payers out of over three million dollars in the City of Waterbury. Sentence is to be imposed this afternoon by Judge Inglis of Middletown on the following men: T. Frank Hayes, Mayor of the City of Waterbury since 1930 and between 1935 and 1939, Lieutenant Governor of the state of Connecticut. 2. Daniel J. Leary, Former controller of the City of Waterbury, and prominent business man. 3. Carl D. Olsen, former Vice President and Treasurer of the Waterbury Trust Company and former member of the police board. 4. Thomas P. Kelley, member of the board of Aldermen, and executive secretary to Mayor Hayes. 5. Thomas J. Fleming, Superintendant {Superintendent} of Streets 6. Martin J. Dunn, attorney, former purchasing agent for the city. 7. Charles S. O'Connor, Corparation {Corporation} Council for the City for past 16 years. 8. John H. Grary, Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee, for many years and City assessor. 9. Thomas A. Shanahan, City assessor for years. 10. Phillip Coppeto, contractor. 11. Frank Santalusia, contractor. 12. James P. Healey, local business man. 13. Henry Minor, lawyer, Chairman of the City Police Board, and and member of Fire Board. 14. Simon J. Alderman, New Haven auditor. 15. Donato Pietraria, Bristol contractor. 16. John G. Purdie, New York private detective. 17. John S. Johnson, New York broker and business associate of Leary. 18. George H. Kingsley of Bogota, N.J., main partner in New York auditing firm which made annual City audit. 19. John W. Meany of Bogota, N.J., a partner in the George H. Kingsley & Co. 20. Edward G. Leavy, New Haven, Lawyer, pleaded guilty. 21. Harry MacKenzie, Bethel, Lobbyist, pleaded guilty. 22. Charles G. Willamson, Daren, Lawyier {Lawyer} and lobbyist, who was found guilty by Judge Inglist. 23. Timothy Morgan, City Hall Superintendant {Superintendent}, who pleaded nolo contendere. 08/22/{1939} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this morning a while. This evening I went with the Mattatuck Drum Band to Plainville to visit the Plainville Drum Corps and there they drummed. Mayor Frank Hayes and the others were sentenced yesterday afternoon. They all took appeals to the Supreme Court, and are now out on bonds, as follows, Sentence Bonds Mayor T. Frank Hayes 10 to 15 years 50.000 Daniel J. Leary 10 to 15 years 50.000 Carl D. Olsen 7 to 12 years 50.000 Thomas P. Kelley 7 to 12 years 50.000 Thomas J. Fleming 1 to 3 years and 500. 10.000 Martin J. Dunn 2 to 6 years and $500 10.000 Charles S. O'Connor 2 to 6 years and $500 10.000 John H. Grary 2 months Jail and $500 5.000 Thomas A. Shanahan 2 months Jail and $500 5.000 Phillip Cappeto 4 to 8 years and 500 25.000 Timothy J. Morgan Judgement suspended, no record Frank J. Santalusia 4 to 8 years and $500 $25.000 James P. Healey 2 to 5 years and $500 $10.000 Henry W. Minor 1 to 5 years and $500 $10.000 Harry E. MacKenzie 9 months in Jail In Jail Charles E. Williamson 1 year and $500 10.000 Edward G. Leavy 1 year in Jail In Jail Simon J. Alderman 1 to 5 years and 500 $7.500 Donato Pietraria 2 to 5 years and $500 $10.000 John G. Purdie 1 year in Jail and $500 $10.000 John S. Johnston 2 to 5 years and $500 $20.000 George H. Kingsley 1 to 3 years and $500 $10.000 John W. Meany 1 year in Jail, $500 $10.000 08/23/1939 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools, then I polished the buttons on my uniform and took it to the tailors to have it cleaned and pressed. This afternoon, I went to the farm, and arranged to hitch the mowing machine {to the} back of the truck. Went to Mr. Tyler's and had some sawing done. 08/24/{1939} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this morning. Then I made a device to hitch my mowing machine back of my truck to mow. 08/25/{1939} (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools and made mower irons. Went and got my uniform that was pressed, and did other odd jobs. Went to the farm and worked on the mowing machine but the rain drove me back home. Margaret Hall and Ruth Brundage (my daughters) called this evening and they put a patch in my buff uniform pants. 08/28/{1939} (Monday) Last Saturday I went to the Worlds Fair at New York with the Mattatuck Drum Band, and came home last night with Mansfield and Will Gillette. At 6.30 Saturday morning the Band which was in an Eagle large Buss called for me, and at the Center we took on a number of boys at the Elton Hotel. Then we went out West Main St. and on through Middlebury, Woodbury, Southbury, across the Housatonic River at Sandy Hook, at the underpass of the Rail Road which cleared our load of drums on the top of the buss by only one half inch. Much care had to be taken. Then we went on through Newtown to Danbury where we stoped {stopped} about half an hour, then on through Ridgebury, and into York state and on to New York City which we entered by Central Park Avenue, but before reaching the Park we turned left, and after winding and turning many corners passed over the Whitestone Bridg {Bridge} and some miles beyond, drove into the grounds of the Fair. Here we left the Buss at about ten o'clock and after going some distance, climed {climbed?} up many stairs to the bridge walk that would take us into the fair. But instead we crossed it and went down many stairs, then we walked on the level some distance, then down many stairs to a subway station where we boarded a train and were yanked over and through tunnels to New York where we got out at 8th Avenue, and climed {climbed?} to the street, and went to the Capitol Hotel, corner of 50th street, where we arranged for our rooms. Mine was No. 2010 and I had for comrades, Pete Shea and two Putnam Phalanx men. As it was near noon now, we went out on the street where I fell in with Howard Neal and we went to a restaurant and got dinner, after which we thought that we would go over to Brooklyn and see a ball game. But Howard hears{??} some boys talking about it and they said that there would be a great crowd there, and one might not be able to get in. So we decided to go to the Fair and we took a subway train that took us over, but on the other side it went up and up until it became a high elevated train. When we reached the station, we had to jump off lively to get the train out of the way of the next. Then we had to walk over a high bridge about 60 ft. wide and near 1/2 mile in length to where we put a 50 ct. price in a slot which released a turn stile and we entered the Fair and after going down grade{??} for a distance were on the ground at the Worlds Fair. I have attended the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, the Foreign Exposition at Boston in 1888, the Jamestown Exposition in 1907 and the Suski Centennial in Philadelphia in 1926. But this is much the largest of any that I have seen, and the general features are different. Here the motive{??} power is electricity or gasoline where at the others it was steam or water. Here the buildings and roofs are of concrete where at the others they were of wood, stone or brick, while the roofs were of wood, iron or slate. There was a huge cash register that appeared to be made of concrete on the top of one of the highest buildings that was the size of a two story dwelling house. It revolved slowly and it recorded the attendance each hour in plain sight of all that looked up at it. At 10 o'clock, Saturday night it regerstered {registered} 206,868 that had attended that day. On the next day, Sunday, there were many more. At the Centennial in Sept. 1876, I was there on New York day{??} and the attendance was 135,00, the largest up to that date. A few days later was Pennsylvania day with the largest number, 235,00. My time was limited from about 2.15 to 10.30 P.M. Three times I rode about the grounds in the sight seeing trains and busses and each time the route was different, and each time I saw wonders, and buildings that I had not seen before. I went through several buildings and saw automobiles that would start and stop at the command of a person standing a distance away with no one inside. At the word it would open and close the doors, and turn on and off the lights, stear {steer} to the right and to the left. In fact -| it seemed to be as well broke as my old ox, "Buster", is and it was wonderful. But the most wonderful of all that I saw was shown by the Corning Glass Co. Brittle glass such as windows are made of was drawn into fine fiber, and about 6 or 8 of these were spun together on a regular spinning frame such as spins cotton thread, and the thread then was wove into cloth on a fast running loom striking about 200 strokes per minute I should judge. Some of the thread was braded {braided??} into tape or tape machines. The thread was very strong. I could not pull strong enough to break it though only 6/1000 of an inch diameter. The thread and cloth has more of a glass than silk and about as pliable. water does not effect it much and they had curtains of many shades and tints. This process was invented about four years ago. Neal and I took a subway train that landed us at 50th St. on 8th Av. at out {our??} Hotel and I got to bed at midnight. After a good night's sleep we all got up at about 6 A.M. Soon 200 troops arrived from Boston and then they kept coming from other places. Neal and I went out and got our breakfast at a restaurant. Then I staid at the hotel till 11 A.M. when it was time for the Band to fall in and head the Putnam Phalanx to the Pennsylvania Station. The boys loaded their suit cases into a taxy{??} and Joe Howell, Pete Shea and I rode over 12 miles to our Buss where we waited till 2.30 for the other boys to come. They were required to, after getting off the car's head the military organizations acroos the half mile bridge and into the grounds, and then came and get their drums. {?? Sentence does not make sense} Then we went to the place where the parade formed near the center of the grounds, and after some delay the parade of the organizations of the Centennial Ligion {Legion??}, about 1800 in all, men from New Hampshire to South Carolina, all observed the anniversary of the Battle of Long Island, fought 1776. Near the Johns Manville Exhibit where the parade started I was surprised to meet Will Gillette and Mansfield. They had driven down in the fore-| noon and they invited me {to} ride home with them. We were to meet at the "Court of Peace" where the parade was to be reviewed and dismissed. I was in uniform, but not in the parade. I walked by the nearest course, about two miles to the Court and saw the boys come in, and the review and exercises after which I kept with Will and Mansfield, and we walked a long way across the ground to the main gate. On the way we went through the French Building which was full of wonders. Outside the gate we went to the parking grounds and found Mansfield's car among the thousands there and started for home, crossing the White-| stone Bridge, and on till we entered Connecticut at Greenwich where we paid our third toll of 10 cts. Previously Mansfield had paid 25 and 10 cts. Then we came at 50 miles per hour over the New Merrit Park way to Westport, the end. There we went North to Bethel, then on towards Newtown. Someone said something about stopping for something to eat. To this I readily agreed as I had eaten nothing except a hot dog since early breakfast. We stopped at Sidney Bronson's Place, this side of Lake Zoar{??}, where we had a fine meal. Then on home, stopping at Mansfield's house and Lydia came with us to my house which we reached about ten o'clock. 08/29/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I began sharpening tools which job{??} lasted all day as Tony had three stone cutters working. 08/30/{1939} (Wednesday) Rained all day. I sharpened tools all the time but am not caught up, as they keep bringing them in. 08/31/{1939} (Thursday) Rained hard this morning. I sharpened tools the greater part of the day. Emma Haywood went away this evening. 09/01/1939 (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick Pierpont came and mowed the grass, then we went to the farm and hitched the mowing machine back of the the truck and mowed about half of the orchard on the hill. To night Louvane Fox called and gave me a card from Alex Smith of Clintonville inviting me to his place on Sept 10. 09/02/{1939} (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick and I mowed the remainder of the orchard on the hill and raked it up and got it in. 09/03/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Joseph Johnson preached. His subject was, "Whose Son is Christ." I came home and had dinner, after which Emma went away and I took my car and went to the Maple Hill and saw Bessie Pierpont, then went to Wolcott Center to see Margaret but no one was at home, so I came down to Fairlawn and saw sister Mary, then home and had supper, and then wrote for the Round Robin. 09/04/{1939} (Monday) Labor day. Emma, Ronney and I went to the Goshen Fair. There I saw Avary Vale{??} about the Bass Drum. The new Mayor of Waterbury, Patrick M. Perrillo, is now in power. Last Saturday Mayor T. Frank Hayes who is under sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison resigned, and within an hour Perrillo was sworn in. 09/05/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning Dick and I started mowing on the hill but the rain stoped {stopped} us. 09/06/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon Dick and I mowed the big lot on the hill. When I got home to night Brother Frank was here from Groton and we had a good visit. Mr Goldsmith was coming over and he brought him. 09/07/{1939} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the farm and began raking up the hay on the hill. Soon Dick came and we raked it all up, 31 heaps, and loaded it on the little truck and we put it in the barn. Mr. Goldsmith came this afternoon and took Frank and they went up to the Waterbury Rolling Mills, but the failed to see Robert Somers. 09/08/1939 (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. At 8.30, Mr. Goldsmith called with a new Pontiac car for Frank and they were going first to Bristol, then to Simsbury, then to Hartford and on home to Groton. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott and saw Margaret and made arrangements to go to the Springfield Fair. Then I went to the farm and put ashes on the cabbages. 09/09/1939 (Saturday) I sharpened tools the greater part of the day. Dick came this afternoon and clipped the grass after which we went to the farm and pulled weeds out of potatoes. 09/10/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. Subject, "Our American Homes." I had a blowout and Charles Urban fixed it. After dinner, Mr. Louvane Fox called and we drove to Mr. Alex Smiths place on the Pond Hill Road at Clintonville, where we joined delegations from the Old Brunnells, Stony Creek, Higgamum{??} and other Drum Corps, and we drummed in Mrs. Smith's apple packing house, and there enjoyed a fine dinner. It rained some so we were obliged to stay in doors. We reached home about seven o'clock. 09/11/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools most of the time to day. I went to the store and got groceries and went to the American Legion, 17 Hotmes Avenue and carried Mr. Fox apples and brief{??} home. 09/12/{1939} (Tuesday) To day I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about home and pulled weeds at the farm. 09/13/{1939} (Wednesday) I did odd jobs about home all day and sharpened some drills for Andrew Kitchenka, and pulled weeds at the farm. 09/14/1939 (Thursday) Worked repairing the furnace pipe, etc. most of the day. Howard Neal called this evening to see about making a list of members of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 09/15/1939 (Friday) One year ago to day Mary died. To day I have staid about home all day nearly. Went to the bank and got my pension check cashed and then paid my electric bill, 6.25. 09/16/{1939} (Saturday) Worked in the Wheelhouse on the furnace pipe all day. Weather very hot. Emma Haywood told me this morning that she will get through in two weeks. 09/17/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. Subject, "The Law of Sacrifice." This afternoon I went to Mr. Wilson's on the Stilson Road and saw Mrs. Wilson and a fine trailer that her daughter and husband came across the country from Oregon in, and they told me all about the Warners and Aviatts{??} that went to Portland in 1892. All but one who went from here are dead. From there I went to M. E. Pierponts Grove at East Farms where the Mattatuck Drum Band had a fine dinner which included reguld{??} Rhode Island Clam Bake. The Bake was in the charge of Mr. George Cass of Wallingford who did his part to perfection. President Ralph Pierpont with a corps of assistants handled the tables and Sargeant{Sergeant} Andrew Kitchenka, the refreshment stand. There were present members of the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, drummers and fifers from Plainville, Wolcott, Wallingford, Hartford, and Waterbury. All were loud in proclaiming this a most successful gathering of the one hundred and seventy two year old organization. 09/18/1939 (Monday) Very cold morning and cool all day. I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Worked on the furnace pipe all the afternoon. 09/19/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the American Legion Home and saw Mr. Fox. Then I came home and worked on the heating furnace. After dinner I went to Wolcott and saw Margaret and George, about going to Springfield Fair next Thursday. Then I drove over Spindle Hill and down Fall Mountain nearly to Hancocks Station, then out to Bristol Road and turned off and went up the Mountain to Cedar Swamp Pond, then across the dam and down the Waterbury Road and turned down the County Road to Hitchcocks Lake and in the Meriden Road and down the Pierpont Road to East Farms and home. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Sincaster called to see about renting the upstairs. 09/20/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning I went and with Mr. Fox to the American and Democrat Office to have a notice about the Mattatuck Band put in the paper. I did odd jobs about the house. 09/21/{1939} (Thursday) Went to Eastern States Exposition at Springfield. In a prominent place in front of the Main Building was a large sign which had on it, Baby Beef Grand Championship Won by Dwight S. Miller of Kent, Conn. Weight 1090 lbs., Sold to First National Starr of East Hartford, Conn. Price 54 cts., pound. So it brought about $588.60. Good for Dwight. Emma Haywood and I rode to the Fair with Margaret and her husband, George Hall. We left here at 7.00 and drove to their place on Wolcott Hill where we got into their new Buic {Buick} and then went to Bristol, to Farmington then through Avon, Simsbury, Granby, Southwick, and Feeding Hills to West Springfield, which we reached soon after 9.15. Paid 1.00 each admission and 1.00 for the car. It was a grand fair with much to be seen. We saw Dwight and the prize steer, and after a time saw Frank, Elsie, Marion and Bertha from Kent, Prof. Harry Garrigus from Starrs and Mr. and Mrs. Cooley of Waterbury. We left there at 4.00 for home, came through Suffield, Windsor Locks{??}, Winsoa{??}, Bloomfield, West Hartford, where we stoped {stopped} at the Hall place and Rigg St. for a short time then on to Wolcott where Emma and I got into my little car and came home, reaching here before dark. 09/22/{1939} (Friday) This would have been Mary's birth day had she lived, but that was not to be. How differently I would have done had I known that she was to go first. But now it is to late. Today I have done much the same as I do every day about the place. Mr. Gladding and daughter called this evening to see about the rent. He is from Cheshire. 09/23/{1939} (Saturday) To day Dick Pierpont came and finished digging the rain cistern West of the house, then we drew two loads of stone on the truck and stoned it up. We went to East Farms and got two flat stones, 2' long, 1 ft. wide and 6" thick and put them on the top. I went with Albert Crandall to a street beyond Knoll St. and laid out a fence that he is to build. Mr. Carew called this evening to see about the rent. 09/24/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. this afternoon I called on David Plum and Walter Morse, both of Prospect. Emma went away yesterday afternoon and came back to night. 09/25/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools this morning, then worked on the furnace in the cellar the rest of the time. Mr. Gladding and daughter of Cheshire called this evening to engage the rent up stairs and so did Mr. Careo{??} and wife to look at it. 09/26/{1939} (Tuesday) This morning I went with Anthony Cairlo{??} to the assessors office to have his shop put in his name. Then went to the Town Clerk's office to get a manual of the state. Then to the engineer's office to see about numbering my house. Came home, had dinner, and went to Bristol and had my clutch tightened and a new battery put in, then went to Forestville and saw Mr. Dresser{??}, then to Cheshire to see Mr. Gladding. He was not home, then home, etc. 09/27/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Mr. Gladding and daughters came to day and engaged the rent in my house at 25.00 per month and 2.00 for the shed to keep his car in. He depsited {deposited} 2.00. I have worked on the furnace, and painted it, and got it ready to run. 09/28/{1939} (Thursday) This morning I got the furnace in the cellar going and went to the stores, etc. Then I sharpened tools the rest of the day. 09/29/{1939} {Friday} Sharpened tools all the forenoon. After dinner I went to Bristol and had my little car repaired and oiled and greased. Then I went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats. 09/30/1939 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick and I mowed away the last load of hay and we put up the mowing machine, and cut the corn and put the stalks in the stable, and pulled the weeds out of the cabbages, and cultivated the cabbages. I told Emma Haward {Haywood} to get through next week. 10/01/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Maddin {Madden} preached. Subject, "Christianity's Greatest Enemy." After dinner I went out the Plank Road and saw Walter Morse. Ray came this evening. 10/02/{1939} (Monday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Went down town and did errands this afternoon, etc. 10/03/1939 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. This evening the big truck of the Mill Plain Trucking Co. came and loaded a part of Fritsa's furniture on and left here at 8.35 for Tuckahoe, New York City, and Fritsa, Ronny and Bobbie left at the same time. Bob is to return Thursday and Fritsa is comming [coming} up next Saturday. Her address is 295 Westchester Ave. Crestwood, Tuckahoe, New York. 10/04/1939 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools all this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to see Walter Morse in Prospect. But he was going to see the doctor, as he was sick with the tick dollarne{??}. He told me to see the work they were doing on the Juggernat Road. Of that old narrow crooked road, they are making a nice strait wide hard gravel road. On this road at the brook crossing, Dutton{??} B. Beecher in 1832 made the first screw propeller ever known to the world, and the engine that drove it, which he put in a boat and used it on the Farmington Canal at West Cheshire. 10/05/1939 {Thursday} I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to Bristol in the afternoon. This evening Ed Croft, Ed Maher, and two Kane Brothers called. 10/06/1939 (Friday) I moved the pile of dirt West of the house and cleaned the yard. In the afternoon I went to the farm and dick and I mowed the garden and the roadside about the watering trough. 10/07/{1939} (Saturday) This forenoon I carried Emma Haywood and her trunk and baggage to the depot where she took the train for Boston. Her trunk was heavy, weighed over 200 lbs. Dick Pierpont helped load it, and unload it at the station. Then we came home and Dick got dinner after which we went to the farm and tedded{??} out the hay, then came home and made some irons for Al Crandall. Then we went to the farm and raked up and got in the hay by the road. Then I came home and got my own supper, etc. 10/08/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject was, "The Power of Religion, Its Personal Incarnations." After dinner I drove out the Plank Road to Mr. Frank Brook's place, and talked over the history of Mr. George Hine and his Blacksmith shop. 10/09/1939 (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed, 185{??}, and stoped {stopped} at the Maple Hill Dairy and paid my milk bill, 7.00. At the farm, I raked up the hay, then came home and got supper and ate it all by myself. Wrote Stephen Gladding of Cheshire, and told him the upstairs rent will be ready after next Thursday. 10/10/1939 (Tuesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. After dinner I did odd jobs, and took a load of furniture over to Hansons in Cheshire. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band, and after the meeting Ralph Pierpont showed moving pictures of the Band at the Worlds Fair, and at other places, and many other pictures. It was fine entertainment. 10/11/1939 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools to day in the fournoon {forenoon}. In the after-| noon, I went to the store and got a lot of groceries, and at East Farms, and with Dick to help, got in some hay that I had cut. Mr. Gladding called to see about the rent. 10/12/{1939} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont came and we cleaned out the rooms up stairs and the cellar so that the Gladdings may move in Saturday. This evening I visited the Benham house. Mrs. Benham, Alice and Carrie and I played a new of checkers, They generally beat {me}, but I did {win} once. Altogether it was an enjoyable evening. 10/13/{1939} (Friday) I sharpened a few tools this forenoon. After dinner I went to Cheshire and bought a stair tread and brought it home and put it in the outside stairs. Ray called this evening and brought some fire clay, etc. 10/14/1939 (Saturday) This forenoon I worked in the Wheelhouse on four points and other odd jobs. Went to the Wolcott Fair this afternoon. There were many Drum Corps there. They all met at the Depot in Waterbury and marched through the town to the junction of Wolcott and East Main Sts., where they tuck {took??} busses and cars and drove to the Fair where they competed for prises {prizes}. The attendance at the Fair was not as large as it used to be. 10/15/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "What Must I Do To Be Saved." Last night Cliff Heaton, Fritsa, Dick and Ronny came from New York. Dick and Ron slept in the East room, 2nd floor, and Cliff and Fritsa had the front room. They left a little before dark this afternoon for Tuckerhoe {Tuckahoe}. I made clam chowder for dinner. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott and saw Arthur Harrison. 10/16/1939 (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. After dinner I filed two saws for Ed Bronson, then I took some goods up to Ruth Miller for Fritsa to be sold at a rummage sale. This evening went and made arrangements to play checkers next Thursday evening with the Benhams. Then I came home and prepared to go to Kent tomorrow. 10/17/{1939} (Tuesday) I went to Kent and saw Frank about lumber at Mr. Chase's Mill. Rough pine board {??} .03 per ft. and frame stuff. Plained{??} 1/2 ct. per ft. extra. 10/18/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools. Did the washing in the afternoon. 10/19/1939 (Thursday) Sharpened tools this forenoon, and did odd jobs in the afternoon. This evening I called at the Benhams and played checkers with Mrs. Benham and Alice. 10/20/{1939} (Friday) I sharpened and made over a lot of four points and did other odd jobs about the place. Lay down a spell as I did not feel very lively. 10/21/1939 (Saturday) After breakfast and after I had washed the dishes, Dick Pierpont came and we cleared the garden of all the old vines, etc. and put the beets and cabbages in the cellar. Alice Pierpont came and did the ironing and made the beds, and the bed on the third floor, and we had dinner after which Dick and I went to East Farms and brought in a load of cabbages, and put them in the cellar. We found that Alice had gone. Then we went to the farm again and mowed away a load of hay and dug a few potatoes and gathered some turnips. 10/22/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. This afternoon I went to Wolcott to Arthur Harrisons. 10/23/1939 (Monday) I got up 6.30 this morning and got breakfast for myself of fried oysters. Then I got the washing machine out and heat{ed} the water and did the washing and hung the clothes out to dry. Then went to the store and got meat for dinner and came home and cooked it and had dinner, and washed up the dishes. Then went to the farm, and left a wheel at Atkins to have a new tire put on. Then went to Harold Pierponts and left $1.00 for Alice, then went to the garden and dug nearly a bushel of potatoes and Dick came and we pulled about six bushels of turnips. I brought them home and put them in the cellar. 10/24/1939 (Tuesday) Weather to day has been very cold. I went to Barkhamsted to day. Went by Wolcott through Bristol, Unionville, Collinsville, then out the New Hartford new concrete road almost to the Satans{??} Kingdom Bridge where I turned North to Barkhamsted Center, passing by the large new reservars {reservoirs}, then East to Marshal Case's{??} house but I did not see him as he was away. However, I had a fine visit with his family and took dinner there. I left about 2.30 and reached home in about one an {and} one half hours. 10/25/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and did odd jobs the rest of the day. The weather was very cold this morning. 10/26/{1939} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the farm and picked up apples this afternoon. Got a new tire for the little car of Mr. Atkins for 5.50. The weather to day has been warmer. Mr. Charles Penniman repaired the wiper on the windshield of my roadster. 10/27/1939 (Friday) Foggy and wet all day. I sharpened tools and worked on my cars and in the Wheelhouse, etc. all day, besides doing the housework. 10/28/{1939} (Saturday) Rained this morning. Dick came and we cleaned out the corn bin and cut wood till dinner time. Alice came and did up the work, and got dinner. In the afternoon, Dick and I went to the farm and picked up apples. This evening Dick Miller came from New York and is going to stay over night. 10/29/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. His subject was, "A Pharisee Goes to Church." After I ate my dinner at noon, Ray and Ruth called and I went with them out through Cheshire, then through Wallingford to North Haven, then East to Clintonville, to Northford to Totoket{??} to North Branford, to Stony Creek Station and to the shore, where we got a lot of oysters and mussels. Then we came back to the Post Road and went East to the Oasis where we had a fine supper. Then we came home by the same route that we went. Dick came in last night from New York and staid over night, and had breakfast this morning and went to Church. To day Fritsa, Cliff, and Ronnie came and took some goods in their car to New York. 10/30/1939 (Monday) After breakfast, I got the machine out and did the washing and hung it out on the line and soon it was dinner time. After dinner I sharpened tools, but it began to rain and got dark and I could not see to temper{??}, so I worked in the Wheel House. 10/31/1939 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon, cleaned the stove out and blacked it, and did other jobs about the house. It rained had {hard} all day. 11/01/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon, and did odd jobs about the place in the afternoon. 11/02/{1939} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon I fitted keys for several doors, where the keys are missing. This evening I went up to Raymond's to take up a dish and they wished me to stay to supper. Ray is very busy as the mill is running night and day on war brass. 11/03/{1939} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and in the afternoon I went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats, 1.50, got wood into the wood house and did other odd jobs. A little dirty white dog came in the yard and killed a chicken yesterday afternoon. Here is a program for a service at the Mill Plain Union Church dated July 30, 1939. 11/04/1939 (Saturday) Dick came this morning and we sawed up wood and gathered leaves, etc. Alice came and did the ironing and got dinner, and put in jars a lot of beets, made apple sauce, macaroni etc. In the afternoon, Dick and I went to the farm and got out manure and put it one the garden and plowed some. This evening Pearly Wheeler and wife came from Prospect and took their plans and figures for their Girage{??}. A little later, Fred came with two auto loads of drummer boys from Tarrytown, N.Y. and we went to the Mattatuck Hall where we drummed and had refreshments and saw moving pictures till near midnight. 11/05/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached or lectured. His subject was, "Hell Takes A Holiday." 11/06/{1939} (Monday) I got breakfast of clam chowder, after which I did the washing and hung the clothes out to dry. Then I put weather strip on the outside door up stairs and fixed the threshold and painted the upper varanda {veranda} 11/07/{1939} (Tuesday) Cold day. I went up to Wolcott Fair Grounds to see 300 soldiers drill but they were nearly all off in the woods and brush out of sight. However there were eleven army trucks standing in line, that the troops came in from the Armory in Waterbury. I finished painting the back stairs. Dick, Fritsa, and Ronny came from New York. It is election day there, and Dick did not work. 11/08/{1939} (Wednesday) I went to town to day and did several errands. In the afternoon, went to the farm and spread manure on the garden and plowed some. Had a ton of soft coal come to day. 11/09/{1939} (Thursday) Cold morning with a little snow. I went to the store and sharpened tools this morning. Out to the farm and plowed some this afternoon. 11/10/1939 (Friday) Nice day. Sharpened tools this forenoon. Finished plowing the garden at the farm. A parade with the two Mill Plain Drum Corps came up East Main St. and turned up the Frost road bearing banners that said, "Vote For Sculley for Mayor." 11/11/{1939} (Saturday) Armistis {Armistice} Day. Dick came and we took a load of apples up to Mr. Cormick's Mill in Wolcott and brought back cider. Then we cut wood till noon, and Dick Miller, Dick Pierpont, Alice Pierpont, and I had dinner after which I sharpened six stone drills. Then Dick Pierpont and I went to the farm and made a drain on the North and East side of the garden, so that the water that comes down the hill won't wash it out. 11/12/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject was, "Selling Short Your Conscience". Dick Miller came from New York last night and staid her over night. After breakfast he went to Church with me, after which he took dinner here. I went to Cheshire and had a fine visit at Mr. Joseph Doolittle's. Ray called this evening and left a small apple pie that Ruth made. 11/13/1939 (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon, and part of the after-| noon. Then I took a gallon of new cider up for Ray and then went to the farm and fed Buster, and then to the Nathonal{??} Store car{??} of Knoll End, East Main St. and got a lot of groceries. Cold day and some snow. 11/14/{1939} (Tuesday) Very cold day. I sharpened tools nearly all day, went out to the farm and did the chores. Election day. I hear that Waterbury went democratic. This evening I attended a meeting and rehersal {rehearsal} of the Mattatuck Drum Band at their hall at M.E. Pierponts place. 11/15/{1939} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Weather not so cold, thawed some. Wrote to C.E.B.{??} 11/16/{1939} (Thursday) This forenoon I did the washing and in the afternoon repaired the lock and some window locks, in Mr. Gladding's part up stairs. The weather came off warmer. This evening it is quite warm. 11/17/{1939} (Friday) I sharpened tools, and worked at blacksmith work most of the day. Two women agents called with novelties. I bought a 1.00 worth. 11/18/{1939} (Saturday) Dick came this morning and we made an iron for the snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery, and he and Alice went at noon. I worked on the snow plow all the afternoon. 11/19/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden, subject, "Three Voices". After dinner I drove over to Joe Doolittle's in Cheshire and then went to Pearly Wilsons in Prospect. 11/20/1939 (Monday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. After dinner I went to town and did some business. Came home and gathered up leaves, etc. 11/21/{1939} (Tuesday) I did the washing this morning and sharpened tools. This afternoon, went to John Wakelee's funeral at the Woodtick burying ground. The weather was very cold and windy. There was a large number of people there. He was a large, heavy man and they had ten pall bearers, four on each side and one at each end. He was killed last Sunday. He was staring to go for a load of wood, and cranked his truck, which was in gear, and it shot ahead and knocked him down and shoved him along the ground a distance of more than sixty feet, and crushed his breast, so he died when they got to the Waterbury hospital. 11/22/{1939} (Wednesday) Fifty six years ago to day, I was married to Miss Mary S. Pierpont in the Old Mill Plain chapel by the Rev. Mr. Micae{??}, the first minister of Trinity Church. He has long since passed on as has all who were at the wedding except my sister Mary and myself. To day I sharpened four points this forenoon. In the afternoon I had my little truck repaired at the new repair shop at East Farms, and I went over to Cheshire and got a bag of oats. 11/23/1939 (Thursday) I worked at blacksmith work this forenoon. Alice Pierpont came after noon, and did up the work and got supper. I went to the farm, and had the lamps on my truck repaired. 11/24/1939 (Friday) Cold day. The ground is very dry. Have not had any rain for a month. This forenoon I sharpened tools, and after dinner filed saws and did other work in the Wheelhouse. Cliff, Fritsa, and Ronny came from New York this afternoon. To night they stay with the Hansons over at Cheshire. 11/25/1939 (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and we cut up the maple tree in the lower end of our lot that was blown down by the Hurricane a year ago last September. This afternoon I attended the funeral of Edward M. Scott, who lived over the line in Cheshire. Rev. John Lewis of St. Johns Church officiated. The burial was in the original part of the Pine Grove Cemetery. Mr. Scott was son of Merritt Scott and formerly lived on the Woodtick Road, first house South of the Lovers' Lane. 11/26/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev Mr. Madden. His subject was, "The Men Who Forget". After service, had a little visit with Carrie Benham. After dinner I drove to Spindle Hill to see the Krafts about Thanksgiving, but they had gone to New York. I then went North up the West side of Cedar Lake and then turned West, up over Fall Mountain, and through Allen-| town and down over Grassy Hill and Spindle Hill, then down through Woodtick to east Farms where I did the barn chores, etc. then home. 11/27/{1939} (Monday) This morning I went to the City Hall and paid my Water Rent Bill, $19.84, came home and worked in the Wheelhouse. After dinner I went to Spindle Hill, then to East Farms, then down to the store and home and boiled potatoes, onions, and meat for supper. 11/28/1939 (Tuesday) To day I did not get through with my house work till ten o'clock. Then I did odd jobs about the place and out to the farm all day. The ground is very dry. We have had no rain in six weeks. 11/29/1939 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Got my truck from Dan Hanlon's repair shop and did odd jobs and raked up a load of leaves in the front yard and took them away. 11/30/{1939} (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day, the Somers Family had their reunion at the Elton Hotel. There were 52 present. The day was fair and the dinner good. 12/01/1939 (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon, and one hr. in the afternoon. Then went to the store, and over to Cheshire and got a bag of oats and a bag of scratch-| feed. 12/02/1939 (Saturday) Sharpened tools and did blacksmith work nearly all day. Alice Pierpont came and did up my work. Has been a wet rainy day. 12/03/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject, "The Christ Men Lived By". The attendance was not very large. After church I drove to Rays on Capitol Avenue. Soon Mr. Heinion{??} and wife came and Ruth got the nicest turkey dinner that I ever saw, and everything was cooked to perfection. Just at dark I went to East Farms and fed my steer, etc. 12/04/1939 (Monday) This morning I made eleven four points for the monument maker. Went to the farm in the afternoon and after, cleaned the yard, and spent much time reading. 12/05/1939 (Tuesday) I made a lot of four points to day and sharpened ten more which kept me busy till three in the afternoon. Then I had to get my truck from Dan Hanlon's. 12/06/{1939} (Wednesday) This morning I got up and got breakfast and then did the washing. Did not feel very well as my feet and legs pained me from getting them frost-| bitten in the Blacksmith shop. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott and saw Rose Wakelee about the place where William Sizer lived and other historic matters. 12/07/1938 {Wrong year} (Thursday) To day I have not done much work as my lid{??} was very painful. This evening I went to the Ladies Mill Plain Fair at the Mill Plain Church. There was a great crowd there. 12/08/1939 (Friday) A cold day. It has been freezing all day. I have been in the house the greater part of the time. This afternoon I went to West Cheshire and got a bag of cement and six hundred pounds of crushed stone. This morning I went out to East Farms, found all dark. 12/09/1939 (Saturday) Cool day. Dick came this morning and we repaired the concrete floor in the Coal Bin and then we made five 8 foot concrete fence posts which took all afternoon. Bobbie Miller came and got his nice roller top desk which Arthur Pierpont owned when he was living. Alice Pierpont came and did up the housework. 12/10/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached or lectured. His subject was, "The Church In The Present European Crisis". After service I drove up to Rose Wakelee's and left word that I would not be up later in the afternoon, as I was going to attend Mr. Sheldon Payne's funeral in Nangatuck. Mr. Payne had a large funeral, held in the Congregational Church. The burial is to be later, at the convenience of the family. Mr. Payne was 97 years old and was born on the College Farm in Prospect. 12/11/1939 (Monday) (Margin note: First snow, 1 1/2" fell.) Rained all night and turned to snow about 10 A.M. and continued until about 4 P.M., and about 1 1/2" fell. The roads are covered with ice but the cars seem to run all right. Now the tires are figured and they do not skid as they did ten years ago when they were plain and small and carried high air pressure, 80 lbs. for 4 tires. I sharpened tools for a spell this morning but gave it up as it hurt to stand on my feet. 12/12/1939 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. I attended Aunt Ellen Somers funeral at the Aldersons Funeral home at two o'clock this afternoon. It was a rather large funeral. They buried her in the Old Pine Grove Cemetery, about ten roads{??} North of the North East corner of the Mill Plain Church. 12/13/1939 (Wednesday) (Margin note: Second snow. 1" fell.) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon I lay and rested till 2.30 then I put a new handle on the coffee parcolator{??}, but had to go to the farm and feed the ox, after which I finished the parcolator{??}. It took till six o'clock. One inch of snow fell after 6.30 and before 8.30. 12/14/1939 (Thursday) This morning I sharpened tools, etc. till noon. After dinner I filed a saw, and did other odd jobs. Calvary Cemetery sent in a truck load of grave planks to be bolted up. All makes it very busy for me. I did the washing this afternoon, and I did not have time to rest my old lame legs. The weather has been freezing all day, and I got quite cold when I went to the farm to feed Buster. 12/15/{1939} (Friday) I have worked at many odd jobs to day. The weather has been rather cold, and I could not get about very lively. 12/16/1939 (Saturday) This morning Dick Pierpont came and we worked all day bolting grave planks, etc. Alice came and cleaned the house and did up the work, etc. Robert P. Miller came here to room. Tonight is his first. 12/17/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Little Journeys To Bethlehem". Went to the farm. Dick called this afternoon and got some books to take back to New York. This afternoon I went to Marion's at Spindle Hill. This evening I attended moving pictures at the Mill Plain Church in the Gymnasium. The weather has been wet and clowdy {cloudy} all day. 12/18/{1939] (Monday) This morning I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got 24 Mill Plain Church Bond certificates. Cashed 48.00. First I went to the bank and deposited 210.50. 156.00 from the Waterbury Rolling Mills, two checks of 25.00 each from the International Silver Co. and 4.50 from the Ansonia Bank. After doing other errands, I came home and got dinner, and filed a cross-| cut saw for Ed Bronson. Then Margaret and Ruth called. After they had gone, I went to the farm and cleaned the spring and did the chores and went to the Atlantic & Pacific Store and got some lamb chops. Then home and got supper and ate it. Phil and Effel{??} called this evening. Robert Miller staid here last night. Had breakfast this morning. 12/19/1939 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the farm and did odd jobs in the afternoon. Weather rather dull and dark. 12/20/1939 (Wednesday) Worked in the Wheel House the greater part of the day. This evening Alice Pierpont came and helped me put up presents for Christmas. I gave all my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren a dollar bill each, $41.00. It has rained all day. 12/21/1939 (Thursday) To day I filed a large circular saw, and did other jobs, and went to the farm and down to the store. The weather has been cloudy and cool. Last night Alice Pierpont and I addressed Christmas cards to the children and people that I am responceable {responsible??} for belonging to the Miller Family. Enclosed in each card was a new one dollar bill. The cards are to be placed on the Christmas Tree, that is to be at the house of Mr. Howard Kraft and Margaret Hall on Spindle Hill in Wolcott. The list is as follows, 1. Mrs. H. C. Heaton 2. Mr. H. C. Heaton 3. Richard H. Miller 4. Willard Miller 5. Robert Miller 6. Ronald Miller. 7. Irving C. Miller 8. Mrs. Irving C. Miller 9. Enid Forsberg 10. Mr. Malcolm Forsberg and their son 11. Peter 12. David Miller 13. Esther Miller and son 14. Dick 15. Barbara Miller 16. John Miller. 17. George Hall 18. Margaret Hall 19. Howard Kraft 20. Marion Kraft, sons 21. Charles & 22. Robert 23. Vincent Simons and 24. Bettie Simons 25. Gene Northrop. 26. Mr. S. J. Brundage 27. Mrs. Ruth Brundage 28 Roger Brundage 29. Kenneth Brundage 30. Pierce Brundage and 31. Peggy Brundage. 32. Mr. Frank P. Miller 33. Mrs. Elsie Miller 34. Mary Miller 35. Bertha Miller 36. Dwight Miller 37. Jessie Miller 38. Lois Miller, and 39. June Miller. 40. Mr. Raymond H. Miller 41. Mrs. Ruth Miller. 12/22/1939 (Friday) (Margin note: 3rd snow, 1/2" fell) Winter began to day and it was cold and windy. I sharpened a lot of picks, a grubb{??}, and a lot of single points for hand work. Had a letter from Irving and another from Frank and a number of Christmas cards. 12/23/1939 (Saturday) To day Dick Pierpont came and we worked in the cellar, and we made five concrete fence posts and then we came up and put two new strings in the old tall clock that is 150 years old. Alice came and did up the housework and got a fine dinner of cabbage, potatoes, cakes, pie, etc. Bobbie left this afternoon for New York to spend Christmas there. 12/24/{1939} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden officiated. His subject was "Christmas Thoughts". The church was filled to capacity, about 50 in the choir. In the afternoon I went to Spindle Hill in Wolcott to Margarets and Marions house where we had a Christmas dinner and in the afternoon, a tree. 12/25/1939 (Monday) Christmas Day. This morning the ground was covered with a thin coating of snow. At quarter of eleven, Vincent and Betty Simons called and they took me in their car to West Hartford to Margaret Halls house on Riggs Street, where after a time, Mr. Hall's brother, Robert, and wife came, then his daughter and her husband, and his son and his wife came and their children, and the Kraft family came to the number of eighteen, and we had a fine dinner, after which presents were given out from a Christmas tree. All received many presents. Altogether I have received many presents this Christmas. They included, a Connecticut Guide Map and Connecticut Guide Book. From George and Margaret Hall. A Kent Church Calender and a lot of fancy home made cookies. From Frank and his family. A dozen stockings from Bobbie. Three fine handkerchiefs and a fine pair of stockings. From Byron and Jean. A pair of gloves and a block of fine cheese from Irving and Dorothy. A nice handkerchief and pair of stockings, no name and a box of candy that I lost. All of the above were on the Christmas tree at Spindle Hill. Then I received at West Hartford, Christmas Day, From Margaret, a lead pencil and magnifier and four twenty five cent pieces. From Vincent Simons, a one dollar bill. Then I found at home, from Dick Miller, six long nice saw files, and a nice home made file. From Ronald Miller, a nice pair of No. 10 fur lined slippers that will keep my feet warm cold mornings. From Ruth Brundage, a large box containing one pt. jar of preserves, one half pt. jar of tomatoe{tomato??} preserves, one pt. jar of string beans, one pt. jar of tomatoes, one tin gt.{??} can, not marked, one small tin can of Tuna Fish, one brass ear of corn, one nice box of chocolates, and a dozen and a half of nice sweet potatoes. Vincent, Betty and I left the Hall place soon after six to come home. We saw many nice houses decorated with Christmas greens ets{??} and many colored lights. One house had Santa Claus standing on the front porch under a great lighted bower of trimmings, and we saw dozens of lighted Christmas Trees all along the road. In Bristol there were many. 12/26/{1939} (Tuesday) Cold day. This morning I sharpened single points all the forenoon. In the afternoon I staid in the house except the time it took to go to the farm to do the chores there, on account of the cold. 12/27/{1939} (Wednesday) Four above zero this morning. I built a fire in the blacksmith shop and sharpened a lot of points and large chisels, but it was so cold that my feet began to feel chilled and I stoped {stopped} and stayed in the house the rest of the day. George Hall and Margaret called this afternoon. We had a fine visit. I received several Christmas cards, and a large box from Portland, Oregon. From Billy Pierpont. Bobbie's bill for last week, 2.25. 12/28/{1939} (Thursday) Two above zero this morning. I sharpened drills this forenoon. After dinner I went to Chatfields & Chatfields and bought 20 pieces of steel for reinforcing concrete fence posts, 3.95. Then I went to the Alling Rubber Co. and got a rubber lip for my cane and a roll of tape, .40. Then went to the Connecticut Light and Power Co. and paid my electric bill, 3.52. Then to the Citizens Coal Co. and ordered one ton of soft coal. Then home, etc. 12/29/1939 (Friday) Cold day. This morning I did the washing etc. This afternoon, went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratchfeed, and 500 lbs of fine crushed stone. 12/30/{1939} (Saturday) (Margin note: 4th snow, 4" fell.) This morning the ground was covered with snow to the depth of four inches. I went and met Wm. Gillette at Attorney {Attorney?} Phelan's office to arrange for the settlement of Marys estate but it is delayed again. Wm. Gillette told me last night that Brother Fred is in the Hospital in New York. Alice Pierpont came this afternoon and did up the work as she does every Saturday. Dick came this afternoon and we made five concrete fence posts. 12/31/1939 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject, "As The Door Closes". Mr. Madden called to see me yesterday. He told me that Arthur Blewitt fell on the sidewalk and broke his hip. 01/01/1940 (Monday) Two below zero this morning. I have staid in the house the greater part of the day, as it has been very cold. I went to the farm this afternoon and did the work there. They have a nice pond, and a hocky {hockey} yard in the lot West of the Cemetery. By damming the little brook where it went under the trolley road made a good pond for the yard. Another party dammed the Hog Pound Brook where it went under the trolley road and have a larger pond East of the Cemetery, where the young people have fine times skating. Now the skates are made on shoes for the purpose and they are rather expensive. In my time the skates were straped {strapped} over the foot and heal {heel??}, and would fasten to any kind of boot or shoe. But they would not fasten to the high heeled shoes that the girls wear now. Last night Fritsa, Willard, and girlfriend, Bobbi and Ronald called having just come from New York. 01/02/1940 (Tuesday) Zero this morning, after breakfast. I went to Spindle Hill in Wolcott and got the presents I gave Fritsa's family at Christmas. They called in the afternoon for them. Fritsa took about two dozen eggs. I did the washing this afternoon, and also the chores at the farm. 01/03/1940 (Wednesday) Eight above zero this morning. I sharpened drills and picks this morning. Went to the farm and did odd jobs the rest of the day. 01/04/{1940} (Thursday) Cold day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. I went to Judd and Puffer's{??} office and had the Insurance renewed for three years on my house. Paid 12.50, then I came home and then went over to Southington and saw Mrs. Doolittle. She told me of Ann Card, and tonight I wrote to her at Holyoke{??}, Mass. 01/05/{1940} (Friday) Sharpened tools and did other jobs to day. (Margin note: 5th snow, 1" fell.) 01/06/1939 {Wrong year} (Saturday) Cold day. I have worked all day making a snow plow for cleaning sidewalks for Calvary Cemetery. Jim helped me. Dick came, and Alice did up the work. 01/07/1940 (Sunday) Cold day. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject was, "A Good Beginning In A Bad Spot". After service I went to East Farms and fed and watered Buster, then came home and staid in the house the rest of the day. 01/08/{1940} (Monday) (Margin note: 5th Snow, 1 1/2" fell) Cold. Windy and snow. I went to Whitneyville this morning to see Mr.{??} Ann Card about coming to work for me. She seemed like a nice woman, and came up and looked the place over, but did not seem to like it. She thought that her daughter who lives in Holyoke{??} would object to her working. Will let me know at the last of the week. She returned on the New Haven Bus and I forgot to give her the money to pay her fare. Of course she would not like it. It looks as though I am doomed to do my own house work the rest of my days. The constant dish washing makes my hands soft and it hurts to do the heavy blacksmith work. 01/09/1940 (Tuesday) (Margin note: 6th snow, 4" fell.) Cold day. I worked in the Wheelhouse all day on the snow plow. 01/10/{1940} (Tuesday) {Wrong day} Cold day. I sharpened tools, and worked on the snow plow. 01/11/{1940} (Thursday) Cold day, three below this morning. I worked in the Wheelhouse all day on the snow plow. This evening I went up to Raymonds and helped him to lay out a golden cross that is twenty nine inches high and three inches wide. I am to make the base of good white oak. When finished, it is to be placed in the chancel of the Mill Plain Church in honor of Mary. 01/12/{1940} (Friday) (Margin note: 7 snow about 3 1/2".) I worked all day on the snow plow and finished it at dark. It snowed the greater part of the day, but not hard. 01/13/1940 (Saturday) I sharpened tools this forenoon till the electric fan stoped {stopped} and all the lights in the house were out. I telephoned to the Conn. Light and Power Co. and they sent a man out after dinner and he put new fuses in the meter. Dick split and piled wood and then we worked on the fence post molds in the wheelhouse. This day has been the warmest in over two weeks. It has thawed some, but many of the roads are slippery, still my auto does not skid very much. When I first had a car in 1909, the tires were smooth and they skidded and slipped. We used to take 3/4 " ropes and wind them around rim and tires but they soon wore out. Then we used long small chains that we wound round the rim and tires. These lasted better. There were no surface hardened roads those days, only in the cities where they were paved with stone blocks. Mr. George Bacon and his wife were killed up near Pittsfield yesterday, when his car skidded on a hill into a truck, and four boys who were on {in?} the back seat were injured. The Bacons lived in this house in 1918. 01/14/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church at 10.45. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "A Life Sustaining Fact". This morning was cloudy, a little snow, about two o'clock it began to rain and has rained hard up to now, 10 P.M. 01/15/{1940} (Monday) I worked sharpening tools for Tony Cairlo all day. A great amount of rain fell yesterday and last night and took the snow away. This morning there was a thick fog but the rest of the day was warm and some of the time cloudy. 01/16/{1940} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools much of the time to day. Went to M. E. Pierponts and got a basket of Baldwin apples this noon. It was very cold and the wind blew very hard. 01/17/{1940} (Wednesday) Very cold. I sharpened tools nearly all day. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats. Alice Pierpont came this afternoon and ironed. Laurence Pierpont came this evening and took a drumming lesson. 01/18/{1940} (Thursday) Cold day. I worked on a snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery all day. 01/19/{1940} (Friday) (Margin note: 8th snow, 2 1/2" fell.) I worked on tools in the blacksmith shop most of the day. Made over my hardening solution. This morning snow fell to the depth of 2 1/2 inches. 01/20/1940 (Saturday) Zero this morning. Cold all day and colder to night. Dick and Alice came this morning at eight. Alice washed the dishes, and did a lot of cooking, and cleaned the house, and got dinner and got through at one o'clock. Dick and I fixed the ends of the fence post molds and then got a lot of wood into the Wheelhouse to burn. Then we took the pickup and got a load if wood down by the Wheelhouse and brought it up to the Woodhouse, and split some of it up, and I sharpened tools till after three, when it was so cold that we stoped {stopped}. 01/21/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "If Jesus Came To Waterbury". The attendance was fair, as the weather was very cold all day. Auto traveling is dangerous as the snow and ice is slippery. As I was coming home, I stoped {stopped} at Phil Reuter's and saw my sister Mary, and staid to dinner. During the afternoon, William Service and Louise called, and later George Hall and Margaret came from West Hartford and called here, then they stoped {stopped} up there and we all had a good visit. Before dark I went to the farm and let the ox out for water, and fed him. He came back in lively as it was very cold. Then I came home and found the house nice and warm, and on the door step I found a quart jar of peaches, and a pint jar of Chilia{??} sauce, and a jar of preserves that Margaret had left. 01/22/{1940} (Monday) Very cold. I was in the blacksmith shop sharpening stone cutters tools all day till three o'clock. 01/23/{1940} (Tuesday) Another cold day. I sharpened tools, etc. Laurence Pierpont came and practiced drumming to night. They began leaving one quart of milk this morning. 01/24/{1940} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools for the stone cutter down town, and in the afternoon did the washing. It has been a cold day, with a little fine snow. 01/25/1940 (Thursday) Cold day. I sharpened many stone tools to day. Arthur and Mildred Bird of Bristol called this morning. They were going to Southington. 01/26/{1940} (Friday) Another freezing day. 20ø above is the highest to day. I sharpened tools most of the day. Iva is taking care of the children while Ralph and Lois have gone to the Old Guard Ball at the Hotel Comodore {Commodore?}, New York with other members of the Mattatuck Drum Band. Brother Fred is in the Rosevelt {Roosevelt} Hospital, N.Y. They took his bladder out as it had a cancer in it. They say he is improving in health. 1/27/{1940} (Saturday) I sharpened and made four points to day. Very cold weather. Mr. Frank Howland is 91 years old to day. Alice Pierpont came and did the work. 1/28/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Seventy six years of Courageous Living." This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Furkington{??} of East Morris called. The day has been very cold. I went to Church then out to East Farms and did the chores there and back home and have staid in the rest of the day. 01/29/{1940} (Monday) Cold day. I went to town this morning and did not get back till near noon. I then ground up four cabbage heads and put{??} them in pt. cans. Then had dinner, and then went to the Wheel-| house and ground and marked{??} two dozen four points and got them ready to forge. Then took a dozen eggs up to Ruth. They had a break down in the shop and Ray has to work to night. Then I went to the farm and fed the ox. 01/30/{1940} (Tuesday) Another cold day. I made a lot of Four Points to day. The long continued cold seems to be taking the life out of old folks. But in Florida they are suffering more than we are, as they are not prepared for it. 01/31/1940 (Wednesday) Cold day. But it thawed some this noon. I did the washing this morning, then did odd jobs, taking quite a rest between them, as I did a little to {too?] much work yesterday. In the afternoon I got Dick Pierpont to help and we cleaned out the spring at the farm that supplies the water trough, but the trough pipe is frozen up, and it will stay frozen till spring. Laurence Pierpont and Leland Garrigus{??} came this evening and practiced the Double Drag for an hour. Dan Hanlon brought my truck home tonight. He would take no pay for repairing it. 02/01/1940 (Thursday) Cold day. I sharpened tools. This afternoon Alice Pierpont came and cleaned the rooms. I went to West Cheshire and got two bags of feed. The paper to night states that Mrs. Nellie Hotchkiss of Prospect died last night, and is to be buried in Prospect next Saturday afternoon. 02/02/{1940} (Friday) (Margin note: 9th snow, 1/2" fell.) Not quite so cold to day, but cold enough. I sharpened picks and bars, etc. 02/03/1940 (Saturday) Cold day. This morning I sharpened a lot of tools. Dick Pierpont came and split and piled wood in the woodhouse. This afternoon at two thirty I was at the Aldersons Funeral Home attending the funeral of Mrs. Nellie Hotchkiss, widow of David. There was a large attendance and they had two ministers, Rev. Thomas Cochard{??} of Prospect, and Rev. C{??}car Locke of Oakville. After the funeral was over I came home on the Buss. 02/04/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. Subject, "Let's Build A New World." The attendance was rather small as it was very cold weather. No thaw to day. After service I went to the farm and fed buster {Buster}, then came home and have staid here all the time. This is the sixth Sunday of this cold weather, there were tow days that it rained and then froze up again. Now the people stay in doors. The attendence at Church is small. There are but few autos out, and scarcely no one a foot, as the steady cold weather is more than they want to meet, unless obliged to. 02/05/1940 (Monday) It has thawed a little to day. Thermometer stood at 38ø this noon. Mr. Blanchard came and repaired the heater pipe up stairs, 3.70. 02/06/{1940} (Tuesday) Warmer and rain. I sharpened tools, and worked on a snow plow for Dan Hanlon. He helped me. 02/07/{1940} (Wednesday) Comfortable day. I sharpened brood chisles {chisels??} this morning, and Dan Hanlon came and we worked on his snow plow. 02/08/{1940} (Thursday) I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about the place. Weather was some warmer. 02/09/{1940} (Friday) I sharpened tools and finished Dan Hanlon's snow plough {plow}. I did the washing this afternoon. 02/10/1940 (Saturday) Snow and rain. Everything is coated with ice. Dick came this morning, and we worked in the Blacksmith shop making over a lot of machine chisles {chisels} for the stone cutters. Alice Pierpont came this morning and did up the housework, and made a fine dinner of succotash and creamed potato, etc. and made apple sauce, a big apple pie, and large dish of clam chowder. But few autos are out tonight as the roads are very slippery. Elton Edwards called to day, as the family that have occupied his house have moved away and they left the key with me. 02/11/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. madden officiated. This was Scout Sunday and there were many Boy and Girl Scouts there. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott to see Rose Wakelee but she was going away, so I went and saw Mr. and Mrs. Berkley Frisbie, had supper and spent the evening there. 02/12/1940 (Monday) I sharpened tools and filed saws, etc. Millie Cowdell and Miss Falmage called this morning to see about historical matters, regarding the town of Prospect. 02/13/1940 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to Prospect and saw Ruth Hotchkiss and then went to the State Station on the Watertown Ave. and got my two cars registered. This evening Wm. Gillette called and told of getting my children to sign a release (which was unnecessary) giving me Mary's part of our place. He also said that Beula{??} telephoned thar {that} Fred has pneumonia. He is in the Rosevelt {Roosevelt} Hospital in New York. Laurence Pierpont came this morning and practiced drumming. 02/14/1940 (Wednesday) (Margin note: 10th snow still falling and blowing, 10 inches fell.) This morning the ground was covered with snow. About 8 o'clock it began snowing and soon the wind began to blow from the North East, and the rest of the time it blew a gale and snow fell fast and piled in drifts, and it is still snowing and blowing at 9.15. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Alice Pierpont came this afternoon and did the ironing, etc. 02/15/1940 (Thursday) I spent most of the time to day shoveling out the paths. The snow was hard to shovel as that at the bottom was damp and heavy and it stuck to the shovel. The roads and streets were drifted in places, and the snow plows were out all night. The wind filled them in again so the plows had to go over some of them several times. 02/16/1940 (Friday) I sharpened tools. Dan Hanlon came with his snow plow, and pushed the snow back so I could get my car out. I went to the store and got a lot of groceries, etc. The weather has been cold in the forenoon, thawed some in the afternoon. 02/17/1940 (Saturday) I worked in the blacksmith shop all day. Sharpened tools, and repaired the big tractor snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery. Alice Pierpont came and did housework. Dick Pierpont did odd jobs and helped on the tractor. 02/18/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. After service, Ralph and Lois Pierpont had their son baptized. I then went out the Meriden Road and down the Pierpont Road to East Farms and up through the deep snow to the barn and fed the ox. Then came home and got my books, papers, etc. and put them in the car, and drove to Will Service's where I had a nice dinner of spareribs. Then went up to Wolcott to Rose Wakelee's where we looked up historical matters till dark, when I came home as many of the Waterbury roads are not plowed out very good and all are uneven and narrow. 02/19/1940 (Margin note: 11th snow about 3 inches.) William Service called this morning while I was at breakfast and told that Iva had a telephone message from Beula{??} that Brother Fred died this morning early at the Rosevelt {Roosevelt} Hospital, N.Y. I went over to Bunker Hill to Farnham St. and saw Iva. She telephoned to New York and got the undertaker and arranged to have the funeral in the Hall Memorial Chapel and burial in the family lot in Riverside Cemetery. After dinner in the snow and rain, Will and I went to the Cemetery and arranged to have the grave dug and the Chapel opened, etc. Then he drove to the Center. The streets were so rough with ruts of ice that he did not want to come out, so I took the Bus and rode home. Tony needed sharp tools. I went to sharpening till five thirty. 02/20/{1940} (Tuesday) (Margin note: 12 snow, about 7" fell.) I sharpened tools and did repairing on a snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery. I went to the store and got groceries. I stoped {stopped} on the way home and saw Mary at Phil Reutter's. 02/21/1940 (Wednesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. At 2 o'clock I attended the funeral of Brother Fred Dwight Miller. It was held in the Hall Memorial Chapel in the Riverside Cemetery. Rev. Mr. Gregg of the first Congregational Church officiated. He was buried in the family lot in Riverside Cemetery, next to Mother. The pall bearers were, Mansfield Gillette, Robert Miller, James Phalen, and Ralph Pierpont. 02/22/1940 (Thursday) Washington's birthday. I sharpened tools. This evening I had supper at Raymons {Raymonds}. 02/23/{1940} (Friday) Cold day, 4 below zero this morning. I sharpened tools, and helped Tony work on his air compressor. Wrote a letter to Ruth Hotchkiss this evening. 02/24/{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont and I repaired the covering on the heater pipes in the cellar to day. Alice came and did up the work. 02/25/{1940} (Sunday) (Margin note: 13 snow, 2 1/2" fell.) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. I did not know the minister that preached and heard nothing that he said, as I am hard of hearing, and he talked very low. This afternoon I went to Rose Wakelee's in Wolcott to correct the list of soldiers that went from that town to the Civil War. 02/26/{1940} (Monday) Cold day. I sharpened tools nearly all day. 02/27/1940 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Went to town this afternoon and paid my electric light bill, 4.49, and then went to the Telephone Building and ordered a new Telephone put in. Ralph and Laurence Pierpont came to night and practiced drumming. The weather has been cold all day. It was 4ø below this morning. 02/28/{1940} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools. Mr. Dan Butter put in a Telephone for me to day. 02/29/{1940} (Thursday) The weather has been rather mild, and it has thawed quite a little. I sharpened tools this forenoon, and changed the plates and numbers on my cars this afternoon. Then went to the store and did some trading etc. 03/01/1940 (Friday) (Margin note: 14th snow, 1" fell.) I sharpened tools all day. Miss Alice Pierpont came and did the washing and a lot of other work, and made a big dish of apple sauce, which was good. I have had to hustle to keep the tools sharp for the stone cutters and grave diggers and I find That if I by my forge would thrive, I myself must hammer and drive. Work hard all day, Sleep sound all night, Save every cent, And do my work right. 03/02/{1940} (Saturday) Pleasant day. Thawed some. I sharpened tools much of the time. 03/03/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Madden is sick and Rev. John Cooms{??} of the Second Congregational Church preached. After dinner I went to Rose Wakelees at Wolcott and we added to and corrected the list of men who went to the Civil War from Wolcott that I have made out. 03/04/1940 (Monday) (Margin note: 15th snow, 3" fell.) This morning everything was covered with about 3/4" ice. Soon it began snowing fine snow and tonight it is 3" deep. I sharpened tools till eleven when the electricity went out, and my fan stoped {stopped} and I stoped {stopped}. But few cars are out. I went to the farm but my wind shield coated with ice and the wiper would not take it off and it was hard to see. 03/05/{1940} (Tuesday) Very slippery this morning. I dug out the paths and cleaned the varandas {verandas} off of snow and ice and then sharpened a few tools. In the afternoon I worked on the White Oak Base of a golden cross that is to be placed in the Mill Plain Union Church on the altar in memory of Mary. 03/06/{1940} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I went to West Cheshire and got four bags of feed. Dick Pierpont helped me get a bag of middlings{??} up to the barn at the farm and unload the rest here. 03/07/1940 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this fournoon {forenoon} and did some other jobbing{??}. Alice Pierpont came and did the washing and some cleaning and changing the beds, etc. It has thawed quite a little to day. 03/08/{1940} (Friday) I worked in the Blacksmith shop nearl {nearly} all day. Weather rather mild and thawed some. Elton came and borrowed some tools as he is repairing his house and papering and painting the inside. 03/09/{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont helped me at blacksmith work this forenoon. In the afternoon I went out and saw John R. S. Todd who is 94 years old about historic matters concerning Wolcott. Alice Pierpont came and did up the house work. 03/10/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. John Cooms{??} preached. This afternoon I went up to Phillip Reutter's and saw sister Mary. There were many of our family there as it was Effel's birthday. 03/11/1940 (Monday) Cold to day. I sharpened tools to day. Went to the farm this afternoon to feed the ox, and when I tried to start my little truck the starter wouldn't go. I went to Harald{Harold??} Pierpont's and telephoned Dan Hanlon to come out and start it. Had to wait a long time before he came. The wind was blowing very cold, and I got chilled through before I got in as I ahd light clothes. He came and could not start the engine, so he hitched on and towed me half a mile, and the engine started. Then I came by myself and left the car at his place to be repaired. This evening it has turned very cold. 03/12/{1940} (Tuesday) I made a lot of large four points to day. The weather has been cold, still it has thawed some. 03/13/{1940} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to Prospect and saw Ruth Hotchkiss this afternoon, and then came home and worked on the base of the golden cross that is to be placed in the Chancel of the Mill Plain Church in honor of Mary. 03/14/1940 (Thursday) I sharpened tools much of the time to day. Mr. Dains of North Woodbury called this noon to see about painting my house. He wanted 128.80 to do the job. 03/15/{1940} (Friday) I have worked in the blacksmith shop nearly all day. It rained hard last night and took a lot of snow off. 03/16/{1940} (Saturday) (Margin note: 16th snow, 8" fell.) To day I have staid in the house nearly all the time as I did not feel very well. It has snowed most of the time. This forenoon I went to the store and brought groceries, and before dark I carried Alice Pierpont home and did the work at the farm. 03/17/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Arthur Westwood preached as Mr. Madden is sick. This afternoon I went to Mr. Wilson's on the Summit Road in Prospect and had a nice visit. 03/18/1940 (Monday) Thawed quite a little to day. The snow is gradually going. I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about home. Ordered al {a} lot of garden seeds of F. H. Woodruff & Sons of Milford, 4.60 worth. 03/19/{1940} (Tuesday) Thawed a lot to day. Much snow has melted. I sharpened tools to day. Had a ton of coal come. Received a letter from Margaret Hall. 03/20/{1940} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools. Sent a letter to Mr. Dains of North Woodbury that he could paint my house. 03/21/{1940} (Thursday) I worked in the Blacksmith shop most of the time to day. I ordered 5 Bartlett Pear Trees of Jim Brown of Cleveland, Ohio for 2.75. 03/22/{1940} (Friday) (Margin note: 17th snow, 2" fell.) Cold day and snow. Good Friday. I did odd jobs and some blacksmith work. This evening I went to Rays and we took the cross that we made and put it in the Mill Plain Church. This evening Will Gillette and Iva came to see about Cara who is sick in a Meriden Hospital. 03/23/{1940} (Saturday) This morning Will Gillette called at nine and we went to Cheshire and saw the Congregational minister about Cara. He said she is very low in the Carlson Hospital in Meriden and she wants in case she dies, the service held in the Congregational Church in Cheshire and Alderson for the undertaker. We then went to see Mr. Norton, the select man. He was not at home but Mrs. Norton knew all all about it. This afternoon I went and saw sister Mary. To day has been very cold. 03/24/{1940} (Sunday) Easter Sunday. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Arthur Westwood preached. The Church was filled to capacity and the Seinior {Senior} and Young Peoples Choirs were consolidated sand {sang} fine. On the "Order of Service" was printed the following. We have two gifts on the Alter {Altar} this morning. The Altar Cross, presented by Charles S. Miller and Raymond H. Miller, also an Altar Cloth which is hand made and presented to the Church by the Church Benefit Group. The Heatons and Dick and Ronny Miller came last night from New York and this morning came and attended Church service, after which we all went to Cheshire and had dinner at Mr. Hanson's house. This day has been freezing cold all the time. 03/25/1940 (Monday) (Margin note: Cara died last night at about 10.30.) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon I met Wm. Gillette and we went to Attourney {Attorney} Phalen's office and he approved William's report on Mary's estate. Then we went to the Probate Office and the Judge said that we should have a hearing, and Mr. Phalen is to notify the parties interested. Mr. Gillette told that young Mr. Alderson telephoned that Cara died last night, at the Crosson{Carlson??} Hospital in Meriden. 03/26/1940 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools to day. This evening Ralph and Laurence Pierpont came and practiced drumming. 03/27/{1940} (Wednesday) (Margin note: 18th snow, 6" has fallen.) Cara S. Miller was buried this afternoon in the Riverside Cemetery, in the North East corner of the Somers-|Miller Lot next to Grandmother Somers grave. She was 74 years old, and died of a cancer on the rectum at the Crosson{??} Hospital in Meriden. The funeral services were held at the Congregational Church in Cheshire. Rev. J. Herbert Bainton officiated. Undertaker Alderson had charge of the funeral. There was no service at the grave. She was buried at the expense of the state, as she was an old age pensioner. Began snowing at four o'clock. 03/28/{1940} (Thursday) This morning after doing the housework I swept out the paths. It would have been all right if I hadn't done it, for before night the snow was nearly all gone. I then sharpened tools. Alice Pierpont came and did the wash. 03/29/1940 (Friday) A dull day thawed some and at dark it began to rain. I sharpened tools part of the time. Took the Round Robin letters up to Mr. Reutter's for Mary to read. 03/30/{1940} (Saturday) This morning was very foggy which continued till afternoon when it turned to rain. Dick Pierpont came and helped me in the blacksmith shop till noon. Then we trimmed an appletree and a maple in the back yard till three o'clock when it began to rain hard and we had to stop. I received a Resolution of Respect fron {from} the New Haven County Pomona Grange{??} in memory of Cara Miller who died March 24, 1940. Sent by Emerson J. Leonard, whos {whose} address is Cook Hill, Wallingford. 03/31/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Richard Millard of St. John's Church preached. 03{04}/01/1940 (Monday) I sharpened a lot of tools to day. The weather has been rather cold. 03{04}/02/1940 (Tuesday) I went to Cheshire and got two bags of feed for the chickens and sharpened tools. The weather has been cool. Alice came and did the ironing this afternoon. 04/03/{1940} (Wednesday) A cool day. I sharpened tools. 04/04/{1940} (Thursday) I sharpened tools and did other odd jobs. Alice Pierpont came and did the washing. Dick Pierpont came after school and struck in the blacksmith shop and trimmed an apple tree. 04/05/{1940} (Friday) I sharpened tools. Dick Pierpont came and cleaned up the brush and wood where he trimmed the apple trees. 04/06/{1940} (Saturday) Cool clear day. Dick Pierpont came this morning and cleaned up the brush in the yard. I sharpened tools. Then we trimmed the grape vines and rose bushes. I filed a cross cut saw for Mr. Jones and Dick dug out a drain. Then we went to the farm and trimmed an appletree. Miss Alice came and did up the ironing and cooked a big piece of corned beef, and a head of cabbage etc. Dan Hannon {Hanlon??} put a new glass in the door of my truck. 04/07/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. John Cooms{??} preached. Rev. Girtrude served the communion. This afternoon I went up to Rose Wakelee's and we worked on the list of Civil War Veterans. Margaret and George Hall called and we looked over my garden seeds. 04/08/{1940} (Monday) Rainy day. I did odd jobs about home, and with Dick Pierpont went to Cheshire and there met Effel Reutter at Mrs. Brook's Girage {Garage??} and got some of Cara's things and took them up to Reutters and a cabinet to Mr. Service's. This evening I went out to Ralph Pierpont's and read a paper on Peter Gilkey{??}, the Revolutionary Counterfetter {Counterfeiter}. 04/09/1940 (Tuesday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. I had Dick Pierpont come and we cleaned the front yard and put fertilizer on the most of it. This evening Paul Miller, Leland Garriggns{??}, Ralph and Laurence Pierpont came and we gave lessins {lessons} in drumming the double drag. The weather has been wet and damp all day. 04/10/1940 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this morning, then went to the barbers and had hair cut and shave {shaved}. After dinner I went and got my pocket book from Hotchkisses and then went to the farm and took care of the ox and then went up Watertown Ave. and got my Auto License, and then paid my Telephone Bill, then went and paid my Electric Bill, then home and supper. Then I went up to Reutters and showed them the Resolutions of Respect I received from the New Haven County Pomona Grange{??} for Cara Miller who died Mar. 24. The United States census taker called this after noon. It was a young woman and I had to tell her how old I was, where I was born, what I burned for fewel {fuel}, how much my place is worth, how much I earned, etc. etc. 04/11/{1940} (Thursday) The wind turned South to day. The first time this year that I have known. I did odd jobs about home. Dick Pierpont came and we finished cleaning the hen house and then put in fresh leaves. We then went to the farm and planted peas and then let the big gate down to the lower hinges. 04/12/{1940} (Friday) Rained all day. Have been in the house most of the time. Filed a cross cut saw for Mr. Robert Jones and went to the store and got some groceries and at the farm and did the chores. The funeral of Rev. John W. Lewis of St. John's Church was held this forenoon at 11 A.M. The church was filled and about 200 stood outside in the rain. 04/13/{1940} (Saturday) (Margin note: 18th snow{???}, 3" fell.) I was about the house and cleaned a lot of paint brushes this forenoon. Alice came and did up the work. In the afternoon Dick and I trimmed apple trees at the farm. Berkeley Frisbie called this forenoon and wished me to look up the ancestors of Carl Jackson. 04/14/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Matthew Madden who has been away sick preached. His subject was, "On Being Religious". Jessie Pierpont invited me out to their place to dinner. This afternoon I went to Mr. Wilson's in Prospect and there had supper. 04/15/{1940} (Monday) Last night Bobbie brought Ronny from Cheshire and he staid here over night. This morning Fritsa came and she got dinner for me. Ronny and I worked in the blacksmith shop in the forenoon. After dinner Alice Pierpont came and cleaned the kitchen and I painted the floor. Late in the afternoon Fritsa came and she and Ronny went to her father's house in Cheshire but they don't intend to return to New York till next week. 04/16/{1940} (Tuesday) I sharpened a few tools, and did jobs about the house. In the afternoon Dick came and we set out in the chicken yard four Bartlett pear trees. Then we took one up to the Roys and then went to the farm and I went to the store and got groceries. Had a ton of coal come to day. 04/17/1940 (Wednesday) This morning I cut kindling wood and did other jobs. In the afternon I went to the farm via Prospect and left an old pocketbook with Ruth Hotchkiss and then continued on to East Farms where Dick Pierpont and I hitched up Old Buster into the cart and took a load of manure up on the hill, and then trimmed apple trees, and brought down a load of brush. I wrote a letter to Elsie this noon. 04/18/{1940} (Thursday) Went to North Wallingford and saw Charles Cass about putting nitrate of soda about appletrees and other apple culture. The weather is wet but he was plowing with a tractor getting the land ready to set out strawberries. Mr. Daines came from Woodbury to see about painting my house. If weather is good, will start Monday. I went to the East End Hardware Co. and ordered the lead, oil, and other materials. 04/19/{1940} (Friday) I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about the place. This afternoon Dick came and we made over some big wedges for Mr. Jones and spaded in the garden. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson called this evening to see about going to Kent tomorrow. 04/20/1940 (Saturday) Rained all day and cold and windy. This morning, Mr. Pearly Wilson called and we went to Kent in his new De Sota car. First we went out to Middlebury Road beyond the Four Cornces{??} and got Miss Julia Bronson, then over the Ben Sherman Hill and up through Woodbury, then through Washington and New Preston by Lake Waramaug to Warren, then to Kent at 11.15. Found all of Frank's family at home. Had a fine dinner. Then we went up to Mr. Chase's{??} Saw Mill and went through a large log restaurant and lodging house. Then to his mill where he had a large supply of lumber on hand. Then we went back to Franks and got ready and started for home, by way of Cornwall Bridge, Goshen where I stoped {stopped] and saw Lyman Ovaitt [Oviatt], then on through Forrington, Thomaston to Watertown, then to the Middlebury Road where we left Miss Bronson, then on home, stoping {stopping} at the store and got{??} some groceries. Frank gave me a bushel of potatoes. 04/21/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Chruch. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "This One Thing". Rained all day. 04/22/{1940} (Monday) (Margin note: 19th{??mistake} snow, 1 in. fell.) This morning Mr. H.W. Dains and another man came from Woodbury to paint my house. I went to the Bank and got checks cashed for $77.00, then I got my truck and went to the East End Hardware and got 300 lbs. white lead, 11.25=33.75{??} 10 galls. Linseed oil 1.00 per gal. = 10.00, one gal. turpentine .60 cts, 1 pt. dryer .30 cts., one pound lamp black 55.00, 2 gals. of green blind paint, 2.80 = 5.60 total 50.80. {???????} The painters got here at 9 A.M. and left at 4.30 P.M. I repaired blinds this afternoon. Will Gillette called and left administration papers. Weather cold, sleet and rain and snow. 04/23/1940 (Tuesday) To day has been cool and clear. This forenoon I went to Prospect and to the store and got some paint. The painters came at one and worked till four thirty. 04/24/{1940} (Wednesday) Cool to day. I got the garden ready for seeds. Dick and I finished trimming the orchard on the hill at the farm. The painters got here at 8 A.M. and quit at 4.30. 04/25/1940 (Thursday) I planted lettuce, radish, parsnips in the garden North of the girage {garage}. The painters Mr. Daines and Mr. Young worked from 8 A.M. to 4.30 P.M., half hour at noon. Dick Pierpont and I cleaned the brush from the barn lot at the farm this afternoon. 04/26/{1940} (Friday) I did odd jobs and planting this forenoon, and Dick and I plowed the garden at the farm and did other work. The painters worked from 8 A.M. to 4.30 P.M., 1/2 hr. at noon. 04/27/{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and we worked on cars till noon. In the afternoon I worked on my little car. Alice Pierpont came and staid till dark. I turned my clocks one hour ahead to night as day light saving starts tomorrow. The two painters came at 8 this morning and got through at 3.30. 04/28/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Following The Cross'. At this service the Memorial Golden Cross that Raymond and I gave in honor of my wife Mary was dedicated by the minister. Of my family who were in attendance were George Hall and Margaret, Raymond and Ruth, Clifford Heaton and Fritsa, Ronald, Dick and myself. After Church, George and Margaret invited me to take dinner with them. I came home and put my car up, and got into their nice Buic {Buick??} and we went through Cheshire, and at Mt. Carmel turned East to North Haven then down through Montese{??} up the road that took us to Fotoket{??} and North Branford, then south to the Post Road to the Oasis Dining Rooms, where we had the nicest shore dinner. While we were eating the head waiter said there were 250 at dinner and up to that time they had fed over 800. 04/29/1940 (Monday) This morning I went to Woodtick to Berkley L. Frisbie's to see Mrs. Carl Jackson about the Jackson geneology. I had to wait till near noon before she came, and then I seemed to have what she wanted. She wishes me to make out the complete list from Daniel Jackson, the immigrant that settled in Newtown, Conn. among the first settlers. 04/30/1940 (Tuesday) This morning after breakfast, I took my Pickup and went up and got Mr. Robert Jones and we went to Falls Villige {Village} and got five bags of land lime. Then we drove down to Kent and stoped {stopped} at Frank's and had dinner that he got, as the folks were all away. Then we went to the field near the Public Schoolhouse and saw them plant potatoes, and we looked at the farming machinere {machinery} in the old tobacco sheds, then we drove to Merwinsville and Gailordsville and home. The painters came at 8 and left at 4.30. This evening, Laurence Pierpont, Leland Garrigus, and Paul Miller came and practiced drumming. 05/01/{1940} (Wednesday) Cold and damp. Dick spread lime on the garden. Then we went to the farm and harrowed{??} the upper lot where we had it planted. The painters came at 8 and left at {??}. 05/02/{1940} (Thursday) This morning Dick and I cut wood for the stove and then went to the farm and cleaned the stable out and drew the manure up on the hill. It rained towards night. 05/03/{1940} (Friday) The painters came this morning, but it looked like rain and they did not work, so I paid them $40.00 and they went down to Woodbury, and I went down to the bank and drew out 25.00 to pay for the next paint. I came home, had dinner and then went to Prospect and saw Mabel Hotchkiss about Mr. Clark and Mr. Peck of Woodbridge, and talked of the Historical Society that they are trying to organize in Prospect. Fred Hotchkiss is having an artesian {artisan??} well drilled near his chicken house. His sister isout of town. 05/04/{1940} (Saturday) Rained more or less all day. Alice came and did the washing. Dick came this forenoon and mowed the lawn and we then choped {chopped} wood till noon. I did little this afternoon. 05/05/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden. No sermon, but he took in a class of 33 new members. I came home and have been here all the afternoon. 05/06/1940 (Monday) I did odd jobs about home and painted some onion sets{??}. This morning I went to the East End Hardware Store and got 20 gals. of roof paint and 2 gals. of oil and cherry varnish for 28.50. Mr. Dains and Mr. Young nearly finished painting my house. 05/07/{1940} (Tuesday) The painters got through painting my house this morning about ten o'clock and left for Woodbury to paint a church. Dick Pierpont came and repaired the grape arbour {arbor??} and then spaided a part of the garden. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at the hall at Mort Pierpont's house at East Farms. Mr. H. W. Dains and Mr. Young of Woodbury finished painting my house. It cost 179.30 as follows. April 21, 300 lbs. white lead, @11.25 33.75 " 10 gals. linseed oil @ 1.00 10.00 " 1 gal. turpentine .60 " 1 pt. dryer .30 " 1 pound Lamp Black .55 " 2 gals. green for blinds @2.80 5.60 . 50.80 May 6, To{??} 20 gals. shingle stains @1.30 26.00 " " 2 gals. oil and varnish 2.50 . . 28.50 . 79.30 . $100.00 . Labor Total $179.00 Paid 40.00 " 40.00 " 15.00 " . 5.00 . $100.00 05/08/1940 (Wednesday) I painted an old grape arbor this forenoon. After dinner I went to Treat{??} Hotchkiss in Prospect and bought a dozen little chickens, brought them home and then went up to Wolcott and saw Rose Wakelee, and then went to the Center. The state has commenced work on a road that runs past Arthur Harrison's house from the East Bristol Road to the Center. It has rained some this afternoon. 05/09/{1940} (Thursday) This morning I sharpened tools till noon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and set out a row of onion sets{??}. Dick came and we yoked up Buster and went up to the shed lot and plowed for potatoes. 05/10/{1940} (Friday) This morning I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I went to the farm and when Dick came we plowed upon the hill. To night's paper states that the Germans have since yesterday captured the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. They have previously taken over Denmark and Norway. The English have ordered 30,000 air plains {planes}. 05/11/1940 (Saturday) This forenoon I went to the farm and Dick and I furrowed out the land that we had plowed and karrowed{???} and then Dick put in fertilizer and I covered it and Dick droped {dropped] the potatoe {potato} seed and I covered the most of it and we then picked off stones along the edge by the grass. 05/12/1930 {1940} (Sunday) I received a postal card from Ruth Brundage at Storrs{??} yesterday stating that they were going to Danbury this forenoon to see their mother Brundage and invited me to go two {too}. They called about eleven and we went through Middlebury, Southbury, Sandybrook, Newtown and to Mr. Brundage's house where we saw his extensive gardens and went through many of his chicken houses. He says that he has about 20,000 chickens, large and small, and gets about 900 eggs a day and uses 1/2 ton of feed each day. 05/13/{1940} (Monday) This forenoon I planted in the garden. Dick Pierpont came this afternoon and clipped the grass while I planted cabbages etc. 05/14/1930 {1940} I painted on the grape arbour {arbor} and Dick and I planted at the farm. 05/15/1940 To day I took a long trip looking for a woman to live with me. I drove to North Canton and looked over the Cemetery there to find if Isaac or Johnson Cleveland were buried there. I found no trace of them, and called on the Misses{??} Case who live in the large house on the South corner of the Simsbury Road. Then I went to Canton Center and looked over the Cemetery there with no results. But I fell in with two ladies who were interested in research work, Mrs. Howard Allen and Mrs. Herman Melzer and they refered me to Mrs. Edward Hasford, whose husband died last year{??} is descended from Johnson Cleveland who lived in Wolcott in Revolutionary times and served in the War. I called on several others, but got no trace of a housekeeper. 05/16/1940 This morning my sore leg pained me and I only did some painting on the grape arbor. In the afternoon at the farm, Dick and {??} planted and plowed about the stone heap for gourds. 05/17/{1940} (Friday) Cut brush wood this morning after it stoped {stopped} raining. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I got out a load of manure and put it about the big pile of rocks and got ready to plant gourds. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Perley{Pearly??} Wilson called and I bought a History of Stratford of Mrs. Wilson for $4.50. 05/18/{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont worked at the farm this morning. Then we came home and painted the picket fence West of the barn and the hand rail at the back door. The day has been cool. 05/19/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Todd preached. As my sore leg caused much pain, I kept very quiet in the afternoon, only went out to Perly{Pearly} Wilsons and looked over some deeds for them regarding the South end of the farm, and had a nice supper out of doors, back of the house, came home at dark. 05/20/{1940} (Monday) This forenoon I figured up my accounts and found that I have to pay tomorrow 110.00 taxes, water, electric light, and telephone bill out of the way, then I will have to pay 184.00{??} tax and a sewer assesment {assessment} of 886.65 to clear up everything. This evening I went to Pearly Wilsons and gave them a lot of garden seed. It was quite dark when I came home. 05/21/{1940} (Tuesday) Did odd jobs about home. Dick and I planted a lot of Gourd seed about Fort Dunlop at the farm. They are building a new house on the East side of Norris Street opposite our lot at East Farms. 05/22/1940 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I went to the farm, and Dick and I began to plow for corn, but it began to rain, and we gave it up. Alice Pierpont came and cleaned the bath room. 05/23/{1940} (Thursday) It has rained all day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. The telephone man came to put in an extra bell, but it was not loud enough. Dick Pierpont came this afternoon and we forged a pair of tool tongs. 05/24/1940 (Friday) (Margin note: Telephone bell.) To day the Telephone Company put in a double 6" bell in the hallway that rings every time the telephone calls so that they can hear it up stairs. This morning I sharpened tools. Dick and I cultivated the raspberries at the farm and planted beans and cucumbers. 05/25/1940 (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and we dug up two young appletrees in the yard North of the house, and transplanted them. One North of the wall and West of the blacksmith shop. The other in the chicken yard in the angle near the drain outlet. The weather was cold and damp and we planted Golden Bantam and Stowells Evergreen corn and cucumbers and beans in the garden. On account of the wet, we got through at noon. Cliff, Fritsa, Dick and Ronny came in the afternoon from New York. Dick is going to stay here and the rest are going to Cheshire to stay to night. 05/26/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject was, "The Lost Chord". Cliff, Fritsa, Dick and Ronald came from N.Y. last night. All but Dick went to Cheshire to sleep, but he staid here with Robert and had breakfast here. This afternoon I went to Wolcott and visited with Margaret. They are grading the road that runs East and West across Wolcott Center. 05/27/{1940} (Monday) This morning I went to Prospect and bought one dozen chickens of Treat{??} Hotchkiss. Then I went to see Nellie Cowdell but she was in Cheshire. I came home and took two bouquets up to the Cemetery and put them on Mary's grave. Stoped {Stopped} and visited with sister MAry till noon. Then came home and had dinner. Alice Pierpont came and ironed and got a fine supper and did up the work. In the evening Mansfield Gillette called to see about being Drum Major for the Mattatuck Drum Band. 05/28/1940 (Tuesday) This morning I got up and my old leg was very sore and painful. I could do but little on account of the pain. At noon I went and saw Dr. Barber and he dressed it up but it has pained worse ever since. When I got home Alice Pierpont was here, cleaning the books and the top shelf in the study. About 5.30 {??} of a sudden the rain came down hard without warning and caught many out who ran for shelter in the waiting station and in the Fair-| Lawn Gas Station while many of the school children took refuge under the trees, but they soon had to run drenched through as the rain lasted about an hour. 05/29/{1940} (Wednesday) To day I have been about home all the time looking over old letters and papers. My sore leg has been very painful. Alice Pierpont has been here and worked dusting and cleaning the books in my study. There has been no rain to day but the weather has been cool with some sunshine. 05/30/1940 (Thursday) This is Decoration Day. BUt alas, how different from the Decoiation{Decoration??} days of 1869, when there were long lines of men in blue and the school children all with flowers and marched to the Cemeteries and in with dirge step to the graves of those who had passed on before, and tenderly laid the {??} on, and with muffled drum, passed on to the next one till all were decorated. This day I have staid in doors and sorted letters and papers and helped Alice Pierpont clean my study and replace the books. 05/31/{1940} (Friday) Rained hard all day. I did a little sharpening tools and went to see Doctor Barber with my sore leg. He said it was better, and did it up again. I bought of Davis and Nye on Grand Street, two files to file away written material. Have worked some putting books back on the shelves, etc. 06/01/{1940} (Saturday) Alice Pierpont came and we put my books back on the shelves and nearly finished cleaning my study. Lena Turkenton called this afternoon. Ray called this evening. Weather clear. 06/02/1940 (Sunday) This morning Vincent and Bettie Simons called at 8.30 and we drove to Storrs{??}. Where we found Jack and Ruth and Piere {Pierre??}, Kennith {Kenneth} and Peggy all well. At 10.45 we attended church all except Vincent and Jack, after which we returned to Ruth's and had a fine dinner. Then we went up to Mansfield Four Corners and saw the house and farm that they have bought, a nice large house about 200 years old, and barns and chicken coops, corn house, wood shed etc. and 60 acres of good land. It will make a good home for them. We came back to Storrs and had ice cream and soon after 5 started for home coming through Middletown, got home before dark. 06/03/1940 (Monday) I went and saw Dr. Barber about my leg. It was worse so I did not do anything in the line of work to day. Alice came and cleaned my room, and Dick came and cut the grass, but did not do the trimming. 06/04/1940 (Tuesday) This morning I did writing etc. At 1.30 I went to Dr. Barbour's {Barber's} office on North Main St. and he dressed my foot and leg. Alice came and did the ironing and we went to the store and got a lot of groceries. Then we went to Wolcott and saw Margaret and George Hall. The state are {is} regrading the East and West road across the Center in front of the Church. Then we came home down the steep south hill, now called Brooks Hill, but in my younger days, Malon Hotchkiss Hill. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called and we had a fine visit. 06/05/{1940} (Wednesday) My leg pains very much but not so bad as yesterday. At 11 A.M. I was at Dr. Barber's office and he did it up for me. They told me that Charles Tuttle's place burned last night. This afternoon I drove up there, this is what I saw, some Cloppards{??} torn from the East side, all otherwise was well. The paper to night said the inside was damaged $2000.00 worth. 06/06/{1940} I went and saw Dr. Barber at 1.30. Worked in the garden. Alice Pierpont came and her mother. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Perly {Pearly} Wilson came and took me to Cheshire and we visited Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop and saw their nice flowers. 06/07/1940 (Friday) Stayed about home all day except the time I went to Dr. Barber about my leg. 06/08/{1940} (Saturday) Very pleasant day. I had Dr. Barber dress my old leg. It is much better than it was. Alice Pierpont and her mother came and did the ironing and put up curtains in my room. I pulled weeds in my home garden so that there isn't one to be seen. This afternoon I went to the farm and there was plenty of weeds there. I hoed many of them up. 06/09/1940 (Sunday) This morning I was at Wolcott Center at 10 A.M. to attend service with the Wolcott Fire Department at 10.30. About 20 members arrived in thir {their} cars and the band came to the number of about 25, in neat white and blue uniforms. The firemen had on blue uniforms. They formed in front of the Grange Hall and with band playing marched past the Town Hall then to the left and strait across the green to the Church, the band halting at the road which was dug up as they are regraiding {regrading??} it. The members went in and we sat in the two front seats on the West side of the Church. But through{??} some reason there was no Fireman's service and the word Fire or Fireman was not spoken during the service that I know of. The service was entirely (except the Collection) devoted to a Childrens Day Program and Baptism and Reception of new members. There were many that were disapointed {disappointed}, I among the others. When Charlie Tuttle's house was set on fire last Tuesday night at about 10 o'clock, Howard Kraft who lives on Spindle Hill was carrying things out of his cellar when he heard the Fire Siren on the Engine house at Hitchcocks Lake, over three miles away, sounding. He telephoned the Foremans house and learned that the fire was at Tuttles and drove as fast as he could. The firemen with the engine were there ahead of him, having came about three miles. They put the suction in Lillie Brook from the bridge and soon had two lines of 1 1/2" hose laid and streams on the fire, which was started in two places in the cellar and burned up through the three floors to the attic, but was not allowed to break through so it showed on the outside anywhere, only where two or three pieces of clappords{??} were pulled off on the East side. The fire was first discovered by a man and woman riding by in an auto who drove to Charlie Ferrells{??} in Woodtick and from there the alarm was telehponed in. The house has been vacant since Mr. Tuttle's death over a year ago. The Firemen certainly did good work and should be commended for it. 06/10/1940 (Monday) Rained all day and cold. Went and had Dr. Barber dress my leg. He told that Itily {Italy} had entered the war on the side of the Germans. The Germans are now throwing shells across the channel into England. They are to move 120,000 children into the country from London to get them away from the air rades {raids}. I went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats and a bag of scratch feed. At East Farms I got the cutting bar and a scythe that needs grinding. 06/11/1940 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools to day. Weather wet and damp. Alice came and got dinner and put up curtains in my study and got supper, then Laurence Pierpont came after her to take care of Peter this evening, while they went away. 06/12/{1940} (Wednesday) This noon I went to Dr. Barber and he dressed my leg and I paid him $2.00{??} as I do every time, it all helps to make my old leg more valuable. Alice PIerpont came and got me a good dinner, and staid till two, then went to the Church. To day is her last day in school. In the afternoon I went to the farm and cultivated some of the garden and planted beans, Muskmellons, and corn. Then I took the seeds that were left to Pearly Wilson in Prospect and had a good supper that Mrs. Wilson got for me. This day has been hot and muggy. I sweat my clothes all through. 06/13/{1940} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the farm and Dick and I cultivated potatoes and repaired the bars at the entrance to the orchard. Alice Pierpont worked here to day. She got my dinner and supper. 06/14/{1940} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went and saw Dr. Barber at 1.30, then to the farm and Dick and I built the fence over up the lane by the spring. It is reported that the Germans have taken Paris to day. 06/15/1940 (Saturday) I have spent most of the day at the farm with Dick weeding the garden. It has rained hard several times. Alice came and did the ironing and other work, painted the inside of the washing machine. 06/16/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "How Much Are You Willing To Pay For Peace". This afternoon I went to Prospect and saw George Cowdell and Mr. Wilson. 06/17/{1940} (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went and had Dr. Barber dress my old leg. Came home and lay down a spell till the pain cased {ceased} a bit, then got my car out and put lumber in it and took it to Robert Tyler's and had it sawed and plained for stakes for the truck. Left a wheel at Adkins Gas Station to have the tire fixed. 06/18/1940 (Tuesday) I made stakes for my truck and bolted Cemetery plank{??}. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont and I cultivated the potatoes on the hill and did other jobs. alice came and worked about the house. In the evening, Ted Williams and a friend came from Tarrytown and we had a fine visit. 06/19/1940 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick Pierpont came and cut the grass. After dinner we went to the farm and Dick and I hoed the potatoes. Alice Pierpont came and cooked and cleaned, got dinner and supper, etc. This evening I went to Treat{??} Hotchkiss in Prospect and bought a dozen little chickens. 06/20/{1940} (Thursday) (Margin note: Alice Pierpont got through.) I sharpened tools this forenoon. At 1.30 I went to Dr. Barber's and he dressed my leg. After dinner Dick Pierpont and I drove to Winsted to get some scythes, but the factory was closed and we had to come home without them. The weather was very windy and cold. Alice Pierpont worked to day for the last time, as she is going to Maine. 06/21/{1940} (Friday) This morning Mrs. Harold Pierpont came and did the ironing and got dinner. I went to the farm and Dick and I repaired the fence by the spring. In the afternoon Red Saint-|Lewis came to work and we repaired the fence at the S. E. corner near Norris Street. 06/22/{1940} (Saturday) This forenoon Red and I made a yard for the young chickens. This afternoon I hoed the garden and did other odd jobs. Mr. John Barr and Mr. Theodore Muscio called. Fritsa and Cliff called in when they came from New York. They are going to stay in Cheshire tonight. 06/23/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Church in Morris with other members of the Pierpont family. This family held a Reunion in the Community Building this day. There were over 100 present from different parts of the state and from Massachusetts. I went up with George Hall and Margaret. The weather was nice. 06/24/{1940} (Monday) Rained all day. This forenoon I moed {mowed} North of the garden a small spot and ground several scythes. At 1.30 I went and had Dr. Barber dress my leg. I then went to Mrs. Wilsons in Prospect and we went to the Town Clerk's office (Mrs. Harry Tolmage{??}) looked up records, etc. 06/25/{1940} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. It rained all the time. This afternoon I went to the farm and hoed in the garden all the time. It was very weedy. 06/26/1940 (Wednesday) Rained nearly all day. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got dinner. In the afternoon I took Mrs. Pierpont home and then hoed in the garden at the farm, with Dick and Red to help. 06/27/{1940} (Thursday) Laurence St. Lewis came and cut the grass with the lawn mower. I mowed some about the garden. John Barr called this afternoon. Is coming again Saturday. I went to Mr. Wilson's and took supper there. 06/28/{1940} (Friday) This forenoon I mowed and did odd jobs about home. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the ironing. I went at 1.30 and had Dr. Barber dress my old leg. Wilkey was nominated President of the United States at Philadelphia last night. 06/29/{1940} (Saturday) This forenoon I mowed some in my home lot. In the afternoon John Barr came to see me about matters that happened over 60 years ago. He and I are the same age and we voted for General Garfield the first time we cast a ballot. 06/30/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden preached. His subject was, "How Christ Handled The Problem of Evil". I think he done{??} a lot of gessing {guessing??}. This afternoon I saw Nellie Cowdell about going to Woodbridge and looking up the inventor of friction matches. 07/01/1940 (Monday) This forenoon Dick Pierpont and I mowed the North end of my home lot. This afternoon we took a large load of hay to East Farms and put it in the barn. I got a lot of groceries just as it began to rain. 07/02/{1940} (Tuesday) Dick and Red came this morning and we cleaned the garden of weeds. Then we put on a load of green hay on the truck and took it to the farm, and spread it to dry. Then we freed the garden out there of weeds, got in the hay, and cultivated the potaotes. 07/03/1940 (Wednesday) This morning Dick, Red and I hoed the potatoes and planted turnips. We then hitched Buster into the mowing machine, and mowed the lot north of the barn. Dick drove and Red rode on the machine. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got my dinner, etc. 07/04/{1940} (Thursday) This forenoon I went to the farm and Red, Dick and I mowed by hand. In the afternoon they came over here, and we raised the flag and put Bunting{??} and flags on the fence. Decorations for the Parade that came down the Frost Road that was over a mile long of Police, Firemen, Military, Two Brass Bands, Bycicle {Bicycle} Corps Floats, etc. and twenty Drum Corps from all over the state. They marched to Hamilton Park where sports and contests were held, and where tonight there were great Fireworks. 07/05/1940 (Friday) Nice clear day. At the farm Dick, Red and I turned the hay over. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the ironing and mending and got dinner. I went down town with Tony{??} and had Dr. Barber dress my leg and then got medicine, then came home and went to the farm and heaped up the hay and did other jobs, etc. 07/06/1940 (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick and I hoed in the garden, until the dew got dried off the hay. Then Red came and we turned over all of the hay that was mowed, and raked up a load and got it in. I came home and had dinner, after which Mr. John Barr came and brought Mr. Mathes, a photographer, who took my picture for the Waterbury Democrat to be published togather {together} with a story concerning my connection with Waterbury business and with the Mattatuck Drum Band. After they left I went to the farm where the boys had got in another load of hay, and we got in another which we left on the cart. In the evening Fritsa, Ronny and Cliff called. 07/07/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "How Christ Handled The Problem of Evil." This afternoon I went to Wolcott and visited Arthur Harrison, then came down and called on sister Mary. While I was gone my son Frank of Kent called and left some biscuit and crollars{??}. The day has been clear and warm. 07/08/{1940} (Monday) We mowed the South part of the lot in which the barn stands at east Farms and got the most of it in to day. Dick drove the ox and Red rode on the machine. The day has been very warm. 07/09/1940 (Tuesday) Sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick and Red opened out the hay at the farm and got it into the barn, and then mowed some. This afternoon I went to the farm and Red and I unloaded the hay. Dick did not come this afternoon. 07/10/1940 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools, etc. Dick came and cut the grass and did other odd jobs. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing. Marion Kraft came and borrowed the History of Wolcott, and took a paper that had a story about myself published in it, "The Democrat". 07/11/{1940} (Thursday) Worked at the farm all day. Dick and Red helped. Went to Cheshire and got feed this afternoon. Mowed the North East corner of the barn lot. 07/12/1940 (Friday) Rained most of the day. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the ironing and got dinner etc. Marion Kraft and the minister from Wolcott with two auto loads of boys came to look over my Drum Room and relics, etc. I have spent the greater part of the day in writing and filing away papers. 07/13/{1940} (Saturday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont, Laurence St. Lewis and I raked the hay into beds and pulled the suckers from the appletrees in the lower lot. In the afternoon, John Barr came and we prepaired {prepared} an article for the news paper. Then I went to Prospect and bought 13 little chickens of Treat{??} Hotchkiss. 07/14/{1940} (Sunday) A nice day. I attended meeting at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Who Is This Jesus of Nazareth". After service I came home and had dinner all by myself after which I made a bouquet of roses and took it to the Cemetery and placed it on Mary's grave. Then I went to Prospect and saw Nellie Cowdell about the geneology of Jason Hotchkiss of Wolcott. Then I went to Perly {Pearly} Wilsons and met Mr. and Mrs. Birth of Milford and there had supper. I {????} home and soon Mrs. Wilson came and left a bag of redishes {radishes}. I gave her a dozen of{??} eggs and a copy of the paper Democrat that had an article in it about myself. 07/15/{1940} (Monday) To day Dick Pierpont, Laurence St. Lewis and I hoed in the garden at East Farms. Then we turned over the hay, then raked it up and got it into the barn. Then we took our scythes and mowed the remaining grass in the barn lot. The weather has been nice all day. 07/16/{1940} (Tuesday) This morning we rigged the mowing machine to be drawn by the truck and started mowing the orchard on the hill but the cluch {clutch} slipped and finally burned out so it would not move the machine, so the boys went down and got Buster and the cart but forgot the chain to tow the truck with. In the meantime it began to thunder, and Dick ran down and got a chain but it was to {too} short and he had to get another one, by this time it was pouring hard but we drew the truck around and down the hill. 07/17/1940 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick and Red mowed with the ox and I by hand and we finished the orchard. Mr. St Lewis took my truck to his place to put in a new clutch. The weather has been hot and muggy. 07/18/{1940} (Thursday) Went to the farm and we set the water trough in the barn lot running, then we put arsnate{??} of lead on the potatoes, then we raked up the hay on the hill and got in a load. The weather was very hot. 07/19/{1940} (Friday) Very hot day. Dick Pierpont, Laurence St Lewis and I got in the hay from the orchard on the hill and a small load from the barn meadow near the spring. Then we mowed a piece in the upper lot above the orchard but it was so hot that it made the ox puff and we had to stop at the end of every swath and let him get his breath. This evening I called at Wm. Service's and showed sister Mary Frank's Album and talked with Wm. about the Sewer assesment {assessment}. 07/20/{1940} (Saturday) Hot day. Mr. St Lewis sent my truck home to day with a bill of 16.58 for a new clutch and universal. I with Laurence St Lewis, raked up the hay on the hill. 07/21/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "And They Crucified My Lord". The attendance was rather small andnthe day very warm. I staid at home all the afternoon. 07/22/{1940} (Monday) This morning I went to the farm and Dick, Red and I did some mowing in the North lot on the hill. This afternoon I went to the Colonial and got 48.00 dividend on the Mill Plain Church Bonds of $2,400.00. Then I paid my dues at the Mattatuck Historical Society, 4.00, after which I went to the Southern New England Telephone Co. and paid my bill of 4.27 there. Then to the Connecticut Light & Power Co. on Levenworth St. and paid my bill 5.40 there, then to Davis & Nye on Bank Stand{??}, bought small account book, blotting paper and bill heads for .85 then home, my clothes wet with sweat. 07/23/1940 (Tuesday) I was up this morning at five and got ready after breakfast at eight and soon George Hall and Margaret called and took me{??} to Pond Point in MIlford to a cottage on the Water front where we found Will Gillette and Iva and we had a nice visit. Will and Mansfield took me for a ride up past the place where Grandfather Somers had a tide mill at the Gulf, and they showed me the house where my mother used to live when a girl. We went to Stratford to the Cemetery where Cousin Melville and Clarisa Curtiss and their son Robert is buried. We also saw a large house where a large truck ran from the street and into the corner of the house and entered the room where a woman was sleeping. The truck took fire and partly burned the house out, but the firemen put the fire out, besides the woman there were two men and two children in the house, and for a time they could not get out as the doors were clamped tight by the shock, but the broke their way out, and all were saved. But they were greatly surprised to have the truck break into their house at mid night. One {On} the way back Will bought some long clams and we had them for supper and they were good. 07/24/1940 (Wednesday) Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing, and got dinner. I went and saw Adolph Reymond about the sewer assesment {assessment}. In the afternoon I went to Oakville and saw Mr. Frank E. Withey but he had gone to Boston. Then I came to the Mattatuck shop and saw a lady but got little information. 07/25/{1940} (Thursday) To day we mowed on the hill and got in two small loads. This evening I attended a Cemetery meeting at East Farms and the following Officers were elected, President Charles S. Miller, Vice President and Treasurer Morton E. Pierpont, Secretary Howard Neil, Vice President Ralph Pierpont. 07/26/{1940} (Friday) To day Dick Pierpont, Laurence St Lewis and I got in three loads of hay. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. My brother Frank came for a visit from Groton. The weather has been hot. 07/27/{1940} (Saturday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. The weather was very hot. This afternoon I drove to Oakville and saw Mr. Frank S. Winthrop about the sewer assesment {assessment}. 07/28/{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. Subject, "I Will Make My Way In The Wilderness". Mrs. Herbert Taylor played the organ. 07/29/{1940} (Monday) Dick, Red and I moed {mowed} the east end of the lot on the hill this afternoon. This forenoon Red and I pitched off a load of hay and gathered vegetables from the garden. Four qts. of string beans to Mrs. St Lewis and beans, carrots, beats {beets?}, and lettice {lettuce} to Fritsa at Hitchcocks Lake. 07/30/1940 (Tuesday) One of the hotest {hottest} days. 93ø in the shade. Dick, Red and I finished mowing on the hill and we got the hay all in. This evening Brtoher Frank and I went up and had a visit with Raymond and Ruth. 07/31/{1940} (Wednesday) Weather a little cooler to day. Red, Dick and I mowed the lot west of the shed half way up the hill, and got the hay in the barn to day, and finished my haying. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing etc. Mr. Dains and Mr. Young came at 8 this morning and worked till {??}. 08/01/{1940} (Thursday) I was about home all day. Dick Pierpont and Red St Lewis came and did several odd jobs, carried sand in the cellar and brushwood into the Woodhouse and Dick mowed the lawn, while Red and I went to Cheshire and got two loads of crushed stone for the front walk, and we trimmed the walk on the Frost Road. The painters worked from 8 to 4 o'clock. 08/02/{1940} (Friday) Did odd jobs about home. This evening, Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson went to Milford and visited the {? ?} on Maple Street. The painters worked from 8 to 4 o'clock. 08/03/{1940} (Saturday) I did odd jobs about home, and gathered some vegetables and took them to Hitchcock' Lake to Fritsa Heaton. 08/04/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Tinkering With Morals". After service, which ended at 11 A.M., I came home and brother Frank and I had dinner, and at about three we went to Wolcott and visited Margaret at Juniper Ledge. We had only been there a short time when George Hall Jr. came with his wife and two other ladies and soon, Lizzie, Myrah, May, Josie Somers and Miss Woolworth came and they had been there a short time when Fritsa Heaton telephoned from Hitchcocks Lake that Will Goldsmith was at my house to take Frank at Groton. So we came home soon as possible and at six, they started for Groton. After they had gone, I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road in Prospect and made arrangements to go to New Haven next Wednesday with Mrs. Wilson to see the agent for the W.P.A.{??} about my sewer assesment {assessment}. Then I drove up on Route 69 and in the Scott Road which they are making over from a rough dirt to a fine graded surface hardened road. They have about 1/2 mile graded from the South end, then I came home. 08/05/{1940} (Monday) This morning at 9.30 I went to the Y.M.C.A. and saw John Barr about writing for the paper. Staid there till noon. In the afternoon I mowed some and did other jobs about the place. Went to Spindle Hill to get my History of Wolcott, but Marion was not at home. They are just finishing the grading and surfacing of the Beach Road. 08/06/1940 (Tuesday) I mowed the grass about the garden North of the Girage {Garage?}, and did other odd jobs about home. Cliff Heaton called and got three small stone drills and six wedges and a hand hammer and took them up to Hitchcocks Lake. I went up to Marions on Spindle Hill after my History of Wolcott but she had lent it to Mr. German in Woodtick. I called there and got it. 08/07/1940 (Wednesday) This morning at 8.45 I jumped into my little roadster but the battery charg {charge} was dead, and it would not go. I then put the charger on, and took my truck and went to Mr. Wilsons in Prospect, and Mrs. Wilson took their large De Sota car and we went to the office of W.P.A. on Monson Street in New Haven where I met Mr. Pastoris and we had a talk about the work done on the sewer past my place on the Frost Rd. by the W.P.A. and for which I am assesed {assessed} $886.64. He called the attourney {attorney?} and they thought that the bill was large and advised that I get a lawyer and apply to the board of assessors for a statement of the work done by the Works Project Administration. After that we drove to Branford and had dinner at the Oasis, then we came home. 08/08/1940 (Thursday) This morning I went to the Y.M.C.A. Building to see Mr. John Barr. At noon, came home and had dinner. Then I took my Runabought{??} and went to Woodbury to see Mrs. Russell, but she had gone to New Haven. Two men were painting her house. I then went to the foot of Goodhill where they had about 50 half in{???} streams of water playing on a large price{??} of potatoes{???}. Then I went up the hill and at the highest point turned North and crooked{??} about and came out on the Washington Road which I traveled to North Woodbury. There I came East over the Old White Deer Road to the North End of Quassapang Lake then to Middlebury Center then down to Union City and up East to the back Waterbury Raod which I traveled to Pritcharde Pond and then home. 08/09/{1940} (Friday) I sharpened picks for St. Joseph Cemetery this forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did odd jobs and cooked a fine dinner. Dick came in the afternoon and put up things and mixed paint and helped me set a drum head and did other jobs. Late in the afternoon I took vegetables to Fritsa at Hitchcocks Lake and had supper there. 08/10/1940 (Saturday) I was in the shop sharpening tools all the forenoon. Dick Pierpont came at nine and cut the grass with the lawn mower, and we had dinner togather {together} after which he went to painting the front concrete fence posts white. I cleaned and raked the yard after which we went to East Farms and got a post hole digger and then we dug about two posts and straitened them up and put a good curve in the fence. Then we raked up the hay and loaded it onto the truck and took it to the farm. There we picked a bushel of cucumbers and Dick's mother had half and Laurence St Lewis mother had half. 08/11/1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe preached. I had dinner with Fritsa at Hitchcocks Lake. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby called. They are from Cuba. She was formally{??formerly} Hazle Pierpont. 08/12/{1940} (Monday) I sharpened tools to day. Dick Pierpont painted on the front fence. This evening Will Gillette called and took me to Juniper Ledge in Wolcott where a party composed of George Hall and Margaret, who were the hosts, Wm. Gillette and sister Iva, Fritsa Heaton and her family including Cliff, Willard from Montreal, Robert, Ronald and Willard's girls, Howard Kraft and wife and two sons, another family of three that I did not know, Byron Fleming and Pweewee[??} and others that I did not know. The weather was warm and some of the young ladies took off all their clothes except shoes and a small wrap around the body. This mold of undressing is becoming rather popular as I have seen several on the streets of Waterbury to day. One step more and the last of their clothes will be gone and so will their modesty. Many of the younger girls wear shorts and pajamas which make them look, according to the Bible, abominable in the sight of the Lord. 08/13/{1940} (Tuesday) This morning I went to Woodbury and saw Mrs. Russell and looked at her mowing machine, but it was to {too} much worn. I got a large ox bow and she gave it to me, then I came home. This afternoon I went to Dr. Barber's and he bandaged up my leg. Then I went to the Y.M.C.A. and spent the afternoon with John Barr. 08/14/1940 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools most of the time to day. Dick Pierpont came and painted on the front fence. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and ironing and cooked me a large dish of clam chowder and other things including a great bowl of tapioca pudding. This evening Cliff and Fritsa Heaton called and Ronny. Mrs. Hattersley called this afternoon. She is Irving's wife's sister. She had a letter from England yesterday from her sister, who is in the northern part and she states that the war is terrible that the Germans are dropping bombs everwhere {everywhere} and many people have been killed and she does not expect to live through it as there is not a safe place anywhere. 08/15/{1940} (Thursday) I worked about home all day. Dick Pierpont came and painted on the fence. This evening I went and visited Mr. Pearly Wilson on the Summit Road. 08/16/{1940} (Friday) I cut brushwood and did odd jobs about hom {home}. Went to Prospect to see Ruth Hotchkiss, she had gone to town. Went up the newly graded Scott Road to the Gilkey Road where it was closed, then out the Gilkey Road to the Waterbury Road then to the Summit Road and to Nellie Cowdells wher {where} I left three record books of the Prospect Coronet Bands of 1977 and 1854. Then I went to West Cheshire and got 1000 lbs. of crushed stone and took it to Pearly Wilsons and put it on their driveway. Then came home an {and} worked. Mrs. Pierpont was here and got a good dinner for me and Dick, who was painting the front fence. As I was eating my supper, Pearly Wilson called and wished to take me to ride. We went to Watersville, then Thomaston and Torrington to Goshen and to Tyter{??} Pond where they wished to see some friends, but it was dark and the woods thick and cottages everywhere and no one knew of the Pritchards of Milford for whom they were searching, so we turned homeward through Torrington, Harwinton, East Plymoth, Terryville{??}, Bristol, Wolcott and home at 9.15. 08/17/1940 (Saturday) I cut brush wood nearly all day. Dick Pierpont came and painted the remainder of the front fence. Mr. Garthwait called to know if I will be judge at the Fire Parade at Hitchcocks Lake tomorrow. [[end of Journal Book]] [[start of new Journal Book]] 08\18\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church at 10 A.M., out at 11. Rev. Dr. B.A. Hayton of New Haven preached. His subject was "The measure of a man". I went out to Fritsa Heaton's and had dinner, and at 1.30 went to the Firemen's engine house on Central Ave at Hitchcock's Lake where a parade was forming and where I was to act as a judge. There were frequent showers, but in the parade were the following, the Thomaston Fire Dept. and Thomaston Girls Drum Corps, Mattatuck Drum Corps, Milldale, Kensington, Charter Hose Co. of Ansoniam St. Stanslans, Drum Corps of Waterbury, Terryville Fire Dept., East End Community Club Drum Corps of Waterbury, Woodbury and Hotchkissville Depts, Mill Plain Fife and Drum Corps, Branford firemen, Veteran Association of Hartford, St. Joseph's Fife and Drum Corps, Springdale, Westfield, Danbury and Newington Fire Depts., Plainville Fife and Drum Corps. and St. Mary's Fife and Drum Corps of Torrington. The line of march was West on Central Rd. then East to East St. at the top of the Mountain then North and past the reviewing stand at corner of Central Ave. to the Mattatuck Golf Field where the exercises were held. 08\19\1940 (Monday) This morning I went to the Y.M.C.A. and visited with John Barre in his room till eleven when I went to the Conn. Light and Power Co. to see about the sewer assessment, but found that it was the Conn. Railway and Lighting Company that I wanted. I then went to Sears and Roebucks and bought some auto paint, came home and had dinner. Dick Pierpont came and we washed and cleaned my truck and began painting and varnishing it. The weather has been very hot. This evening we had a hard thunder shower. The Germans are still dropping bombs all over England as they have been doing for the past week. The situation looks bad for England. The country should send novies{?}, planes and tanks and keep the fighting line in France, and we should prepare for defense. 08\20\{1940} (Tuesday) Dick Pierpont and I touched up my pick up car and varnished it and it took all day. This evening I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road to make arrangements for them to take me to Clintonville some evening to see Alex Smith. Then I went to the Mattatuck Hall to a Drum Band Meeting. They had as guests the Plainville Drum Corps and Alex Smith of Clintonville and Mr. Cook of New Haven. We had good visits and a lively time drumming. 08\21\1940 (Wednesday) This forenoon I clipped the grass in the back yard and did other jobs. This afternoon I went to the funeral of Mrs. Purdy who lived on East Mountain. The funeral was held in the Prospect Congregational Church and she was buried in the Prospect Cemetery. 08\22\1940 (Thursday) I pulled the weeds about the fences in the chicken yard and mowed the rest and went to Cheshire and got a bag of chicken feed. This evening went to Pearly Wilson's and made arrangements for him to carry me to Clintonville tomorrow evening. 08\23\{1940} (Friday) This morning I went to the farm and cut brush wood. Mrs. Sarah Pierpont came and did up the work. In the afternoon I was at the farm and got vegetables for Mrs. St. Lewis and did other odd jobs. This evening went to Mr. Wilson's on the Summit Road and we went in his Desota Car to Clintonville and saw Mr. Alex Smith and he took us into his house and we drummed all the evening, he on his Morwn{??} drum that was made in 1832 and I on a heavy 20" drum that his great great grandfather used in the Revolutionary War. We made lots of noise and had a good time. Got home at 11.30. Jack Brundage called this evening. He is in trouble in getting the money to pay for the farm that they bought. Robert Miller called me up and staid to night. 08\24\{1940} This forenoon I went to Danbury with the Wolcott Fire Department that took part in one of the largest fire parade ever given in this state. The bus stopped here just before noon and took me on. All went well with the boys singing and the band Playing till we reached a point about three miles this side of Danbury where we found the road blocked with a line of autos that reached to the City, some of the time it moved a little very slowly. Finally we reached a cross road and Arthur Yarrington, the driver, turned North and went to Brookfield where we took the main Danbury Road down through Germantown and came to Main St. This was blocked at White St. and we turned West and soon found our diversion on a side street, The boys and Band got{???} and we started for the Fair Grounds where the parade was to be dismissed but had gone a short distance when the bus stopped and could not be started. Art telephoned to headquarters in Waterbury, and they started a mechanic out to make the necessary repairs. A friend and I walked to the corner of West Street where we had a fine view of the marchers, many had passed, but we stood there nearly two hours watching the remainder, soon the Kent Company came with their red shirts and fire engine, they made a neat appearance as any Company. Frank was at the left of the front rank. I did not have a chance to speak to him. It was a long procession of over 110 Companies, many from New York, and some from Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, many of Conn. There were about 62 bands ad drum Corps and the line was about three miles long. After it had passed, we returned to the bus and found that the man had to return to Waterbury to get some parts of the timer that was worm out. Soon he came and had things fixed, and we proceeded to the Fair Grounds, two miles distant. The last half mile was crowded with cars and the police and soldiers had a time getting us through. We finally found our party and set the bus, and then walked about, but I stayed much of the time in the bus with the drier till 11.30 when the lights were put out on the grounds and half of the boys had not returned. We started to leave and met an auto load of them and they told that the remainder were at the Elks Hall in Danbury. We then went there and found the rest, some of the boys went in but did not return with the other. Then we sent others in to bring them out, and they had a tussell as the first had Plenty of beer down {???} it was hard to get them away from the dancing girls, one fellow could not dance good because his shoes hurt his feet. The girls took the shoes off his feet, and with help cut the uppers from the soles and put them on. Then the boys took the gay ribbons from the girls hair and necks and tied the soles on his feet and brought him out, and we started for home at just 12 and they were a happy gay crowd of singers. We reached my home at 1.30. 08\25\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe preached. He subject was "Watchman What of the Night". The church was out at 11 AM. I came home and lay down but soon Bobbie came and then others called, so that I had little rest. About three I took my car and called on sister Mary at Mr. William Service's house. She is 79 years old. I then went to Arthur Bird's in Bristol and left a drum that I had repaired. He paid me $4.00. We had a fine supper and then he took me out through his fine garden. There was not a weed in sight. It made me feel like coming home and go to hoeing. I left there before dark and came down the West side of Cedar Swamp Pond and over Spindle Hill and home before nine. 08\26\{1940} (Monday) I have cut brush wood at the farm all day. This evening Bessie Pierpont wished to know the level of her house above the sea. I looked it up and found it is 600 ft. My house is 430 ft. above sea level. The center of Waterbury is 360 ft. Laurence Pierpont's house is 500 ft. above. The highest point on Southington Mountain, south of the turnpike is 700 ft. above. 08\27\1940 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and cut wood. After dinner, I went and saw John Barr at the Y.M.C.A. after which I came home, then with my truck I went to the Hotchkiss Place and took home a towel. I asked Ruth to go to the Goshen Fair but she had so much to do that she could not go. I then drove up the Scott Road as far as it is graded, about twelve rods above the Gilkey Road. Here I had to turn about, then I went out over Prospect Hill and down to Mixville and in the Cheshire Road and home. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at East Farms. 08\28\{1940} (Wednesday) This forenoon I went to the Waterbury Brass Co. and met Raymond, and he took me through the factory where I saw them make brass in large quantities, and many other things that were of interest. This afternoon I went to the Y.M.C.A. and saw John Barr. This evening Fritsa, Ronny, Bobbie and Cliff called and they put the front room and the room at the head of the stairs to rights. 08\29\1940 (Thursday) This forenoon I went to the farm and got a lot of vegetables for Fritsa. This afternoon I went up through Woodtick and over the Ransom Hall Road and then down East Street to Edward Thireault's{??} and gave him $5.00 to pay for my trip to Danbury with the Wolcott Fire Department. Then I went and left the vegetables with Cliff Heaton at the Reutter cottage at the south end of the lake. I received a postal from Irving at Gettysburg stating that he was headed for Philadelphia and New York and expected to reach here tomorrow. 08\30\{1940} (Friday) This morning it rained and continued all day. Sarah Pierpont came and did up the work and made a big dish of clam chowder. I sharpened tools till I was called to the telephone when John Barr called and wished a copy of the history of the Mattatuck Drum Band to publish in "The Democrat". As I had but one copy I called Margaret and she said that she would type me a copy. I went to town and got one hundred sheets of paper and carbon paper and then did odd jobs and at about three Margaret and George Hall called and got the paper etc. We have been expecting Irving, Dot, John and Barbara Miller. They left Milwaukee last Sunday morning and visited Gettysburg, Philadelphia, New York Worlds Fair etc. They came a little after three in the rain. It has been good weather here but they have been in the rain all the time. This evening we all went up to Ray's and had a good visit. 08\31\1940 (Saturday) This morning I got breakfast and soon Irving and Dorothy Miller came out and Barbara and John came down, and we ate breakfast. Then I did the chores and John and I went to Cheshire and got a load of feed. Then we came home and all of us went up to Fritsa's at Hitchcock's Lake and had dinner after which we went to Milford and got some clams at the old gulf. Then we drove through Woodmont, Savin Rock, West Haven, New Haven to Northford and Clintonville and visited Alex Smith, then we drove home and had some clams for supper. 09\01\1940 (Sunday) I with Irving, Dorothy, Barbara and John Miller together with Ruth and Raymond, Robert, Willard and Ronald Miller and Fritsa Heaton attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Dr. B.A. Hylton lectured. His subject was "Have Faith In God", but he talked against conscript, draft and defence, and many people were greatly offended and talked very Plain to him after service. After service, Irving, Dorothy, John, Barbara and I drove to Westbrook to Mr. John Walker's cottage where all except me went bathing and they dug some clams on the beach and when the tide was low they went out to Salt Island where they dug about half a peck. At dark we came home through Essex, Deep River, Chester, Haddam, Hegganum, Middletown and Meriden. 09\02\1940 (Monday) I sharpened tool this morning after I had my breakfast of baked oysters. After a time Barbara and John Miller came down and they got their own breakfast. Irving and Dorothy went up to Wolcott and staid with Margaret and came back before noon. Then we all got ready and went out to the Garrigus Family Reunion at Bessie Pierpont's Place. There were over 100 in attendence. After that Irving, John and I went down to the MaPle Hill Dairy where Laurence was milking the cows and Mort bottled the milk and cleaned the milk room with steam and water, after which Dorothy and Barbara came with Ralph Pierpont after a hard shower and we all came over to my house and got ready and started for West Haven where Mort Pierpont wished us to go as he would furnish entertainment. We met him and Jessie at his barn and John and Barbara rode with him and Jessie, Dorothy, Irving and I in our car. We went to Wilcox Restaurant where we had a fine shore supper and then walked up and down the street and saw all kinds of sporting games and devises, after which we left for home and reached Mort's barn where we found John and Barbara and came home a little before midnight. 09\03\1940 (Tuesday) I got up and we had breakfast and did odd jobs about the Place. After dinner Irving, John and I went to town and they did some banking business after which we went up to the Waterbury Rolling Mills and saw them cast and roll brass, nickel, and silver and looked about the Place. From there we went over town Plot and down and crossed the river at the Bristol factories and then to the Somers Brass Co. at South Waterbury where we met Cousin Joseph Somers and Lewis and Grey and Dwight Somers and they showed us how the rolled metal down so thin that six thicknesses equaled the thickness of a dollar bill. We came home and after supper all went out to Mort Pierpont's to the rehearsal of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 09\04\1940 (Wednesday) This morning Irving and Dot and Barbara and John went over to visit her sister in Mable-dale and I went to East Farms and cut brushwood. Mrs. Sarah Pierpont came and did the washing and the necessary housework. This afternoon we all went to Margaret's Place in Wolcott where they were a great number of our people assembled and we had a fine picnic dinner out of doors south of the house. At dark they assembled and a young man Played on his banjo while the others sang several songs after which we went in the house and Ralph Pierpont showed a lot of moving pictures that was very interesting. 09\05\{1940} (Thursday) This morning we spent about home till 11 o'clock when Irving, John and I went to the farm and we hitched Buster into the cart and went up on the hill and then we cut brush till three when we came home and got something to eat and then did odd jobs till about six when Irving and his family on invitation of Mr. Mortimer Pierpont went down to the oasis in Branford to a shore dinner, and I suppose they are enjoying it now at nine P.M. 09\06\{1940} (Friday) To day Irving, Dorothy, Barbara, John and myself went to the Brainard Flying Field in Hartford and then to Ruth's at Storrs and back home. Irving and Dot went out to Mort Pierpont's and staid tonight. 09\07\1940 (Saturday) To day Irving, Dorothy, John, Barbara Miller and myself went to Westbrook and visited John Walker and his son Donald and daughter Cornelia. We dug some clams and mussels and had a fine dinner after which Donald and Cornelia Walker, Alice Cummings, Irving and Dot, John and Barbara Miller, went in bathing. After that Donald Walker, Dorothy Miller, Mrs. Cummings, John Walker and I in Donald's car and Irving, John and Dorothy Miller and Alice Cummings in Irving's car, drove out about Essex then to Old Saybrook then up to Essex Landing then through Ivrytown and Winthrop where took me into Irving's car and Cornelia, Donald and John Walker and Alice and Mrs. Cummings got into Donald's car and they went to Westbrook and we came to Waterbury. 09\08\1940 (Sunday) I and Irving attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. He has returned from his vacation. His subject was "A Hunger For God". After service we had a good dinner that Dorothy got ready and soon after I took my car and went out to M.E. Pierpont's grove to the Annual Mattatuck Drum Band Clam Bake. There were about 60 men present. Irving, Dorothy, Barbara and John got ready and started for Wisconsin stopping at the Clam Bake a while and bade me good bye. They were to stay at Fritsa's in Tuckahoe to night and start early in the morning for Philadelphia where Irving is to attend to some business for the O.H. Smith Co. tomorrow after which he starts for home. After the dinner was over at the bake which consisted of two bushels of little neck clams, 60 pounds of mackerel, 40 pounds of chicken, 1 bu of sweet potatoes, 2 doz lobsters, 1 bushel of common potatoes, a lot of sweet corn etc. together with an abundance of frankfurts, briskets, sausages, pickles, etc. and Plenty of drink. Will Mansfield Gillette and I in Mansfield's car went to Clintonville to Alex Smith's where I had been invited to another dinner. We were late in getting there, but I drummed some with the drummers of that vicinity and we had a good visit. Mansfield left me at Mort Pierpont's house and I took my own car and came home. Bobbie is going to stay here tonight and continue right along. The Great National Conscript Bill was passed in Washington yesterday. The government has sold to England 226 80 ton tanks to be used in the war. They have been kept since the World War and are about twenty two years old. 09\09\1940 (Monday) This has been a quiet day. This morning I got breakfast for Bobbie and I , then I sat and lay around the house till noon and went to the farm and cut brush wood. 09\10\1940 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the farm and cut brush wood. After dinner I went to Dr. Barber's office on North Main St. and he dressed my leg. Then I went to the Young Men's Christian Association building and saw John Barr about having the History of the Mattatuck Drum Band. After supper I went to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms and was with the boys when they practiced, and then read the history of the band to them as many had not heard it. 09\11\{1940} (Wednesday) This morning Mrs. Pierpont came ad did the washing and did up the work. I got vegetables and went to the store etc. Cut up brush wood and brought in a load and put it in the woodhouse. 09\12\{1898} (Thursday) To day I drew in two loads of wood from the farm. After dinner I went up to Margaret's in Wolcott and took up some glasses and a dozen eggs. 09\13\1940 (Friday) Mrs. Pierpont came this morning and the ironing and got my dinner etc. I went to the farm and brought home a load of wood. After dinner I took Mrs. Pierpont home and then brought in another load of wood. Dick came and got lunch and then mowed the lawn and I went for another load. After unloading it, Dick and I brought in the wood that was cut here and we put it in the woodhouse. The paper stated to night that the Germans had damaged Buckingham Palace in London by dropping bombs but the King and Queen were not injured as they were down in bomb shelters. 09\14\{1898} (Saturday) I went to the Bethlehem Fair to day. The street to Watertown is impassable so I went to Waterville and up the Thomaston Road and across Frost's Bridge and then came out in Oakville, then up through Watertown to Bethlehem and the Fair was held on the road to Morris about a mile above the center. It was a nice little fair with good exhibits of fruit and vegetables, needle and {??????} work, poultry, dogs, cats, pigeons and rabbits, 20 yokes of oxen, horses cows and young cattle etc. 09\15\1940 (Sunday) Two years ago to day Mary passed away at about three in the afternoon. To day I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Rock and The Gates of Hell". I came home and staid about the house till 3.30. Then I went out to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road. I overtook Miss Lines on the Austin Road and carried her to Fred Berger's house. I reached home at about eight o'clock. The radio to day stated that they were dropping bombs on London that weighed five hundred pounds. 09\16\1940 (Monday) This morning I took my Runabout car to Mr. Redfern's in Bristol to have it repaired. I left it there and a young man brought me home. This afternoon I went to the farm and dug some potatoes and pulled weeds and brought home a load of wood. 09\17\{1940} (Tuesday) To day I dug potatoes at the farm. This evening attended a meeting of the drum board. The Stonycreek Corps and the American Legion Corps were visitors. I mailed a letter to Alice Cummings. 09\18\1940 (Wednesday) This morning I got up early and drove up to Margaret's at Wolcott Center and at eight we started for the New England State Fair at West Springfield. We stopped in Bristol and I saw about my car that is being repaired at Redferns and they will send it down to day and I have arranged for Miss Gladding to pay them the 25.00 that it will cost. We then went to Hartford and across the stone bridge to East Hartford where we took in George's daughter and then went up the river and crossed at Warehouse Point and on to the fair. We parked our car back of the Maine building and I then made a tour of the grounds by myself. I saw Dwight's baby beef{??} and an attendant told me that it took the first premium in its class, and the third in the New England contest. The first was won by a Massachusetts boy and sold for 1.00 per pound and weighed 1000 lbs. The second went to R.J. Coy and sold for .50 per lb. Dwight's sold for .20 per lb and weighed about 1000 lbs. The fourth went to Miss Carter at Storrs and sold for .10 per lb. I failed to see Jack Brundage. He was there but we missed. We left at 3.30 and crossed the Connecticut River at Springfield and came to West Hartford where we left George's daughter who met her husband, and we came to Wolcott and I took my truck and came home, just at dark. 09\19\1940 (Thursday) This morning I went to the City Hall and paid the tax collector $443.32 cents, one half of the sewer assessment against me for the sewer on the Frost Road. The other installment comes due Feb 1, 1941. I came home and had lunch and then went to West Cheshire and got 900 lbs of 1/2" crushed stone and put it on Mr. Wilson's drive way. He lives on the Summit Road in Prospect. Bobbie told me this afternoon, he had joined the army and will have to go to Virginia for a year. Will leave in November. Sent a letter to Wm. Gillette to see if he could have Mary's estate settled by Nov. 10th. 09\20\{1941} (Friday) I stayed home all day, made egiht clamps for setting bass drum heads and a bass drum gauge. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. 09\21\{1941} (Saturday) This morning Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called and we went to the Springfield Fair where we saw many things among them the exciting and dangerous automobile races. We got to Mr. Wilson's house at dark where we had supper and then they brought me home. 09\22\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Steady my son, steady father". At 5 o'clock Ray and Ruth called with a nice new Nash car and took me up to Plainville and we had a nice sea food supper. They brought me home down through Southington just at dark. Had Mary lived she would have been 80 years old to day. 09\23\{1940} (Monday) I dug potatoes at the farm to day. I took my dinner and brought in to Ruth Miller on Capitol Ave. cucumbers, musk mellons, corn, tomatoes, and large turnips. This evening Byron Flemming and I went to the Mattatuck Hall and set a bass drum head. 09\24\{1898} (Tuesday) To day I dug potatoes at the farm. This evening Byron Flemming called and we drove out to the Mattatuck Hall where we joined a lot of other boys and we all went to Mr. Dresser's house in Plainville where we met the Plainville Drum Corps and members of the Moodus, Manchester, Stonycreek and others and after drumming a while we had a fine visit all round and the ladies set a table and we had frankfurts and hamberg{?} sandwiches, crullers, doughnuts, and coffee and beer for those who wanted it. Mansfield Gillette and Ralph Pierpont went to Boston to see the parade of the World's War veterans. There were over 100,000 men in line and they sat six hours and not half had passed. We got home from Plainville at midnight. 09\25\{1940} (Wednesday) To day I have been about home all day. Sharpened a few tools. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got dinner. It has rained all day. 09\26\{1940} (Thursday) This day I went to Storrs to see Ruth and their house that they are repairing at their farm. At ten o'clock I was at the Hall home on Wolcott Hill and we started George Hall, Margaret, Anna Pierpont Meanick from Florida and myself. We went through Hartford and got to Storrs before noon, and left there about 3.30 and I got home about five. 09\27\1940 (Friday) My birthday, 82 years old. This morning I drove to Cheshire and got two bags of chicken feed. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. I went to the Center on the bus and at the Manufacturer's Bank on Levenworth Street got the Waterbury Rolling Mill check for for 52.00 cashed. Then I went to the New. England Telephone Co. on Grand Street and paid last month's bill, 4.00. Then I went to the Conn. Light and Power Co. and paid last month's bill, 4.80. Then to Judd S. Puffer's and paid the insurance of the barn at Eat Farms, 7.20 on 900.00 for three years. Got home by bus at noon. Had dinner after which I sharpened tools a spell, then attended to a book agent who wished to write my biography in a new History of New England that is to be published. Then I found two old window shasb{??} that need painting and repairing and measured and planned to put them in my black- smith shop so I can have more light. After supper I telephoned Carrie Benham and offered to help repair their heating furnace which is rusted out. Last night was very cold and a heavy frost. I slept cold and my joints cracked when I got up. Soon I had a roaring fire in the cook stove and in the furnace in the cellar and got the house warmed up. Yesterday the Germans dropped many large bombs on London and all over England and there were many fierce air battles, which brought down about 90 German planes and the English dropped many shells on the German works in France and Germany. Yesterday, Japan, Italy and Germany signed a ten year pact to stand by each other through the war. This country has passed the draft act to conscript men from 21 to 35. Many are now enlisting and will soon be in training. 09\28\1940 (Saturday) This morning I started for the Durham Fair. I took in Dick and Sylvia Pierpont at East Farms and went to Cheshire where we turned East and across Broad Swamp Pond and through Yalesville and North Wallingford, then through Red's Gap to Durham. The Fair was held on the west side of the Main Street and in front of the Town Hall, and was a large one. There were many horses, oxen, cows, sheep, pigs and big displays of poultry, dogs. cats. rabbits, flowers, fruit, vegetables, pies, cakes, and needle and knit work. They had for entertainment jumping and riding horses, performing and drawing oxen. The North Branford Drum Corps gave an exhibition drill and Playing. The Young Lady Drum Major showed her dexterity in throwing and twirling her baton, and Manager Arthur Hull induced Walter Barker of Higganum and I to give an exhibition in drumming, as the two oldest drummers in the state. We drummed one piece together and then he drummed a piece and I drummed the Double Drag which brought forth great applause from the thousand or more people who witnessed it. This evening after I got home Dick with his friend Miss Wilkens called and we had a nice visit. A little later Ruth and Jack Brundage called as they were on their way from Storrs to Danbury. Lyndell Heaton and Alfred Northrop were married this afternoon and Cliff and Fritsa Heaton and Dick and Ronald Miller came up from New York. 09\29\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The Rev. Mr. Madden preached. The day was a nice one and after lunch I took my little roadster and started for a drive up through Mill Plain and kept on over Lakewood Road and down into Waterville and up the River Road and across Reynolds Bridge and up the old valley turnpike past the West Branch Reservoir and through East Morris. By this time my machine got to going and I stayed on through Morris and Lakeside then over through Romford and past the school and up the Shepang River and west to Warren where I stopped at the store and bought five gallons of gas for 1.00 then west nine miles to Kent where I found all the folks at home. They game me a hearty welcome and we had a happy time. Frank suggested that I ride with him down to South Kent as two of the children were there and were to be brought home. I intended to return to Waterbury immediately but Elsie said they had room for me to stay over night, so I went with them, and we saw the new Chapel and dormitory that had been built at the South Kent School and the Place where they had built a large sack of hay and the man staid and finished putting a nice pointed top on it when it began to rain and he got down and ran to the near by shed when a flash of lightening struck the large sack and it burned to the ground. After viewing the interesting sights we returned home and had a fine supper and all were in bed about nine o'clock. 09\30\{1940} (Monday) Frank and the men were out and feeding and milking at five this morning as they are every morning. We all Frank, Elsie, Marion, Bertha, Lors{??}, I don't know the name of the next, and June had a nice breakfast. Dwight is started on a four year course in the Kent School and is not at home now. After we finished I prepared to leave for home after calling Robbie Miller on the telephone and telling him where I was. I carried Marion and Bertha over to the soldier's monument in Kent where they were to take the school bus that was to carry them with others 18 miles to Falls Village to the high school. I took a map of Connecticut and drew a straight line on it from my house to Kent and I tried to follow the roads that ran nearest the line home. At the top of Kent Mountain I turned south and traveled towards Lake Waramaug. After going about three miles I found that the road going East was washed out at the time of the hurricane and had not been rebuilt so I was obliged to go back again to the Warren Road. Then I took the next road that turned South and the farther I went down a mile long very steep and rock road that there interceded another one and at the corner stood a large white house. I went to the door. No one was at home, but it was the same Place that I had stopped at two hours before. I then drove to the Warren Road on the road that I traveled, making three times that I had been over the same road. I then went to East Kent and down the new mountain road to Waramaug, then down around the West and South side of the lake and over the road East to the Litchfield turnpike. This East and West road is on the line from my house to Kent. Then I went up the Litchfield road and took the Romford road over Romford and South and across east on a narrow hilly dirt road to the Washington and Litchfield road which I followed East half a mile to Bethlehem then to Watertown and then home at 10.45. Then I did the chores and after dinner sharpened pick axes till night. 10\01\1940 (Tuesday) To day I did odd jobs about home and worked cutting out the West side of the blacksmith shop to put in two windows. This evening I attended the meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at their hall at Morton Pierpont's house at East Farms. We repaired Byron Flemming's bass drum and then practiced a spell when Theodore Williams came from Tarrytown N.Y. and I had to give an exhibition of drumming with him. He is the best drummer I ever saw though only sixteen years old. He learned from my brother Fred and Fred learned from me in 1888. 10\02\{1940} (Wednesday) Rained all day. I repaired two old window sash and set the glass and puttied it in and painted them. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing etc. 10\03\1940 (Thursday) This forenoon I made over a bass drum cord and did other odd jobs about home. This afternoon I drove up the Scott Road. There was an air drill at work just over the Prospect line. Most of the blasting is done and the roadway widened out and about half a mile at the South end finished but the rest of the way to the Prospect town line is very rough. I drove over it very slow, then I went out to the main Waterbury road and down the Summit Road to the farm and got a lot of vegetables. 10\04\{1940} (Friday) This morning I did odd jobs about home. Sarah Pierpont came. I went to the Fulton Market and got some starrib{??} swordfish and she got a good dinner. In the after noon I went and had Dr. Barber do up my old leg and I went to the Bank and deposited some checks after which I visited John Barr at the Young Men's Christian Association home, then I came home and soon after four o'clock, Pearly Wilson called and I went to his home in Prospect and all got ready to go to Stratford. We started but went to Cheshire to the home of Mr. Lathrop where we got a workman and brought him to Mr. Wilson's home to stay while Mrs. Wilson went to the World's Fair. Tomorrow we then continued on down through Bethany, Woodbridge and Orange to Milford where we stopped and Mr. Birth's house. It was very dark and travel was very heavy on the Post Road so Mr. Birth accompanied us the rest of the way to Stratford as he knew the way to Mr. Wilcoxen's house in Stratford where we were going. We reached there about eight. I wished to see Mr. Wilcoxen as he is the Town Clerk of Stratford and I wished to find out about my Somers ancestors. But he was away and could not be located. He had a large lot of books and I looked at some of them. While Mrs. Wilson and Miss Wilcoxen made arrangements to go to New York tomorrow. They were school teachers together before Mrs. Wilson got married. Miss Wilcoxen still teaches though a charming young lady of about 32 years. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Birth went down the street and they showed me to Mr. Wilcoxen's room where I enjoyed some of his fine books. To soon Miss Wilcoxen came and told me that they wished me to get ready to return home. We started, leaving Mrs. Wilson there and Mr. Birth in Milford and Mr. Wilson brought me home by the same course that we went. We reached here at about 10.30. 10\05\1940 (Saturday) Eventful days these. Lots of war news and presidential election is approaching, and shall Roosevelt serve the third term with the greatest National Debt that was ever known. The draft is soon to start. The Waterbury Committees have been named. To day I worked on the Blacksmith shop, had Dick Pierpont help and he did some painting on the chicken yard fence. The weather had been nice. Wm. Gillette called this afternoon. 10\06\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden officiated. His subject was 'The Search For Peace". There was a fair attendance. In the afternoon I drove over to North Wallingford and visited Charles Flass. He is sick with a heart attack. Now he is able to sit up and get around a little. 10\07\{1940} (Monday) To day I finished digging my potatoes and pulled two and one half buckets of large turnips. This evening Byron Flemming and I went to the Mattatuck Hall and repaired a bass drum. 10\08\1940 (Tuesday) It has rained all day. I took my dinner and went to the farm but did little work as it was too wet. However, I picked a basket of grapes and mowed the weeds on the four sides of the garden. I took the grapes up to Ruth Miller on Capital Avenue. 10\09\{1940} (Wednesday) This has been a noteworthy day. The Presidential Elect Candidate Wendell L. Willkie came to town. He was due here at 12.50 but this morning as Stamford he was held an extra hour by the great crowd and all along the route the streets and roads were lined with people eager to get a look at him. He rode in an open auto with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Governor Baldwin. They were preceded by about 50 state police on motorcycles and in cars, and a long train of motorcycle police, and autos and busses. I stood opposite City Hall and got a good view of him when he arrived at 2.20 P.M. and saw Mayor Sculley welcome him after which he proceeded to Library Park where he made a 10 minute speech to 15,000 people. When he left I was with Carrie Benham when she got a picture of him. He then went to the Hotel Elton for dinner. I came home and found that Ruth Brundage had been here and left some good things for me to eat. Sarah Pierpont came and did up the work. 10\10\1940 (Thursday) This morning I worked on my little car, cleaning it up and at noon I went to Mr. Adkin's station at East Farms and got five gallons of gasoline for 75 cts. Then I went to George Cowdell's and Nellie and I drove to Woodbridge and saw Mr. Silas Peck. She saw him about genealogical matters but I talked with him about the original match industry in Woodbridge. He gave me a lot of information concerning it. We left there about four and got home a little after dark. 10\11\{!940} (Friday) This has been a cool day. I have worked in the blacksmith shop all the time. Mrs. Sarah Pierpont came and did up the work. Received a letter from Alice Cummings. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called to see about going to the World's Fair tomorrow. 10\12\1940 (Saturday) This morning I got up at five and got breakfast etc. and let Bobbie know that I was going to the World's Fair. I left my cat at 6.15 and drove to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road and he and I started at 7 in his nice DeSoto car and drove to Milford and there turned onto the Merrit Parkway which is not et completed at that end, then on to the New Bridge across the Houstonic River where we were obliged to pay ten cents toll, then we spread along the parkway without a stop till we nearly reached the New York State line where we paid another 10 cts. toll, then entering New York under a bridge. We were on Hutchenson River Parkway to the toll house near the Whitestone Bridge where we paid .25 toll then we went up to a height of nearly 150 onto the suspension across the sound where we had a view of the land and water for miles in every direction. But little time to look however as we were traveling very fast and soon reached the parking field, where we left our car on Section A, Lane 3, Car No 734, Conn., having come 90 miles in two and one half hours. Here we took a bus and rode a very short distance to the gate. We paid nothing for parking but five cts each for a 50 rod bus ride, as nearly everybody else did. On paying 50 cts each we entered the grounds. Before we left home Mrs. Wilson charged us to visit the General Motors building. We walked a long distance towards the building and inquired of a policeman where it was. He said that he had just come from there and that we would have to wait nearly all day as there was a line 4 deep and he should think three or four miles long waiting to enter. We kept on and entered from the rear and saw the working exhibit and the auto exhibit, then we went through the Ford Exhibit and through the railway exhibit and among other tings and saw the largest locomotive ever built, 140 ft long, 4 cylinders, eight driving wheels and the boiler so high that they could have no smoke stack. Then we took a bus and went all about the grounds and went through the Florida building then about the grounds till four o'clock when we started for home, but we had to walk a long distance to the Long Island and Pennsylvania gate, and soon we found our car, and started but such traffic as we encountered on the Hutchenson River Highway we never saw before, for long distance we met the cars running two about and going 50 miles an hour, however on our side there was not half as many and we got along very well. Pearly ran much of the way 60 miles an hour and in two hours we reached Milford where we stopped and at a nice restaurant we had a nice supper. We then came to his house in Prospect and I took my car and reached home before eight o'clock having traveled about 186 miles, and seen great sights. 10\13\1940 (Sunday) To day I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Madding preached or I should call it a lecture. I have never heard him take a text from the Bible. Today his subject was "The Revolt Against Pain." He talked a half hour telling what he thought of it, but I could not make it seem very instructive or inspiring. At the end he said that "Pain makes the man". Let us pray. I came home and I had nothing very appetizing to eat for dinner. I telephoned to Nellie Cowdell and told her I was alone and wanted to go somewhere and get a good dinner and would she go too. After some consideration, she said she would go if I called. So I drove down and we started down the New Haven Road and across the country to Mt. Carmel and on down to Branford to the Oasis on the Post Road where the place was surrounded by auto. We went in and had to wait a long time till we got our serving. I had fried oysters and she had broiled mackerel, all of which was excellent. Then we drove to North Branford, then to Northford and to Clintonville where I visited Mr. Alex Smith and got some fine Macintosh apples. Then we came through North Haven and Mr. Carmel and to West Cheshire and Prospect where I left her at her home and I reached here after dark, having had an enjoyable supper. 10\14\1940 (Monday) To day I worked in the blacksmith shop most of the time and repairing windows for the barn at East Farms, in the Wheelhouse a spell. 10\15\{1940} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all day. Rained hard this afternoon. Killed one of the spring roosters. Raymond had one half. 10\16\{1940} (Wednesday) I have worked in the blacksmith shop nearly all day. To day 16,404,000 men between 21 and 36 years of age have registered for the War Draft. 10\17\{1940} (Thursday) I have worked in the Blacksmith Shop most of the day sharpening four points. Weather has been cold. This evening Byron Flemming and I went to the Mattatuck Hall to repair a drum but broke the hoop. 10\18\1940 (Friday) This forenoon I sharpened a lot of four points and did other odd jobs. This afternoon I went to Cheshire and got feed and went to the Hardware Store on Main St. and got the price of wire fence, 6.70 for 10 rods 4 ft. high. Mrs. Pierpont came to day. 10\19\{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and mowed the grass east of the chicken coop. Last night the hot water pipes on the water heater upstairs got clogged and forced the steam through the whole system of pipes. I had the fire put out and shut the water off and this morning turned it o to the sinks and toilets and telephoned for Mr. Blanchard to come and fix the heater. I repaired a drum hoop in the Wheelhouse after which Dick and I got dinner. Then we washed the dishes and went to the farm, we pulled some corn and hitched the ox into the cart and went up on the hill and picked up the apples, and then pulled the turnips, and brought them home and put them in the cellar. We had twelve bushels. The paper tonight stated that the factories of Waterbury had received a total of 13 million dollars in war orders in the last five months. 10\20\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. "What happens to our religion on Monday" was his subject. I came home, and soon Laurence Pierpont drove into the yard and told of the death of Addison Smith who has been leader of the Plainville Drum Corps for a long time, and the Mattatuck Drum Band had been requested to attend the funeral this afternoon. I telephoned Mansfield Gillette and he would carry me. Soon he called and we went to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms where there assembled ten men and we drove to Bailey's Funeral Parlor at Plainville. There were assembled neighbors and friends and the Plainville Drum Corps in uniform. Six of our boys were in uniform. After the service the funeral formed and then we marched up Broad St and out Main St then up Washington Street to the Cemetery, a distance of about one and one half miles. The drum corps beating time or playing, at the Cemetery they changed to dirge time. Mr. Smith was 79 years old. After the funeral a stranger carried me back in his car to the funeral home and soon Mansfield joined us there and we started in his car and drove up through Unionville and Canton to New Hartford. Then we turned south towards Harrington. On a high raise of ground we saw a large church bell mounted on two tall concrete pillars. We got out and found that it was on the foundation of the first church built in New Hartford but the church had been abandoned and taken down years ago and the bell and two bronze tablets on the foundation marked the spot. Then we sped south over a fine new surface hardened road and after crossing the Harrington line turned west on a dirt road and came to Mansfield Gillette's bungalow in the woods where we stopped and looked about, then we went west and entered the main Harrington road, then west and south to Thomaston then home to Mansfield's house where we had supper. There were two Miller girls there whose home is in Prospect and after supper Mansfield and I carried them home, then he brought me home and we said goodbye. 10\21\{1940} (Monday) This day has been very cold and a few flakes of snow fell. This morning I repaired and painted a bass drum rim and put glass in two window frames for the barn out East. At three o'clock I attended the funeral of Allen Burgess in the Pine Grove Cemetery. They brought his body for Wyabusing{??}, Pa. this morning coming through a snow storm the other side of the Hudson River. His wife was Agnes Able, daughter of Hiram and worked for us when Raymond was a baby. 10\22\{1940} (Tuesday) Very cold morning, 14ø above zero. I painted window sash, and killed and dressed a chicken. This afternoon I took half of the rooster up to Ruth Miller then went to the farm and pulled my carrots and a few beets and brought them home and put them in the cellar. This evening I attended a drum corps meeting at East Farms. 10\23\{1940} (Wednesday) This forenoon I cut up and made four pipe fence posts and went to the farm and got some drills and sharpened them. This afternoon at the farm Dick Pierpont and I lined out a fence and made the holes for two fence posts. Wrote a letter to Mrs. Allen Burgess at Wyabusing, Pa. 10\24\{1940} (Thursday) I got in the vegetables from the garden at East Farms. This evening I went with the Mattatuck Drum Band boys to Stony Creek to visit that Corps at their hall. We had a nice supper and a good time. 10\25\1940 (Friday) Dick Pierpont helped me at the farm all day drilling the bed rock for fence posts on the East side of the lane. We went to Cheshire and got a bag of cement and then up to Mrs. Wakelee's and got a load of sand. 10\26\{1940} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont and I were at the farm building a fence on the east side of the lane. We got the posts all set. The weather has been nice and cool. 10\27\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Matthew Madden officiated. His subject was "A Pastor Sits Down With Life". 10\28\{1940} (Monday) Cold this morning. Sharpened tool all the forenoon then after dinner I went to Cheshire and got a bag of cement and Dick Pierpont and i finished cementing in the fence posts. We cut our initials on a bed rock north of the barn and the date 1940. 10\29\1940 (Tuesday) This morning was very cold. The ground froze two inches deep in the garden. I got some of the vegetables from the garden into the cellar and after dinner went to Dr. Barber's and had my old leg dresses, then went to City Hall and paid 96.61 tax which is one half of the year's tax. I went to the Connecticut Light & Power Co. and paid last month's lighting bill, 4.22, then to the Southern New England Telephone Office on Grand Street and last month;s telephone bill, 4.22. I came to the Y.M.C.A. and visited with Mr. John Barr. He wishes to publish some of the event that have happened during our lifetime. We are both the same age, 82 years. At 4.30 I left him and came home on a bus and got supper after which I wrote drum music and selected fife tunes for Standard Drum Beats till Mansfield Gillette called and took me out to the Drum Band rehearsal at their hall at East Farms where we practiced till 9.30 and then had a business meeting. There were visitors from Lancrafts Corps New Haven and from Meriden. I got home at 10.30. 10\30\{1940} (Wednesday) An eventful day for the names of some of the young men between 21 and 32 who were drafted into the United States Service yesterday were published to day. Numbers to the extent of 5000 were of Western Connecticut and published to day. It has rained all day and I have been in the house all the time visiting and arranging tunes and music for the Mattatuck Drum Band to play. And have written several letters etc. 10\31\1940 (Thursday) Cool day. This forenoon I was about home doing up odd jobs. This afternoon I went to the farm and Dick and I drew an iron fence up to put in the land and we took the mowing machine apart and got it ready to put up. 11\01\{1940} (Friday) To day I worked about home this forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the work and go t dinner. In the afternoon I worked on the fence. Dick Pierpont came and we got the mowing machine up in the barn. Then we went to Cheshire. Dick drove and at the Cheshire Grain and Coal Co. we got a bag of laying{??} mash, then we went up the hill to R.W. Hines Hardware Store and bought 10 rods of wire fencing. Then we came to Mort Pierpont's and got a bass drum and a tank. 11\02\1940 (Saturday) Rained hard all day till just before dark when the sun shone and there was a rainbow. I had Dick Pierpont come and we painted up the stone wall in the Blacksmith shop. Dick ran the concrete mixer and I did the painting. 11\03\1940 (Sunday) {??} 11\04\{1940} (Monday) Yesterday morning I started for Kent soon after eight. Went through Waterbury, Watertown, Bethlehem, Washington and Kent. Got there about eleven and went to the Church service. Soon Frank and Elsie came. After service we went to Frank's home and we had a good dinner. In the afternoon Frank, Elsie, Marion and Bertha went in their nice Buick car west into York State through South Dover, Dover Furnace and up Plymouth Hill to Washington. Then we turned North East through a nice productive dairy country to Millbrook and on to Amenia{??} beyond which we crossed the state line in Connecticut and on to the grand old town of Sharon, then to Amenia Union where the people who live on the East Side of Main St are in Conn. and those on the West are in New York. Then we went south up mountains past Ray Dene's farms. He makes more milk than any one else, about 2000 qts per day. Then we came down through Macadonia where we saw six large wild deer and on over the Skiff Mountain and down a very steep road to the river which we followed home. The men had the milking and feeding about done and after getting the grain and feed ready for morning we went to the house and had a nice supper, eight of us. Soon the milk was done up and after reading etc. a spell one after another went to bed, by nine o'clock all were in. At five this morning the men were all out, feeding and milking and soon after six they were through about 500 qts and had breakfast by seen. Then the cattle were let out and the barn cleaned and limed and all were ready for the field work at eight. I went up the river with Frank where he got the tractor out, and went to plowing an eight acre piece where he expects to spread 16 ton s of lime tomorrow and seed it down to grass. I walked back to the house and found that the six children had all gone to school. Dwight is in the Kent Preparatory. Mary is attending the Falls Village High and the rest are in the Kent Public School. I bid Elsie good bye and started about eleven. When I got to Bethlehem I saw some of the heaviest road work being done on the Woodbury Road about a mile and one half south west of the Center. Here they had a large steam shovel and five ton trucks working, but farther up they were changing the road to go through a high hill. They had two of the largest scrapers mounted on four large wheels with great rubber tires. Each could be lowered down so the scraper which was about ten feet long and seven ft wide and four ft or more deep. These were drawn by great caterpillar tractors, the largest I ever saw. They would drag those scrapers through the hard wet earth till full then take them down a 1/4 mile and dump and a huge pusher would push the earth off the bank. In a few minutes one of these scrapers would take away more earth than a steam shovel would in an hour. I left there and came home, reached here about two o'clock having come 43 miles. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Wilson called. 11\05\1940 (Tuesday) This is Presidential Election Day. About 8 this morning Bobbie and I went up to the Chase School on the Meriden Road and voted for Wilkie for President and Baldwin for Governor, and all the other Republican nominees on the ticket. I made over the tool stand for the Blacksmith shop etc. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 11\06\1940 (Wednesday) At yesterday's election everything went democratic. President Roosevelt won by a tremendous majority and for governor Hurley got a 12,889 majority. Roosevelt starts on his third term as president and at the farm Dick and I worked on the fence on the Est side of the lane. Mrs. Pierpont came this morning and worked till near dark. 11\07\1940 (Thursday) Cool day. This morning I took my pickup car to Dan Hanlon's and had the point dressed. I worked in the Blacksmith shop till noon. Then I went up the Scott Road to Prospect. They have the road nearly all graded in the town of Prospect to within about fifty roads of the Waterbury line. Then I went to Hines Store in Cheshire and bought some plain wire. Then I came home to the farm and worked on the fence. At 2.30 Dick came and we got the fence on the East side of the lane about done by dark. 11\08\{1940} (Friday) This morning I went to the store and to Prospect and plowed. This P.M. Dick and I repaired fence. Mrs. Pierpont came to day. 11\09\1940 (Saturday) This morning Dick Pierpont and I cleaned the front yard of leaves. Then we went to the farm and worked on the lane fence the rest of the day. The weather has been clear and cool. 11\10\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "It is so easy to suit{??}". After service Bobbie wished me to go with him to dinner and we went to a dinner on West Main St. near Thomaston Ave and I had a good roast lamb dinner, then he brought me home. After a time I learned that Margaret had been here. I called her up in Wolcott and we talked about Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then I called up Nellie Cowdell and told her that I was thinking of going to Plainville to dine and asked her if she would like to come. She answered that she could and would be ready in half an hour. I called and we went and had a good dinner and a most enjoyable time. When I came home I came over the Scott Road which is not quite all graded. 11\11\{1940} (Monday) I worked putting things to order in the blacksmith shop to day. 11\12\1940 (Tuesday) Rained all day. I repaired the canvas that we gather leaves in. This afternoon I went to Clintonville at Alex Smith's and got some apples then to Cheshire and got two bags of feed. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and took me out to the Drum Band Meeting. 11\13\{1940} (Wednesday) Rained all day. I sharpened tools and worked in the Blacksmith shop. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont helped me drill holes for pins in the stone wall. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and took me out to the Drum Band Meeting. 11\14\{1940} (Thursday) Rained all day. I worked in the blacksmith shop and at odd jobs. The paper to night stated that there is upward of 40,000 registered automobiles in Waterbury. With the coming of the War, work and big pay, the number of autos have increased about 1000 a month. 11\15\1940 (Friday) Rained this forenoon. After I had the dished washed this morning Mrs. Pierpont came and wiped them and did up the work and mending. I went to Prospect and saw Nellie Cowdell then came to the farm and did some work there, then came home and sharpened tools the rest of the day. I received the family round robin letter to day. 11\16\{1940} (Saturday) Weather cloudy and cool, a few flakes of snow fell. Dick Pierpont and I repaired the roof on the blacksmith shop and Dick painted the West side. 11\17\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached a sermon. For the first time he had no subject. At 4.00 o'clock I attended a Vesper Recital at the Prospect Congregational Church by the Mendelssohn Male Chorus of Waterbury. There were about twenty five men in the Chorus and the singing was wonderful. 11\18\{1940} (Monday) I did odd jobs about home till noon then went to the farm and I plowed in the lower garden till Dick came. Then went up the Scott Road to the Prospect Town line where there was a number of men working. The exact place in the road where town line crosses was in dispute and Selectman Walters wished me to show them. Dick and I measured on the Austin Road 250 ft then Mr. Walters came and we turned a 90ø angle and measured out into the lot 166 1/2 ft and found the town corner bound on a ledge. We then followed the West line to the crossing of the Road and on to the Sorod bound and I set a pin at the road crossing. The weather has ben cool all day. 11\19\1940 (Tuesday) I raked leaves and did other jobs about home this forenoon. After dinner I went to the farm and plowed some and after Dick came we got the tripod hoisted up and pulled up some posts. Then we got it up to the ledge and ready to lift stones to make a heavy wall. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at East Farms. 11\20\1940 (Wednesday) Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got dinners etc. Dick helped this P.M. point up the chicken coop and blacksmith shop and got in leaves. Sixteen enlisted recruits left Waterbury this morning for Hartford to receive their final examinations and then go on to Camp Devons in Massachussetts. They were all volunteers. 11\20\1940 (Wednesday) Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got dinners etc. Dick helped this P.M. point up the chicken coop and blacksmith shop and got in leaves. Sixteen enlisted recruits left Waterbury this morning for Hartford to receive their final examinations and then go on to Camp Devons in Massachussetts. They were all volunteers. 11\21\{1940} (Thursday) This morning I went to Cheshire and got a load of crushed stone and took it to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road in Prospect and put it on his driveway. Then I went to Mr. Cowdells but did no business as Nellie was not at home. Then I came home and after dinner went to the farm and plowed some, then Dick and I cleaned out the spring and we worked on the roof of the barn till dark. 11\22\{1940} (Friday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. In the afternoon I went to the farm and Dick and I put a gutter over the big doors. Tony Cairlo drove in with my three leg hoist and in going up in the lot drove off the end of the shice{??} and got struck. We took the three leg hoist and lifted it out. The weather to day has been nice. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson called this evening. 11\23\1940 (Saturday) The weather has been cool and damp. Dick Pierpont and I finished putting the gutter on the barn at East Farms. Then we worked on a stone wall at the head of the lane. 11\24\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. I staid home all the afternoon except I went to the farm to feed the ox. At noon I visited my sister Mary. It has been wet and rainy all day. 11\25\{1940} (Monday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon. At the farm with Dick Pierpont putting up a heavy wall in the afternoon. 11\26\{1940} (Tuesday) Margin note: First snow 3" fell I sharpened tools till noon, and then went to the farm and Dick and I lifted some big stones in place on the wall with the three legged hoist. This evening Mansfield Gillette called for me and we attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. About 8 o'clock snow began falling and now it is three inches deep. 11\27\1940 (Wednesday) This morning the snow was five inches deep. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing. I shoveled paths till noon. This afternoon I put chains on my car and went out the Plank Road then up the Summit Road to the library in Prospect and saw Nellie Cowdell about some books. Then I came over the Scott Road to the Cheshire Road and out to East Farms and tried to drive up in the lot but could not make it as the snow was too deep, but I did the chores. 11\28\{1940} (Thursday) Thanksgiving. Cold and snow five inches deep. The Somers family met for their annual reunion at the Hotel Elton. There were thirty-nine present. Were all the living descendents of David and Almira Somers there would be I think one hundred and twenty three. The dinner was a fine one at one dollar and fifty cents a plate. A great change has taken place in actions and dress of women. Now many of them smoke cigarettes which they never used to do and a few years ago their dresses reached to the floor and were too long and inconvenient. Then they shortened them to the tops of their feet which was better, them to the tops of their shoes, better still, then still shorter and what did you think of it, then up to the knees, and to day suggests cold knees and legs. What next we will have to see, but now it only takes a small part of cloth to make a dress that it did in Civil War time when they wore great hoopskirts of steels and the dresses reached to the ground. 11\29\1940 (Friday) This forenoon I went down town on the bus and paid my water rent bill, my electric light bill and my telephone bill. It snowed a little to day. I went to the farm and did the chores etc. 11\30\{1940} (Saturday) Margin note: 2nd snow. This forenoon went to the store and worked in the Wheel house. After dinner took an elm block up to Tyler's ladder shop on the Meriden Road and had him saw it partly up. He could not saw it through as his saw was too small. Then I went to the farm and fed Buster, came home and finished sawing the block with the hand saw. 12\01\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Echoes In The Deep Places". After service I went to East Farms and fed the ox etc. Then I went to Raymond's and had a most excellent dinner of turkey after which Ray and I went up to Woodtick and looked over the Charles Tuttle house. As Raymond was going to New Haven to take Ruth's mother home he invited me to go too. We went down through Cheshire and left her at her home on Whaley Avenue and then came home through Prospect. 12\02\{1940} (Monday) Cold day. I sharpened tools this morning and went to the farm. This afternoon Dick and I lifted a big stone up on the wall. Byron Fleming came this evening and we took off a base drum head and put it a soke{??}. 12\03\{1940} (Tuesday) Cold day. I sharpened tools in the blacksmith shop this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to Dr. Barber and he did up my leg. Then I spent the remainder of the afternoon with Mr. John Barr at the Young Mens Christian Association Rooms. Then I came home and got my supper. I just looked at the thermometer and it is two above zero. 12\04\{1940} (Wednesday) Margin note: 3rd Snow, 3" deep. I sharpened tools and did errands at the store this forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and got dinner. This afternoon I went to the Prospect Library and took back a book and got Barbar's History of Connecticut. Then I went to West Cheshire and got a load of feed. This evening I attended a turkey supper at the Mill Plain Church, given by the ladies. When I came out it was snowing hard and the snow lay on the ground about one inch deep. The thermometer was at zero this morning. 12\05\1940 (Thursday) Margin note: 4th snow, 4" fell. It began snowing this morning and kept it up till dark. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Soon after dinner Miss Gladding came down and wanted to know if I saw the wreck. We looked out and saw that a buss and a large oil truck had hit each other and the buss was over on the lot. Both were greatly damaged. 12\06\1940 (Friday) Cold day. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the ironing and got dinner and did up the work. I sharpened tools and did the chores at the farm. Bobbie and a sergeant this evening were here arranging to keep their company's accounts. Wm. Gillette drove into the yard this morning and told me that the Probate Court Hearing would be heard next Monday morning at ten o'clock. 12\07\{1940} (Saturday) It has been some warmer to day and it has thawed some. I sharpened tools this forenoon. Worked on my little car this afternoon and did several odd jobs and went to the farm this afternoon. The City is making a rude cinder walk from the abandoned Reedville School to the East Farms School for the children to go on. It is on the south side of the road and it crosses the lawns in front of the houses where the Greeters, Ralph Pierpont, Charles Wilkensbach and Harold Pierpont live. Their yards extend about eight feet out into the street. 12\08\{1940} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "That Does Something To Me". After the service I came home and after a time went out to the farm and did the chores there. Then I went out to the house of Mr. Merritt Walters on the Plank Road but found no one at home. Then I went to Mr. Wilson's on the Summit Road where I staid to supper and had a nice visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and Miss Valaski. I got home before nine. 12\09\{1940} (Monday) This morning I went to the Office of the Probate Court in the City Hall and there met Wm. Gillette who as administrator on Mary's estate had turned in his papers to Judge Lynch for his approval. The judge examined them carefully and approved them and Will is to make the necessary transfers and then turn them over to me. I then went to the Law Office of Max and Edward Trawig at 111 West Main St. 2nd floor and talked about Mrs. Wilson's land on the Summit Road. He wants me to come to his office and bring Mrs. Wilson. He says that there must be a law suit over it. I then came home and took my car and went to Prospect and saw Nellie Cowdell about helping me do some work tomorrow. Margaret called this afternoon to see about the Christmas gathering. This evening Byron Fleming came and we put a head on a bass drum. Mrs. Bird over in Rag Hollow called up this evening to find out about the early spoon making in Prospect for a Mr. Gaylord. 12\10\1940 (Tuesday) This morning Miss Nellie Cowdell called and we cut out the certificates of the Mill Plain Union Church bonds and got them ready to collect the interest the{??} on them. Then I went to sharpening tools till noon after which I went to East Farms and Dick Pierpont and I lifted some large stones into place. This evening Robert spent the evening here in the kitchen with two nice young ladies. 12\11\{1940} (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools till noon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. This afternoon I went to the library in Prospect and took back The History of Connecticut by Barber 1838 and borrowed A History of Congregational Church in Cheshire. I then called on Mrs. Joseph Bird and showed her some old spoon moulds. 12\12\1940 (Thursday) This day I worked in the blacksmith shop. Dick Pierpont came and helped me put steel points in some long tubes and then make some gate irons. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and took me and Howard Neal and together with six or more Mattatuck boys went to Fair Haven and visited the Lancroft Drum Corps. They had drums 18" by 27" long and a great number of snares on them. Their bass drums were 26" diameter and about 12" lond{??} and although they had seven snare and three bass drums, the volume of sound was not very great, nothing like the Mattatuck boys would make with the same number of drums. We came home through Montoese{??}, North Haven, Mt. Carmel, Cheshire. 12\13\{1940} (Friday) This forenoon I did mechanical work in the Wheel House and in the afternoon made over the gate at the farm so we could raise it up in the cold weather. Dick Pierpont helped me in the afternoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. She was going to Hartford this afternoon. 12\14\1940 (Saturday) I worked at the stone wall at the farm till three this afternoon when Dick Pierpont and I were drilling a hole in a stone and Dick struck my hand with the sledge hammer which crippled me so we could not work any more. I came home and dressed it up as best I could with my left hand. 12\15\1940 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "A Powerful Weakness In Modern Living". After noon I drove over to North Wallingford and visited with Charles Cass who is sick with hart trouble. It was after dark when I got home. 12\16\{1940} (Monday) This morning everything was coated with ice. During the forenoon many trucks, busses and cars were unable to get up the hill but towards noon it turned warmer and the ice turned to slush and the traveling was better. I worked in the Wheelhouse getting ready to make some milking stools. This evening Byron Flemming came and we finished repairing a bass drum. 12\17\1940 (Tuesday) This morning it was very icy and rainy but it cleared up before noon. I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got twenty four bond coupons cashed, 48.00 and also a check of the International Silver Co. cashed for 25.00. After dinner I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I got some big stones up on the wall. 12\18\{1940} (Wednesday) I worked in the Wheel house this forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. I drove up through Woodtick and on up to Mark Tuttle's corner then down the County Road to Hitchcock's Lake and there was plenty of ice to be seen on everything. Then I came across Central Avenue and West to the Todd Road but before I reached there the ice was so smooth on the road that I could not go and had to put chains on to get up the high hill. I then went to the farm and took care of the ox and then home. 12\19\{1940} (Thursday) This morning I built a coal fire in th kitchen stove and blacked it, then I got breakfast for Robert Miller and myself of boiled eggs and fried pork chops etc. with coffee. Bobbie left at eight for the bank and I washed the sheds{??}. Then Nellie Cowdell came and we directed and enclosed Christmas cards to my children, their wives and husbands, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren and my brother Frank, forty-two in all, and in each card we enclosed an old dollar bill. I intend to put them all on the family Christmas tree at Margaret's home in West Hartford on Christmas Day. The list that we made is as follows: 1. Prof. Clifford Heaton 259 Westchester Ave. Crest Wood, Tuckahoe, N.Y. 2. Mrs. Clifford Heaton " " 3. Richard H. Miller " " 4. Willard C. Miller Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 5. Robert P. Miller 2271 East Main St. Waterbury, Conn. 6. Ronald F. Miller Tuckahoe, N.Y. 7. Irving C. Miller Tuckahoe, N.Y. 8. Mrs. " " " " 9. Mr. Malcolm Forsberg Khartoum, Africa 10. Mrs. Malcolm Forsberg " " 11. Peter Lee Malcolm " " 12. David P. Miller 306 N East Ave. Waukesha, Wis. 13. Mrs. David Miller " " 14. David C. Miller " " 15. Barbara Miller Care of Irving. 16. John Miller Care of Irving C. Miller 17. Mr. George Hall #45 Riggs St. West Hartford, Conn. 18. Mrs. George Hall " " 19. Mr. Howard Kraft Spindle Hill, Wolcott, Conn. 20. Mrs. Howard Kraft " " 21. Charles Kraft Care of Howard Kraft 22. Robert Kraft " " 23. Mr. Vincent Simons South Waterbury, Conn. 24. Mrs. Vincent Simons " " 25. Miss Gene Northrop Spindle Hill, Wolcott, Conn. 26. Prof. A. J. Brundage Storrs, Conn. 27. Mrs. A. J. Brundage " " 28. Roger Brundage Albany, Georgia 29. Kenneth Brundage Storrs, Conn. 30. Pierce Brundage " " 31. Peggy Brundage " " 32. Frank P. Miller Kent School Farm, Kent, Conn. 33. Mrs. Frank Miller " " 34. Mary Miller " " 35. Bertha Miller " " 36. Dwight Miller " " 37. Jessie Miller " " 38. Lois Miller " " 39. June Miller " " 40. Raymond H. Miller # 124 Capitol Ave Waterbury 41. Mrs. Raymond Miller " " 42. Mr. Frank H. Miller I.O.O.F. Home, Groton My Brother, aged 85 years, Conn. The above shows my children, their wives, my grand children, their wives, and my great-grandchildren. They are now living at the addresses given and are all doing well. All are industrious and were it in my power to ask it, I would not wish them as a whole to be much better than they are. 12\20\{1940} (Friday) Robbie was vaccinated last night by the Army surgeon for the small pox, and this morning his arm was badly swollen. His first sergeant of his company and last night the Colonel came from Hartford and inspected his books and told him that they were the best that he had see in the regiment. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the ironing and got dinner and made up a large dish of clam chowder to last two or three days. I worked about home this forenoon and went to the farm and Dick and I lifted heavy stones on the wall with the rock lifter. 12\21\1940 (Saturday) To day I worked all day at the farm with Dick lifting big stones on the stone wall at the upper end of the barn lot. 12\22\{1940} (Sunday) This is the shortest day of the year. Has been cool and damp but not freezing. I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The Church was full and twelve joined. Robert Miller was among them and Mr. Gibson and wife and boy from Hitchcock's Lake in Wolcott. Mr. Gibson has been elected representative this fall, the first democrat to be elected in that town in sixty years. Rev. Mr. Madding officiated at the Church service. His subject that he preached from was "The Birth of Christ on Appreciation". There wee 42 in the Choir, all wearing white surpluses. They sang besides the hymns, carols, and Miss Margaret Mitchell was soprano soloist. Mr. and Mrs. George Hall called this afternoon and invited me to spend Christmas at their home at 45 Riggs St., West Hartford. 12\23\1940 (Monday) To day I have staid home all day, only the time it took to go out to the farm and feed the ox. Mr. Smith called to see about the publishing of a New England History which is to cost thirty five dollars. I signed an order for one. 12\24\{1940} (Tuesday) I worked about home all day. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and ironing etc. I went to the farm and did the chores etc and to the store and got five galls. gas. Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called this evening and she left me a big basket full of preserves etc. 12\25\{1940} (Wednesday) Christmas Day. I got up and worked lively and got breakfast of stewed oysters. Cliff Heaton's N.Y. car was in the yard, so I knew that someone was here. After nine, Dick came down and took the car and went over to Cheshire and I got ready to go to Margaret;s at West Hartford. At eleven Vincent and Bettie Simons called and we were at Margaret's before twelve. About one we had dinner, about twenty sat down and in the afternoon Ruth and her family came from Kent and Bobbie and his girl and others came so there were about 46 there at the evening when they had a Christmas tree and many presents were distributed. I received a lot of them, more than twenty. 12\26\{1940} (Thursday) I worked at odd jobs about home as I have a bad cold. In the afternoon I went to West Cheshire and got two bags of chicken feed. I stopped at the farm and did the work there and stopped at Mr. Schaffer's store and got some groceries. We have been having remarkable warm weather of late. Christmas Day was very warm and thawing all day and night. I think it the warmest Christmas I ever knew and to day has been damp and warm. 12\27\{1940} (Friday) Another warm day, it has looked like snow. I did work in the wheel house and other odd jobs. This afternoon I went to the farm [[(Continued on page 74) || (From page 71)]] and did the regular work there. Then I drove up the Todd Road and at Woodtick I saw that the Charlie Tuttle house had been set on fire and burned the most of the roof off. It happened last Tuesday night after nine o'clock. The Wolcott Fire Department responded to the alarm but it was too much for them and they called the Waterbury Fire Department. Mrs. Pierpont came this morning and did up the work. Fritsa Heaton called this morning. After Bobbie got up, about ten o'clock. He was inoculated for typhoid fever by the army surgeon and his arm is very sore and swollen. He took Fritsa to Louise Service's. She is going back to New York. The people there are somewhat worried for fear Hitler will send over a lot of airplanes and bomb the city. The government are hurrying the setting up of air craft guns but they have not enough to fully defend the city. 12\28\1940 (Saturday) Warm, some rain, lots of mud and the grass coming up green. I worked about home in the forenoon and after dinner I telephoned to Dick Pierpont and we went to the Notch-in-the Rocks and got a load of crushed stone and brought it home and put it on the steps and walk back of the house. We then went to the Blacksmith shop and made a trimming tool for the machine lathe, then it was growing dark. This evening Bobbie came with his new service uniform and overcoat on. It is rather dressy for service. He is going to attend a military ball. Dick Miller telephoned from down town that he coming out to night. 12\29\{1940} (Sunday) I got up and saw Cliff Heaton's New York car in the yard so I got breakfast for three. As I was about to start for church Bobbie came out and Dick was not here. Bob took the car and went to Cheshire. I went to Church. Soon Cliff, Fritsa, Ronny and another lady came and we enjoyed the service. Mr. Madden preached, his subject was "The Mainsprings of Life". After service the Heatons called and Fritsa took two dozen eggs and a bushel of potatoes to New York. 12\30\1940 (Monday) This forenoon I did work in the wheel house, had a lot to do as the engine would not start. This afternoon I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I put some heavy stones on the wall. Clear and cool to day. The City is putting a crude side walk from the old Reedville school to the East Farms School. 12\31\1940 (Tuesday) I have worked all day sharpening stone drills. The weather has been mild as it has been for several days. The grass is turned quite green. Charles Somers Miller Journals, 1941 01\01\1941 (Wednesday) New Year's Day. Weather nice and warm. Grass is some green on the Southern slopes. Mrs. Pierpont came to day and did the washing. I worked in the Wheelhouse getting wood ready to make milking stools. In the afternoon I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I lifted some big stones on the wall that we are building. 01\02\1941 (Thursday) Margin note: 5th snow, 5" fell I worked in the Wheelhouse this forenoon and took my pickup down to Dan Hanlon's and he had it go through the general inspecting line and made several repairs on it. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I worked on the stone wall at the farm. About four it began to snow and now it is about two and one half inches deep. I had a letter to day from Ronald W Mason, Superintendent of the Odd Fellows Home at Groton, in which he states that brother Frank's hearts is effected but that he is up and about every day. 01\03\{1941} (Friday) Margin note: 6th snow, 1" fell This morning I dug out the paths and then made twelve 1/4" drills for an Italian and did other blacksmith work. I went to the farm and took care of the ox then came home and worked in the Wheelhouse till dark. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. 01\04\1941 (Saturday) Margin note: 7th snow, 2" fell I worked in the wheel house this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the farm and to the Maple Hill Dairy. The streets and roads were cleared of snow before nine this morning. The State runs its plows about 12 miles per hr and throws the snow well back. Wm Gillette saw me and said he had Mary's estate about ready to turn over to me. 01\05\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "As I Look On These Things". The weather has been cold with a little snow. The roads are clear of snow as the plows clean them all bare. I have to use chains to get out of the yard but the hard road wears them out. 01\06\{1941} (Monday) This morning Bobbie left with his new uniform on to report at the Armory at 8 o'clock. To day BATTERY & COAST ARTILLERY is inducted in to the United States Army. Last night I fell on the bed, had a dizzy spell but today I seemed to feel quite well again. I have worked in the Wheel house the greater part of the day. The weather has been quite cold. I had a ton of soft coal come this afternoon. Mr. Wm. Gillette came to night to see about settling Mary's estate. 01\07\{1941} (Tuesday) Cold day. I, after doing the dished and other housework, worked in the Wheelhouse and did some odd jobs. This afternoon I went to Kunkel's Drug Store and bought a bottle of mineral oil. Then I drove up Beecher Ave and out the Meriden Road and down the Pierpont Road to the farm where I took care of old Buster. Then I came home and worked in the Wheelhouse till dark when William Gillette came and turned over the settlement papers and money, stocks, bonds and deeds of Mary's estate, nearly five thousand dollar's worth. 01\08\{1941} (Wednesday) Cold day, two below this morning. After Mrs. Pierpont came this morning I went to the store and then worked in the Wheelhouse. This afternoon I took a book to the Prospect Library and then went to Cheshire and got a bag of middlings and then came to the farm and did the work there and came home and worked in the Wheel house till dark. 01\09\1941 (Thursday) Cold this morning but now it is some warmer and is snowing a little. Two men came this evening at 8 o' clock and tried to start Bobbie's car. Then then went over to Urban's gas station and got a can of gas and put it in the car and after trying quite a time, finally got it started and backed it out into the street. Then stopped at Urban's station and then went towards the City. I have worked in the Wheelhouse most of the day. 01\10\1941 (Friday) Margin note: 8th snow, 1' fell It snowed last night about one inch but it made the roads very slippery this morning. I worked in the Wheelhouse this Forenoon. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work and baked some little cakes for me. This afternoon I went to the Bank and deposited three checks, one from the Ansonia Bank for 10.50, one from the Waterbury Rolling Mills for 156.00 and one from Anthony Cairlo for 35.00. I had a check cashed from the International Silver Co. for 25.00 and drew 28.65 and gave it to Mansfield Gillette to give to his father, Wm Gillette, money that I owed him in settling Mary's estate. I then went to Dr. Barber's office and had him bandage my legs. Then I went to the Y.M.C.A. Building and visited with Mr. John Barr till dark. Then I came home and got my supper. 01\11\1941 (Saturday) Cold winter day. I got lumber out in the Wheelhouse for the legs of the milking stools and took it to Robert Tyler's and had it sawed 1 3/8" square. Then I went to the farm and took care of the ox and then to the store and got groceries and then home. My leg pains me and it is hard to get about as it is, very uneven and slippery. When I got up this morning I found a note on the table written by Bob that read, "I have come and gone - Bob". 01\12\{1941} (Sunday) To day as I was very lame and I expected that Bobbie might call, I did not attend service. I did but little, sat by the window and read. This afternoon Fritsa and Olga came and cleaned and rearranged Bobbie's room and got it ready so Alice Pierpont can have it. Then came Margaret and her husband George Hall. Then Cliff Heaton and Ronald came and as Fritsa, Prof. Ronald and Olga were leaving Prof. Brundage and Ruth came and we had a fine visit. In the evening Bobbie came in a new full dress uniform and settled his accounts and got some things and probably took his final leave. He has already earned three stripes having received the appointment of supply Sergeant. He has gone back to the Armory. Tomorrow afternoon they are to have a final review on Library Park Battery G and E. of the 208 Coast Artillery and the band and Tuesday morning they are to start at 5.40 for Camp Edwards at Falmouth, Cape Cod. 01\13\1941 (Monday) Cold windy day. I worked in the Wheelhouse this forenoon. This afternoon I went down by the City Hall and saw Battery G and E and the Band parade down Grand Street out West Main and over Levenworth and back to the Armory. I did not stay any longer as it was so cold and windy. They were to have guard mount on Library Park at four, but it was too cold to wait. 01\14\1941 (Tuesday) Cold day, 2 below this morning. I took my car to Dan Hanlon's to have it repaired and inspected this morning. Then I worked in the Wheelhouse. In the afternoon I went and saw Dr. Barber and he did up my ankle. Then I came home and had my supper. This evening Mansfield Gillette and Laurence Pierpont came to drum. 01\15\1941 (Wednesday) To day I have been in the Wheelhouse turning legs for milking stools. I have been very lame in the ankle that I hurt. Mrs. Pierpont came this morning and did the washing etc. Alice Pierpont came this afternoon at 5.30. She is going to stay a few nights. Cold this morning, two below, very cold all day. 01\16\1941 (Thursday) Margin note: 9th snow, 2" fell It began snowing before noon, but by night it turned into sleet and ice. I have worked in the wheelhouse much of the time. Alice got a good breakfast and supper, much better than I have been getting, and it tastes better when someone else gets it and when there is some one for company when you eat it. 01\17\{1941} (Friday) This morning everything was covered with ice. I put sand and ashes on all the walks. Then I worked in the Wheelhouse all day. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. Alice has gone out to Laurence Pierpont's to stay with little Peter. Will be back tonight. 01\18\1941 (Saturday) Dull day, everything covered with ice. I went to the store corner of Knoll Street and got meat and groceries and to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed and a bag of oats. Then I came to the farm and Dick and I hitched the ox onto the little stone boot{??} and went down to the road and drew up a bag of middlings that was on the truck. We could not drive the truck up into the lot on account of the ice. I came home and worked in the Wheelhouse turning out milking stool legs till dark. 01\19\{1941} (Sunday) My foot was very sore and lame this morning and the ground was all covered with ice so I did not go to church. Alice Pierpont got a fine breakfast of stewed oysters. Soon my foot pained very bad and I called the doctor and made an appointment at twelve. I went down on a bus and as there were there, I had to wait and while I was waiting, the Doctor had a hurried call to go to Reutter's and see my sister Mary as they thought the end was near. I arranged to wait in the Office till he had been out and returned. When he came back he found Mary very low and the end may come any time. He then did up my foot and I came home. 01\20\1941 (Monday) Margin note: Mary died As Alice Pierpont and I were eating breakfast, William Service called and told us that sister Mary Jenner passed away at 3.30 this morning. I saw by the paper tonight that the funeral is to be held Wednesday at 2 P.M. Today has been very cold. I have worked in the Wheelhouse, have had a hard time of it as my foot has pained me greatly. It is hard walking as everything is covered with ice. This day President Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the United States for the third time, the first President to ever serve three terms. 01\21\1941 (Tuesday) I have staid about the house all day, only the time it took to go down and have the Doctor dress my foot that pained me, so I slept but little last night and I have been scarcely able to get about to day. But it has felt much better since he probed it out and did it up. The weather has been cold; 01\22\1941 (Wednesday) Mrs. Pierpont came this morning and did the washing and got dinner. This afternoon at 1.30 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pierpont called for me and we attended my sister Mary's funeral. It was held at Alderson's Funeral Home at No. 20 Holmes Avenue. Rev. James H. Phillips of the First Congregational Church officiated. Burial was in the New Pine Grove Cemetery. 01\23\1941 (Thursday) This morning at 9.30 Miss Rita M. Fitz, Maurice Teacher and the scholars of the Woodtick school came here to study history concerning the town of Wolcott. They wish to get together a lot and then publish a child's history of the town. While they were here, Mr. Mason, Superintendent of the Odd Fellows Home at Groton, telephoned that brother Frank had a sinking spell and was then lying unconscious and the end may come at any time. The rest of the day I have spent in the house as it hurts me to walk. 01\24\1941 (Friday) Margin note: 10th snow, about 5" fell Margin note #2: Charles Cass died This day I have staid in nearly all the time. This morning Charles De Bissop called up and told that Charles Cass passed away at 12.15 this morning at his home in North Wallingford. The funeral is to be Sunday at 2 P.M. The weather has been cold and it began snowing and blowing soon after dinner. Mrs. Pierpont came and did up the work. 01\25\{1941} (Saturday) This morning I shoveled paths till noon. Then they brought in a big snow plow from the Calvary Cemetery and we had to make a heavy hinge bar for it that took all the afternoon. After we had it finished, they pushed all the snow off my back yard. 01\26\{1941} (Sunday) Margin note: Frank Miller died. This morning Mr. Howard Branch telephoned that Frank had died at the Odd Fellows Home at Groton. The funeral is to be held from Vincent's Funeral Home in Simsbury at 2 P.M. Tuesday. This afternoon I went with Mansfield Gillette to Wallingford where we attended the funeral of Charles Cass. The funeral was a large one. There were about twelve of the Mattatuck Drum Band there, the most of them in full uniform. The weather was rather cold and windy. William Gillette and Iva called this evening to see about Frank's funeral. 01\27\{1941} (Monday) Margin note: 11th snow, 1/2" fell The snow began falling about eight this morning and has continued all day. I sharpened a few tools this forenoon. I told Tony that he could have the use of a part of the East end of the cloths yard to put a roof over and store stone and his truck etc. This afternoon I went to the store and got meat and groceries, then I went to Dr. Barber's office and he did up my lame foot. Yesterday while I was at Charles Cass's funeral, Robert Miller called. He left a note that stated that he liked the life at Camp Edwards and he wished me to write when I had time. His address is Sgt. Robert P. Miller Battery G, 208th C.A. (AA){??} Camp Edwards Falmoth Mass. 01\28\1941 (Tuesday) Margin note: Frank's funeral I spent the greater part of the forenoon in getting ready to attend my brother Frank's funeral in Simsbury. Mrs. Pierpont came and did the washing and tidied up the house in good order. At about 12.15, William Gillette and Iva called and I got in their nice Buic car and we called at the Service home and got Louise, then we went over to Fairlawn Avenue and got Effel Reutter and then we drove over Fall Mountain and down through Bristol and then up through Unionville and on to Simsbury where we went to Vincent's Funeral Home which is reached by turning West by the Methodist Church and going up over the hill and on about half a mile till a group of house is reached and there is located in a neat old white house the most complete looking funeral home I ever saw. There was in attendance Louise Service, Effel Reutter, Iva and Wm. Gillette and Margaret and George Hall, in our group, William Fleming and wife of West Simsbury and four Odd Fellows from Hartford who were pall bearers and there was a nice young minister who conducted the service. After the service the ministers car led, then the pall bearers, then the hearse and our car and we drove to the old cemetery in Hartford. It is located on Main Street on the West side opposite No 1776 and there is a large public school opposite the entrance. The Odd Fellows conducted the service at the grave, after which we came home through Farmington, Bristol and Wolcott. We reached here at 4.30 having traveled a long distance and attended a funeral in a short time. 01\29\1941 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools etc. In the afternoon I went to Prospect and saw a boy about learning to drum and saw Clifford Wallace and he and Mrs. John Miller who are on the school board gave permission to use the basement of the school house next Tuesday night. 01\30\{1941} (Thursday) To day has been cold and raw. I rigged up my lathe and turned out one drum stick. This afternoon I got a lot of iron, wood, or horn beam and took it to Robert Tyler's and he rawed{??} it up into one inch square sticks 18" long. Alice Pierpont got through to night. 01\31\{1941} (Friday) Cold day, I worked in the cellar turning drum sticks. This afternoon I saw Ralph Pierpont about the Prospect boys that are to learn to drum. 02\01\1941 (Saturday) It has thawed a little to day. I worked in the cellar making drum sticks most of the time to day. This evening Dick came. We had supper together. He is to stay here tonight. 02\02\{1941} (Sunday) Cold cloudy day. I have stayed in the house all day. Dick Miller stayed here last night, had breakfast this morning and left about ten. Mr. L.H. Thien called this evening. He is from West Orange N.J. He lives at 169 High St. opposite Russell Smith who lived in this house about 25 years ago. 02\03\{1941} (Monday) Margin note: 12th snow, 1" fell I have turned drum sticks till three o'clock then I went to Dr. Barber and he did up my lame foot. 02\04\{1941} (Tuesday) I got drum sticks ready and cut books etc. This evening Mansfield Gillette took me to Prospect and we arranged to teach a class to drum and fife. The meeting was held in the basement of the school house. There were a good number present. 02\05\{1941} (Wednesday) Cold but it thawed some. I have been home all day, sharpened tools some of the time. A book agent came and I signed up for a history of New England. 02\06\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools some of the time to day. Dick Pierpont came and helped me do a four point drill. Then we took two bass and a snare drum out to Pierpont's Hall. The weather has been a little warmer and it has thawed some this afternoon. Eighty-five men are to leave at 7.55 tomorrow morning for Hartford to be examined and those who pass will go to a training camp. 02\07\{1941} (Friday) Rained nearly all day. I sharpened a few picks for the Calvary Cemetery and did other odd jobs and staid in the house much of the time as my foot pained me. 02\08\{1941} (Saturday) The rain yesterday took most of the snow away and to day there is much bare ground. I have been about the house most of the time. Went to Dr. Barber and he dressed my leg. 02\09\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. J. O. Madding preached. His subject was "The Last Man That I Want To Meet". There was a fair attendance. After service, Bobbie called. He obtained a leave of absence from Camp Edwards. He says that he likes army life and there is plenty going on. He put his shoes the wrong way under his bunk and had to work till 11 P.M. to pay for it. He left at 2.45 for Cheshire. Then I took nine music books up to Franklin Browne's in Wolcott then I went to Arthur Harrison's to find out about the first schools at the South End. I got home at dark and was plenty cold. The auto traffic on the Main Bristol and Meriden Roads was very heavy. What will it be when summer comes. there are about 50,000 licensed cars in Waterbury now. 02\10\{1941} (Monday) Cold day, I have been in the house most of the time writing and letting my ankle get better. I went down to the First National Store, corner of E. Main and Knoll St and got some groceries. 02\1\1941 (Tuesday) Cold day. I have done but little work to day. I went up to Wolcott looking up the origin of the early schools. Miss Esther Bronson gave much information. This evening Mansfield Gillette took me to the Center School house in Prospect where a class of boys and girls wish to learn to drum and fife. The drummers names are: 1. Bob Sabo Girls to fife are, Feb 4, {??} 2. Bob Hodges 1. Sally Jane Miller 3. George Sabo 2. Dolores Wills 4. Al Rozum 3. Gertrude Clark 5. Jerry Meyer 4. Elaine Young 6. John Schwiezer 5. Mary Dupre 7. Bill Martison 6. Jackie Miller 8. Raymond Wadnais 7. Dolores Genest (Feb. 11, 1941) 9. Cecil Obar 8. Charlotte Messick Feb 11, 1941 9. Jane Perry 10. Richard Chatfield 11. George Cooley 12. Robert Genest 13. Fred Coughlan 15. Donald Halbrook 16. Niclor Visockis 02\12\1941 (Wednesday) Cold day. I sharpened tools some of the time. It hurts to stand on my sore foot. Made arrangements with Wm Gillette to go to Brattleboro next Saturday and get Mrs. Lena Howe to come and keep house for me. I wrote history of the South Dist{??} Schools in Wolcott for the Child's History by Woodtick School and also drum music for the boys in Prospect who are learning. 02\13\1941 (Thursday) This morning I cleaned and repaired the kitchen stove and did other odd jobs. Ii the afternoon I went to the Bank and drew out $443.31 and took it to the City Hall and paid the last half of my sewer assessment. Then I went up Watertown Ave to the state Office and took out license for my pickup truck, paid $10.20. Then I came to Dr. Barber's office and he did up my lame foot, paid $2.00. Then I came home. 02\14\{1941} (Friday) Damp day. After I had been to the First National Store and got fish and groceries and did the chores, I turned drum sticks the rest of the time. I called Wm. Gillette and he said, We will go to Brattleboro. 02\15\1941 (Saturday) William Gillette carried me up to Brattleboro and we got Mrs. Lena Howe to come and work for me. We left here at eight and were in Brattleboro at eleven. We got dinner at a hotel and then went up the West Branch River Road four and one half miles to Mrs. Howes home. We left there at twelve thirty and came 112 miles to my house. There is hardly any snow here but up there it is ten inches deep. The coldest weather we have had here was two below but up there they told that it had been ten below. 02\16\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "This Current Tragedy of Fretful Impatience". Mrs. Howe went with me. In the afternoon Arthur Bird and wife and two sons called and Fritsa came from New York and called, before going to Cheshire. 02\17\{1941} (Monday) Margin note: 13th snow, 1" fell I have turned drum sticks most of the time to day. It began snowing about noon and tonight the ground is covered. 02\18\1941 (Tuesday) I worked in the wheelhouse this forenoon. This afternoon I went to Wolcott to find out about the school house in the South District. Miss Bronson told when it was built. This evening I went to Prospect to instruct a class of boys to drum. 02\19\1941 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools all day. 02\20\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. At 1 P.M> I went to Dr. Barber's office and Miss ----- did up my leg. Then I came home and took my small car and went to Prospect and saw Nellie Cowdell about the members of the Drum Band. Then I came home and Mrs. Howe got me a good supper. 02\21\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to town to see about bus and train to bring Mrs. Hower {???????} from Brattleboro here and fare. (continued on page 100) 02\22\1941 (Saturday) Washington's Birthday. Weather is cool. I sharpened tools some of the time. Dick Pierpont came and sowed up a pile of wood and he helped me forge a hardy{??} for my anvil. This afternoon Frank and Elsie came from Kent with five of their children and we had a nice visit. 02\23\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Webb Wright of the South Confederated Church preached. Mr. Howe went to Church with me. This afternoon I went to Prospect and with Mrs. Wilson made out a list of seeds to be ordered. 02\24\{1941} (Monday) Cool day. I sharpened tools all day. 02\25\{1941} (Tuesday) I was in the house nearly all day. Went to the doctor and she did my leg up. 02\26\1941 (Wednesday) Very cold day. I have staid in the house nearly all the time as my foot and leg are very painful. This evening Mrs. Sarah Pierpont called and took Mrs. Howe up to the Church to an entertainment. 02\27\{1941} (Thursday) Another cold day, the ground is quite bare of snow and ice but it does not thaw. I went to see the doctor about my leg and foot and had it done up. The rest of the time I have spent in the house. 02\28\{1941} (Friday) Margin note: 13th snow, 5" fell I have been in the house nearly all day. I killed and dressed a roster this forenoon and sold half of it to Ray and Ruth, together with a dozen eggs. This evening it began snowing. Ray and Ruth called at 5.45 for the chicken and eggs. 03\01\{1941} (Saturday) I was in the house nearly all day not doing much of anything as my leg pained me bad. In the afternoon Mrs. Howe and I did it up and after that it was better. (continued on back page 96) 03\02\1941 (Sunday) Last night Bobbie came in after dark and wanted to stay over night. He got leave, and left Camp Edwards last Friday and hitch-hiked to New York where he visited his Mother and the folks. He says that there are 24,000 men now in the camp and he had to walk two miles to get out. The camp is four miles across it both ways and his company is in the center. His address is: Sgt Robert P. Miller, Battery G 208, C.A. A.A. Camp Edwards, Mass. 03\03\{1941} (Monday) I went and had Dr. Barber's nurse do up my leg and it feels much better. The rest of the time I have spent in the house. The day has been dull and damp, towards evening it began to rain a little. Mrs. Howe did the washing. 03\04\{1941} (Tuesday) This afternoon was cold. Mansfield Gillette came and took me to Prospect this evening where I gave drumming lessons to about thirty in the class. After I got home Mrs. Howe rubbed my neck and chest and I slept much better than last night. 03\05\1940 {1941} (Wednesday) This has been a cold raw day. I went and had Dr. Barber's nurse do up my leg and have been in the house the most of the time. 03\06\{1941} (Thursday) Cold day. I went to Cheshire and got three bags of feed. The rest of the {time} I have spent in reading and writing etc. 03\07\{1941} (Friday) Nice day. Ruth and Margaret came after dinner and took me down to the doctor's and she did up my sore leg. After we got home they went through a lot of things that were in the pantry and some silverware that was Frank's and they took several pieces that they wanted. L. Frank Hayes who was Mayor of Waterbury for ten years and Lieutenant Governor of the state and seven others started to severe prison terms from ten to fifteen years imposed in the Waterbury Conspiracy case. The Supreme Court decided against them yesterday and last night they were taken to Weatherfield. Those who were taken were, beside Mayor Hayes, Thomas P. Kelley, former executive secretary to Hayes, Frank "Burns" Santalusia, contractor, Phillip Coppeto, contractor, James P. Healey, contractor, Thomas J. Fleming, former Superintendent of Streets , Martin J. Dunn, former city purchasing agent, and Herny W. Minor, former Chairman of Waterbury Police and Fire Boards. Ex-controller Daniel J. Leary could not be found, nor could John J. Johnson of New York. Four were cleared by the court ruling, they were Simon J. Alderman John Meaney Charles S. O'Connor and George H. Kingsley Mayor Hayes is 57 years old. 03\08\1941 (Saturday) Margin note: 15th snow, 18" fell When I woke up this morning it was snowing hard and nearly a foot of snow on the ground. It continued to snow and blow till about two o'clock. By that time about 18" had fallen. I was in the house most of the time till four when I went out and shoveled out some paths. 03\09\{1941} (Sunday) I have been in the house nearly all the time, it has stormed a little all day, wet and snow. Clarence Brown called this afternoon. 03\10\1940 {1941} (Monday) I went to Dr. Barber's office and had her do up my leg. I dug out more paths to day. I bought a briefcase to carry my books etc. to the meetings in Prospect. 03\11\{1941} (Tuesday) Margin note: 16th snow, about 4" fell I dug out so I got my truck out and went down to the store. Sent a money order to Woodruff + Sons in Milford for seeds. I sharpened a few tools. It began snowing about three and before eight about four inches had fallen. 03\12\{1941} (Wednesday) Margin note: 17th snow, about 2" fell It snowed this morning about two inches deep. I shoveled out the paths which took till near noon. This afternoon I went and had Dr. Barber do up my leg. He has returned from his vacation I then went to City Hall to see Mr. Rowland but he was not there. 03\13\{1941} (Thursday) This morning it was eight above zero but by 9.30 it was thawing and it continued to grow warm so the snow settled quite a little before night. (continued on page 102) The second batallion of the 102 infantry are to leave Waterbury this evening at 7.55 for Camp Blanding, Fla. Those that are going tonight number 269 enlisted men and 18 officers, counting those that left yesterday and before makes a total of 377 men in this unit and upward of 1000 men who have left Waterbury for the various training camps since Jan 1st. There are to be 100 policemen on duty at the station to keep the crowd back so that the train can pull out on time. No one is to be allowed to go through the stations subway. 03\14\1940 {1941} (Friday) This forenoon I worked repairing the lead drain pipe from the sink. In the afternoon I went to Dr. Barber's office and he did up my leg. And oh how it has pained ever since. Then I went to the office of the Connecticut Light and Power Co on Levenworth St. and paid my bill, 8.35 for two months, then I went to the Southern New England Telephone Company and paid my bill, 8.25 two months. Then I went to the Post Office to see if I could get a mailing box put at the corner of the Frost and East Main Sts. This morning 90 more men left for Hartford to be put in the training camps. 03\15\1940 {1941} (Saturday) To day has been fair weather. Snow has settled and melted quite a little. I finished repairing and putting in the sink drain pipe. This evening Fritsa, Cliff and Ronald called. They had driven up from New York. 03\16\{1941} (Sunday) I have been in the house all day. Margaret and George Hall called this afternoon. 03\17\{1941} (Monday) Margin note: 18th snow, 1" fell This morning it rained then it snowed quite a little and then turned cold. By night it is very cold. This afternoon I went and had Dr. Barber dress up my sore leg and paid him $2.00. 03\18\{1941} (Tuesday) Margin note: 19th snow, 1" fell This has been a very cold day and towards evening it snowed. I did some machine work and made two iron flanges for Tony today in the wheel house. This evening I went to Prospect and gave drumming lessons to a large class over thirty in all. Mansfield Gillette came and got me and brought me back. 03\19\{1941} (Wednesday) A cold day. I worked in the blacksmith shop sharpening tools. 03\20\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools the greater part of the time to day. The weather has been rather cool. A bundle of garden seed came from Woodruff's Seed Co. of Milford, came by mail yesterday. 03\21\1941 (Friday) A little warmer to day. Snow has gone quite a little. I made drum sticks this forenoon and went and had Dr. Walter Barber do up my leg. 03\22\1941 (Saturday) I turned drum sticks and did odd jobs about home to day and went to see Raymond who fell in the mill of the Waterbury branch of the American Brass Co. and hurt his hip. I found him in bed but not suffering very much. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called to have Mrs. Howe show them how to sew a floor mat flat. 03\23\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Dirty Windows". This afternoon Margaret and George called. Bobbie came from camp and called. 03\24\1941 (Monday) I have worked in the wheel house repairing belts and doing other jobs. It has thawed quite a little and the weather has been damp. 03\25\{1941} (Tuesday) It has thawed some to day. I worked on milk stools in the wheel house. This evening Mansfield Gillette called for me and we went to Prospect to give instructions to drummers and fifers. After the meeting we took the Chatfield boy and girl home on the Prospect-Cheshire road. 03\26\{1941} (Wednesday) Today I went to Kent but I did not see Frank as he had gone to Litchfield to attend a meeting of fire wardens. It was very windy going up but coming back was not so bad. I left Mrs. Howe at Mr. Athertons in East Morris when I went up and called for her when I returned. When I went to start my car to come home the battery was dead. Elsie called up the garage this way of the bridge and a man came and put in another battery. 03\27\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and went to the store and got some fish and groceries etc. This afternoon I went to the Town Clerk's office and saw Mr. Howland about the history of Wolcott. 03\28\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon. I went down to the corner of the Meriden Road to see Battery E come in but though I waited an hour and a half as did many others, it did not come. I then went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed and came home and did the chores. 03\29\{1941} (Saturday) I sharpened a lot of tools to day. The weather has been very good and it has thawed quite a little. 03\30\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was, as printed in the program, "When Pilot Encounters Christ". This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I went to call on the Wilsons in Prospect but they were not at home. 03\31\1941 (Monday) I sharpened tools to day for the town man{??} and did some errands. 04\01\{1941} (Tuesday) I planted peas in the garden and at the farm. This evening I went to Prospect and gave a drumming lesson to a crowd of boys and girls. 04\02\{1941} (Wednesday) I went to Kent to day. Took Mrs. Howe and left her at Mrs. Athertons in East Morris. We went through the Center and then through Watertown where I saw Mr. Fox, then to Morris and through Bantam, past Mt. Tom Pond{??} and North of Woodville to Warren and then to Kent. I found Frank up the Macadonia Brook cutting up fire place wood. Before dinner I took my car to the garage and after dinner Frank took me over and I waited for them to put the battery in and then I started for home. Came to East Kent then to Waramaug Lake{??} and around the West side and over to the New Milford turnpike and down the Bee Brook road to New Preston Station then over the hills to Morris and got Mrs. Howe and then through Waterville, home at 5 P.M. 04\03\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools to day. This evening Ray and Ruth called and got one dozen eggs and a loaf of bread that Mrs. Howe made. 04\04\{1941} (Friday) Today I split wood and did odd jobs about the place. Yesterday I sent a check of fifty dollars to William M. Gillette for taking me to Brattleboro{??} and getting Mrs. Howe and bringing her down etc. 04\05\{1941} (Saturday) This morning Raymond Wadnais{??} and Richard Pierpont came and we went down on the Plank road and measured the fall at the site of the Benjamin Farrell Saw Mill and found it to be 30 ft. We then went up stream to the site of the Samuel Mix Saw Mill and found the fall to be 10 ft. Then we went to the site of the Joseph Beach Saw Mill and found the fall to be 29 ft. We then carried Raymond over to Cheshire and came home and got dinner. It rained all the afternoon and I staid in. 04\06\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. "The Crass{??} and the Ordinary Man" was his subject. This afternoon I and Mrs. Howe went to Wolcott Center to see Margaret but she was not there. We then went to Bristol to see Mildred but she had gone to Church. We then came home, and then went to Prospect and saw Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. 04\07\{1941} (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon I went to the farm and took care of Buster and got the garden ready to plant onions. Dick Pierpont came and went to the site of Wedges' old saw mill when Jack Andrews came along and I hired him to help us and we measured the fall that they used to have at that {????} which was 16' 1". Then we went to the site of the old spinning wheel shop, Grist Mill, satenet{??} shop, match shop, machine shop and other industries and found that they had 13' 10" fall. This is near the crossing of the Scott Road. Then we went to the crossing of the Pierpont Road over Beaver Brook and found that there was 10' fall at the saw mill the Zeba Farrell built there in 1801. Then we went to the corner of the Austin and Plank Roads where Orren Austin built a shop in 1826 for making wood clock movements and ground feed and found that he had 17' 7" fall. Then we went up the Scott Road to the site of Edward Scott's saw mill which was built about 1877 and found that he had 25' 8" fall. Then we went to the site of saw mill that stood down the stream about a hundred rods from the bridge of the Manthey Road that was built about 1830 by Orren Austin of East Farms and Charles Hall of Cheshire. They got it ready for business and the millwrights had the first log on the carriage and his hand on the gate lever ready to turn the water on when a financial question came up between the two partners on which they failed to agree. The gate was never lifted. The log was never sawed and the mill went to decay and nothing is left now but the line of the log dam and a few foundation stones where the mill stood. They had more than 25' fall. 04\08\{1941} (Thursday) This morning I sharpened tools till after ten when Frank came driving in from Kent with a load of wood and some lumber and a bag of feed. He had brought a man who worked for him over to be examined for the draft. He had dinner here and left soon after one. After he had gone, I went to the farm and fed Buster then I planted a row of onions and then Dick came and we drove over and got Jack Andrews and then went up to Turkey Hill in Prospect and measured the fall where Joseph Paynes' saw mill stood and found that there was 14' 11". Then we went to find the place where Sherman Hotchkiss's saw mill stood. We finally found it and found tat they had 21' 10" fall. Then we went to where Isaac Hotchkiss's grist mill stood and found that there they had 13' fall. Then we came over the Scott Road which they were grading and left Dick at the Plank Road and Jack near his house and I came home. After supper, Ray and Ruth called and soon Mansfield Gillette came and took me to Prospect where I gave drumming lessons to a lot of boys till nine o'clock when we came up to East Farms and attended the meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 04\09\{1941} (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools and went to the store and got some electrical fixtures and groceries. Then we had dinner and I went to the farm and got ground ready to plant some seed. Soon Dick Pierpont came and we came over and got Jack Andrews and went to Govern{??} or East Mountain Brook and measured the fall where Thomas Payne had a shop where they made wooden dishes in 1830 and before they used china or earthenware. The fall was twelve feet. Then we went to Charles De Bissop's place and measured the fall where Benjamin Farrell (son of Miles) had a millright shop and cider mill. The fall here was 25' 10". After supper Ralph and Louis Pierpont called and took Mrs. Howe and I over to sister Iva Gillette's on Bunker Hill where she gave a donation party for Ruth Reutter and Margery Service. They are both to be married before long. There was between fifty and sixty persons there. 04\10\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon at the farm. Dick Pierpont trimmed apple trees and Jack Andrews and I got out three loads of manure. 04\11\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and Jack came and we cleaned the yard. This afternoon Jack Andrews and I went to the farm and drew manure up to the shed lot on the hill. After work we went to John Chatfield's in Prospect and saw Miss Chatfield about fifing. Then we went to Donald Holbrook's and left a fife book there with him. 04\12\{1941} (Saturday) This forenoon I sharpened tools and cleaned the lawn. In the afternoon I went to the farm and yoked up Buster and drew three loads of manure up on th hill. This noon Mrs. Howe's son William came from Brattleboro, Vt. He left there at seven o'clock this morning and caught a ride to Hartford and then came here. 04\13\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "There Is No Death". This is Easter Sunday and the Church was well filled, gallery and all. I staid home all the afternoon, but went to the farm at noon and did the chores. 04\14\{1941} (Monday) William Howe came from Brattleboro last Saturday and staid till this morning when he left for Hartford where he expected to get work at Pratt & Whitneys. I went upstairs and found that the hot water faucet was leaking. I will get some packing and fix it. Then I went to the bank and deposited 58.00 and had my pension check of 25.00 cashed. Then I went to the music store and ordered six music books, a rubber drumming pad and a mouth piece for my fife. Then I went up the Watertown Avenue and got my drivers auto license for the coming year. Then I came home and took my car and went to West Cheshire and got a bag of oats. I stopped on the way home at John Chatfield's and left a fife book for Ginette. Then I came home and Mrs. Howe had a nice dinner ready of hamberg{??} steak etc. After dinner I went to West Cheshire again and got two planks two inches thick, twelve feet long and nine inches wide and two sticks of 2"x3", twelve ft. long for the Prospect boys to drum on. On my way home I stopped at the farm and got out two loads of manure and put it on the garden, then I came home and had supper. 04\15\{1941} (Tuesday) This morning I packed the hot water faucet up stairs and worked in the wheel house piecing the planks together. Fritsa and Ronny came from Cheshire and they were here to dinner. This afternoon I went to the farm and tried to plow, but did not make out very well. This evening Mansfield Gillette came and took me to Prospect to the meeting of the ones that are learning to drum and fife. 04\16\1941 (Wednesday) I worked in the wheel house on planks this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont came and we plowed for potatoes in the shed lot. 04\17\{1941} (Thursday) I planted onions in the garden and worked in the wheelhouse this forenoon. At the farm this afternoon Dick and I plowed for potatoes. Mrs. Howe went to Prospect this afternoon. 04\18\{1941} (Friday) Dick Miller came from New York last night and got here about nine. He went away but came back and staid over night. He is rather unsettled about his business as he is drafted and does not know what arrangements to make regarding the future. I was in the Wheelhouse making drumming planks this forenoon. I set out onion sets at the farm and Dick and I plowed some and I spread manure and he harrowed the lot for potatoes. There was a fire at Reidville. We saw the smoke and heard the engines but did not know what it was. 04\19\1941 (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and he cleaned up the front yard and I worked on the flower bed. This afternoon we took one drumming plank to the school house in Prospect and left it with Mr. Albert Allen. Then we came to the farm and cultivated the upper part of the garden. Yesterday the garage of Hubert Wedge burned to the ground. The fire was caused by a bush fire that spread to the building and set it going. 04\20\{1941} (Sunday) This morning Ray and Ruth called at eight and took Mrs. Howe and I up to see Ruth at Storrs. We went through Meriden and Middletown and Williamitic{??} to Storrs and after looking the grounds over we went to Mansfield from Corners where Ruth and Jack have their new home. They have everything that one needs and more besides. They have a fine garden started and the place well fixed up. We had a fine dinner there and started home at six ten, came through Hartford where it took a long time to get across the bridge on account of a great traffic jam. We reached home about 8.30 having traveled fifty four miles. 04\21\1941 (Monday) I worked about home all day. Dick Pierpont came this afternoon and we spaided the garden. I filed two saws for Edward Bronson. 04\22\{1941} (Tuesday) This forenoon I worked in the garden and went to Wolcott and drove over the Potoko{??} Ring Road, then up to the Center and called at Ronson Bronson's house. This afternoon went to the farm and worked in the garden. This evening I went to Prospect to teach drumming. Mansfield did not go so I drove my own car. 04\23\1941 (Wednesday) I planted lettuce and radishes etc. in the garden at home and got ground ready to plant at the farm. Dick and I repaired the fence on the west side of the lane and fired up the stone wall at the north of the barn lot. 04\24\{1941} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Mecca Music Co. 203 Bank St. and got six music books, a rubber drumming pad and two mouth pieces for fifes. Then I came home and worked in the garden. In the afternoon I went to the farm and planted cabbage and tomatoes and onion seed. To day Ruth Royter was married to E. Coe at the First Congregational Church. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Heaton of New York and Amy Russell called. They had been to the wedding and were on their way home. 04\25\{1941} (Friday) Mrs. Howe and I went to Kent to day and brought back some seed potatoes and fertilizers. 04\26\{1941} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont and I planted potatoes in the shed lot on the hill. Cool day. 04\27\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Why Bother About Religion." This afternoon I visited Arthur Harrison up in Wolcott. Daylight Savings time started this morning. Many were late. 04\28\{1941} (Monday) I planted and did odd jobs about home. This afternoon Dick Pierpont came and we made a heavy pair of gate hinges for Jack Brundage. Dick mowed the grass with the lawn mower. 04\29{1941} (Tuesday) I planted in the garden and did other odd jobs and at the farm Dick Pierpont and I cultivated down a ridge in the shed meadow and hauled down a load of brush from the orchard on the hill. This evening Dick Pierpont and I went to Prospect to give drumming lessons. Franklin Brown was there and about six of his girl fifers while I had only two boys. A lot of them were away fighting fire that was raging in the south part of the town. While we were there another fire had been started and they were after the one that started it and called on Sheriff Allen to assist. He drove us out and Franklin Browne took the girls and came up to the Mattatuck Hall to there rehearsal and I came too. There we had a good time. 04\30\{1941} (Wednesday) To day I planted in the garden, sharpened tools and at the farm Dick Pierpont, Red St. Lewis and I put nitrate of soda about the apple trees on the hill and gathered and drew down two cart loads of brush. The day has been warm. With the help of the firemen and fire wardens from Cheshire, Beacon Falls, Ansonia and other places they put the fire out in Prospect and Bethany after it had burned over two square miles. 05\01\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this morning and planted peas in the home garden. This afternoon at the farm Dick Pierpont and I cultivated the garden. Then we plowed the road wider above the gate to the shed and Dick drew down dirt and filled up holes in the lot near the barn while I planted in the garden. I received a letter from Bobbie. He is now at Fort Monroe, Va. learning to sight aircraft guns. 05\02\{1941} (Friday) Cold day, had to put coat on to keep warm. This morning I repaired the washing machine and did other odd jobs. At the farm Dick Pierpont and I repaired the ox cart and he drew dirt and filled holes in the barn meadow and I planted in the garden. The paper to night stated that Roger Brundage would graduate from the flying field at Montgomery, Alabama next June. 05\03\1941 (Saturday) Cool day. I made a chicken warm little coop for young chickens and planted some in the garden. This afternoon at the farm I planted in the garden and Dick drew dirt and filled up holes in the barn meadow. 05\04\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Cochard preached. His subject was, "Can We Reproduce Calvary". There was a small attendance. This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I drove out to Mr. Wilson's in Prospect and left some garden seeds. No one was at home, only three dogs who barked loud. Then we went to Berkley Frisbie's in Wolcott. 05\05\1941 (Monday) I repaired the door of the east room second floor and fitted a key to the lock. At the farm Dick and I cultivated around the west and south sides of the big pile of rocks and plowed the gutter out the north side of the road leading to the hill. 05\06\{1941} (Tuesday) I wrote an index for the records that Mr. B. F. Howland sent me of Wolcott Center and made a protector for little chickens. In the afternoon I planted about fifty hills of potatoes about Fort Dunlop and planted forty nine hills of corn in the garden. This evening Mansfield Gillette came and took to Prospect where we had a class of drummers and fifers. After nine we came to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms where they had a good practice and then an election of officers after which we had sandwiches and beer and soda. 05\07\{1941} (Wednesday) This morning I finished spading the garden and did some blacksmith work for Mr. Clarke. In the afternoon at the farm I finished planting corn and cut brush wood. Dick drew dirt and filled holes in the meadow. 05\08\1941 (Thursday) This forenoon I went to Ruth Hotchkiss and got a dozen little chickens. It has rained off and on all day. I worked in the wheel house and finished up eleven milking stools for Frank to be used at Kent. This evening Dick Pierpont came and we wrote fife music. 05\09\{1941} (Friday) I planted in the garden and did odd jobs. Right after dinner we had a thunder shower, then I cleaned up and polished my little car. Before six Mrs. Howe and I went to the depot and met her youngest daughter who had come from Brattleboro and brought her out. 05\10{1941} (Saturday) This morning I cleaned up my little car and got ready and at 10.30 Mrs. Howe and her daughter and I drove to Milford through Prospect, Bethany, Woodbridge and Orange{??}. We stopped at the Gulf and bought four quarts of clams. Then we went along the shore road to West Haven where we expected to get dinner, but no place was open so we drove along the shore and out to Westville where we got a good dinner. Then we drove east to Centerville and up through Hamden then up the west road under the mountain till we came to a steam shovel that stood {????} in a cut eight feet deep that extended entirely across the road. We had to back up a long distance before we could turn round and go back and drive out onto the main road again. Then we came home. 05\11\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. He dedicated the new hymn books. The attendance was large. Mrs. Howe's children came from Brattleboro as this is Mother's Day. They numbered about five and a child. Later Mr. and Mrs. Atherton and their daughter came from Morris. Mrs. Atherton is Mrs. Howe's step-daughter. They were all nice people. 05\12\{1941} (Monday) This morning I hoed over my garden. This afternoon Dick came and we put up and painted a little gate leading into the garden. I finished a pair of hinges for Jack Brundage at Storrs. I received a little letter from Milwaukee. It said "To tell you the good news. A little newcomer, as cute as can be, has come to join our family." Baby's name James Robert, Baby's birthday April 10th, 1941. Baby's parents Mal & Enid Forsberg. Weight, 6 lbs. 10 oz. Born in Khartoun O.C. {??} Sudan, Africa. 05\13\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools and made four stone chisels and did a few odd jobs and went to the store. In the afternoon went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats then came to the farm and cut brushwood a spell. Dick Pierpont came and we drew down dirt and filled a hole in the South East Corner of the barn lot near the water trough that stands in the road. This evening I attended a reception given Charles Monahan at the { } on the Meriden Road at Hitchcock's Lake. There were about seventy five present. The first thing most of the boys went to the bar and spent some time drinking after which we had a fine turkey supper, after which there was an entertainment, which consisted of accordion playing, dancing, drumming etc. 05\14\1941 (Wednesday) This morning I went to town and got my pension check cashed. Then I went to Conn. Light & Power Co.'s office on Levenworth Street and paid my electric bill. Then I went to the telephone building on Grand St. and paid my telephone bill. After dinner I repaired the coop and put the little chickens in it. Then I split up some wood and planted some carrots and peas and beans in the garden. 05\15\1941 (Thursday) I cut up brush wood at the farm. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed for the chickens. Dick Pierpont and I took out five heavy concrete posts and with the ox drew three of them up on the hill. 05\16\1941 (Friday) I sharpened bars, chisels, drills and hand points this forenoon, besides going and getting a lot of groceries. A contractor from Derby is building a large addition on the west end of the Anderson School corner of East Main and Southmaid Roads for a gymnasium for the East End Community Club. The Southmaid Road was named by Mr. George Tucker in 1898. Mr. Tucker was manager of the New Mattatuck Factory which had just been built. The wooden shear shop had burned the October before 1897. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont and I repaired the fence on the hill. 05\17\1941 (Saturday) To day Dick Pierpont and I set out to repair the long fence on the hill but before we had worked very long it began to rain and we were obliged to get under the cart for protection. We went to our homes for dinner, after which we began working again and it began thundering and lightening and raining. We were wet to the skin and finally had to give it up without accomplishing very much. But the rain did a lot of good. It continued to rain at times all the afternoon but stopped towards evening. But now at nine, it is thundering and lightening fierce and raining. 05\18\{1941} (Sunday) This morning Mrs. Howe and I drove to the home of Mr. Raymond Atherton in East Morris. We went up though Wolcott and then north east over to Tolls Station then up through Todd Hollow to Plymouth, then down through Thomaston and up to Northfield, then west over roads that bewildered me and came out at the Branch Reservoir. Then up to Mr. Atherton's in East Morris where Mrs. Howe's son from Brattleboro had came the day before to get his wife and son who were visiting there. We had a nice dinner of roast beef and vegetables. There sat down to table Mr. and Mrs. Atherton, Mr. and Mrs. Howe, Miss Atherton, Mrs. Howe and myself. About four, Mr. and Mrs. Atherton and the little son left for Vt. and soon after we left for home. We cam down through Watertown and across through Waterville to Mill Plain. There were numerous autos everywhere on the roads traveling, standing in door yards and in many places, dozens and hundreds of used cars for sale. 05\19\1941 (Monday) This day has been clear and cool with some wind but not so strong as yesterday. This morning I went to the farm and hoed my cabbages and tomatoes. After dinner I hoed some and cut brush wood till Dick came. Then we went up on the hill and finished repairing the fence which took till five o'clock. Then I came down and got five gallons of gas at the East Farms Station for .85 cts. Billie Howe was here to supper. He came from Brattleboro to Hartford this morning and took an examination at Pratt & Whitney's factory, and as he passed, he is to go to work tomorrow. 05\20\1941 (Tuesday) This morning I sharpened tools and did other jobs about home. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont and I put in a concrete gate post on the hill and cut out a roadway across the wood lot. We went up to Mort Pierpont's and got my blackboard and brought it down to the farm and put my name on it and took it to Prospect to the school there. This evening Mansfield Gillette called for me and we went to Prospect and I gave drumming lessons to four boys and we had a good practice after which we came to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms and attended the Mattatuck meeting. 05\21\1941 (Wednesday) This morning I sharpened tools and worked on lawn mowers etc. In the afternoon Dick and I repaired the fence west of the gate on the hill etc. 05\22\{1941} (Thursday) This day has been hot to work at blacksmithing which I did, sharpening twenty-five lettering tools, made six heavy truck hooks and did other work so I sweat my clothes through. About four the thunder sounded. Soon the wind blew hard and the rain came down but it is a good weather for things to grow. 05\23\{1941} (Friday) This morning I went to Prospect and saw John Chatfield and got Jinnell's fife book. Coming home I overtook a woman and two children on the Plank Road and gave them a ride to the Mintic{??} Road. Farther on my engine did not act right. I stopped and found that all the water was out and the engine smoking. I walked a long distance and got a quart can and a two quart pail full of water and put it in. Then I ran down the road to the pond and filled the radiator full of water, after which I went to the East End Hardware Store and got twelve and one half pounds of white lead. Came home and had dinner when Ruth Brundage telephoned that she was at Margaret's up in Wolcott and would I come up to dinner as Roger was there. I drove up and they had a table set under an apple tree. Marion and Bettie were there and it made quite a party. When I came away they told me that one of my tires were down. I changed it, in doing it some broke the socket on my wheel wrench. I then came to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I hoed the greater part of the garden and Dick planted some lettuce and beans. Then we mixed up paint and are ready to paint the fence tomorrow. 05\24\{1941} (Saturday) To day Dick Pierpont and I painted the fence on the hill on the north side of the lot. 05\25\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden peached to those who he had married since coming to the Church. This afternoon I went out and visited Fred Berger on the Plank Road. Mr. Walter Moss was there. Then I went to John Chatfield's and left a fife book. 05\26\1941 (Monday) This morning I went to the bank and drew out one hundred dollars, then I went to the City Hall and paid my tax, the first half 92.15 and paid my water rent for the past six months, 11.94. After dinner I went to the farm and hoed in the garden and cut brush wood till Dick came. Then we cultivated potatoes. I received a letter from Dick Miller to day. He is in Company B 42nd Engineers at Camp Shelly, Mississippi. There are bout 60,000 men there, mostly in tents. He spent on week at Camp Upton on Long Island and then went by train 48 hours, leaving Camp Upton at 3.30 P.M., Saturday May 17. Arriving at Halliesburg, Miss. at 2 P.M. Monday, May 19. Travelled from Long Island to New York then to Harrisburg, Pa to Pittsburgh, Pa to Hanover, Ohio to Xenia, O. to London, O. to Loveland, O. to Cinncinati{??}, O. to Louisville, Ky. to Nashville, Tenn. to Birmingham, Ala. to Acron, Ala to Halliesburg, Miss. which is about 14 miles north of Camp Shelly. They are on the move from 5.30 A.M. till dark at 9 P.M. Temperature gets up over 100ø every day. 05\27\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools for lettering for Mr. Ralph Stewart and drills {for} Horace Read all the forenoon. In the afternoon, I and Dick hoed all of my potatoes. This evening Mansfield Gillette called for me and we went to Prospect and I gave drumming lessons to a good sized class, after which Ralph Pierpont showed some fine moving pictures. Then we came to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms and attended their meeting. 05\28\{1941} (Wednesday) This morning it looked like rain. I hoed in the garden and cleaned up my car. Went to the farm and pulled weeds in the garden. When Dick came, we painted fence till it thundered when we came home, after which it rained hard. 05\29\{1941} (Thursday) This morning I took my little truck to Bristol at Mr. Redfern's and had it repaired. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I painted fence on the hill. 05\30\{1941} (Friday) This morning Mansfield Gillette called at 7.30 and we went to St. Joseph's New Cemetery where the Mattatuck {Band??} assembled at 8.45 and we held service at the grave of Major Pete Shea. I had charge and made a brief address. From there we went down town and formed at the corner of Holmes Ave. and West Main Sts. where the drum band headed the Boy Scouts. I rode back of the scouts with a Mr. Chas H. Horinbein{??}. After the parade Mansfield Gillette brought me home. In the afternoon I did odd jobs about home. 05\31\1941 (Saturday) This morning I wrote what I want to say tomorrow at the memorial service to be held at the grave of Charles Cass in Wallingford, and at the grave of Charles Tuttle in Woodtick and at Wolcott Cemetery. I went to the farm in the afternoon and pulled weeds and when Fritsa came we looked at their lot. They are thinking of building a house there. 06\01\{1941} (Sunday) This morning Mansfield Gillette called at 8.30 and we went to the Mattatuck Drum Shed at East Farms but no one was there. After a time, cars began to arrive to the number of four and we started in the rain for Wallingford which we reached in due time and at the cemetery we place flowers on the grave of Charles S. Cass who was a member and died during the past year. His brother George and widow Tracy were there. I made some brief remarks. Then we drove back to East Farms and with two or three other cars went to the cemetery in Woodtick where we placed flowers on the grave of four former members and at the grave of Charles S. Tuttle. I told them that I would have to turn the hands of time back to 1864 to tell when I first knew him, that later I sat by his side in the little stone schoolhouse and 65 years ago we began drumming together etc. ending with a blessing. From there we went to Wolcott Center via Woodtick Road. Here we were joined by a number of sons of veterans of the Civil War from Southington and we all attended service in the church. Rev. Mr. Ells preached a fine sermon. From there we marched to the cemetery in the rain and there placed potted plants on the graves of former comrades of the Drum Band. In my remarks I suggested that the Drum Band during the coming years raise a special fund if money for an inexpensive but suitable memorial to be placed on the grave of Capt. Aaron Harrison who was the first commander of the drummers and fifers in what is now Wolcott. 06\02\1941 (Monday) This morning I did odd little jobs about home. This afternoon Dick Pierpont came and cut the grass. I went up to Mrs. Terrills in Woodtick, then up to Margaret's at the Center but found no one at home. Then I came down the Brooks Hill Road and found the select men, had an old shice{??} torn up and had to wait for over an hour for them to put in a pipe, then I came home. 06\03\{1941} (Tuesday) Sharpened tools this morning. This afternoon Dick and I repaired the spring. This evening I went to Prospect to give drumming lessons but it isn't working out very well as the boys don't come very regular. 06\04\{1941} (Wednesday) It has rained all day. This forenoon I sharpened tools. In the afternoon, lettered my business car{??}. This evening Ray and Ruth took Mrs. Howe and I to the church to a strawberry supper. 06\05\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools most of the day. Then I turned out a gavel{??} for Frank that was the shape of a firemen's play pipe. It has rained hard nearly all day and the wind blew hard and took off a branch of the maple tree by the big gate. 06\06\1941 (Friday) I sharpened tools and Dick came and we put the weight{??} letters on the business car. Then we went to the farm and cleaned out the spring and finished repairing it. 06\07\1941 (Saturday) Dick Pierpont and I worked cultivating my potatoes. 06\09\{1941} (Monday) Yesterday morning Mrs. Howe and I started for Kent at 8 o'clock. We went with my business car and took over eleven milk stools and a gavel{??} made in the shape of a firemen's play pipe which I had made. We went through the City then over Bunker Hill to North Woodbury where we got five gallons of gas and had the timer adjusted. Then on through Washington to New Preston, then up the East side of Lake Waramaug and west across the north end and up to East Kent then to Kent. We then went with Frank and Elsie to church, after which we came home and had a fine dinner, after which we, Frank, Elsie, Mrs. Howe, Dwight, a girl and myself drove over to Amenia, N.Y. and saw Mrs. Howe's neice. Then we went east through Sharon home{??} where we staid over night and in the morning I went to Tobin's garage and had a new tire put on and carburetor cleaned and then as Frank was starting with six men to hoe corn, we left for home. Came to South Kent, then through Merryall, New Preston, Romford, Bethlehem, Watertown, Waterville and home at eleven. This afternoon I went to the farm and Dick Pierpont and I hoed the garden etc. 06\10\1941 (Tuesday) This morning I repaired and ground tools and did some mowing in the home lot. In the afternoon I went to the farm and cut up brush wood till Dick Pierpont came. Then we hoed the potatoes and then mowed the big grass by the lower spring. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and we went to Prospect and gave drumming lessons and practiced several tunes with the fifes. We then adjourned the rehearsals till fall. Then we went up to the Mattatuck Hall where they had the Lancraff Corps of New Haven as guests and had a lunch and a practice. 06\11\1941 (Wednesday) i worked in the garden and mowed etc. This P.M. I went to Cheshire and got feed. Then Dick Pierpont and i painted six lengths of fence. 06\12\{1941} (Thursday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I went to the farm and opened out the hay and weeded the garden. Then Dick and I cultivated the upper end of the garden. Then we got in a small load of hay and then put up a wire netting fence about half of the garden. Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called. 06\13\{1941} (Friday) Rained all day. I sharpened tools. Had Dan Hanlon fix my car. 06\14\{1941} (Saturday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon and worked at the farm with Dick in the afternoon. 06\15\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at Wolcott. Rev. Mr. Elss preached. Had dinner at Margaret's and staid there part of the afternoon. 06\16\{1941} (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and set out a lot of cabbage plants and Dick Pierpont and I got down the mowing machine and put it together. This evening Bobbie came from Camp Edward at Falmouth and is going to stay here tonight. 06\17\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools and did other jobs. Repaired mowing machine and Dick cut the grass in the door yard and about the house. 06\18\{1941} (Wednesday) I hoed the weeds from my garden and did other odd jobs about home. In the afternoon at the farm Dick and I put the mowing machine together and did some repairing on it. Then we weeded the garden. This morning Mrs. Howe left for a 10 day stay at her home in Brattleboro, Vt. Bobbie carried her downtown in his car and she took the bus at Baubies{??} on Exchange Place for Hartford where she is to meet her daughter who came from Perth Amboy and has been staying at Mr. and Mrs. Atherton's in Morris. 06\19\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools for Mr. Stewart then got my own dinner and went to East Farms and Dick and I hoed corn and then mowed around the north part of the Barn lot. The weather was very hot and I sweat my clothes through. Night before last as I was writing I see,ed to lose all strength and power of my right arm and could not raise it nor could I guide a pen. It now has improved some but it is hard to write. 06\20\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools. Dick mowed near the Wheel House and by the garden. We took the grass to the farm and heaped up what was mowed there. 06\21\1941 (Saturday) This day is very hot. I worked at blacksmith work nearly all day. This evening I had supper at Irving's on Capitol Avenue. 06\22\1941 (Sunday) Today I attended the Pierpont Family Reunion at Storrs. There was about 68 present. This meeting is to be entered on the record as a reunion held in honor of Mary Ann Pierpont Miller as she was the means of organizing the association. I went with Ray and Ruth. We went by way of Middletown, Marlboro, Hebron, Columbia, Willimantic to Storrs. I read a paper telling of what Mary did etc. in getting together the first meeting and reunion. 06\23\{1941} (Monday) I sharpened tools all day. Dick Pierpont and Vincent Codiano came and mowed in the forenoon. It rained in the afternoon and they did not work. Fritsa and Cliff called and Fritsa took the map of their lot at East Farms to see about building a house there. Bobbie left this afternoon for Camp Edwards. 06\24\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools nearly all day. Dick Pierpont and Vin Codiano and I took up a lot of tomato plants and took them out to the farm and transplanted them. Then we came back and Dick and Vin mowed the lower end of my lot. Late in the afternoon we took out a small load of hay. 06\25\1941 (Wednesday) To day Dick Pierpont, Vincent Codiano and I plowed out the potatoes. Then we got in a lot of hay. Then we went to West Cheshire and got a bag of dry mash{??}, then we went to the new Prospect school and got a drumming plank and blackboard and brought the plank up to East Farms and put it up in the barn. 06\26\{1941} (Thursday) I hoed and poisoned{??} my potatoes. Vincent helped all day. Then in {and} sharpened tools. In the forenoon I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got my Mill Plain Church Bonds cashed, $48.00, then paid my telephone bill and the electric light bill. 06\27\1941 (Friday) Vincent Codiano helped me to day get a load of hay out to the farm and clean out the drain pipe. The weather has been very hot. The paper to night stated that Wm. M. Gillette is to be retired on July 1st on a salary of 3500.00. 06\28\{1941} (Saturday) This day has been very hot. Vincent and I finished cleaning out the sink drain pipe and then planted some spinach. Then we went to the farm and hoed the potatoes about the big rock and planted some spinach and hoed the garden and pulled weeds. I came home and fitted a key to the door upstairs. Then I went up to Margaret's in Wolcott and had supper there. 06\29\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. This afternoon I went to Wolcott and saw Art Harrison, then I went and visited Margaret and George at the Center. Mrs. Howe came back this noon. 06\30\1941 (Monday) To day Vincent Codiano and Dick Pierpont with the machine and I by hand mowed the part of the barn lot north of the barn and mowed around the part south of the barn. 07\01\{1941} (Tuesday) Very hot day. Dick, Vin. and I hand mowed in the north east of the barn lot. Then we opened out the hay all ready mowed and dried it and got it in the barn in two loads, just before it rained. This noon when I came home to dinner in the Meriden Road I passed a long train of Army trucks and several pieces of artillery. I counted 103 trucks, guns and officer vehicles. They were standing close together and reached from this side of the Pierpont Road to in front of Wm. Garrigus's house. 07\02\{1941} (Wednesday) Dick Pierpont, Vincent Codiano with the ox and machine mowed the lot south of the barn and we made it and got it in. 07\03\{1941} (Thursday) Dick, Vin. and I mowed and got in a load of hay from the barn lot at East Farms. 07\04\1941 (Friday) This is a rainy and dreary Independence Day. I have stayed home all the time and did odd jobs. Raymond came this afternoon and put in fuses and got my lighting system so it worked. Nothing has happened to make on think it is the Fourth of July. The governing power has forbidden the use of fireworks and the parades that were set were abandoned on account of the rain. There was a great increase in the number of autos on the streets. No more do we hear the sunrise cannon echoing up and down the Nangatuck Valley as we did fifty years {ago??} when the great evening guns at Fort Hale in New Haven were distinctly heard in Waterbury and everybody had fire crackers and fireworks and made a joyful noise that the prophecy of 1776 might be fulfilled. "We will make this an immortal day when we are in our graves. Our children will honor it. They will celebrate it. They will celebrate it with bonfires, with festivities, and with illuminations. Nothing of that kind this evening. 07\05\1941 (Saturday) To day I sharpened tools all day. About four o'clock a large parade of the East End Community Club passed by here. The parade was about 1/4 mile long. Mr. Pearly Wilson and wife and sister and her daughter called. This evening Miss Gladding and I went to the farm and picked some peas. The weather to day has been very fair. 07\06\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Getting The Best of Temptation". This afternoon I went to Margaret's up at Wolcott Center and we worked to index a lot of old records. Before dark I came home and soon it began to rain. 07\07\{1941} (Monday) I have sharpened tools all day. It has rained at times all day and is raining this evening. 07\08\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools and saw Dr. Barber. He pulled a wart or big bunch from the side of my face. I sent a check of thirty five dollars to the American Historical Company #80 - 90 Eighth Avenue N.Y. to pay for a book on New England. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at their hall in East Farms. 07\09\{1941} (Wednesday) This forenoon Dick, Vincent and I worked in my garden at East Farms all the forenoon getting the weeds out. In the afternoon we worked at my home cutting the grass and I was making tools. We made a grape arbor of the north side of the garden. 07\10\{1941} (Thursday) Dick, Vincent and I finished mowing the barn lot and got the hay in. We then mowed the shed lot and raked it up. The paper tonight states that the Russian are holding the German armies back. Dan Hanlon has repaired my business truck and had it inspected to day. Cliff Heaton put lines on the south and west sides of their lot to day. 07\11\1941 (Friday) I and Dick and Vincent got in a load of hay this morning and then mowed a load in the orchard on the hill and got that in. We then cut brush wood a spell. 07\12\1941 (Saturday) Rained nearly all day. This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I went to Wolcott to Margaret's place as it was George Hall's birthday and at 5 P.M. we had a supper at which there was about 58 present. 07\13\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was, "Getting The Best of Jealousy". This afternoon I went up to Margaret's in Wolcott and staid there till dark. 07\14\{1941} (Monday) Dick Pierpont, Vincent Codiano with Buster and the machine and I with the hand scythe mowed the orchard on the hill and we got in one load. Some girls came to visit us this afternoon, two Miss Codians and Miss Chapin{??}. Two of them rode down on the load. 07\15\1941 (Tuesday) To day Dick, Vin and the ox mowed the west end of the lot on the top of the hill with the machine and we got in a load of the orchard hay and raked up and cocked the hay that we mowed. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. They are preparing to turn out in the American Legion Parade when the 208th Regt. comes on the 26th. 07\16\{1941} (Wednesday) To day Dick Pierpont and Vincent Codiano came. Dick cut the grass on the lawn and Vincent helped me repair a drum for the Mattatuck Drum Band. In the afternoon we all split wood. This evening I attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Association at which I was elected President. 07\17\{1941} (Thursday) Rained all day. I sharpened tools. This evening Miss Gladding and I went to the farm and we picked peas. Then we went to Plainville and ate lunch. 07\18\1941 (Friday) I worked at the farm all day. Dick and Vin mowed the center of the big lot on the hill and we got in two loads of hay. 07\19\{1941} (Saturday) I worked about home all day. Went to the farm with Cliff Heaton and loaned him three small stone drills and one splitting chisel and a hand drill hammer. Took home the galvanized tank for soaking bass drum heads, then I went to Lee Garrigus and got an old bass drum head. Gave William Service a basket of vegetables and sold Cliff Heaton another basket. 07\20\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. { } of New Haven preached. This afternoon I went to Wolcott Center to visit Margaret but failed to see her. Then I came to Woodtick and visited cousin Berkley Frisbie. 07\21\{1941} (Monday) To day Dick, Vincent and I finished mowing on the hill and we got it in which finished up our haying. We then went to repairing the cart. To day Cliff Heaton began breaking up rocks and making a gate at their lot. This evening Roy Judd called at seven o'clock and took me out to the Mattatuck Hall where we repaired and tuned up four or five bass drums. There was Byron Flemming, Paul Miller, Roy Judd, John Garrigus, Ernest Robinson and Edward Wilson and myself working on the drums. I think that the Mattatuck Band have eight bass drums. 07\22\1941 (Tuesday) Dick Pierpont painted on the cart and Vin and I painted on the fence on the hill. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 07\23\{1941} (Wednesday) Dick painted the cart and Vincent and I painted the fence. 07\24\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon and some of the afternoon. Dick Pierpont and Vincent Codiano came. Vin. put wood in the woodshed and Dick went to town and did several errands and then mowed the lawns. After it began to rain, we polished my little car and later trimmed up the edges of the grass. 07\25\1941 (Friday) Vincent Codiano and I planted turnips and did other odd jobs in the forenoon. In the afternoon I cleaned and repaired the cook stove, etc. and planted turnips in the home garden. 07\26\{1941} (Saturday) This forenoon I did odd jobs about home and at noon I went down town and paid my electric light bill and my telephone bill. Then I went to lawyer James Russell's office at 77 Bank St. where after a while I met Wm Gillette and party and from the window we viewed the great parade of the American Legion. The procession was about three and one half miles long and took over two and one half hours in passing. The 208th Regiment Coast Artillery was in the line, 1600 men with their long train of guns and search lights of 8 million candle power. I saw Bobbie Miller marching in his Company G. 07\27\{1941} (Sunday) I did not attend service to day but at eleven was at Wm. Gillette's house on Bunker Hill and we started for Tarrytown to take Theodore Williams home. We reached there about four o'clock and soon left and in two and one half hours was home again. 07\28\{1941} (Monday) To day Vin and I cut brush wood all day. Dick finished painting the mowing machine and then he too cut wood and we finished the job. 07\29\1941 (Tuesday) To day Dick, Vincent and I drew stones from and old wall and put them at the wall north of the orchard. In the afternoon we rolled away a large rock from in front of Cliff Heaton's new gate on Norris St. and drew away a lot of other stones. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. They are preparing to attend the Drummers and Fifers Convention at Meriden next month. They also received a letter from Montpelier, Vt. regarding the celebration to be held in that city next month. 07\30\{1941} (Wednesday) Rained all day. I did odd jobs about home. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont and I made new tools and did blacksmith work. 07\31\1941 (Thursday) To day I had Dick Pierpont strike and I drew out 24 chisels and tools for Anthony. Then he mowed the lawns and I continued to sharpen tools till night. Mrs. Howe left this forenoon for her home in Brattleboro, Vt. Mrs. Hitchcock Garrigus called looking for curious old buttons. Fritsa called and left the Round Robin letter. Dick is in Louisiana with his Company building a railroad. Bobbie is back to Camp Edward's. Ken Brundage is 2nd Lieutenant attending infantry school at Ft. Benning, Ga. Roger Brundage is co-pilot on a B-18 Bomber in Puerto Rico. 08\01\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I painted the heavy wire fence on the hill. 08\02\{1941} (Saturday) To day I worked at the farm painting fence and cutting brush. 08\03\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Madden preached. Had supper at Margaret's on Wolcott Hill. 08\04\1941 (Monday) This forenoon I was at the farm. Dick helped Cliff Heaton plow and scrape etc. and Vincent helped me make post holes. This afternoon I attended Holsey Clark's funeral at Prospect Center. The Church was full and the funeral large. He was 86 years old and was killed last Saturday by an auto on the Union City Road. 08\05\{1941} (Tuesday) Dick Pierpont got hit by an auto last night that knocked him down and hurt his side and arm. Vincent and I repaired a post-hole digger and did other odd jobs, This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. They voted to go to Milwaukee to attend the American Legion Convention, Sept. 16th. 08\06\{1941} (Wednesday) To day I dug post holes and helped Cliff Heaton draw away stones. This afternoon I sharpened tools. It rained hard with much thunder and lightening. 08\07\{1941} (Thursday) To day I and Vincent dug post holes. Dick and Cliff Heaton graded the road with the ox. Mrs. Howe came from Brattleboro this afternoon. 08\08\1941 (Friday) To day George and Margaret Hall called at nine and we together with Mrs. Elles went to Milford to the seashore at Walnut Beach where the Krafts have a cottage for a month. We were back home at my house at six. 08\09\{1941} (Saturday) This forenoon I tied up the tomatoes at the farm and brought home a load of brush wood and did odd jobs about home. Dick mowed the lawns this forenoon. 08\10\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the church in Wolcott. Rev. Mr. Ells preached. then I had dinner at Margaret's and came home in the late afternoon. 08\11\{1941} (Monday) At the farm Dick and I dug post holes. Vincent cut brush. After dinner we drew two loads of hay from Mr. Saintlewis and put it on the ground on the hill northeast of the barn. Cliff and Arthur Heaton drove the stakes for Fritsa's new house. 08\12\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and dug two post holes. Dick drew stones for Cliff Heaton. I received a letter from Dorothy stating that Irving is in the hospital and has been operated on for an appendicitis. 08\13\{1941} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick, Vin and I took 10 concrete posts to the farm and drove up Norris Street and in Cliff Heaton's new gate and then with Buster drew them in the cart to the holes that are dug for them and we set one. The weather is very cold to day. Paper says that there will be frost to night. 08\14\{1941} (Thursday) I have been at the farm all day setting fence posts that are marked 1939 made of concrete along Norris Street. Dick Pierpont and the ox have been drawing stones for Cliff Heaton. 08\15\{1941} (Friday) Margin note: Irving died I worked at the farm repairing the fence next to Norris Street. Dick helped Cliff Heaton draw stone with the ox. While we were working this forenoon Margaret came with a telegram which stated that Irving died yesterday in Milwaukee of a blood clot on the brain. He was 55 years old last June. The funeral will be tomorrow. He has lived in Milwaukee 15 years. 08\16\{1941} (Saturday) To day I have worked about home most of the time. Margaret Hall and Ruth Brundage left Springfield last night for Milwaukee to attend Irving's funeral. To day Jean Northrop got a telegram before noon that they got there all right. 08\17\1941 (Sunday) This forenoon Mr. Frobridge called and we talked about Irving. Then I went to Wolcott, was too late for church. Had dinner with George Hall and Gene. They did not know when Margaret and Ruth were coming back from Milwaukee. IRVING CHARLES MILLER Was born at 11.30 A.M. Monday June 21, 1886. Weighed 8 lbs 2 oz. At East Farms in the south east room on the second floor in the house where Mr. Fred Wilson now (1941) resides. Dr Walter Barber Sr. was in attendance and Aunt Hannah Pierpont, wife of Ezra Pierpont was the nurse. He was baptized at the Second Congregational Church in May 1888 by Rev. John Davenport. As a child he was very fat and chubby. When he was about 14 months old, he and Clyde were very sick with the dysentery. Dr. Barber called nine times. He had a narrow escape from death by the kick of a horse, June 20, 1897. I had turned the horse out into the Doolittle house and I sent Irving to drive him back. It was Sunday, about 1 P.M. Irving went around him and hit him with a stick. The horse kicked and struck him senseless. I went up and Charlie and I brought him down and we telephoned for Doctor Benedict. When he came we found that the horse shoe had cut out a piece of the bone about 3/8" wide and 1 1/4" and had driven the skull in onto the brain. The doctor was very nervous and afraid to touch it but showed me and I took a nice hook that he had and worked it very carefully under the crushed skull and then I had to pull with all my strength to get it in place. He lay unconscious till after seven o'clock and then he came to and the next day was much better. 08\18\1941 (Monday) This forenoon Dick Pierpont and I mowed the swamp east of the chicken coop. This afternoon Mrs. John C. Kebabian of New Haven called to learn about Capt. William Mix who manufactured spoons in Rag Hollow in Prospect in 1830. Later Mr. Raymond Miller called to learn about Irving's death. He has been to Brooklin Mane and got home this afternoon. 08\19\{1941} (Tuesday) Rained all day. I ground mowing machine knives and sharpened tools. Then after dinner I went to the Waterbury Bank and had checks cashed. This evening I wrote a letter to Miss Mary A. Miller and sent her a check for $4.20 to pay for typing she did for me. 08\20\{1941} (Wednesday) Worked at the farm with Vincent cutting brush by the Norris road. Dick and i mowed the road side. 08\21\{1941} (Thursday) Cut brush at the farm all day with Vincent. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Wm Gillette and I and Mrs. Howe had supper at the Oasis. 08\22\1941 (Friday) I cut brush all day. Had Dick Pierpont and Vincent Codiano help me and we cut the pasture all over. Mrs. Ferris Turkington's daughter Lucy who is married and lives in Springfield, Mass. called this afternoon. 08\23\{1941} (Saturday) This morning I took Vincent Codiano, young Garthwate{??}, Dick and Violet Pierpont and drove to Savin Rock and saw the state fire parade which was two miles long. 08\24\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mrs. Coe of Wolcott preached to a small attendance, about 30 present. This afternoon I visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moss on Matthews Street in Prospect. Margaret and Ruth are still in Milwaukee but expect to start home tomorrow, so Bessie Pierpont told me. 08\25\{1941} (Monday) Rained nearly all day. I have sharpened tools. I received cards today from Margaret and Ruth, dated Milwaukee last Friday stating that they were to start at 5 A.M. to day for home with a Norwich school teacher in her car. Expect to reach here next Thursday. 08\26\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all the forenoon. Vin and I repaired the mowing machine in the afternoon. 08\27\{1941} (Wednesday) I worked at the farm. Dick Pierpont, Vin Codiano and I cut brush in the north west lot and cleared up a strip 15' wide along the north side. In the afternoon Dick and Vincent drew stones on the stone boat with the ox for Mr. Codiano's cellar and I painted on the fence. This evening Mr. Freeter and Mr. Bunnell of Prospect called to talk over matters pertaining to the history of Prospect. The weather has been nice all day. 08\28\{1941} (Thursday) To day I painted fence on the north side of the north lot. Angelene Codiano painted two hours and Dick and Vincent with the ox drew stones for the cellar. 08\29\{1941} (Friday) I painted fence this A.M. Drew stone for Codiano this P.M. Margaret and Ruth returned from Milwaukee last night. Had letter from Dick. He is at Lake Charles, {??}. 08\30\1941 (Saturday) I did odd jobs about home and painted fence at the farm till eleven. Then I came home, had dinner and Mrs. Howe and I went to Goshen. It took us a long time to get through the Center as there was so much traffic. We went through Watertown and East Morris where we found them regrading and widening the road with two power shovels and bulldozers, trucks, trenchdiggers etc. At the Litchfield and Morris line it was dug up and very rough. We had to go slow. Then on to Goshen, the road was good. We went to the Fair Grounds where they were putting up tents, tables and sporting devices. We wished to arrange to have some of Mrs. Howe's rugs put on exhibition. The President told us to see the Secretary, Mrs. Blakeslee, who lived in the Wright place west of the Center. We went there and found no one at home. We then went to Lyman Ovaitt's [Oviatt's] and found on one at home. Then we went to Avery Vail's in West Goshen and had a good visit but they could not help us. So we went back to the Fair Grounds and were directed to see the President at the Wadham's place south of the town. There he told us to see the Secretary Monday morning and he thought the matter could be settled. This evening two of Mrs. Howe's daughters came from Brattleboro Vt. to spend a day or two. 08\31\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mrs. Coe preached. After service I went to Wolcott to Margaret's and had dinner. It rained hard during the afternoon. Mrs. Howe and the two girls attended a Camp Meeting at Plainville. This evening Cliff and Fritsa called. They intend to go to New York tomorrow. 09\01\{1941} (Monday) Lab Day. I attended the Goshen Fair. I went out the Meriden Road and got Vincent Codiano and his two sisters and in my little truck we went through Waterville, Renolds Bridge then up the West Branch past the reservoirs to East Morris. Then turned north through Litchfield Center. The Fair was large, with a great attendance and large exhibits of all kinds. Many cattle and horses and a good brass band. We left at 4.20 to come home and after traveling 27.3 miles reached East Farms. 09\02\1941 (Tuesday) I worked about home this afternoon. Went to Cheshire and got a load of feed this afternoon and did some work at he farm. The town of Prospect and the stet are grading and surface hardening the east end of the Plank Road up the mountain to Matthews Street. They have made it about twice as wide as it was before. To day they were setting posts at the turn in front of the Peach place. 09\03\{1941} (Wednesday) I mowed and did odd jobs and sharpened tools. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and Vincent Codiano came. Dick mowed the lawn and Vin got wood into the wood house and raked up hay. 09\04\{1941} (Thursday) This morning I went to the bank and made a deposit. Paid my telephone and electric light bill and saw Attorney Phalen about a lease. Then I went to Miss Wallace in Prospect. This afternoon Dick and Vin mowed {?????} at the farm. 09\05\{1941} (Friday) This morning George Hall and Margaret called at 9.30 with their new Buick car and took me to Wildemore Beach in Milford where they have a cottage by the shore. We went through Prospect, Bethany Center, then through Woodbridge Center. Then we went just west of Orange Center and on through Milford Center and on three miles to the beach. The whole distance from my house was thirty two miles and we made it in a few minutes over an hour. Going down on the high hills it was very foggy. In the valleys it was not so bad. About noon it cleared up and the afternoon it was bright. Iva got us a fine dinner of long clams. In the afternoon nearly all the rest went in bathing. Will took his car and we drove out over the roads north west of the Center looking for the cellar of the house where Grandfather David Somers was born. Then we drove down to Devon. The traffic on the Post Road was so numerous that we had trouble turning off. At Devon south of the post road the government is building in a great number of single house and many of them are sold before they are finished. 09\06\{1941} (Saturday) I worked at the farm with Vincent at rowen{??} to day. Bobbie came from Camp Edwards and staid here to night. 09\07\{1941} (Sunday) Ruth and Jack Brundage came and took many pictures this forenoon. Ray and Ruth called this afternoon and took Mrs. Howe and I up to Margaret's in Wolcott to a meeting of those interested and she and Ruth told of Irving's death and matters connected with it. 09\08\{1941} (Monday) I sharpened tools this morning. In the afternoon I went to the farm and gathered vegetables and took them to Ruth Miller. 09\09\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and at the farm got in a large load of hay with no one to help me. 09\10\{1941} (Wednesday) This morning I went to Attorney Finton Phalen's office where we met Anthony Cairlo and we signed a lease giving him the right to use a portion of my land for monumental works for ten years from the 24 day of Sept 1941 for 25.00 per month for the first two years and 30.00 per month for the last eight years. I came home with Anthony and then took my little car and went to Prospect to see Miss Wallace but failed to find her so I came home and did odd jobs about the place and picked a bushel of grape. 09\11\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dan Hanlon came and got my truck and repaired it. They took it to the inspecting lan but I needed the lights focused and one brake repaired. This afternoon I mowed some by the wheel house. 09\12\{1941} (Friday) This forenoon I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I mowed and did other jobs. Mrs. Howe was away at noon. 09\13\{1941} (Saturday) Mrs. Howe and I attended the Bethlehem Fair. Mrs. Howe took the first premium on her floor rugs. The weather was perfect for a fair and the attendance was large. 09\14\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church at 10.45 A.M. Rev. Mr. Matthew Madden, his subject was "The Funeral March of a Marionette." I guess it was a good thing that I was hard of hearing and didn't hear it. This afternoon I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road. 09\15\1941 (Monday) I worked at blacksmith work this forenoon and mowed the lower end of the lot by the wheelhouse in the afternoon. 09\16\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Vincent Codiano and his sister Arline and I took a big load of rowen from here to the farm this afternoon. The boys have broken the feed pipe to the watering trough at East Farms so that the water does not run into the trough anymore. I put the trough there in 1921 and have kept it in repair ever since but think I will not maintain it any longer. It is used by many truck drivers and motorists as a place to get a drink but it has been an expense to me for which I have received no recompense. A trough has ben maintained at or near this place for many years, long before I can remember. 1867. 09\17\1941 (Wednesday) When I was young I heard much of the 17th of Sept. as the anniversary of the battle of Antietam of the one hundred men who left Waterbury in 1862 and went immediately to Washington, then marched twenty miles into the battle. One half were either wounded or killed. To day I have sharpened tools and took a load of hay to the farm and Vincent and I mowed away three loads that filled my barn well full. Ray and Ruth came to the farm and picked a basket of tomatoes. Dan Hanlon put a new battery in my truck. 09\18\{1941} (Thursday) To day I went to the Springfield Fair with George Hall, Margaret, Marian{Marion!} Kraft and Mrs. Howe. 09\19\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the bank and to the farm and picked grapes and dug a few potatoes this afternoon. Vin helped me after school. 09\20\{1941} (Saturday) I worked in the blacksmith shop all day. There was a severe frost this morning. 09\21\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Matthew Madden preached. His subject was "The Glory of Life Lies On Its Horizons". After dinner I went to cousin Berkeley Frisbie at Woodtick but no one was at home. Then I drove up to Elmer Coe's but he had gone to Hartford. I then went to Margaret's at the Center where I staid a spell, then came to Woodtick and found Mr. Frisbie doing his chores, then came home. The weather has been nice to day but rather cool to night. 09\22\{1941} (Monday) I dressed tools and etc. this forenoon. In the afternoon I drove down through prospect and back to the farm and Vin and I picked grapes and dug potatoes and pulled corn. If Mary had lived she would have been 81 years old to day. 09\23\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and dug potatoes in the afternoon. I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band this evening. 09\24\1941 (Wednesday) I worked in the blacksmith shop sharpening lettering tools for Mr. Stewart. I and Vincent dug 4 bushels of potatoes this afternoon. Mr. Warren D. Moore of Sonotone{?} New Haven Co. Eldorado Building, 1143, Chapel St. called this forenoon to sell me a devise to help my hearing, price $55.00. 09\25\{1941} (Thursday) I sharpened tools and dug 2 1/2 bushels of potatoes. To day Vincent helped after school. 09\26\{1941} (Friday) Mrs. Howe and I went to the Durham Fair. 09\27\{1941} (Saturday) This day I am 83 years old. Mrs. Howe and I and Miss Mable Gladding went to the Durham Fair to day. Mable rode in the rumble seat. It was 21 1/2 miles, we went through Reeds Gap. Mrs. Howe had two floor rugs on exhibition. They took a special premium. There were a great number of people present with a large show of cattle, a few sheep, some good looking pigs, many horses and poultry, rabbits, dogs, fancy needle work, fruit and vegetables, a large display of farm machinery including tractors, snowplows, cultivators, plows, mowing machines, seeders and much other. They had drawing contests of oxen and many pairs of horses. Yesterday the Durham School Drum Corps was in attendance and played very good. They called on me and I drummed several selections on the band stand. To dat the North Branford Drum Corps were there with new drums, six snare and four bass, twelve fifes and a fine drum major. They played well and did the best drilling I ever saw a drum corps do. They ranged in age from 14 to 20 years. Last year they took the champion prize at the Worlds Fair. Burns Moor of New Haven is their instructor. 09\28\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Zest of Life Lies In Playing Games". This afternoon Fritsa, Cliff and Ronny came from New York. George Hall and Margaret came from Wolcott. Frank and Elsie came from Kent. Jack Brundage and Ruth came from Storrs. Wm. Gillette and Iva came from Bunker Hill and Ray and Ruth from Capitol Avenue. They all came to celebrate my 83rd birthday. They brought many presents of fruit and cake etc. Jack Brundage showed moving pictures that were very interesting. They all left for home about eight o'clock. To day we turned our clocks back one hour to standard time. 09\29\{1941} (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dug potatoes and pulled corn and picked tomatoes at the farm. Vin helped after school. 09\30\{1941} (Tuesday) I did to day much the same as yesterday. the ground is very dry. My springs at the farm are very low. I have to water the ox at the trough as the water in the spring is so low that he can't reach it. This evening I went to Plainville to the home of Mr. Dresser to celebrate his 70th birthday. I rode up with Mansfield Gillette. We turned off the Meriden Road and went up the Todd Rd and through Wolcott and Bristol to Mr. Dresser's house on Pine St. The distance was 11.2 miles. We came home through Southington and up the mountain and the distance to the Todd Rd was just the same. 10\01\1941 (Wednesday) Worked about home in the forenoon and did odd jobs and dug potatoes at the farm in the afternoon. 10\02\1941 (Thursday) I dug potatoes nearly all day at the farm. This afternoon two men called from the Republican Office and took a picture of me drumming and another of me at work in the blacksmith shop. They asked many questions. Mr. Ganis was one of the men. 10\03\{1941} (Friday) Rained and was wet all day. I worked in the blacksmith shop. 10\04\{1941} (Saturday) To day Mrs. Howe and I went to the Harwinton Fair. Mrs. Howe took the first and second premium on her floor rugs. 10\05\{1941} (Sunday) To day I went to Kent with Charles Wolcott and Mrs. Wolcott. We attended the Congregational Church, it being the 200th anniversary of the organization of the church. They had an old fashioned choir and the minister preached a sermon that was preached two hundred years ago. There were four former pastors in attendance. They had a service in the forenoon, then a dinner in the community house and then another service in the afternoon which lasted till four o'clock. Then the Wolcotts and I left for Waterbury which we reached at twenty five minutes to six. We went over in just one hour. 10\06\1941 (Monday) I finished digging the potatoes to day and put them all up in the cellar, 18 bushels. The weather has been nice. 10\07\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all day. The weather has been wet and at time rained. 10\08\{1941} (Wednesday) I sharpened Mr. Stewarts lettering tools and a lot of 3\8" drills for Mr. Cairlo. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed. The springs at the farm have nearly dried up and I have to water the ox. 10\09\1941 (Thursday) Cool day. I sharpened tools all the forenoon and repaired some strap bolts for Mr. DeWit Cole of Wolcott. Then I went to the farm and watered to ox as the springs have gone dry. I gathered and brought home a bushel of red beets. 10\10\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened and made seven four points for cutting granite this forenoon and welded some strap bolts for Fred Clark. Mr. Clark formerly lived in Litchfield but now lives on Ridgefield Avenue. 10\11\{1941} (Saturday) Mrs. Howe and I went to Riverton Fair. We went up through Wolcott, then through Bristol then up past the old Copper Mine and on through Unionville where we bought five gallons of gas for 97 cts. Then we went up the Farmington River Road to Collinsville then up the east side of the river to Satans Kingdom where we crossed and on through New Hartford and Pleasant Valley and up by the west side of the river to Riverton where we turned right and crossed the river on a new concrete bridge and then just beyond turned right into the fair ground. It was the largest fair that we have been to except Springfield. Mrs. Howe entered two floor rugs that she had made for exhibition and got 1st and 2nd and an extra sweepstake premium. She did well as there were several nice rugs there. 09\12\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the mill Plain Church. Rev. Madden preached. His subject was "The Shadow On The Conscience". The congregation about half filled the church. This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I were invited to dinner at Mr. William Garrigus' house. Mrs. Garrigus showed us a great collection of curious things that filled three rooms in the attic. 09\13\{1941} (Monday) I made and sharpened tools till three o'clock then went to the farm and pulled beets and did other jobs. The weather has been cool. 09\14\{1941} (Tuesday) I sharpened a lot of tools for lettering for Mr. Stewart and did a lot of steel 1/8" drills for Mr. Cairlo and some four points. This morning I went to the bank and got checks cashed and then paid telephone bill, $8.25 and light bill, $8.89. 09\16\1941 (Thursday) Yesterday morning Mrs. Howe and I left for Brattleboro Vt. at 8.30 in my little pickup truck to get her Matag{??} washing machine. We reached there at her son's house in West Brattleboro at one P.M. and had dinner. Then we came back to the center and visited the rooms where he daughters live. Then we drove out five miles to Mrs. Howe's old home on the New Fane Road but before going out we visited her brother Ned who showed us many tables, boxes and curious things that he had made out of cedar and other woods. They all showed fine workmanship. We had supper at her sons and staid there overnight. In the evening her brother and his wife came and we had a good visit. Her older son and his wife and little boy were there also and the three men loaded the heavy washing machine into my truck. In the morning I got ready to leave but found that my gas tank was near empty. Mrs. Howe told me that I could get gas up the road two miles at a store so I started and found that the road was down grade to within about forty rods of the store and there at the foot of a hill my car stopped and I walked up to the store and Mr. Newton loaned me a can and put into it a gallon of gasoline for which he charged thirty one cents. I carried it down and put it in the car and then drove up to the store and had the tank filled up full, seven gallons, for which I paid him 1.46. Then I drove to the house and at 9.00 we left and came to Brattleboro where we stopped for half an hour while Mrs. Howe did some errands. Then we traveled down through Guilford and soon crossed the line into Massachusetts and then on through Bernardston and Greenfield and South Deerfield and Whatley and Hatfield. Then into North Hampton and on through East Hampton and South Hampton and Westfield and Southwick and crossed the line into Connecticut then on through Granby and Simsbury and Unionville and Bristol and Wolcott and home at one thirty, having traveled one hundred and eleven and one half miles. This evening I went in full uniform with Major Mansfield Gillette and the Mattatuck Drum Band to West Hartford to the Dedication of the Noah{?} Webster Hartford after which we went to the home of the artist on Sedgewick Avenue and saw many pieces of marble statuary, some in process of carving. We were nicely entertained and had a pleasant time. 10\17\{1941} (Friday) This morning I put on my uniform and at 7.15 Ralph Pierpont came and we went to City Hall where there were assembled about 66{??} drafted men and they were escorted by the Mattatuck Drum Band to the depot where they took the 7.55 train to Hartford to be examined and inducted into the service. Then I came home and after breakfast I sharpened tools and went to the farm. 10\18\{1941} (Saturday) Yesterday I received a letter from Dick Miller. He is in Hattesburg, Miss. He has been promoted to Staff Sergeant, the first to receive a commission in the regiment of 1200 men. To day I have sharpened tools and been out to the farm and fed and watered to ox. It has been cloudy all day and is raining a little now. 10\19\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Escape From Frustration". This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I went and visited Mr. and Mrs. Berkley L. Frisbie in Woodtick. 10\20\{1941} (Monday) I welded and lengthened bolts all the forenoon. This afternoon I took a rug for Mrs. Howe to #16 Cherry ave. to Mr. Leather. At the farm I gathered cabbages. 10\21\19410 (Tuesday) I worked at blacksmith work and at the farm I gathered apples and turnips and other vegetables. Vincent helped. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and we attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. We repaired Cliff Heaton's gate on Norris St. 10\22\{1941} (Wednesday) I sharpened a lot of tools and worked on grave plank for the cemetery. Vincent helped. 10\23\{1941} (Thursday) This morning I went to the bank and drew out 95.00, then went to the City Hall and paid the last half of my tax, 92.15 then I came home and after dinner drove over to Cheshire Depot and got a bag of oats for the chickens. Then I worked on planks for the Calvary Cemetery. Vincent Codiano came and threaded the bolts. It has been damp and rained some. 10\24\1941 (Friday) This forenoon I sharpened tools and worked on cemetery plank in the afternoon. Vin helped after school. Mrs. Howe went to Bridgeport to day but was back before supper time. 10\25\1941 (Saturday) To day I gathered in the garden vegetables and finished the cemetery plank. 10\26\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "A Politician Goes To Church". Cliff, Fritsa, Bob and Ronny called this morning. Ray took my truck and went to his cottage at Lake Zoar and brought back a load of wood{?}. This afternoon Mrs. William Garrigus and I went to Laverne Clark's to see some buttons as she is getting a collection. 10\27\{1941} (Monday) I did tool making and other jobs to day beside going to the farm and pulling 1/2 bushel of turnips. This evening it is raining slightly. Water is very low in all the reservoirs about here and many dug wells and springs are dry and some of the drilled wells have failed. 10\28\{1941} (Tuesday) I made and sharpened tools and did other jobs about home. Then went to the farm and pulled the rest of the turnips and got the garden ready for plowing. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 10\29\1941 (Wednesday) I sharpened four points all the forenoon. Went to the farm in the afternoon and took away the fence that was around the garden. then went to the store and did several errands. This evening Ray, Ruth, Mrs. Howe and I went to a turkey supper at the Mill Plain Union Church. Ray came after us and brought us home. 10\30\{1941} (Thursday) I made a lot of four points this forenoon. Then cleaned out the chicken house and took the manure to the farm and put it on the garden. Then I pulled up all the tomato sticks and put them by the barn. Mrs. Howe went to Hartford and met her daughter who had come from Brattleboro and brought her here. 10\31\{1941} (Friday) This morning Vincent Codiano came and we loaded up a load of hen manure and took it to the farm and he spread it on the garden and I plowed it in. Mrs. Howe's daughter has been here to day and this afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Atherton of Morristown called. 11\01\{1941} (Saturday) Mrs. Howe's daughter left for Perth Amboy this morning by bus. It has rained all day. I have been making the blacksmith shop tight. 11\02\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "A Grand Invitation". The seats were about half filled. This afternoon Mrs. Howe and I went up to Woodtick and visited the Frisbies. The weather has been nice all day. 11\03\{1941} (Monday) I did odd jobs about home and plowed and repaired fence at the farm etc. 11\04\{1941} (Tuesday) I finished plowing at the farm and got paint ready and painted some fence by the gate on the Cheshire Road. This evening Mansfield Gillette called and we attended the meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band. 11\05\{1941} (Wednesday) I painted the heavy wire fence by the side of Norris Street this forenoon. In the afternoon I went with Mr. and Mrs. William Gillette and Mrs. Howe over to Colchester where Mrs. Howe bought a nice coat. 11\06\{1941} (Thursday) Rained all day. I repaired Mr. Gladdings kitchen light and our sitting room table light. Went to the stores and out to the farm and worked on a pair of and{??} irons that I am making. Vincent Shelley was elected mayor of the City of Waterbury last Tuesday by a majority of 20,00 votes. He is a Democrat. Bobbie came from Camp Edward and staid here last night. 11\07\{1941} (Friday) I sharpened some tools and made some small steel cutting chisels this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and painted the heavy wire fence along Norris Street. 11\08\{1941} (Saturday) I worked the greater part of the day finishing a set of fire place and{??}irons for Ruth Brundage and did other odd jobs. 11\09\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Church in Wolcott. Rev. Mr. Ells preached, then Margaret and I went to Mrs. Warners, the town clerk, and looked up some old records. Then I came home and went down to the Center to see the Armistice Parade. Then I came home and Bobbie left for Camp Edwards in the rain. Ned Howe and wife came from Vermont. Billy and his girl were here. 09\10\{1941} (Monday) This morning Ned Howe and I went to the Waterbury Rolling mills and looked the works over. It was a real novelty for him to see the metal rolled and handled. he left this afternoon for Brattleboro. I have been taken with a bad cough and wanted to go to bed early but Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson came and I had to stay up and felt very bad. 09\11\{1941} (Tuesday) I coughed all night and was about used up this morning. I have staid in the house most of the day and have looked up old Frisbie family records. 09\12\{1941} (Wednesday) I did not cough so much last night but I have been in the house all day, only when I went out to feed the hens and do the chores. 09\13\{1941} (Thursday) Margin note: 94" I stayed in the house all the forenoon. In the afternoon I got my pickup out and then went to the store and got some fish and groceries. Then I went to the farm and took care of the ox and measured his girth which is 94 inches. Then I raked up two bundles of leaves and put them in the stable and came home. Tony is building an addition on the north side of his shop for an air compressor. Dick Miller came from Camp Shelby last night and staid here. The Anaconda people went to Washington and got him out of the service so he could work again in his New York office for the, He says that he is sorry to leave the service as he has got accustomed to it. He holds the highest rank of any of the new recruits and has over one hundred men under him and gets along very well with them. 11\14\{1941} (Friday) This morning I killed a rooster and cleaned up leaves about the yard. This afternoon went to West Cheshire and got a bag of oats for the chickens. When I came back I stopped at Pierpont's Dairy and paid my last month's milk bill, 4.90, then I came to the farm and took care of the ox and raked up a lot of leaves and put them in the stable for bedding. Then came home and did the chores, had supper and read the War and Strike news, etc. 11\15\1941 (Saturday) To day I gathered leaves in the yard. Margaret and Charlie Kraft came from Wolcott and they threw out some old stuff from the pantry and Margaret looked over a lot of stuff in the barn. Margaret, Charlie and I went out to the farm and did the chores there. Then we rode out the Plank Road and up the Summit Road and then over and on the new graded Scott Road and then home. 11\16\1941 (Sunday) I did a lot of coughing and did not feel very well, so I staid in the house all day and watched the hundreds of autos, buses and trucks speed by. While over head, the sound of air planes is incessant, though not so many to day as usual. 11\17\{1941} (Monday) This morning I went to town and paid my electric light bill. Then went out Grand Street and paid the telephone bill, came home and gathered leaves and did other odd jobs. 11\18\{1941} (Tuesday) I cleaned the front yard of leaves and in the afternoon went to the farm and painted two lengths of fence and cleaned up a lot of leaves etc. 11\19\1941 (Wednesday) I went to the farm and painted wire fence both fore and after noon. There is a great national question up now. President Roosevelt has ordered the Labor Union leaders not to stop the mining of coal and John Lewis, their president, has ordered a strike of 53,000 miners and they are out and stopping the production of millions of dollars worth of orders for defence. 11\20\{1941} (Thursday) This is Thanksgiving Day. The Somers Family held their reunion at the Hotel Elton. There were fifty one present and all had a good time. Had a fine turkey and many other nice things to eat at a cost of 1.65 per plate. Cliff Heaton and Fritsa with Ronnie came up from New York last night and staid at her parents in Cheshire last night and this noon they called and took Mrs. Howe and I down to Elton and when they brought us back they took us over to Cheshire for a ride. The ride was all right if I had my eyes shut all the time. But I could see the danger was great as the road was full of autos and the driving was too fast to be safe. 11\21\1941 (Friday) A pleasant cool day. This morning I went to the farm and painted the wire fence on the north line next to Mr. Codiano's and in the afternoon painted at the same place. A steam shovel is working in the lot west of my upper lot. Miss Codiano said that they are going to erect a number of houses there. 11\22\{1941} (Saturday) To day I painted the north boundary fence to my land at East Farms. It is a long slow job as the fence is of wire, the posts of concrete and the wire is well rusted. The fence was built in 1922 and I think this is the third time it has been painted. On Thursday, Nov 22, 1883, Mary and I were married. I was twenty four years old then. I now am approaching eighty four years. Mary was 22 then and she died Sept 15, 1938, two or three days before the great hurricane. I can readily recall the date of our marriage for engraved in her ring was C.S.M. to M.A.P. Nov 22, 1883. It was in rhyme and easy to remember. 11\23\1941 (Sunday) I did not go to church to day. Mrs. Howe and I took dinner at Raymond's and spent the afternoon there. Mr. and Mrs. Loux were there. 11\24\{1941} (Monday) I painted fence on the hill to day. There is a lot of building going on near my land. The Norris House at the north east corner is being made into several teniments{?} by raising the roof and turning the sun parlors into living rooms and the Ed Pierpont cottage is being made into a two story house. Workmen have been making a new roof high above the old one. I thought the wind would take it off as it was blowing hard and very cold. 11\25\{1941} (Tuesday) This has been a cold day. Ice froze 1 1/4" thick last night. I sharpened tools this morning. Went to the farm and painted fence in the afternoon. Got very cold by night. Mr. Manthay's large barns at Summit burned last night. They got out 38 cows but a pair of horses burned. The loss is estimated at $27,000. The Cheshire Fire Dept. was there and save the house. Merrit Walters dammed the brook where it crosses the Plank Road so they got water. 11\26\{1941} (Wednesday) Cool day. This morning I went to Prospect and saw Mrs. Earl Cooley about giving drumming lessons to her son and several other Prospect boys. Then I went to West Cheshire and bought a bag of scratch feed. After dinner I intended to go to the farm but the battery in my car was dead so I did odd jobs about home all the afternoon. 11\27\1941 (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and painted fence on the hill in the afternoon. There was a steam shovel working in the lot west of my upper lot and another a little farther north. Both were digging cellars. The shovels are operated by gasoline and are very small of the caterpillar type. They dig a common cellar in from five to seven hours where the digging is hard and rather stony. 11\28\{1941} (Friday) I went to the farm this forenoon and took my dinner and staid till night. Finished painting the fence on the North line. Mrs. Howe went to Springfield and did not get home till 7.30. 11\29\1941 (Saturday) I worked about home most of the day., in the drum room putting up things and making more room for the drum classes that are to start soon. When I went to the farm I drove up East Mountain and out the Wm Morris Road and down the Summit Road and saw Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson said that the mail man had just told that the Prospect Congregational Church had burned this morning. 11\30\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. madden preached. his subject was "The Nation's Number Two Man". This afternoon Mrs. William Garrigus called and with Bessie and Jessie Pierpont we went to Prospect and saw the ruined walls of the Church that burned yesterday. It seems that the oil heating apparatus exploded, setting the fire. They had plenty of fire fighters from Cheshire, Nangatuck and Waterbury but there was no water to be had. From there we went to Laverne Clark's and got some old buttons for Mrs. Garrigus's collection. Some we found where an old shop had stood on the Allen Road opposite the Old Ed Allen place. We had a nice visit with Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Howe's son Billy and his girl called this evening. 12\01\1941 (Monday) This forenoon I sharpened double stone chisels and worked in the drum room getting it ready for the boys to practice in that are to take lessons. Mrs. Cooley telephoned that the Prospect boys would begin ext week Wednesday evening at seven o'clock. 12\02\{1941} (Tuesday) I worked in the drum room all day repairing and putting things in order. It has rained all the day, only light some of the time. 12\03\{1941} (Wednesday) I have been in the drum room most of the day. This afternoon I went to the farm and did the chores there. Then I drove to Prospect and saw the burned wall of the church and came home by the Scott Road. 12\04\{1941} (Thursday) Foggy this morning. I went to Wolcott. Then I did odd jobs about home. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I got in a lot of leaves at the farm and worked some on the fence. 12\05\{1941} (Friday) This morning I went to the City office on Benedict Street to find out about our water meters and about the pay. Then went to City Hall and paid my water rent for six months, $15.19. This afternoon I have done odd jobs and practiced drumming to get in shape to give instructions. It has been wet and rained all day. Yesterday afternoon there came together two automobiles at our corner. Both cars were badly wrecked and it sent one across the street and through the new fence that the Mattatuck Co. have built. They say that no one was very badly injured. 12\06\1941 (Saturday) Dick Pierpont and I repaired the fence along the Frost Road this forenoon. Mr. Atherton and his wife and her sister called to visit Mrs. Howe this afternoon. 12\07\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Most Delightful Beggar I Have Ever Met". This afternoon I went up to Woodtick and had a nice visit with Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Frisbie. Mrs. Howe said that it was announced this evening in the radio that President Roosevelt had declared war on Japan. The good old folks used to say that any war or battle started on Sunday always ended in defeat to those who started it. 12\08\1941 (Monday) This noon at 12.30 President Roosevelt declared war against Japan in Congress at Washington. We could hear him very distinct over the radio as we were at dinner. The applause was great and prolonged when he finished. This day has been cold and the ground frozen. I was in the Drum Room all the forenoon. Bobbie called after dinner. He staid in Hartford last night and was on his way to Camp Edwards. There was a lieutenant with him. This afternoon I was at the farm and Dick and I put up a gate post fastened to an ash tree for the gate in the northwest corner of the barn lot. 12\09\{1941} (Tuesday) I went up to Wolcott this forenoon and did odd jobs about home. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I went up on the hill and saw where they are making the new roads and laying out building lots west of my upper lot. 12\10\1941 (Wednesday) i went up and saw Rose Wakelee this morning and we looked over records. This afternoon Dick and I finished the gate. The day has been rather cool. This evening Mr. Cooley brought up Cecil Obar and his son from Prospect and they took drum lessons. 12\11\{1941} (Thursday) This noon at 12.30 we heard over the radio President Roosevelt declare war on Germany and Italy. This has been a cold day below freezing all day long. 12\12\{1941} (Friday) To day has been cold, 14 above this noon. I have done odd jobs and filed saws all day. I sold my ox to L.H. Weinstein of Sharon to day for $130 dollars. 12\13\{1941} (Saturday) It has snowed all day and this evening it turned to rain. About two inches fell. Dick Pierpont came and we cut the branches that grew in the north side of the clothes yard. This afternoon we did not work. 12\14\1941 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Man With A Prejudice". The snow that fell yesterday was about all gone this morning but the day has been quite cool. This evening at seven, Laurence Pierpont called and took me to East Farms where his wife and Hazel Jacoby{??} got into the car and we went to the home of Mr. Karczak Ziolkowski, 216 Sedgewick Road, West Hartford, Conn. where we had a nice visit. He is an artist of a high order. He showed me a great variety of tools that he used in his work of carving marble and I could tell how the steel was made and could make nearly all of the tools. In talking we got tired of standing up and he took me into another shop and set me in a high chair and he took an iron 1 1/4" pipe 18" long that was set in a block and while we were talking he plastered the table with a sort of putty and with his fingers and tools he shaped my mouth, nose, eyes, ears and the rest of the front part of my head so I felt as though I was made of clay putty. But his work was wonderful and by measurement the sizes were correct but what the idea of it was I don't understand. 12\15\1941 (Monday) Cold day. I did odd jobs about home all day. 12\16\{1941} (Tuesday) This forenoon I cut up brush wood and went to West Cheshire and got two bags of feed for the chickens. This afternoon Dick Pierpont came and we cut down the maple tree in the clothes yard. Dick says that many of the high school boys are enlisting in the Navy. They are now taking them at the age of seventeen. 12\17\{1941} (Wednesday) I chopped up brush wood and did other odd jobs about the place. Dick Pierpont came in the afternoon and we run the cross cut saw and cut up the maple logs. At evening Ray and Ruth called and made some arrangements about Christmas. Then Wm Gillette and Iva called and we talked about every- thing. 12\18\1941 (Thursday) I cut up brush wood and did errands at the store etc. At seven P.M. Laurence Pierpont called and he and I went to the house of Korczak Ziolkowski at 216 Sedgewick Road, West Hartford, the sculptor. He had me sit in a comfortable high chair while he fashioned my old head of a sort of clay putty with his hands and a wooden tool. I sat there for almost two hours. I have received several Christmas cars by mail to day. 12\19\1941 (Friday) I did cut up brush wood and sharpened marble tools and did other odd jobs about home. Had a ton of soft coal come this forenoon. 12\20\{1941} (Saturday) {Margin note: 2nd snow, 1" fell} This day has been cold. This morning the ground and street were very slippery. Many cars skidded, some turning round three times and two jumped on the sidewalk and went through the Cemetery fence. One big truck turned cross wise the street and that blocked everything. After nine o'clock they put ashes on the hill and that fixed it all right. 12\21\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "A Simple Story In A Befuddled World." This day has been cold. Two above zero this morning. George Hall and Margaret called this noon. 12\22\1941 (Monday) Shortest day of the year, rather cold 2 above zero this morning. I have cut wood and did small odd jobs about home. This evening Laurence Pierpont called and took me to the home and studio of Mr. Korczak Ziolkowski, West Hartford where I sat for about three hours while he looked at me at times and made a reproduction of my head and shoulders. He had me put my uniform on and he reproduced buttons, bade{??}, collar, tire and all prefect to measurements and appearance. It was certainly wonderful how he could do it. We came home through Farmington, Plainville, Southington (which was all lit up with Christmas lights), Plantsville, Milldale and up the Southington Mountain, reaching my home in a little less than one half hour. 12\23\{1941} (Tuesday) I have cut wood and did some work at the farm in the barn. This evening Louise brought me a box of candy and some cake. Mrs. Howe left at nine for her home in Vermont to be gone till Sunday. 12\24\{1941}(Wednesday) Rained hard this forenoon. I went to the bank. Have been about home the rest of the day. 12\25\{1941} (Thursday) Christmas Day. The weather was cool and clear. At noon Ray and Ruth called for me and we went up to the north end of town and took in a man and his wife and we then drove over through Waterville and across through Oakville, up through Watertown and west on the Bethlehem Road and stopped at the house of Mr. Johnson. Soon two other parties from Woodbury came and Miss Johnson got fine dinners for us all. We left there and drove back to Waterbury stopping at Ray's house. Then we went up through Wolcott and Bristol and out to Hartford where we saw the new bridge being built over the Connecticut River at Dutch Point. They are still working to get the bodies of the men that were killed when the span went down about three weeks ago. We then visited the Brainard field and saw a large plane take off. There is a camp of soldiers near by. They have several machine guns and we saw four anti air craft guns with boxes of ammunition piled handy by. Then we returned through Hartford to Margaret's at 45 Riggs Avenue in West Hartford where we saw many of our relations and had a good visit. In the evening Jack Brundage and Ruth and Miss Turnbull and I went over to Korczak Ziolkowski's house at 216 Sedgewick Road and looked at a lot of sculpture work and the folks looked at the head bust that he is making of me. They say that it looks very natural. We then came back to Margaret's and had some refreshments, after which Miss Turnbull brought me home. 12\26\1941 (Friday) Rather cool to day. I got up and fried bacon, eggs and potato for breakfast after which I sharpened and made tools for the West Hartford sculpturer {sculptor}. I went up to Ruth Miller's and got my Christmas presents. 12\27\{1941} (Saturday) To day I have sharpened tools for Korczak Ziolkowski and did odd jobs about home. 12\28\{1941} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Matthew G. Madden, minister. His subject was "What I Believe About The Judgement." This afternoon I went over to Mr. Clarks at 73 Greenleaf Avenue. Mrs. Howe came home from Brattleboro while I was gone. This has been a nice day for this time if year. 12\29\{1941} (Monday) I did odd jobs about home to day. This evening Laurence Pierpont called and we went to West Hartford. Stopped first at Margaret's and got a letter, then to Korczak Ziolkowski's the sculptor where I sat in a high chair for an hour. Then I stood up for an hour with my uniform on, then I sat again for an hour while he made the shape of my head and shoulders. He had two pretty girl students working on another image and in the studio were a lot of women listening to a lecture by a doctor and when they were through, the doctor and some of the ladies and girls came in and looked at the work there and then looked at me and said that it was nice. In fact, I think the bust did look better than I do. Then when we were ready to go home, we all had to go into a small eight cornered bar room and have something to drink. I took sweet cider but nearly all the others took other drink. Then they began to talk and told everything they knew till eleven thirty when we broke up and Laurence and I started from home at quarter to twelve and at quarter past he drove into my yard. 12\30\1941 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools much of the time to day and did some errands. This evening Theodore Kirtz came and brought his big book that tells about the ancient drums of the country and we looked up my records and talked till near midnight, all about drums. 12\31\1941 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick came after dinner and we made shanks on many many marble tools and then made two king bolts for Mr. DeWitt Cole of Wolcott. While we were drawing out one of them, a boy friend came after Dick with his nice car. Dick, to show off, suddenly began striking faster and struck my hammer and drove it against my face under my right eye. It nearly knocked me out, cut quite a gash, but we finished the bolt and I had Mrs. Howe clean it and do it up with a plaster. This evening Olga Hanson left a box that Dick is to call for and take to New York. 01\01\1942 (Thursday) This morning I sharpened tools for Mr. Ziolkowski of West Hartford and did other odd jobs. Dick Pierpont came in the afternoon and we cleaned the whole yard of leave. Dick Miller and his girl called this afternoon. He said that they may get married this month. He expects to be called back into the government service at any time. 01\02\1941 (Friday) I worked at tools all the forenoon. Dick Pierpont came at noon and we went to the farm and loaded the building that I used for a pig pen on the truck and brought it home. News came to day that the Japanese have captured Manilla. 01\03\{1942} (Saturday) I have made tools much of the time to day for Mr. Ziolkowski. Dick Pierpont came and we went to the farm and got the tools there and put up things. Then we came home and Dick cleared away the fence and we set the lines and Dick dug the trenches and put in the loose stones for the foundation for the building. 01\04\{1942} (Sunday) {Margin note: 3rd snow, 6" fell} This morning when I got up the ground was covered with snow and it still was snowing. It stopped at about 10.30 and the ground was covered about 6" deep. The street plows soon had the roads cleared and I shoveled out my paths. I have staid home all day. 01\05\{1942} (Monday) I sharpened tools and worked about home to day. The weather has been mild and fair. 01\06\1942 (Tuesday) I have made and sharpened tools all day. The weather has been cold, 8 below zero this morning, 14ø above at noon and below this evening. 01\07\{1942} (Wednesday) Cold day, 10ø above this morning, 14 at noon and at 9 P.M., 6 above. I put new cross chains in my truck chains and sharpened tools to day. 01\08\1942 (Thursday) 14ø below this morning, 12ø above at noon. There was a big fire on Bank St. opposite the Apothecary's Hall this forenoon. Four stores were burned out. A general alarm was sounded and the whole Fire Department was called out. It was after noon before it was under control. I did odd jobs about home, put chains on my truck and went to West Cheshire and got a load of feed for the chickens. Found the road very slippery and the ice so hard that the new chains on the wheels barely took hold. This evening Laurence Pierpont took me to Mr. Ziolkowski's in West Hartford. It was 8ø below zero when we started and 19ø when we returned at 11.45. I am no longer made of putty for the head etc. has been moulded and cast and is now made of plaster and they call it a cast of Major Miller. 01\09\1942 (Friday) Cold day, 14ø below zero this morning, 14ø above at noon and tonight 10ø above. I have sharpened tools to day. Had a ton of soft coal come to day, price 8.00. 01\10\{1942} (Saturday) {Margin note: 4th snow, 2" fell in the night} Cold day. I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and drew the interest on my church bonds, 48.00. Then I came home and swept out the paths etc. This afternoon I went to the town clerk's (Mrs. Warner) and copied records. It was a cold ride home. The wind blew the snow in drifts in the road while the thermometer stood at zero. 01\11\{1942} (Sunday) 20ø below zero this morning and cold all day. I staid in the house and kept the fires burning and kept warm. There were several auto accidents at our corner on account of the hard ice. 01\12\{1942} (Monday) Not so cold, 6ø below this morning. I have made and sharpened tools all day. 01\13\{1942} (Tuesday) I made tools for the West Hartford sculptor. 01\14\1942 (Wednesday) This forenoon I made tools. In the after- noon, I went to Wolcott to the town clerk's office and looked up records. 01\15\{1942} (Thursday) I did odd jobs about home most of the day. Went to see John Frisbie but found no one at home. Word came to day that Dick Miller had returned to the {army??}, at Camp Dix. He had only twenty four hours notice. It has broken up their plans as they expected to be married the 24th of this month. I got a basket of nice apples of Mort Pierpont. Andrew Kitchenka left to day for Pearl Harbor where he is to do electrical work. He gets his ticket to San Francisco and from there his pay begins. His home is at the junction of the Pierpont Road on the south side of the Plank Road. 01\16\{1942} (Friday) Cold day. I turned a lot of file handles out of cotton wood for Frank P. Miller who furnished the wood. This evening Mansfield Gillette called at 7.15 and we, his wife and Laurence Pierpont and his wife went to West Hartford to Mr. Ziolkowski's where they took my picture beside the cast head he made of me. 01\17\1942 (Saturday) I did odd jobs about home to day and some errands etc. 01\18\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject as "Working A Seven Day Week." Margaret and George Hall called after dinner. Then I took my car and called on Mr. Arthur Harrison of Wolcott. His health seems to be failing somewhat. It has thawed some, but the roads are still very icy. 01\19\{1942} (Monday) Rained all day. This afternoon I went to Wolcott and copied records. 01\20\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the bank and deposited some checks. Then I paid my telephone and electric light bill. After dinner I went to the Mill Plain School and voted for the Republican Representative for Congress. Then I drove over to Cheshire and got a bag of oats and a bag of scratch feed and I did other jobs. 01\21\1942 (Wednesday) To day I have been to Wolcott all day looking up records concerning the place that George Hall, my son, owns. 01\22\{1942} (Thursday) This fore noon I worked in the blacksmith shop. I went up to Cousin Berkley L. Frisbie and met Mrs. Carl Jackson and gave her a lot of information concerning the Jackson family. There I learned that they took Arthur Harrison to Middletown last Tuesday. This evening Bobbie Miller called. He was on his way from Camp Edwards to Fort Monroe Va. where he is to receive instructions. His regiment left Camp Edwards to day for the Pacific coast, about 1700 men with their anti air craft batteries. He expects to stay Tuckahoe to night. 01\23\{1942} (Friday) I have been at home all day making tools and drilling stones etc. Mr. Kirtz called this evening. 01\24\{1942} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came and helped me make a lot of tools, for Mr. Ziolkowski and we did other odd jobs, 01\25\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Problem of Living In Two Violently Antagonistic Worlds." After dinner I went up and saw Mr. John Frisbie. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Korczak Ziolkowski called a short time. 01\26\1942 (Monday) {Margin note: 5th snow, 1 1/2" fell} I sharpened tools and did other odd jobs. It snowed this forenoon, then again towards night. 01\27\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the post office and got two Federal Auto stamps for which I paid $4.40. Then I came home and Mr. Blanchard came and cleaned out the pipes that connected Miss Gladding's stove with the hot water boiler. This noon Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Turkenton of East Morris called and we had a good visit during the afternoon. I looked over a lot of books that was Mary's that are stored in the barn. They are all black and damaged, the effects of fire and water when the house burned. 01\28\{1942} (Wednesday) {Margin note: 6 snow, 2" fell} I have been about home all day reading, writing etc. It has stormed the greater part of the time. 01\29\{1942} (Thursday) This afternoon I went to the Town Clerk's office at Wolcott looking up records. 01\30\1942 (Friday) Cold this morning, three below zero. I sharpened tools and did other jobs. This afternoon I went to Wolcott to Mrs. John Warner's and copied records. 01\31\{1942} (Saturday) Dick Pierpont came this morning and we cut down the big maple tree that stood in the sidewalk on the Frost Road, just this side of the brook. It leaned out over the street and hitch on two pairs of tackles and used wedges to trow it into the lot. We sawed it down and when we were half through, it began a fine cold rain which increased so as to drench us through before we got it down. 02\01\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was, 'The Problem of Living in the Towering Shadows of Frustration." The attendance was small. This afternoon I went up to Woodtick and visited Cousin Berkeley Frisbie. 02\02\{1942} (Monday) This morning I went to trimming out the big maple tree that Dick and I cut down Saturday. This afternoon Dick came and a boy named Gaston Lavoie that lives at 175 Circular Avenue came and wanted to work and he and Dick handled the cross-cut saw in good shape and another boy came and he and I kept the brush picked up and cut a lot of wood into stove length. The day has been cold. Towards night it grew cold. At five I was good and cold so I paid the boys and sent them home. 02\03\1942 (Tuesday) Cold day. I staid in the house most of the time, 8 above zero at noon. 02\04\{1942} (Wednesday) Not so cold to day. I filed saws and did other odd jobs this forenoon. This afternoon Gaston Lavoie came and we drew up brush and chopped up a lot. 02\05\{1942} (Thursday) {Margin note: 7th snow, about 5" fell} Snowed all day, but now it is raining a fine mist. I have been in the house the most of the time. I saw by the paper to night that Mr. Hiram J. Able died this morning. I think that he was aged 85 years old. 02\06\{1942} (Friday) This morning I was busy shoveling out the paths and doing chores etc. This afternoon Gaston Lavoie came and we cut up a lot of brush wood. At dark Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski called to see about bringing the plaster head of myself to Waterbury. They say that there is to be a writeup in the papers about it. I cannot understand what it is all about. 02\07\1942 (Saturday) Rained hard nearly all day. I staid in the house. At two o'clock, I went to Hiram Able's funeral. He was born in 1855. 02\08\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden, minister. His subject was "This Makes An Upright Lad." The congregation was rather small. The traveling was very bad. After service, Mr. Madden had the people remain seated and he stepped down in front of the seats and offered his resignation as a pastor of the church, much to the surprise of all. 02\09\{1942} (Monday) Joseph Dioro and Gaston Lavoie ran the cross cut saw and cut up some of the big maple tree and I cut the small wood. 02\10\1942 (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Federal Tax Office, but could not complete my list. This afternoon the boys came and we worked on the tree. There has been pieces in all three of the Waterbury papers and pictures of me concerning the unveiling of my bust next Sunday afternoon in the Mattatuck Historical Rooms. Last evening Laurence Pierpont called to see about sending out invitations. 02\11\{1942} (Wednesday) Nice day. Gaston and Joe sawed the log in two three times. This forenoon I went to the Federal Office and they completed my income tax list. I have to pay $54.76. 02\12\{1942} (Thursday) This forenoon I went to the bank to get money to pay the income tax but found it closed as to day is Lincoln's Birthday. I came home and sharpened a few tools. In the afternoon the boys came and finished sawing the big log. 02\13\{1942} (Friday) This morning I went to the Bank and drew 54.76. Then I went to the Post Office and paid my income tax of 54.76. Then I paid my telephone bill 4.24, then my electric light bill 4.24, then came home, had dinner and worked in the blacksmith shop all the afternoon. It has been a very cold day. 02\14\1942 (Saturday) This forenoon Joe came and we split wood. In the afternoon I sharpened tools. Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski and we made arrangements for tomorrow's celebration when they would unveil my bust at the Mattatuck Museum. Mr. Charles Wolcott died this morning. He was a native of Kent. 02\15\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden officiated. His subject was "The Four Essentials of Vital Faith." This afternoon at the Mattatuck Historical Museum was as unveiled a sculptured bust of myself that was the work of Korczak Ziolkowski, the noted sculptor of West Hartford who is nationally renowned. There were over three hundred there, people from nearly every quarter of the state. The Mattatuck Band in full uniform and full ranks were present and made a fine appearance. Tea was served and altogether it was the greatest event of my life. 02\16\1942 (Monday) To day I did odd jobs and split wood. 02\17\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened and made tools to day. Rained in the forenoon, foggy all day. 02\18\{1942} (Wednesday) Went to Cheshire this morning and got a bag of feed. This afternoon Dick Pierpont came and we did a lot of blacksmith work. Made tools for Mr. Korczak Ziolkowski and a wrench. 02\19\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick came in the afternoon and we split wood etc. Roger Brundage is in Puerto Rico, a lieutenant in the Flying Corps and is pilot on the B19, the largest air plane in the world. It has a wing spread of 212 feet and carries 8 tons of bombs. 02\20\{1942} (Friday) Cold day. I sharpened tools and Dick and I cut wood. 02\21\{1942} (Saturday) Cold day. I made marble tools for Mr. Ziolkowski and did other odd jobs. Had a hard time starting my gasoline engine in the wheel house. 02\22\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church, Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Four Essentials of A Vital Faith." The congregation was small and the day very cold. This afternoon I visited Mr. Clark at his home on Greenleaf Avenue. 02\23\{1942} (Monday) {Margin note: 8th snow, ground covered} Fair day. This is observed as Washington's Birthday. A holiday. Dick Pierpont came and we got the woodhouse ready and put in some wood. After five o'clock it snowed hard for a little time and covered the ground. 02\24\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools and did odd jobs. This afternoon, Dick Pierpont came and did some work. Mrs. Kilbourn came with about a dozen girl scouts to see me about the history of Mill Plain and see the things in the Drum Room. Charles DeBissop telephoned this evening that Tracy Cass's house burned to the ground this afternoon. It was a large two story building and stood in North Wallingford. 02\25\1942 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the state office on Watertown Avenue and had my registration renewed on my pick up. I got no license to run the roadster so I will have the tires to use on my other car. 02\26\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. This afternoon Dick Pierpont and I made a large sharpened tool. Laurence Pierpont gave me a lot of pictures that came from Hartford of me taken at the unveiling, Feb. 15. 02\27\{1942} (Friday) {Margin note: 9th snow, 1 inch fell} I have worked in the blacksmith shop all day. 02\28\1942 (Saturday) {Margin note: 10th snow, 1 1/2 inches fell} This is the last day of the short month of February. I have worked in the blacksmith shop much of the time. Repaired the fence by the Frost Road. Mrs. Hapenny came to give instructions for the dark out tomorrow night and Ray called to get some pictures to have enlarged. The dark out signals blew this afternoon. Air planes are constantly passing over, all going to the south west. 03\01\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Matthew Madden preached. His subject was "The Four Essentials of A Vital Faith." The Church was about half filled. This afternoon I went to Marion Kraft's on Spindle Hill and showed the pictures that were taken at the unveiling, Feb. 15. This night we are now at 7.30 P.M waiting for the signals of the first blackout signals that have ever been sounded here for a war. 03\02\{1942} (Monday) I worked in the wheel house this forenoon. Dick Pierpont came and we fixed the fence by the Frost Road. We had the first blackout last night at 8.45. I did not hear the sirens as they did not work well. Many did not hear them but I knew when the lights went out. So I sat in the dark for about 15 minutes. 03\03\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all day. It rained all day. 03\04\1942 (Wednesday) I was in the house nearly all day as I had a bad cold. The weather has been cold, raw and damp. Mrs. Pearly Wilson called this afternoon. 03\05\{1942} (Thursday) I have been in the house the greater part of the day on account of a bad cold. To day has been a little warmer and pleasant. 03\06\{1942} (Friday) Cold and chilly. I worked in the wheel house some and some of the time did not do much. This afternoon went to West Cheshire and got two bags of chicken feed. This morning I chopped the head off from Old Jake, the old rooster and Mrs. Howe dressed it. The snow an ice is about all gone. This morning it rained hard and later turned to snow. 03\07\{1942} (Saturday) I have been about home the most of the day. 03\08\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Madden preached. His subject was the same as last Sunday. Went to Spindle Hill this P.M. 03\09\1942 (Monday) I have a bad cold and cough and as it was raining hard this morning, I staid in the house all day. Mr. Robert A. Square, Box 894 Meriden called to see about his ancestors in who were Isaac Hotchkiss, family of Wolcott. 03\10\1942 (Tuesday) I have been about home all day. The weather has ben chilly. Have spent much of the time in the wheel house. Mary named it the wheel house because the waterwheel was in it. 03\11\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools all day. Dick came and got wood into the woodhouse. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called to see about building a double garage. 03\12\{1942} (Thursday) This morning I went to the Mattatuck Historical Rooms and showed Mr. Hodden the pictures taken at the unveiling of my bust Feb. 15 and left the address that I made on that occasion. I then went about town and paid bills for light and telephone etc. Went to Cheshire and saw Mrs. Doolittle. 03\13\1942 (Friday) I sharpened tools all day. 03\14\{1942} (Saturday) {Margin note: 11th snow, about 1" fell} I worked about home in the wheel house making a frame tressel for a pair of balance of scales that my Grandfather brought from California in 1860 that they used to weigh gold dust on when they were mining. Ray and Ruth called this evening. While they were here it began snowing and about one inch fell. Something remarkable has happened this day. At the age of eighty three and one half years, I have been offered ninety five cents per hours to work for the American Brass Co forging tools etc. 03\15\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Meaning of the Divinity of Jesus Christ." This afternoon I visited Berkeley Frisbie in Woodtick. 03\16\{1942} (Monday) Was about home all day. Dick and I made a sharpening tool in the blacksmith shop this afternoon. 03\17\1942 (Tuesday) I worked about home all day, sharpened a lot of tools. 03\18\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened a lot of tools. Dick came and trimmed the grape vines and we dug out a ditch. 03\19\{1942} (Thursday) This forenoon I worked in the wheel house. In the afternoon Dick Pierpont and I cut brush along the east side of Norris St. 03\20\{1942} (Friday) I was in the wheel house this forenoon. Mrs. How left for Brattleboro this forenoon. In the afternoon, Dick and I were at the farm. Dick cut brush on the east side of Norris Street and we hauled down a load back of the truck. I have not been feeling very well to day and after I got home, I called up Louise and he called the doctor. He came about 9 o'clock and left some red pellets for me to take. 03\21\{1942} (Saturday) I staid in the house all day, only I went to the store in the afternoon. 03\22\{1942} (Sunday) I staid in the house all day alone except Ray and Ruth called a short time this afternoon, and in the evening Louise Service came and greased my chest. Will came and went home with her. We have had all kinds of weather today, sunshine, snow, cold, rain. 03\23\1942 (Monday) I have been in the house all day on account of my cough. Mrs. Howe got home at midnight and her youngest daughter came with her. I have written several letters to Dorothy, to Ruth Brundage, to Korczak Ziolkowski and to Elsie. This afternoon Frank and Elsie and four of their children came from Kent and we had a good visit. It snowed this afternoon. At 8.30 this evening we had a black out. The sirens sounded but i did not hear them. We put out all the lights but we could see a number west that shown all through it. At 8.45 the lights went on again. 03\24\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I sharpened tools etc. In the afternoon Dick and I worked on a frame for Mrs. Howe. Margaret came and said that Marion had twins this morning and one died. The other they are going to call David. The one that died is to be buried in the Woodtick Cemetery tomorrow. This evening Lee Garrigus came and we drummed a spell. 03\25\1942 (Wednesday) This forenoon I sharpened a lot of tools and forged some new ones. This afternoon I went to the Cheshire Grain Co and bought a bag of oats. I came to the Maple Hill Dairy and paid my milk bill to Laurence Pierpont, then came home. The autos are getting fewer, owing to the war time ban on tires. 03\26\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Dick and I cleared the stove and then worked on Mrs. Howe's rug farm and we put it up in the front yard. 03\27\{1942} (Friday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and Dick Pierpont came in the afternoon and we finished the rack for Mrs. Howe to hang her rugs on. Evelyn Howe went to Brattleboro to day. 03\28\1942 (Saturday) This morning at breakfast time Miss Gladding came down in a hurry and great excitement and said that hot water was flooding them out. I went up and found water showering over everything from a busted pipe back of the stove. I went to the cellar and shut it off. It had put the fire out and filled the stove with water and everything was wet. I called Mr. Blanchard the plumber and then went to the center and did some business and came home. Soon Mr. Blanchard came and put in a new piece of pipe and cleaned out the stove. This evening Mr. Ziolkowski and wife and Mrs. Comstalk of West Hartford called and we had a good visit. 03\29\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Cross With Its Clashing Contradictions." Mrs. Howe left this morning at 10 for Boston to get her daughter. This afternoon I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road to get Mrs. Wilson to do some lettering. 03\30\1942 (Monday) {Margin note: 12th snow, about 3" fell} I sharpened tools to day. The ground was covered with snow this morning about three inches deep. Mrs. Howe came in about eleven last night and had her daughter Therma with her. 03\31\{1942} (Tuesday) Mrs. Howe and her daughter left this morning for Brattleboro. Mrs. Howe wished to stay till Saturday or Sunday. I went to Mrs. Wilson's in Prospect and got some pictures and then took them up to Mrs. Terrell's in Wolcott to get the names of the Wolcott Firemen to put on them, in the afternoon sharpened tools. 04\01\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon etc. In the afternoon Joseph Diorio and I went to the farm and Dick helped. We cut brush by the side of the Norris Road. 04\02\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon and Dick Pierpont and I drew brush wood down from the hill at the farm with my truck in the afternoon. 04\03\1942 (Friday) I worked about home and in the wheel- house this forenoon. In the afternoon Mrs. Ziolkowski and wife of West Hartford came and brought seven pretty girls and a young man to see my museum and to practice drumming. 04\04\{1942} (Saturday) I got up at seven and got my own breakfast and did up the dishes. Then I worked in the wheelhouse the greater part of the day. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton and Ronny called. They came from New York last night and staid at her mother's in Cheshire last night as her mother is sick. Dick and his girl called this afternoon. They say that they are planning to be married next week Saturday. 04\05\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew Madden preached. His subject was "Easter, A Philosophy of Living." Its Easter Sunday and the Church was well filled. 04\06\{1942} (Monday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. At the farm in the afternoon. Wrote a letter to Dennie J. Lahoy. 04\07\1942 (Tuesday) I was about home and went to Wolcott this forenoon. In the afternoon I was at the farm with Dick Pierpont. 04\08\{1942} (Wednesday) I went to the City Hall and paid my water bill this morning. Then came home and sharpened tools. In the afternoon I worked in the wheel house and then went at tools. Yesterday was warm. To day has been cooler. 04\09\{1942} (Thursday) This morning I went to Mrs. Wilson's in Prospect with some pictures but she was not at home. I came home and sharpened tools. Dick Pierpont came this afternoon and we drew out the shanks on a lot of tools for Mr. Ziolkowski. It has snowed nearly all the afternoon but there is no snow on the ground. I went again to Mrs. Wilson's after work and left a lot of pictures for her to make letters on. 04\10\{1942} (Friday) {Margin note: 13th snow, 3" fell} {2nd margin note: 14th snow, 1 1/2" fell} This morning the ground was covered with snow. I have worked in the blacksmith shop off and on all day. It has snowed and rained all day. Had letter that Willard Clyde Miller and Helen Matilda Trowhill are to be married April 25th at Kingsway, Lambton United Church. 04\11\1942 (Saturday) The weather this forenoon was damp and some rain. This afternoon George Hall, Margaret and Ruth Brundage called and I got ready and we went to Trinity Episcopal Church at 4 o'clock and saw Dick Miller and Phyllis Mia Wilkins married by the Rev. Mr. Anderson. It was an imposing ceremony and the church was well filled with relatives and friends. 04\12\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Fairbanks of the Bunker Hill Church preached. Mrs. Ziolkowski and Mrs.. Constalk and Mr. {? ?} of West Hartford called this afternoon and they took some iron wood to make drum sticks of. After they had gone, I went to Wolcott to visit Mr. John R. S. Todd but found that he had passed away just before I reached there. He was aged 96 years. 04\13\{1942} (Monday) I sharpened tools in the forenoon and Dick and I spaded up the garden and planted lettuce and radishes. 04\14\1942 (Tuesday) Worked about home and sharpened tools in the forenoon. Will and Iva Gillette called for me after dinner and we went out to John Todd's funeral. Rev. Mr. Todd of Worcester attended the service assisted by Mr. Madden. There were many in attendance at the house. I came home, then went to Cheshire and got grain and a bag of fertilizer and stopped at Mr. Wilson's in Prospect and got my pictures. Then came to Fred Berger's and had a visit. Then home and got some thing to eat as Mrs. Howe went to Hartford to day. Mansfield Gillette and Mr. Judd called for me and we went to East Farms and attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band where we did a lot of drumming. Mr. Ziolkowski from West Hartford was there with about a dozen young ladies who are learning to drum and fife. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Turkenton of Morris called at noon and left some oranges that they brought from Florida last Saturday. 04\15\{1942} (Wednesday) The weather has been nice and warm to day. I have made two 36 point tools and two 25 point tools and made over two more. This afternoon I went to Mr. Robert Tyler's ladder shop on the Meriden Road to have a lot of oak lumber cut up but they were away from the shop. So I came home and got ready to plant peas but it rained and I had to put it off but before dark, I got some in. Then trimmed rose bushes etc. 04\16\{1942} (Thursday) This morning I went to Robert Tyler's ladder shop on the Meriden Road and had a lot of oak lumber sawed and plained and rabbited. Took Ruth two dozen eggs. This afternoon I made tools of a special type for a New Haven man, and sharpened a lot for Mr. Ziolkowski and Tony. 04\17\{1942} (Friday) This forenoon I sharpened tools and planted peas in the home garden. In the after- noon I went to the farm and planted four rows of peas, two was Dwarf Telephone and two of Champion of England. This evening Mrs. Howe and I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road and we started laying out for the foundations of a garage. 04\18\{1942} (Saturday) I sharpened some special tools and worked in the garden this forenoon. Then planted peas, radishes and lettuce at the farm in the afternoon. 04\19\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Problem of Rationing On Personality." The Church was well filled. This afternoon I visited Charles DeBissop on East Mountain. He has sold his place on the main road where the ponds are to a Mr. Qingley and is going to move over on the Peach Orchard Road. 04\20\{1942} (Monday) This morning I went to the Conn Registration Office on Watertown Ave and had my driver's license renewed by paying 3.00. Then I went to see about my tax on Levenworth Street and at the assessor's office and I got the list of the Estate of David G. Porter, 17 1/2 West side of Meriden Road, $9900, Waterbury Trust Co, Truster. - Estate of Timothy Porter now by N. T. Porter Est. Thomas and S. N. Porter. This evening went to Pearly Wilson's and set profiles for garage. 04\21\1942 (Tuesday) Repaired a wheelbarrow for the Calvary Cemetery. This afternoon picked and packed five bushels of potatoes. Yesterday Mr. Howland gave me a lot of record. One hundred and sixty men left Waterbury by train for Hartford to enter the United States Service this morning. This is the largest number that ever left at one time for the War. 04\22\{1942} (Wednesday) This morning I took five bushels of potatoes to Mr. Schoffer's store. Then went to the farm and put posts around the garden there. This afternoon I worked as fast as I could sharpening tools. This evening I went to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road in Prospect and finished setting up profiles for their stone garage. This morning 100 men left Waterbury for the war, making 260 that have left in two days and I only knew one that has gone. I remember seeing 100 men march down Bank Street for the Civil war in 1862, Co C 14 Rgt. A few days later about half of them were killed or wounded at the Battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. 04\23\1942 (Thursday) This morning Mrs. Howe and I took my pick up and drove to Pearly Wilson's on the Summit Road in Prospect and there met Mrs. Wilson who whit their nice De Soto car drove us to Storrs. We stopped at the Notch-in-the- Rocks and got two dollars worth of gas. Then we went through Cheshire to South Meriden then through Meriden and East Meriden and Middletown across the high bridge to Portland and on through East Hampton and Marlboro and on through Hebron, then on through Columbia to Willimantic then turned north on Jackson Street and up to Storrs College then to Mansfield Four Corners to Ruth's. After a time we went to curiosity shop about two miles east and saw many things. Then we came back to Ruth's and had a fine dinner after which we went down to the College and drove about the grounds and went into the library and {saw} a fine painting of Prof Henry Garrigus. Then we went back to the four corners and left Ruth and started for Hartford through Coventry, Bolton Notch, Manchester Green, Manchester, East Hartford and across the stone bridge into Hartford then out Farmington Ave. to West Hartford where we turned south and saw the statue of Noah Webster and Mr. Ziolkowski and a party of girls working on it. I got out and went over. They were just getting through work. As I had a lot of tools for him, he told me to follow him home. This we did and there had a nice visit. Then we came through Farmington, Southington, a part of Cheshire to Prospect where I took my truck and Mrs. Howe and I came home, getting here at dark. 04\24\{1942} (Friday) I sharpened tools all day. This evening Franklin Browne went to West Hartford and gave drumming and fife lessons to a class of boys and girls at Mr. Ziolkowski's house. 04\25\{1942} (Saturday) I worked about home planting etc. In the afternoon went to the farm and put in onion seeds. This evening Will and Louise Service called. To day Willard Miller is getting married to Helen Matilda Trowhill in Toronto. Fritsa, Dick and wife and Ronald have gone and Bobbie expected to fly from Camp Davis in Va where he was to graduate as Second Lieutenant yesterday. 04\26\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "God and the Giant Agony of the World." It was a nice day but the church was not half filled. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott and saw Arthur Harrison. Then went over to Spindle Hill and saw Margaret and the Krafts and the little new baby. This makes six great grand- children that I have. 04\27\{1942} (Monday) Sharpened picks etc. this forenoon. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats and spaded the garden etc. Loaded the truck with things to take to Kent tomorrow. 04\29\{1942} (Wednesday) Yesterday morning Mrs. Howe and I started for Kenter at 8.30. We went through Waterville and across Reynold's bridge and up the West Branch Road past the Waterbury Reservoirs to East Morris where we stopped and visited with her step daughter Mrs. Raymond Atherton. Then on through Morris and Romford and Waramaug and East Kent to Kent where we had dinner and then I went with Frank down to the dump lot where Frank with the Farm All tractor hitched onto two plows and plowed a large piece before four o'clock. I rode on the machine, the furrows were eleven hundred feet long. After that he hitched onto a double disc harrow and went over a piece that he had plowed before at the rate of ten miles per hour and it certainly did mellow it up. We had it done at six and then went home and had supper with the whole family except Dwight who stays over to the school. In the morning I went out to the barn and found seven men and boys milking, Frank and Albert and five student boys who had volunteered. The milking was started before five and finished soon after six. After breakfast about ten boys came. Frank set three to planting in the garden and three helped clean out the stables and four got into the truck which was loaded with seed potatoes and bags of fertilizer and we went down to the dump lot and soon Albert came with a pair of horses and the potatoes planting machine and some more boys came so six of us were cutting and two were riding on the machine and we started planting the piece that we harrowed the day before. It took a bushel of seed and a bag of fertilizer for each row. We planted till noon and then the boys returned to school and after dinner Mrs. Howe and I left for home. We went north to Cornwall Bridge then to Goshen where I stopped and visited with Cousin Mrs. Lyman Ovaitt [Oviatt]. Then we came down through Torrington and up through Harwington then down through Terryville and on through a portion of Bristol and up the Wolcott Mountain through the east part of Wolcott and home at four thirty. This evening Robert Miller called. He came from Canada where he attended his brother Willard's wedding last Saturday. He is on his way to Camp Davis N. C. where he graduated last Friday, Second Lieutenant. Then he is to enter the service at Puerto Rico where Roger Brundage is. 04\30\{1942} (Thursday) I worked plowing at the farm with a hand plow and mowed with the lawn mower and did other odd jobs. This evening Wm Service took me to West Hartford where I gave drumming lessons to a class of girls at Mr. Ziolkowski's home. 05\01\1942 (Friday) This morning I went to the center and paid my electric light and telephone bills. Bobbie Miller called. He has started for Camp Davis, N.C. and expects to be sent to Puerto Rico soon. Mr. Squires called and took me up to Wolcott to the Old Wait Hotchkiss place and the Albin Alcott place and on Bucks Hill where in the cemetery we found the grave of Ara Warner. 05\02\{1942} (Saturday) I got the ground plowed with a hand plow for potatoes and planted one row about 100 ft long. 05\03\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Is Christian Faith A Foolish Dream?" The Congregation was small. This afternoon I went to Woodtick and visited Mr. Berkeley L. Frisbie. 05\04\{1942} (Monday) I planted potatoes at the farm, mowed the lawn, hoed in the garden etc. In the afternoon I went to East Farms school and got a permit to buy sugar. I had Mrs. Howe's application but they would not honor it. So I had to come and get her. 05\05\1942 (Tuesday) To day I planted potatoes in the shed lot on the farm. To night I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at East Farms. 05\06\{1942} (Wednesday) I finished planting potatoes soon after dinner but I was taken sick to my stomach and it was hard for me to get around and it was night before I got the tools put up and went home. I will here state that when I went out, I traveled on the Meriden Road and down Norris Street where I stopped and threw the stones out of the cut where the boys had rolled them down the bank. There was a cart load of them and it took some time. This evening I took Miss Gladding out to the East Farms School to get her sugar ration book. They are going to begin selling sugar again tomorrow. Mr. Christian told me that there {are} over 1500 people in the district and up to last night, only 350 had applied for permits. Last night the Mattatuck Band gave a very improper farewell party for the benefit of three of its members who are to leave for the Government Service on the 16th. They are Robert Wakelee Fifer, James Bhelen Drummer and Ernest Robinson Bass Drummer. 05\07\1942 (Thursday) I sharpened tools but did not do as much as I usually do as I was weak this forenoon. In the afternoon I felt better and did more. This evening I went to West Hartford and gave drumming lessons to a party of young ladies. They are the smartest set that I ever instructed. They are earning money by cutting the grass on lawns for people. They said tonight that they had 38 lawns to cut. They bought a power lawn mower for $90.00 and have it paid for and are now earning money for uniforms and drums. 05\08\{1942} (Friday) I sharpened tools to day and did errands. Ray and Ruth called this {day} about 5 o'clock and got a dozen eggs. 05\09\{1942} (Saturday) This morning I went to Bristol and had my pick up fixed, the wiper and dash light. Worked on picture frames in the afternoon. 05\10\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Queen In the Kingdom of Love." This afternoon I went to Wolcott and went up in the lookout station on the roof of the Town Hall. 05\11\1942 (Monday) Joe Du Bois and I set out a lot of onion sets this forenoon and went to Cheshire and got some feed. I sharpened tools and we went to East Farms and got a lot of rhubarb. Have spent some time getting ready for the parade in Hartford tomorrow. 05\12\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning at 7.15 Mr. Ziolkowski came from West Hartford and took me and Ernest Scherie up to Hartford to the Putnam Phalanx Headquarters where we were placed on a float which was rigged with a loud announcer and we joined a liberty parade said to be the largest ever in Hartford. There was a boy with us and we were all dressed to represent the Spirit of 76. The announcer stated at intervals that Maj. Charles Miller of Waterbury, 85 years old, the oldest drummer in the U.S. was on the float to drum and help raise Liberty Bonds. He has been drumming in military circles for the past 65 years and will now drum here. 05\13\1942 (Wednesday) This morning I mowed the back yard and did other odd jobs. In the afternoon I went to East Farms Schoolhouse and got a gas ration card so I can get gas for my truck and for the gas engine in the wheel house. Joe Du Bois helped a little this forenoon. Tony's boy cut the grass in the front yard, in the afternoon. This evening I took Miss Gladding out to the East Farms Schoolhouse and she got a gas rationing card. 05\14\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened tools and planted the garden to day and did other odd jobs about home and drove up to the store and got some groceries. 05\15\{1942} (Friday) I planted in the garden and worked on Tony's stone truck all day. 05\16\1942 (Saturday) This morning the Mattatuck Drum Band went to the City Hall and escorted 84 recruits to the Railroad Station at 7 o'clock where they took the train for the War. Among them was James Phalen, a drummer. Robert Wakeslee and Ernest Robinson were also drafted but they were given a few days to straiten up their business. Wakelee is a fifer and Robinson, a bass drummer. Yesterday morning a contingent of 78 men left. They were escorted to the station by the High School Band. Yesterday at three in the afternoon, my granddaughter Jene Northrop and Byron Flemming were married at the Mill Plain Union Church by Rev. Mr. Madden. It was a pretty wedding and the church was well filled. Later a reception was held at Wolcott Center at the home of her mother Mrs. George Hall. It was out of doors under the nice blossomed trees on the fine grounds. There were many in attendance and all enjoyed it. Ray and Ruth Miller took Mrs. Howe and me up in their car. Frank brought from Kent the rock maple boards for Mr. Ziolkowski to make the drums of. 05\17\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "Proscript To Despair." This was on the programme. But the sermon was preached by Rev. Sidney G. Menk, assistant pastor of the South Federated Church. He took his text from the Bible. This afternoon I went to Wolcott and visited Arthur Harrison. Then went up to Margaret's where I had supper. 05\18\{1942} (Monday) I worked on Torby's truck and tempered bush hammer blades. Then I planted in the garden and spaded some of it. 05\19\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I planted in the home garden with Joe Du Bois to help. Worked in the garden at the farm this after- noon. 05\20\{1942} (Wednesday) To day I made picture frames and planted at the farm and went to Prospect and bought a dozen little chickens of Treat Hotchkiss. 05\21\{1942} (Thursday) We went to Treat Hotchkiss's and Joe Du Bois bought five little chicks. I sharpened tools etc. 05\22\{1942} (Friday) I sharpened tools etc. Yesterday Mr. Ziolkowski and wife came from West Hartford and he took home the tools and machinery for making drums. Mr. and Mrs. Du Bois called this evening. 05\23\{1942} (Saturday) I made tools etc. and did other odd jobs about home and got ready and got my truck ready to go to West Hartford to night. 05\24\{1942} (Sunday) I staid last night at the home of Korczak Ziolkowski in West Hartford where I gave lessons in drumming to class of young men and young ladies. I got up at the first break of day but before I got out of the house, Mr. Ziolkowski was up and urged me to stay to breakfast. I broke away from him and reached home about 6.30. I had a good breakfast that Mrs. Howe provided and at 10.30 went to service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Little Man in This Business of Democracy." He lectured long and loud and it seemed to me that there was about as much sense in what he said as there was in the subject he selected. I could make nothing out of either. At noon Mr. Theodore Kirtz called me up and wished to take me to Clintonville to the home of Mr. Alex Smith. We had a nice visit. Mr. Smith has an old drum that his ancestor used in the War of Independence in 1776 which he wishes me to drum on every time I go there. I think I am the only one that has played on it for years. It is 20 inches in diameter and very heavy but with big sticks I can make it jingle. Mr. Kirtz took photographs of many of Mr. Smith's drums. 05\25\{1942} (Monday) To day I got the little chicks in their coop out of doors and hoed in the garden. In the afternoon Joe Dirurio came and we went to the farm and we planted a row of potatoes on the south and est side of Fort Dunlop and planted in the garden and then cut out a lot of pea brush. Joe caught a little rabbit in his hands. 05\26\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the bank and drew $100.00. Then went to City Hall and paid my tax $100.53. Then paid my telephone bill, $4.90. Then paid my electric light bill $3.29. In the afternoon, sharpened tools and went to Wolcott and exchanged garden seed with George Hall. 05\27\1942 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon and did some planting at the farm and started hoeing my potatoes. 05\28\1942 (Thursday) I sharpened a lot of marble tools for Mr. Ziolkowski and a lot of granite points for Mr. Ciarlo this forenoon. In the afternoon I went to the farm and hoed potatoes. Dan Hanlon took my car to the inspection line and had it inspected. He furnished a new mat for the car. 05\29\{1942} (Friday) I hoed potatoes, a very hot day. 05\30\{1942} (Saturday) I stayed last night in West Hartford where I went the night before to give drumming lessons at the house of Mr. Ziolkowski. Came home early this morning and did odd jobs about home all day. 05\31\{1942} (Sunday) To day I attended service at the Town Hall in Wolcott. It was a Memorial Decoration Day service, all of the uniformed organizations were there including the Mattatuck Drum Band, the Firemen and their Coronet Band, the newly organized North Company turned out for the first time. At the service in the hall, the school children were present and sang patriotic songs. A list of the young men who have left the town and are now in the service was read by Mrs. Charles Tyrrell. There were 39 in all and several more are to go this month. Judge Ells of Litchfield made the principal address. After the service in the Hall, the bands and different organizations marched to the Cemetery and placed flowers on the graves of war veterans and on the graves of former members of the Drum Band. After the exercises, the Mattatuck Drum Band was invited to a dinner by Margaret. 06\01\1942 (Monday) I made a set of snares for Mr. Ziolkowski's drum. At the farm I planted muskmellons and mowed out the drive way. 06\02\1942 (Tuesday) Sharpened tools this forenoon and planted corn and mowed the roadside at the farm this afternoon. 06\03\{1942} (Wednesday) Sharpened tools this forenoon and worked at the farm in the afternoon, cutting grass by the road side and worked in the garden. 06\04\{1942} (Thursday) Sharpened tools and worked at odd jobs. 06\05\{1942} (Friday) Sharpened tools all day. Vincent cut the grass in the front yard. 06\06\{1942} (Saturday) Sharpened tools all day and did other odd jobs. Went to West Hartford and staid last night. 06\07\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. His subject was "The Little Man in This Business of Democracy." The attendance was small. This afternoon I went to Watertown to see Mr. Fox but he was not at home. 06\08\1942 (Monday) I did odd jobs and wrote letter this forenoon. Hoed potatoes at the farm this afternoon. Mr. Benjamin Howland died at the home of his niece in South Britain yesterday. He was aged 94 years. I worked with him searching records over 50 years ago. 06\09\{1942} (Tuesday) I hoed potatoes this forenoon and in the afternoon met Wm M Gillette at the corner of West Main and Meadow Sts. and went to the funeral of Benjamin Franklin Howland. It was held in the Hall Memorial Chapel at Riverside Cemetery. He was buried in the north part of the grounds. 06\10\{1942} (Wednesday) I hoed potatoes all the forenoon. In the afternoon Vincent Codiano helped and we finished. 06\11\{1942} (Thursday) This day has been hot. I sharpened tools for Mr. Clark, Mr. Ziolkowski and Anthony Ciarlo. Went to West Cheshire and got some seed and feed, then Vincent and I got up the hay by the road. Then Vincent mowed my lawn and I worked in the garden. 06\13\1942 (Saturday) I sharpened tools this morning etc. Yesterday I sharpened tools all day. It was very hot. In the evening I went to West Hartford and gave drumming lessons to a class of young ladies and young men. I staid over night, got up at 5.30 and drove home 23 miles, reached here at 6.45. Mrs. Howe left this morning for Brattleboro at 8 o'clock. I have been doing odd jobs, fixing up a glue melting rig and putting picture frames together. 06\14\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was most a most outlandish one: "The Man Who Swallowed Himself." His sermon or lecture about equaled his subject. I spent the afternoon at Margaret's in Wolcott. Will and John Garrigus have commenced to make the house over. 06\15\{1942} (Monday) I did odd jobs about home. 06\16\1942 (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Went to the farm and planted sunflower seed and went to Cheshire and got a bag of laying mash. 06\17\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools and hoed at the farm and did other odd jobs about the house besides getting my own meals. 06\18\{1942} (Thursday) I did odd jobs and sharpened tools, cut the grass by the wheel house and had the truck fixed at East Farms and hoed the corn there. 06\19\{1942} (Friday) Worked about home all day. 06\20\{1942} (Saturday) I went to West Hartford and took Jean Flemming. We staid over night and left there at 6 this morning. We reach her home at 6.35 and I got home at 6.55. I worked about home. A boy helped me and we took a small load of hay to the farm. Weather has been hot. Got a letter from Dick. He is at Camp Gordon, Georgia. 06\21\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. The Pierpont Family Association held its 18th Reunion in the Mill Plain Church and about 20 attended the service. Mr. Madden spoke to them and held silent prayer for Irving who died the 18th of last August. Later a lunch and business meeting was held in the Gymnasium. The newly elected officers were Harold Pierpont of Waterbury President and Mrs. George Hall Secretary. There were about 58 members present. I went out to Wolcott to Margaret's for supper. They are making the house over. 06\22\{1942} (Monday) I bronzed the thum{??} handles on the screw of ten drum snare tighteners and partly opened the waste pipe and did other odd jobs and the house work. 06\23\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this A.M. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats, then went to Mt. Carmel to Mr. Frederick Pierpont's and got a drum. Mrs. Pierpont loaned me a history of Litchfield. 06\24\1942 (Wednesday) Sharpened tools most of the day. 06\25\{1942} (Thursday) This morning I went to the bank and did some business, then went to Attorney Phalan's office and met Wm Gillette and had our rent blanks made out. Then took them to the Levenworth Building and left them, then went to the Post Office and got a 5.00 Government stamp for my auto truck, then paid telephone and light bills, came home and did odd jobs till supper time. Am going to West Hartford this evening. 06\26\{1942} (Friday) I staid at the house of Mr. Ziolkowski last night after giving a drumming lesson to seven men and girls. I worked in the garden and went to the farm and hoed potatoes etc. in the afternoon. 06\27\{1942} (Saturday) I mowed and ground scythes this forenoon. After dinner Mr. Dry called. He was the minister who built the stone Mill Plain Church. Is now located in Nebraska. After he went, I went to the farm and put poison on my potatoes and hoed some till night. 06\28\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. The subject that he preached was "Man Has Never Been The Same Since God Died." The attendance partly filled the Church. The Rev. Mr. Madden sat with me. Have staid home all afternoon. Margaret and George Hall called. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called. 06\29\{1942} (Monday) This morning I ground axes etc. for Pearly Wilson. Then went to the farm and hoed potatoes. This noon Mrs. Wilson called and got the ground axes etc. Then she followed my out to the farm in her car and looked at my garden and potatoes. 06\30\{1942} (Tuesday) I mowed in the lot near the wheel house this morning. Attorney Charles Lyma called this forenoon to see me about the last D.G. porter estate. This afternoon I hoed potatoes at the farm. M. E. Pierpont called to see about cutting the grass. 07\01\1942 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the farm and finished digging up the rows of potatoes which took till noon. Then I came home and had a fine dinner that Mrs. Howe prepared. I worked in the wheel house all the afternoon repairing and sharpening two lawn mowers for Mrs. Rossa. It has been very hot and rained this evening. {Note: Thursday.} 07\03\{1942} (Friday) I went to West Hartford last night and gave drumming lessons to a class of young people and staid over night. Left there about six and got home before seven. Yesterday I sharpened tools and did other odd jobs. To day I went to Wolcott and got Warner and he cut my grass and we got a load of hay out to the farm and did other odd jobs and I carried him back to Wolcott this evening. 07\04\{1942} (Saturday) This is Independence Day. This morning I went to Wolcott Center and got Wilfred and Elaine Warner, Elliot Bronson and Charles Kraft and brought them here and we decorated the west and south sides of the house with red, white and blue bunting{?} and flags etc. We got the large extension table out under the grape arbor on the est side of the house and soon the crowd assembled in the street and on the yard. Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski and a load of young people came from West Hartford and Margaret and George Hall and the Krafts, Wolcott and the Great Parade came down the Frost Road and went down the hill to Hamilton Park. There were all the officers of the East End Community Club, State soldiers, Firemen, Floats and other organizations and about seventy drum bands. It took about one and one half hours for it to pass. By this time, Mrs. Howe, Margaret and others had a fine picnic dinner ready and we sat down. At this time an accident happened. The young Wolcott people were in my museum{??} and Charles Kraft pulled one of the electric plugs out and gt up on one of the show cases to put it in and broke through the glass, cutting his arm and knee quite badly. There was a nurse here who did it up and they took him home. We then took down the flags etc. and by dark all had gone. The day was properly observed at this place and all had a good time, only the one that got hurt. 07\05\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "The Idea of God Within The Soul of Man." In the evening Ruth and Jack Brundage called. They had been to Danbury and was on their way home. They expected to stay with Margaret at Wolcott over night. 07\06\{1942} (Monday) I sharpened tools all the day. The weather was very hot. I sweat my clothes through. I went to the East End Hardware Co and bought a new white enameled tea kettle. This evening it thundered and lightninged and rained hard. 07\07\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools all day. 07\08\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. After dinner I went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed. Then I came to the farm and Mort Pierpont's man was there mowing. He mowed the lot on the hill in one hour with a pair of good horse and a John Deer mowing machine. Then he mowed the orchard in another hour and mowed the upper part of the barn lot. 07\09\1942 (Thursday) I went to Wolcott Center this morning after breakfast. When I first got up at the six, I took my scythe and went down in the lower part of the lot and went to mowing and mowed clear to the brook. I had nothing on my feet except a low pair of slippers with rubbers over them. I had mowed about all I intended to when I felt a sting on my foot and found that I was standing in a large nest of yellow jacket hornets and they covered the part of my feet that were bare and went up my trouser legs and stung me many times on both feet and legs. I had quite a time getting them out of my pants legs and I have not had cold feet of legs since. At Wolcott I could not get the Warner boys to mow my lawn as Ralph was mowing Dr. Barber's lawn with a power mower and Wilfred was helping his Father up at the filling station so I went over and got Elliott Bronson. He came and helped me get a load of hay out to the farm and we hoed a few rows of potatoes. Mr. Pierpont's man came and raked up the hay. The weather has been cool and clear. 07\10\{1942} (Friday) I mowed a piece in the lower end of my lot before breakfast. After a time Ralph and Wilfred Warner came and Ralph mowed the lawn and Wilfred and I trimmed up the paths and painted Mrs. Howe's rug rack and took a load of hay out to the farm and repaired the fence about the garden, and did other odd jobs. I carried him home about eleven o'clock. George Hall and Margaret came and brought an electric oven that they had bought for $29.95 of the Domestic Appliance Corporation No 149, Grand Street, Waterbury. 07\11\{1942} (Saturday) I sharpened tools to day as it rained all the morning. I mowed a small piece in the lower end of the lot near the wheel- house and worked in the garden etc. Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Wilson called this evening and got their lawn mower that I sharpened. 07\12\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden preached. A fair attendance. Church started at 10 o'clock instead of 10.45 as it has previously. This afternoon I went to Watertown and visited Mr. Louvane Fox. The weather has been fine. 07\13\{1942} (Monday) This morning I finished mowing in my home lot. This afternoon I went to the Colonial Trust and had my 24 Mill Plain Union Church coupons cashed, $48.00. Then I paid my water rent bill at the City Hall and paid my water rent bill 8.25, then to the Telephone Building and paid my telephone bill $4.24. Then to the Connecticut Light and Power Co on Levenworth Street and paid my electric light bill $4.24. Then to Sears and Roebuck and bought two files for 68 cts, then home and did several odd jobs. The weather has been very hot. 07\14\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the Mattatuck Historical Building and got my blank for service gasoline ration. I filled in the following: Name of registered owner - Charles S. Miller 2271 East Main St. Waterbury Conn. July 15, 1942 Brief description of industry, business or occupation in which vehicle is used - To carry tools, goods etc from home to farm and bring produce etc. from farm to market and do other business and errands connected with the same. No State Year Make Body Capacity 129247 Conn. 1931 Ford Pickup 1000 lbs. Type of Operation - Farming and business Mileage For - 400 Necessary Mileage Per Month For 4 Month Period - 700 Explanation of difference if any between two preceding columns: Have not used truck much the past 30 days. Average miles per gal - 20/ Gallons to be purchased at gasoline station - 35 Signed, Charles S. Miller 2271 East Main St. Waterbury 07\15\1942 (Wednesday) This morning I went to the Mattatuck Historical Rooms and turned in my gas application and took out another for my gas engine. My bust stands on a pedestal over- looking all this war time gas business. I came home and did odd jobs till noon then went to the farm and cleaned the weeds from the garden. 07\16\{1942} (Thursday) I did odd jobs about home and at the farm. This evening I attended a meeting of the East Farms Cemetery Association at which I resigned as president. At the election of Officers, Harold Pierpont was elected President, Morton E. Pierpont First Vice President, Ralph Pierpont 2nd Vice President, Howard Neal Secretary and M. E. Pierpont Treasurer. Mr. Pierpont reported that there was over $400.00 in the treasury. 07\18\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday I went to Wolcott and got Ralph Warner to come and mow my lawn and we got a load of hay and took it to the farm and salted down a bushel of string beans. In the evening I drove to West Hartford and gave drumming lessons to a class of young men and ladies. I laid there all night and left at 5.30 this morning and drove home in the rain. To day I did odd jobs about home and in the afternoon went to the farm and killed a woodchuck that I caught in a trap at the upper end of the garden and puled weeds out of the garden. Mr. Ziolkowski and a load of girls came and brought some raw hide to make snares of. 07\19\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Matthew G. Madden, minister. His subject that he talked about was "Dead End Street." The attendance was small. I lay on the bed most of the afternoon but after four, Miss Gladding and I went up to Margaret's in Wolcott. 07\20\{1942} (Monday) After breakfast, I drove up to Wolcott Center and got young Elliott Bronson and brought him down. We went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats. Then we pulled weeds in the garden at the farm. After dinner I went to the Mattatuck Historical Rooms at 1.45 to get my War Gas Rationing Book but had to wait in the hot sun till about 2.30 before the doors opened. Then had to stand in line with more that 100 in front of me for a long time till finally my turn came and I got my book. Then I came home and young Bronson and I went to the farm and I paid him and took him home to Wolcott. 07\21\{1942} (Tuesday) This forenoon I made a pair of snares etc. In the afternoon, went to the farm and pulled weeds. Could not buy any gas about here as the dealers are all out of it. 07\22\1942 (Wednesday) I sharpened tools to day. This evening I went to the Mattatuck Historical Rooms and got my War Time Non-Highway Gasoline Ration Book for the engine in the Wheel- house. 07\24\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I went to Wolcott and got young Stillman Bronson and we cleaned the garden at East Farms and set out cabbage plants. At evening I took him home, then I drove to West Hartford and gave drumming lessons to a class at Mr. Ziolkowski's house on Sedgewick Road and I staid there at night, getting up at 5.30 and got home before seven to day. I went to the farm and pulled the weeds out of the corn and watered and cultivated the cabbages etc. 07\25\{1942} (Saturday) Hot day. I worked in the garden at the farm all day. 07\26\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Madden officiated. His subject was "Alone On The Mountain." This afternoon I called on Pearly Wilson in Prospect. 07\27\1942 (Monday) Hot day. I planted turnips and spinach seed in the garden at the farm and dug some potatoes and picked a few apples. Joe helped me this forenoon. 07\28\{1942} (Tuesday) Another hot day. I worked at the farm in the garden and did odd jobs about home. 07\29\{1942} (Wednesday) I mowed at the farm and worked in the garden. 07\31\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I worked in the garden at the farm. I caught a woodchuck in a trap. This makes three that I caught and a rabbit in the past three weeks. The State is putting in a large drain pipe in front of my lot and the lots east of mine. It is down in the ground about six feet. In the evening I went to Mr. Ziolkowski's in West Hartford and gave drumming lessons. Came home this morning. To day I have done jobs about home. This afternoon, Mr. Ziolkowski came in the rain and got my cement mixer and cement tools. He had his wife and three young ladies to help load it. The New York and New Haven Rail Road are taking up the rails on to Old Waterbury and Meriden Rail Road from Mr. Kitchka's in East Farms west to Harpers Ferry. 08\01\1942 (Saturday) I did odd jobs about home and made raw hide snares. This evening Louise called and got two rugs that Mrs. Howe made and some vegetables etc. 08\02\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Matthew G. Madden officiated. His subject was "If I Had But One Sermon To Preach." This is his last Sunday in Mill Plain as he is going to the Congregational Church in Branford next September. To day's paper stated that my grandson, Lieut Kenneth Pierpont Brundage was married to Margaret M. Kearney of Worcester, Mass., an army nurse, July 18th in the Post Chapel at Camp Wheeler at Macon Georgia, Rev. B. P. DeCrane Chaplain officiating. This afternoon the Miller family in this vicinity met at Margaret's on her invitation to meet Dorothy Miller who is visiting there from Milwaukee. 08\03\{1942} (Monday) I made a pair of good rawhide snares and mowed about the spring at the farm. The State is putting in an under drain in front of my place at the farm. They dig a trench about 6" deep with a gasoline clam steel digger and have to drill and blast out rocks. In front of the water trough, they struck a bed rock that came up to within 2 ft of the surface. In the trench they put in 10" iron pipe that is corrugated like a screw, with holes drilled in the top half. The pipe is in lengths about 40' long and coated inside and out with asphalt. Then they fill the trench with 1/2" crushed stone. 08\04\{1942} (Tuesday) I mowed at the farm on the east and south side of the barn lot. 08\05\{1942} (Wednesday) I mowed at the farm and did odd jobs about home. 08\06\{1942} (Thursday) To day I mowed at the farm, finished the lower part of the barn meadow. I took a pair of hinges out for Harold Pierpont to put on the East Farms Cemetery gate. 08\08\1942 (Saturday) Yesterday I did odd jobs about home and raked up the hay at the farm and heaped it up. In the morning I drove to Mr. Ziolkowski's house in West Hartford. He took me to the center of the town and showed the concrete walk he is putting around the statue of Noah Webster which he has about completed. Then we went back to his house and I gave drumming lessons to six girls and one man. I staid there through the night, got up at 5.30 and drove home. To day I have sharpened tools most of the day. 08\09\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Gertrude Coe preached. Her subject was "Wait Ye Upon The Lord." It rained hard and the attendance was small. Theodore Kirtz called this evening. Later Fritsa and Olga called. 08\10\{1942} (Monday) Rained severe thunder shower. I set out about 50 cabbage plants at the farm and mowed some. Then worked on drums. Raymond and Ruth Atherton of Morris called this afternoon. 08\11\1942 (Tuesday) This morning after doing several jobs about home, I went to the farm and mowed quite a piece of grass. In the afternoon, hoed the garden, sat in the shade some of the time as it was very hot. The state men have the drain pipe in the ground down nearly six feet, in front of my land and are working in front of Fred Wilson's where it is solid rock from the top down. They have a good air compressor and with the air drills put the holes down in about five minutes, four feet deep. They blast 7 or 8 holes at a time with dynamite. 08\12\{1942} (Wednesday) I got in two loads of hay. Peter and Billie Pierpont helped to tread it down. 08\14\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I worked most of the day making snares for drums. In the evening I drove 23 miles in the rain to West Hartford and gave lessons to six young ladies and two men. Staid at the house of Mr. Ziolkowski and left at 5.30 this morning and drove home. I went to Margaret's in Wolcott and got Dorothy and she is here now. Night before last, M. E. Pierpont was taken with a heart attack on the train from Providence to Boston and is in a Boston Hospital. Yesterday morning, Jessie, Bessie, Ralph and Laurence Pierpont left at four and went Boston to see him. To day I have spent about home and made three nine points for Anthony and hardened them very hard temper. 08\15\{1942} (Saturday) This morning I went to Wolcott and got Dorothy Miller who was at Margaret's and brought her here. Then I went to Cheshire and got a bag of chicken feed. Then, as it rained, I made snares in the wheel house. 08\16\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Cochard, formerly of the Prospect Church, preached. The attendance was small. Dorothy Miller went with me. 08\18\{1942} (Tuesday) Yesterday morning, Dorothy and I went to Kent. We left at 9 A.M. and in my little Ford truck and traveled through Waterbury Center and through Watertown Center and through Gurnsey Town and through Bethlehem Center, then on to the north west where we got lost and enquired and came to lake side in Morris. Then west and down the new Washington Road, turned west and out north of Washington Depot, then up the Bee Brook Road and to the south end of Lake Waramaug and up the west side and up to East Kent and then west to Kent 42.3 miles. We found the folks all well and busy. After dinner Frank and Dwight and another young fellow went out back of the barn and they cut up some cotton wood trees that had been blown down by the brook. They were about 9.0' tall. While the milking was being done, Frank and I went down the river where he picked about four bushels of sweet corn and brought it up to the school. We had a fine supper an I slept on a single cot bed in the play room. In the morning after the chores, Frank picked two bushels of tomatoes, three of cabbage, a lot of other beets, carrots etc. and took them down to the school, after which Dwight and two boys hoed in the garden. Frank and I got out a heavy elm plank and some pieces and I loaded them on the truck. We weeded in the garden a spell and then had dinner. After which I went and got five gallons of gasoline for 1.06, then came back and loaded up and started. Dorothy wanted me to keep on State roads as she was not feeling too well and did not want to be shook up, so we came through East Kent and Warren Center and on past Mr. Tom Pond through Bantam and turned south past the lake and over the hills through Morris Center and East Morris and down past the Waterbury Reservoirs and across Reynold Bridge to Waterville where we turned est and came past Lakewood to Mill Plain and home, having traveled 41.8 miles. 08\19\1942 (Wednesday) I made a set of snares and did odd jobs and hoed the garden and did nothing some of the time, only sit and sweat, as it was very hot. To day's paper stated that the English and Americans had landed in France and were engaged in a fierce battle with the Germans. 08\21\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I sharpened tools and made snares and dug potatoes at the farm and in the evening went to Mr. Ziolkowski's house in West Hartford and gave drumming lessons to the class there and came home this morning reaching here at 7 A.M. 08\22\{1942} (Saturday) Mowed grass and did other jobs about home. Ralph Bull of Kent called. 08\24\1942 (Monday) I sharpened tools to day. Dorothy returned from Westbrook last night. Mr. {? ?} of Ocean Grove N.J. called to day to talk about historical matters. The weather has been nice. I received a letter from Dick. His address now is Company B-13 2nd Engineer School Regiment, Fort Belvoir, Va. Also one from Fritsa which enclosed a letter from Bobbie. But it does not tell where he is. He has been changed to "D" Battery and his address is Battery D, 66th C.A. (AA) A.F.O. 851. 08\26\{1942} (Wednesday) Yesterday I sharpened tools in the forenoon and made drum snares. In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski and a party of seven young ladies and men came from West Hartford and brought back my concrete mixer and tools that they used to put the circular walk around the Noah Webster statue in West Hartford. After putting them in the cellar, we all went up to Margaret's and had an out of door picnic on the ground near the swimming pool on their grounds. Then we went up to their picnic place and practiced drumming and fifing till eight o'clock. Then we drove to the Mattatuck Hall at East Farms and joined the Mattatuck Band in a rehearsal and we did not get away till midnight. To day I sharpened tools, made snares and did other odd jobs about home. This morning I took Dorothy down to the Rail Road station and she started for Milwaukee. Is to stop in New York and again in Chicago and expects to reach home this evening. 08\27\{1942} (Thursday) Trimmed up the front walk and did other jobs and wrote an article for the Republican. At the farm this afternoon I cleaned the weeds and stones out of the cabbages and piled up some hay. 08\28\{1942} (Friday) This morning I went to the Bank and deposited 50. Then to the telephone office on Grand St. and paid my telephone bill, 4.51 then to Conn Light and Power Co on Levenworth St. and paid my light bill 5.84 then home and did odd jobs and to the farm and hoed and fertilized the garden and picked apples etc. 08\29\{1942} (Saturday) I sharpened tools and worked at snares this forenoon. After dinner, went to the farm and cleaned the weeds from the garden. 08\30\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Girtrude Coe of Wolcott preached. I could scarcely hear anything that she said. Her voice was so light. Mrs. Howe went to an Advent Camp Meeting at Plainville. This afternoon I went up to Ruth Todd's to see an old account book. She had company from New York. I wrote a letter this evening to R.H. MILLER COMPANY B-13 2ND ENGINEER SCHOOL REGIMENT FORT BELVOIR VA. 08\31\{1942} (Monday) I sharpened tools and did other jobs about home. This afternoon I went to East Farms and cut the weeds by the side of the road. Bessie and Jessie Pierpont went to Boston to see Mort who has had a bad turn. Wrote a letter to Elsie Miller. 88 men from Watertown left the Waterbury R. Station this morning. 09\01\{1942} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. At the farm I gathered a lot of hay and put by the garden. This evening I attended a meeting of the Mattatuck Drum Band at East Farms. 97 men left Waterbury this morning for the War. They were escorted to the station by Scoville's new Drum Corps and Scoville's Color Guard of young ladies. 09\02\1942 (Wednesday) This morning I got up at 5.30 and put on my old Continental Uniform. Mrs. Howe helped me and at 6.30 took my pickup truck and drove to the Rail Road station and waited there till I saw a parade approaching down Grand St headed by twenty young ladies in uniform bearing colors, then seven members and Major Mansfield Gillette, back of them came nearly 200 drafts. I joined the band and we marched into the Depot which was crowded, there thousands of people who saw them board the train. We played a piece or two in the station then took our stand on the platform at the head of the rain of ten cars and played as the train pulled out. This is the third and largest contingent that has left this week. I came home and had breakfast with Mrs. Howe and her sister and sister's step daughter, then weeded the garden and did other jobs. This evening Mr. and Mrs. William Service went with me to the farm and we picked three bushels of Baldwin apples which I gave them. 09\04\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I dug potatoes and did many odd little jobs. In the evening I carried Billie Howe who has enlisted in the Navy to West Hartford to get his clothes and other things. I gave drumming lessons to Mr. Ziolkowski's house and staid over night. Left at six this morning and came home. After breakfast I sharpened tools. After dinner Mr. Ziolkowski telephoned that the drum heads had come. I took my truck and went to his house and we put on four heads and got things ready. Then I came home. This evening Cliff Heaton, Fritsa and Ronald called, having just come from New York and going to Cheshire to stay with her folks. Billie Howe left this noon for Hartford to enter the service. 09\05\{1942} (Saturday) This forenoon I went {to} Cheshire and got a bag of scratchfeed. Did odd jobs and made tools the rest of the day. 09\06\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mrs. Girtrude Coe of Wolcott officiated. I heard nothing that she said. About forty in attendance. This afternoon I went to Ruth Rodd's and looked over an old account book of Moses Todd who kept a store at Wolcott Center in 1799. 09\07\1942 (Monday) This morning I drove to West Hartford to the home of Korczak Ziolkowski where we finished four drums that he has made. They are 16" across the head and stand about 16" high and are the lightest and best drums I ever saw. They have fine transparent heads and snares made of transparent rawhide, with wood snare tighteners which he made. After we were through, we went to West Hartford Center and viewed the statue of Noah Webster which they have just finished. It is a wonderful piece of work and is put there to last through the coming ages. I then came home through Farmington, then to Bristol and to Wolcott where I stopped to see Byron and Jean but they had gone to the shore so I came on home, 23.7 miles. 09\08\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I did little jobs about home. At 11 o'clock Attorney Charles M. Lyman with his stenographer of New Haven came. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Korczak Ziolkowski of West Hartford came, then Michael F. Healey who had just been sworn in Corporation Council for the City of Waterbury and another lawyer came. Then they telephoned to Hartford for the States Attorney to come but he was engaged elsewhere. I was then sworn by the Justice of the peace and they took my deposition, regarding the late Professor David G. Porter who died in 1905. While it was being type-written, Mr. and Mrs. Korczak Ziolkowski and I drove over and looked at Abrigador Hill whom Mrs. Comstock is heir to. Mr. Lyman and the Ziolkowskis went to the Hall{??} for their dinner. This evening was visiting evening for the Mattatuck Drum Band to visit the Plainville Corps and Mr. Theodore Kirtz called and I went with him to Plainville and we had a good visit and drummed after which we had refresh- ments. I reached home at midnight. Amen. 09\09\{1942} (Wednesday) I have been all day repairing the gates to the chicken yard, and it has rained all day. 09\11\{1942} (Friday) Yesterday I sharpened tools and did odd jobs. In the evening I drove to Mr. Korczak Ziolkowski's in West Hartford where we turned up four new drums and we practiced on them, and practiced marching the first time. I got up at 6.30 this morning and drove home before breakfast, then I went to the store and got a lot of provisions and Mrs. Howe made ready for the dinner at the farm tomorrow when the drummers and fifers are doming from West Hartford to pick apples. I went to the farm and made a fireplace and got things ready. Took out a lot of baskets, bags etc. 09\12\1942 (Saturday) To day it rained in the morning. I telephoned to Korczak Ziolkowski not to come and pick up apples. Then I sharpened some large four points. Mr. Howe came and said Korczak had just telephoned from West Hartford that they were just leaving. About eleven they got here, he and five girls and one young man. Mrs. Ziolkowski did not come as they went to Boston and adopted a day and one half old baby yesterday and she had to stay home and take care of it. We went into the shed and practiced till noon when Mrs. Howe had a fine dinner to which we did justice. Then we drummed some more and as the grass had dried, we went to the farm and picked apples, about seventy bushels in all. I had them load about 4 or 5 bushels in their car. Then we went to the Mattatuck Hall and played for an hour. Then they left for home and I came home. 09\13\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Kermit Green preached. His subject was "The Way of Life." The attendance was not large. This afternoon I attended a clam bake at Pierpont's Grove at East Farms. There was about 100 present, among them President Major Mahoney and one other from the Putnam Phalanx and Korczak Ziolkowski and Mrs. Comstock and five or six others from West Hartford. From there I went to Margaret's and saw their house that Will Garrigus is repairing. He's doing a good job. The weather has been nice and clear. 09\14\{1942} (Monday) This morning at 9 o'clock I went to the Rent Commissioner's Office at the corner of Grand and Bank Sts and had the price of the garage added to Mr. Stephen Gladding's rent, making it $27.00 per month instead of $25.00. This took till near noon. In the afternoon I dug potatoes at the farm and did other work. 09\15\{1942} (Tuesday) This morning I went to the sugar rationing board and after spending nearly the whole forenoon, got a ration of thirty one pounds for canning. Dug potatoes and did other jobs in the afternoon. 09\16\{1942} (Wednesday) I pulled weeds and dug potatoes all day. 09\17\1942 (Thursday) I dug potatoes this forenoon and picked grapes at the farm. The weather has been extremely hot, so much so I could hardly work. Mansfield Gillette called me and said that some of the Mattatuck boys were to attend a lecture at the Mattatuck Historical Hall in full uniform. The subject was "The Present War." I with the others attended. 09\19\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday I dug a few potatoes and did other odd jobs. I loaded seven baskets of apples in my car and my new drum and went to West Hartford where I found Mr. Ziolkowski suffering from an injured knee. Soon the Doctor came and found that the skin on the bone had been broken and it would take a month to get well. He then with others put on their drums and we then practiced drumming till after ten o'clock when they who lived elsewhere left for their homes and I was shown to my room where I slept in an old elegant four post bed with a nice white cover on the top with white ball fringe. I got up at 6.30 this morning and found Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski all ready up. I started for home, stopping at Farmington at a cider mill where they only made up their own apples. They charged four cts per gallon for making after which the Government takes two cents and the person that has the cider has to pay the Government two cents for every gallon made. This forenoon Frank came from Kent and brought some maple plank and an old white horse to the farm. Frank staid for dinner and then left for Kent. This afternoon Mable Gladding and I went to the farm and picked over a bushel of grapes. 09\20\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Daniels of Hartford preached. After dinner I went to the farm and fed Julia, the old white horse. Then I went up to Ruth Todd's and looked up accounts in Moses Todd's account book of 1799. Then I drove down to Matthews Street and visited with Walter Morse till after dark. 09\21\1942 (Monday) I dug some potatoes and went to West Cheshire and got a bag of oats. Then engaged Michael Salvatore of West Cheshire to make my cider at 4 cts per gallon. Then came to the farm and dug more potatoes. It is slow work as the big weeds have to be pulled. 09\22\1942 (Tuesday) Eight two years ago to day Mary, my wife, was born. Four years ago the 15th of this month, she died. To day I got out my Cider barrels and emptied the old cider in the vinegar barrel and washed out the others. One 50 gallon cask, one 30, one 10, one 5 and one 1 gal. This afternoon I pulled weeds and dug two bushels of potatoes. 09\23\{1942} (Wednesday) This morning I took fourteen bushels of apple from the farm to the Cider Mill of Michael Salvatore at the Notch-In-the-Rocks at West Cheshire. Then I came home and got the barrels ready and took them and nine bushels more out. Then I came back and made a new felt-rubber packing for Anthony's new air compressor. Then went to the farm and pulled weeds and corn and fed and took care of the house etc. 09\24\1942 (Thursday) I was at the most of the day pulling weeds and digging potatoes. This wind this noon blew down a big branch of a maple tree that stands on Mr. Saint Lewis's lot west of my barn so it is across my drive way. 09\26\1942 (Saturday) Yesterday I dug potatoes till noon, then I went to the Cider Mill at West Cheshire and got 75 gallons of cider and brought it home. Had dinner and in the afternoon, put it in the cellar. Went down to the Barber's and had hair cut and shave. Then got the pickup ready and loaded on maple plank and drum and a one gallon barrel of cider. Had supper and started for West Hartford. All went well till I got to Plainville where they are building about 100 new houses. Then I had a blow out which delayed me half an hour and it was dark when I reached Mr. Ziolkowski's house. But soon the boys and girls came and we rehearsed till near eleven o'clock when they went and Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski took me up stairs and showed me a wonderful crib he had made for their new adopted baby. I then retired, was up at 6.30, came home and dug potatoes, got the cider in and did other jobs to day. Am tired and sleepy. 09\27\1942 (Sunday) This day I am 84 years old. The weather is wet and rainy. I am here living alone in the house that I built in 1892 at the corner of the Frost Road and East Main Street with Mrs. Howe keeping house for me. She is a good house keeper from Brattleboro Vt. I was married in the Old Mill Plain Chapel to Miss Mary Ann Pierpont by Rev. MiCone of Trinity Church on Nov 22, 1883 and went to live in Mary's home at East Farms where Clyde was born. He is now passed on, leaving a family of Fritsa his wife, Dick, Willard, Bobby, Ronald, had two daughters that died. Dick, Willard and Bobbie are now in the U.S. Army. Fritsa had married Professor Clifton Heaton and is now living in New York. My second, Irving, was born at East Farms. He too passed on in Milwaukee, a year ago last August leaving a wife, Dorothy and children Enid, David, Barbara and John. My third child was Margaret, born at East Farms Feb. 24, 1889 at 9.30 Sunday eve. She married Clifford W. Northrop and had children Marion, Elizabeth, Jean and Nita. Clifford died and she married George Hall of West Hartford and Wolcott. My fourth child was Ruth, born at East Farms, Feb 31, 1891 at six A.M. She married Augustus J. Brundage of Storrs and has children Roger, Kenneth, Granville and Margaret. My fifth child is Frank Pierpont. He was born at Oak Corner, January 10th, 1893 at about 4 A.M. He married Elsie Garrigus of Storrs and has children Mary Ann, Berth Patterson, Dwight Somers, Jessie, Louis and June. My sixth child is Raymond Henry. He was born at Oak Corner Aug 15, 1895 at about 2.30 P.M. He married Ruth Henion. They have no children. At the present time, figure my living children, their wives and their children and wives and their children, they will all total over fifty I think. This day I have had a great surprise. In the afternoon, as I was sitting here reading, I heard drums. It was raining hard. I went out and in the barn shed found the Noah Webster Fife and Drum Corps in full uniform playing. On my birth day they wore their new uniforms for the first time. They had come all the way from West Hartford in the rain. Later they presented me with a fine gold fountain pen, and we had refreshments and an enjoyable visit. Raymond and Ruth called and left a large box full of useful presents. This afternoon Ruth Brundage of Storrs with Roger's new wife and also Kenneth's new wife. Roger is Capt of a Flying Corps in the Panama Zone and Kenneth is Lieutenant in Infantry at Camp Wheeler in Georgia. 09\28\1942 (Monday) I pulled weeds and dug potatoes most of the time to day and got my old harnesses out and did some repair work on them. 09\29\{1942} (Tuesday) Dug potatoes and did other odd jobs. This morning there was a heavy frost, ice froze quarter of an inch thick on a pail. 09\30\{1942} (Wednesday) I finished digging potatoes this noon. Picked them and did odd jobs. 10\01\{1942} (Thursday) I painted the inside of the body of my truck this morning. Visited Morton Pierpont. This afternoon Laurence Pierpont gave me a black cat this afternoon. Dick Miller received commission, Lieutenant, at Belvoir Va. yesterday. 10\03\1942 (Saturday) Yesterday I gathered sun flowers and did other jobs. In the evening I went to West Hartford. Came home this morning and repaired harnesses. At the farm, I did odd jobs etc. 10\04\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Church. Rev. Mr. Mickey of Yale preached. In the afternoon I called on Ruth Todd but did not see her old account book. I then went to Wolcott Center and saw Margaret and the improvements on their house. Yesterday a large number of recruits left Waterbury for the war. Friday morning about 225 left and Thursday another large number left. The paper states that between four and five thousand have left altogether. 10\05\{1942} (Monday) I did odd jobs about home and husked corn at the farm and brought in a load of apples and potatoes. Billie Howe came this evening from the Naval Training Station at New Port for a week furlow. 10\06\1942 (Tuesday) This forenoon I shucked out about a bushel of sun flower seed and did not get through till about three in the afternoon. I then went to the Pierpont Dairy and paid my milk bill. Then came to the farm and did work there and brought in three baskets of apples and gave them to Tony. 10\07\{1942} (Wednesday) I did several jobs about home, filed the wood saw and sawed wood. In the after- noon I went up the Todd Road, then to the farm and hitched up the horse and drew up brush and corn stalks etc. 10\08\{1942} (Thursday) Made over a pair of cart shafts and repaired the lock on Mr. Gladding's door. Then went to Wolcott to Mr. Peterson's and got a black cat and put it in the cellar where the rats have ate many of the potatoes and apples. 10\10\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday I got the walk form the stairs to the street partly ready for concrete and then did several other jobs and got ready and went to Mr. Ziolkowski's in West Hartford where the Noah Webster Drum Corps were getting ready to take part in the dedicating of the Noah Webster Statue next week. Friday I staid over night and came home this morning. To day I completed getting the forms in for the walk and made it ready for the concrete. 10\11\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Morris Anderson of Louisiana preached. The attendance was small. Mrs. Howe's son had dinner with us. His Hartford girl was with him. He leaves to night to go to Providence and from there into the Navy. In the afternoon I went to see Ruth Todd's old account book but there was so much going on that I failed to. 10\12\{1942} (Monday) This morning I telephoned Chatfield & Chatfield to bring out 30 cubic feet of mixed concrete. They sent it out and I have made the walk from the steps to the Frost Road and as some was left over, I put in a base step at the east door. It was hard work as I had to do it all alone. 10\13\1942 (Tuesday) Filed saws this forenoon for Mr. Edward Bronson and finished the concrete walk. This afternoon I went to the farm and rigged up the tackles to haul down the big branch of the maple tree that the wind blew down and got the horse and hitched him on the fall rope but it did not come down till Red Saint Lewis went up and chopped it loose. Then by pulling several time we got it down. I saw Mrs. Sarah Pierpont about mending my sweater. 10\14\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. I saw Mr. Gibson at Hitchcock's Lake about the history of the Wolcott Fire Department. Then I came and saw Mort Pierpont. 10\15\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened four points this forenoon. Went to the farm and dug potatoes and trimmed out part of the big maple branch. Wrote of the history of the Wolcott Fire Department this evening. 10\17\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday I did odd jobs about home. In the afternoon I went to West Hartford and with the Noah Webster Drum and Fife Corps attended the Dedication of the Noah Webster Statue at West Hartford Town Hall. After the exercises we went to Mr. Korczak Ziolkowski's at 216 Sedgewick Road where a grand collation{??} was served. I spent the night there and came home this morning, stopping at Mr. Gibson's at Hitchcock's Lake to find out about the Dedication of the Fire House tomorrow. 10\18\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice Anderson of Yale preached. In the afternoon I attended the Dedication of the Fire House at Hitchcock's Lake. Then I went to Margaret's at Wolcott Center to see about the door knocker. 10\19\{1942} (Monday) To day I worked about home and went to Cheshire and got a bag of oats and a bag of scratch feed. Stopped at the farm and trimmed out some wood. I made a report to the United States Office of Defense Transportation regarding my commercial truck. 10\20\{1942} (Tuesday) Worked all day grading and firing and seeding the ground by the new concrete walk from the house to the Frost Road. 10\21\1942 (Wednesday) I have spent the entire day making over a saw frame for the Calvary Cemetery. As we pass by in front of nearly every house there are piles of scrap iron to be collected and used in war defense. 10\22\{1942} (Thursday) Worked all day on saw frame and painted it. 10\23\{1942} (Friday) This morning I went to the bank and drew 110.00 then went to City Hall and paid the last half of my year's tax, 100.53. Then I came home and got my truck ready to go to West Hartford. Started at 2.30. At East Farms I got five galls of gas. Then went to the Notch- in-the-Rocks and got a gallon barrel filled with sweet cider, then drove up Peck Lane and on to West Hartford 26 miles. Had a rehearsal and I left there at 6.00 and came home. 10\24\{1942} (Saturday) Mrs. Howe left this morning for Perth Amboy to be gone till next Tuesday. I sharpened tools and got my own meals. Went to the farm and trimmed out some wood and tied old Jude out. Brought home a small load. 10\25\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice Anderson of Yale preached. The day has been fine. I staid home all the afternoon and cooked a good supper of fried chicken. 10\26\{1942} (Monday) I kept Bachelors Hall to day and worked sharpening tools. Damp in forenoon. Rained in afternoon. 10\27\{1942} (Tuesday) Cool day. I sharpened tools in the forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski called this afternoon. I went to the farm and got gas in the P. M. Had my truck looked over. Mrs. Howe came back this morning. 10\29\{1942} (Thursday) Yesterday I went to Kent. Saw Hon Ralph Bull about the Presentation Service that is to be held Nov 22. Found Frank very busy with only two men helping him. In the afternoon he got the tractor and woodsaw out and saw a lot of wood. I climbed up the mountain and viewed numeral rock after which I saw Ralph Bull again and visited the Community House. I slept on a lounge very nicely. In the morning Frank did the chores, then took a light truck and we went down through Scaticook where the Indians live and on to the York State Road the down to Wingdale where there was an immense limestone quarry which has been abandoned of late years, but now the government is operating it to make magnesia. They are getting the rock out here and are building a great plant four miles away where they intend to extract the magnesia. They have hundreds of men working on the construction, are paying joiners 12.00 per day and cannot get enough. We drove through Waysaac{??} and home. I had dinner, then I left and came home, then went to the farm and took the sticks out for the barn sills. 10\29\{1942} (Friday) I left this morning for West Hartford where I as to drum with the Noah Webster Drum Corps at 9.00 A.M. to the leaving of over 100 young men who are entering the service. They came out of the Town Hall and formed in line and we played a number of pieces. They were the nicest looking set of young men that I ever saw leaving, some very young and fresh nice looking from the farms in the adjoining towns and in some cases were surrounded by father, mother and sisters. There were many sad and tearful partings as the line moved slowly and they loaded into the large buses. I came home and after a little rest and dinner, went to sharpening tools. But the thoughts of the sad partings I saw this morning have been with me all the afternoon. This makes the third large contingent I have drummed for while leaving for this war. I drummed when the men left for the Spanish American War and many times when the troops left the Worlds War twenty five years ago. 10\31\{1942} (Saturday) I got vegetables into the cellar and sharpened tools this morning and took two cabbages and four large carrots up to Louise then took 1/2 bushel of potatoes up to Ruth then went to the farm and got a load of cabbage. 11\01\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice Anderson preached. This afternoon I and Mrs. Howe went to sister Iva Gillette's on Bunker Hill where she had invited the whole Somers family in honor of Williard Miller who has joined the armed forces in Canada. 11\02\1942 (Monday) Cold this morning. I sharpened tools. In the afternoon I went to the farm and got a large load of cabbages. 11\03\{1942} (Tuesday) I have been in the cellar all day sorting apples and potatoes. I put in fourteen bushels of apples, but now I have only two and one half bushels. The rats have destroyed the greater part of the rest. They bite into them and they they rot. Of the potatoes, I have twelve bushels. Many of them are rat eaten but they did not rot so much. I have a cat now and keeps the rats out. But I am having lots of trouble. Mrs. Howe does not like cats and lets them run away. I have to keep them shut in the barn when I am working and can have them in the cellar only when I am here and I have to take entire care of them. I went to the Chase School and voted for Raymond Baldwin for Governor of Connecticut and other Republicans. 11\04\{1942} (Wednesday) This forenoon I prepared and put over 100 cabbages in the cellar. Went to the farm and got another load of cabbage. The Republican ticket was elected yesterday. 11\05\1942 (Thursday) To day was very cold. This morning ice on pails of water was half an inch thick and the ground was frozen an inch very hard. I dug a trench and buried nearly 100 cabbage heads. We cannot buy anymore coffee at present. 11\06\{1942} (Friday) I went to the farm and cut wood and took up the fence around the garden and did other jobs. Had the head lights fixed on the truck. At three I started for West Hartford and got there at four and had a Drum Corps rehearsal. Came back, it was very dark and hard to see when meeting the bright lights of other cars. 11\07\{1942} (Saturday) To day I sharpened tools and went to the farm and fed old Jude etc. 11\08\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Maurice Anderson preached his first sermon as regular minister. In the afternoon I went out on the Todd Road. 11\09\{1942} (Monday) Sharpened tools. At the farm took care of the horse and spread old hay on the garden etc. 11\10\1942 (Tuesday) Did odd jobs about home and sharpened tools. Went to the farm and cut some wood. Rained to night. 11\11\{1942} (Wednesday) I sharpened tools and did odd jobs about home. Took my truck down to Dan Hanlon's to have it repaired. Saw Mr. Beers about printing this evening. 11\12\{1942} (Thursday) Sharpened tools etc. Got my truck from Hannons and went to the farm and spread manure on the garden etc. Telephoned Kent and West Hartford this morning. 11\14\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday I sharpened tools etc. In the afternoon went to West Hartford and at the home of Mr. Ziolkowski practiced playing the drums and fifes with the class. I staid all night and started home at day light. This morning was very cold. At nine I went up to Mr. Beers and saw him about printing programs and songs for the Kent celebration. I sharpened tools and did many other odd jobs at the farm. I sawed off some sticks from the big limb. 11\15\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Anderson preached. In the afternoon I went to the farm, then on and up the Todd Road. Very cold to day. 11\16\{1942} (Monday) I went to Kent to day to see Ralph Bull. After I got home went to the farm and did the chores etc. 11\17\{1942} (Tuesday) Worked the greater part of the day putting a sill under the stable shed at the farm. Went to Cheshire and got a bag of scratch feed. 11\18\{1942} (Wednesday) To day I took my car to Dan Hanlon's to have the back wheel repaired so it will go around. This evening I went up to Louise to get her to help me make out my gas ration book for my truck. While there, a blackout signal sounded and I quickly started for home. A Warden stopped me but soon let me proceed home. The blackout lasted about 1/2 hour. 11\19\1942 (Thursday) Sharpened tools. Pulled turnips at the farm. Saw Mort Pierpont and gave him his book and got mine. Went to Wolcott and Margaret typed my papers. 11\21\{1942} (Saturday) Yesterday morning I sharpened tools and got my car ready and at two started for West Hartford where we had a drumming rehearsal and I staid there all night. Came home this forenoon and did odd jobs. In the afternoon went to the farm and put the horse in the barn lot and dug a little pond for water. 11\23\{1942} (Monday) Yesterday was the fifty seventh anniversary of my marriage. I started for Kent in my truck alone at eleven. Got there before one and waited in my truck by Bulls Store and soon the West Hartford came and we went to the Community House where we had a lunch and at two a Testimonial Meeting began. It consisted of the Noah Webster Drum Corps forming near the entrance and when Major Gillette, Frank P. Miller came, they played "The Campbells Are Coming". Then the band followed them into the hall, I beating time and the Corps following in single file and they took their places on the stage. Soon the exercises opened and the following program was carried out: Master of Ceremonies - R.P. Titus Invocation - Rev. E.S. Foensmeter Address of Welcome - W.E. Templeton Singing America - Assembly Led by the Cobble Hill Choristerrs Presentation - Ralph W. Bull Music - General Greens March The Noah Webster Fife & Drum Corps Listen to Major Charles S. Miller Presentation - Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski Singing - The Battle Hymn of the Republic Led by the Cobble Hill Choristers Firemen - F. Maurice Child Selection - The Cobble Hill Choristers Led by Miss Annie Chopin Mrs. Albert Jack Accompanist Masons - Frank H. Peet Maurice Bruce's Address - The Noah Webster Fife & Drum Corps First Congregational Church - Henry F. Mashier Grange - Raymond H. Rockfeller, Master Music - Yankee Doodle, Noah Webster Fife & Drum Corps Kent School - Rev. W. S. Cholmere Town - Theodore P. Wooding, First Selectman Music - Bird Polka, Noah Webster Fife & Drum Corps A Word of Appreciation - Mrs. Korczak Ziolkowski Response - Frank P. Miller Singing the Star-Spangled Banner - Assembly Led by the Cobble Hill Choristers Benediction - Rev. W.S. Cholmere Everything went off smooth and excellent. The attendance was not as large as we wished. After it was over about forty repaired to the Kent Inn where we were served with a nice supper. The small number present was on account of not being able to get gas. I stayed over night at Franks and left there this forenoon. Got home at dinner time. This afternoon I went to the farm and did several jobs. Governor Baldwin was there and made a short address. 11\24\{1942} (Tuesday) I has rained all day. I sharpened many tools and hardened a set of Bush Hammer blades, went out to the farm and fed the horse and shut him in the stable. 11\25\{1942} (Wednesday) I repaired the stove in the wheel house and filed saws and did other odd jobs. Mrs. Howe's two daughters came from Brattleboro and brought a new baby. It rained hard all day. 11\26\1942 (Thursday) Thanksgiving Day. The Somers family gathered at the Hotel Elton and had an excellent dinner. There were about thirty eight present. 11\27\{1942} (Friday) Cool day. This morning I went to the freight station to see about a combination door that I bought of Sears & Roebuck but it has not come and they paid me back the 58 cts freight that I had paid. Then I went and paid my telephone bill and my light bill. This afternoon I went to Cheshire and bought three squares of shingles for the roof over the east rooms. Paid 21.30. Then I came to the farm and hitched up old Jude into the cart and drove up on the hill and back again. That was the first time that I put a harness on him. 11\28\1942 (Saturday) Cool day. I sharpened tools this morning. Then I worked in the wheelhouse making an extension for my 16 ft ladder, as I want it 18 ft long for a staging to shingle the roof. Then I went to the farm and hitched up old Jude and rode up the hill in the cart and then sawed some wood etc. Had my car filled with gas. 11\29\1942 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Mr. Anderson preached. Had dinner with Robert Somers at his new house on Bunker Hill and staid there till evening when he brought me home. Mrs. Howe's daughter left this noon for Brattleboro. Her son Billie called as he left his ship at Philadelphia on a 48 hour furlow. 11\30\{1942} (Monday) This forenoon I did odd jobs about home and in the afternoon went to the Mattatuck Historic Rooms and got my truck gas ration book. 12\01\{1942} (Tuesday) Yesterday afternoon I went to West Hartford to the house of Sculptor Ziolkowski where I met the members of the Noah Webster Drum and Fife Corps. Then we went in three autos to New Britain where we played for a meeting of the Price Ceiling Commission that the Government has sent out to limit the prices on groceries. They have appointed a large committee to go to the stores and get the prices charged and report to the Government. 12\02\1942 (Wednesday) Cold windy day. I worked in the wheel house making bolts etc. Went to Cheshire in the afternoon and got a bag of oats. At the farm made a drinking hole for the horse to drink from. 12\03\{1942} (Thursday) Cold and windy. I sharpened tools and did blacksmith work to day. At the farm shut the hose{??} in the stable and cut a little wood etc. 12\04\{1942} (Friday) Cold day. I sharpened picks and done other blacksmith work. Went to the farm and worked there this afternoon. Had a letter from Fritsa. She stated that Bobbie Miller has been promoted to First Lieutenant in Brazil. 12\05\{1942} (Saturday) I sharpened tools and did other work. At the farm I took care of old Jude and cut some wood. It has been very cold to day. Snowed a few flakes. 12\07\1942 (Monday) Yesterday I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Anderson preached. I came home and got into my 76 rig and started for West Hartford stopping on the Todd Road a few minutes. At West Hartford I joined the Noah Webster Fife and Drum Corps at the home of Korczak Ziolkowski and at the proper time we loaded into three large autos and drove to a large hall in Hartford where the Polish people to the number of nearly three thousand had a great patriotic rally. The opening act was greatly applauded. Then we had to change our rigs to our regular Continental uniform but o the crowd of young ladies in the dressing room. We were so crowded that I had to push the girls to the right and left to get room to change my pants and I couldn't keep them from treading into my suit case and on my toes and they were having their trials getting their costumes arranged so as to go on the stage. Finally we got out and joined the rest on the floor and soon were called to the stage where we played several selections. Then we left the hall but in the entry way I saw more money than I ever saw before. There was a table there and an old Polander was laying down six hundred dollars to pay for a 600 dollar War Bond. He could not talk so any could understand him. He had a son in the service. The place was crowded with Polanders buying War Bonds. A man and a woman was counting the money and a man was writing the Bonds. They filled a tin box full. The box was about 14' x 18" x 12" high. Then they stacked the bunches of money on the table to the height of 18 inches. They had two girls to keep the money from falling off. After the cars were found we loaded in and went to the home of Mr. Ziolkowski where we had a lunch and they held a business meeting, after which we retired. This morning I ate breakfast there then after a time I drove home, stopped on the Todd Road and got home in tome for dinner. This afternoon I made a staging partly and then went to the farm and cut wood etc. 12\08\{1942} (Tuesday) Joe came this morning and we finished some ladder brackets. Then we sharpened tools. In the afternoon we went to the farm and sawed up some wood and while Joe rode the old horse, I cut up brush wood. 12\09\1942 (Wednesday) {Margin note: First snow, 1 1/2 inches} I sharpened tools this forenoon, got gas and at the farm took care of the horse and got in a lot of leaves while it was snowing. It began snowing at noon and stopped about 5 P.M., about 1 1/2" fell. 12\10\{1942} (Thursday) I sharpened a lot of four points and made a lot of new four points. Had my truck repaired and did the work at the farm. 12\11\{1942} (Friday) Cool damp day. I worked at the farm for the most part cutting up brush wood etc. Brought a load of wood home. 12\12\{1942} (Saturday) At the farm this forenoon I cut up brushwood and hauled out brush with the horse. This afternoon Ray came and we put up a ladder staging at the north east corner of the house. 12\13\{1942} (Sunday) Was sick all night with a bad cough. This morning snow lay on the ground 1" thick but soon to began snowing and by night it was 11" deep. I staid in the house all day till near dark when I went to the farm and cared for the horse. 12\14\1942 (Monday) Cold day, staid in the house most of the time, only when I shoveled paths and did the chores. 12\15\{1942} (Tuesday) I am not feeling any to good so I stayed in the house most of the time, only when I did the chores and went up the Todd Road to see the snow. Saw Ralph Pierpont and paid him the milk bill. 12\16\{1942} (Wednesday) {Margin note: 2nd snow, about 2" fell} Cold day. Warm in the morning but grew cold all day. I worked in the cellar and connected up the electric oven and got ready to turn the file handles. It snowed during the night about two inches deep. 12\17\{1942} (Thursday) {Margin note: 10ø below} I was in the cellar turning file handles the greater part of the time. 12\18\{1942} (Friday) Cold day. I did odd jobs about home. Went to the farm, found the horse down, could not get her up. 12\19\1942 (Saturday) Thermometer 7ø below zero this morning and cold all day. When I went to the farm I found old Jude dead in the stable. I have not done much work to day, only tending fires and keeping warm. There only are a few cars on the road on account of the short war gas rationed and the cold. 12\20\{1942} (Sunday) 12ø below zero this morning. I staid in the house till about three, then went to East Farms, the thermometer being 3 below, then I went up on the Todd Road where I staid till 7 P.M. When I got home it was 12 below. I built up the fires and got the house warm, but it was growing colder all the time. 12\21\{1942} (Monday) 22 below this morning and cold all day. I have been in the house most of the time reading. The street is nearly deserted of cars but the busses are crowded with passengers. 12\22\{1942} (Tuesday) 12 below this morning, but it has grown warm and is now 32 above. Have been in the house most of the time. 12\23\1942 (Wednesday) Mrs. Howe left this morning at 6.30 for her old home in Brattleboro Vt. After she had gone I did up the dishes then went to the farm and marked out a grave for the dead horse a little north of the barn and dug it down about four feet and struck a big stone. I then went up to the Todd home and had Ruth help me to cut out the Mill Plain Bond Certificates so I could get my pay on them. 12\24\{1942} (Thursday) This morning after breakfast I went to the Colonial Trust Co. and got my certificates cashed. Then I paid my water bill, my light bill my telephone bill and went to the bank and deposited a check for $104.00. Came home, had dinner and went to the farm and dug in the grove. Had to break up big stones to get them out. While I was there Fritsa and Ronny called. They had just come by train from New York. 12\25\{1942} (Friday) Christmas Day. I received many presents. I worked hard to get my breakfast and get the dishes done and get ready to go to Margaret's at 11.30. Up there we had a fine dinner and there were 15 that sat down at the table. In the afternoon they had a Christmas Tree and many presents. 12\26\1942 (Saturday) After breakfast i went to the farm and rigged up my chain blocks{???} and hitched onto the hind legs of the dead horse in the stable and dragged him to the door. Then I had to drag him crossways to get his hind feet through the three foot door and then pull straight but she was so heavy that I could not pull her over the door sill, so I strung up the chain with another pulley and after a lot of pulling, got her out and to the side of the grave, but I could not pry her in. I then drew her four feet together and hitched on a rope and rigged my 1/2 ton hoist to a rock and rolled her over and into the grave but she lay about a foot away from the west end of the grave and I could not move her which was necessary as her head was not in. I finally doubled it over and it was growing freezing could. I had to work lively to get her covered up before dark. 12\27\{1942} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice Anderson preached. After, I came home and had lunch and then went out the Todd Road and didn't go home till 11.30. 12\28\1942 (Monday) I did odd jobs about home to day. Mrs. Howe came from Vermont this morning. It rained all day and was very slippery. 12\29\{1942} (Tuesday) I had a time figuring out Tony's water bill. It took most of the forenoon. After dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski came from West Hartford and brought five of the fifers and drummers and we had a nice visit. Then we went out to the Drum Room in the barn where we had a good practice. The weather was wet and the ground slippery. 12\30\{1942} (Wednesday) Rained and froze all day. The ice did a lot of damage to light and telephone wires in Wolcott and Prospect but here we did not notice it. Out about Hitchcock's Lake many houses were without water, heat or light as they used electricity to pump the water from their Artesian Wells and for cooking and to keep warm and for lights, but as the ice broke the wires down, they were without current. 12\31\1942 (Thursday) This has been a fair clear day, not too cold. I have made a long light pair of tongs to take the clinkers out of the furnace when the clog the grate so it does not work. They say that there is scarcely a tele- phone in the town of Wolcott that will work on account of the great ice storm yes- terday that broke the wires down and at many of the new places at Hitchcock's Lake, the people are without water, light, heat, cooking, baking, time and other conveniences that are furnished by the electric line that are down and broken. About here we had no trouble. 01\01\1943 (Friday) {Margin note: 3rd snow, about 2 1/2" fell} New Years Day. I sharpened tools and tempered bush hammer blades this forenoon. It began snowing about 10 o'clock and stopped about 5. This afternoon I carried 1/2 bin of potatoes to Oscar Todd. The ice has broken many of the trees in that neighborhood and put all the electric equipment out of business. 01\02\1943 (Saturday) Cold day. I sharpened tools most of the time to day. 01\03\1943 (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice J. Anderson Pastor. His sermon was "Cooperation." This afternoon I took some pictures out the Todd Road. The weather has been cloudy most of the time. 01\04\{1943} (Monday) {Margin note: 4th snow, 1 1/2" fell} Cold day. I cleaned the snow off the paths and did but little work beside. 01\05\{1943} (Tuesday) I sharpened tools this forenoon. Then staid in the house and read the rest of the day. Very cold, 14 above at noon and below that the rest of the day. 01\06\{1943} (Wednesday) Cold day, have been in the house most of the time. I turned out a few file handles in the cellar and tempered a set of Bush Hammer blades. 01\07\{1943} (Thursday) Tow below this morning. 20 above at noon. Sharpened tools this forenoon. went to Cheshire and got two bags of feed and to Wolcott in the afternoon. 01\08\1943 (Friday) Cold day. I worked in the blacksmith shop most of the time. Had a letter from Dick from Fort Belvoir, Va. 01\09\{1943} (Saturday) Cold day. I went to Judd & Puffer's and got the insurance on my house renewed. Then I went to Sears and Roebuck and saw the manager about a storm door I ordered last Oct. and paid them six dollars and ten cents for it but it has got lost. They ordered another door. 01\10\{1943} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Anderson preached. This afternoon I went to the farm and got a pair of tackle blocks and rope. Then I went up the Todd Road. It was very cold weather. 01\11\{1943} (Monday) I made wedges nearly all day for Dick to use down to Fort Belvoir to wedge axes on the handles. The weather has been cold. 01\12\{1943} (Tuesday) I made a lot of steel key wedges for Dick and packed them with the wooden wedges an sent them by mail. 01\13\1943 (Wednesday) Cold day. Wrote a letter to Dick at Camp Belvoir, Virginia telling the news and that I had sent the wedges. I have had my tires inspected to day and sharpened a lot of Bush Hammer blades and tools etc. 01\14\{1943} (Thursday) Cold day, 2 below this morning, 20 above at noon. Worked in the blacksmith shop this forenoon. Took 1/2 bu of potatoes to Ruth Miller this afternoon and 1/2 bu to Ruth Todd. 01\15\{1943} (Friday) {Margin note: 5th snow, 1 1/2" fell} Snowed this morning, I worked in the blacksmith shop and sharpened two saws. The new minister Mr. Anderson called this afternoon. 01\16\{1943} (Saturday) {Margin note: 6th snow, 1" fell} Snow and wet all day. I sharpened a lot of tools etc. in the blacksmith shop. 01\17\{1943} (Sunday) I attended service at the Mill Plain Union Church. Rev. Maurice J. Anderson Pastor. "What Do I Get Out of It?" was his subject. Wet and slippery to day. This afternoon I went out the Todd Road. 01\18\{1943} (Monday) To day it sleeted and all is ice and slippery. I have worked in the blacksmith shop making tools etc. 01\19\{1943} (Tuesday) Bad ice storm all day, slippery and hard walking. This afternoon I up and saw Mr. Clark about Litchfield. 01\20\{1943} (Wednesday) To day has been very cold and the ground covered with ice. I have been doing odd jobs in the Wheelhouse and cellar. Had a long letter from Margaret and Ruth. 01\21\{1943} (Thursday) Cold day, 2 above this morning, 10 above at noon. Worked in the Wheelhouse and fixed Todd's chair in the afternoon. got list of Burpees seed to day, came to 3.80. 01\22\{1943} (Friday) C{?} day, 4ø below this morning and 10 above at noon. I worked in the Wheelhouse on picture frames most of the time. 01\23\1943 (Saturday) Cold day. 3 below this morning. 20 above at noon. I worked in the wheel house this forenoon and read and did errands in the afternoon. 01\24\{1943} (Sunday) This morning was very icy. Last night the state police stopped the running of all trucks, busses and cars on account of the ice. This afternoon it had thawed some. I went out the Meriden Road. 01\25\{1943} (Monday) Foggy all day, much of the snow and ice melted. I worked in the wheel house most of the time. 01\26\{1943} (Tuesday) {Margin note: 7th snow, 1" fell.} I worked in the wheelhouse to day on picture frames etc. 01\27\{1943} (Wednesday) {Margin note: 8th snow, 2 1/2" fell} Cold day, about 2 1/2" snow fell early this morning. This forenoon I went and paid my light and telephone bills. Last night I received by mail some Brazil coins that Bobbie sent. We know nothing of what he is doing in South America. 01\28\1943 (Thursday) {Margin note: 9th snow, about 11" has fallen} Snowed hard all day and now sleet. I have done some odd jobs, made two slitting tools for Anthony, have not been feeling very lively. The snow plows are now running very fast and have the roads about here cleared of snow but sleet is falling and they are getting slippery. 01\29\{1943} (Friday) I have spent this day shoveling snow and repairing the snow plow for the Calvary Cemetery. 01\30\{1943} (Saturday) {Margin note: 10th snow, 1" fell} {2nd Margin note: 11th snow, 1" fell} I shoveled snow much of the time and got my truck out and got 5 gls of gas at Hanlons. This afternoon Dick called having just came from Fort Belvoir, Va. He was in full uniform and expects to be sent to Oregon soon after his return next Wednesday. Snow is causing much trouble and delay. 01\31\{1943} (Sunday) {Margin note: 12th snow, 3" fell} Cold snow hard day. I staid in all the forenoon. In the afternoon I drove up through Woodtick and down the Todd Road, stopping and having supper at Oscar and Ruth Todd's. 02\01\1943 (Monday) I shoveled snow and dug out my long path on the Frost Road. This afternoon we repaired the caterpillar snow plow for the Cemetery. Cold day. 02\02\{1943} (Tuesday) I have not felt very lively to day. Sharpened some small drills and made an iron bracket for Mrs. Howe's table. Repaired the boiler and did other odd jobs. 02\03\{1943} (Wednesday) Cold day. Worked in the blacksmith shop sharpening tools etc. This afternoon the Citizens Coal Co sent three tons of screened soft coal at 8.55 per ton = 25.65. 02\04\{1943} (Thursday) Rain and wet and fog. Snow and ice softened some. I worked sharpening tools and drove to the store and got groceries etc. 02\05\{1943} (Friday) Went and thawed all day. Repaired a lot of chains and made hooks. Streets are very slippery. 02\06\1943 (Saturday) Wet and very slippery to day. I worked in the wheel house making a shelf bracket for Mrs. Howe's rug table. 02\07\{1943} (Sunday) Cold day, very icy. Staid in all the fore- noon. Went out the Meriden Road and up the Todd Rd. Found plenty of ice. 02\08\{1943} (Monday) Very cold day. I stayed in the house and wrote about Litchfield Hills etc. 02\09\{1943} (Tuesday) To day has not been so cold, thawed a little. This afternoon I went to Cheshire and got two bags of chicken feed. Stopped and saw Ralph Pierpont and paid milk bill. 02\10\{1943} (Wednesday) Cloudy all day. I sharpened tools all day. 02\11\{1943} (Thursday) Cloudy and cold. In the afternoon I went out to Woodtick and down the Todd Road and got an axe to be repaired from Oscar Todd etc. Wrote Lewis S. Mills, E. Hartford and Dorothy Miller, Milwaukee. 02\12\1943 (Friday) Cold day. Lots of ice and slippery walking. I have been in most of the time. Ruth Brundage came about 10 o'clock and staid till two. When Margaret and George came from Wolcott and took her home with them for a short visit, then she will take a bus and go home. 02\13\{1943} (Saturday) {Margin note: 13 snow, 15" fell} Began snowing this morning and is still snowing. I have been in the house all day except when I went to the cobblers and got a pair of shoes that he had soled. Then I went and got some groceries. 02\14\{1943} (Sunday) Cold day. I spent all day shoveling out paths and doing the chores. At night I was chilled through. 02\15\{1943} (Monday) This is the cold day I ever knew. The thermometer registered 22ø below zero this morning, 10ø below at noon, 8ø below at night and the wind has blown hard and bitter cold much of the time. I could hardly breathe when out. Once I saw the thermometer 24 below in the morning but it was up at zero at noon. 02\16\1943 (Tuesday) This was the coldest morning I ever knew in Waterbury. My thermometer was 36ø below zero at 7.30. 24ø below was the coldest I knew before. Some thermometers went 38 and 40ø below. I was up at time all night keeping the furnace fire going hot so the house could not get cold. Many of the young folks froze their ears and noses while waiting for the busses and dozens of cars and busses froze while being operated and all looked like steam cars as the gas exhaust condensed to steam which trailed out far in back. 02\17\{1943} (Wednesday) {Margin note: 14th snow, 3/4" fell} Thermometer 6ø above zero this morning, 14ø above at noon, 22ø above at night. I dug the snow away from the blacksmith shop door and worked there much of the time. Inside the shop everything was covered with a thick coating of frost 1/4" thick on the metal chimney and window panes. This is the first time I ever knew my hardening solution to freeze. 02\18\1943 (Thursday) Six above zero this morning. 20ø above at noon, 16ø above at night. This morning I cleaned out the chimney and furnace and riddled a lot of ashes. I got my truck out this afternoon and went down and had my hair cut and got two lengths of furnace pipe and then got a lot of groceries. The snow has settled some, so it is only 8" deep. The people of Wolcott and Prospect cannon obtain any fuel oil to burn and some of them are suffering very much and have to go to bed to keep warm. those who have cars come down here to Urban's Oil Station and they can drew five gallons. I counted sixteen cars at one time with people who had five gallon cans that they had filled. 02\19\{1943} (Friday) 8ø above this morning, 34ø at noon and 36 tonight. My furnace smoke pipe rusted out and almost broke away from the chimney. I made parts of the pipe of tin and wired them on and hope they will last till I can get elbows and make a new pipe. The shortage of fuel oil continues. Mable Gladding with a hand sled and two 2 gallon cans that I furnished went over to the gas station and got the cans filled. 02\20\1943 (Saturday) 20ø above this morning. 36ø at noon and 50ø above to night. Has thawed much to day. 02\21\{1943} (Sunday) Warm day, 50 above most of the day. I took a basket of potatoes out the Todd Road and brought them back again. 02\22\{1943} (Monday) Washington's Birthday. Schools and banks closed. Most of the factories worked. Thawed most of the day. 02\23\{1943} (Tuesday) Thermometer at 50ø much of the time to day. This morning I went to the Registration Office at the Watertown Ave. and got my truck license paid, $10.20. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski and Mrs. Comstock with Attorney Lyman of New Haven called. They had just come from Court where a trial is being heard regarding the will and estate of David Porter who died I think in 1905. 02\24\1943 (Wednesday) Thawed all day. Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski called this morning and left their little baby for Mrs. Howe to take care of while they attended court. This afternoon I went up to Margaret's in Wolcott and looked up the owners of the place where they now live. 02\25\{1943} (Thursday) The weather has been cool, little thaw. I killed and dressed a rooster this forenoon and went to the store and did several errands. This afternoon I went and had Ruth Todd make out my income tax report. It was a difficult job. 02\26\{1943} (Friday) Cold day, no thaw. I repaired my car, rather truck and did a few odd jobs and sat in the house the most of the time as it hurts me to breathe when I go out in the cold. It has troubled me since the cold morning when it nearly smothered me. 02\27\{1943} (Saturday) {Margin note: 15th snow, 1" fell} Cold to day. Sharpened tools this forenoon. Visited Ruth and Ray this afternoon. A train load of Litchfield boys left the Waterbury station this morning for the War. 02\28\1943 (Sunday) Cool day. This afternoon I went out the Todd Road and had a good supper etc. 03\01\{1943} (Monday) Cool day. Am not feeling very well. I have sharpened tools much of the time. 03\02\{1943} (Tuesday) Cold day. This morning I went to the Bank and deposited 38.56 and had checks cashed for 50.00. Then I went to the income tax office at #15 Levenworth Street to pay a quarter part of my income tax which was 19.47. But they would not take money, only post office orders so I had to walk over to the post office and pay an extra .13 and get a P.O. Order. Then I with hundreds of others came back and paid it. Then I went to the Connecticut Light and Power Office and paid my bill, 5.64. Then I walked down Grand Street to the telephone building and there paid my bill, 4.40. Then went to Sears and Roebuck and paid 6.10 for a combination door which I ordered the first of last October and which went astray. Came home and had dinner and have been in the house most of the afternoon. 03\03\1943 (Wednesday) {Margin note: 16 snow, 4" fell} Snowed all day, about four inches fell. This evening the weather has came off and did several odd jobs in the cellar. It is hard to keep the furnace fire going good as the coal is not very good. But I am lucky to have it, as many have a hard time getting any, owing to the War Rationing Board and those who use oil can get only small quantities. It is hard these cold times. 03\04\{1943} (Thursday) Zero this morning, 14 above at noon. 10 at night. I have staid in most of the day. This afternoon I started to see Margaret but could get no gas. At Woodtick it was running low so I turned down the Todd Road and after some delay reached home in time for supper. 03\05\{1943} (Friday) Cool. I sharpened tools some of the time and stayed in the house and kept warm. 03\06\{1943} (Saturday) {Margin note: 17 snow, 4" fell} Snow on the ground this morning and about eight it began snowing about 5. 4" had fell and it turned to rain which continued hard till about ten. 03\07\1943 (Sunday) Cold day with much ice. I stayed in all the forenoon. In the afternoon I went out the Meriden Road and turned up the Todd Road but did not go far as there was much ice up there so after a little I came home. 03\08\{1943} (Monday) This morning it was hard for me to breathe so I had Louise call Dr. Barber. He came after dinner and said my heart was affected and the cold clogged its action and for me to stay in till the weather is warmer and he ordered some pills and tablets of Kunkle which he brought up and I have been taking so now I feel better. Korczak Ziolkowski called this evening to tell me about the business of the Putnam Phalanx and their illegal election of officers held Feb 22. 03\09\{1943} (Tuesday) This has been a very cold day. At noon 16ø above and at night 20. I have been in the house all the time except the time it took to feed the chickens and get 13 eggs. 03\10\1943 (Wednesday) This morning it was cold but at noon 40 above and later 50. The snow and ice melted so the ground is partly bare. I got two bags of chicken feed of the Spenser Grain Co, one bag scratch feed 2.90, one bag oats 2.30. This is the most I ever paid. 03\11\{1943} (Thursday) Warm and foggy to day. Last night I did not feel or sleep very well and I was sick to my stomach so this morning I had Louise Service called Dr. Walter Barber. He came after dinner and prescribed some pills for me to take at night and in the morning. They will last some time as there is 22 of them. 03\12\{1943} (Friday) This forenoon I worked in the blacksmith shop sharpening four points for finishing granite. This afternoon I went up to Wolcott Center and visited Margaret Hall. 03\13\{1943} (Saturday) This morning Margaret and George Hall called. They had been to the store to trade. Could not get any meat to day. They left about nine o'clock and it began snowing and has snowed ever since. {C.S.M. died on 14 March 1943.}